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From left: Jeffrey Zeigler, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and David Harrington make up Kronos Quartet, a group that's performed for 35 years with artists such as Tom Waits and David Bowie. Kronos will play at the Lied Center at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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BY ALISON CUMBOW
alisonc@kansan.com
In 1973, the Vietnam war was winding down, and David Harrington had just returned from Canada.
"Finding the right kind of music to play in that environment was difficult for me," he said.
Then one night, he heard a piece called "Black Angels," a work composed by George Crumb in an electric string quartet.
Harrington said he had never heard a piece that had shouting in various languages, gongs and amplified strings.
Harrington plays the first violin in his Grammy award-winning Kronos Quartet, which has been performing and collaborating with different artists for 35 years. Kronos Quartet will perform at the Lied Center Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
"I had this experience where I knew exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life," he said. "In order to do that, I needed to start a group."
Kyle Courtney, a senior from Kansas City and a ticket salesman at the Lied Center, said there were about 1,400 tickets left for sale out of 2,000 total tickets.
So, he did.
KRONOS QUART
WHERE: Lied Center
WHEN: April 13
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
COST:
■ Adults: $32, 28
■ Students: $14
■ Children: $14
Harrington said he keeps his ears open 24 hours a day, attempting to find and be involved with music that magnetized him in the same way that Black Angels did.
Kronos has worked with Terry Riley, and according to the press release the group has performed with Tom Waits, Howard Zinn, and David Bowie.
PHILANTHROPY
"Everyone's entry into the world of music is so different," he said. "When you think back about music that you've heard in your life, it will be a sound or a certain word or instrumental moment that you think is the most wonderful, coolest moment."
"We're bringing a lot of elements from a wide world of music that we love," he said.
He said he hoped there would be one of those moments for the audience at the Lied Center.
Edited by Meqan Heacock
Engineering students plan pancake feed for Haiti relief
BY SAMANTHA FOSTER
sfoster@kansan.com
Students in the Self Engineering Leadership Fellows program are flipping flapjacks for a good cause.
SELF students set the goal for Saturday's third annual Flapjacks for Philanthropy fundraiser at $4,000, which is double the amount of money collected at last year's event. The profits from the pancake feed will go to Habitat for Humanity for Haiti relief.
where the money from the fundraiser should go. They chose Haiti relief and then decided to go through Habitat for Humanity because the organization already had a strong presence in Haiti.
Samantha Forbes, a sophomore
from Kearney, Mo., and chair of the event, said the group decided to double the goal because of increased efforts to solicit community and campuswide support.
"We decided that, as engineers, the relief part and rebuilding of Haiti would be an important part for us to focus on." Forbes said.
Joey Meyer, a junior from St. Louis and president of KU Habitat for Humanity, said Habitat International has been working in Haiti to build homes that will withstand earthquakes
This year's organizers
"We decided that, as engineers,the relief part and rebuilding of Haiti would be an important part for us to focus on."
Forbes said the sophomores in the SELF program, who are in charge of the event, brainstormed
"Last year they marketed it just to the School of Engineering but this year we're trying to make it a campus-wide event." Forbes said.
SAMANTHA FORBES Chair of fundraiser
asked for corporate sponsors by sending out letters through KU Endowment. They have already raised $1,300 through donations from three companies, and other companies have donated prizes for the raffle or bought tickets for the pancake feed.
supplies.
Meyer said the pancake feed would be a fun event for people to go to and be able to help Haiti at the same time.
Forbes said the money from last year's Flapjacks for Philanthropy
FLAPJACKS FOR PHILANTHROPY
"It's a fun event, but I think on a more serious note with Haiti and all that they're going through, this is a more serious event where we don't have to go down, although we want to go down — we can do something good here," Meyer said.
WHEN: Saturday, 8:30 to
11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Eaton Hall
HOW MUCH:
■ Pancake feed — $5 in
advance or $6 at the door
■ Raffle tickets — $2 each
or 3 for $5
fundraiser also went to Habitat for Humanity, but it went to help a local family.
Forbes said Chris Cakes, a catering company based in the Kansas City area, was making the pancakes for the fundraiser. She said the company makes the pancakes very quickly and then flips them at the customers, so it's "an exciting sports game almost."
The SELF program is a leadership enrichment program for engineering students that was started three years ago. Forbes said students in the program get to practice their managing and organizing skills by planning events like this fundraiser, which Forbes said is their big event for the spring, and a high school design program in the fall, which the SELF students organized for the first time this year.
The fundraiser will be held Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Eaton Hall.
— Edited by Cory Bunting
STATE
Parkinson decision puts future of casino in doubt
Governor refuses to grant reprieve to casino developers ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA, Kan. — A proposed casino south of Wichita was in doubt Thursday after Gov. Mark Parkinson refused to grant its developers a regulatory reprieve.
Partners in the $225 million Chisholm Creek project wanted to delay a state board's decision on their plans. They said they must have local zoning issues settled and need to know whether legislators will rewrite Kansas' gambling laws to make their project less profitable.
The Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board reluctantly put off a vote for 60 days after Chisholm Creek officials said this week that theyd abandon the project otherwise — even if the board approved it. But under state law, only Parkinson could extend the board's April 19 deadline.
Parkinson rejected the board's request for an extension. He noted that the state's current budget already anticipates collecting an upfront, $25 million fee from
Chisholm Creek for the right to build and manage the casino for the Kansas Lottery.
"The state of Kansas needs a clear understanding of its finances." Parkinson said in a statement. "It is in everybody's best interests to move forward with this proposal in a timely manner and to
avoid further delays."
Chisholm Creek attorney John Frieden said the partnership is still considering how to respond. He said Kansas law limits the governor's discretion in denying a deadline extensi-
possible," he said.
"It is in everybody's best interests to move forward with this proposal in a timely manner and to avoid further delays."
The state would claim not only
Chisholm Creek would build its casino near Mulvane, about 20 miles south of Wichita. Under Kansas law, the lottery would own the rights to the new gambling and the gambling equipment, down to the cards and dice.
"The action of the governor failed to follow the law and consequently has jeopardized state revenues this year and perhaps forever for a state-owned gaming operation in south-central Kansas." Frieden said.
MARK PARKINSON Kansas governor
Chairman Matt All said the review board will meet before April 19 to vote on the project.
"We didn't really see a strong reason to delay it either, but we were trying to be as accommodating to the applicant as
its $25 million fee but 22 percent of the gambling revenues.
The lottery and local officials have been trying to bring a casino to Sumner County for more than two years,
and Chisholm Creek was the only remaining applicant.
Janis Helland, director of the county's economic development office, said even if Chisholm Creek pulls out, an improving economy will make a casino investment attractive.
"We're very optimistic about it and feel like it's still a good location," she said.
Chisholm Creek officials already were concerned about plans by the Wyandotte Nation to build a casino in Park City, north of Wichita. The northeast Oklahoma tribe is seeking the federal government's permission.
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But in recent weeks, Chisholm Creek officials also have worried that Kansas legislators will allow a second vote in Sedgwick County to authorize slot machines at Wichita Greyhound Park. Voters rejected the idea in 2007, and the track closed soon afterward.
A bill — without a slots vote — is before the Kansas Senate. Lawmakers reconvene April 28 to wrap up their business for the year.
Chisholm Creek officials have warned legislators that passing such a proposal would force them to abandon their project.
As for zoning issues, they were tied up by a legal dispute between Sumner County and Mulvane over whether the city could annex the casino site. The Kansas Court of Appeals recently ruled in the city's favor, and Chisholm Creek must deal with Mulvane officials.
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