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The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, December 6, 1982
Vol. 93, No. 73 USPS 650-640
George Lawner directed the University Symphony in its rendition of Prelude to Leonghen yesterday during the first of two Vesper performances in Hoch Auditorium. The number was one of many presented during Vespers, a musical Christmas program sponsored by the School of Fine Arts.
Vespers takes chill out of winter afternoon
By BONAR MENNINGER Staff Reporter
More than 1,400 people braved the north wind and a bleak, threatening sky yesterday to hear the first of two performances of the Vespers holiday music presentation at Hoch Auditorium.
The arched hall warmed with the sounds of the University Symphony and a combination of KU singing groups as they played classical music or sang Christmas cards to a nearly full audience.
Beginning with a candlelight processional by the blue-robed members of the stage choir
singing "O Come All Ye Faithful," and ending with the singing of "Silent Night" by everyone in the hall, the show was marked by the lack of spoken words.
Only carols, symphony music and the occasional cry of a baby could be heard. The balcony choir, above the crowd, alternated carols with the larger stage choir below, or with the symphony, building from the whispers of the symbol-crashing climax of a Warner classic.
AFTER THE SHOW, which lasted an hour,
the smiling listeners walked out into the
room.
winter day.
Kathi Firis, St. Louis senior, said she had
been at home putting up Christmas decorations before coming to hear the music.
"I loved it. This is the third time I've been to hear it, in the years it's been at KU, it's been a great experience."
The event was sponsored by the department of music in the School of Fine Arts.
James Ralston, professor of music, directed the stage choir, which consisted of members of the Chamber Choir, Concert Chorale, and the Concert Choir. George Lawner, professor of fine arts, directed the black-tied University Symphony. The balcony choir was directed by Lon Dehnert, graduate teaching assistant in music.
Prof teaches handicapped to play the piano
Staff Reporter
By DEBORAH BAER
Staff Reporter
Many of them cannot read, or write, or live alone.
They are often the objects of pity tainted with condescension.
But with the help of an innovative teacher, mentally retarded teenagers and adults in Lawrence have triumphed. They have acquired a skill that is rare even among adults of average or better intelligence.
They can play the piano.
They can play.
They are flora Silmi, professor of piano at the University of Kansas.
at the University of Kansas
IN 1974, Silini decided that teaching only college students was an isolated and unrealistic approach to music.
"The music remained in the studio," she said recently. "I felt like the Grinch who hoarded music."
music.
So to avoid professional burnout, she developed a three-tiered plan to offer piano lessons to those who ordinarily would not study music.
those who usually would be. She told
Slimi she planned to teach piano first to
adults, then to the mentally handicapped, and
third, to retired people.
thirty-thousand employees.
In 1975 she received grant money, mostly from the National Committee on Arts for the Handicapped, and started the first phase.
HER FIRST non-college students included housewives and lawyers.
Then she moved to the second phase, where she has remained.
"I'm so inflamed with working with the handicapped. I haven't moved on to the next one."
group. Barbara She had plunged into an unexplored field and learned she would have to develop a way to teach retarded people musical skills.
She knew she would have to break down every skill into a set of subskills, and that everything in the class would have to be carefully planned so that students who learned faster would not get
Silmi has put what she learns about teaching the handicapped into a book, "Experiencing Music with the Piano." She also has taught college students her method. The method now is being used in schools and hospitals throughout the country, she said.
"THE CLASSES were Wednesday night at seven," she said, "and from two to four every Wednesday afternoon I sat down and wrote down my every move."
bored while other students struggled to master concepts...
Monday Morning
Silini said she learned that while teaching college students, she was able to assume a lot.
— rhythm, melody, harmony and timbre, or tone quality.
Slimi said she could count on students understanding the four basic elements to music
BUT SHE could not make the same assumptions about her mentally handicapped students, who had little or no previous musical training.
Before starting students on the piano, Silini works on the basics that others take for granted.
"What I do is try to develop the instinct for these elements in the student through exercise, so by the time they approach the piano, they just concentrate on wiggling their fingers," she
Some of Silini's handicapped students already have a strong instinct for that element of music that makes the works of composers from Bach to Mozart seem so appealing to so many — rhythmic drive.
Group will search for new head coach
Slimi uses that instinct to help her students develop an understanding of the other basic elements, she said.
BUT MANY of the students come to her seemingly unaware of concepts that go along with musical beat, or are physically unable to clap in rhythm, she said.
"We did a lot of clapping, chanting, snapping and stumping," she said. "We at least established the fact that rhythm is a continuing thing."
By DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
One young woman who came to the first class had cerebral palsy. Although she tried to join in, she did not succeed.
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Athletic Director Monte Johnson said yesterday he expected to announce a search committee today to seek a replacement for football coach Don Fambrough.
Farmbrough's second tenure as KU's head coach came to a halt Friday when Johnson was accused of stalking him.
Student, faculty and alumni members of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board
The announcement came on the heels of a 2-7-2 season that had not measured up to pre-season expectations. It also followed the team's success as athletic director a week ago.
Johnson has already started work in the athletic department, although he does not
officially take over until Dec. 15.
Don Fambrough
WHEN HIRED, Johnson said he came to the job with no preconceptions about whether ambulance should be fired. But yesterday he was told that he would be made quickly because of recruiting dates.
"Don't want to know as soon as possible where he and his staff stood," Johnson said.
Johnson said he made the decision in order to re-establish confidence and consistency in the football program.
Johnson fired Fambrough Thursday night after discussing it that afternoon with the KUAC board. Johnson said the board supported his decision.
"THEY WERE understanding of the decision, and I went to great lengths to inform them of the reasons behind it." Johnson said.
In a prepared statement released Friday, Johnson said. "This was a very tough decision to reach, and one that I thought long and hard about. I visited several times with Don and others in the University before finally reaching my decision late Thursday afternoon."
For Fambrough, 60, this will be the second time in his 35-year association with KU that he has been forced to leave the job as head coach, but was not hired. He joined and was rehired in 1979 to replace Bud Moore.
Fambrough still has two years left on his contract and Johnson said the contract would be honored.
"I WILL SEE to it that the additional funds are made available, even if we need to raise the funds," Johnson said. "The money is not as much as this point, as getting a decent program."
Fambrough's annual salary is $49,680.
Fambrough's daughter said
In a prepared statement released Friday,
Fambrough said he regretted leaving before his
contract expired.
"My love for the University of Kansas is long-standing and will continue to be strong," he said. "I regret ending my association with the University at this time."
Johnson said members of Fambrough's coaching staff would be paid until June 1, 1983, or until they found other employment.
Fambrough's dismissal angers, dismays players
Sports Editor
By GINO STRIPPOLI
When Monte Johnson, the newly appointed KU athletic director, announced Friday morning that Don Fambrigh was fired as the head football coach, several players reacted with
ingest.
Other players were puzzled by what had transpired since the loss to Missouri at the end of the season.
"How can you fire a coach who was Big Eight coach of the year just one year ago?" asked Bucky Scribner, who sat out after transferring from a junior college during Fambridge's first year back at the helm. "Our record was nobody's fault but the players. Several players laid down on Coach Fambridge and his staff, so the administration cut off their livelihood.
"That's not right. It'll take the next few years to build this program back again."
TIM FRIESS, a senior co-captain and one of the few players that played up to his pre-season billing, was even more irate about Fambrough's firing.
"I've been through this before," said Fries, who was a freshman when former Head Coach Bud Moore was fired. "I think Moore's firing was justified in a way, but this one I felt was not the end year, Coach Farmaugh was in the penthouse of the year. Now he is in the outhouse — gone."
"I take the blame. The players didn't produce
the coaches, I feel, did everything they could."
"Coach Fambrough let a few players get out of hand," Friess said. "I think he realizes it. Kerwin Bell is a good example of that."
Friess didn't stop there, however. He went on to point the finger at a particular player.
"WHEN BELL first came here, I had the utmost respect for him. But this year, he didn't want to play. Bad knee or not, he didn't want to produce. It hurt the whole team. I had a bad knee and I played."
...rough some players showed anger, others
had a more professional approach and
thought them in a meeting Friday after
the game.
"He then said one thing that will stick in my mind forever. He told us he loved us, then he left the room."
"He said he felt he was lucky to be associated with us," said Charles Cooper, a freshman fullback. "He told us the most important thing is to have a good time and go to all our games and follow our progress."
the room.
Now that Johnson has fired Fambrough, he must move quickly to replace the coach that complied a 36-49-5 record during his two four-year head coach stints. He said he would name a search committee today to pick the new coach.
"IT WILL probably be a different group than was used to find an athletic director." Johnson said Friday. "Those people may be a little more aggressive, but committee can get started the first of next week."
However, the position must be advertised for
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Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high in the low to mid-40s, according to the National Weather Service. Whilst should be from the northeast at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the low, to mid-28s.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high in the upper 30s to low 40s.
1960s radicals find views tempered with time
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
David Awley had been elected student body president that spring on a platform calling for an end to the Vietnam War, freeing Black Panthers Huey Newton and Eldrone Cleaver, stripping the University of TCU course and opening bookstore refunds into a scholarship fund for needy students.
The year was 1969.
Rosalind Gulley McNeely, Annie Dennis Montgomery and Linda Hutchinson Proutt joined the Black Student Union cheerleading team because that there were no black women on the KU sound.
David Bailey, co-chairman of Students for a Democratic Society, read Lenin and Marx.
THE UNIVERSITY has changed since then and so have their former students. Yet according to people who experienced the student movement each retains a part of the legacies of the 1960s.
Awbrey, who was from Hutchinson, was student body president in 1969. Today he is married and writes editorials for the Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale, III.
Steve McMabon filmed students demonstrating during an ROTC review in Memorial Stadium.
He said he had gradually replaced his radical views with a more pragmatic philosophy. He and other student activists went too far in trying to drop various course requirements from the school.
"Change in this country comes from places like Southern Illinois and Hutchinson, Kan.," he said.
Awbrey today's colleges should have stronger core curriculums.
AND HE AGREES with President Reagan that the size of government should be reduced.
"As a reporter, I've seen too much of what the welfare system does to people," he said.
Awbrey also said that he had become a part of the middle class establishment, which he opposed as a student.
"I'm one of those people society gave everything to." he said.
everything to him.
He criticized his friends who thought they were betraying the cause if they cut their hair and did not smoke marijuana every night.
"I'm certainly not going to hold myself to inadequate ideals," he said.
HE SAID that as an authorial writer he could still try to effect change. He said he was more satisfied and thought he was more effective now as an authorial than he was as part of a mass
Awbrey said he was not the same person he was in 1989, because he had grown up.
Other former student activists said that they had $^{i}120$ changed, but that the student movement had a profound effect on their lives.
In 1969, Linda Prutt was one of the first three black women to become a member of the KU cheerleading squad. She was chosen as an assistant coach and Rachelie Roberts were chosen as regulars.
CLARENCE REYNOLDS, BSU president, demanded that William Balfour, dean of student affairs, respond within 24 hours to the BSU's proposal that three black women be added to the squad.
"I was more aware about the positive things of being black," she said.
Fruft said that the BSU and the black movement changed her life.
The women tried out for the squand and did not make the team. Then, the Black Student Union, the political organization to which the three women belonged, selected its robes and wore them on their robots with fists clenched, were pictured on the front page of the March 23 issue of the University Daily Kansan.
The BSU also taught its members to be more aggressive and tried to make the campus aware of their presence.
Another student group. Students for a Democratic Society, also was active in 1969 and 1970.
IN MAY 1900, the SDS sponsored a Vietnam memorial in the stadium during the chancellor's visit.
About 200 students broke a gate and entered the stadium with the intent of hearing the reading of the names of the 34,000 U.S. soldiers killed in the war up to then. Cancellation W. Charkeia of the Army in July 1975 led the 10700 cadets. The protesters formed a ring around two-thirds of the field. Wescoen then
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