UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav. February 28,1997
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KU alive with The Sound of Music
Lied Center holds show on Sunday
By Amanda Arbuckle
Kansan staff writer
If The Sound of Music is one of your favorite things, you're in luck.
This Sunday, Liesl, Frierich, Louisa, Brigitta, Kurt, Marta and Gretl will be found on the Lied Center stage. The professional troupe will give two performances.
Amy Reid, Newton senior, remembered being less than thrilled when her mother brought home the movie version of the Broadway musical.
"I thought it was going to be really awful and unbelievably long." Reid said. "But I ended up liking it so much, I got the CD for my 18th birthday. And when the Newton Community Theater produced the show, I was in it."
Trapp, a retired Austrian officer, asks for a governorship she volunteers Maria.
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Peter Davenport sings the song "Edewelis" during a performance of The Sound of Music. The play will be showing at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at the Lied Center.
The musical opens with the main character, Maria, hoping to become a nun. However, the Mother Abbess believes that Maria is not yet ready for religious life. So when Capt. von
When Maria arrives, she finds a gloomy castle haunted by the death of a mother. But once she earns the trust of the children, Maria has the unhappy family laughing and singing once again. The Captain dissolves his engagement and marries Maria instead.
Upon returning from their honeymoon, the captain is summoned into the Nazi army. In an effort to buy time for the captain, Maria and a family friend, Max, inform the Nazis that the captain has to sing with his family at a concert in Kaltzburg.
As the family performs, an escort awaits to take the captain to Berlin. Max stalls the escort, and one by one, the von Trapps escape to Maria's abbey and on to freedom.
The Sound of Music is based on experiences of the real-life von Trapp family. After being driven from their Austrian home by Nazis, the family turned their singing hobby into a profession. From 1938 to 1945, The Trapp Family Singers was one of the most popular concert attractions in America.
Amy Mears, Littleton, Colo., sophomore, has never seen The Sound of Music performed live.
"As 42 child, I remember watching the movie and falling in love with the music," Mears said. "By seeing the
musical, IT be able to relive a little of my childhood."
Tickets are available at the Lied Center box office for both the 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. performances on Sunday.
Student tickets are $10 and $12.50.
KU working to attract more minority students
By Umut Bayramoglu
Kansan staff writer
The small number of minority students on campus might increase if the administration grants needed funds and staff to increase enrollment.
The Office of Minority Affairs is working to recruit and retain minority students at the University of Kansas.
The office is considering 12 recommendations from the Student Senate multicultural affairs committee report, released earlier this semester.
One of the recommendations would increase financial support for existing programs.
Gloria Flores, associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said the office now was working to expand the STEP program.
STEP is a peer-mentor program that hires upperclassmen to advise new students with academic and personal concerns.
Flores said that although Student Senate raised funds for the STEP program, the office still needed more financial support for other services.
"We are trying to do whatever we can with what we have," she said. "The fact that we have to divide our time between the Multicultural Resource Center and Minority Affairs created a big challenge. We have good ideas. If we had more staff, we could accomplish all these goals."
The Student Senate committee also recommended an increase of minority scholarship funds.
Flores said that the office had started working closely with the student scholarship center to improve financial assistance for minority students.
"We know that the budgets are tight, but funding for scholarships needs to be increased," she said. "I know for a fact that our peer institutions are doing much better in that respect."
Grey Montgomery, student body president.
Multicultural Affairs Committee recommendations
- Create a minority recruitment and retention plan
Create a centralized minority recruitment and retention board
Create a recruitment and retention board at the Regents level
- Increase support of existing programs
- Advertise existing programs
Create a program for minority high school students to make overnight visits to the University of Kansas
Encourage minority students to apply for the Honors Program
Create a minority advising, center
Create a minority faculty recruitment plan
Start a faculty sensitivity training program
Start a faculty sensitivity training program
Adopt an academic culture in our
- Start a faculty sensitivity training program
- Advertise cultural events on campus
- Increase minority scholarship funds
agreed that the University needed to improve financing for minority student recruitment and retention.
"Everybody recognizes that this is an important issue, but no one does anything," he said. "I think the administration needs to put their money where their mouth is."
Montgomery said that one of the committee's most important recommendations was to establish a centralized minority recruitment and retention board.
Flores said that one of the office's goals for this semester was to be more interactive with other offices or campus to improve minority retention.
"There are a lot of good individual programs going on," Montgomery said. "But nobody's collaborating."
"We have a fertile ground for diversity on our campus," she said. "We just need to water it and things will sprout."
Web site zones in on greeks
By Harumi Kogarimai
Kansan staff writer
A new web site will provide daily news specifically to greek chanters across the country for free.
Starting tomorrow, the Greek Zone will be delivering news and feature stories related to greeks across the country.
Mike Hirsch, founder of Site Effects Inc. in Rochelle Park, N.J., and an alumnus of Tau Epsilon Phi at the University of Pennsylvania, said the site would tge Greeks together in the United States.
"Before today, there was no single resource providing all the information found at the Greek Zone," Hirsch said.
The site includes news about chapter charity projects and famous Greek alumni and items from campus newspapers, Reuters and The Associated Press.
Hirsch said the items would be based on tips provided by chapter members. Visitors can give news about their chapters to the webmaster or nominate their friends as the site's greks of the week.
Hirsch said the site would be helpful to new members who were not familiar with the history and the facts of their chapters. Greek officers also can obtain information about leadership and house programs.
The site will have information about travel services for spring breaks and serve as a network to find employment, Hirsch said. But because it is new, a comprehensive list of job opportunities will not be available immediately.
Hirsch said he had wanted to create the site for a long time, but resources had not been available. Because he had a positive experience in the greek community, he said, he wanted to give something back.
Bridget Mason, KU Panhellenic vice president for public relations, said she had not heard of the site. She said the site might be helpful if a visitor did not know anything about greek communities, but part of the information on the site seemed to be general.
"The information on the site is not perfect, but we will get there," Hirsch said. "It is impossible to cover all 850 campuses across the country on the first try. The site is expanding constantly."
The address is http://www.greekzone.com/
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