Today is the last day to withdraw from any course at the University. This is a change from last year, when drops were allowed until the last day of class.
The women's basketball team begins the season with a 1-1 record after defeating Seton Hall and losing to Iowa in a tournament in Kansas City, Mo. 1B
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Chartie Hobbs, Wichita freshman, follows his fellow ROTC cadets in a color guard ceremony on Friday. The presentation followed a formal retreat at the flagpole in front of Strong Hall.
Veterans Day celebrated
Procession on Memorial Drive honors veterans; retired Colonel gives speech
BY NATE MCGINNIS
Two ROTC cadets stood at parade rest, with their hands behind their backs, next to a lit lantern in front of the Vietnam War memorial on Memorial Drive.
They snapped to attention as a car passed and stared stone-faced into the distance. The cadets returned to parade rest and continued staring as
The cadets were part of a 24-hour vigil that began Friday evening at both the Vietnam and Korean war memorials. Cadets from all three branches of ROTC spent one-hour shifts guarding flames to honor military veterans.
Kyle Wamser, Henderson, Nev.
Junior, has guarded a flame the previous two years for Veterans Days
and spent an hour guarding the flame again this year.
Wamser said he thought it was important to show those who came to the memorial that current ROTC students care about what their loved ones did.
"You're there, people about to enter active duty," Wamser said. "You're there for the people who were there before you."
Events began on Friday with a formal flag retreat by all branches at the flapole in front of Strong Hall.
The cadets then retired to Budig Hall to listen to retired Col. Dorothy Stover-Kendrick, a 30-year Marine Corps veteran. Stover-Kendrick spoke on the topic of leadership in the military.
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'Death by Duct Tape takes first at film festival
BY NATE MCGINNIS
Fourty-eight hours after being told to create a short film, four KU students presented their story about a student who freed his friend's soul from a possessed roll of duct tape.
The first Student Union Activities and KU Filmworks film festival was held Saturday in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The requirements of the festival were for students to create a film in only 48 hours. The films had to have a power theme and make use of duct tape.
The winning film was created by Cory Keller, Abilene sophomore, Jon Tenholder, Topeka sophomore, Matt Eaton, Riley sophomore and Alex Kitowski, Abilene sophomore.
Tenholder said the idea developed Thursday night during and after dinner at a local Chinese restaurant.
Judges based their decision on creativity, content and use of the theme and duct tape.
Some of the good deeds included patching a flat tire, taping a fallen branch back on to a tree and taping a crack in the sidewalk.
"Chinese food always helps prepare us." Tenhole said.
Keller said the group ran into problems when filming and had to change their idea. They originally wanted to film inside a store but did not receive permission.
The groups were given the requirements and a camera on Thursday night. They then had two days to shoot and edit a short film for presentation.
"Death by Duct Tape" was about a man who dies after a blow to the head from a roll of duct tape. His soul becomes trapped in the roll, and his friend must then perform good deeds with the tape in order to free his friend's soul.
"The beginning and ending were kind of changed around but the basic story line stayed the same," Keller said.
The group also ran into computer problems when finishing the film.
The four team members received iPod Nanos and Apple T-shirts for first place. Second place winners received $25 Best Buy gift certificate and Apple T-shirts. Third place received $15 Best Buy gift certificate and Apple T-shirts.
"It took us like five or six hours just to get it transferred off onto DVD" Tenholder said.
This was the first time any member of the group had entered a film into a competition.
Kansan staff writer Nate McGinnis can be contacted at nmcginnis@kansan.com.
julian Wright, sophomore forward, reaches for the net and slams the ball in for another two points. Wright scored 16 points against the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks; along with having three assists, one block and one steal in 24 minutes of play.
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Lumberjacks axed
Highlight-reel dunks start the season
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After a poor showing in practice on Friday, coach Bill Self kicked the team out of Allen Fieldhouse and made them return on Saturday morning for additional practice. The strategy paid off, and Kansas coasted to victory on Saturday night against the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks. Brandon Rush led the team with 21 points
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just three short of his career high.
There was never any doubt as to what the outcome of Saturday's game would be. The Jayhawks outscored the Lumberjacks 44-16 in the paint and outran them as well, scoring 13 fast-break points, including a few highlight-reel dunks.
"On a night like this, it makes a lot more high lights and Top 10s on ESPN,"Rush said.
Organist plays in area churches, local rock band
PROFILE
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Mark Harries, a senior organ and church music major, practices at the Bales Organ Recital Hall, adjacent to the Lied Center, several times a week. at the University of Kansas. Harries hopes to be a full-time church music director, coordinating music for services and performing on the organ.
BY ANNA FALTERMEIER
The room fills with a rich, intricate sound one might expect to hear at a wedding or funeral. But no one's walking down the aisle of Bales Organ Recital Hall, adjacent to the Lied Center, where Harries practices several times each week.
Harries, an organ and church music major, hopes to be a fulltime church music director. His day will be filled with conducting ensembles, directing and organizing music for services, playing at weddings and funerals and, in more traditional churches, playing the organ.
Mark Harries shakes his shaggy, light-brown hair back from his eyes and moves the organ bench with a screech to make room for his 6-foot-4 frame. His fingers, which he says are stubby for an organist, begin to glide along the three rows of ox bone keys.
Harries enjoys listening to and playing Bach and church hymns. His favorite composer is Arvo Pärt, an Estonian composer who writes strictly sacred music, dedicated to a religious purpose.
Harries has an aura of sincerity that looks at home behind his organ.
WHAT: Mark Harries' senior organ recital
Organ Recital
WHERE: Bales Organ Recital Hall, 1600 Stewart Drive (next to the Lied Center)
WHEN: 7:30 tonight
The concert is free.
But the polite, soft-spoken senior from Vassar also plays drums for local rock band, Marry Me Moses. Despite its name, the band does not play Christian rock, although the name was chosen randomly while searching through the Bible.
Many Sundays Harries substitutes on organ in local churches. But on Tuesday nights, Harries plays the drums in the basement of lead singer Ted Kritikos' house on New Jersey Street.
Harries tries to play softly. He said police have shown up twice on noise complaints.
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