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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 7,1964
Students Forming Kicks Jazz Team
In a time when most KU students are thinking about their grades, hours and credits, a group of KU men are trying to set up a jazz band that meets just for enjoyment.
The purpose of most organizations on campus is raising money, taking trips or promoting some other group or cause. The new Kicks Band being formed will provide members with the chance to polish the skills they have in jazz.
Kevin Conden, Kansas City junior, and Jim Bowman, Raytown junior, are coordinators of the group. They had auditions for positions in the band last Sunday in the Kansas Union and will have them again this Sunday for drums.
THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT of Kicks Bands is fairly large according to Newt Jerome, president of the Lawrence chapter of the American Federation of Musician's Union. He said "a lot of the bigger colleges around the country are supporting the movement."
Jerome said he was "wholeheartedly behind" the new group. He said the new group would not compete with the union in any way but that the union would support them.
Dick Wright, who is on the board of directors of the Musician's Union in Lawrence, said the band would be primarily a workshop for students who might someday teach music or go into other fields of jazz.
A PROBLEM OF THE BAND, he said, is the use of union and non-union members in the band. Either they use all union members or they are compelled to play concerts for free. The only expenses of the group will be for music and stands. Wright said noted music arrangers in the area may donate some of these supplies.
The Kicks Band, according to Wright, is a movement of serious musicians who want experience in the field of jazz.
As a backer of the band, Wright said often the practical side of the music field was overlooked because of the emphasis on the classics.
MOST BACKERS OF THE group think jazz, as a part of the university curriculum, would be a good idea. The consensus is that the band would create more interest in jazz as an art form and not just as a form of entertainment.
The band, once it is fully organized, will give free concerts at KU to familiarize students with their work.
Auditions are being held Sunday Oct. 10 in the Big Eight Room the Union for drums. After that the group will find a place to parse and start regular practice sessions.
The organizers of the group hope to participate in the Oread Jazz at this spring.
It will be a sixteen-piece band with places for bass, tenor sax, drums, baritone sax, and several other instruments.
As soon as the band is fully organized it will begin rehearsals and then start a program of just playing for "kicks."
Senior Day this year is scheduled for Oct.17, the day of the KU-OU game.
Senior Day Slated For Sooner Game
The Senior Coffee will be at 9:30 am. next Wednesday, John Mays, Lyons senior and senior class president, said last night.
Senior sweatshirts will be distributed at the coffee and cheerleaders will demonstrate the cheers for Senior Day, he said. Seniors will be excused from 9:30 classes Wednesday.
The senior party will begin at 7 p.m. Oct.17 at the Alley Room in the Eldridge Hotel.
Mays said seniors who have paid their senior fees should receive their cards in Monday's mail.
CRC to Attend Housing Meet
The KU Civil Rights Council (CRC) will attend a conference on fair housing at Washburn University in Topeka Saturday.
George Ragsdale, Lawrence senior and president of the CRC, said the group will not participate actively in the conference, but attend in an educational capacity.
About 300 persons from all over Kansas are expected to attend the conference entitled "New Horizons in Housing." There will be speakers on the housing bill to be presented to the 1965 session of the Kansas Legislature and the challenges of fair housing. There will be workshops on public and community education, political action, and reaching the governmental power structure.
Mrs. Claire Smissman, lobbyist for the League of Women Voters, and a resident of Lawrence, will act in an advisory capacity to the workshop on political action.
The Lawrence Human Relations Commission, a member of the Kansas Advisory Council on Civil Rights, the sponsor of the conference, is also sending a delegation.
Dr. William Binns of the University Health Service, and president of the Lawrence HRC, said the HRC is especially encouraging its members in the field of real estate to attend the conference.
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Students from 80 Schools Expected at KU Saturday
High school students from about 80 schools in Kansas and Missouri will attend the 13th annual KU Science, Mathematics and Engineering Dav. Saturday.
L. W. Seagondollar, professor of physics and director of the program, said some 4,000 pupils will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the activities and facilities in these fields at KU.
Ross McKinney, chairman of the department of civil engineering and director of environmental health research laboratories, will speak at 9:30 am. His topic will be "Bioengineering."
McKinney will explain how biology is utilized in civil engineering and how medicine and engineering are being coordinated and used. He will define science as a collection of knowledge about certain things and engineering as the application of this knowledge.
At 1 p.m. Henry O. Pollak, director of Mathematics and Mechanics Research Center, Bell Telephone Laboratories, will present "On the Nature of Applied Mathematics." Pollak will conduct a question-and-answer session after his speech.
One of the important features of the field day, Seagondollar said, is the departmental discussions in the various fields of science, mathematics, and engineering. A staff member will talk to the students about the types of employment available, current problems, and advantages and disadvantages of his field.
A supersonic wind tunnel, a second stage motor from a Titan I missile, a ground-effect machine, a display of drug effects on animal behavior, and a tour of the computer center will be offered the high school students.
Most of KU's science, mathematics, and engineering departments will be represented in the program.
Guided tours of KU research laboratories, teaching facilities and scientific displays will be given from 2-4 p.m.
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