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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2007
quote of the day
"Orange is the happiest color"
—Frank Sinatra
fact of the day
About 20 percent of the total crop of oranges is sold as whole fruit. The remainder is used in preparing orange juice, extracts, and preserves.
— http://www.fillmorepircitrus.com/
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Saralyn Reece Hardy
Hardy
BY ALLISON WILLIS
Saralyn Reece Hardy, an alumna of the University of Kansas, enjoys sharing her love of art with others as the director of the Spencer Museum of Art. As director ,Hardy is responsible for the overall direction of the museum, which includes exhibitions of collections, research activities and overseeing programs.
Hardy graduated from the University with a bachelor's and master's degree. The director position was not Hardy's first job at the museum. After graduating
she worked on a grant designed to explore human values in an art museum. It was that experience that led her to pursue work with art museums to establish connections between art and what people care about.
Hardy said it was important for art museums to be located on university campuses because museums have educational potential.
"I love the idea that students are wandering through the building and all the possibilities that come with working with students," she said.
Hardy said being an art director offered intriguing experiences and the element of surprise that kept her life interesting.
"I don't think of myself as an artist," she said. "I think of myself someone who likes to bring things together. I especially enjoy drawing that creative impulse out in others, and although I am not an artist I do believe the core of my work is very creative."
She said she considered the new
20/21 gallery in the museum as one of her favorites.
"It is experimental and we think of it as a kind of studio, lab, or testing ground for new ideas," she said.
She said her ultimate goal for the future of the museum was for every student to view the museum as a place to come for inspiration and reflection.
After first working for the Spencer Art Museum, Hardy moved to Salina to develop its contemporary art center. She also worked for the National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, in Washington, D.C. as the director of museums and visual arts before returning to the University.
Hardy received several awards throughout her professional career. These awards include the Kansas Governor's Art Award for arts advocates in 1995, and the NEAs Distinguished Service Award in 2001.
Edited by Ashlee Kieler
'Tis the season
Jessie Fetterling/KANSAN
Freshman Tara Earls, Wichita freshman, and Renee Schultz, Prairie Village freshman, laugh together as they make ornaments in the Kansas Union Tuesday afternoon. SUA hosted a Holiday Open House for students to go and relax by receiving free mazes, decorating cookies, and making ornaments.
ODD NEWS
Tennessee Grinch steals
tops of Christmas trees
FLAG POND, Tenn. — Authorities are on the lookout for a Grinch who stole the tops off more than two dozen Christmas trees from Danny Tipton's farm.
The thief or thieves raided the farm in eastern Tennessee sometime between Nov. 24 and last
week and top the top off the Fraser firs that were 10 to 12 feet tall.
Tipton grows the taller trees for use in businesses, churches and homes with high ceilings and they usually sell for about $100 each.
"It's like the Grinch stealing Christmas trees," Sheriff Kent Harris said.
The culprit sawed the top six feet off about 28 trees and hauled them off the property, probably to sell off for use in smaller homes.
Tipton estimates they would get about $15 to $20 each.
"It's a very low person who commits such a crime as this at Christmastime," Sheriff's Maj. Ronnie Adkins said.
Tipton still has about 6,000 trees growing on his farm near the North Carolina border, but they are in various stages of maturity. The pilfered firs were ready for sale when they were taken sometime last week.
"I had gone to harvest the trees," Tipton said. "That's when I noticed there had been somebody in there cutting them. (It was) sort of disbelief. I couldn't believe anybody would go to the extremes they went to get them."
Authorities have a description of a vehicle, but a lack of evidence may hinder catching the Grinch.
Associated Press
odd news
Cartoon characters called into Italian court
ROME — Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary.
An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case.
In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a court in Naples sent a summons to the characters ordering them to appear Friday in a trial in the southern Italian city. officials said.
Instead of naming only the companies and their legal representatives, clerks also wrote in the witness list the names of the cartoons that decorated the toys and gadgets the man had reproduced, said Fiorenza Sorotto, vice president of Disney Company Italia.
The court summons cites Titti, Paperino, Paperina, Topolino — the Italian names for the characters — as damaged parties in the criminal trial of a Chinese man accused of counterfeiting products of Disney and Warner Bros.
"Unfortunately they cannot show up, as they are residents of Disneyland," Sorotto joked in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It certainly pleased us that the characters were considered real, because that's what we try to do."
The Naples court will have to rewrite the summons, although this will probably delay the trial, said Disney lawyer Cristina Ravelli.
"Let's hope the characters will not be prosecuted for failing to appear." Ravelli quipped.
Calls seeking comment from Warner Bros. in Milan were not immediately returned. Phones at the Naples court were not answered Tuesday.
Associated Press
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The University of Kansas' first appearance in the Orange Bowl was January 1, 1948. The opponent was Georgia Tech, which won the game by six points. The University's second appearance in the Orange Bowl was January 1, 1969, when it fell to Penn State by only one point. Third time the charm!
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