IN BRIEF
Performance highlights
formally censored music
Throw out your flux capacitors, be
cause time travel just got a whole lot
easier. Show up at Beall Concert Hall
at 8 p.m. Monday, and you will be
transported to 11th-century Germany,
to a region known as the Rhineland.
Sequentia, an acclaimed interna
tional quartet that specializes in recov
ering some of the first Western non
liturgical music ever written, will pres
ent its full program, the culmination of
its visit to the University. The group
gave a shorter pre-performance and
lecture at Beall Hall on Wednesday.
What’s so exciting about Western,
non-liturgical music? It is the music
of the people, the oral tradition,
mythology, and storytelling medium
of Medieval Europe.
According to Benjamin Bagby, the
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musical director of Sequentia, some
of the material was so scandalous
that monks censored it — literally
inking it out of manuscripts.
Bagby and his fellow players are
“musicians in a down-and-dirty
sense,” he said. They formulate their
music based on the barest descrip
tion. The main source for their per
formance Monday is a set of ancient
manuscripts believed to be the work
of a single musician. Much of it is
nothing more than the lyrics, which
include epic stories about the seduc
tion of nuns, adulterous sea mer
chants and tributes to kings.
The players in Sequentia use only
the instruments available at the time
the original music was made — prim
itive harps, flutes and the human
voice. Their instruments are expert
made copies of artifacts and statues.
Among the instruments demon
strated Wednesday by Norbert Ro
denkirchen, the group’s flautist and
harpist, was a flute made out of pol
ished swan bone. The instrument
sounded like an immaculately tuned
dog whistle. “The swan was already
dead when it was made,” Ro
denkirchen said after the demonstra
tion, to laughter from the audience.
Vocals are a huge part of the Sequen
tia experience. Rich, booming, operatic
harmonies filled Beall Hall on Wednes
day as the harps and flutes accented
and strummed in the background. Eric
Mentzel, an associate professor of voice
at the University, is a featured singer in
the group and the only locally based
member. The other members are from
Germany, Denmark and France.
Nicolas Peslin, an international
University student studying romance
languages, said he was impressed by
both the music and the players’ stage
presence.
“Benjamin Bagby is quite a show
man,” he remarked.
After Monday’s performance at
Beall Hall, Sequentia is off to New
York and then Europe.
— Jon Itkin
Student reaches setdement
in federal suit against EPD
A former University student and a
Eugene resident have accepted $22,500
to settle a federal lawsuit they filed
against the city of Eugene last March.
Phillip Piper, who attended the
University from fall 2002 to winter
2004, and Eugene resident Julie Dick
enson filed a lawsuit March 18 alleg
ing that two Eugene police officers il
legally entered their apartment at
2:30 a.m. on Nov. 26, 2002, detained
them and raked through their belong
ings for more than an hour in a
search that produced nothing illegal.
One of the officers, Roger Eugene
Magana, is currently serving a 94-year
prison sentence after being convicted
of sexually abusing women while
working for the police department.
The other officer is Melvin Thompson.
Piper and Dickenson will each re
ceive $11,250 in the settlement,
which was reached Sept. 27.
In the lawsuit filed March 18 in fed
eral district court, Piper and Dickenson
asked for payment for punishment and
damages and requested a court order
to prevent police from conducting un
warranted searches in the future.
According to a police report, the of
ficers were responding to a noise
complaint and received permission
from a supervising officer to perform
a welfare check. Magana cited Piper
and Dickenson for a noise violation,
but the charges were later dropped in
Eugene Municipal Court.
The EPD has no written policy in its
operations manual that specifically
addresses the investigation of noise
complaints and does not plan to de
velop one, according to settlement pa
pers written by the city.
— Kara Hansen
EWEB: University costs lower than usual
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whether there are any future price
hikes intended. Yanov said the
possibility for a rate change is
decided by EWEB’s board every
six months.
Officials at the University’s Hous
ing Department say they had a lead
on the intended price hike last
spring and calculated the price
bump in the University’s budget for
this year.
Currently the University is under
a different rate structure with EWEB
that increases its rate by 6.84 per
cent, costing the University a little
more than $100,000 for this fiscal
year, according to Josh Roddick at
the University Facilities department.
Roddick said students in the
dorms help pay the approximately
$11,000 per month increase, but the
University is still paying a lower
cost than usual because it powers
the campus with three of its
own transformers.
Senior Jon Siebum said he did not
think he would notice the price hike
in next month’s bill.
“My month-to-month bill is so dif
ferent because we use more heat in
our apartment in winter months and
more water in others that I really
couldn’t really notice any difference,”
Siebum said.
EWEB offers several suggestions
for reducing energy consumption.
These include turning off electronic
devices, such as computers and stere
os; turning off lights, including out
side and ornamental lights; turning
your thermostat and hot water heater
down; and reducing your hot water
use by taking shorter showers instead
of baths.
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Ads: Attacks come in variety of media packages
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"I think the campaign is more
confusing with soft money and 527
groups making ads because they
can make claims Bush or Kerry
wouldn't," said Koranda. "1 think
that's when it reached a more nega
tive level in the election."
Whereas the most negative Bush
and Kerry commercials were about
"flip-flopping" and "misleading
America" respectively, the Swift
Boat Veterans for Tfuth undermined
Kerry's war record and called him
untruthful, while MoveOn.org made
a commercial comparing Bush to
Hitler. Both Bush and Kerry later
denounced the commercials.
But these attacks aren’t just on
TV, Koranda says; both parties are
using all variety of media to dimin
ish the other candidate’s character.
Republican and Democrats are fill
ing libraries with books such as
“Unfit for Command: Swift Boat
Veterans Speak Out Against John
Kerry” by John E. O'Neill and
Jerome R. Corsi, and “Bushworld”
by Maureen Dowd. Documentaries
also try to shape views, such as
Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11”
and the response to that
documentary, “Fahrenhype 9/11,”
created by Dick Morris.
Koranda said he still thinks the
campaigns’ commercials tell voters
about issues, but they do so
negatively by showing the other
candidate’s mistakes.
Graduate student Ben Mackey
said some of the advertisements he
has seen are “truly unimaginative.”
“When both sides just criticize
each other and don’t offer a solu
tion to issues, it doesn’t solve any
thing,” Mackey said.
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