THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
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Musicians take note: KU bands welcome all
State/Local
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
Get that old trombone off the shelf. Pull the clarinet out from under the bed. It's time to join the band.
"Our policy is you can never have
to make kids turn to a band
many times." - Bayer
Any KU student who can play an instrument is welcome in one of the KU bands, said James Barnes, conductor of the University Band. And there is a band for just about every musician, from Symphonic Band to Concert Band to Jazz Ensemble.
Barnes said that some students who played in high school bands weren't getting involved because they didn't think they were good luck. They didn't think they had enough time or weren't aware of the opportunity.
"Some kids don't have enough confidence that they can be involved in band at the university level," Barnes said.
But there is a band for every ability, he said.
"We think that if a kid put in all those years and all that time in high
school, he ought to be in band. It's a shame to see a student put their horn up and never use it again," Barnes said.
And what about those students who say they don't have enough time?
"Not true," Barnes said. "If they were in time, their time, they would as well it in band."
Thomas Stidham, conductor of the Concert Band, said about 10 percent of high school students played in their school bands.
"If 10 percent of the KU student body were in band we'd have about 2,500 students in the band," Stidham said. "So we just wanted to remind and persuade students that they can participate."
Students interested in playing in Symphonic Band next semester must audition this week. Students interested in other bands need not audition, but all students interested in band should call the band office for more information.
Barnes said University Band often had more students who were non-music majors than music majors.
Jackpot drawing may benefit retailers
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Some Kansas Lottery players are complaining that the $100,000 jackpot drawing of losing tickets is unfair because lottery retailers are using other people's tickets.
As part of its first instant-ticket game, the lottery is allowing players to mail in an unlimited number of losing tickets, five to an envelope, for a $100,000 jackpot drawing.
Some players say many store owners and employees at lottery outlets are sending in tickets left by customers at the counter, on the floor or even in the parking lot.
"They have an unlimited supply of free tickets," said lottery player Bob Mount, Overland Park, a free-lance writer who complained to lottery officials. "You don't have to be the FBI to figure out it's a tremendous unfair advantage."
Kansas Lottery officials acknowledge that retailers, or anyone, can fill out an application to submit as many as they want. But they don't expect it to be a problem.
University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 30, 1987
At the Missouri Lottery's final $2 million jackpot spin at the State Fair in August, however, two retailers were among 10 contestants and won a total of $160,000. The final spin was the only time Missouri Lottery players could send in losing tickets.
'They have an unlimited supply of free tickets.'
Bob Mount Overland Park
Both retailers said that during the August promotion their stores became full of used tickets.
Charles Nordmeyer, who owns the Farmer's Market in Salisbury and who won $90,000, said he sent five tickets that had been left on the counter.
"I thought, 'What the heck. I'll send them in.'" Nordmeyer said. "I probably gave away 1,000 to 1,500
tickets while that thing was going on. A lot of people just leave them lying there."
Mike Jones, manager of Cooper's Country Market in Pineville, said he bought 40 tickets and mailed them in eight envelopes, winning $70,000. But he said his employees collected and sent in piles of discarded tickets.
"Some of the girls here sent them in gobs, unbelievable gobs of tickets," he said.
Barbara K. Minnick, a Gladstone hair stylist who won $30,000 in the August jackpot, said she sent in more than 125 of tickets she had bought for herself.
"I bought every one of my tickets fair and square," Minnick said. "I think it's fair to all that somebody who buys it at malls up on free tickets and makes them in."
Minnick said she was buying Kansas Lottery tickets recently when the retailer told her he was picking up all his winnings. He threw away and mailing them in.
Of the 7 million tickets sold in the
lottery's first week, 1.5 million losing
tickets have been mailed in for the drawing, lottery spokesman Nancy Zogleman said.
Missouri Lottery officials said players also could have collected discarded tickets during the August promotion. One jackpot finalist in the August spin had picked up tickets around Busch Stadium in St. Louis, where he is a maintenance worker, officials said.
"I've done it at least four times in my 14 years in the business," said Guy Simonis, president of the National Association of State and Provincial Lotteries and director of the British Columbia Lottery in Canada.
Despite the complaints, lottery industry officials apparently have no qualms about running such promotions.
“It's very successful and quite honorable,” Simones said. “The biggest problem you have is handling the deluge of mail.”
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