Friday inside HAWKLink convocation
Minority students gathered last night for the HAWKLink convocation to meet staff and other members and to receive advice on the upcoming year. PAGE 3A
Jayhawks for sale
One of the "Jayhawks on Parade" statues will be
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Turning it around
After a sloppy loss, Mark Mangino and the Kansas football team will try to clean up its act tomorrow against UNLV. PAGE 12A
Back for revenge
The Kansas volleyball team will attempt to defeat Minneesa for the first time in Kansas history
tonight in the Nike Volleyball Invitational PAGE 12A
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Vol.114 Issue No.
KANSAN
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Friday, September 5, 2003
Fraternity fights for house
By Abby Mills almills@kansan.com kansani staff writer
Lambda Chi members forced to relocate after dispute over housing
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is suing its landlord for a opportunity to buy its house at 1510 Sigma Nu Place.
Fraternity members vacated the property at the end of last school year. According to the lawsuit filed in Douglas County District Court, the building needed about $850,000 in mechanical
repairs and mold removal
"It became infeasible to live there," said Bruce Wanamaker, Overland Park resident and treasurer of the corporation that oversees the house.
sorority was unwilling to sell. The leasing agreement included a purchasing option available three years after the lease began.
Lambda Chi members now live The Legends, 4101 W.24th Place, in the same apartment complex. Egan Waggoner, Beloit senior and Lambda Chi member, said living off campus could be a hassle, but the fraternity had not been severely affected.Lambda Chi began renting the house from the Tennessee-based sorority Alpha Omicron Pi in 2000. The sorority is no longer active at the University of Kansas.
Wanamaker said the fraternity wanted to buy the house in 2000, but the
The option requires both parties to have the house appraised to determine a sale price. While Lambda Chi had the house appraised, the national sorority has yet to hire an appraiser, which is delaying the possibility of a sale, said Chris Burger, Lambda Chi Alpha's attorney.
said. Burger said if the sorority did not sell the house for the fraternity's appraisal value or bring in its own appraiser as required in the lease, the suit may go to court.
Lincoln City lpdm "Our first issue and main priority is completing the sale of the property," he said.
"It depends on whether A-O-Pi steps up on this sale issue," he said. "If not, we will have to step in."
The suit also alleged Alpha Omicron Pi did not maintain the property. According to the lease, the sorority was responsible for maintaining exterior walls, roof and building codes, and structural flooring.
Wanamaker said it was not financially feasible to fix all the house's problems. He said the fraternity hoped to demolish the house and build a new one in its place.
house and abroad. The sorority referred all comments to its attorney, who was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Nicholas Uljanov directed the University Symphony Orchestra class yesterday in Murphy Hall. The Austrian-born conductor arrived in Kansas the first day of classes and began rehearsals this week.
Edited by Dave Nobles
Austrian composer brings campus worldly experience
By Alex Hoffman
ahoffman@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
It may be Nicholas Uljanov's first rehearsal conducting the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra, but he's already into the music.
already into the middle "Together!" he says as they play the first note.
He conducts without a baton and with sweeping gestures, sometimes holding an imaginary violin to show the strings up front what he wants.
songs with him. "Shhh!" he says to the strings, urging them to play softer with an outstretched hand.
After fixing more difficult parts of Richard Wagner's overture to Die Meistersinger, the musicians make improvements.
Uljanov, a native of Austria, was named the symphony orchestra's conductor May 21, taking over for Timothy Hankewich. The procedure for getting his visa delayed his arrival until the first day of classes on Aug. 21. The three-month process was long but standard, said Misty Grosko, administrative assistant to the department of music and dance.
"Everyone wants to play, and to play better," Uljanow said later. "The second time, the orchestra played better."
Uljanov will begin his job without his wife and son with him. They are still in Austria because his wife works for a non-profit organization for higher education in Salzburg. Uljanov expects them to be here next year.
Now he is getting used to his first conducting job in the United States after spending his time in Europe.
spending in the city.
"Some things are new for me, but I find that I have some time to adjust here without any problems," he said.
Uljanov came from a musical family, where his father played both violin and trumpet. He studied conducting and then served as assistant professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia,
where he received his doctorate in 1986.
status what conducting is. He said for many people conducting was like an iceberg. People see the conductor at concerts and they only see that top level. But they don't see the deeper side — formal training, rehearsals, music selection — that goes into the final product.
"The most important thing I learned at the conservatory is that the conductor is one of the most misunderstood jobs." Uljanov said. "Not everybody understands what conducting is."
Uljanov has international experience as a guest conductor with such ensembles as the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra in Germany, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra in Austria. He is also an accomplished opera conductor with Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Bizet's Carmen among his credits.
ing, he said. John Paul Johnson, director of choral activities, was a member of the committee to select Uljanov. He said applications came around the world from Europe to Asia. But above all others who applied for the position, Johnson and the committee members were drawn to Uljanov's skills at the podium.
While he would focus on his orchestra at the University, he would continue to keep his schedule of guest conducting. he said.
"The first thing that stood out about Nick was how expressive he was with the orchestra," Johnson said.
Conja Summerlin, a French horn player pursuing her masters in musicology, had similar first impressions.
"He seems to know what he's talking about," she said. "He has a more choral, lyrical beat pattern to his conducting."
ducting. Uljanov was impressed that the University had dance and music grouped in the same department. He said the orchestra would be able to work in future projects with ballet and other dance. He has five years of experience with the Nizhny Novgorod Opera and
"Everyone wants to play, and to play better."
Nicholas Uljanov conductor
Ballet Theatre in Russia.
Uljanov said he needed to prepare his students to work at a professional level.
"For everybody in music it's one part to play and conduct and it's another to teach." Ulianov said.
teach. Ujjanov sain Uljanov is setting other goals for the orchestra as well.
orchestra he said. "KU has 50,000 students, and most of them, I hope, have an interest in music," he said. "That's why I think it's unacceptable when we have 200 or 300 people in the Lied Center."
ple in the EDUCATION Uljanov would also like to expand the orchestral repertoire with the audience in mind. He would like to explore the modern American composers
"We have to discover other composers, we have to discover new music, we have to discover contemporary music," he said. "We might begin step by step."
step. The plans for the first year don't leave much spare time for Uljanov, but in the last two weeks he has noticed Lawrence's hospitality.
"The people everywhere on the streets and in the stores are always very friendly," he said. Uljanov said that when he did have more time, he wanted to find the nearest ski slopes, because he enjoyed downhill sking while he was growing up. For now, Uljanov is helping to reach the orchestra's own mountain-tops.
"My expectation is to reach the level that we can say we are ready to play outside the Kansas area," Uljanov said. "After the first year we will say, 'OK, for us, the Kansas area is too small.' I hope we can reach it."
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Calendar to feature University women
By Johanna M. Maska
jmaska@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
With brains, not breasts, some women of KU found success. And now they're models for a calendar.
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center is seeking donations for an alternative "Women of KU" calendar. Production of the calendar, which will showcase accomplished women on campus, is in its beginning stages.
Kathy RoseMockry, program director for the center, arranged a meeting for interested parties yesterday at the Kansas Union. This was the second of many upcoming meetings. The group, which had nine representatives from groups such as the Commission on the Status of Women, the Multicultural Resource Center, and Women's studies, met to hash out project details.
They envision an alternative to the original "Women of KU" calendar, which features scantily clad female students. Rose-Mockry said one of the center's goals was promoting w
"It is important right now that these women that will be pictured on this calendar, have had some significant roadblocks they've overcome"
Kathy Rose- Mockry Program director, Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
SEE WOMEN ON PAGE 6A
"It's not a contest," Rose-Mockry said. " Its important right now that these women that will be pictured on this calendar have had some significant roadblocks they've overcome."
was promoting women's accomplishments.
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Pushing tax cuts
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President George W. Bush addressed a receptive crowd at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo., yesterday morning. Bush pushed for economic reform by creating new jobs with tax cuts. SEE STORY ON PAGE 6A.
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