University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, September 7, 1971
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Kansas Photo by RICHARD VERHAGE
Robert Foster, New Band Director, Drills KU Marchers
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By DICK COWDEN Kansan Staff Writer
Band Director Enthused
... Combines love of sport and music ...
Robert Foster, the new director of bands at the University of Kansas, has the ideal combination of interests for a man who is not so keen on chasing band. Foster loves both football and music. He played college football at the University of Texas and has just moved to Lawrence after being associate head coach at the University of Florida.
"Go, go, go! Faster, faster!"
Coming to KU as director of bands is a sort of realization of a dream for Foster.
Foster's enthusiasm for both sports and music can be seen in the way he drills a band learning new formations.
"I was always the bridesmaid but never the bride at Florida. I was in charge of recruiting for the band and we eventually grew to a 250 piece group. I guess there is only so much you can do after that."
Foster said he had known of him, and for having an outstanding musician and had been impressed by the band's appearance at the Orange Music Awards.
Foster's attitude toward the
Three new courses are being offered this semester by the department of French and Italian studies. You will attempt to place students in an atmosphere similar to one they should experience when studying foreign languages.
New Courses Are Offered By French
French 21, a 14 credit-hour course, is being offered for students who will be expected to do much individual work, said Mary Pifer administrative French and Italian department.
Mrs. Pifer said spaces were still available for those wishing to enter the course.
"This is a new course and not many people know about it, and we would like to get some more good people in," she said.
types of music the band will play this year is fairly basic.
Also started this semester is
French 50 a course that will offer
various courses in mathematics and
literature masterpieces in
English translation The course is
open to students in foreign语
practices 288, modern European Frenchywrights, is being taught this year in the Faculty of Moshe Lazar, dean of the School of Fine Arts at the University of New York.
"Some of the numbers will be timely to appeal to the students, he says." Some will be aimed at the alumni. But I feel that no one over what we play, if we play it well, everyone will appreciate it.
The course offers a study of contemporary writers of Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and England, 'often baffled' in "boiled Irish," said Mrs. Pifer.
Mrs. Piera said Lazar is also casting the latest play by French contemporary writer Ionece, to accompany Mr. "Marie," or "Death's Bowling Game."
The size of the band has also increased slightly from 120 members last year to 140 at the beginning of this semester. In time Foster entails to enlarge the band's size and makes easier to work with a larger band that can be heard above the audience during halftime.
There are going to be some visible changes made in the band's performances, according to the musicians, and it could include much more drill instead of playing in standing formations. Foster said it was harder for the musicians to play while marrying their partners. The crowd's interest was retained.
The KU Student Senate cut the marching band from its budget last year. Since then the band has been supported by the athletic department and has earned a Foster勋章. The band is still receiving adequate funds.
Mrs. Pifer said the department plans to increase French 21 to 16 tandem and French 23 to introduce French 22 for 11 credit hours and French 23 for six credit hours.
Foster said the Student Senate's action was misdirected. The fact that girls have not been used in the band recently and the student athletic program were responsible for the cut, he said. By withdrawing financial support from the marching band, the Student Senate also withdrew money that the band had paid to females were allowed to perform.
"After all, it wouldn't be the same even after we scored a touchdown without the band," he said.
Although Foster has only been at KU since mid-summer, he is already making plans that would benefit the music program and propose budget that would allow KU to invite well-known musicians to perform here with the school's orchestra, playing in accompaniment.
Between 80 and 100 persons joined in an all-night vigil Thursday to pray for an end to Kansas abortion laws which have permitted more than 8,500 terminations of pregnancy in the state.
Anti-Abortion Vigil Held
Foster firmly believes that football and the band need each other.
The Confraternity of Corpus Christi, a group of Catholic lay people, sponsored the vigil at John's Catholic Church in Lawrence. John Senior, a spokesman for Gray said he spoke of political aims and does not plan any political action against abortion.
The Board of Health revealed that between July 1, 1970 and July 1, 1971 more than 8,500 abortion hospitals. About 25 per cent of those, it said, were performed at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Senior, who is a classics professor at the University of Kansas, said that Catholics and non-Catholics attended the vigil with other religious leaders in spiritual change in the country must precede practical change.
The group, he said, conducts night-long devotionals related to different issues each month. He has said that the plan was planned before the Kansas State Board of Health announced a number of abortions in the state.
"Before you can change people's beliefs you have to challenge them," said Barr. "What is clearly needed in America today is a change of attitude."
weakening Christianity in America and likened abortion prosecution pagan times when parents who did not want children "left them" for other reasons.
Senior discounts pro- abortion arguments. As a Catholic he believed that abortion is a crime church that abortion is a crime. "It's human life," he said, "and it's not really human, but any embryology text will tell you it's."
Physics Professor Appointed
He called abortion a "terrible kind of murder because of the innocence and helplessness and fear of those parents. But Senior emphasized that the Church does not condemn a woman who has had an abortion, and referred to two women, and unconfinement of the冠雀 (Christ)
and several Midwest universities.
"For those who have committed this act," he said "the Church teaches that once anyone is dead, the God of mercy is good. Gulty妈ers and fathers are often eaten by a purposeless remorse. They must be beaten if they still be done-working with handicapped children and orphans."
for example to repay to other little ones whom one can love and help, the love they might have given to their own.
Robert J. Friau, professor of physics, has been appointed to a materialia science committee and was named chair of the Argonne National Laboratory
Other universities represented on the new committee are Illinois, Iowa and Michigan State.
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LIFE-CAR-PERSONAL POSSESSIONS
University Council Loses 'Puf' Bailey
R. L. "Puff" Bailey, Athenian graduate student, said Monday that his dudes as Student Senate Executive Committee (StudEx) chairman were his prime reason for coming to the University Council last week.
"My concern is with the Student Senate and to see it more," she said. "More can be done in the Student Senate with the problems of the student body. The council is not involved with these problems."
He said that at the time the Senate was being reorganized last spring he was interested in becoming chairman of StudEx. To reach this goal he ran for the University Council. After his run he was appointed on the University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx).
The revamped Senate Code was later approved, and he appointed a new senator appointed to the SuedEx chairmanship. Bailey had agreed earlier to abandon his council chair if he were chosen to lead
"I want to make the StudEx a functioning body," he said. "In
KU Collegegirl Young Democrats meet in a regional meeting at 7:30 tonight in the International Room of the Kansas Union. Lawrence attorney Drew Berkkowitz will address students's student place in party politics.
Young Demos To Organize
Creede Colorado Repertory Co.
(KU Students)
presents
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Sept. 9, 10, 11-Thurs. - Sat.
Experimental Theatre 8:00 p.m.
General Admission $1.50
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"STUDEX HAS BEEN USED only to approve budget changes or act in bebil of the Senate. With committee chairmen as members, we should have a good work between it and the Senate."
the past it hasn't directed the Senate. It needs to offer leadership by initiating programs for action.
Another program is the development of a system for housing in Lawrence. The first would provide a system in which the Student Senate office could issue housing complaints it receives each semester. Once the program set up its key team the Senate office to find out which landlords are hesitant to return housing types and the desirability of housing types.
There are three specific programs that Bailey hopes to reach students. One is a consumer service for the student body, would compile and publish a comparative price library of Lawrence grocery stores.
The third program Bailey said he would like to see established is the college's student house. This would incorporate all university employment agencies, he said, and would help Lawrence body as well as the student body.
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES PRESENTS
IKE AND TINA TURNER
PLUS SPECIAL GUEST STAR
DAVID FRYE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th—8 P.M.
On Sale Now At SUA Office Main Floor—Kansas Union
ALLEN FIELD HOUSE
Tickets: $2.50-$3.00-$3.50
Kiefs Record Store—Malls Shopping Center The Sound-Hillcrest Shopping Center
TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION
As Taught by MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI
During the practice of transcendental meditation the mind experiences subtler states of the thinking process. The body spontaneously reflects this increasingly refined mental activity. Scientific investigation of this phenomenon has found that a unique physical state develops which involves a combination of physiological changes (Science, March 27, 1970, pp. 1751-54). The combined physical effects of transcendental meditation are unique in that they indicate a fourth state of consciousness which is as natural to the individual as the other three states—waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. Those practicing this technique report that this state of "restful alertness" is profoundly refreshing physically as well as mentally. This deep relaxation provides a basis for increasing energy and for liberating untapped mental potential for use in daily activity. The possibility of unfolding new intellectual resources in every man is of special practical significance for the university community.
Introductory Lecture by Charlie Donahue
Wed., Sept. 8
8:00 p.m.
Big Eight Room Kansas Union
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