Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
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Carol Isaac, Newton junior, discusses her recent experiences working at Dicuneyland over the summer. Isaac was a member of Disneyland's College All-American Marching
Sax player sojourns at Disneyland
By JAKE THOMPSON
Staff Renorter
Carole Isaac spent this summer in the land of Mickey Mouse, Pluto and perpetual children, blowing an alto saxophone to the tunes of Benny Goodman and Stevie Wonder.
Isaac, Newton junior, was a member of Dineley and 20-
Campbell College All-American Marching Band and said the
"it was probably the best thing I ever done in my life," she said Monday. "It is hard to adjust back. Sometimes I'd
She was in Disneyland for a special 10-week program sponsored by Disney officials to give college students an opportunity to perform, participate in workshops, attend classes and hear lectures by professional entertainers and
Isaac, vice president of KU Bands, got into the program by auditioning last spring before Disney officials who were stationed in 14 cities nationwide. She had a 15-minute musical audition and answered questions in a personal interview. She and the other band members were chosen from 3,500 applicants.
Dressed in red, white and blue costumes, the band marched the "immaculate" streets of Disneyland playing jazz, country, rock, classical and disco music in five 30-minute shows in the early evening.
"THE ARRANGEMENTS were done by professors and were tremendous," she said. "I was all so all-American, but put me on the front."
Isaac said crowds of people would line the streets eight rows deep to watch the band. They stood as close as an arm's length.
"People would be right there," she said, holding her arm three feet to one side. "I smiled. The real strange, the weirdest thing I ever did."
When not performing, the band members spent mornings rehearsing, then attended lectures in the early afternoon.
The men had to keep their hair cut above the collar and ear, and all band members were told to look nice for their衬衫.
AMONG THE band's instructors were Frank Cormstock, composer and arranger for ABC-TV's "Happy Days" and L-lvene and Shirley'; Ron Clark, public relations director for ABC-TV; and James Hood, associate directors and arrangers living and working in the Los Angeles area.
"They taught us the business of music and how to become a star," she said. "I don't want to be one, but it opened up a lot of opportunities."
Isaac, a music education major, said she hoped to graduate in 1980 and become a music teacher. As vice president of the KU bands this fall, she said she wanted to use some of the choreography she had learned in Disneyland.
"It was really jazzy," she said, rocking side to side.
"Even when Walt Disney was alive everyone just called him Mild," she said.
She said all the band members were friendly and everyone in the amusement park was on a first-name basis.
DISNEY OFFICIALS told the 20 band members that their group was the most closely knit band they had ever had, Isaac said. A banquet, given on the last night, brought tears to many eyes.
"Half the guys had tears in their eyes," she said, "it was all just like a dream."
During her 10 weeks at Dianleyland, Isaac said, she
loved to write music or television, to play jazz improvisation and
performance.
"I want to get back to the basics, like sight reading and learning other instruments," she said.
FOR PARTICIPATING in the program, each band member and college student must attend a staircase, as well as participate in Disney's virtual theater.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Isaac returned to Lawrence Sunday evening, directly from Disneyland. Her adventures were told and a recording of the band had been played numerous times for friends in Hassinger Hall, she said. One friend drew and colored in a Mickey Mouse on a lobby on a chalk board, along with the words "Welcome back Carol."
"It's just not the same," she said. "I'm glad to be back,
though. Sometimes I'd like to go back to see what's there."
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, August 30, 1978
Vol.89,No.4
Bv CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Renorter
University of Kansas students and faculty members now have the opportunity to study and teach at the University of Benin in Nigeria.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday an exchange agreement had been reached between KU and the Nigerian university.
terms for exchange of students, faculty and ideas between KU and University Davis.
T. M. Yusufe, vice candleman at Benin University, visited KU early this week to complete plans for exchange programs between the two universities.
Under the agreement, the cost of students traveling to Benin University for a year's study would be paid by the student or through grants from KU.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Yasuu signed an agreement Monday that outlined
"THEIS IS similar to the kinds of exchanges we have with universities in Costa Rica, Great Britain, Germany, France and other universities," Shankel said.
Benin is located about 600 miles north of the equator and is on the coast of the continent.
Shankel said KU had no exchange programs with any other African universi-
SHAKEL SAID Benin was a relatively university-abandoned in 10 years old and is survived by his wife.
The projected enrollment at Benin this fall is 4,000 full-time students and 3,000 part-
KU students would not have to be in any particular area of study to qualify for the exchange program with Nigeria, according to Shankel.
He said he did not know when students would go to Benin, but arrangements for faculty members to go to Nigeria had been discussed since January.
KU faculty could volunteer to travel to Benin University, Shankel said. Their travel would be free of charge.
salary as a supplement, would be paid by the Nigerian university.
ACCORDING TO SHANKLE faculty salaries at KU are about 25 percent higher than at CU.
Shankiel aid KU would help Benin locate an american faculty members, but not all of them.
Benin University also will receive assistance from KU in recruiting staff members. The university will give KU training on job interview skills and recruiting applicants for staff positions.
KU will be informed of any vacant staff positions at Benin. Hiring decisions will be made by the Chief Executive Officer.
Copyright law causes confusion on campus
New statute possible show-stopper
By KATHLEEN CONKEY
Staff Reporter
A new federal copyright law that went into effect Jan. 1, 1978 is causing confusion among KU organizations that sponsor musical events.
According to the law, universities are no longer exempt from paying royalty fees to music societies such as the American Society of Composers, Authors and Musicians; the Society of European Songwriters, Artists and Composers and Broadcast Music Inc.
Mike Davis, University general counsel,
said yesterday the law was extremely complicated and universities around the world were determining what its implications would be.
Davis said contracts were being drawn up with the three music organizations for a blanket license fee based on enrollment and would cost the University about $6,000 a year.
with this blanket royalty fee, all nonprofit University events would be allowed to use music controlled by ASCAP, SESAC or BMI.
HOWEVER, THE blanket fee would cover
only events that are free to the public and ones in which no more than $1,000 is paid to
Organizations such as Student Union Activities, Concert Series and Chamber Music series, which sponsor profit-making dance and music concerts, would pay an extra royalty fee from their profits for each event. Davis said.
The extra fee would be based on ticket prices and seating capacity. Katherine Giele, assistant director for programs of the Kansas Union, said, "If SUA sponsors a dance concert in Hoch Auditorium for $4 a ticket, SUA would have to pay a royalty of $33."
Raymond Stuhl, director of Concert and Chamber Music Series, called the new law a "challenge to our freedom."
"The Concert and Chamber Music Series will have to pay about $1,000 in royalties this year," he said. "We are only playing one show, a piece and even that composer is dead."
MANY OTHER University departments were unaware how the law would affect their
radio, said he did not know whether KU radio stations would have to pay royalties
Dick Wright, associate director of KANU
Ronald Willis, director of the University Theatre, said the theater had always paid royalties on all shows performed, including musicals. However, he thought that the new law might restrict the use of recorded music before or during a show.
"I'm upset about the whole thing myself because I just don't know what we are allowed to do and what we cannot do. It's not good to tell us told us anything about what to do," he said.
"As far as I can tell, no one knows the effects for sure. It is such a broad-sweeping effect."
JAMES RALSTON, director of choral music, and Robert Foster, director of bands, both said they were not sure if the law would affect their events.
Davis said his office sent information around the campus explaining the new law.
"We will have to wait and have the courts add some judicial gloss to the statutory language. That's the problem with the rule," Ms. Johnson said, "the absence of study or effort on anyone's part."
Limits affecting teaching of classes
By MARY ERNST Staff Reporter
A new federal copyright law may not be convenient for University of Kansas instructors, but they have found ways to work with it—and, possibly, around it.
The new law, which replaced a 1999 statute, went into effect Jan. 1, 1978, and restricts the number of times that universities contractors can photocopy copyrighted materials.
The law limits the number of works that can be photocopied and prohibits the photocopying of more than two pages of a paper for classroom distribution. It also restricts libraries from making copies of copyrighted works.
He said he would abide by the new law, but it had made it nearly impossible for him to use all the material he wanted without his students pay outrageous textbook bills.
Stephen Goldman, associate professor of English, said yesterday that the new law requires teachers to have a master's degree.
BUT. GOLDMAN said, there were ways
that instructors could copy material for their classes.
He said professors also could take advantage of a service that was being advertised by Kinko's copying and duplicating service at 904 Vernont St.
Bill Towns, manager of Kinko's, said he had master copies of material that professors had submitted for students to have coined.
"It's called 'professors' publishing," said Towns, who has been manager at Kinko's for three weeks. "We've had a few professors check it out with the authors and made permission from them to have it applied." We don't know about it, and we don't check it.
TOWNS SAID his store did post on the counter a notice that basically says the customer was taking all responsibility for any violations of the copyright law.
- "It (the notice) says that in providing the prices at the posted prices we simply act in response to the customer's instructions in examining each original for a copyright."
Towns said the notice on the counter also asked the customer to tell Kinko's if
"No one has asked to copy copyrighted material yet," he said. "But as far as we know, nothing has been written."
Towns would not release any of the names
professionals using the "professors"
app.
material to be copied involved a copyright.
He said Kinko's would then ask to see a
paper.
Mike Davis, University general counsel, said there had not been action taken against any instructors at KU for violations of the copyright law.
David Longhurst, manager of House of Usher copying service, 838 Massachusetts St. said he would not even make one copy of a copyrighted book.
"The SAME goes for sheet music, too." Longhurst said. "We always try to check for
Cheryl Swanson, assistant professor of political science, said she had received a flyer that Kinko's had sent to many KU students. She looked considering into the printing service.
She said she had not contacted Kinko's about duplicating her material because she
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On the Kaw
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Robert Sisson, Overbrook, spent a lazy afternoon yesterday fishing off the Kaw river overflow.
Fire check reveals no significant hazards
Staff Reporter
By BARB KOENIG
An investigation yesterday by a state deputy fire marshal of temporary housing conditions at Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Hall Hound Hall found no significant fire hazards.
State Deputy Fire Marshal Clark E. Brubaker said yesterday that he was pleased with the results of the inspection and that he would double room for escape in case of emergency.
Previous complaints filed with the fire marshal's office last week had claimed that residents temporarily housed in some furnished rooms, a laundry room and dead-end corridors did not have proper access to an emergency exit.
State Fire Marshal Floyd Dibbarn said yesterday the temporary housing was inspected because of a phone call he received from an employee in crowded conditions would be investigated.
BRUBAKER SAID the question was not
"He (the caller) said there were rumors about it (GSP-Corbin) being overcrowded and wanted to know if we were going to do anything about it, and I said. Sure, we have
so much the condition of the housing, but the residents' ability to get out if anything happens.
The deputy marshal told J.J. Wilson, KU director of housing, that temporary fire exit signs needed to be placed in the temporary living areas.
Brubaker asked the residents of the rooms and adequate access to exits, but that the rooms were not accessible.
Wilson said Brubaker also told him the doors on the coin-operated laundry rooms in both GSP and Corbin needed to be replaced. The rooms now have "hollow core" doors that should be replaced with "solid core" doors for greater safety.
Brubaker said Corbin was one of the safest buildings on campus.
The deputy marshal added that he was pleased with the improvements KU had made to its security, including a "alert" as a result of a fire in Baldwin two years ago. Five fraternity men at Baldwin were killed in the fire. The incident schools by the fire marshal included all state schools by the fire marshal.
Dibbern said his office would conduct its annual investigation of all University buildings and housing facilities in the next two or three weeks.