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Thursday, March 2, 1978
University Daily Kansan
KU registers elusive art society
Staff Writer
By MELISSA J. THOMPSON
An enlisted art society and its sponsor have been declared eligible by the University to receive Student Senate funding, butQUESTION membership and the society's赞助 and activities.
An administration spokesman confirmed yesterday that Gregory Walstrom and his group, the Society of Art, officially had been registered as a student group and would receive recognition, enabling them to be considered for Senate funding.
Walstrom had applied to the Senate on behalf of his $200 in student activity fee money. The money, if received, would cover general expense for one month, he said.
HE AND the art society came to public attention last week when the Douglas County Commission publicized their difficulty in locating Walstrom. He had appeared before the commissioners months earlier asking whether county fairgrounds or art fair, but had never asked the commission's attempts to complete the transaction.
o complete the transaction
Although the Society of Art has been
granted recognition by the university, there may be problems in Wastorm's budget.
requests, the requirement for recognition and subsequent funding is that groups must have students as the majority of their members.
WAISTROM SAID yesterday that 75 percent of his society's members were students but he said that he was not ready to release a list of members or number of members in the group.
he exclaimed, "the senate's budget request to the senate," which was more than a week ago. He attended at 164.
However, yesterday he said that his was the number of members the Society of Art had regionally, and not the number here at KU.
He was not willing to release any names or numbers, he said, because a national advisory board for the society considered such information as classified. Any release of that information would have to be a board decision, he said.
WAISTROM WOULD not explain why the board had such a policy.
Gregory Walstrom
Senate treasurer Phil Cobb said rosters of
Firemen unable to enter as museum alarms ring
Fire alarms in the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art could be working too well.
A false fire alarm went off Tuesday at about 7:05 p.m. but, according to John Kasberg, chief of the Lawrence Fire Department, the door to be museum was closed when firemen arrived. Firenheit had been out for 10 minutes before the door was opened.
"It shouldn't have happened." Kasperberg
toreard "it" "it would almost be
destroyed."
Dick Stirn, KU police lieutenant, said he did not know why nobody opened the door.
"Usually there is somebody from Facilities Operations," he said.
Kasperger explained that in most cases 10 minutes was too long to wait to get into a car. "I think we had to walk," he said.
According to Kasberger, if no one opens the building door firemen will break in.
As a result, KU police now have a key to
Last semester there were at least four false alarms there. Some alarm devices at Spencer Museum are set at a certain temperature and go off at the slightest change of temperature. Others are smoke alarms that go off if a person is smoking nearby.
Spencer Museum to prevent a similar situation.
Refusal of such a request would not necessarily mean that a group would not receive any money. Cobb said. He said the situation is unjustifyable, take it into consideration, however.
But Charles Eidride, director of Spencer Museum, said one was in the museum when he arrived.
However, he said, "I don't know why we are having this problem. We hosted installed the system should have it right in two months if they really got on it."
Kasberger said it was not unusual that new fire alarms went off frequently.
membership no longer were required in the application for Senate funding, but he said the committees reviewing budget requests had the power to ask for such information.
Cobb said he assumed that any committee member who was genuinely concerned about the budget process would question any kind of cooperation from groups looking similar.
WALSIMTOR SAID it was his understanding that such information would not have to be released until the actual phone number was received. It was ringered then, it would be released.
The idea that such information would be fabricated was ridiculous, he said.
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He shrugged at the mention of problems with the society's reservation of the fairgrounds for a major art festival in late May.
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"As far as I know, everything's green," Walstrom said.
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HE SAID HE had not received any communication from them since that time.
County leaders disagree, however.
Peter Whitentight, chairman of the county commission, said yesterday that a certified letter had been sent two or three weeks ago to Mr. Blank's post office box, but that it had returned
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Walstrom said he was under the impression that no security deposit would be required for the rental of the fairgrounds. He said he had signed a contract that guaranteed his reservation.
Although he personally had not been handling the transaction with the county commission, Walstrom said, the society's founder Margaret Lomax, had been on it.
"I've never heard of Margaret Lomax until this moment," he said.
BUT WHITENIGHT said he was not aware of L澳xam's involvement.
Whitleight said he was concerned about Wallowstrom's refusal to contact the company.
Lomax was not listed in any Lawrence case, although Walstrom said she was living here.
"He's operating on the assumption that this thing is still available," he said.
The commission has received no pressure from other groups wanting to rent the surroundings for the same weekend in May, but the managers said they would be more requests later this spring.
He said that another certified letter probably would not be sent to Walstrom's post office box, but he said that he still was in the UK. He also told me some questions answered about the society.
HE SAID HE also was interested in meeting with Walstrom personally about another matter, but he would not comment on the nature of that matter.
waistrun said regardless of speculation about his group's existence or the status of the rental agreement, plans for the festival had been proceeding.
He said he even had spoken with Lawrence officials about security for the
The sheriff's office apparently has not been contacted about the event, however. Capt. Robert Cassity said that neither he nor Sheriff Rex Johnson had spoken with anyone about providing security for an art fair.
SUCH ARRANGEMENTS, Cassity said,
usually would be made by the commission
after the rental transaction had been
worked out.
Plane crash injures 2 Kansans
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two Kansas have been identified as being injured along with 77 other passengers in Wednesday's crash involving a Conde Nast air carrier at Los Angeles International Airport, addition 11 firemen sustained injuries.
38, Salina, who was admitted to Morningside Hospital in Los Angeles suffering from smoke inhalation. Phil Ray, of Salina, was treated and released.
The injured Kansans are Dave Brower.
Of those injured, 32 were admitted to nine area hospitals, four in critical condition, hospital spokesmen said.
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