CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 8, 1995
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Matt Flickner / KANSAN
Jessica Keith, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, left, presents Jennifer Keith, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, with the Alvin Ailey award for the best student in the fine arts. Keith won the award at the Big Eight Conference for African-American student associations.
Student role models are praised
By Eduardo A. Molina
Kansan staff writer
Melanie Posey didn't need to win this year's Big Eight Conference most outstanding junior award to consider herself a role model among the African-American community at the University of Kansas.
Posey, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said accepting the challenges of staying in school when others give up is enough to inspire other African-American students to face societal obstacles that Posey has overcome.
Being a role model is not easy for Posey, but she is not the only one working hard among African Americans at KU.
This year, the African-American student associations of the Big Eight Conference recognized the efforts of Posey, Jennifer Keith, Kansas City, Kan, sophomore, who won the Alvin Alley award as the best student in the fine arts; Sherwood Thompson, who won the Shirley Chilson award for his contributions to KU as the director of the Office of Minority Affairs; and the Black Student Union, which won the most improved Black government award.
Jessica Keith, president of the union, was on the selection committee and said the winners deserved this recognition because of their contributions to KU.
She said the selection process was difficult because every school presented
strong candidates.
"We considered the contributions of the candidates to their universities," she said. "The students nominated also wrote an essay reflecting on this year's conference theme about being Black."
Keith said that the conference was a learning experience because it helped the student associations involved to accept societal challenges.
Thompson said the Shirley Chilsom award had a special meaning to him.
"I'm honored and pleased to receive this award because it highlights the work you have done among your peers," he said. "It is a vote of confidence that faculty, staff and students gave me to acknowledge what I do."
Bands will strut their stuff in Lawrence
By Novelda Sommers Kansan staff writer
Some of the most distinguished band directors and composers in the nation will be in Lawrence this week for the American Bandmasters Association's annual convention.
Robert Foster, director of KU bands and former president and current member of the association, said he lobbied to have Lawrence as a convention site eight years ago. Past conventions have been in Honolulu, New Orleans and Washington.
"It's like if we had a final four for bands," Foster said. "It's a place where the best people in the industry get together."
"At the time, I was told the addition to Murphy Hall would be finished and the Lied Center would have been up and running for three years," Foster said. "That's one of the reasons I wanted it here."
He said the convention, headquartered at the Holiday Inn Holidome, would bring more than 600 people to Lawrence.
Besides the KU Symphonic Band, bands from the University of Illinois, Indiana University and the University of Iowa will perform.
The 300-member association sets high standards for membership. Prospective members must be nominated by an association member, have a national reputation in the field and be voted into membership
Several musical compositions will premier in performances at the Lied Center. One of them is by Augusta Reed Thomas, who has won every orchestral composition prize a composer can receive except the Pulitzer, Foster said.
A composition discovered in Russia by Col. John Bourgeois, director of the United States Marine Band, also will premier.
The United States Army Band will perform for the first time in Kansas, Foster said. Tickets for that performance are free but must be picked up at the Lawrence Journal-World office, 609 New Hampshire St.
Amanda Drinkwater, Thibodaux, La. graduate student in music education, said the conference would provide band students an opportunity to meet influential musicians and music educators.
The other bands will give nightly performances at the Lied Center. Tickets are $2 for students and $4 for the public. They can be bought at the Lied Center box office or the Murphy Hall box office.
Free performances will be given at the Holidome at 3 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.
"Band is a product of the 20th century."
3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Holidome,
200 McDonald Drive, Central Missouri
State University Concert Band
7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center, Indiana University and University of Illinois symphonic bands
Thursday
7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center, University of Iowa and University of Kansas symphonic bands
Schedule of Events Today
3 p.m. at the Holidome, Lawrence City Band and the American Bandmasters Association Band
8 p.m. at the Lied Center, The United States Army Band and Herald Trumpets
Drinkwater said. "This is their chance to meet people who have played a major role in creation of the ensemble we call band."
Saturday
Memorial Corporation Board selects Student Union Activities officers for 1995-96 school year
Kansan staff report
The reins of power are changing in Student Union Activities.
A new president and three vice presidents for SUA were chosen Monday night by a board of 11 members.
Jamie Plesser, Prairie Village junior, will be the new president; Hilary Mogue, Overland Park junior, vice president of University relations; Brent Bowen, Olathe junior, vice president of alumni relations; and Monique Madeira, Lawrence senior, vice president of membership development.
The new student administration will take office in May.
"You don't expect to get a position like that," Plesser said of his selection as president. "I kind of prepared myself not to get it."
Plesser is the live music coordinator for SUA this year and was a member of the live music committee last year.
Plesser said that SUA would continue to serve students.
The board that chose the four new officers was composed of two student senators, four student members of SUA and five administrators.
"I think the committee was all really impressed by the slate of candidates that came in for the interviews," said Sherman Reeves, student president and board member.
Paul Wolters, SUA president and board member, said it had taken five hours to look over applications and interview the candidates.
Six people applied for the four positions. "It's a difficult process, of course," Reeves said. "But I thought the selection process went very smoothly."
Sue Morrell, program manager of the Kansas Union and a nonvoting member of the selection board, said she was happy with SUA's new officers.
She said the new officers had three main goals: to have a better relationship with Student Senate, to gain more student input about SUA events and to have more diverse events.
Symposium to explore law, media coverage
Kansan staff report
The symposium concludes Friday after a keynote address by John Murray at 3:30 p.m. The event is free.
Tonya Harding's lawyer and other legal pundits will speak at the School of Law's spring symposium, "The Mass Media Revolution," which begins tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. at room 104 in Green Hall.
Harding's lawyer, Robert Weaver, Jr., will discuss the effect of intense media coverage on criminal cases. Weaver will meet at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Besides Weaver, the symposium will feature Eleanor Aceron, assistant U.S.
attorney general; Andrew Barrett, a commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission; and John Murray, director of the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University.
The speakers will moderate panels focusing on technology, the court system and violence. Each panel will discuss issues such as censorship on the information superhighway, impartiality of jurors in criminal cases and the impact of the media on violence.
The symposium is financed by Student Senate and is sponsored by The Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy.
Kansan staff report
Tornado drill postponed because of snowfall
A statewide tornado drill scheduled yesterday has been postponed until tomorrow.
Paula Phillips, emergency preparedness coordinator for Douglas County, said that
the drill was postponed because of the recent snowfall. Several schools in Kansas were closed yesterday because of the snow.
Phillips said that the drill was rescheduled to ensure the greatest amount of participation from schools and businesses.
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