Friday, May 7,1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Carrion bird feeder ruffles feathers
A vulture bird perch with a chunk of raw meat hangs outside a window of Marvin Hall. Architecture students from Building Technology II built the bird feeder as a final project. Photo by Dan Elavsky/KANSAN
By Ezra Sykes
esykes@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A piece of raw meat dangles on a metal hook outside a window of 203 Marvin Hall. As the meat gently sways in the wind, a tiny bird perches on the pinkish flesh, pecks at it for a moment and flutters away. Bills are in for thunder.
Silly sparrow, meat is for vultures.
And although vultures aren't common in these parts, seven students in a Building Technology II class produced a bird feeder specifically for carnivorous birds that have wingpsads of about four feet and facial features that could make a mirror shriek.
The assignment was to make a perch for a specific bird species, mainly for unusual types such as ostriches or emus, said Patrick Gleason, Kirkwood, Mo., sophomore and a member of the group.
The bird feeder consists of a steel shell meant to resemble vulture wings, a wooden perch and of course the chain connected to the meat hook that holds dinner — a piece of meat that looks to be a four- or five-pound roast.
"It's Dillon's choice grade A," said Gleason, smiling.
But no matter the quality of meat, the structure's raw centerpiece has ruffled some administrators' feathers.
"Obviously we get all kinds of interesting and unusual structures around here," said Cheryl Saladin, assistant to the dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design. "But the project left the building a little vulnerable to the weather, and we were afraid it would attract bugs."
Dennis Domer, associate dean of the school, who was out of town yesterday and couldn't be reached for comment, had asked the group to remove the meat from the structure.
But, as of yesterday, the meat still was there.
"We're not protesting it,". Gleason said.
"We're just kind of ignoring it," added Marcus Carter, St. Louis senior.
But for some, it is harder to ignore the meat, which has hung outside the window since Monday.
Tami Nelson's studio desk sits right next to the window in 203 Marvin. After hearing of the group's plan to place their structure outside the window, she asked that they not place real meat on the hook.
"I didn't want bugs to get on our projects. That could ruin them," said Nelson, Houston junior, standing in the studio scattered with pensicles, rulers, papers and other drafting tools. "I told them beforehand that I would complain if they used real meat. I did it on the studio's behalf."
But in the end, Nelson said the window ornament wasn't such a problem after all.
"I thought it was going to be worse than it really was," she said.
Chris Smith. St. Louis junior, also has a desk in 203 Marvin.
"I was worried it was going to smell and have bugs, but there's no bad scent, and there's no bugs," he said. "It's fine with me."
Although the structure has caused a little ruckus, getting attention was one of the goals of the structure, Gleason and Carter said.
"It's kind of an in-your-face architecture piece — something that provokes reaction and causes someone to conjure up other images," Gleason said. "It's good to make people think and get out of their narrow-minded vision."
Last night, the meat still dangled outside the window, collecting scars from weather and decay.
Carter shook his head thinking of the meat's future.
"It continues to evolve in color," he said.
— Edited By Matt Merkel-Hess
Editors, adviser resign from Kansas Review
By Jennifer Roush
jrush@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A disagreement about political humor and editorial content has left the Kansas Review, a new conservative student newspaper at the University of Kansas, without its original faculty adviser, editor-in-chief and news editor.
Bruce Bublitz, former faculty adviser; Jeff Brownback, former editor-in-chief, and Jeff Thompson, former news editor, resigned late Sunday night because of creative differences with other staff members.
done publication of the paper.
Bublitz, Brownback and Thompson were named as staff members in Monday's Kansan article because the three resigned after the Kansan already had gone to press.
Bublitz, associate professor of business, said that he resigned as the Review's faculty adviser after he unsuccessfully tried to convince staff members to post-
"There was some disagreement as to what we were trying to accomplish," he said. "Some articles got published on page 2 of the paper without approval from the editor-in-chief."
Bublitz said that the articles in question made fun of certain groups at the University and could have been construed as offensive to environmentalists or homosexuals.
"That sort of Rush Limbaugh humor is funny to converted conservatives," he said. "But it turns off moderates."
Other staff members took a vote and decided to include the articles despite the objections of Bublitz, Brownback and Thompson.
Bublitz said that he didn't want to be involved with the paper if the staff would be allowed to print articles that the editor-in-chief hadn't approved.
"I don't want to be associated with an organization where the
troops can out-vote the editor," he said. "I understand that there's different philosophies, but the editor-in-chief makes the call."
Brownback, Ellsworth sophomore, also said that he resigned because of the differences of opinion regarding the paper's content.
"I didn't feel that what was represented our views," he said. "The tone of the paper changed from pro-conservative to anti-liberal."
Brownback said that although he hadn't heard anything about the paper since his resignation, he thought the Review probably still would be published.
"I think they'll continue and I wish them luck, but I think I'm finished with it," he said.
He said he didn't feel any resentment about the disagreement.
"It disappointed me that I was overruled, but I'm not bitter about it."
Casey Conneally, Review business manager, said that staff members had decided on the format and editorial content of the paper at least a week before it went to press. Then, Sunday night, Brownback changed his mind about the briefs on page 2.
"We weren't trying to hurt anyone," Connealy said. "We were just trying to do satire in the style of National Review. We were poking fun at ironies in politics and campus groups."
Connealy said he was disappointed that Brownback had left the paper. However, he said that the paper still would be published.
Connealy said that the new editor-in-chief would not be named until after a staff meeting this weekend.
Stacy Chain, Derby junior, has been appointed news editor and George Pisani, director of laboratories for biological sciences, is the new faculty adviser.
Edited by Kelli Raybern
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