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STUDENT HOUSING
Housing leaders discuss ideas at forum
Nine students attend national conference, bring back new skills
BY MATT ELDER
Nine students from on-campus housing governments traveled to South Dakota for the Midwest Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls Conference this past weekend.
MACURH is one of eight regions that make up the National Association of College and University Residence Halls, the largest non-profit and student-run organization in the United States.
The conference provided representatives of the University with leadership workshops and informational services to promote the educational goals of residence-hall students.
In addition to the University of Kansas delegates, MACURH included representatives from Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and the Canadian province of Manitoba.
"It's an opportunity for us to show off our best and brightest," said Eric Grospitch, interim executive assistant of the Department of Student Housing. "And it's also a great opportunity for our students to gain new ideas to educate the rest of our population."
Grospitch said that students who lived in University housing were in direct contact with the University's resident assistants most often, but that hall government officials were the students influencing housing policies. He said that AURH and hall governments were responsible for the smoking ban in residence halls, for example.
"If the students really have a beef with something, they can go to hall governments to help inform, educate and change policies," Grospitch said.
Stanley Mugeki. AURH advisor, said the conference's emphasis on discussion between universities was important communication for residence hall success. The conference was entirely student-run and was meant to give the participating universities the opportunity to discuss strategies for a more successful residence hall system. The KU representatives are largely responsible for many of the decisions that affect the Department of Student Housing's 4,700 students.
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Jasmine Walthall, AURH vicepresident of programming, attended the conference and said there were several programs the group was planning to bring back for KU housing residents. The group will meet tonight to discuss which projects and events it will be starting in the University's near future.
Kansan staff writer Matt Elder can be contacted at melder@kansan. com.
ENTERTAINMENT
ADDICTED TO BOCK
BY DANNY LUPPINO
As soon as his friend brought a copy of Guitar Hero to their dorm room, Nick Jackson knew that it would be different from other video games.
"I first played it and I thought it would be hard because I've never played guitar before," Jackson, Lenexa junior, said. "But then I played and I was able to do it pretty easily."
Such is the effect of Guitar Hero, the popular Playstation 2 game that has turned hoards of KU students into budding rock stars.
The game became even more widespread last week with the release of its sequel, Guitar Hero II. Players use a guitar-shaped controller, a model of the Gibson SG guitar, complete with five, colored fret buttons and a strumming button to go note-for-note playing songs from various genres.
Kent Domas, San Antonio, Texas, senior owns both versions of Guitar Hero. He said he liked the game because it was simple enough to play that groups of people could sit around and enjoy it together. He also said the ability to make actual music on a video game was appealing to him.
"It kind of gives me that guitar complex," Domas said. "All the songs have been around since we were young and now you get a chance to play them without actually learning how to play the guitar."
Not everybody uses the game to pretend to be a musician, though. Bryan Runnels, Overland Park senior, said he was able to enjoy the game despite being the bass player of an actual band.
"I like the challenge it represents because
I can play all the songs on the bass, but playing them on the game is entirely different." Runnels said.
Though not the same as playing a musical instrument, the game closely resembles the action of playing the guitar. Players watch colored notes scroll down the screen and hold down the corresponding fret button while hitting the strumming button in rhythm. If this is done correctly, the guitar track of the song will play as it would on a normal recording.
Kevin Augspurger, manager of EB Games, said he thought the new game would see widespread popularity for three reasons: improved song selection, a new mode which allowed two players to play cooperatively on the lead and bass guitar tracks, and a practice mode for those who hadn't mastered the first game.
Game's sequel offers players larger repertoire of popular songs
"It makes it a lot more accessible to people just starting." Augsburger said.
Augspurger said the enthusiasm about the games release was uncommon high. A tournament held by EB Games in anticipation of the release attracted 50 competitors.
Buy it
While the first Guita Hero game included a soundtrack filled with familiar songs, the second game was able to use the popularity of its predecessor to secure the rights to even more popular songs. Among the game's 40
Get your own copy of Guitar Hero II at Best Buy, 2020 W. 31st St., Wal-Mart, 3300 Iowa St., or EB Games, 3140 Iowa St. At Best Buy, the game costs $49.99 by itself, but is available with a guitar-shaped controller for $79.99. The new game is compatible with the controller from the original Guitar Hero game.The controller alone costs $40.99. New wireless controllers are also available for $59.99.
playable tracks are rock classics like Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine" and Lynrd Skynrd "Free Bird."
Whatever people's reasons for playing, Augspurger summed up the reason for the games overwhelming popularity.
"The song, list on number two is much, much better than it was on the first one," Augspurger said. "There's just so many different kinds of music on there."
"It's completely addictive," Ausgburger said.
Kansan staff writer
Danny Luppino can be contacted at
dluppino@kans-
can.com.
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Guitar Hero 2
Selected Song List
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You
Tenight - Spinal Tap
Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana
Message in a Bottle - The Police
You Really Got Me - Van Halen
Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
Search and Destroy - Iggy Pop
and The Stooges
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
- The Rolling Stones
Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns N'
Roses
John the Fisherman - Primus Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart - Stone Temple Pilot Jessica - The Allman Brothers Band
YYZ - Rush
Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold
Misirluw - Dick Dale
Free Bird - Lynard Skynyrd
Jordan - Buckethead
Thunderhorse - Dethkilog
Troglody - Strong Bad
》ACTIVISM
Film to depict Ugandan conflict
BY NATE MCGINNIS
Nathan Mack, KU for Uganda president, said the group chose to show the film to raise awareness on campus about the situation in Uganda.
KU for Uganda is sponsoring a showing of the documentary film "Uganda Rising" chronicling the 20-year civil war between Uganda's leader Yoweri Museveni and the Lord's Resistance Army.
"If people are talking about it, something can be done about it," Mack said.
He said the conflict in Uganda was closely connected to other bloody conflicts in Africa, such as the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
The film will be shown at 7 tonight at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Admission is free
The Ugandan conflict started in 1985 when Musevent first obtained power by forming the National Resistance Army and overthrow
and students are able to obtain GAP credit for attending.
claiming to be a spiritual medium, formed the LRA to combat the Ugandan government and to establish a
"The struggles of any place in the world are things that matter to the rest of us."
GARTH MYERS
Director of Kansas African Studies
Center
ing the former president of Uganda, Milton Obote.
Shortly afterward, in 1987, a Ugandan named Joseph Kony,
theocratic government.
Garth Myers, director of the Kansas African Studies Center, said the LRA was notorious for violent attacks on civilians and for taking children and prisoners
into their movement.
"Most of the blame is historically very squarely at the feet of the LRA," Myers said, "but the government
Myers said the problem was pertinent because KU students had traveled to Uganda, professors had researched there and Ugandan students are present on campus.
"The struggles of any place in the world are things that matter to the rest of us," Myers said.
Kansan staff writer Nate McGinnis can be contacted at nmcginnis@kansan.com.
He said the military response from Museveni's army intensified the conflict between the two fighting forces.
has more or less had a take-no-prisoner attitude"
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