THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUITION: Rate would be 'unjust' to freshmen
universities, tended to jump 15 to 20 percent from year to year, said Munch, Bellevue, Neb., junior.
Kristan Seibel, Jr/Sr CLAS senator, expressed concern in the University Affairs Committee last night.
She said a guaranteed tuition rate would be unjust to incoming freshmen, as freshman students would pay more for a class than senior students enrolled.
“It's a philosophical notion that you should be paying equally for what you're getting,” said Seibel, Salina junior.
Although the proposal for the concept would ensure movement and student support on the plan, Munch and Dunlap said they still needed to finalize the proposal.
"There's no real precedent for developing something like this," Munch said.
The proposal will likely be taken to the Board of Regents in the spring, Eakin said.
In other committee legislation
All passed legislation will be up for a vote at the Student Senate meeting in two weeks.
Senate meeting in two weeks.
The University Affairs and Student Rights committees passed the Resolution Supporting and Encouraging the Lobbying Efforts of the KU Administration and Supporters of the University of Kansas
The resolution stated that Student Senate would support aggressive lobbying at the state level to increase University funding. If the resolution passes through full Senate next week, it will be sent to administrators.
A bill to give $350 to Jayhawk Communications, a non-profit public relations firm for students, for campaign costs and marketing
Senate allocated $800 to the Chinese Student and Scholars Friendship Association to fund its Chinese New Year celebration.
- The Senate committees allocated $12,100 to Jayhawk Motorsports, an organization that restores old formula cars to compete in the FSAE competition in the spring.
Committees allocated $450 to the Sports Career Club for registration fees for its sport management conference in Savannah, Ga.
Senate committees tabled a bill to allocate $1,220 to the Student Senate Elections Commission because the organization was not yet registered with Student Involvement and Leadership. The money pays for the hired Elections Commissions and general funding.
Senate committees allocated $674 to the Taiwanese Student
Association for it Chinese New Year celebration and general funding.
The Senate committees allocated $200 of general funding to the following student organizations.
General funding covers expenses, such as copying, postage and office supplies.
The Biology Club is a forum for students interested in biological sciences, which has speakers and does community service.
The African Student Association's purpose is to increase awareness of African lifestyle at the University.
The KU Baha Club is a community service organization. Members will teach Lawrence children about religious writings.
The Malaysian Student Association promotes Asian culture and helps international students adjust to life at the University.
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ENSEMBLE: Variety of works will be performed
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Leopold taught band for five years at Free State High School before entering the graduate program at the University of Kansas.
She will perform double duty tonight, conducting one piece and playing trumpet for others. She used colors to explain the theme of the concert. She said brighter tones were considered yellow while minor notes were purple.
"The modern way of thinking in the music world is in a color sense." Leopold said. "You attribute a color to the sound."
The concert will be unique, she said, because of the variance in works performed. She credited the high caliber of the ensemble to the standards and rehearsal techniques of conductor John Lynch.
"He's risen the level of the program," Leopold said.
She said three years ago the ensemble could not have performed music this difficult.
Lynch became director of bands in Fall 2002. He conducts the wind ensemble in addition to overseeing the band program and teaching conducting lessons.
He said that because music was a nonverbal form of expression, musicians interacted at a level words could not express.
"It's highly abstract because it's not connected to anything visual," Lynch said. "It involves the head, the heart, the mind and the spirit."
The KU Wind Ensemble plays the most complex repertoire and is the most advanced of the concert bands at the University, he said.
Lynch said the first half of the program would include chamber music, with one musician playing on each part, and the
second portion would include larger ensemble pieces.
He said Tichell's Symphony No. 2 included three movements, each with a different theme. The movements — titled Shooting Stars, Dreams Under a New Moon and Apollo Unleashed — each try to capture the ideas of their titles in an abstract way, he said.
“It’s quite a bit of fun to be in an ensemble that plays this well,” trumpeter Randel said. “It’s definitely the best ensemble I’ve ever been in.”
Randel has played trumpet for about 10 years and practices 10 to 15 hours per week, he said. The members learn their ensemble parts outside of rehearsal so Lynch can bring them all together during rehearsal, he said.
Randel described the concert as eclectic, including arrhythmic pieces with harsh
dissonances, biting instrumentation and also big band marches. He explained dissonance as tones listeners would not usually associate together because of a harsh clash feeling.
The concert will also feature the premiere performance of a new composition, Randel said. He considers it an honor that composers trust the KU Wind Ensemble to premiere their pieces.
Conductor Leopold made an analogy between the concert and sports.
"It's like game time," Leopold said. "We've been practicing all week and it's time to perform."
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— Edited by Janette Crawford
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