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NEWS Thursday, May 8, 1997 - Page 5 May means music at New BLARs to be established for Western Maryland incoming freshman class Of course, everyone is famil- conductor Vincent Buscemi. Natural science and quantatative analysis courses iar with the old adage about a The band will perform South month of showers and the flow- Carolina composer Jay combined into one Basic Liberal Art Requirement ers that follow. But also bloom- Bocook's "Into the Light," ing at Western Maryland Col- which was commissioned by a quired. Dr. David Herlocker, lege this May is music. A lot of high school band in New Jersey RY EMILY STAMATHIS Chairman of the Curriculum sees this as the major disadvan- Stal/Writer music. to commemorate the life of one A required first year course Committee, said that the math tage, and hopes that the change And just like the many dif- of its members who died in won', confuse the registration were and and omission of a science BLARs ferent kinds of plants popping 1995 of Cystic Fibrosis. for freshmen are just two of the solidated in order to make con- the process. lab science up, there are concerts to suit all Bocook, WMC band camp di- changes that will affect incom- work load more equal with the The decision to change the tastes from classical to opera to rector, is perhaps. best known BLARs was made by the with imple- jazz to modern. for his exclusive school band ing freshmen of new Basic the Liberal four-credit the system. were Problems college's Curriculum Commit- staffing another labs mentation All of the events are free and arrangements of Walt Disney Arts Requirements this fall. tee, which is made up of open to the public. movie soundtracks. At last Registrar Barbara Shaffer Shaffer, Provost Joan Coley, Thursday, May 8- Jazz summer's WMC camp he also "They're always and six faculty members. is curriculum Night, 8 p.m., Decker Center was working on songs from said the revamped in order con- to One of the most profound stantly Forum. A campus and commu- "The Hunchback of Notre expose students to a diverse trying to make sure changes to the curriculum nity --'favorite, the show will Dame." selection of classes. The goal that when a student comes with the addition of a highlight many styles of jazz Sunday, May 18- WMC isn't to make the curriculum seminar/orientation all first-year class stu- re- for quired from big hand swing to fusion Community Orchestra, 3 p.m., easier or more difficult, just graduates from dents. to jazz rock. The program fea- Alumni Hall. Since its premiere different. Western Maryland, tures the 22-piece WMC Jazz concert here in December 1995, "They're always trying to According to Herlocker, the Ensemble, the IS-piece WMC the I 14-member orchestra, a make sure that when a student they have a full taste classes combine regular course Jazz Lab and the eight-piece unique college and community graduates from Western Mary- material with orientation infor- Jazz Workshop, as well as the group featuring musicians ages land, they have a full taste of of liberal arts. " mation. The small classes, with Percussion Ensemble and sev- 9-73, has almost doubled in liberal arts," Shaffer said. about 15 students, will be eral student vocalists. Refresh- size, according to director Kay There is no longer a Global Barbara Shaffer taught by the students' advisers. ments will be available. Tippett, a WMC music lecturer. Awareness BLAR; the courses Registrar's Office For the past two years these Sunday, May 11- College The Spring concert will feature are now known as Global Per- classes have been available to Band Concert, 8 p.m., Alumni many old favorites, as well as spectives. reason for dropping them. some first-year students on an Hall. The band, under the direc- new tunes. Although the group The Literature and Fine Arts New students must still com- experimental basis, but this is tion of WMC music lecturer has grown tremendously, requirement has been elimi- plete a two-semester Heritage the first year it will be required, Linda Kirkpatrick, features 25 Tippett said area musicians are nated. Those classes now fall Sequence, and a January term. Herlocker said. WMC students and 20 commu- always welcome to tryout. To under the Humanities category, The Physical Education re- Also, a "capstone experi- nity musicians. Student conduc- schedule an audition for the of which the freshmen must quirements and competency ence" will be necessary for all tor Jimmy Reddan will lead the spring program or for more in- take three classes instead of the tests also remain the same. majors. Shaffer describes this as band and several student solo- a science experiment, which in- ists for pieces from West Side for~:;'.~~~ea~~~:;~~~~~-;~~~; .• pr'~~~~~~J~'~';~)'s'ci1;~~e"~'nd Shaffer said that students volves making posters, a pre- be Story. The program, which in- any of these concerts call the Quantitative Analysis require- will no Iongef for their allowed to sentation, or writing a paper. require- dip" "double cludes traditional band selec- WMC Arts Management Office ments have been combined, and ments, which means taking a The project is chosen for stu- tions and more contemporary at (410) 857-2599. a lab science is no longer re- class that fills two BLARs. She dents by the department of their major. pops, also will feature guest Courtesy of Public Information Graduation date dicussed at forum Exhibition continuedfrom page J in the Cen- shows off Stoehr met with Dean Sayre veyed the colleges and President Chambers to dis- tennial Conference, of which cuss the concerns of the junior WMC is a member, and found student class, and was assured that the that the administration's claim issue would be readdressed. that several other schools week artwork hold There was a preliminary dis- graduation during the cussion about the students' con- appeared to be unsubstantiated. cerns at the President's Council Only Johns Hopkins Uni- Siudent art work will be on meeting on April 25, but the is- versity holds graduation on a display through May 16 in the sue will be fully discussed at the Thursday with almost all other Esther Prang ley Rice Gallery at Administrative Council meeting colleges holding theirs on the Western Maryland College. on Wednesday, May 14. weekend. The juried Kathryn E. Wentz Sayre is currently waiting for Reyburn argued that Art Show features work by a letter from Stoehr with a list of Hopkins was too large to com- WMC's art majors and includes the specific concerns the juniors pare to WMC. sculpture, printmaking, draw- have. "With a smaller enrollment, ing, photography, painting, and "AU of their concerns will be the school should be more ac- computer graphics. lver Get APol Smashed l The gallery, located on the top floor of Peterson Hall, is All of their concerns will be taken very open Monday through Friday, seriously noon-4 p.m. In addition to the TAKE THE KEYS featured exhibit, the Albert and CAli A CAB· Dean Sayre Eva Blum Collection of Art from Five Continents is on con- TAKEA STANO' tinuous display. For more infor- taken very seriously," Sayre said. commodating," she said. mation call 410/857-2599. Stoehr also went before the Sayre has already received Courtesy of Puhlic Information Board of Trustees and found them two letters, one from a parent to be "very receptive." She ad- and one from a student, and sev- ~U.'tlAYS dressed the concern that the stu- eral phone calls concerning the -It> heLp SA'Ie tile dent body was never consulted problem, and is willing to work eAll~c;jI,U,. and several trustees told her they with the students 1-&;lo-'l89-fi887- fRms DONl m fRlfNOS DRIVf DRUNK appreciated hearing the students' "J don't want people to leave concerns. here with bad feelings," Sayre Reyburn and Stoehr also sur- said. ~,~.