Page 6 University Daily Kansan, October 27, 1981
Spare time
Flurry of concerts to hit Lawrence
By DIANE MAKOVSKY Staff Reporter
With six weeks left in the semester, local concert sponsors have booked musicians of diverse styles to help students escape the end-of-theSemester drolums.
The first in the upcoming flurry of concerts is a Christian music program by Paul Clark.
While experimenting with drugs in the '60s, Clark received a box of Christian books from his grandmother. He read the books and combined them into one book. He became a pioneer in contemporary Christian music.
Clark's concert will be 8 p.m. Thursday in the First Presbyterian Church, 2415 W. 23rd St. Tickets are $3.50 and may be purchased at Cross Reference, 711 W. 23rd St., or at the door.
THE CONCERT is sponsored by Kip Blue and Iethus Concerts.
Back on campus, Hoch Auditorium will be坐
down for a week before bobp and rock during the month of November.
KU will be the site of the fifteenth concert in the George Thorgood and the Destroyers" "50/50 Tour," which comprises fifty concerts in fifty days in fifty states.
The concert will be at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in Hoech.
tickets are $4 and $6. Students with KD Ue will
deliver a free ticket.
Thorogood and the Destroyers are a blues-rock band that originated in Delaware. Members are George Thorogood, guitar and vocals; Jebreil Blow, Bloch, bass; and Hank Carter, saxophone.
The saxophone is a new addition to the group, whose 2017 album was released in 1977.
THOROGOOD LIKES to play small
auditoriums, Curtis Reinhardt, manager of the Lawrence Opera House, said last week. Hoch, with a seating capacity of 3,600, is a much larger hall than Thorogood liked to play. But because the ban is only playing one show, the Opera House will make to the concert financially feasible.
Thorquod plays smaller houses because he likes to be in touch with the audience. His performance includes duck-walking across the crowd and playing through the crowd while playing his guitar.
The Son Seals Blues Band, a Chicago-based band formed for morochod. Seals is a blazer print and an unisex t-shirt.
After the concert, people who have ticket stubs from the Thorogood concert will be admitted free to the Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St., to hear the Scala band play again.
THE THORGONO concert is sponsored by THE Sopra House Productions, and New West and Avery Brothers.
On Nov. 7, the night after the Thoreoog
concert, the Manhattan Transfer, a group that
specializes in slick, old-style harmonies, along
with showmanship and choreography, will take the
The Transfer is a pop-jazz vocal group. Its members are told to give their name, a group member who is said, "love to covenant."
The quartet's other members are Cheryl Bentny, Tim Hauser and Janis Siegel.
The group has won Grammy awards for best jazz fusion performance and best arrangement for voices for Seigel's arrangement of "Birdland."
The Transfer's current album is "Meca for
Moderns." It contains jazz, beep, and rhythm
and blues.
TICKETS FOR THE 8:30 p.m. concert are $10.50, or $9.50 with a KUID.
The concert is sponsored by SUA, Radio City Music Hall Productions and Jam Productions.
The following week, the band that has had the only sellout performance at the University of Kansas in the past three years is returning to Hoch at 8 p.m. Nov. 13.
The band, Molly Hatchet, will be playing in Hoch instead of in a bigger auditorium in Kansas City because of the great response they received here last time they toured, Duke Devine, special events chairman of the SUA Board, said last week.
Hatchet will be the largest production in terms of lighting and sound ever to go into Hatch.
THE BAND, which originated in Jacksonville, is the band from the South, not a Southern rock band.
The group tours nine months a year and only takes time off to record. One of the band's strong influences is the music of the late
The group's name comes from Hatchet Molly, who liked to decapitate her fowers with a hatcher's claw.
Though the band was formed in 1971, its first album was not released until 1978. Since then it has built up a strong following because of its constant touring.
Tickets for the concert, which is sponsored by New West and Contemporary Productions and SUA, are $8.50 and $5.50. Students with a KU ID will receive a 50-cent discount
Tickets for the SUA-sponsored concerts are available at the SuA office, Kiel's in Lawrence, Mother Earth in Topeka and Capital Ticket Outlets.
Teachers say meditation develops potential
BY DIANE MAKOVSKY
Staff Reporter
The college freshman leaned back against a
back and closed his eyes. After 20 minutes he
got out of the room.
Staff Reporter
Later, walking in his residence hall, he noticed that almost every door displayed a sign. He pointed at the sign on a green background. At the beginning of the semester, only his door carried the sign.
A telephone call to his floor at 4:30 p.m. any day would be greeted, if answered, by the response, "They're meditating. Call back in half an hour."
TM is a technique for gaining both mental and physical rest and for releasing stress," Nathaniel said.
The popularity of transcendental meditation in the United States seemed to have crested in the middle 70s, Gretchen Nolle, a certified teacher of TM, said he made that she had taught TM to only about a dozen people in Lawrence in the past year.
"The by-products are greater development of mental potential, better health, better relationships and contributing to harmony as a whole."
NOLLE AND her' husband, Steve, have been meditating for eight years and follow the meditation process taught by TM leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Maharishi teaches that stress inhibits potential, the Nolles said.
"Mahariar says, 'If you can think a thought, you can meditate.' Gretchen Nelson
Most TM practitioners meditate twice daily for about 20 minutes each time she said.
"A mantra is a meaningless sound whose effects are known." Gretchen Nolle said.
A TEACHER selects a mantra for his student, and the student is taught a prescription for the use of the mantra. That prescription is particular to TM, she said.
The meditation technique involves a mantra.
Steve Nole said that the physical effects of meditating had been studied. The effects include: a drop in oxygen consumption of about two times more than that obtained while sleeping; a higher oxygen content in the blood even though there is less oxygen intake; and a drop in blood flow, which means that the capillaries are relaxed and blood flow has increased, he said.
People meditate to increase their own consciousness and potential, the Nolles said.
They said that college students who practiced TM had found that their grade point averages increased over a period of time. The Nolles attributed this better performance to less stress and an increased ability to realize potential.
THE NOLLES practice Sidhis, which they said were exercises to develop a person's consciousness into finer states of awareness. The use of Sidhis is a continuing program, and it seems to be the emphasis of the Maharishi's current training, the Nolles said.
There is less emphasis on the recruitment of beginning meditators than on the refinement of practicing meditators' skills, they said.
However, TM is still taught to beginners.
The Nolses said that there were four certified teachers.
There are seven steps in the instruction for beginning meditators, they said. These steps are:
1. Sit on a cushion.
2. Place your hands on your knees.
3. Take a deep breath.
- An introductory lecture that includes information on the scientific research that has been done on TM and the benefits that can be obtained from it.
- A preparatory lecture on starting the technique, how and why the technique works and what it means.
Apexpolish interlew with the instructor:
Do a construction between the student and instructor.
Steps five, six and seven are follow-up lectures, they said. They offer time to ask questions once the process has been experienced. The follow-up sessions are given the first three days after the student learns the technique.
AT STEP THREE, payment for the course is made. There are different costs for the program for children, students and adults. For college students is $150, the Nolles said.
The International Meditation Society is a non-profit organization. The fee supports organizations that are set up internationally for teaching and monitoring, and for the support of the Maharishi International University, accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The school is in Fairfield, Iowa.
"We practice TM to enjoy life," Gretchen Nola said.
It is not concentration, contemplation or religion, she said. It doesn't require people to change their philosophy or their way of living.
Gweneth Nolle said the reason she taught
Tessa that she believed she has something good
to teach.
Performances by The Manhattan Transfer (top left), Son Seals (top right) and George Thorogood and the Destroyers are among the concerts scheduled at KU and in Lawrence for November.
on campus
TODAY
THE TAU SIGMA STUDENT DANCE CLUB
will meet at 7.m. in 242 Robinson
THE CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
in the school and fellowship at 7:30
p.m. in Parkers' Hall.
THE CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST will meet at 1 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Church
THE EMILY TAYLOR WOMEN'S RESOURCE AND CAREER CENTER will present a film, "Killing Us Softly: Advertising's of Women," at the Pine Room of the "blog."
THE NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTIC TRADITIONS PROGRAM will feature Caryle Smith, professor emeritus of archaeology and anthropology, speaking on "Sedentary and States of the Plains," at 8 p.m. in the Main Gallery of the Museum of Anthropology in Spoon Hall.
YOKOBORI KOJI, director of Shoichiku Productions, will present his film, "Taiko no Furasu," at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union.
DOUGLAS HYLAND, Spencer Museum curator of painting and sculpture, will speak on "The English Country House" at 8 p.m. in the Spencer Museum Auditorium.
THE LINGUSTICS COLLOQUY will feature Arthur Skidmore, professor of philosophy, speaking on "Montague Grammar Without Possible Worlds" at 8 p.m. in 207 Blake Hall.
FREDERICK OLAFSON, professor of philosophy from the University of California, Being and Existence in Heidegger's Philosophy at 8 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
GROUP MEETING will feature Father Vincent Krische speaking on "The Theology of Death" at 8:15 p.m. in the St. Lawrence Catholic Center.
TOMORROW
THE UNIVERSITY FORUM will feature Nancy Shontz, city commissioner, speaking on Downtown Development" at 11:45 a.m. in the Economical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Emanuel Street.
THE KU SAILING CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Union Parlors.
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