Tuesday, October 30. 1979
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John Casteen
Lone piper's haunting melodies fill autumn air with romance
By JENNIFER HOLT Staff Renorter
It's a quiet October night and a lone baggage steadily marches in a straight line under the west wing of Memorial Stadium. The haunting, romantic echoes of his baggage off the stadium's roof and harmonize with the Campanile bells.
He's not practicing for a surprise appearance with the KU Marching Band; he's just carrying on a family tradition.
Bapipes are a way of life for John Casteen, a Bakersfield, FI, freshman, whose parents are KU graduates and whose older brother and sister are KU students. He is very other night at the stadium to his high-key bapine technique in top form
"Playing the bagpipe is a challenge for me--it's difficult keeping all four items going at the same time." Casteen said.
"When I first arrived here I was practicing at Porter's pavilion, but I was killing myself. I got no sound back there and nothing was in tune. One night I went to the basement and found I could get really good sound. I am improved in the last three weeks."
AND THAT'S where he will keep playing until it gets too cold and he moves inside Murphy Hall to practice.
Casteen said he remembered growing up at home with bagpipes all around his parent's house in Bakersfield.
He first became interested with the baggie when he was eight-years-old, he
said. His father was at a museum meetup on Thursday and we had a baggage bag on a shop window. He bought the baggage and then an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times ran about him.
The teacher, who was a member of a baggie band in Los Angeles, offered to travel to Bakersfield to teach Casteen, his brother and sister.
"Playing the baggie became a family activity," he recalled.
CASTEEN'S HIGHLAND bagpipe is meant to be played in the outdoors. The cooler fall weather is best suited for the instrument, he said it is four years old and is quite hard to play.
Each of three drone pipes contains a drone reed, which is the size of a leaf. The reed is double cane reed, which resembles an ooze reed except that it is much larger.
The drone pipes are built from African blackwood, stealing silver and ivory.
"There's a bigger demand for the bapipe now," Casteen said, "and for awhile, they were hard to get because of a boycott of blackwood in Africa."
Casteen, who is considering majoring in computer science or engineering, has not decided how much longer he will continue to play his bapipes.
Until then, the melody of a Scottish march or the refrain from "The Glasgow Week in Hamburg," "The Dark Isle" or "The Ghost Hill" will propel the hill from the vicinity of the stadium.
"It had to be done when we had a donor," Bell said.
'Everything went well with most of the moving been done on Friday.
The kidney transplant was performed Sunday night.
"Everything is ready. We had no hitches and we're ready for surgery," he said.
TODAY: NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENT ORGANIZATION luncheon from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in Cork 2 of the Kansas Union Museum OF MODERN ART in Burlington, Nebraska. Sandra curator of photography, will speak near you, in the Spencer Museum of Art.
The surgery chart at the University of Kansas Medical Center will return to normal today following the surgery depart. The three-day move into Bell Memorial Hospital.
Enough equipment was moved during the weekend to set up 14 of the hospital's 28 operating rooms. Bell said.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
By ROSEMARY INTFEN
THE INTENSIVE care patients and surgical floor patients were moved Friday. Operating room equipment and the blood bank were moved Thursday and Friday.
By ROSEMARY INTFE Staff Reporter
David Bell, hospital outpatient coordinator, said yesterday the only problems during the move were seven emergency surgeries, including one kidney transplant.
TONGIC; STRENCH FICTION CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Parlor A of the Union, WESTERN CIVILIZATION FILM, "The Light of Experience," at 7:30 p.m. in
Surgery routine back to normal after move into Bell Memorial
All of the emergency surgeries were done in the new hospital, utilizing what equipment was available. Bell said.
Room 3 of Old Green Hall, TAPAC SCHAL BIRTH FORUM will be held at 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Public Library, HIELL FOLK DANCE will be at 8 p.m. at the Lawrence University Porter, PROFESSOR EMERITIS UNIVERSITY OF OREGON will speak on "The Businessman in Folkere," at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union, "THE INK HEARED LADY-SCAPIN" play will be held at 8 p.m. in the Inge Theatre, Murray Hall.
Bell said surgery equipment was still being set up yesterday in preparation for todav's survery.
Although no surgery had been scheduled since Thursday, Bell said the hospital did not have any problems missing a few days of surgery.
"This has been the most complex move that we've had because we have to cover everything. When surgery shut down in the hospital, we were ready to go in the new hospital," Bell said.
"The surgery schedule varies. Thursday we had 36 and we've had as many as 50 in one day."
HE SAID that the Med Center would have
Tuesday, October 30
Hitchcock Double Feature:
SABOTAGE (1998) and
YOUNG AND INCENT
Two Alfred Hitchcock thrillers for the price of one; these are from his British heroid. SABOTAGE is about a murderer who uses a young Sidney Linden. YOUNG AND INCENT is about a murderer who can only be recognized by his witching touch.
Directed by G.W. Pabst. This curious musical fantasy of catechus by the 1890s was based on the play by Bertel Brecht. Music by Kurt Wellg, Gehring.
Wednesday, October 3'
THE THREE PENNY
OPERA
Directly by Lee Ward尔曼, with the help of the late John Molato. A shy and awkward pessimist goes to Rome in the 1930s where he meets a young girl named Katie who is likely in which to kill Benito Mussolini.
Thursday, November 1
Lina Wertmuller:
LOVE AND ANARCHY
Friday & Saturday
November 2-3
FOUL PLAY
Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Burpee Meredith, in a comedy/thriller. Plus: A film about a short, sharp The Musketeers of Pig Alp, 'one of the first gangster films' on Broadway.
- No matinee on Friday.
Midnight Movies COLLISIONS (1978)
An experimental science fiction "work-in-progress" about alien space exploration. Stella Lily Tatum, Dan Aykroyd and Glida Radaer; video work by Ed Emshiller and choreography by Louis Ilms. With illustrations. *Hardware Wars*.
turned down any critical patients during the weekend if it had to
University Daily Kansan
A communication system in the emergency room was set up to inform ambulance drivers to take critical patients to other hospitals in the area, Bell said.
All films M-R shown in Woodruff Aud,
at 7:30 unless otherwise noted. $1.00
admission.
The relocation of the surgery department is one of the final steps in moving the Memorandum to the nursery and delivery rooms have not been relocated, Bell said. A decision will be made today on how to handle it.
Weekends show also in Woodruff at 3:30, 7:00, 8:30 or 12 midnight and Sum. at 2:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted. At 1:00 am, admission. No Refreshments.
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2. "PEPPERMINT SMOOTH"
    Event 7:4 & 9:45
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    Set Sun 1:45
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2. "JESUS"
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Attrition study analyzes students' problems, needs
By JEFF SJERVEN Staff Reporter
A detailed study of student needs at the University of Kansas is near completion at the Student Assistance Center, an office of the division of student affairs.
Lorna Grunz, director of the center, said yesterday the needs analysis was prompted by concern about the causes of student withdrawals.
"There has been a large body of literature concerning student attribution at American universities," Grunz said. "We wanted to get a localized picture of the situation at KU."
"We wanted to find out how the University environment affected students and how the University could improve its programs."
Grunz said students withdrawing from KU were asked to suggest ways the University could have made its studies more productive.
"Most students who are withdrawing from school may stop supplying her suggestions and she said. "The fact that someone is actually interested in what happens to them often generates interest."
THE CENTER'S STUDY, conducted by assistant director Dick Johnson, began last spring with interviews of 75 faculty members and 260 students.
"The questions we asked at that point were very general," she said. "We'd ask questions like, what do you like about this program or that?"
From early interviews of withdrawing students, the center designed questionnaires to deal with more specific topics, Grunz said.
The questionnaires dealt with problems such as working and attending school at the same time, academic performance, class requirements and university services.
About 500 undergraduates and 300 faculty and staff members have responded to the questionaires, Grunz said.
"We will make recommendations based on the data on matters concerning our office." she said. "Recommendations concern issues that would affect the directors of those departments."
THE DATA are currently being analysed and will be presented to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and other administrators as soon as possible, she said.
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