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University Daily Kansan
Thursday Features
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1985
Strummin' along
While students usually spend class pushing a pen and listening to lectures, about 30 KU students spend two hours a week picking and strumming during class time.
begining Folk Guitar, MEMT 598, meets every Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. and teaches non-music majors the basics of guitar playing, while earning them two hours of class credit.
Sandy Carson, graduate teaching assistant and teacher of the class, said beginning guitar was first offered by the music education department a year ago.
"Most everyone either has a guitar or would like to have one," Carson said. "It's a universal instrument that you can play by yourself and in a group. It's both relaxing and takes hard work."
The class teaches students how to read notes and how to strum and pick the guitar, she said. The students also sing four-part harmony by ear with several of the songs they play.
Reggie Hodges, Compton, Calif., sophomore, said he took the class because he had always wanted to learn to play the guitar.
"I've always wanted to play the guitar because it's a wonderful instrument." Hodges said. "It's more relaxing than playing the piano and having to discipline yourself to sit there and practice. When you play the guitar, you can sit around the house and just fool around."
Hodges said he learned of the class when a friend from his dorm walked up to him on campus last year playing "Dust in the Wind."
"He learned it in half a semester and I was impressed," he said. "So I figured I'd take the class, too."
Carson said that this semester's class was especially good, so they were going to perform two 40-minute concerts Dec. 9. The first performance will be at 6 p.m.
at the Presbyterian Manor, 1421
kasold Drive, and the second will
begin at about 7:45 p.m. at
Hashinger Hall.
"First, they wanted to play on Wescoe Beach," Carson said of her students. "But we decided it was too cold and our fingers wouldn't work."
She said the class decided to perform at the Presbyterian Manor nursing home because several retired music professors and teachers lived there.
"We thought they would like to see what's going on in the department." she said.
The guitar students will strum and sing their way through their concerts by performing folk art guitar music such as "Annie's Song" and "Blowing in the Wind," Carson said. Christinas carols also will be part of the program.
Mark Hatfield, Kansas City, Mo., senior, is also a member of the class. He said he thought the class was fun and was a better way of learning guitar skills than taking private lessons.
"If you take lessons you learn real boring things like scales and "Mary had a little sheep,""" Hatfield said.
Hodges said the class presented a more relaxed environment than most classes.
"You feel comfortable with your ability and you don't feel pressed whether you're really talented or not." Hodges said.
Carson said the class was intended only for non-music majors so that students wouldn't feel pressured to compete with students who were more proficient.
She said that next semester's class had been filled during pre-enrollment, even though she had opened it up to 50 students.
"I have heard reports from students in the class who have said it was hard work, but was enjoyable and relaxing," Carson said. "It's different from classes that you just go and sit in because you can play the guitar for the rest of your life. You learn a performing technique you can do forever."
Above, Sandy Carson, instructor of a Monday night guitar class, responds to good playing by some of the students. Left, five members of the class rehearse the song 'Let It Be' for the end of the semester concert.
Story by Theresa Scott Photos by Steve Mingle
Hats in cold weather keep wearer warm, but not cool
By Susie Bishop
Of the Kansan staff
Putting a lid on cold weather attempts the impossible. But putting a lid on male KU students during cold weather is equally as difficult, some students say.
"Most guys only wear a hat when they haven't taken a shower and don't want anyone to see their hair," John Detisch, Omaha, Neb., junior said Monday.
Despite red, ice ears that begin to look and feel like cherry Popsicles, Detisch said he wouldn't wear a hat.
"I won't wear a hat, because my
knees look awful when I take it off," he
says.
"I have a hood on my jacket but I don't wear it, either, because it's uncool."
Detisch said most men resisted even the sub-zero temperatures in the name of style.
"It's not worth the frozen ears, but I do it anyway," he said.
The only hat Detroit said he might be tempted to wear would be a stylish, corduroy baseball cap.
He may be the exception, but
"I noticed that a lot of people don't wear hats. I don't think they realize the difference it makes in staving warm." Johnson said.
Steve Johnson, Lansing freshman, said, when the cold weather hits, he takes his stocking cap out of the drawer and puts it on his head.
"It makes a big difference in how warm I feel," he said. "When I don't wear a hat, I can tell I'm losing heat."
Johnson said he didn't remember ever going without a hat in the winter. He said he probably wore a hat because he remembered the childhood ritual of having his parents constantly remind him to put it on before braving the winter weather.
Not all men wear hats in the winter to be warm. Many follow the tide of fashion instead.
According to Scott Emerson, an employee at Campbell's Clothing, 841 Massachusetts St., the "in" look in men's hats this winter varies from the khaki, thin-brimmed Indiana Jones style to the flat hat that looks like a cross between Sherlock Holmes' hat and a beret to tweed
This winter's cold weather promises to get worse, but Emerson said he doubted that many more men would begin to wear hats.
Emerson, Colorado Springs, Colo., senior, said men wore hats but not as frequently as they used to. Most of the time when a man wears a hat it's because he wants to be stylish, not warm.
hats, typically worn by businessmen.
"Very seldom do you see a man on campus or downtown wearing a stocking cap," he said.
Emerson said a knit cap didn't appeal to his sense of style.
Corduroy baseball caps surfaced once again as this season's hot hat item, Ken Morris, manager of Morris Sports, 1016 Massachusetts St., said.
"I don't even wear a stocking cap when I go snow skiing," he said.
Morris said he saw a lot of men coming into the store to purchase hats.
"Wearing a hat is a logical thing," he said. "People don't think about the safe, easy things to do to take care of themselves."
Whether it's a ball cap or a skull cap, men come flocking into the store to find a hat when the temperature registers in the sub-
Not wearing a hat won't cause colds, but a cold head will adversely affect resistance to cold germs and viruses. Loveland said.
"It's not the thing to wear in this style era," he said. "Guys are more self-conscious and girls just want to be warm."
Morris said even though he sold many hats, he didn't wear one himself.
"When the temperature is in the sub-zero area, tissue injury can oc
Men may not wear hats because they look funny, but by foregoing the protection a hat provides, they
zero range and the wind becomes sharp and bitter, he said.
The baseball cap doesn't protect ears from the cold, but at least it covers the head, Morris said.
could put their health into danger. Charles Loveland, a medical doctor, said.
But being out of the habit can cause a tremendous amount of heat loss from the head, and a student may risk frostbite, he said.
"Many people don't wear a hat because it's inconvenient, they are overly concerned about their looks or they are just out of the habit," Lovelain said.
cur in 15 to 20 minutes," Loveland said. "The colder and windier the day is, the faster damage can occur.
"On a really bitter day, a walk across campus could cause tissue injury."
On Tap
On Tap
Nancy Haney
Peggy Helsel
CONCERTS:
The Rolle Smith Band will play blues and rock 'n' roll this weekend at The Jazz haus, 926½ Massachusetts St. The shows at 9:30 pm. Friday and Saturday, and the cover charge is $3.
*Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St., is featuring the Lawrence band The Vicecars tonight at 9. The cover charge is $1.*
PLAYS:
**PLAYS.**
"Booth," the third production in the Inge Theatre Series, will run tonight through Sunday in the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall. All shows start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $3 for the public, $1.50 with a KU ID, and $2 for senior
citizens and other students. All seats are general admission and seating is limited.
SUA MOVIES:
"Allegre Non Troppo," an Italian send-up of Disney's "Fantasia", will be shown tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. "Witness," starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis, will be shown at 3:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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