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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 6-29-1977 The BG News June 29, 1977 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News June 29, 1977" (1977). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3388. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3388 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Kelly strikes up the bands ByMaryWtods BG didn't give up though, and Kelly was once again contacted about the Job and Staff Reporter decided it might be worth the trip. And was it ever. He loves music. "I like Bowling Green It was the best thing that ever happened," be laid. He's from a small town probably similar to the Indiana burg where "Music "Every year I get more satisfaction out of being here, but my ties with Iowa are Man" Prof essur Harold Hill practiced Ms art. still close." The sounds of seventy-six trombones can be heard in the background when you "We still have family there. That's why I like going back to the University for the talk to him, because he is a band man and has been all his life. band camps." he said. I venture to say that Mark Kelly loves those camps and the experiences with the MARK S. KELLY, director of the University bands for 11 years, is an honest young music students. man. Talking to him was like talking to my father. He tells me how he sees the He was extremely proud of the group he conducted last week, the "Gold Band," world and how he hopes young people have learned from him. I felt I was getting a composed of Junior and senior high school students. lecture before my first date. BUT KELLY told me he isn't a nice guy all the time to those young performers. That's how most members of the University bands who have been under his "I don't praise those kids unless they are good," he said. direction must feel. He's like a father to Ms students. He cherishes his experiences with college students, also, and feels that college Oh, he can be stem, because he is an honest man. He will tell you what he thinks- students present an ideal learning situation. and believes. "They are so much more mature and can get things done quicker, and often it's He probably would not hesitate to put you over his knee or tell you to stay in your easier to relate to them. You can still find a lot of high school students as bright, or room. brighter than a lot of college students." he said. He does make people angry at him, but angry only in the respect that a child gets While I was talking with him. several students came by and were surprised to angry at his parents. It's only for their own good. find him in a state of relaxation. He commands respect. "Well," he explaines, "I just got in from Iowa at four this morning and right now I was lucky enough to catch Kelly on a quiet day. Actually, I was lucky to catch I'm trying to recharge my batteries, but I'll be back at it tomorrow morning at lor him at all. He's a busy man and had Just returned from his native Iowa where he 8:30," was a guest instructor at the University of Iowa band camp for high school As director of the marching band, where Kcily gets his most publicity, he is students. quick to give credit to Ms colleagues in the School of Musical Arts and to the band It was a pleasant return for he and his family to a place he never expected to members. leave. IN MM, Kelly attended the University of Iowa on a year's leave of absence from "THE MARCHING BAND has been a great public relations tool to help get our his high school teaching duties in Centerville, Iowa, where he taught music and department state-wide recognition, but that helps all of our programs; per- directed the band. formance, vocal and music education." Kelly was earning credits toward his master's degree and was acting director of More kids are here in music than any other element on campus, so we have the University of Iowa bands, while most of the directing staff was on a Russian many ambassadors," he said. tour. He recognizes John Deal, the assistant director of the marching band aa a In April of that year, he was contacted by the University music department to driving force behind Mm in the organization and administration of the band. interview for the position as director of the University bands. He also relies on the squad leaders, students responsible for the organization and "I didn't want to come out here if I was going to be one of the multitudes," Kelly drilling of a particular unit or section in the marching band. CourtMy o( said. "I was ready to go back to Centerville after my stint at Iowa. I just didn't "When people work together in the band it becomes their band and the members Mark S. Kelly have the inclination and so I said no." can begin to understand why things go right and wrong." 1& Final exams, semester system Vol. 60 No. U(S June 29. 1977 discussed by Academic Council LLULlUt Ulililiti fluVL UlllL'tliflVt By Deb Sperling cram for a test. "Publishing the names of those in- Staff Reporter Any decision council makes on a final structors who don't give finals should exam policy is made as a recom- be enough moral persuasion for them to Music opportunities open A "sacred cow" and a "viable mendation to all faculty. Only Faculty start." evaluation of integrated knowledge" Senate has authority to make a decision BALOGH SAD) that enforcing a rule were two ways Academic Council that would make a final examination requiring find exams would be Im- members described final examinations policy part of UMversity policy. practical and inappropriate in many to anyone in BG area In their Wednesday meeting. In other Council discussed the validity of courses. "Requiring final exams is council business, it was revealed finals in the educational process. educational idealism, not educational by Deb Sperling Buckeye Room through a survey that 53 per cent of the Eriksen said finals are necessary to realism," he said. Staff Reporter The Buckeye Room which la the University faculty oppose changing to give the student a full perspective on a Council Chairman Kenneth Rothe game room in the Union has changed Its the semester system. course's application to a given field of estimated that 20 per cent of the Joyful noise emanates from the College of Musical Arts all year. Departing from summer hours to Monday through After vigorous debate, council moved study. University's Instructors don't give the usual University-student orientation of their programs, the music school Thursday from 8 a.m.-S p.m. and to resolve the ambiguity wMch some Members opposing a uniform finals finals. He personally thinks they are continues its chorus, orchestra and band programs. These are open to interested Friday from 8 a.m.-l p.m. instructors claim lies around the use of policy said that many instructors don't viable. "Hopefully," he said, "a policy Northwest OMo residents as well as students. Summer visitors to the bowling alley final exams by writing a policy give a comprehensive exam or don't statement will give college deans and Most of the approximately 100 participants in these programs are now enrolled will be able to bowl three games for statement on the matter. administer it during finals week department heads guidance. Enforcing in the UMversity, because one credit hour can be earned for each program. But $1.25, shoot pool for seventy-five cents RECOMMENDING instructors to because they feel it isn't necessary in such a policy will be left up to the according to Ivan Trustier, professor in charge of the choral program, "...It has an hour and get two games of pinball give finals, the statement will also say their course. These members favor respective colleges." always been open without audition. All you need to Join is a burning desire to sing." for twenty-five cents. something about the academic making final exams optional-to be Through a questionnaire distributed philosophy behind final testing. given at the instructor's discretion. by the Office of Research and Services THE CHORAL GROUP rehearses dally In preparation for their joint per- Teaching position John Eriksen, dean of Arts and COUNCIL ALSO discussed finals in within the Education College, it was formance with the summer orchestra. This year's work is Haydn's "Ixird Nelson Sciences, in support of a final exam terms of an instructor's professional established that only 47 per cent of the Mass." Trustier describes the mass as a "big, happy work" dedicated to the The Triad local schools in Woodstock, policy statement, said, "There is no obligations. University faculty favor changing the British admiral Lord Nelson. Ohio have a position available for a fifth other way to deal with the problem of Carl Vogt, dean of Business academic calendar to the semester Each year summer orchestra, directed by Richard Cloffari, is composed of a grade teacher with coaching ex- finals given during the eleventh week Administration, said that instructors system.