Friday, Nov. 8, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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Romantics to play new hits Saturday
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Lawrence won't have a power shortage on Saturday night. The Romantics along with Donnie and the Rock will provide enough straightforward, energetic rock-and-roll to power the KU campus through Homecoming.
The Romantics will play a homecoming concert in Hoch Auditorium tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. Donnie and the Rock, a Kansas City/area band, will open the show.
The Romantics are guitarist and lead vocalist Wally Palmar, guitarist Coz Canler, drummer David Petrusat and bassist Mike Skill. They have been touring for more than five weeks to promote their new album, "Rhythm Romance."
The Detroit-based band's previous album, "In Heat," was certified gold. The single from that 1984 album, "Talking in Your Sleep," was a Top Five international hit.
"Detroit is such a musicali-
ly/oriented town," Skill said, in a phone interview from Madison, Wis., on Wednesday.
"All influences — motown, rock, black music, white music — make it an electric kind of city," he said.
The electricity of Detroit rubs off on The Romantic's albums, "Rhythe Romance" has an electric feel about it that is created by a heavy dance beat and strong melodies.
The band's familiar 4/4 beat and use of "clear-sounding," electric guitars is enriched by "full-bodied" guitars and added
The band's situation is exciting, he said, because things are coming together after five weeks on the road, and their new single, "Test of Time," is getting played on the radio and in dance clubs.
keyboards. Skill said.
"It's at the point where the single's taking off," Skill said. "We've been getting the songs in the right order, and they've worked out well. With the new single out it gets easier."
Also, the band will play "Rock You Up," "What I Like About You" and other songs from their four previous albums.
The Romantics will play their new single and other songs, such as "Mystified" and a remake of "Poison Ivy," from the new album
Donnie Miller, of Donnie and the Rock, said Wednesday that his band, which had been playing the Kansas City area for seven years, and The Romantics would be "a good double bill."
Donnie And The Rock have opened for Shooting Star, Nightranger and Survivor. Most recently, they opened for the Kinks on their tour last summer. Miller said his five piece band played their "no gimm rock-and-roll" mostly to college crowds.
"They liked us," he said. "Our music is simple and easy to sing along with after the first chorus."
Miller said he was going to Miami later in the month to do some studio work on the band's first album.
"Look for something real soon,' he said.
The University of Kansas is going to open the eyes of U.S. high school students about the American infrastructure.
KU to teach U.S. civics classes
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
The Center for Economic Education has developed a teaching unit for national distribution from a $90,000 grant by the Associated General Contractors Education and Research Foundation.
The infrastructure is the permanent public installations such as roads, utilities, public buildings, dams and ports.
Emerson Hazlett, director of the
Hazlett said a team consisting of himself, John Guenther, professor of curriculum and instruction, David Parr, associate professor of civil engineering, and graduate and undergraduate students had been working for almost a year on the program.
center, said Wednesday that this unit was one of the first developed to teach students about the importance of the infrastructure.
The rough draft was finished two weeks ago and is now being tested in high schools all over the country. In 1985, 400,000 high schools in the United States.
The three-week teaching unit is
designed for civies classes. It consists of a film strip with an audio cassette, a teacher's guide and student activity sheets. Haisselt told the level of difficulty and the segments of the unit they wanted to use.
$40,000 of the grant was earmarked for development of the teaching unit. The remaining $50,000 will be used to produce 10,000 of the units.
Hazlett said people took the infrastructure for granted. The program is designed to teach students about the economic costs and benefits of keeping up the infrastructure. This will enable the students to
better determine economic priorities
"The infrastructure is the public capital in the economy which provides an economic base and helps economic growth," he said.
Pat Weiss, assistant director of economic education and curriculum instruction, had students in her C&I 441, Advanced Methods of Teaching Social Studies in Middle and Secondary Schools, design activities for the unit.
"Students always work better when they feel the relevance of their work," she said
Vacation pay won't follow job switch
Previously, when a University employee transferred from one status to another, he was allowed to return to his previous position for accumulated vacation days.
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
University employees will no longer receive cash payments for earned vacation time if they transfer from classified to unclassified status, Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
Cobb said that because of a recent interpretation of a state statute, the University found it was not authorized to pay employees for accrued vacation days when they transferred positions within the University.
Richard Mann, director of institutional research, information services and personnel services, said the
Unclassified employees are generally considered to be senior administrators and staff members. Of course, they are the University's support staff.
transferred and the effective date of the transfer.
In a letter Monday to University administrators, deans and department heads, Cobb outlined the new policy.
Mann said that few University employees would be affected by the new policy because few transferred services within the University.
cumulate depends on how long he has been employed by the University.
David Lewin, director for personnel services, said the effect of the change would depend on how long an individual had worked for the University.
The letter said that when an employee is preparing to move from one position to another and his status will be changed, the department representative will give that employee a letter specifying the amount of vacation that is being
University officials tried to pay the employees for their vacation days, Mann said, but they were told by administrators that they couldn't.
But vacation time could still be transferred, Mann said. The amount of vacation time an employee can ac-
change came about when the University recently changed the status of several medical personnel at the university of Kansas Medical Center.
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