6A the university daily kansan
monday, may 10,2004
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EVALUATIONS: Confidential responses displayed in graphs
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Aaron Brown, web applications developer, created the course evaluation Web site.
Once students fill out the survey, they can go back and change answers during a two-week period, he said.
After that, students will not be able to fill out evaluations. Faculty and staff will see the results during a four-week period and can use them for internal review. However, they are not allowed to change the results.
Students who view the results must be cautious about the statistics. Brown said.
"It's best for students to keep in
mind that statistics are bogus if only two people decide to respond," he said.
A bar graph displays all the answers to the 10 questions and how many students answered. Brown said.
On June 21, the results will be available to students who have an active KU Online ID. They can look at any professor or class and the results.
This way, the graph will not show an average answer, he said, but how many students rated each question. All responses are anonymous.
The Web site is www.ku.edu/~claseval.
Edited by Michelle Rodick
CENTER:Rec center free until start of summer classes
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about the price of the fee.
"It seems like people don't agree with it," the La Paz, Bolivia, junior, said. "It was a hard decision the administration here had to make."
to make. Araoz said he didn't think students realized that the money would be used to run the center. He said the money wouldn't be used to make the University rich.
University we have to hire people like me to work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.," Araoz said.
Paige Edelman, New Orleans senior and center employee, said most people she had heard talking about the fee weren't mad because the fee would only affect freshmen who usually didn't live in Lawrence during the summer.
the summer.
"I don't think it's as big of a deal as everyone is making it," Edelman said.
all said.
Emily Tanke is a freshman
"It seems like people don't agree with it. It was a hard decision the administration here had to make."
Gaston Araoz Facilities assistant
who won't be living in Lawrence this summer, but if she was, she said she would pay to use the center.
The LaCrosse, Wis., freshman said that she thought the fee was reasonable.
The center is better than others around and the cost is less than you would pay at other fitness centers, she said.
Students who aren't enrolled for the summer will have until June 7 to use the facility without paying the fee.
—Edited by Collin LaJoie
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ABOVE: University bell tower filled with tradition
"People say it feels like Oxford when they hear it," said Elizabeth Berghout, assistant professor of music and dance and University carillonneur. "It helps add to the environment on campus." It's no piano
it is no place
The Campanile and carillon inside were built in 1950 and dedicated in 1951 as a World War II memorial. A carillon is an instrument of at least 23 bells arranged in chromatic sequence. The bells are tuned and arranged to sound in harmony when rung together. Each bell is connected to a keyboard that is played with the hands and feet.
The keys are wooden and look like broomsticks. They are played with the side of a closed fist instead of fingers. The heavier bells are played with the feet. Keys that are connected to heavier bells have greater tension and require more force to be played.
There are 53 bells in the 120-foot-tall Campanile. The biggest weighs seven tons, and the lightest weighs 10 pounds. All of the bells in the University Campanile create a musical instrument that weighs 32 tons. Berghout describes the instrument as a cross between a xylophone and a piano. As University carillonneur, Berghout is responsible for overseeing the carillon, holding public performances and teaching her eight carillon students. She is only the third carillonneur in the Campanile's history.
"It's an honor to be part of the tradition of playing a musical instrument that is for the KU family who fought and died in World War II," she said.
helped establish the University as what he calls one of the top carilion programs. There's a class for this?
The University is only one of six Big 12 Conference schools with a carillon on campus. Albert Gerken, professor emeritus of music and dance was carillon-neur for 40 years before Berghoult took over in 2000. The carillon was the reason he came to the University in 1963. He trained carillon students every year and
Ashley Peterson enrolled in Berghout's carillon class two years ago to receive credit toward her music degree. Carillon courses are offered through the fine arts school and range from 100-level to 700-level classes. The Smith Centersenior saw the classes in the timetable and wanted to find out more about them.
"For all I knew, it could have be a drum of some sort," she said.
a small part of some sort, she shes.
Some people don't believe her when she tells them she plays the bells in the Campanile, she said.
Berghout said most people think a machine hooked up to the bolls plays the music. The anonymity helps the students cope with practicing on an instrument heard across campus. Unlike other music students, when the carillon students make a mistake, everyone on campus can hear it.
"I take comfort in the fact that most people on campus don't know there's someone up there playing." Peterson said.
Gerken and Berghout said most of the students experienced some intimidation when they played for the first time, but soon began concentrating on the music.
In a practice room a few stairs below the carillon room, the students learn their music. When they feel they have reasonably mastered a piece, they begin practicing and performing on the formal carillon. But the carillon is still a learning instrument, and a few mistakes are inevitable.
Berghout said the initial fear was nothing compared to the satisfaction of sharing the music with the entire campus. Every Sunday at 5 p.m. and every Wednesday at 7 p.m., Berghout holds a carillon concert for the public. People come with their blankets to sit and listen to the bells. After the program, Berghout gives tours of the bell tower. A few people are too claustrophobic to make it up the stairs,
she said.
Superstitions and traditions
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All of the students who play the carillon know about the superstition of bad luck striking those who walk through the Campanile before graduation. Kim Studill, an O'Fallon, Mo., junior, has played and makes sure to pay attention to which side she enters and walks out the same side.
Reeves and Peterson both have broken the taboo. Peterson said she never believed in the superstition and had walked through the Campanile hundreds of times. Reeves tried to go in and out the same side for the first year, but became tired of keeping track.
"I just got lazy." Reeves said. "We'll see what happens."
Despite breaking one tradition, the students help maintain another. The students play the alma mater twice each day. The Crimson and the Blue is Studstill's favorite song to play.
The carillon allows the students to play a diverse set of music. Reeves said she had heard the Yellow Submarine by The Beatles played on the campus carillon before. Gerken said music should be picked more carefully to honor the war heroes that the tower stood for.
When Gerken was carillonneur, he said he gave 45-minute recitals instead of 30-minute recitals. When he took people on tours, he taught them about the history of the Campanile. He explained to them that the Campanile was originally intended to be built as a tribute to straggles of the pioneers who settled the area before and after the Civil War. The project was held and later became a memorial for those killed in World War II. Playing the carillon was an emotional experience for him, he said.
"Although I didn't know any of those people personally, I realized what they did and what they gave their lives for," he said. "The carillon is not to be taken lightly or played frivolously."
Peterson applies the tribute to
University tradition
- Six Big 12 Conference schools including the University of Kansas have a carillon. University of Texas, Texas Tech University, Baylor University and Iowa State University have traditional carillons. Texas A&M University has a nontraditional carillon, which uses electro-mechanical mechanisms, an electrical keyboard and automatic controls.
Bells, similar to some of those in the carillon, were first made during the Bronze Age. In the 15th century, the Flemish discovered how to tune bells.
The world's greatest concentration of carillons is in Belgium, the Netherlands, northern France and northwest Germany.
Carillons are in every continent except Antarctica. Almost 200 exist in North America.
Source: www.GCNA.org
heroes of the past and present.
Some of Peterson's favorite pieces are tributes to those who died in Sept. 11 and in Afghanistan, such as *Elegy for the Fallen*.
Although the solemnity of the memorial stays in the students' minds, Peterson said it couldn't be the focus or their repertoire would be limited. Gerken disagreed and said the war heroes were the reason for the instrument. He said paying tribute was of central importance.
The mystery and awe of the instrument is of little importance to those who play it daily. They even get used to one of the best views of any office on campus. It is an instrument and a memorial.
"When you're playing, you're focus is on making the best music you can and what it symbolizes." Gerken said. "It's not like being in some sort of ivory tower."
Edited by Meghan Brune
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