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Grateful Dead alive and well on KJHK
By Paul Todd Kansan staff writer
The Dead are alive in Lawrence.
At 7 p.m. every Sunday, KJHK broadcasts "The Music Never Stopped," a two-hour show that features the music of the Grateful Dead. Chad Polikov, Omaha senior, is the host of the show, which airs on 90.7 FM.
Every song Polikov plays was recorded live at Grateful Dead concerts around the country. The live recordings are part of Polikov's collection of more than 500 taped Grateful Dead concerts. Unlike most other bands, the Grateful Dead allows people to record its concerts.
Chad Polikov, Omaha, Neb., senior, shows some of his Grateful Dead collection. Palikov has 525 Dead tapes. His show, "The Music Never Stopped," is broadcast on 90.7 FM KJHK from 5 to 7 p.m. on Sundays.
"Hey, welcome dead fans," Polikov says at the beginning of each show. "It's my job to be here every week to find extra special moments from Grateful Dead concerts, so if you have some extra space at the end
end of a tape, pop it in"
Polikov attended his first Grateful Dead concert in 1991 at Sandstone Amphitheater in Bonner Springs. The music hooked him.
"I had a revelation, like this is what I want to get into. I never thought music could be this good."
He follows the Dead around the United States —
Oakland.
Calif.,
Phoenix.
Chicago —
Chad Polkovic
Omaha senior and KJH discjockey
can afford to go. All told, Polikov has attended 50 Dead concerts.
He said that despite the hippies and the drugs that often were found at Dead concerts, the music still was the most invigorating part of the Grateful Dead scene.
"I had a revelation, like this is what I want to get into," he said. "I never thought that music could be this good."
The Grateful Dead radio show has been on KJHK before, but it was taken off the air by the managers in 1993. But Polikov, determined to revive the show, pointed out all the Dead T-shirts and bumper stickers on campus as proof of interest in the group. He hopes to continue the show during the next two semesters.
The Grateful Dead first became popular in the 1960s. The group has had tremendous staying power because its music appeals to all ages and musical preferences. Polikov said.
"They are kind of like an old-time jug band," he said. "They can bring almost anybody in with them and supplement their music."
Polikov said his show also would appeal to non-
Deadheads.
"They play all kinds of music — folk, rock, blues, jazz — and cover other bands," he said. "There's something in there for everybody."
But many students and professors think that the Dead's resurrection is part of a broader interest in the attitudes and movements of the 1960s.
The Grateful Dead even can be found on the information superhighway. Polikov said there were published databases that logged every song at every concert the band had played.
"It's amazing," he said. "People communicate about the Dead on Internet bulletin boards."
Chuck Berg, professor of theatre and film, teaches 1960s and 70s pop-culture classes.
He said that some young Americans had begun to scale down their ambitions of belonging to upper-crust society and look at different lifestyle possibilities, such as Greenpeace activism and the arts.
"They're thinking that maybe being a rock-n-roll musician or a poet is a pretty viable thing to consider." Berger said.
He said that music groups such as the Grateful Dead exemplified these ideals.
"They just appeal to people who are put off by the super-slick or promoted kind of lifestyle." Berg said.
Campus feels the heat: no air-conditioning
By Brian Vandervliet Kansan staff writer
Spring has arrived. Unfortunately, air conditioning in many campus buildings has not.
"The air seems pretty stale," said Greg May, St. Louis graduate student, who has an office in Wescoe Hall. "They're always slow, it seems, to turn the air-conditioning on."
But starting the air-conditioning units doesn't happen overnight, said Randy Samuels, assistant director of electrical and air-conditioning refrigeration.
Although maintenance work on the units began when the air-conditioning was turned off in early December, Samuels said the units could not be started until the weather was consistently warm.
Samuels said facilities operations workers had turned off heating. Last week they had begun preparing more than 400 units on campus for air-conditioning start up.
"It's not like your regular central unit at home," Samuelsa said. "It just takes some time to start up the units. You can't just push a button and walk away from it."
most air-conditioning units should be working within the next few weeks. Buildings that contain animals, library books, computers or health centers will be given first priority.
Checking a unit's valves and filling the tanks with coolants usually takes two or three days, he said. If coolants are in the units when temperatures drop below freezing, the units can be damaged.
Now that the start-up has begun, he said
The rapid changes of Kansas weather have made life more difficult for facilities operations workers, Samuels said. His office has received about 30 calls a day recently from people complaining about
"One minute everyone's too cold, and the next minute everyone's too hot," he said.
the heat.
Samuels said most air-conditioning units were currently circulating air from outside camus buildings.
"Whatever the temperature is outside that's what gets inside," he said.
Angela Bradley, Belize City, Belize, junior, said she had noticed the lack of air-conditioning during her classes in the past few days.
"It has been a little uncomfortable, especially in the auditorium," she said.
Professor to leave KU for Purdue
Sociology colleagues praise inspiring work
By Matthew Friedrichs
Kansan staff writer
Daryl Evans, a popular KU professor who has taught thousands of KU students in the past 16 years, is leaving the University of Kansas for Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.
Evans, associate professor of sociology, teaches approximately 1,000 Sociology 104 students every semester.
Evans said it was difficult to think about leaving KU, and he initially withdrew from the Purdue search.
But administrators at Purdue invited Evans to visit the campus and their sociology program. Evans said the total package of opportunities that Purdue offered convinced him to take the job.
"I'm always telling my students to take risks, take a risk and have an adventure," Evans said. "I was given some challenges at Purdue
Daryl Evans
that a person that likes to teach big classes couldn't turn down."
Evans will replace Reece McGee, a retired professor of sociology, who taught at Purdue for 30 years and pioneered the teaching of large lecture classes.
"Just to be asked to fill his shoes is an incredible honor." Evans said.
Evans also is interested in starting a large class apprenticeship program for graduate students at Purdue.
Dean Knudsen, head of the sociology and anthropology department at Purdue, said Purdue had more resources for research than KU.
At Evans' request, KU did not attempt to counter Purdue's offer, said Lewis Mennerick, acting chairman of KU's sociology department.
Knudsen said Evans was hired because of his experience and record of teaching large classes.
Evans earned $39,346 this year at KU. Evans, KU officials and Purdue officials refused to discuss his salary at Purdue.
"I wish that all people who taught at institutions as good as KU would be paid commensurate with other peer institutions," Evans said.
For Evans, the memories of KU are positive.
"I love Kansas," he said. "I love KU. I love this department. I don't plan on not ever having anything to do with it again. I'll always come here to visit."
Evans said his favorite memories would be the small, quiet moments, such as finding out that a student had decided to become a teacher after taking his class.
Martha Ortiz, Lawrence senior, has been a teaching assistant for Evans for the past four semesters.
"He's such a dynamic presence in the classroom," she said. "It really sparked my interest in sociology.
"I know he's had a big influence on a lot of people's lives. It's going to be a big loss for KU."
Among Evans' many teaching awards is the 1994 Outstanding Educator Award from Mortar Board, a senior honor society.
Evans said he also has fond memories of the KU faculty he recognizes as friends and colleagues.
"He made a big contribution to the department and the University," said Bob Antonio, a professor of sociology. "He has an intellectual impact on quite a few students."
With Evans' departure, the sociology department faces the problem of teaching the students he would have taught in the fall.
Badger bound
The Kansas women's basketball team will face the Wisconsin Badgers at 6 tonight in the first round of the women's NCAA tournament.
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Medical students receive letters of residency
Seniors anticipate annual Match Day
Chris Sanders stood with her back to the wall, anxiously waiting for her name to be called.
By Robert Allen Kansan staff writer
"This is a very big deal," she said. "It's the summation of four years of work."
Sanders, fourth-year medical student at the University of Kansas Medical Center, was one of about 100 fourth-year students who waited yesterday at Sudler Auditorium to receive their letters of residency.
"It's really exciting," she said. "It's where I'm spending the next four years of my life."
"It's a national residency match from a location in Washington, D.C.," she said. Students nationwide rank the hospitals where they would like to study, she said. A computer search matches the students to hospitals with available residencies.
ritual called Match Day or the day when fourth-year students find out which hospital or medical center has accepted them as a resident, or intern, said Laura Zeiger, coordinator for medical student affairs.
The waiting is part of an annual
Chris Belk, fourth-year medical student, said the University of Kansas was his first choice for residency because he liked the program and wanted to stay in Kansas City.
Belt opened his letter in front of the audience.
"University of Kansas," he shouted.
"It was a lot of stress coming to
This year's winner was Jay Clotti, fourth-year medical student, who carried his three-month old son down the aisle with him to collect his letter and the approximately $100 pool.
At the Med Center, students celebrate Match Day by contributing $1 to a community pool. The residency letters are drawn randomly, and the last student to receive their letter wins the pool.
"I'm going to spend it on my friends." he said.
Ciotti and his fiancee, Suzanne Lafex, fourth-year medical student, were matched to the same hospital in Pueblo, Colo., but it was not their first choice.
this and not knowing where you are going," he said.
"We thought we knew where we were going, but we didn't," Ciotti said. "So now it's a big deal."
Matt Flickner / KANSAN
Jay Ciotti, fourth-year medical student, shakes the hand of a fellow medical student while holding his son, Dante.