Thursday, Feb. 20, 1986
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Stanley Shumway, chairman of the department of music, said the department was counting on having Chen as a faculty member for another year.
"It's certainly OK with us," he said. "He's doing such outstanding work that we'd like to keep him here as long as possible."
By staying at the University for another year, Shumway said. Chen will be able to help set up the exchange program, and he will have an opportunity to conduct orchestras throughout the country.
Chen said the idea of staying in Kansas for another year, occurred to him in October. Since that time, James Moeser, dean of fine arts; Deanall Tacha, former vice chancellor for academic affairs; and Shumway have written letters to Chinese officials encouraging an exchange program.
Since he's been at KU, Chen's philosophy
— that music is a language for all people that needs no translation — has won him the admiration of his students and fellow faculty members in the department of music.
"Beyond that it's his personal warmth and his dedication to the students and to the profession," Shumway said. "He's very considerate and supportive of the students. He's dedicated to the success of the orchestra. He's a master teacher."
Shumway said Chen's musicianship had been the key to his success at KU.
Agnes Toth, Omaha, Neb., senior, said Chen's organization and devotion of time to the orchestra was what had garnered most of the compliments.
“Dr. Chen has a lot of potential,” Toth said. “I think we'll be hearing a lot about him on down the road.”
Kristina Jacobson, Omaha, Neb., senior,
"He's very professional and he really cares about what he's doing," she said. "He makes you want to do well."
agreed Chen's career would be one to watch.
Chen also has done well, and has amassed many firsts in his career. He was the first conductor sent by China to study abroad.
"I'm also the only person to have a doctorate in conducting in China."
"I was the first person to be awarded the degree of Doctor in Musical Arts in conducting from the University of Michigan," he said. "They set up the program 10 years ago, and chose the candidates, and I was the first. I must say, the requirements were not easy.
Chen will be recognized for his achievements Sunday when he receives the Outstanding Educators Award, along with four other KU professors, from KU's Mortar Board.
The other professors to receive the award are Corinne Anderson, professor of French and Italian; Ellen Gold, associate professor of communication studies; Del Shankel, professor of microbiology and acting vice chancellor for academic affairs; and Norman Yetman, professor of American studies and sociology.
When Chen steps onto the podium in rehearsals, the symphony members are silenced. For 50 minutes, Chen sweats and strains as he tries to draw the group into a cohesive unit through the music.
"We are making music all the time, but it really requires more elements than just the music," he said. "We're not just dealing with notes, we're dealing with each other. If we feel friendly with each other, then we sound better."
Trial
A liquor store manager and a gas station manager testified that they saw Hixson with a man on the day of his death but that they could not identify Avis as the man.
A neighbor of Hixson's Vernon Geissler, 1432 Westbrook st., said a
man offered to pay him $10 on Nov. 22 for a ride from the complex. He later saw the man load packages into a taxi.
Two taxi drivers also testified. Wayne Cheek, a driver for City Cab at the time, said he drove a man from the complex to the bus station after loading two televisions, two radios, a
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speaker, hiking boots and a blue duffel has into the taxi.
another man but that he had never seen Avis with Hisxon.
Wanda House, a driver for Yellow Cab, said she picked up a man at the bus station and drove him to Kansas City. Mo., where he directed her around in circles, then dropped off the stereo equipment and took him to an apartment complex where he got
out to get money to pay her. He never came back, she said.
Neither could identify Avis.
outstanding misdemeanor warrants. Avis was later taken to the Kansas City (Mo.) Correctional Institute.
Military Donna 'Jammy'
William Wittman, Crescent City, Mo.
police officer, testified he was called to the apartment complex to help House find the man.
Lamb said that later in the evening of Nov. 21, Avis was arrested on two
Several Kansas Bureau of Investigation employees testified about fingerprints and other evidence found in Hixson's condominium.
Kansas reporter Russell Gray cor-
tributed information to this story.
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Seaver said he did not like the idea of combining the Oread Book Shop with the textbook portion of the Kansas Union Bookstore.
After the work on the bookstore has been completed, efforts will begin to move the student offices located on Level Three to Level Four. The Student Organizations and Activities Center on Level Four will also be renovated, Long said.
The second phase of the renovation will not begin until after construction in the first phase is completed, he said.
"It's nice to go into the (Oread) bookstore and just browse," he said. "I'm kind of worried that the bookstore part will be lost among the textbooks."
The greeting cards and poster area of the bookstore will be revamped during phase two.
Work in the second phase also will expand and open as well as returnish the lounge area on Level Four, Long said.
Seaver said the planning committee had striven to maintain a relaxed air for the lounge area.
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"You walk into a comfortable atmosphere," he said. "I don't want to see that changed."
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