THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 86 No. 65
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
November 25,1975
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Glassblowers
Ronna Neuenchusen right) Hoxie senior, prepares to dip the tip of her glass creation into water to give it added shape. A
classmate in the background blows a small piece of molten glass through an insulated tube.
Glassblowing studio inhabits barn
By MARSHA WILLIAMS
An old stone dairy barn is now a charmromote in students in J. Sheehy College's glassblowery.
The Chamney dairy barn on W. 15th Street, about 150 yards west of the University of Kansas Printing Service, was a place for several years, and about four years ago, Carey said Friday.
A grant for $3,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., bought some equipment, and Carey constructed furnaces and an annealing oven for the studio during a sabbatical leave in 1968 and 1969.
"THE STATE GEOLOGICAL Survey let me use space in Lindley Hall for the work," Cary said, "with the understanding that I materials from Kansas whenever possible."
Carey said he saved money by making his own equipment and materials. He constructed a polariscope, an instrument that determines the stress in a piece of glass, by using a cardboard box and a light bulb. It would have cost about $1,000 to buy a polariscope, Carey said, but his cost almost nothing.
Carey has also developed his own process for mixing glass. Hundred-pound batches of glass are mixed from fine sand and silica chemicals. Metal oxides are added for color.
Groups give holiday hours
The Kansan won't be published tomorrow, Thursday or Friday. Regular publication will resume Tuesday.
Watson Library will be open today,
Wednesday and Friday from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. It will be closed Thursday, Saturday
and Sunday.
The Kansas Union will be closed Thursday through Sunday.
"IT WOULD COST ABOUT $2 per pound to buy the glass, and it only costs about 10 cents per pound to make it," Carey said.
Once the glass has been mixed, it is heated in furnaces at about 2,100 degrees. The molten glass is then gathered from the furnaces onto the tip of a blowpipe, Carey said.
When molten glass is on the pipe, it is necessary to rotate the pipe continuously to keep the glass from falling off and to keep it on the center.
As long as the glass is hot, various instruments can be used to shape and mold it. Once the object is the size and shape wanted, it is removed from the pipe.
THE GLASS COMES OFF the pipe very easily. Carey said, by filing it at the bottom and then gently tapping it against a padded surface.
Once a piece is finished, it is placed overnight in an annealing oven to be tempered. Tempering relieves stress in the glass, Carey said. An understressed piece is more likely to shatter or crack than that has been properly annealed.
"This is like a dance," Carey said. "The partners have to be together. If they aren't, you can join."
BECAUSE THE PROCESS is so intricate, it is easy to make mistakes, Carey said. Glass that cracks or hardens is remelted to make more glass.
'Heaven's agent' released
There are pribems with working in a barn, Carey said. The tin roof leaks when it rains, and storms can cause the glass and electricity to go out.
Loney signed the letters "The Watchman." In a letter to Dykes Oct. 29, he warned of a device that would cause death by being blown up. He said the death and destruction with *Dykes* help.
A man who called himself an unofficial representative of heaven was taken into custody Saturday after several letters predicting death and destruction in Lawrence were received by Chancellor James O'Berry Barkley Clark and other local officials.
Copies of the letter also were received by Richard Sanwix, chief of police, Buford Watson, city manager, and Rex Johnson, Doudas county sheriff.
"Electrical storms can cause a momentary fiberer in the powerlines," Cary said. "And a safety system in the barn turns on when there's an electric shock." Thus, of course, turns off the furnaces.
The police questioned Charles A. Loney, 53, Overbrook, who admitted that he had written the letters. Loney was released from prison after a period apparently had not committed any crimes.
"WITHOUT CONSTANT FIRE, the molten glass in the furnace hardens and cracks."
The police said an investigation of the letters followed. The investigation was delayed because of a long investigation.
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
and he was pleased that the incident had
cured.
Shanket said that no other University of Kansas administrators had been involved in the affair and that the letters had not been addressed to the Chancellor personally. He said the letters had been addressed only to the "Office of the Chancellor."
were found at the First National Bank buildings. Ninth and Mathilda streets.
Carey said glassblowing was just now becoming popular as a creative media. He said the type of glassblowing done at the company is the kind one might see during a carnival.
In order to prevent this, Carey said he usually spent stormy nights at the barn, sleeping on a lawnchair in the basement.
Although Chancellor Dykes couldn't be reached for comment last night, Mrs. Dykes said she didn't think he had ever been afraid of the letters. She said he had received two or three letters that contained about the same information.
"We've been pretty extensively involved in this ever since it started." Shankel said.
"That is lamp blowing." Carey said. "It is a process that uses cold glass."
Carey said next semester would be his last at KU because he was retiring. He said the glassblowing studio would continue to operate even though he wouldn't be there.
KU to respond tomorrow to 1977 budget questions
Carey is nationally recognized for his work with glass and ceramics. He has won awards for his glass pieces and ceramic work, one of which, the inverted poter's wheel, allows a potter to work with more by pulling down with gravity instead of up.
By SHERI BALDWIN
Staff Writer
Responses to specific questions about the University of Kansas fiscal 1977 budget requests are nearing completion and will be released on Tuesday. Executive vice chancellor, said last night.
Governor Robert F. Bennett; James W. Bibb, director of the state division of the budget, and Stan Koplin, budget analyst, asked for the additional information concerning KU budget restoration requests at governor's annual budget hearing, Nov. 18.
Shanket said there was only one request KU wouldn't again substantiate. The Automated Resource Evaluation System (ARES) project request for the Kansas Geological Survey will have 88,000 deleted from its itemized requests, he said.
AT THE BUDGET HEARING,Bibb pointed out that the $8,000 figure was included in fiscal 1976 budget requests for equipment. Bibb said the same equipment shouldn't have to be purchased again in fiscal 1977.
Shankel said, "It didn't occur to us to delete it we must have a figure built from it."
He said that the duplication request had been an oversight and that the funds would've been used for other purposes in the JCSP project, had the request been received.
"This is the only budget matter we will make concessions on," he said.
THE ARES PROJECT would combine soil types, vegetation types and drainage and bedrock specifications by a system designed to provide information requested by researchers.
Sankel said that after careful study, KU could present information that would show the seasonal help program had first appeared in fiscal 1951 requests, when extended expenditures but up over a period of years to the present $27,100 he said.
Bibb had recommended that $200,000 be deleted from seasonal and temporary salary requests for physical plant employees. He said he couldn't recall seasonal requirements. He was audited and wanted data to substitute the KUVs that the $200,000 be restored to the budget.
BIBB RECOMMENDED THAT THE $200,000 taken from the seasonal salary budget could be used to supplement the costs if asset increased utility costs in fiscal 1978.
Shankel said, "We think that we shouldn't
be required to fund our increase in utilities out of that source."
He said only $148,000 in state general-revenue funds would help to fund seasonal help. Much of the fiscal 1976 state general-revenue funds have already been spent, he said, indicating that those funds alone wouldn't be enough.
Bibb also questioned funding for water resource programs conducted by the Kansas Geological Survey and asked how much current spending was and what funds would be needed.
SHANKEL SAID $301,300 was being requested for the expansion of existing programs and to provide added services in the program, which involves analysis of
ground water resources throughout Kansas and city water research.
He said that specific problems the project dealt with were directly related to the state and that additional support was being requested for those items.
Bibb had asked for a list of research projects funded by state general-research funds at KU. Shankel said the list that would be provided included several hundred research projects that involved about 200 KU faculty and staff members.
Sankel said, "The governor and budget director seemed interested in our problems and interested in hearing them. I was enamored by the fact that we had a very fair hearing."
By BILL SNIFFEN
Educational loan act hinges on legislation
Money for students to complete their education will become easier to obtain in the future if the Kansas Legislature passes legislation allowing the state to lend money under the Federally Insured Student Loan (FISL) program.
Entitled the Kansas Higher Education Loan Act, the bill would provide a solution to the unavailability of commercial lending options willing to participate in the program.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said yesterday that there were two reasons why lending institutions didn't want to lend money under FISLA even though the federal government guaranteed payment of the loan if the student defaulted.
"THE KANASN BANKERS Association has told me that much of the problem centered on the fact that there was a great volume of paper work and many times it took one to two years to recover defaulted loans from the government," he said.
Rufos also said many students were unable to obtain loans because it was unprofitable for banks to make the loans under current annual interest rate of seven per cent.
According to Jerry Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, none of the students who took this class have been approved.
stitutions are participating in the FISL program.
THE BILL, PROPOSED by the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK), is also being pushed by the Student Advisory Committee of the Kansas Board of Regents. Of note, he said he was asked to do research for the bill by the advisory committee.
According to Mike Pendergast, public relations coordinator for the Student Senate, the advisory committee conducted a poll of banks in the larger Kansas cities. Pendergast said that of the 55 banks surveyed only 11 were still making the FISL loans.
Under the provisions of the bill, the state would lend a student money only if a commercial lending institution couldn't be found. The bill stipulates the money would come from the issuance of revenue bonds, program being administered by the Regents.
But bureaucratic red tape and small profits have created problems for Lawrence S. Rowe, a former judge in the case.
ROLFS SAID HE THought the bill would be discussed at the Dec. 14 meeting of the advisory board and would be brought before the legislature early next year.
In Lawrence, FISL has benefited KU students with whom the guarantee, low贷款, from local bank.
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Drawing nude model serious job
Staff Writer
Rv STEVE SCHOENFELD
John Landmark walks into a life drawing cave. He casually undresses and gets ready to paint.
No one giggles. Nobody's glasses steam up. Nude models in drawing classes aren't a joke. It's all serious business, both for the model and the student.
"It's a part-time job for me," Lundmark, former University of Kansas student, said. "I don't like it."
"I look at it as if it's a moral responsibility. I kind of quit school here before. I still wanted to be involved in the department, and this is how."
pay for doing something here. And it's the perfect thing for me to do.
Janiece Kobe, Kansas City, Kan., senior,
said, "After three years of drawing dudes,
it's no big deal. It's like a drawing vase, no
a girl." It could be a girl a girl. It's no thrill.
It's just hard work."
ROBERT B. GREEN, professor of painting and sculpture, teaches life drawing. He said that there was a definite purpose in having the nude models.
"The whole idea is that the human figure is a visual image," he said. "The model is thought of in relationship with the total body. The model is a microcosm of the outside world."
"Plus, many of the students need to learn to draw nudes to get a background in art.
Rare facts
Life Drawing model John Lundmark, Lawrence, positions himself during a session in one of KU's drawing classes that
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
utilize nude models. The models often pose with and without clothes during the same session to give students contrasting drawing situations.
Green said that he found his models by advertising in the local newspapers. He uses eight models. They are all shapes and sizes, women and students and non-studi
painting. Students need to know how to do it."
Kobe said that it was much more worthwhile to draw nudes than to draw people wearing clothes. Life drawings need to be small, casual and clothes somewhat take away from that.
THIS WASN'T ALWAYS the case, however. Until 10 years ago, Green, who was teaching the course for 29 years, wasn't allowed to use students as models.
"There was no certain person who said we couldn't use students," he said. "It was just so hard to believe." The student applied had to be turned down. Most students knew that they couldn't be turned in.
Green said that a change in morals in the olds was the reason for letting the students be free to do what they like.
"In the last 10 years things have changed," he said. "Young people today have a much healthier attitude toward a more diverse workforce and an atmosphere without false modesty.
"TWELVE OR 15 YEARS ago, if we had a female model, the door wouldn't be open and before she went near the door the model would put on her clothes. Now we had an adorable female model at the water fountain nude so she just marched on out there without her clothes."
Green said that he wasn't advocating open nudity.
There have only been one or two instances of students objecting to drawing nude figures.
"THE STUDENTS WHO OBJECTED so for religious reasons," he said. "They were asking us to take the course if they object to drawing the nude models. I guess just some of the attitudes of our Puritan forefathers and the way towards anything like the human body."
None of the students or Lundmark said that they were embarrassed about being involved in the investigation.
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