University Daily Kansan, November 24, 1981
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Season not over for KU Marching Band
The parade of KU Marching Band performances usually come to a halt at the end of the football season, but this season brings them on to three post-season performances.
In addition to the band's Dec. 31 performance at the Hall of Fame Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., it also has invitations to play at a tentative Kansas City Chiefs playoff game and a state fair in Mexico.
"It seemed as if everything was happening at once," Robert Foster, band director, said this week. "Actually, just as the band was marching down the aisle, the secretary got a phone call from a representative of the government of Mexico."
The Mexican government agreed to pay the band's expenses in Mexico if the band could pay transportation costs, he said. The marching band was performed at the Vivasan state fair as part of an educational exchange program.
Before Saturday night was over, Foster said, he also received confirmation from the Kansas City Chiefs entertainment director that the band
would provide halftime entertainment during a possible plavoff game.
IF THE CHIEFS are leading their division, the band will perform in Arrowhead Stadium on Dec. 26, he said. However, if the Chiefs aren't in first place, the band will play at a game scheduled for Jan. 2.
"When we played at the Chicks game earlier this year, the entertainment director said we'd be the band if they made it to the plavoids." Foster said.
"The band will have a brand new
song and I think people are
going to like it."
Foster said that he was pleased with both of the invitations.
Joe Lemigan, drum major, said the extra performances would mean extra work.
"It's going to be a busy next few weeks," Lenigan said. "We'll have practice next Monday and Wednesday and you should expect it will depend on how much we injured."
LENIGAN SAID that he was looking forward to the Hall of Fame Bowl trip, but that it still depended upon an OK from KU administrators.
"We're talking big bucks," he said.
"Maybe $20,000 or $30,000."
The cost of the trip to Birmingham or the cost of the band's trip to Sheffield.
The band probably will pay for the trip, he said.
After four years of marching in the bay, the team was gidied finally to on to a basketball game.
"Nebraska or Okiahoma band members usually know that every Jan. I they're going to be on a beach and they're going to be at the park of holiday plans for a lot of holiday plans for a lot of people."
The band was probably as enticing as the bowls, bowl bid as the rest of the ensemble said.
THE BAND will play a Wizard of Oz show for the post-season performances, Lenigan said. He likened the bowl to a "poet to a 'pot at the end of the rainbow.'"
lower air fare because of group rates.
the five-day trip still would cost about $300 for each member, he said.
Most band members indicated last week that they would be able to make the trip to Mexico, Foster said.
"We'll just have to find some way to help people who can't raise the money, or find people who can help them out," he said.
The KU band was first contacted by an American company representing the Mexican government more than a week ago, Foster said. The company had been retained to find American entertainment for Mexican state fairs.
AFTER THE BAND arrives in Mexico, he said, the Mexican government will pay for all food and lodging and take a day trip to Mexico City or Acupuncture.
The proposed dates of the Mexico trip conflict with the Kansas Ransas, Foster said. The band has to honor composers to provide music at the relays.
"It's something that we'll have to work out," he said, "but I bet we can."
Med Center library houses rare books
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Reporter
"But it's not so important the number as the quality," she said.
The Clendening Medical Library looks more like a comfortable English study than a library with its rich tan carpet, inviting stuffed stairs and
But this room is part of the department of the history and philosophy of medicine and the History of Medicine Collection at the University of Kansas campus.
The library is listed among the top five in the nation and contains 18,000 volumes. Bernice Dean Johnson, head librarian, explained.
only four or five copies survived. One copy sold in 1979 for $25,000.
ANDREAS VESLUS" "De Humani Coporus Fabrica," the beginning of the first accurate human anatomy book, in 1543, is in the library's collection.
Among its numerous items is a collection of 30 letters written by Florence Nightingale, including letters of blank sign of mourning for her mother's death.
"We are having a pre-nursing class here today," Johnson said, and she planned to bring out the Nightingale to ensure its safety in the library's vault.
The vault is where the more valuable items are kept. Later editions are kept on a shelf in the pantry.
The secret of the books' longevity is that they were printed on rag paper, which does not brown as wood fiber paper; does and the ink used is carborundum. India ink re-fills the chemical ink used now that does. Johnson said.
The collection was started by Logan Clendening during his medical and writing career. A graduate of KU's medical school, he turned to writing after his book, "The Human Body." 1927, best seller in 1908, Johnson explained.
AS HIS WRITING career grew,
Clendening withdrew from private
practice and became a lecturer at the
Med Center.
He later was a columnist for the Kansas City Star and was syndicated in 383 newspapers throughout the nation, she added.
In 1939, he gave 8,500 rare books he had collected and funds to support a library. These funds and other donations are controlled today, Johnson said, by the Kansas University Endowment Association.
While the Endowment Association watches the money, the department's headquarters is often more visible.
Its chairman, Robert P. Hudson,
teaches classes both at the medical
school of the University of Iowa.
She said the library was used by people from both campuses.
"People working for their M.A. degrees work here, and Ph.D. candidates," Johnson said. "Many of our staff use it. Before they can graduate, they must complete a communications project, and many use this library."
EVERY BOOK at the medical library is in the Watson card catalog. But getting the book if a KU student has no phone number in Kansas City might prove to be a problem.
Johnson used the example of a KU professor who needed a book for his research and didn't want to continually make the trip to Kansas City. Arrangements were made with the Rare Books Collection at the Spencer Library that the book could be kept there.
"They keep the book for six months while he used it," she said. "It's not impossible, and the time can be exe- pensive, a further use of our books is needed."
MECHA restructuring
Mexican-Americans are one of the most poorly educated ethnic groups in the United States, according to a study by KU group trying to solve that problem.
MECHA was founded in the early 1970s to help Chicano students get a degree from the University of Kansas.
J罗塞 Jasso, member of Movimiento Estudiantil Chico de Azlan, said the 60-member group held elections recently to help reorganize the group, which had become weaker in the past several years.
Now the group and its new president,
Paul Olivez, plan to work hard to
become a resource center for Chicano
students at KU.
"MECHA has tutoring services with older students at KU, job listings, and scholarship applications and lists," Jasso said.
HE ALSO helped the group was trying to set up a KU Chicago Alumni Association and a Chico Career Opportunities conference, possibly next
George Gomez, recruitment and admissions counselor for the office of
admissions and records, was president of MECHA in the fall of 1978.
Gonez said MECHA was a multi-purpose organization, but the main emphasis of the group was support for KU students from a similar background—Mexican-American—to belm make it through college.
Gomez said the group also worked to bring Mexican culture to KU. They have folk dance culture and career programs for children in schools to draw more Hispanics to KU.
There are 256 declared students of Hispanic descent at KU, which is about one percent of the total KU population. The Mexican-American population in the state of Kansas is about 5 percent, Jasso said.
"MECHA is doing studies to help bring KU's enrollment of Chicano students to a more equitable level of access to public state's Chicano population." Jasso said.
SIX OTHER OFFICERS, including Rod Gonzales and Al Ramirez, vice presidents, will help reorganize MECHA. The group is open to all students, Jasso said, and meets every Wednesday at the Kansas Union.
Federal budget in limbo; Haskell forced to close
By CATHERINE BEHAN
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Haskell Indian Junior College suspended classes and furloughed faculty members yesterday because of President Reagan's veto of the emergency budget bill passed by Congress.
But Reagan later extended the bill to Dec. 15, and Haskell President Gerald Gould said yesterday that he would give workers a refund when they return to work today.
"I was instructed that if any bill was passed or a continuing resolution was passed, then we should return to work." Gipps said.
He said he thought the college would be operating fully today.
The semester at Haskell ends Dec. 18, but Gipp said he would not end the semester early.
Congress and the president to get together and either pass a continuing resolution or pass a new bill." Gipp said.
ONE FACULTY member who was furloughed after Gipp received the call from the Bureau of Indian Afairs at 2 p.m. yesterday said he did not know what the extension would mean to the college.
"I was laid off, but the president has just signed a bill that will extend it. But I don't know what that means." Ahlapianek, the faculty member.
"We just have to wait for the
Reagan signed the revised $400 million stoppage spending program about 12 hours after he veted the bill Congress had passed as an emergency measure to keep federal programs running.
GIPP SAID many staff members at Haskell were confused by the vet, but the students didn't seem to mind.
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By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
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Finding an acceptable plan for redeveloping downhill has taken the Lawrence City Commission almost a decade.
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"Now we are moving into an area that will spell out just what the city will and will not allow in the downtown."
The commission will take the first step toward hiring a developer when it reviews a proposal for starting a developer's competition at tonight's meeting. Don Palos, advance counsel for the city of Lawrence, said yesterday.
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"Everything we have done has been in a fishbowl," Palos said. "We've had public input in every step of this plan.
Palos said people should be patient with what had seemed to be a slow process in starting construction in downtown Lawrence.
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THE GERMANOLOGY CENTER FALL COLLOQUIUM will feature Paul Friedman, associate professor of speech and drama speaking on the topic "10:30 a.m. with the Older Adult," at 11:30 a.m. in Alcove O of the Kansas University.
Thirty-seven students were selected as representatives to the College Assembly in the Nov. 18-19 elections. The students elected to serve on the College Assembly.
RESOURCE CENTER will present Marilyn Ainworth, professor of law, and Barbara Ballard, director of the Women's Resource Center, speaking on "Challengeing Yourself." at noon in Alcove B of the Union.
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SOPHOMORES: Derek Barnard, Leawood; Michael Dankwerth, Overland Park; Jane Parsons, Ballwin, Mo; Jay Shadwick, Salina; Dave Morrison, Shawne Mission; and Stephen Dwork, Overland Park.
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