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Friday, May 3, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KU's choral director recalls singing career
King's Singers group toured for 25 years
By Jen Smith Special to the Kansan
When Simon Carrington and a few of his friends and colleagues at King's College at Cambridge University in England began the vocal group the King's Singers, they had no idea the group would last as long as it did.
"We did it for fun. But then we began to realize that we rather enjoyed it and that there was the possibility of making it into some sort of a career, but we had no idea," Carrington said. "We thought maybe a year or something, certainly not 25 and now 30 years."
After the group turned 25, Carrington retired with a feeling that it had been a good span of time, and he moved to the United States to become a choir director.
He is now an associate professor of music and dance at the University of Kansas, and head of the choral department, which will perform William Walton's Belshazar's Feast at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Lied Center.
"Here they have these jobs, which don't exist anywhere else in the world. There's nowhere you can have a salaried, faculty job being a choir director.. It's wonderful," Carrington said.
The decision to become an instructor in the United States was fairly easy, Carrington said.
The King's Singers have toured the world, which helped Carrington land the job at the University. The group had performed one of the opening concerts at the Lied Center in the fall of 1993.
"They had decided to appoint somebody on an interim basis, which is what I was after because I wanted a chance to show, well, to learn whether or not I could do this job. So after a bit of doing and showing, they gave me the job for one year, 1994-1995," he said.
He was then hired permanently and given tenure soon afterward.
"I think that his teaching method is effective because quick sight-reading will help us after graduation," said Jennifer Stvanson, Pittsburgh, Pa., sophomore and voice major.
Carrington began his career as a professional musician at age eight at the Christ Cathedral Church in Oxford, England.
In addition to developing his techniques, the years spent touring the world have given Carrington a number of good memories.
"Our 10th Anniversary Concert in London was a tremendous highlight. It was recorded live," he said. "It was packed with all the friends we'd made over 10 years singing in Britain, and it was probably the high spot of the career of the group in Britain as we began to develop more and more overseas.
"At the end of the concert, the audience, after we'd done a couple of encores, they broke spontaneously into 'Happy Birthday.' And that's on the record," he said.
His goal for the choir department is to give students an exciting but not overly stressful experience through singing.
"What we try to offer in the choral department is a bit of therapy in a way, a different kind of excitement," he said. "We hope they go away feeling fulfilled in a rather different way than they would siting in a lecture of some sort."
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Community Support Services will sponsor a support group for people with schizophrenia from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. today at the Community Room in Vermont Towers, 1101 Vermont St. For more information, call Community Support Services.
International Studies will sponsor a meeting about Fulbright Grants at noon at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Hodgie Bricke at 864-1414.
tion Final Round at 8 p.m. tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Heather Entrekin at 864-3633.
The Department of Communication Studies will sponsor the Wil Linkugel Speech Competi-
KU women's rugby team will play Kansas State at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow and Missouri at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow at Shenk Complex. For more information, call Stacey Stringfellow at 749-3380.
KU Dance Club will sponsor a dance lesson at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Sonia Ratzlaff at 864-1580.
CORRECTION
An error appeared on page 5A per semester for a bus pass is of yesterday's Kansan. The price $60, not $65.
ON THE RECORD
A computer and computer equipment were stolen from a KU student's apartment between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of
Wisconsin Street. The computer and equipment were valued at $3,115, Lawrence police reported.
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Committee says hazing remains but is declining
By Matt Meusev
Special to the Kansan
The committee formed in response to the Delta Chi hazing incident last fall confirmed that hazing still is alive on campus but that it might be on the decline.
Jim Sampson, Lawrence junior and member of the New Member Education Committee, said the results of the committee's research were not surprising.
"Before we ever started, we knew that hazing was going on at KU," Sampson said. "We wanted to know to what extent it was happening."
The New Member Education Committee is part of the 13-point plan Delta Chi must complete as part of its suspension. The fraternity was suspended after a hazing incident last August that sent two pledges to the hospital.
Braden Hopkins, former Delta Chi president and present co-chairman of the committee, said the committee members were selected from a pool of leaders in the Greek community.
Hopkins said the committee interviewed four focus groups to evaluate the status of hazing on campus.
"We talked to two fraternity pledge classes, a group of older chapter members from numerous fraternities and sororites, and about 20 women from the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority," Hopkins said.
The committee initially was concerned whether the focus groups would be honest and open about their new member education programs.
Hopkins said the committee was pleased by their candor.
about the Delta Chi incident, and they were assured no repercussions for their responses."
The committee's observations came as no surprise to Gina McClain, Overland Park junior.
"Judging from the answers, the focus groups were very honest," Hopkins said, "I was open with them
McClain is the vice-president for external relations for the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She said she had seen numerous hazing events.
"We have at least one naked guy tied to a chair on our property about once a month, and I know he is not there by choice," McClain said.
Bill Nelson, coordinator for greek programs, said that although hazing may be present on campus, the committee had been successful.
"We had no interest in getting someone in trouble for individual responses. We wanted to get an accurate assessment of new member programming, and I think we did that," Nelson said.
The committee is compiling a comprehensive resource manual to help chapters develop contemporary new member education programming.
Hopkins said he thought the resource manual will be very helpful to chapter leaders.
"We want to see people change before someone else makes them change." Hopkins said.
Committee members said that talk about hazing has already increased awareness.
Nelson said he felt good about the future of new member education and hazing at the University.
"I don't see this committee going away," Nelson said, "For quite some time, we have sent the message that hazing is unacceptable in any form. This committee has let the greek community know that everyone now has a level of responsibility in addressing this problem."
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