2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7.2005
GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
BY MARK VIERTHALER
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Take a break from the usual party and drinking scene of Lawrence and check out one of the most recent art shows to open up in town
The Olive Gallery and Art Supply 15 E.8th St., will feature art influenced by the horror movie genre, and more specifically, zombie movies. The exhibit will be open until Oct. 26. Three local printmakers, Adam Jeffers, Patrick Giroux and Rachel James are featured in the show.
The Olive Gallery and Art Supply is owned by two University of Kansas students and a doctor and artist from Halstead
Contributed Art
Titled "The Walking Undead: 2 Legit 2 Quit," the show focuses on the gory and cheesy. The works are primarily inspired by the 1960s B-horror movie legacy.
*Controversial Art*
Zombie + Ghosts (Tango) by patrick Giroux
rotund, bespectacled, middle-aged claims adjuster, wielding a deadly scythe.
The best way to describe the show is morbid with a dark sense of humor. Each work focuses on the re-animated dead, and each has a bit of cheek.
Jeffers' work includes a comic panel and a trilogy of portraits. The panel is a 1950s-style horror comic, and the portraits are of two zombies and a terrified woman.
Another tongue-in-cheek work by Jeffers is "Dad Rides a Pale Horse," a play on the classic image of death riding the remains of his skeletal steed. The cadaverous horse is there in all its emaciated glory. But replacing the classic image of the hooded horseman is a
Giroux's work plays with the idea of conflicting emotions by placing the undead mingling with adorable ghosts. Also in his series of zombie works, Giroux has three photos with ghostly
images painted across the likenesses of horrified friends. Each photo has been enhanced by "comic-strip style" dots, inspired by Andy Warhol's work of the 1970s
Of the artists featured, James' etchings are the most
morbid of the bunch.Her largest work features the semi-color, semi-black and white depiction of a young girl playing with bloody bones.
A wolf-like animal is next to the girl James' two smaller works feature simple drawings of the same wolf creature featured in the larger work.
Although there are only 15 pieces currently on display, this is definitely worth a look. Whether it's to get you in the mood for Halloween, or simply to satisfy a morbid obsession with reanimated flesh, it's impressive to see this kind of local talent.
Prints and T-shirts of Giroux's work are available for purchase, along with all originals that are on display.
- Edited by Anne Burgard
Dean announces resignation
BY MATT WILSON
mwilson@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
ADMINISTRATION
Another top University of Kansas administrator has announced her resignation.
The dean of libraries, Stella Bentley, announced Thursday that she would retire at the end of June 2006. The University plans to conduct a national search to hire a new dean before Bentley leaves.
Denise Stephens, vice provost for information services, said the University would form a search committee sometime within the next two weeks in hopes of having its pick of the best candidates available.
Stephens also said the University would try to fill the position early enough for Bentley to help with the transition process.
Bentley, who has held her po
sition since 2001, said she was ready to pursue goals for which she had not previously had time. She said she was interested in volunteer work. She also said she was proud of what KU Libraries had accomplished during her time in Lawrence.
"I think we've made a huge amount of progress," Bentley said. "We really increased the amount of information available to the campus community."
Stephens said she was impressed with what Bentley had been able to accomplish during her short time at the University.
"She has been able to make a lot of significant improvements to the system and the facilities at a time when university libraries across the country were struggling with budgets and other restrictions," Stephens said.
David Shulenburger, provost and executive vice chancellor, said in a press release that Bentley's work had provided an opportunity for the libraries to succeed even after she left.
One of Bentley's accomplishments during her tenure was to digitally revolutionize the libraries.
She oversaw the installation of wireless Internet at all library locations on campus and the addition of more than 200 computer workstations and laptop computers.
Bentley said the building of a storage facility was one of the most important steps taken toward improving the library facilities on campus. It allowed the space in the libraries to be used to benefit students in other ways, she said.
Bentley came to the University after serving as the dean of
libraries at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. She has spent more than 20 years in university library work.
"I was very excited at the chance to work at a university with a reputation like KU," Bentley said. "It was an opportunity that I couldn't pass up."
After four years at the University, Bentley said it was time for a change.
"I'm ready to move on and do other things with my life now," Bentley said.
Bentley said her main concern for the future of the libraries was the physical facilities. She said that great progress had been made to spruce them up but that more work was necessary in order to bring the libraries up to date.
The Great Pumpkin
Edited by Patrick Ross
Marc F. Henning/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Eli Milton, 3, wades through a pumpkin patch Thursday in front of First United Methodist Church in Bentonville, Ark. His father let him loose in the patch after picking him up from his nearby daycare.
HOUSING
Center's new Web site to take fear out of the housing hunt
BY LOUISE MORA
lmora@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Aaron Hood moved into a two-bedroom apartment and is now looking for a roommate to fill the extra space. The Kansas City, Mo., junior, is still exhausting all the traditional search methods, but by next semester placing a classified ad may no longer be part of the search.
Recent funding to the Off-Campus Living Resource Center is allowing the organization to create a Web site that will help students
find apartments and roommates. The site will also help familiarize students with legal problems they could potentially encounter by signing a lease.
Hood said a site like this would make his search for a roommate much easier.
"You could be more specified in what you want," he said.
The center's site has been under construction since last May when Student Senate off-campus representatives advocated a site that could help students in the hunt for housing.
Jessica Mortinger, Hays junior
and off-campus chair, said the group had plans for organizing the site into different pages that will focus on different resources. Students will be able to locate apartments, check convenience to bus routes and access information that will help in finding the ideal roommate.
Mortinger said students normally found apartments in the classified ads where bigger companies could afford more advertisements
She said she wanted to give smaller companies an equal opportunity to reach students and ensure that students didn't think
big companies were the only option.
The center also wants to prevent legal problems between students and landlords. To do this, the site will include evaluations by students of landlords they've dealt with.
Michele Kessler, attorney and associate director for Legal Services for Students, said students and landlords most commonly were involved in disputes over security deposits, damages and maintenance.
She said by increasing awareness of the options out there and of what students could expect from landlords before contracts
were signed, potential disputes could be prevented.
Emily Black, McPherson senior and off-campus co-chair, said the project was a way to increase awareness of the center.
She said the Web site would increase student awareness of the resources the office has to offer.
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The group has big plans and members hope they can come to life. Mortinger said.
"We have big dreams. We hope to open a lot of doors to students." she said.
- Edited by Anne Burgard
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Aube said Shulenburger had greatly improved the University since he had been pro cost. Shulen-
greatly improved the University since he had been provost. Shulen burger oversaw the five-year tuition increase, which used student funds to make improvements to campus. Aube said the improvements made the position a very attractive one to applicants. Aube said that he thought there was a lot of interest in this position and that he hoped for and expected to receive a lot of applications.
Nick Sterner, student body president and search committee member, said the committee would discuss the process of finding and hiring the new provost during the first meeting.
Nick Sterner student
er, student body president and search committee member, said the committee would discuss the process of finding and hiring the new provost during the first meeting. Sterner is the only student on the search committee.
He said he would have liked to have seen more of a student voice on the committee, but he understood that a large search committee would make the process less efficient.
"I just hope the committee takes into consideration student opinion, which I think they will," Sterner said.
- Edited by Patrick Ross
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