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Kuby said he chose the location to display the banner in accordance with guidelines in Articles 8 and 17 of the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct.
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He was held briefly in jail and released after a $500 bail was posted that night.
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A STUDENT, according to these articles, may not cause a disruption or obstruction of University activities. The code also provides for freedom of peaceful protest, if the protest does not interfere or obstruct university activities. The University community have a right to be.
But Thomas said the banner violated a Kansas Board of Regent rule that prohibits a display of political advertisements in enclosed areas of the campus devoted
"Even though there is no lid on the stadium, it was still considered an enclosed area." Thomas said. The decision to remove the ban was not based on its content.
BUT KUBY contends that the banner was not political advertising.
primarily to instruction, or in other enclosed areas during non-political events.
He said the University had consistently defined "political" in the Board of Regents' regulations as "electroneeing," or political regulation for public offices and issues on a ballot.
Thomas said that banners should be checked with the commencement committee before publication.
A member of the commencement committee, Dower Dykes, professor of design, and the chair of the design department.
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said banners must be approved by the commencement committee before the
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"I AM holding the Chancellor personally responsible for the incident. I don't know whether his involvement was direct or indirect, but his antipathy toward freedom of speech has contaminated the atmosphere of the University."
Chancellor Dykes said Saturday that he and Mike Davis, University General Counsel, would not comment on the incident complained was filed; the chancellor's office
Kuby's complaint is being typed and will be sent by registered mail this week to those charged, according to J. Hammond McNish, president of the University Judiciary.
Chancellor Dykes said, "We do not now know the nature of the charges, but if the University police made a mistake then, of course, we'll make corrections."
CHANCELLOR DYKES said he found it difficult to believe that free speech was being thwarted since there was no interference with the distribution of pamphlets handed to graduates as they processed toward the stadium. The pamphlets also protected KU investments in South Africa.
The issue, Chancellor Dykes said, would be decided when it was determined whether the code prohibiting political advertising was correctly interpreted by the campus police.
Davis will determine the definition of political advertising, the chancellor said.
"Good legal advice must come from the university's counsel," he said. "The wisted test of law is in the hands of the judge."
But Kubya that Davis had a conflict of interest because he would be representing the University at the same time he determined the definition of political advertising.
After meeting with the chancellor next week, SenEx will give its opinion on whether a rule was violated, according to Gerhard Zuther, SonEx supervisor.
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She's Number One & So Is Her Band
BY MARK LEVITON
Line Los Angeles suburb of North Hollywood, filled with fast-food outlets, dingy dental offices and anonymous urban architecture, seems the last place to find anything unique. But on a cramped North Hollywood cut-desire, just around the corner from a movie theater, she found the brilliant and original jazz composer since Duke Ellington. Toshi Kakiyo violed top arranger in the latest *Doubteat* poll, ranked the Akivixhi-Tabackin Big Band, leaded Number One Big Band by the same poll. Akivixhi also plays piano with the band, while husband Lew Eibarkin leads its five-year-old string quartet at the vermontaat in a low Japanese table, drinking tea to chase off a cold that forced her to cancel rehearsal sessions.
"I felt, in the late Sixies, that I hadn't contributed anything. I thought I would quit music." Akiyoshi says. Her hands form no shape, and she looks uncomfortable. Then I began to look at the black movement to see how it could relate to me. I realized I could draw from my Japanese heritage, which was richer than American, and bring them together in jazz. That was my way to find significance."
Akiyoshi's mantelpiece is full of awards—Grammy nominations, *dooseat* certificates, a trophys from Japan's *Swing Journal* and propped against the pans that almost lilt her living room is a balletfinished marble, the penclicked notes precise and sharp.
Aikyōs is the only woman in history to write a complete repertoire for a big band and organize musicians to play it. Bevard and her fellow musicians have long listened call fresh, appealing and dramatic.
Aikiyoshi was born in Manchuria, China, in 1929, where her father ran a textile factory. He taught her business skills and helped depend in the same business. After the Japanese lost World War II the family had to forfeit their assets and return to Japan, a situation which caused much emotional and psychological turmoil.
"My father wanted me to be a doctor when we first returned to Japan," Akiyomi recalls in hesitant phrases, as though not quite at home in her adopted language. "That was really crazy because I can't stand the sight of blood! I was sixteen years old at the time, and I was very sick for nine months for nine years. I was the youngest of four daughters, none of whom were professionals, so I decided to try medical school. We came to Japan in August and school doesn't start there until spring. While I was waiting for school to begin I saw on ad at a dancehall one that said I hadiana Wanted." I lived in a town, but the job I forgot about being a doctor.
Miyoshi began to build a reputation from that point on as a sensational pianist with a strong style and superb ideas. She made a few records for Japanese labels and became quite popular. But to really experience the jazz world she needed to travel to the U.S., which she did in January 1956, enrolling in Boston's Berklee School of Music. There she studied
composition and piano while continuing to work with combs when she could, and she spent a lot of time in nightshots seeing her idle plays. In April 1957 at John Hancock Hall in Boston her composition "Jazz Suite for Orchestra," written as a school assignment, was performed on the band and was warmly received. Her stature in the jazz community grew and in 1958 she was named in *Mademoiselle* as one of America's top women. She had overcome the prejudice in the mostly male jazz world that a woman couldn't handle jazz music. In 1950 she held a quartet, playing Marcelo and they formed a quartet, playing Marcelo of Toshikio's compositions.
The late Sixies were a troubling time for Akiviros. Her marriage to Marta broke up after they had one daughter, and Tosikoh had difficulty finding work because of the failure of many New York clubs. "It was also the time of black revolution" she remembers, "and some clubs were only booking black musicians. There were many black organizers who were involved in the whole political movement. I don't think that's wrong—bads had to go through so much to make things better. But not being black I had a tough time."
Aikiyoshi met Tabakhin while organizing a concert for herself in Town Hall in 1967. He was playing tenor sax with Doe Seirensin's band on The Tonght Show. In 1972, when he was married to his wife, Tabakhin and Aikiyoshi, by then married, did one "One day Lew came home from work
and said there was a rehearsal ball union members could rent for fifty cents an hour. "I had thought of having a band in New York but the halls were all $35 which meant an investment of several thousand a year, which wasn't financially possible. But this was different. I had about six charts to begin with, and Lew helped get the musicians together, and they worked very hard to make the sales. The solution of the band's activities has recently permitted Tailackin to quit the Carson show and concentrate on working with his wife and in smaller combs.
In 1973 Akiyoshi wrote an old friend at RCA records in Japan, asking if he would like to record her new big band. The resulting album, *Kagun*, went on to become the largest-selling big band record in Japanese music. It was released at the end of 1978. For the last six years Akiyoshi has been writing challenging, robust and often humorous music that leaves plenty of room for the many fine solos in her fourteen-piece band. Like Ellington, she writes writing for specific members of the band, making it important to stay true to her style, even when everyone has other jobs too. The band is something of a music school as well. "There are two ways to write," explains Akiyoshi. "You can put the music down so the players work at 75 per cent capacity and the music sounds comfortable, or write music that may require more endurance." Akiyoshi says getting most of the benefit, having the music played. The other way is more beneficial to
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the writer and the players. But," she adds, "I always have to remind myself the music comes first. A lot of bands play very well, but they don't play as well as we do. I want my band to have what on call style."
Akiviša is formate to have Tabakin as principal solist, for he is strong on tenor sax and flute, an instrument she often queries for a violinist. She is also able to write superbly for bass trombone, which she considers the instrument that "holds the horn" and exults in placing instruments in her voice.
Akiyoshi often writes program music, jazz based on a very specific memory or event. Her suite "Minimaata," found on the Inuits album, is a powerful work with an emotional range that draws the most from its setting. The village where mercury poisoning from an industrial plant killed fish and caused hideous defenses among people unclearly enough to have eaten the catches. Ex-Life photographer Eugene Smith was beaten to near-blindness by the mob. He also photographs photos of the Minimaata situation appeared. "Musicians are powerless, in the sense that they are unable to change the world socially," Akiyoshi wrote in notes to the piece. "However, they may feel very much concerned about what is going on around them or what they are in the past, and they can express their feelings through their writing and playing."
two albums of new work are already recorded, awaiting release in 1979. Live at Newport and March of the Tadpoles ("tadpoles" for her trombone section). Salted Ginko Nui, her band's eight album will be released in Japan later in 1979. No American release date has yet been planned.
The band's new music runs from the happy shuffle of "Son of Road Time" to the pensive "Elusive Dream" to the almost Spanish-sounding "Notorious Tourist from East." It's all rich, driving and starling jazz. I've always loved the piano and still play solo songs when I can, says Akiyoshi. But I guess the orchestra is my real instrument."
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