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KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 42 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, October 23, 1984
Chris Magert/KANSAN
HARRIS BABKER JANET Hamburg, associate professor of dance, uses stretching the KU track team, to move more efficiently. Hamburg is use exercises to help teach David Bond, a freshman member of Labian Movement Analysis to help Bond.
Dance professor analyzes athletes
By ERIKA BLACKSHER @
Staff Recorder
The dance professor carefully watched the athlete walk. Then she watched him run — then jump.
As a movement specialist, she could detect the athlete's unbalanced strides and wasted motion.
Janet Hamburg, associate professor of dance, has been observing and helping athletes improve their movement for almost three years.
She is one of the first people in the United States to apply Laban Movement Analysis — a movement vocabulary used to observe, analyze, and types of human movement — to athletics.
THE MOVEMENT ANALYSIS was developed by Hudolph Laban during the 1920s in England.
When working with athletes, Hamburg studies their movement and then designs
drills that will, for example, eliminate extraneous movement or help keep the surface dry.
About a week ago, she started working on those problems with David Bond, South Webster Decatur, Ill., freshman, a long jumper and triple jumper for the track team.
She began by having Bond crawl on the floor, keeping his legs parallel and putting equal weight on each side of the body. She brought side Bond to help him see his imbalance.
Although Bond was skeptical when Rick Attig, his bond, suggested that he work with Hamburg, he said after working with her that he thought her coaching would help
"I FEEL IT'S going to help tremendously," he said. "And she is so warm about it you know she's not trying to get anything out of it for herself."
Since its development, Laban Movement Analysis has been applied to all performing arts - including dance, theater and music-
to psychology and personality analysis and now to athletics.
The advantage of using Laban Movement Analysis in athletics over biomechanical analysis, which is widely used by coaches, is the ability to unencumbered easily to athletes. Hamburg said
"The problem is that the people in the field don't understand biomechanics," she said. The coaches have had anatomy, physiology, biology and biomechanics. But the athletes haven't.
"GO AHEAD AND use all of this wonderful research in biomechanics to figure out where someone's center of gravity needs to be — what the most efficient way for them to move through space and through their ee"
"But then have Laban Movement Analysis as a way to communicate it to athletes." Hamburg's perceptive and practical way of working with the athletes helps them
See HAMBURG, p. 5, col.1
Director puzzled by new protests over library site
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is the first in a two-part series on the library system at the University of Kansas.
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Nobody started a petition in 1975 when a University of Kansas planning committee proposed that a new library be built near the Military Science Building.
Nobody staged a rally to save a 50-foot-tall American elm tree.
But nearly a decade later, hundreds of students who say they don't want to see the stretch of green space between the Military Science Building and Hoch Auditorium devoured by concrete and bricks have joined a group of educators and technologists, librarians the proposed science and technology library.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said last week that he couldn't explain the recent student opposition to the site.
During the past month, more than 3,000 people have signed a petition opposing the library site. The Student Senate approved the petition Oct. 10 and plans to present it to the Gene A. Budiq, the Board of Regents and members of the Kansas Legislature.
"We've been planning for this facility for a long, long time," he said. "It's not like it just came
A RALLY OCT. 14 near the elm tree
attracted about 25 students who discussed
their experiences.
Mark "Gilligan" Sump, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said. "We're not against the library itself. But we think the students should have some say as to where it is built."
Wiechert said he and the architects working on preliminary plans for the library shared the students' concerns for preserving the landscape.
"But none of these people have come forward to find out what criteria we've considered over the years," he said. "We can talk to every student, every year. There were students on the planning committee in there; there are students on the committee now."
Sump said he had spoken with Wiechert and other administrators by telephone but was unable to get further information.
KATHLEEN GEORGE. Olafe the sophomore, is one of two students who now serve on the Science Library Committee. George, who is a chemistry major, said she supported the University's plans for the new library.
"We've only had two meetings, and the architects really haven't said much about their plans for the building." George said. "But I think we need this new library. There just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of room left at the other libraries."
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said that other sites were considered for the new library but that the area near the Military Science Building "makes perfect sense."
"It's the most logical location." Ranz said. "Most of the disciplines that will use the science and technology library are located around the site."
But those protesting the site say the library could be moved to several other locations on campus. Sump has suggested building the library on West Campus, on the hill between Shafer Flint and Malot halls, behind Blake Gymnasium, the athletic fields near Robinson Gymnasium.
IN ADDITION TO its proximity to science classroom buildings, such as Malott and Haworth halls, the site offers nearby parking and access roads for delivery vehicles. Ranz said no other sites were as well-suited for the new library.
Wiechert that moving the library to West Campus would be "ridiculous."
"West Campus simply is not the academic core of the University," he said. "It would be just as illogical to put the humanities holdings on West Campus as it would to put the science holdings there."
Unless Blake Annex were torn down, the area behind the annex couldn't accommodate a building the size of the science and technology library, Wiechert said.
THE AREA BETWEEN Stauffer Flint and Malott is unsuitable for construction. Wiechert said, because of the slope of the hill and the geology of the area.
"If we ever build an addition or new building in that area, it will be for a discipline such as science education or psychology," he said. "I am a science library in that corner of campus."
Two hope to continue British statesman's dream
See SITE, p. 8, col. 1
Former 'average'achiever found new views on education at KU
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Christine Fidler shrugs off the genius stereotype often projected onto her.
"Believe me, I am anything but an intellectual." Fidelia, senior special student, said last week. "I balk at being an intellectual. It doesn't appeal to me."
Nonetheless, as one of two nominees from the University of Kansas for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, Fidler has been thrust into the academic limelight.
the competition about four days before the entry deadline. A few of her friends prodded her into it.
Rhodes applicant sees studying as 'disease' he sometimes forgets
Fidler, 22, seriously considered entering
Fidler realizes that becoming a Rhodes Scholar is a long shot. But if her academic record at KU is any indication, her gamble will be less than risky.
"Actually, I wasn't going to enter," she said. "I had thrown the application away."
See FIDLER, p. 5, col. 4
She said she was skeptical about her chances of becoming a KU Rhodes nominee. "I thought I'd at least give it a shot," she said.
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
If a day had 36 hours, Paul Hwang would spend more time studying art history, swimming, playing tennis, perfecting his backwords or playting.
"In some ways, I wish I had the time to focus on those activities more narrowly." Hwang, Overland Park senior, said this week.
But most 24 hour days are packed with studying. After Hwang's first semester at the University of Kansas, he made school his No. 1 choice for college and graduated into a 4.0 cumulative grade point average.
"Ever since then it's been a disease," said twang, one of the noomens for the pain medicine师. She taught Sokhalu.
But sometimes, he said, he treats the books by forgetting the books and unwinding.
"At times I get really frustrated with
them, and the scream from a satura-
lation point," said Rennie.
"I try to balance it out so that it doesn't rain my life completely," he said. "When ever I can, I swim. That really helps a lot. It saves time and stuff like that whenever I get the chance."
But, he said, "You sort of have to discipline
See HWANG, p. 5, col. 4
Christine Fidler, Salina special student, and Paul Hwang, Overland Park senior,
are KU's nominates for the Rhodes Scholarships.
's dream Rhodes' goal for scholars was close ties
Cecil Rhodes left a legacy when he died 82 years ago.
In his will, Rhodes, a British entrepreneur and statesman, left part of his fortune to establish the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University.
In establishing the scholarship program, Rhodes hoped to "secure the peace of the world" by creating close ties among the Anglo-Saxon elite.
The first Rhodes Scholarship was awarded in 1903.
Now. 75 Rhodes Scholarships are given annually, 32 to students in the United States.
annually, 32 to students in the United States. Candidates are judged on their scholastic records, character, leadership qualities and personal vigor.
Two students from the University of Kansas, Christine Fidler and Paul Hwang, recently were selected by a campus committee to represent the Rhodius Rhodus competition which will be Dec. 12.
Fidler and Hwang filled out applications and wrote lengthy essays for the campus competition. The applications and essays will be sent on to the state Rhodes committee.
To prepare Fidler and Hwang for state competition, which includes interviews that are considered to be grueling, the campus committee will conduct mock interviews.
Each state committee nominates two students for district competitions. The United States is divided into eight districts, each of which will choose four students as Rhodes Scholars