CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, January 20, 1995
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Carol Ann Carter gives her class instructions for a project during a mixed media class. Carter is at KU for the Langston Hughes Visiting Professorship.
Jay Thornton / KANSAN
Professorship part of journey
Art professor is the first woman to receive Langston Hughes title
By Eduardo Molina Kansan staff writer
Twenty years ago, Carol Ann Carter started what she called the journey of teaching art.
That journey and the Langston Hughes Visiting Professorship in African and African-American Studies have brought her to the University of Kansas.
Carter, an associate professor of art at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is the first woman teaching at KU as a recipient of the professorship.
She said she did not feel privileged about being the first woman to come here for the professorship.
"It was about time," she said.
Carter said her goal was to help students find where their passions were.
The purpose of the quote wasn't to scare her students, she said. Rather, it fit her goal for the class that students use every opportunity to explore and do things as thoughtfully as possible.
She started her first mixed media art class by writing a quote from Bernice Johnson Reagon, a cultural historian, on the blackboard: "If you want to be someplace else, you have to start walking. I have no tolerance for people who skip steps."
"If students have talent, my job is to help them to find it," she said.
Carter, an artist herself, said her work was a highly abstract combination of painting and textiles with African and Native-American influences.
Carter said that her art was installation art.
"It is an environment that includes different kinds of objects that relate to each other," she said. "The viewer comes to a space where all elements speak to them, sometimes simultaneously. Sometimes people don't know the meaning, but the works
touch them."
Joe Zeller, chair of the department of design at KU, said Carter's view of art would benefit the department and its students.
"We are very interested in having her here because she represents a different perspective of art making." he said. "The University of Kansas has a mission to present diverse points of view."
Zeller said that Carter would bring diversity to KU.
"She is a gifted artist, a woman artist and an African-American artist," Zeller said. "This will be an excellent chance for students to interact with a minority professor."
Last fall, Carter did creative research in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Konstfack National College of Art and Design.
The visiting professorship is named for the novelist and poet Langston Hughes, who lived in Kansas. Every year, a distinguished professor is selected to honor Hughes' contributions to history and literature.
New wiring will put Wescoe on line
By Virginia Margheim Kansan staff writer
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will enter the information superhighway next fall when Wescoe Hall is connected to the Internet.
The process is scheduled to begin this semester and should be completed by fall, said Joe Van Zandt, director of the advising support center for the college.
Wiring computer connections in Wescoe will provide access to the Ethernet, allowing computer users to access the Internet and other online services.
The connections are similar to phone lines, but they are used to transmit data between computers. About 580 connections will be installed in Wescoe classrooms and in faculty and administrative offices, but there will not be a computer at every connection at first, Van Zandt said.
"The philosophy is to place a connection wherever we might want to put one in the future." he said.
Each connection costs about $650,
Van Zandt said, so wiring Wescoe
will cost between $300,000 and
$350,000. In addition, a network board for each computer will be necessary for the connection to be used. He said that the average cost for a network board was $80-$100.
Although the University eventually wants to wire most buildings on campus, the cost will slow the process, he said.
"It isn't easy to find the money to do it," he said "That's why we're having to do it piecemeal."
faculty without access could lose touch with their colleagues at other universities.
Installation of connections in Bailey Hall, which houses the School of Education, began this
After the connections are installed in Wescoe, the college can concent-
semester. Other buildings probably will be wired as money is available, Van Zandt said.
Providing Wescoe with on-line access will benefit everyone, Van Zandt said. Because so much information can be obtained through online computer services, students expect computer access In addition,
trate on long-term plans for using computers, Van Zandt said. He said those plans included establishing a student computer lab in Wescoe and encouraging faculty to make use of the technology. A classroom with a computer connection for each student also is a possibility.
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, said connecting Wescoe to the Internet would help eliminate the disadvantage that the humanities had faced for some time.
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James Carothers dean of liberal arts and sciences
"I think it is clear that this is an exciting thing," Carothers said.
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"We want to try things, at least
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