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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 7, 1990
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Hard work and heat are Band Day traditions
Marching band working hard at playing its best
Flag team members stand at attention during Wednesday's band practice behind Oliver Hall.
Kansan staff writer
His father brought him to KU football games as a child, but the halftime entertainment is what he remembers.
Barry Evans, Topeka senior,
wanted to be in the KU marching
band since the first time he saw it
perform. Now he plays the trumpet
in his fourth year with the Marching
Jahawks.
"Being on the band is fun, but it's hard work." Evans said. "After a performance, there is this feeling. It can't compare to anything else."
Evans said the band's goal this year was to be the best in the country.
"We want people to see us and say,
"That was a great marching band,""
he said. "Everybody shows it by
working and working harder."
Evans said he thought last Saturday was one of the band's best first performances.
"We put our all into the performance even though the field was 138 degrees at halftime," he said. "It means that 130 degrees inside our uniforms."
He said paramedics advised band members to double their intake of water this week instead of only tomorrow as a precaution against the heat. Band members will wear Shirts and shorts tomorrow instead of the traditional uniforms if temperatures are again high.
Evans said the band members practiced together about eight hours a week.
"When I come home from practice, my legs are sore," he said. "It's challenging playing as hard as you do on the ground and your legs off the ground 10 inches."
Julie Schenk, Overland Park junior, said because the band practiced three days a week in the afternoon, she thought band members would be conditioned to play in the heat tomorrow.
She said she thought this year's
band was practicing and performing as a group, and not focusing on the rank of members.
"Last year, people who weren't section leaders thought it was their job to correct mistakes," Schlenk said. "It caused lot of tension. This
year, everything has clicked."
Schlek is an alternate in the band and participates when she's needed. She doesn't always play an instrument; just times just hold one while marching.
"Until I was on the band, I didn't know people marched without playing, but it makes the formation look better," Schlenk said.
Christina Bennett, Mission freshman, said she joined the KU band
trumpet position last Saturday
when matching
Schlenk was an alternate in a
Expected heat may have band changing suits for causal look
Kansan staff report
It will be difficult to tell
difference tomorrow between
members of the KU Marching
Jayhawks and spectators at the
Kansas-Oregon State football
game.
For the first time in at least 20 years, members of the band will not wear their traditional uniforms because of high temperatures, said Thomas Stidham, assistant director of bands.
Stidham said band members would wear matching T-shirts, shorts and baseball caps unless temperature unexpectedly cooled off.
Stidham said the field would be covered with the visiting bands, with the Marching Jayhawks in attendance. The bands will play five numbers.
More than 3,500 junior high and high school musicians from 50 schools in Kansas and Missouri will visit the University tomorrow for the 42nd annual Band Day. Stidham said.
Visiting band members also will march in a parade down downtown Lawrence. The parade starts at 9 a.m. at Seventh and Massachusetts streets and continues to South Park at 11th Street.
after playing on her high school band for three years.
Study measures KU paper waste
"Being on the band is hot and a lot of work, but I knew I couldn't just sit in the stands," she said.
Bennett said it was a challenge to memorize the music and formations.
Kansan staff writer
Bv Mike Brassfield
An environmental studies professor is conducting an ongoing study to find more efficient ways for KU to use paper.
Steve Hamburg, assistant professor of environmental studies, said the study began in January for Judith Ramaley, then executive director of the Hum to study how to limit the total amount of paper used on campus.
Seven students worked with Hamburg in the spring, and two will work with him this semester, Hamburg said.
Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancellor, said Hamburg was working with the office of the vice chancellor.
"We certainly support environmental concerns, and the amount of paper we use seems to be a major one of them." Shankel said. "I like trees, and I'd like to save as many of them as I can."
KU consumes approximately 1,000 tons of paper per year, he
Hamburg said that in Spring 1990 he taught an informal class in which he and seven students sifted through garbage, weighed mail and worked with the KU purchasing office to attempt to determine the amount of paper the University used.
"The bulk of the garbage the University produces is paper," he said.
said. Assuming there are about 30,000 people on campus, that is roughly 70 pounds of paper per person per year.
Hamburg said the next phase of the project was to use the collected data to try to develop more efficient methods of consuming resources.
He said money and the environment would be saved if more professors distributed handouts from the university piece of paper instead on one side.
"If 23,000 students received one sheet of paper instead of two, then we would save 250 pounds of paper, he said. "Simple little thing that can make a lot of difference. We can that tweaking the system."
Hamburg said he was optimistic that KU could reduce its resource use without reducing the quality of communication on campus.
"They will look at not only paper but things like energy, water, acid and gasoline," he said. "I want you to be the entire university as a classroom.
Hamburg said he would continue the project next semester. He will teach a class called "Issues in Resource Conservation."
Steve Hamburg relaxes in his office between classes.
Police looking for link in Wednesday's crimes by male armed robbers
Kansan staff writer
By Christine Groody
Two armed robberies that occurred within 30 minutes of each other Wednesday have Lawrence police looking for a connection, a Lawrence police spokesperson said yesterday.
At 10:10 p.m. Jo Shryock was alone, working behind the cash register at Else's Liquor Store, 315 E. 7th, when a man wearing a dark ski mask, a dark long-sleeved sweatshirt and dark sweat pants flung open the front door and jumped over the counter.
"He spoke really quiet and asked where the money was," Shrycko said. He said he didn't want to hurt her. "I needed the cash register. He had a gun."
Shryock said she waited a few moments before calling police because she was scared.
The man grabbed the money with his left hand and pointed the gun at Shriekoy with his right hand, said Aileen Else, owner of the liquor store. 805-853. The store had not been robbed in the past five years, Else said.
Lawrence police reported that the man fled eastbound on foot.
Chris Mulvenon. Lawrence police
spokesperson, said that about 30 spokesmen after the liquor store robery, Randall Barnes, a driver for A-1 CITY Cab, received a call requesting a ride to a downtown tavern from 2019 W. 27th St. Terrace.
When the driver arrived at the residence a man dressed in a matching navy blue long-sleeved sleeveless shirt and pants approached the driver, who pointed to him according to police reports. He demanded money and the keys to the cab.
After taking the money and keys, the suspect fled northeast on foot. None of the residents in the area said they had called a cab, Mulvenon said.
The man was armed with what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun, Mulvenon said.
"Detectives from the investigation division are checking into the possibility of any similarities in these instances and trying to ascertain if there are any connections," Mulvenon said.
No suspects have been apprehended, he said.
KU police do not think the robberies on Wednesday were connected to the armed robbery yesterday of a Lawrence Bus Company bus on West Campus, said Burdel Welsh, KU police spokesperson.