University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 24, 1980
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Rebel artist remembered
Bv KEVIN MILLS
Staff Renorter
Oskar Kokoschka, the Austrian artist who died recently at the age of 94, was a visionary artist whose discontentment with the modern world, a German contemporary said this week.
Heinz Graumann, a writer and artist who has taught at the Monica and Moninger Foundation, spoke at the Helen Foreman Spencer of Art in conjunction with the "Homage to Kokoschka" in 2017.
GRAUMANM, THE AUTHOR of many plays, novels and short stories, met Kokoska in Germany in the 1920s and 30s while pursuing his literary career.
"He was a painter of visions, certainly not a realist; certainly not guided by traditions," Graumann said. "He was a highly sensitive, restless man who suffered."
"He was a Bohemian not only because his father was from that country, but because he was idealistic, a wanderer, and very often humorous."
Kokoschka was a wanderer all his life,
Graumann said, traveling from his birthplace of Vienna to Germany,
Czechoslovakia, England, Scotland.
Switzerland and the United States during his career.
He despised nationalism and militarism, but despite this he volunteered in World War I and "became an officer in the fashionable Austrian cavalry, regiment." Graumann
AFTER THE WAR, he moved to Berlin and had several drawings published in art journals and magazines. Berlin was the scene of many riot and street fights at that time.
"There was a desperate need to forget all of these worries," he said, "and a rush to enjoy the theater, dancing and sex."
"It became kind of a sport to have an experimental play staged every Sunday."
But Kokushka and Graumann wrote an, directed plays during this avant-garde era. The plays were later published by philosophies espoused in many of the productions used whistles and trumpets to entertain audiences.
"They would sometimes release white mice into the crowd," he said. "We hired clubs of amateur wrestlers, and we were able to throw them down to a strong man outside the theater.
It was my kind of enjoyment of the high art."
"Murderer Hope of Women," in which a man is enlisted in a cage by a woman. The play echoed the artist's lifelong frustration with the onosite son, Graumann said.
KOKOSCHKA CONCEIVED AND staged
"He was a big attraction to women and surrounded himself with women," he said. "The women called him a madman, and they were not so far off in their classification.
Kokoschka eventually married, and his wife looked after his welfare and finances.
His portraits of friends and celebrities revealed more of the persons "than if you had met them in real encounter," he said.
"Instead of coping like a photo, it was more a reformulation of what he saw. His style allowed him to show the essence of a person's character, personality and identity."
Kokushka staged an Anat-Nai play in the country. A Nai art exhibition once placed his work with a collection of paintings done by inmates of a mental insane asylum.
"Kokschak found just the right answer to their insult," Grumman said, when in 1937 he painted a self-portrait of the degenerate with eyes wide open and looking forward.
Seven-hour rides take toll on student
Pat Nanninga sleeps on her way to school—all 600 miles.
By DAVID WEED
Staff Reporter
There's not much else to do, Naminga,
a weekly KU commuter, said recently.
Nanninga, who will finish school this spring, said, "The trip is beginning to wear me out."
Nanning boards the train every
week to visit the museum.
bannetown of Garden City for a
seven-hour trip to Lawrence and a Thursday
filled with graduate courses in social
studies.
Besides taking a 12-hour course load, Nanninga works part-time at the Garden City Area Mental Health Center, and is married with two children.
She said her family had to make adjustments for her schedule, "but they think it's easier this year."
For the past two years, Nannina said, she drove four hours to Wichita for classes, but because she had to sleep in a dorm room, she never met her seven-hour jaundit to Lawrence.
Nannings came to Lawrence this year because the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, did not offer the training needed she needed to complete her degree.
Until October she drove to Lawrence,
but then Amtrak began running between
Garden City and Lawrence.
She did not ride the train the first time it made the run Oct. 2, she said, because she did not think she had time to get a ticket
Later she was relieved she hadn't taken the train, she said, because it derailed in Lawrence, killing two people and injuring 69 others.
"I heard the sirens from my motel room that morning and wondered what the commotion was about," she said.
Since October, she has taken the train to Lawrence every Wednesday night.
Just three more trips and Nanninga will not have to endure the long, crowded train ride anymore.
"But I enjoy the work," she said, "and it's what I wanted to do, so it's been worth it. I hope."
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The hitch? Very simple. After your residency, you give the Army a year as a doctor for every year the Army gave you as a med student, and under some conditions, with a minimum scholarship obligation being two years' service.
INTERNSHIP, RESIDENCY & CASH BONUSES
Besides scholarships to medical school, the Army also offers AMA-approved first-year post-graduate and residency training programs.
Such training adds no further obligation to the student in the scholarship program, but any Civilian Graduate Medical Education program is required for you to join a new year obligation for every year of sponsorship.
But you get a $9,000 annual bonus every year you're paying back medical school or post-graduation.
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While these programs do not cost you any money, they do incur an additional service obligation.
A CHANCE TO PRACTICE LAW
If you're about to get your law degree and be admitted to the bar, you should consider a commission in the Judge Advocate General office. You only get to practice law right from the start.
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While your classmates are still doing other lawyers' research and other lawyers' briefs, you could have your own cases, your own clients, in effect, your own practice.
They include tuition, books,
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they're very competitive. Because
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with the gold bars of an Army Officer.
Though you are too late for a 4-year
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scholar.
ROTC SCHOLARSHIPS
UP TO S170 A MONTH
You can combine service in the Army Reserve or National Army Infantry ROTC and get up to 5,000 while you re still in school.
Stop by the ROTC office on campus and ask about details.
It's called the Simultaneous Membership Program. You get $100 a month as an Advanced Army ROTC Cadet and an addi-
ional $70 a month (sergeant's pay) as an Army Reservist.
When you graduate,
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A BONUS FOR PART-TIME WORK
You can get a $1,500 bonus just for enlisting in the Navy or Air Force, or up to $2,000 in educational benefits.
You also get paid for your Reserve duty
in hours out to about $1500 a week.
It covers 3 weeks annual training.
And now we have a special program to
the Army Reserve around your school
school.
A SECOND CHANGE AT COLLEGE
Some may find college to be the right
choice for the wrong time for a variety of reasons.
The latter.
A few years in the Army can help them get money for tuition and the maturity to use it wisely.
The Army has a program in which money saved for college is matched two-for-one by the government. Then, if one qualifies, a generous bonus is added to that.
So 2 years of service can get you up to $7,400 for college, 3 years up to $12,100, and 4 years up to $14,100. In addition, bonuses up to $14,100 are available for 4-year enlistments in selected skills.
Add in the experience and maturity gained,
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We hope these Army opportunites have intrigued you as well as surprised you. Because there is indeed a lot the Army can offer a bright person like you.
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Students plan KU magazine
The students who want to start a general interest magazine at the University of Kansas have lots of plans, ideas and enthusiasm. What they need now is student involvement to get the magazine, Prism, next to fall, beginners said last night.
"Our main objective is to get publicity, to let students know," said Tim Wells, Derby junior, the magazine's business manager. "Now we're trying to get student support."
Prism is the brain child of Nicolay, Overland Park park sophomore, who said a void in general interest magazines for students existed at the University.
"There are no general interest magazines at the University for students. Something that appeals to the general student—that's what I'm thinking of." Nicolael said.
Wells said, "We're going to be scraping all the time until this magazine gets on its feet."
The success of the magazine—even publication of its first issue—is far from certain, its organizers admit.
“Prism has great potential. But the first year is going to be critical.” Nicolay, the executive editor, said. “This has never been done successfully before.”
He says a glossy magazine patterned after Playboy -minus the muddy- was being planned. Poetry, student fiction, interviews and feature stories in the bimonthly issues starting next fall.
The magazine would be supported by advertising, and would plan to distribute 5.000 free comics.
Organizers said they hoped to work with the Student Senate in the next two weeks to get the official recognition as a campus group necessary for Senate funding.
Wells said he would soon send a letter to all faculty members asking them to make changes in their courses and classes. He also said several faculty members had agreed to help with the
'Survival' kits finally enroute
"The kits were sent April 16, through United Parcel Service, so they should be arriving any day." Corvine said.
student survival kits, purchased to help students through finals last December, might arrive for round two of the tests beginning May 7.
Mike Corvine, assistant treasurer for Student Services Company, Springfield, Mass. the company that送了 the kits, said Mr. Corvine had been sent to KU students a week ago.
Corvine said he had not determined the reason for the confusion about the kits.
The kits, containing candy bars, cheese and crackers, were purchased by parents of students as gifts to help them through final week last semester.
Several students called the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association and Corvine when they did not receive kits or postcards. Corvine said he had not determined the
Student Services ran out of the kits and sent postcards to all of those who had purchased them, telling the buyers that the kits would be a semester late. Cyrine said.
"We don't know if the problem was in our office or in delivery," he said. "We have sent kis to everyone at KI that we knew he would be there. I would hope that we've covered every kid."
Corvine said he would refund the $7.98 cost of the kits if anyone still had not received one, and he urged students to write or call his company.
The kits are purchased by parents and sent to students by Student Services, Center for Student Engagement, between students and parents about the kits caused the delay in trying to find out who carried them.
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