CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 19, 1996
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Orchestra welcomes siblings
KU pianist from Paraguay to play brother's concerto
Many pianists only dream about playing with an orchestra.
By Susanna Lööf
Kansan staff writer
But for Nancy Luzco, Encamacion, Paraguay, sophomore, the dream will come true.
She is flying to Paraguay today for a concert with the Symphony Orchestra of Asuncion on Thursday.
"I am very excited and a little bit nervous," Luzco said.
Luzco's brother, Daniel, who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1995, wrote the Piano Concerto, which his sister will play. He wrote the piece as a dissertation for his master's degree in music composition and dedicated it to Kansas.
The piece is more difficult to play than classical music, Luzco said. But Angeletti didn't think she would have any problems.
Richard Angeletti, professor of music and dance and Luzco's adviser, said that Daniel's piece would benefit the concert.
"It's a very nice piece," Angelietta said. "The sounds are very modern, and the rhythm is very modern."
"Nancy is innately musical," he said. "She has a flair for performance. Not everybody has that."
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Angeletti said it was unusual that students, especially undergraduate students, played with orchestras. "This is wonderful opportunity for her." he said.
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because the director heard her play in 1994 when she was studying in Warsaw, Poland.
Both Luzco and her brother, who is working on a doctorate of musical arts at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., will stay a week in Paraguay. They will spend most of their time practicing with the orchestra, which won't give them much time to spend with their family.
Nikita wanted a chance opportunity for her. He said Luzco got the chance to play her brother's concerto
"But some is better than nothing," Luzco said.
Nancy Luzco, Encarnación, Paraguay, sophomore will perform with the Symphony Orchestra of Asunción on Thursday in Paraguay.
Nancy Luzco, Encarnacion Paraguay, sophomore, poses with her brother Daniel Luzco, who wrote the Piano Concerto that Nancy will play.
Slain son to be remembered in march
Rally is memorial for healing,justice
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
Willie and Orene Sevier lost their son Gregg five years ago this weekend. They hope that no one else in Lawrence will ever endure a similar loss.
"The people in town have asked us to lead this march," Willie Sevier said. "They want to help the community heal and learn from its mistakes."
The Seviers will lead a memorial march from South Park to Haskell Indian Nations University. A rally will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the South Park Gazebo, and the march will begin at 4 p.m. Marchors are asked to join in a potluck dinner and stomp dance after the march at Haskell.
On April 21, 1991, the Seviers called 911 for help with their son,
"They want to help the community heal and learn from its mistakes."
Willie Sevier father of Gregg Sevier
Gregg. The Seviers wanted the police to talk to Gregg because he apparently was despondent and had a butcher knife. A few minutes after police officers Ted Bordman and James Phillips arrived, Gregg was dead.
Bordman and Phillips later said that Gregg lunged at them with the knife, and they shot him six times in self defense.
"Nothing can replace Gregg," Sevier said. "We want to make sure that what happened to Gregg doesn't happen to anyone else in Lawrence." The Seviers want to see positive change in the way police respond to 911 calls.
Sevier said he understood that the 911 equipment had been updated to provide responding officers with more information and that a police negotiator has been added to the force.
Former governor Joan Finney and attorney Lance Burr will speak at the rally in South Park at 3 p.m. Burr represented the Sevier family in the wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Lawrence. The suit was settled out of court last year.
"There were no problems with the 911 procedures," said Lt. Mark Brothers of the Lawrence Police Department. Brothers refused further comment.
Sevier said that harassment of Native Americans continued both in Lawrence and across the nation, and the aftermath of Gregg's death made
their name known across the nation.
"We didn't realize the extent that it would go," said Sevier. "We didn't know about the book that was written, and a German newspaper wrote about Gregg's death and sent us a copy."
Sevier said that the other young Native-American men who died in a series of unsolved incidents in Lawrence also needed to be remembered. Sevier said the anniversary of Gregg's death was not an easy time.
"At times, it's really hard," Sevier said. "But I'm retired now, and my wife's on medical disability. If anyone needs help, we will do it."
What: A community rally and march for healing and justice
Gregg Sevier Memorial March
When: 4 p.m. Saturday
Where: Rally begins at 3 p.m. at the South Park Gazebo, and the march will follow.
Regents plan to upgrade technology
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
A Board of Regents committee has proposed a plan that would upgrade technology at Regents institutions without assessing a new student fee.
The Regents' budget development and tuition committee has recommended increasing tuition by 3.5 percent in fiscal year 1998 and reserving $1 per credit hour for technology and equipment.
Earlier this semester, another Regents committee had discussed the possibility of upgrading technology by implementing a separate technology fee.
But the most recent proposal would set aside tuition monies for improving technology without imposing a new fee, Regent Phyllis Nolan told the board during yesterday's meeting at Emporia State University.
Kim Cocks, KU student body president, opposes a separate technology fee for students but said she found the latest proposal more acceptable.
"I definitely like this a lot better because students aren't paying for technology in tuition and again in a technology fee," Cocks said. "This will make a difference, but I also think that the Regents should pursue a longer-term plan for addressing technology issues."
Although other monies may be spent on technology, $515,000 is earmarked for instructional equipment in the University's budget for fiscal year 1996.
Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice chancellor, said the new proposal would set aside more than $600,000 in additional funds for technology.
"In the past, if we had had a 3.5 percent tuition increase, we would have seen nothing specific." Eakin said.
"With this plan, the tuition increase would come directly back to us for technology."
The Regents' recommendation will be passed on to the governor and the Legislature and could undergo several changes before the Legislature makes a final decision next spring.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said that whatever form the proposal took, the Regents needed to make a commitment to upgrading technology.
"There's a desperate need on the part of the University of Kansas to invest in technology," Hemenway said. "However they structure it, I'm pleased that there's a recognition that we need to do something about improving technology."
Playboy to focus on KU students
By R. Adam Ward
Kansan staff writer
A three-person photography team from Playboy magazine is coming to Lawrence, looking for fresh-faced, female KU students.
Photographers from the men's magazine will be at the Holiday Inn Holldome, 200 McDonald Drive, on Monday and Tuesday. The only requirements are that the candidates be at least 18 years old and registered as full or part-time students.
The photographers will be looking for one to four representatives from the University of Kansas, said Karen Ring Borgstrom, special project publicist for Playboy. The students will appear in October's Women of the Big 12 issue, which will be on sale August 27.
Borgstrom said the last time Playboy came to the University was April 1992 for a Women of the Big Eight issue.
Students are paid only if the magazine uses their photos.
Borgstrom said that playmates were paid $20,000 a year, but would not specify what students were paid, though she said it was considerably less.
"They don't do it for the money," she said.
But posing for the magazine can have negative consequences.
When former KU student Kelly
Harmon appeared in the magazine in April 1902, she had to get an unlisted phone number. The situation also created problems for another KU student who just happened to share her name.
Kelly Harmon, a Lawrence graduate student, said that for about a year after the other Kelly Harmon posed she received obscene phone calls and was harassed, culminating in a lust-filled burglar trying to break into her house.
Women who are considering auditioning to appear in the magazine should not take it lightly because harassment is a serious issue, Harmon said.
Hannah Brazee, Lawrence junior, was Harmon's classmate at Lawrence High School. She said the pictures they took never look like the real person.
Alexia Maglione, a graduate teaching assistant, said she was disturbed by a magazine that encouraged the objectification of women. Men look at these magazines and develop unrealistic expectations.
"It kind of perturbs me why women have to pose for these magazines," Magliione said.
Kelly Nalty, graduate teaching assistant, said that because women were the owners of their own bodies, they should be able to do whatever they wanted.
"Viva capitalism," Nalty said.