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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Nov. 11, 1985
Protesters to meet in Chicago
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Several KU students will join more than 100 students from other colleges and universities at the Student Conference Against Apartheid and Racism on Nov. 16 and 17 at the University of Chicago.
Jane Ungerman, a member of the KU Committee on South Africa, said yesterday that seven or eight KU students probably would attend the conference, sponsored by the Progressive Students Network.
"It strengthens us to keep in touch with other activists on other campuses," said Ungerman, Lawrence senior. "It's encouraging to meet other people and exchange ideas."
The anti-apartheid movement at the University has grown, Ungerman said, because people are connecting apartheid with racism on campuses and in the country.
"They are understanding that until everybody is free to live their lives none of us are really free," she said. "Once you see something is very wrong, you get to a point where you can't sit by and do nothing anymore."
Joe Isobaker, coordinator for the Midwest Progressive Student Network, based at the University of Iowa, said yesterday that students at the conference would discuss protests and rallies on campuses last spring and this fall.
Members of South Africa liberation movements will speak at the conference. Students from other universities, including Columbia University, which has divested its interests in U.S. companies that do business in South Africa, also will speak at the conference.
Isobaker, a University of Iowa senior, said student involvement in the anti-apartheid movements across
the country was increasing.
"The dramatic growth is an indication of greater things to come," he said. "In terms of the student movement, it's definitely going to continue to grow."
"Most have a longer-term vision of social change," he said, "and much more hope for a better world."
Isobaker said the core group of students of others was able to follow and actively alive on their campuses shared some characteristics.
They understand the connection between Spartaco in South Africa and racism in the United States, he said. KU's anti-aparached movement seems to typical of other state universities, Isobara said. For example, he said, on most campuses the movement became strong last spring with more white students struggling for divestment, while more black students became involved sometime during this semester.
At the University of Kansas, about 65 students were arrested during protests in May at Youngberg Hall and Strong Hall. In addition, five students were arrested last Monday after refusing to leave Chancellor Gene A. Budig's suite.
Isobaker said 4,000-5,000 students across the country had been arrested during campus protests. Student protests had succeeded in bringing about divestment, be said.
The University of Iowa divested most of its stocks in June, Isobaker said. In April, more than 137 University of Iowa students were arrested during protests at the university. However, he said, Iowa didn't divest all of its stocks.
In the spring, about 1,200 protesters at Cornell University were arrested in three days, Isobaker said. Five hundred protesters were arrested at the University of Colorado, and more than 150 were arrested at the University of California at Berkeley.
Memorial site to be consecrated
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
A brief, informal ceremony today will consecrate the site of a campus Vietnam memorial, which has been in the planning for two years, the chairman of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee said last week.
Tom Berger, chairman, said an artist's rendering of the memorial by Doran Abel, Junction City senior and fifth-year architecture student, would be placed at the construction site at 3 p.m. today.
"I'm very excited about having the ceremony on Veterans Day," Berger said. "It means we we're moving closer and closer to the memorial. This is a very concrete step toward completion."
The memorial will be built at the
southeast corner of Memorial Drive and West Campus Road. The site location has undergone several changes in the past two years because of aesthetic and construction conflicts.
Berger, a Vietnam veteran, will say a few words to thank people and to consecrate the site.
"It will be very short and informal," Berger said. "The public is welcome, and approximately 50 individuals and family donors from all over the nation have been contacted by letter about the ceremony."
Berger said a formal dedication ceremony featuring several speakers would be announced before construction of the memorial was completed. He said he hoped construction would begin as soon as possible so the
memorial could be dedicated this spring.
"I don't know how long construction will take," Berger said.
Greg Wade, a landscape architect for the University of Kansas, said he was waiting to see what the artist's rendering looked like to design the detailed construction plans. Wade completed the site plan design of the existing conditions in October.
Berger said the main element of the memorial would be a 5-foot, 1-shaped wall made of cottonwood limestone, indigenous to Kansas. The names of more than 60 KU students killed in the war or listed as missing in action will be cut into the stone.
An inscription representative of the honor and sacrifice of the students and some kind of symbolic relief also will be cut into the stone.
Youth adds to string show
The technical perfection, energy and expressiveness of the Ridge String Quartet's performance yesterday was impressive, audience members said.
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
The quartet, the youngest performers in this semester's Chamber Music Series, played "almost perfect technically," said Stan Shumway, chairman of the department of music.
"They play with great precision and expression." Shumway said. "They are exciting and outgoing. You can tell they're worked very hard."
Jackie Davis, director of the Concert and Chamber Music series, said it was important to bring "emerging stars" to the series as well as more established groups.
“it's important for students to see performers who are just that much better.”
Only three years ago the quartet members were students at the Curtis Institute of Music and performing with the New York String Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Schneider. Schneider is the only surviving member of the famous Budapest String Quartet.
Schneider, other professors and judges of competitions that they won
encouraged the quartet to become a professional touring group. In 1982, the quartet won the Fischoff Chamber Music competition in South Bend, Ind., and the Coleman Chamber Music competition in Los Angeles.
Since then, violinists Krista Bennion and Robert Rinehart, violist AH Ling Neu and cellist Rarmon Bolipata have performed more than 50 concerts each season in cities including New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Almost 700 people attended the afternoon concert in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. The quartet opened the concert with Haydn's "String Quartet in G Major, Opus 17, No. 5."
Haydn's quartet interweaves uncomplicated themes between the violins and viola and uses the cello as an accompanying bass line.
Becky Parks, Lawrence sophomore who plays violin with the University Symphony Orchestra, said, "Technically, I thought they were wonderful. They have so much energy. But they sounded young, like there's some maturity lacking."
The second piece, Bartok's "Quartet No. 2, Opus 17," fused Romantic and Impressionistic influences with new rhythmic and harmonic ideas. Special effects such as
muted strings and glissando effects added mystery to the somber last movement.
David Steele, Salem, Ore., senior,
said the quartet's technical perfect
tion was made more evident with the
Bartok piece.
"It's impressive," said Steele, who also plays violin with KU's orchestra.
The energy and concentrated effort increased with the closing piece, Beethoven's "String Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 74." Harmonically simple at the start, the piece grew more complex and ended with a sweeping fortissimum unison passage and two quiet chords.
Davis said the quartet's performance was outstanding because it was "highly energetic and very technically accomplished."
On Campus
The Strat-o-matic Baseball Club will meet at 7 p.m. today in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.
KU Sword & Shield will meet at 8 p.m. today in the Walnut Room of the Union.
**Theater media arts and radio TV-film majors will meet at 7 p.m. today in 3 Jolliffe Hall to discuss departmental matters.**
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