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Monday, March 5. 1979
University Daily Kansan
Prof mixes music, math
Bv RHONDA HOLMAN
Staff Reporter
Zamir Bavel loves music—but only if it is not a full time job.
Bavel, professor of computer science and mathematics, is a full-time teacher and a part-time composer and violinist.
"I decided after being involved with music from an early age that this was not the way I wanted to make my living," said Bavel, whose symphony, "Israel Rhapsody," will be performed Wednesday by the Topena Symphony. "I knew I would买得起 that my attitude about music would守持—if I kept it as my profession."
Bavel, who has been composing since he was seven, wrote the symphony in 1960. It was first performed by the Southern Opera in Mozartia in Carbondale, III, the same year.
Bavel, a native of Israel, said last week that the melodies in "Israel Rhapsody" were in the style of contemporary Israeli music and were part of the piece depicted the Israelian way of life.
"IN TITS WORLD premiere, it was played just before the intermission," he said. "When the conductor mounted the podium for the second half of the concert, he blew a horn long time, until it became clear that they want to hear deejay again. The conductor announced the repeat and proceeded to play another, a second oval." He stood atanding oval.
"I'd forgotten how complex it was to write a symphonic piece so that the folk style can captivate the audience and the players," he said.
Bavel said the popularity of the composition had surprised him until he re-examined the score.
HE SAID MUSICIANS who had played typically were usually responsible for its success. He was tempted to push the work was when he had lead it to Leonard Bernstein, then moved on to Paul Simon.
Bavel said that Bernstein had talked to him for 45 minutes about the symphony and had called it "charming and effective," saying the only thing he did not like was that Bavel was in mathematics instead of music.
Bavel, who came to the United States in 1862 as a scholarship student at Southern Illinois University, was the age of three or four and was writing pieces for an Israeli radio program when he was
Zamir Bavel
BAVEL LATER studied composition with RAY HARRIS in the United States. He said some of his songs had become popular in Israel and he had heard his melodies be whistled out of bus windows in Tel Aviv folk music records in the United States.
An Israeli composer's union distributes Bavel's work and he periodically gets royalty money from places such as South Africa and Holland.
Bavel estimates that the symphony has been performed 20 or 30 times. He said it also had been recorded by the Voice of the Symphony Orchestra in the early 1960s.
Bavel, who is working on a violin con-
certe and two symphonies, said that his musical activity did not interfere with his work.
"I like teaching math and computer science, don't get me wrong," he said. "These subjects are in the blood of my family. This in itself is a mission."
Parking violators may find wheels locked
Instead of towing some illegally parked cars this summer, KU Parking Services might make sure the drivers don't move, Don Blankenship, director of parking services, said last week.
Kearns said that probably starting this summer, wheel locks would be used on cars whose drivers had received five or more licenses. Such cars now are automatically towed.
Under the new provision, the violator would have to go to the parking services office in Hoch Auditorium to pay or appeal the fine before the lock would be removed.
24 hours a day at the office to unlock a wheel.
Kearns said an officer would be available
Parking Services is awaiting final approval of the Board of Regents to go ahead with the purchase of six locks for the Lawrence campus and six for the University of Kansas Medical Center. The proposal will be submitted to KU Parking Services Board in December.
KEARNS SAID that he had no idea how much the locks would cost, but that the keypad was too thick.
He said the idea was proposed to spare parking violators the inconvenience and hassle.
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Strikes expected on the East Coast could further complicate the shortage.
However, Puckett said the University of Kansas had not had any shortages vet.
A nationwide paper shortage has put KU purchasing officials on edge, Gene Puckett, director of purchasing, said yesterday.
Chance of paper shortage at KU causing concern among officials
He said strikes on the West Coast last summer had caused a paper shortage that was depleting suppliers' inventories.
He said that if the shortage continued, products such as duplicator and minimeograph papers would be in short supply and could not be produced.
"The office supply store is having some trouble, but the situation is not critical," he said.
"So far we haven't had to restrict purchases by the departments."
Several years ago, a paper shortage resulted in limited supplies of products such as paper towels and office paper. Puckett said.
"It is a serious problem," he said. "We have five weeks supply of computer paper right now. But the company which supplies the paper has indicated it was having difficulty delivering our current order."
ALTHOUGH KU office paper supplies have not been depleted, the Academic Computer Center could have a computer paper shortage before the end of the semester, Paul Wolfe, director of the center, said.
Waile said he had ordered 1,500 cases of computer paper, a large enough supply for the rest of the semester and part of the summer. He was ready to ship them as soon as possible.
"I NEVER FEEL comfortable. I want to ensure that we have, enough paper supplies," Wolfe said.
emergency supplies if the state-contracted supplier was unable to deliver the center's order.
He said that if the center ran out of paper, the center would not shut down.
"Paper is critical, but we're not going to get caught short," he said.
if worse comes to worse, we will start using the backs or paper already printed on in the past."
Wolfe said the center also could share paper with other state institutions. KU shared paper four years ago, he said.
Ray Kramer, assistant director of business and office services at the computer center, is responsible for the supplies at the center.
"We are trying to find a different paper that has a larger supply," he said.
Kramer said that besides looking for an alternate supplier, the center could use other types of paper.
He said a state purchasing agent had told him that even if the West Coast attack ended immediately, paper inventories would not be affected.
Woife said the center would encourage students and other persons to conserve paper. He said one way a person could conserve paper was by putting many items on one page instead of a few items.
He was he was investigating different methods of computer programming that would use less paper.
Reapportionment . . .
From page one
The student area was replaced in Glover's district by Republican precincts in west
Funded by Student Senate and the Baptist Student Union
KU student support intact. Solbach retained the northwest and southeast corners of the city, and Glover picked up the center of the western part of Lawrence.
The 40th District was made up mostly of Democratic precincts east of Massachusetts.
Although Solbach still faces a tough fight for re-election in his traditionally Republican district, the score in Lawrence with Republicans 0 under the original House bill.
Vogel's amendment extended the new east Lawrence district across Massachusetts to pick up the KU campus and the student housing east of the campus. This made the eastern district even more accessible. The professor moved of much of his strong student summer.
VOGEL'S DISTRICT is completely outside of Lawrence.
The big loser in Vogel's amendment was Glover. However, Glover acknowledged that Vogel had given him a choice of being in the district or in district or in a heavily Republican district.
GLOVER SAID he had chosen the Republican district because, as an incumbent, he would have the best chance to win of any Democratic candidate. The incumbents may not need a particularly strong district in the new east Lawrence district, he said.
Lawrence, Democrat Solbach's district is
Republican. Democrat 2-Republicans.
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A veto, or the threat of a veto, could force the House to work out a compromise between the original bill and Vogel's amendment this week.
Glover's decision could make Carlin more likely to veto the house redistricting bill, rather than put a Democratic incumbent in such a precarious position.
proposals had been worked out that would partially do away with the part of the 46th district that takes away much of Glover's student constitutency.
Solbach said last night that several
Glover also was unsure about a compromise.
HOWEVER, HE said neither proposal would help Glover very much.
"I have no idea where the district lines will be drawn downtown," he said.
He had drawn up two maps and had shown them to Glover before he presented his map.
Vogel said he wasn't sure how much chance there was for a compromise.
"Glover could have stayed winns me on district, and the district boundaries would be smaller."
TOOAY: AN ART EXHIBIT by John Blumb titled, "Illinois landscape," will be shown from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. this week at the Visual Arts Gallery. An MFA THEISIS EXHIBIT by sculptor Michael Gontesky also will be show this week from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Art and Design building Gallery. The EXECUTIVE COUNIL will meet at 11:45 a.m. in Albove B of the Kansas Union. The JHAWKY BASKETBALL Room of the Union. PSYCHOLYGIC CLUB meets at 4:30 in the basement of Fraser Hall. The KU COMMITTEE ON SOUTH
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