Volume 124 Issue 39
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Monday, October 17, 2011
the student voice since 1904
CAMPUS
IRON COMPOSURES
Blood drive seeks 1,300-donor goal
ALEXA RUSH
arush@kansan.com
One unit of your blood can save three lives, but only if you take the time to donate.
With the KU Blood Drive's goal of collecting 1,100 units of blood, around 1,300 participants will be needed needed to reach this mark. The drive will be held through the end of this week. There are several different locations and times available for students to donate each day.
"There is no substitute for human blood," said Jennifer Green, donor recruitment representative for the American Red Cross. "On any given day, an average of 38,000 units of red blood cells are needed for hospital patients in the United
States."
According to the drive's website, www.kubloooddrive.com, students can do simple things to make their donation experience more successful. Donors should get plenty of rest the night before and begin drinking plenty of liquids 24 hours prior to donating. They should also avoid caffeinated beverages and focus on water intake.
Eating foods that are rich in iron — such as red meat, poultry, fish, beans, green leafy vegetables and raisins — will allow your blood to be rich in the elements most needed. Having a good breakfast and lunch is also essential.
"Each donor is screened prior
KNOW WHERE TO DONATE
Monday, October 17:
Oliver Hall 2 to 7 p.m.
Union Ballroom 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Union Blood Vessel 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday. October 18:
Tuesday, October 18:
Kappa Delta 2 to 7 p.m.
Union Ballroom 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Union Blood Vessel 11 a.m to 5 p.m.
Wednesday, October 19:
Hashinger 2 to 7 p.m.
Union Ballroom 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Union Blood Vessel 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday, October 20:
Union 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Bus 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
McColum 1 to 7 p.m.
Rec Center (Blood Vessel) 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday, October 21:
Union 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Bus 10 a.m. to 2:35 p.m.
McCollum 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Rec Center (Blood Vessel) 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Phi Kappa Psi 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
SEEKING OCCUPATION
TRAVIS YOUNG/KANSAN
Jason Phoenix explains different gestures for responses during the demonstrations held by protestors participating in Occupy Lawrence. The local movement has expressed solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. The group is working toward promoting change in local government ordinances.
CLAIRE HOWARD/KANSAN
Jeremy Wohletz and Laura Potter perform Nick Curry's original version of the Rock Chalk Chant while Katie McKeiran and Bo Attas wait to perform Ian Boswell's rendition during the 2011 Helianthus Iron Composer Competition in Swarthout Recital Hall on Friday night. Each composer was given 24 hours to compose an original variation of the Rock Chalk Chant for two musicians to be performed in front of an audience and panel of judges.
Composers compete in time-crunched tournament
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
The Rock Chalk Chant is a familiar tune around campus, but eight composers gave the University's traditional chant a new spin in the Helianthis Iron Composer Competition last week.
Beginning last Thursday morning at 8 a.m., eight composers had 24 hours to create up to four minutes of music for Friday night's head-to-head, single elimination tournament that took place in Swarthout
Recital Hall. Eight musicians from the Helianthus Contemporary Ensemble, a student group that plays modern music, performed each of the original pieces.
The 24-hour deadline pressured composers to complete their pieces before 8 a.m. Friday.
"The idea was that we wanted a way to perform a lot of the music of KU composers and do it with the student new music ensemble," said Forrest Pierce, an assistant music professor and the head of the Helianthus Ensemble.
Jason Charney, a senior from
Overland Park, had to balance studying for two midterms with composing his piece, which he finished at 4 a.m.
Musicians also operated under time constraints, having only Friday to rehearse for the performance.
"It puts you out of your comfort zone to learn a piece in a day that was just written yesterday," said Bo Atlas, a senior from Morgan Hill, Calif., and a tuba player who performed.
The Iron Composer competition was based on Food Network's
snow "Iron Chef" which shows contestants going head-to-head to create dishes that feature a secret ingredient. The final products are then judged by a panel of celebrities. Professors from the school of music served as judges in Friday's competition. The evening was emceed by members of Stitch Tactics, an improv group made up of students.
Compositions were written to be performed by tuba and
HISTORY
SEE COMPOSER PAGE 3
Carving sees change of scenery
Russian prisoner's gift moves from archives to Wescoe Hall
DANA MEREDITH dmeredith@kansan.com
He stands a mere four inches tall, his 94-year-old body covered in a fine layer of dirt.
He's traveled from Germany to Kansas, making his home first in Stauffer-Flint Hall — where he sat, forgotted, until 2009 — and then in the University Archives.
On Wednesday evening, he made another journey, this time to the offices of the department of Slavic languages and literatures in Wescoe Hall, where he'll live for one year in a glass display case.
The "Russian Jayhawk," as the small carving has come to be known, was a gift of gratitude from an unknown Russian prisoner of war to Conrad Hoffman, a Kansas alumnus working with the YMCA in Germany during World War I.
It's a symbol of the long-standing connection between the University and its students doing good in Russian and Eastern Europe, said Marc Greenberg, chairman of the Slavic department.
"I want the carving to help draw attention to the things
A gift of gratitude
The YMCA post was "an important non-governmental service performing a moral and social function during the First World War," Greenberg wrote in his article "Hoffman's Hawk."
In 1913, Conrad Hoffman became the secretary of the YMCA at the University, leaving his position as a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin.
our students are doing, to the connection between what Conrad Hoffman did — which was a humanitarian effort — and what our students do in Russia today," Greenberg said.
According to the article, the YMCA worked in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, providing education and coordinating social and athletic activities for the prisoners. The YMCA also helped prisoners develop trades and hobbies by giving them tools and arranging exhibitions and sales of their artwork.
Hoffman went to Germany in 1915, and it was common for him to receive presents, said the article, from the thankful prisoners who he worked with.
Index
CLASSIFIEDS 7B CRYPTOQUIPS 4A SPORTS 18
CROSSWORD 4A OPINION 5A SUDOKU 18
According to a pencil inscription on his side, the Russian Jayhawk was given to Hoffman in 1917. He was probably carved by either
SEE JAYHAWK PAGE 3
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