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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013
Tuesday
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CALENDAR
Monday, Feb. 11
**WHAT:** Last day to cancel a class
**WHERE:** 121 Strong Hall
**WHEN:** All day
**ABOUT:** If you're not feeling that 12th century Chinese poetry class, today is the last day to drop it. Contact the Office of the Registrar at (785) 864-4423 for more information.
**WHAT:** Free Argentine Tango Open Practice
**WHERE:** Signs of Life
**WHEN:** 8 to 10 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Beginners, experts and everyone else are welcome to join in this weekly practice. Free of charge, but bring your dancing shoes.
Tuesday, Feb. 12
WHAT: SUA's Mardi Gras Open House
WHERE: Kansas Union, 4th floor lobby
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
ABOUT: Enjoy traditional Cajun foods,
make a Mardi Gras mask and read up
on this cultural holiday. The event is
free, open to the public and alcohol-
free.
WHAT: In the Beginning: Three Men Who Made America
WHERE: Kansas Union, 4th floor lobby
11 a. 1 m, to 2 m.
ABOUT: Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian and director of the Dole Institute will discuss our father John Adams in the second installment of this three-part series. "Murica."
Wednesday, Feb. 13
MUSIC
WHAT: University Career Fair
WHERE: Kansas Union, 5th floor
WHEN: 2 to 6 p.m.
ABOUT: Start planning your entrance into the working world by meeting with representatives from various graduate schools, professional schools and employers. Learn about internship, volunteer and job opportunities for the summer and beyond.
**WHAT:** Global Pride: LGBT Issues from Around the World
**WHERE:** Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center
**WHEN:** 7 to 9 p.m.
**ABOUT:** A panel discussion about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues from across the globe.
Thursday, Feb. 14
**WHAT:** Tea at Three
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, 4th floor lobby
**WHEN:** 3 to 4 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Still looking for a Valentine's day date? Meet your match over free tea and cookies, compliments of SUA.
WHAT: Undergraduate Projects: Black Box
WHERE: William Inge Memorial Theatre, Murphy Hall
WHEN: 7.20 a.m.
ABOUT: Emerging student directors and actors showcase their skills in this production. Tickets cost $15 for general admission and $10 students.
Student wins trip to LA for Grammy Awards
EMILY DONOVAN
edonovan@kansan.com
A trip to rub ebibs with the biggest names in the music industry was not what Shelby Lewis had expected when she first plucked her harp.
Lewis, a freshman from Kansas City, Mo. studying music education, was one of a handful of student musicians selected to attend the Grammys on an all-expenses-paid trip this weekend. The floor level was reserved for the famous faces: Taylor Swift, Adèle, Beyoncé Lewis sat directly above them, in a suite box in the middle of the mezanine, rubbing elbows with music producers and businessmen, at the 2013 Grammy Awards last night.
"The biggest dream I ever had in my life is about to come true," Lewis said a few days before her pre-paid flight to Los Angeles.
Out of several hundred applicants, Lewis and 24 other students from the Kansas City metro area were selected to participate in the Grammy Museum's Music Revolution Project last summer, a month-long pilot program headed by Bob Santelli, the executive director of the Grammy Museum in LA. At an event publicizing their collaborative CD release and the Grammy Museum Experience at the Sprint Center, the president and CEO of the world's largest entertainment company asked the students if they'd like a trip to LA to watch the Grammy Awards in person.
tape showing her breadth with the harp: a classical sonata and an instrumental adaptation of "Your Song" by Elton John.
While she normally plays classical harp, Lewis likes to experiment by covering a wide range of artists, from The Beatles to Lady Gaga's "Telephone." Recently, she's taken to singing while playing jazz.
Lewis heard about the opportunity through a newsletter from the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo. She mailed in an audition
In high school, Lewis would come home from school to play Grace, her six-foot-tall Venus harp, and pluck comfortably at its 46 strings, keeping different rhythms with each hand, working its six peddles with both feet and chatting conversationally with her mother Maria.
"It always came very naturally for her," her mother said.
Lewis's parents had her pegged to become a musician since she was a baby. When she was three years old, her mom took her to see the Kansas City Ballet's annual performance of "The Nutcracker." To explain where the music came from, Maria took Shelly down to inspect the orchestra pit at intermission. The harpist found herself confronted by a curious three-year-old loaded with questions about the rare stringed instrument.
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That curiosity led to a passion for music. Lewis began private lessons for the harp at the age of eight and has since taken up the violin, piano and choir.
From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every weekday for a month in summer of 2012, Lewis and her peers heard a music history lecture on a different genre of music each week. They learned about how genres evolved and what events inspired them
and helped them to develop. The students would then form small groups and composed a song for an artist of each genre.
Lewis, a classically trained harpist, would be mixed together with musical theater performers, a country guitarist, an opera singer or DJs to write songs inspired by hip-hop, blues, jazz and rock.
That fluidity was put to good use at the Music Revolution Project.
"Figuring out how to mix DJ beats into country was weird — it was hard," Lewis said. "It was a very good learning experience musically and really stretches your creative mind."
At the end of the Project, the group selected 11 of its best songs to record, then debuted its work at the Kauffman Center to an audience of around 250 people.
"It was awesome to be granted that opportunity to perform where all of these big names have been," Lewis said. "For a high schooler from the middle of the Kansas City suburbs to get this opportunity to do this, that was cool. I think we were all kind of blown away by this whole thing."
Shelby Lewis, a freshman from Kansas City, Mo. poses before her appearance at the 2013 Grammy Awards. Lewis and other Kansas City area students were selected to participate in the GRAMMY Museum's Music Revolution Project last summer.
Lewis sat at her harp and sang vocals to an Amy Winehouse-inspired track on the same stage that Patti LuPone and Aretha Franklin have performed on within the past two years. The debut concert was a cathartic end to a demanding and rewarding experience. Until October.
Lewis and eight other students were asked to return to Kansas City to talk to the media and advertise the Project and the recent opening of the Grammy Museum Experience at the Sprint Center.
Deep in the basement of the Sprint Center, Lewis was catching up with her fellow teenage
musicians over a breakfast spread when a posh man in a suit — Tim Leiweke, the President and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group
— walked in, and asked if they had previously been to the Grammy Awards. He offered them an all-expenses-paid trip to the awards and to visit the Grammy Museum and other attractions, tour Los Angeles and stay in the same hotel
as the stars.
Lewis couldn't contain her excitement.
"Who does that?" Lewis asked. "Who says, 'Yes, you suburban children from the Midwest, come to California and attend the biggest night in music'"
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STUDENT SENATE
Students travel to Topeka, lobby education issues
MARSHALL SCHMIDT
mschmidt@kansan.com
Student leaders from the six Kansas Board of Regents schools will advocate for students on three main issues when they meet with state legislators today. During Higher Education Day, 30 students from each school, many of whom are members of their student body governments, will meet Kansas leaders in the House and Senate to represent student positions on higher education funding, tuition for undocumented students and concealed carry on campus.
The entire student lobby met last night in Woodruff Auditorium to familiarize themselves with their fellow student advocates, positions they will advocate and conduct for lobbying. said student body president Hannah Bolton.
While drafting a united student platform for the Regents schools has been challenging, Darren Beckham, student legislative director for Wichita State University, said the lobby will represent all students from the Kansas Board of Regents Schools.
"The purpose of the day is to make sure that legislatures hear from students and are able to connect faces and individuals to these problems, as well as understand how it will better affect Kansas students' lives." Beckham said.
"We are just going to try to make it more of a direct message than it has been in the past." Bolton said.
ECONOMIC RETURN AND INVESTMENT
The higher education lobby plans to advocate for continued funding of academic institutions.
According to a study performed by Goss and Associates, every tax dollar spent on the Board of Regents schools produced an $11.94 economic return.
"The governor is proposing a higher education cut at eight percent," said Zach George, Government Relations Director for the University. "That is a huge amount of money, which could possibly lead to an increase in tuition."
Compared to the national average of $6,290, Kansas spends $4,959 per student in higher education.
While enrollment in post-secondary education has increased by more than 10 percent since 2006, funding for higher education institutions has fallen by more than 15 percent, according to the State Higher Education Executive
HE
Officers.
IN-STATE TUITION FOR UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS
"Our state economy can be a thriving one if we have a well-funded higher education system within the state," George said. "We want to make sure we advocate that these cuts directly impact students who are triving to get a degree."
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Currently, undocumented student immigrants are ineligible to receive state or federal aid for tuition. The higher education lobby will advocate that these students receive in-state tuition to increase the likelihood of their attendance to a Kansas higher education institution. While George said legislation to bar undocumented
STATE APPROPRIATIONS PER STUDENT
NATIONAL AVERAGE
$6,290
Source: State Higher Education
Officers, Fiscal Year 2011