tuesday, february 24, 2004
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Anyone for tennis?
Amanda Kim Stairrett/Kansan
Andrew Horner, Galine sophomore, returned the ball to David Diec, Wakeeney sophomore, Saturday afternoon at the tennis courts on campus. The chemical engineering majors took advantage of the warm weather to play tennis.
By Rupal Gor rgor@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Nebraska hopes dean stays
Eight journalism faculty and students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln led a march on Friday to keep their journalism dean at the university.
Will Norton Jr. is the only candidate for journalism dean at the University of Kansas. Faculty and students met with him last Monday when he visited the University.
Apparently he is one great catch, because faculty and students are fighting to keep him from accepting an offer as dean at the University. The group marched to the Chancellor Harvey Perlman's office that afternoon to ask him to help keep Norton at Nebraska.
"There are a lot of faculty at this college who would like to keep Will Norton here."
John Bender
University of Nebraska associate professor
John Bender, associate professor of news-editorial at Nebraska, joined the march. He said he wanted Norton to stay because he had been an effective dean and fundraiser for 14 years.
"We wanted to let our chancellor know that there are a lot of faculty at this college who would like to keep Will Norton here," Bender said.
Rick Alloway, assistant professor of broadcasting at Neb
raska, said Norton was a tremendous asset to the school. He said the march to the chancellor's office was their way of making sure they had their two cents in asking the dean to stay. He said the school would be disappointed if he left Nebraska but that the school would understand.
"If it's best for him, we'll be supportive." Alloway said.
Bender said it would not be easy for Nebraska to replace someone who has put as much effort into the journalism school like Norton.
"If he leaves, we'll come down to Lawrence and finish what Quantrill started," he said. "No, I'm just kidding. We will wish him and Kansas the best."
British vocal coach Wade lends his voice to Shakespeare
Wade, former head of voice at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Edited by Cindy Yeo
University of Kansas theater students will be able to get a taste of the acting scene across the Atlantic this week when distinguished British vocal coach Andrew Wade visits to share his technique.
By Marc Ingber
mingber@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Wade, who has worked with
in Stratford-on-Avon, England will be at the University all this week. His appearances include a brownbag lunch, a lecture and theater class visits.
Wade was invited to come to the University by Paul Meier, who is in charge of the University Theatre's voice and diction program. The two met at Rosebruford College in London about 20 years ago.
some of the top directors in England including Alan Ayckbourn, Peter Gill and Sam Mendes, director of American Beauty, said he was looking forward to teaching the students different ways to interpret Shakespeare.
"So much is written about how Shakespeare should be done, and we get the idea that there is only one definitive way for it to be done." he said.
He said he was planning to
examine some of the Bard's most famous plays with students.
Students were taught that Shakespeare was a genius, but they never got to pick apart why he was a genius, Wade said.
Julia Hardin, Lawrence senior and theater voice major, said that although she has had some Shakespeare training, she was looking forward to working with someone whose expertise was Shakespearian acting.
She said with Wade's instruction, she would be able to take what she had already learned in class and expand on it.
Meier said Wade's greatest strength was helping actors interpret Shakespeare.
The highlight of Wade's visit will be his lecture this afternoon at the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall, where he will bring up a few theater students on the stage to work on their vocal technique.
Meier said that Wade would help students interpret a piece of Shakespearian text that they select themselves. He also said that students looking forward to working with Wade shouldn't think of it as a cake walk.
"They should be on their feet, in comfortable clothes, and ready to work with the man," he said.
Edited by Cindy Yeo
Cyclones change plans after unauthorized man boards plane
By Neeley J. Spellmeier
nspellmeier@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Iowa State men's basketball team was forced to drive back to Iowa instead of flying after Saturday's game in Allen Fieldhouse because an unauthorized man boarded their plane.
The man had boarded the
plane before the team had reached the airport. Because of Federal Aviation Administration rules, a plane can not take off after an unauthorized person has been on board until it has been searched.
Mike Green, associate director of media relations at Iowa State, said the team was not present while the man was on the plane.
The players arrived shortly after, only to learn they would have to wait. Unsure of how long it would be before they would be able to leave, they decided to drive back to Iowa.
The man was thought to have been in the terminal since before 6:30 p.m., when the airport is still open to the public, said Debbie Van Saun, assistant city manager
and airport manager. It is not unusual for people to be at the airport because it is a public building, she said.
At some point the man went out onto the apron, a restricted area. A sign marks the area as "Authorized Personnel Only."
The man boarded the plane, according to the police report, and the staff and flight crew asked
him what he was doing, but he had no explanation for being on the plane. He then left the plane on his own.
The Lawrence Police Department was contacted, and it then called in the Kansas Highway Patrol to search the plane with two of its canines.
Sgt. Mike Pattrick said the canines and the officers did not
find anything that had been tampered with or any objects that may have been placed on the airplane.
Lawrence police arrested Gary Patterson, a 28-year-old Lawrence man, on charges of criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct.
-Edited by Joe Hartigan
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