University Daily Kansan
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Friday, Oct. 17, 1958
TUNING UP—KU Jazz Club leaders practice for their next jam session Nov. 4 in the Kansas Union, Charles Malone, president, is on the right
Meager Jazz Reception On Campus, Students Say
serenading Merlin Askren, vice-president. Radio station KUOK will broadcast all future jam sessions.
Students' reception to modern jazz on the campus has been somewhat disappointing in the opinions of Charles Malone, Lawrence senior and president of the KU Jazz Club, and Merlin G. Askren, Topeka junior and vice president.
Malone referred to the rather small audience at the Modern Jazz Quartet Sept. 14 and at the Big Eight Jazz Festival held here last year.
It is difficult for any group to organize on the campus, however because of the varied interests of students, Askien noted.
However, Malone and Askren agreed that the Trail Room in the Kansas Union was packed at the jam session which the KU Jazz Club sponsored Oct. 7.
Everyone Enjoyed Music
The KU Jazz Club is attempting to bring jazz to the forefront as a form of cultural music for the student. Askren said.
"Everyone there seemed to enjoy the spontaneity and freshness of the jazz that night." Askren said.
Present day jazz is often confused with rock and roll when in reality they are opposite forms of music, Askren said. The basis of modern jazz is the improvisation of its performing musicians.
Judge on Originality
"Modern jazz has a freedom of presentation and a freshness of performance," Askren said. "The motives of the composer are different also.
"Modern jazz is judged by its originality and by the effectiveness of the composer in expressing his thoughts and emotions," he said.
"Swing was probably the most
"Rock and roll, on the other hand, is written to sell and is a failure if it does not."
"Swing was probably the most popular form of jazz," Askrien said, when he popped from 1935 until about 1945. The music he drew swings artistry, such as Benny Goodman, is still very much on the scene, he added.
The KU Jazz Club, which has around 100 members, is an organization of people who like and are curious about jazz, Askran said.
Another musical difference, according to Askren, is that in rock and roll, one instrument, usually the saxophone, dominates. In jazz, all the instruments take turns.
Geologist,Like FBI Is Fingerprinter
FBI methods are being used by a KU geologist to investigate deaths of more than 200 million years ago.
Richard H. Benson, assistant professor of geology, is identifying the victims, tiny fossilized shrimp-like animals, from the peculiar fingerprint design found on some of their shells.
Dr. Benson is trying to learn how these tiny crustaceans selected the environment in which they lived. If he can find distinct differences, geologists could use the tiny fossils to determine the depth of the water in which ancient sedimentary rocks were formed.
A ten-week photo course has been organized by Harry Wright, KU Photo Bureau director, through the University Extension. Any student may attend the 2-hour class every Thursday at 7 p.m.
Photo Course Started
At Jazz Club meetings, such activities as discussion of jazz subjects, playing jazz records and listening to different styles of music and discussion of jazz terms are engaged in.
Many of the members play instruments, but this is not necessary to be a member.
The School of Pharmacy's new extension program in post graduate education for pharmacists is reviewed in the current issue of "The Rocky Mountain Druggist."
Pharmacy Extension Program Gets Praise
Beat Oklahoma!
ON TO VICTORY JAYHAWKS
The article, "Western Leadership," traces the history of the school and salutes Dean J. Allen Reese as an ideal example of a professional pharmacist.
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9 Education Teachers Attend Topeka Meet
Nine faculty members of the School of Education attended a meeting of educators from Kansas colleges in Topeka today.
They discussed methods of improving teacher education in the state, and organizational, administrative and classroom problems.
Baptists Agree On New Center
A new building for the KU Baptist Student Center will result from incorporation with the Baptist Student Work Committee.
The group, a non-profit organization, will work with KU Baptist students in drawing up plans for a new building to house the Center.
Land for the structure is owned by the Center at 1124 Mississippi St. The national organization will raise $8 million to be used for higher education. Part of this is expected to be given to the KU Center.
There are 500 members in the KU Baptist Student organization. By 1970. 1,000 are expected.
The incorporation articles were signed by Dr. Joie Stapleton and the Rev M. C. Allen of Lawrence for the First Baptist Church, Dr. William Keucher and the Rev. Max Morgan of Topeka for the Kansas Baptist Convention, and Dr. Frank Jennings and Maurice Carlson of Lawrence for the American Baptist Convention.
Business Students To Be Interviewed
Twelve companies have scheduled interviews with seniors and graduate students in the School of Business. Business interviews scheduled are:
Monday—The Texas Co. marketing,
accounting sales, Continental Oil Co.
accounting.
Tuesday—U. S. Air Force, auditors;
Prudential Insurance Co., sales.
Oct. 22—Cargill Inc., general training program, includes food and feed; Carter Oil Co., accounting firm;
- Oct. 23—U. S. Civil Service Commission, accounting, as well as any other major interested in participating in the Federal Service Examination.
Dr. Nathaniel Evers of Washburn, conference chairman, presided at the first general session. Meetings were in the Kansas State Teachers' Assn. Building.
Attending were:
Round table discussions this afternoon followed the general session, which was held this morning.
Dean Kenneth E. Anderson, Miss Maud Elsworth, Dr. Elin K. Jorgensen, Dr. Oscar M. Haugh, and Dr. Joie L. Stapleton, professors of education; Dr. Alvin Schild, associate professor; Miss Bernadine H. Peterson and Dr. William J. York, assistant professors, and Mr. Harold G. Regier, instructor.
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