CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 15, 1984
Opera singer to do anthems
By BRENDA STOCKMAN
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Basketball fans who go to Allen Field House tonight will not be expecting to hear an opera singer, but they will.
Phyllis Pancella, St. Louis, senior, who also is an operetta singer, is the first woman to be chosen as the main theme before anthem before KU basketball game.
Singing at a sporting event is something Pancella has wanted to do as well.
"I can't think of any better way to get out of the opera singer category than to sing jazz and to sit at basketball games," she said. "The people who are there are not, for the most part, going to go to the opera or musicals on campus to hear me," she said.
PANCELLA IS playing a witch in
the Opera Workshop's production
of Hitchhiker.
She said she hoped to someday sing in a beer commercial, be the voice for a cartoon character and sing at the World Series.
Ron McCurdy, a band instructor and assistant professor of jazz, who selects the singer for the games, didn't set out to break a tradition by choosing a woman this year.
"She was the best person I heard and that's why I chose her," he said. "She has a very big voice and a very beautiful voice."
This year, more people than usual were interested in singing at the games, McCurdy said. About a dozen people auditioned this fall. Usually about five or six people audition, he said.
He said he thought enthusiasm for the basketball team may have caused more people to try out.
Any sport could inspire Pancella to sing.
"I'm a big sports fan. Period," she said.
PANCELLA HAS NOT ALWAYS been a Jayhawk fan, however. This semester, she transferred to the University of Kansas from Loyola
But Pancella said she was excited to be at a school with a stong basketball tradition.
"It's so great to sing here because
at Loyola the team was not that good," she said. "Here basketball means something totally different. Thousands of people pay thousands of dollars to see them play. And they're good."
Sara Yeager, Topea senior, was selected as the alternate to Pancella
Yeager, also a transfer student,
said she sang at the Wichita State
University basketball games for the last three years.
Both Pancella and Yeager are mezzo-sopranos, which means they have middle-range voices for women. Pancella said she had the large vocal range required when singing the "Star Spangled Banner."
YEAGER SAID SIE was chosen to sing at SUE WSU because she was captain of the track team and a theater/voice major.
Pancella said she gave up participating in sports in high school because she didn't have time. Now, she said, she enjoys being a sports fan — partly because it is not expected from someone who sings in operettas and is majoring in philosophy.
KU senior starts career early
By JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
A Douglas County court services program designed to help juveniles avoid further court problems has given at least one KU student a head
Lisa Sanders, Overland Park senior, first heard about the program last fall when a guest speaker from the court services office came to a class on the juvenile justice system that she was taking.
Person-to-Person, one part of the Volunteers in Court program, which the speaker described, matches the case and who act as friends and role models.
AT THAT TIME, Sanders was already pursuing a special liberal arts and sciences major called Crime and Delinquency, which was offered by the departments of psychology, sociology, and human development. He had not had much experience working with the juvenile justice system.
"I hadn't had that much one-on-one" she said.
Sanders called the court services office the next day and began the lengthy process of applying to work as a volunteer
She filled out a six-page application form and then went through two interviews with Michelle细致地 coordinator of Volunteers in Court.
After being accepted as a volunteer, Sanders had to wait two three months before she was paired with a 14-year-old girl.
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"The children need consistency," Hostetler-Kreider said.
Hosteller-Kreider prefers to match a volunteer with a youth of the same sex. Sanders said, because he would be a role model for the youth.
AT THE END OF September, 4,
volunteers — about half of them KU
students — were working with youths
in the Person-to-Person program,
Hostael Kleider said. Some study
groups have helped human development and family life can receive credit for participating in the program.
Sanders said a volunteer could not expect to gain a youth's trust without spending a great deal of time with the youth.
Person to Person works much like Big Brother-Big Sister, she said. A volunteer is asked to work with a child one day a week for at least one year.
You have to build a relationship
Lisa Sanders
with them," she said. "You have to find something they like."
Even after the initial period, the job is often demanding, Sanders said, but it is rewarding.
"YOU HAVE A LOT of rocky times, but the ups are really up."
Sanders said that she had learned as well as taught.
"I'd rather be working with kids themselves," she said.
Most of the other people in her major are planning to go into law, Sanders said. But while she finds the juvenile justice system fascinating,
Sanders, who is taking 16 hours of classes this semester, also works
"You learn all the time," she said.
"When you're dealing with kids, especially adolescents, you have to be ready for anything."
with three Lawrence High School students in connection with the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Service's truancy diversion program.
She said she put in between 30 and 40 hours a week working working as a Volunteer In Court and with the truancy program.
"It's like having a full-time job." Sanders said.
But the job does not have regular hours and may require only 20 hours one week and then take up 80 hours the next, she said.
Working with the courts has given Sanders a good idea of the legal responsibilities of working with juveniles, she said.
"You have to know everything about juvenile court," she said.
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