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CONTRIBUTED BY JÄNIS PORIETIS
Students from the University orchestra performed a solo out teaser concert to help a financially troubled musical festival in Lawrence sister city in Eutin, Germany.
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of what a professional routine is at a music festival," said Neely, who accompanied the orchestra to Germany and directed many of their shows. "The orchestra was rehearsing at a professional pace, playing at a professional pace, expected to play on a professional level. The singers as well, the cast members also were working like that, and it was terrific. They grew immensely, as I knew they would. Something like this is a life-changing experience for a musician."
The orchestra played its first show in a large barn that had been converted into an elegant concert
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hall. The students received an immensely favorable response from the audience. Local papers began to spread the notoriety of the University orchestra through northern Germany.
With news
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of the success of its first concert expanding, the University orchestra would then play its next shows at the primary opera venue in Eutin, an open-air stage located by a pristine lake in the northern section of town.
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anything like that anywhere before."
Singing in the Rain
Without any roof to speak of, the stage and audience seating for the outdoor theatre were highly susceptible to adverse weather conditions. Unfortunately, Eutin experienced one of the rainiest summers in recent history while the University musicians were there.
"We actually had our premiere canceled because of the rain," said Etta Fung, a doctoral student from Hong Kong who played Gretel in the fairy tale opera 'Hansel and Greetel." "It was really disappointing. F
"It's a place on the edge of the world," said Iánis Porietis, a graduate student and trumpet player from Latvia. "The audience was basically sitting almost on water, because that's where the land ends and there is a lake right behind them. It was really kind of magical. I'd never seen
an opera, the premiere is the most important show of the whole string of performances. Even when we did our second show it was still raining, so we were singing in the rain, like literally! And we're jumping everywhere on stage trying not to fall. We were covered
in rain and dirt and food by the end of the opera. It was great!"
German Hospitality
During the course of their period in Germany, the University orchestra members stayed in two hostels on the outskirts of town, while the opera cast and faculty members lived with host families.
"The Germans really embraced the students like you wouldn't believe," Neely said. "They were an integral part of the community and people embraced them and invited
Campus prepares for cold temperatures
Students can expect some chilly mornings for the next few days, as the National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
WEATHER
Not only will students need to prepare themselves for the weather, but also their plants. The first frost is dangerous for plants outside, so if students have potted plants, they should bring them inside until warm weather returns.
them to events. For example, the entire cast of 'Hansel and Gretel' was brought out to a country house for an outdoor barbeque."
Eutin's openness to the students helped dampen some of the anxieties many of them faced at the thought of playing for a foreign audience.
Liz Tolbert, an employee at Water's Edge gardens, said that with ponds, it's especially important to make sure the water in the pond doesn't get a chance to freeze over.
The Chi Omega fountain will also be affected by the recent weather changes. Representatives from Facility Operations said they don't know when the fountain will have to be shut off, but they said it will be soon. They've already discussed plans for turning off the fountain for the season.
"Leave an open space in the pond so the exchange of gases can occur for the fish. In other words, the ammonia from their waste needs to be able to evaporate," Tolbert said. "During the summer season, it just evaporates naturally because there's nothing holding it in."
She also said people should begin preparing for the cold weather as soon as possible.
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"I was really excited about it and I was just kind of worried what would happen after we started singing." Fung said. "But the community in Eutin was just so amazing. We started off with a couple smaller concerts. We sang at the market place, and people would just stand there for like two or three hours just listening to everything, and they were always really attentive. 'They were so nice to us.'"
Before Kansas students can enter what ESPN called the "loudest college basketball arena in the country," they must first pick up their student tickets. In the past, this has meant long lines at Allen Fieldhouse, but that's no longer the case. Now students can simply redeem their tickets online at KUAthletics.com.
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If students want to pick up their tickets online, all they have to do is go to the University ticket office website, register or log in with their Kansas username and password, select which tickets they'd like to pick up and finish the checkout process.
"And we were in the newspapers every day," added Annalize Sussman, a graduate student from Santa Fe, N.M., who played Hansel.
Student tickets now redeemable online
Press and Promising Future The music festival in Eutin this summer has been deemed a triumph, and the overwhelmingly positive reaction for the University students' contribution has already sparked dialogue for what role they will play in the immediate future of the German event.
The online redemption process places tickets on the student's ID for no cost. All tickets for each pick up period can be added at the same time.
Students must also remember to bring their KUID, which acts as their ticket into the games.
Students must pick up their tickets, online or in person, by 5 p.m. Wednesday before tickets for this period go offline.
Success and a Promising Future
Nick Rickert, a senior from Olathe, said he thinks the new process will make things much easier.
"The partnership between Lawrence and Eutin gained a new dimension," said Hagen in a recent email. "Seventy Americans brought international flair and sympathy to our festival city. They brought a new, young and fresh air to Eutin. For 2012, our new music director, Professor Urs Theuss, will put together a new orchestra comprised of KU students working side-by-side with German music students. The young students from America made it possible for us to have an opera festival at all. Financially, despite the bad weather conditions, it was a successful season; the festival broke even. That means the show goes on."
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"Usually the lines down at the fieldhouse are a little bit outrageous, so I think it'll be just a little better to do it online," Rickert said.
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Majeed said FIRE's second problem with the policies is that they explicitly prohibit speech that is protected by the First Amendment.
"You can see that in both of these policies what the University defines to be sexual harassment falls short of that Supreme Court standard." Maleed said.
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or benefits."
Jill Jess, director of news and media for the University, said in an email that the University's harassment and sexual assault policies do not
infringe on students' right to free speech.
"Students have the right to free expression," she wrote. "However, they do not have the right to threaten or harass others. These policies are designed to protect housing residents and make it clear that such unwelcome and threatening behavior is not tolerated."
In FIRE's 2011 report the group evaluated 390 schools across the U.S. and concluded 67 percent had policies that significantly restricted freedom of speech, thus earning a "red-light" rating. 107 academic institutions, or 27 percent, earned a yellow-light ranking. FIRED issued green-light ratings to 12 colleges and universities nationwide in 2011 and 10 schools did not receive ratings.
However, there are some critics of FIRE's objectivity, including Jon B. Gould, an associate professor at George Mason University and author of "Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation."
Chronicle Review that claimed FIRE's political bias motivates its evaluations and reporting on U.S. academia.
Gould wrote an article in The
"FIRE largely fails to explain how it reaches its overly broad conclusions," he wrote. "Not only are most college speech policies constitutional, but also many of the anti-discrimination policies that FIRE targets actually protect higher-education institutions — and by extension academic freedom and opportunity."
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Johnson said that the some of the content in the housing policies is suitable for addressing concerns of harassment, but that the overbroad language could threaten speech protected by the First Amendment.
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"FIRE is correct in that it does limit their free speech rights," Johnson said. "What the real question is does it limit their free speech rights appropriately?"
Mark Johnson, a First Amendment attorney and lecturer in the School of Journalism, said the language
"I never had any issues personally," Fink said. "But if I was to run into any type of issue I feel like those policies are definitely very vague, broad and also could be unfair based on the situation."
Dalen Fink, a sophomore from St. Charles, Mo., and former resident at the Jawhaker Towers, said he never felt his freedom of speech was threatened while living in student housing.
used in the student housing policies is vague and could stand to be "tightened-up"
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Josh Burdett, a senior from Midland, Texas, and Daniel Siegel, a senior from Overland Park, collect data from Potter Lake for a field ecology class. Burdett and Siegel hope that the information collected will lead to improvements in the quality of the lake water.
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