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Volume 124 Issue 10
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
THE INVERSITY HARVEY CASE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
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Bust a move with the dance department
Dance at the University of Kansas isn't just for dance majors. The department of dance and an array of student organizations provide opportunities to learn everything from ballroom to hip hop and master Dance Dance Revolution.
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
"We have something for everyone," said Michelle Heffner Hayes, chair of the department of dance. "We serve the University at large. There are students who just want to dance as part of their experience at the University and they have never had the opportunity to dance before and they have zero dance experience. We have beginning level dance courses."
create a club around the game, the KU Dance Dance Revolution club.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Evan LaFollette, a 23-year-old from Kansas City, Kan., dances at a meeting of the KU Dance Dance Revolution Club. He was previously part of KU DDR's sister club at UMKC.
Students can also receive credit for dancing outside of the dance department. The department of health, sport and exercise science offers a basic skill in Dance Dance Revolution class. Last year, that class inspired several students to
Rebecca Cannon, a senior from Topeka and the club's treasurer, said the group has about 15 members that come to play every Wednesday night on the first floor of the Kansan Union. Players of all skill levels are welcome to come and dance to any of the 1,500 songs the club has accumulated.
"I don't like dance." Cannon said. "I'm just a fan of rhythm games. It's more of a challenge aspect."
For more traditional dancers, ballroom dance is taught in several different clubs and organizations, including KU DanceSport, which is sponsored by Recreation Services. DanceSport offers students the opportunity to learn the cha-cha, salsa, and jive, among many other dances, from a professional instructor. Members can come for fun or train for collegiate ballroom dance competitions, said Guide Rungamornchai, DanceSport's president and a senior from Bangkok.
"Half of them already have experience and would want to compete, the other half just want to learn ballroom." Rungamornchai said "Our club offers both social dancing and competition."
Competition is also a crucial part of KU Jeeva's mission. Jeeva is a South Asian dance club that fuses together styles from India with western styles, like hip hop, said Deep Singh, a senior from Gardner and the team's captain.
Jeeva won "KU's Best Dance Crew" twice in the past three years and plans on competing at the national level this year. The team is also moving beyond competitions by teaching their dances to students and faculty. They are offering a free session on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. at the Ambler Student Recreation Center.
"Dancing is like speaking a language, Singh said. "Just because
Singh hopes the sessions add to the University's already-diverse dance scene.
--you know one style doesn't mean you can know and understand them all. The only way to appreciate any
style is to try it."
- Edited by Sarah Champ
GOVERNMENT
Senate makes preparations for new academic year
JESSIE BLAKEBOROUGH jblakeborough@kansan.com
Transparency and availability: That was the focus for student senate members at the Legislative Training Seminar on Wednesday, the first meeting of the academic year.
Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student success, welcomed members with a detailed history of the 102-year-old legacy of Student Senate at the University and thanked the staff for accepting their positions.
"You have a voice that is different than anyone else." Roney said. "Don't let things go on without your involvement."
"Look at how worn the brass handles are on the doors to the Union and be reminded of how many people, how many senators, have walked through those doors," Roney said.
Executive Secretary Alek Joyce, a sophomore from Lawrence majoring in political science and journalism, said the remainder of the training session was to inform and refresh senators on the duties of being a senator.
MARLESA RONEY Vice Provost for Student Success
In her introduction, Roney said one of the reasons she loves the University is because of the engaged student leaders that shape a big part of what the school is.
one knows who to go to for what."
"They were elected with a good idea of what's on going, but this should just work out all of the little details," Joyce said. SENATORS learned about
basic bill writing, parliamentary procedures and lobbying, as well as each other's positions.
"There will be a lot of sharing of contact information today," Joyce said. "We want to make sure every-
Various executive staff members stressed throughout the training session the importance of being transparent and available to the University and its students. Roney reiterated that being successful senators meant being active with constituents and knowledgeable about them. She encouraged senators to offer opinions, ask questions and to be involved with University proceedings.
Vice President Gabe Bliss, a junior from Olathe majoring in civil engineering, wants to change the current image of student senate from merely a funding entity to an organization that is seen as having the ability to make an impact on campus and in the surrounding community.
"We want to get things done fast with student input," Bliss said. "To be effective we need to make changes that stay as changes."
Edited by Lindsey Deiter
Breakdown of 2011 Government: Your Student Senate
STUDENT SENATE COMMITTEES:
Student Rights
Finance Committee
Multicultural Affairs
Student Rights
University Affairs
Graduate and Professional Affairs
STUDENT SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Consists of 11 members elected each April
2011 STUDENT SENATE PRESIDENT:
Libby Johnson
white, 11 of the top 40 recruits will be playing football in Austin, Texas this season.
A&M is making a move that will put them in the lower echelon of the top football conference instead of remaining in the upper echelon of one of the top conferences (albeit a very unstable one).
Quite simply, this is Texas A&M giving the finger to Texas for being better than them in nearly every way, shape and form. Instead of beating the Longhorns head-to-head, they decided losing more games in a better conference would be the proper form of revenge.
So now it's the Big 12's turn, as they can say goodbye to Texas A&M. You can be sure they will take pleasure in watching them get "whooped" more often than not.
Edited by Sarah McCabe
program joins the West Coast Conference.
"firmly committed" to the big 12 and that league officials knew Texas was pursuing a network deal.
Jan 19, 2011 University of Texas president William Powers said Texas is
Aug 25, 2011
Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin sends a letter to Big
12 commissioner Dan Baebe explaining that Texas A&M is considering leaving the Big 12.
Aug 30,2011
ATM
denies the Monday New York news report that it notified the Big 12 of its intention to leave the athletic conference.
become the 17th member of the Big East conference after
leaving the Mountain West
The Governors of Colorado and Utah deam June 30 'Pac-12 Day' as the Utsas Utts and Colorado Buffaloes become official members
Jul 1,2011
of Pac-12.
Aug 29, 2011
The New York Times reports that President R. Bowen Loft informed Big 12 Board Chairman Brady Deaton that the Aggies will officially withdraw from the conference as early as Tuesday.
Aug 31,2011
Texas A&M officially notifies the Big 12 of its intention to withdraw from the conference.
Sara McClinton and Chelsea Albers may each be in their first season with the Jayhawks, but coach Ray Bechard is counting on both of them to contribute, and contribute early. McClinton started all three of the team's victories in the season-opening Georgia Bulldog Invitational over the weekend, and Albers started both of the Saturday sweeps.
"We're going to put the best six out there, and sometimes that's a bit of a stretch for freshmen to do that," Bechard said. "But we have a bunch of confidence in both of those young ladies."
work to achieve
"I knew we had a good opportunity to compete with some of the upperclassmen for the spots, but you can't come in and expect to start," McClinton said. "You have to
McClinton finished the weekend with 11 kills, including seven in the finale against Georgia. To secure her role as a starter for the season's first three games, McClinton had to play catch-up with the upperclassmen who stayed over the summer.
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work to achieve it. That was my goal, to come in and start, but I guess I wasn't expecting it so soon."
"That is a tough call," Bechard said. "You need to kind of get a sense for where you think their progress will be within the first month and if this is a kid that can help us by mid-
Albers had an impressive first start on Saturday morning, recording six kills in the sweep against Liberty. She may have ensured her spot as a starter through a decorated high school career at Papillion LaVista, where she notched a state-leading 487 kills in 2009 was named the Omaha World-Herald's Girl's 2010-11 Athlete of the Year her senior season.
Starting so early is an unexpected perk for Albers, but it is one she said she plans on working hard to maintain. Both freshmen had to work hard just to avoid being redshirted by Bechard, who said the decision to sit and develop a player for a year is a difficult one.
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training in Italy, the freshmen were not permitted to tag along. Still, the upperclassmen have tried to make the Nebraska'natives feel at home, Albers said.
"They have worked hard to include us and not make us feel like freshmen," Albers said. "Speaking for myself, I feel like they treat us like volleyball players and not by our age."
Since Bechard was hired as the coach of the volleyball team 14 years ago, he has had a player from Nebraska on his roster every season. Albers and McClinton first met as opponents in the state's notoriously competitive high school volleyball circuit. They would later come to know each other better as teammates at the even more competitive club level.
"Growing up in Nebraska, I think it gave us a huge advantage," McClinton said. "High school volley-
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