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Wednesday, February 13, 1980
University Daily Kansan
Glass sculptures reflect weekly artistic efforts
By KEVIN MILLS Staff Reporter
Once a week they cart in a glass sculpture of their own design and place it on the floor near the Art and Design Gallery of the Visual Arts Building.
It stays there until the following week, when it is replaced by their latest creation.
Bill Seeley, Lawrence graduate
Buffalo Grove, ill., graduate student, bachelor department of design, are in the fourth week of this cycle. They plan to continue
Our goal is to encourage art and design students to make their work more accessible to the public. They also hope to provide a donation from a major glass industry.
"Not all the people in art or design show their work," Wilbat said yesterday. "So much of the stuff stays hidden in the studios."
THE BEGINNING of their project came when Seeley received a call from the head of facilities operations, who said that they had been given permission and Perret from the science departments.
"These are freebies in the sense that it
was all available glass just sitting around," Wilab said.
Their first sculpture was a configuration of laboratory flasks. The current display utilizes plate glass that was originally intended for shelving.
"I think it's really nice that we're working together," Wilabat said. "One person doesn't really dominate. We get an idea and toss it back and forth."
Seeley said, "Knowing that we're going to develop a new piece each week is exciting."
"Hopefully, this will lead to a grant or donation," Seeley said. "We hope to show industries like Pittsburgh Glass what kind of industrial glass we can use."
Wilbat said that projects had to be designed by taking into account the supply of glass available.
KU weatherman eves future farm
"It would be nice to do something from our heads," he said, "instead of being limited by the amount of glass we have."
By SCOTT FAUST Staff Reporter
At 6:30 a.m. on Mt. Oread, a bitter cold fills the predawn silence.
Lawrence leaves the question of exactly how cold it is to a down-coated figure squewaking across the snow outside Lindley Hall with a flashlight in hand.
The icy air stuns the spine. Steam explodes from the power plant stack.
As KU weather observer, Dave Relhain's job is to measure and record winter's bitte two times a day from instrument boxes in front of Lindley.
The 25-year-old Smith Center career in meteorology is constructing a career in his field, training him and bringing him closer to his ultimate goal—a return to his home and to farming after his retirement.
"I'd gladly give this job away," Relihan said, "if I could find someone to take it and didn't need just a smidgen of money."
Reinhan's joo brings in $14 a month.
On out on the lawn, the flashlight reveals a -1
degree reading with 95 percent humidity.
Dave Relihan
Relihan said the humidity was what gave eastern Kansas cold its punch.
"It goes right through down coats and everything." be said.
At 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. each day, Reihan checks the temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity, sky condition, precipitation and wind speed.
HE RECORDS all the information in a log and phones the highs, lows, current temperature and precipitation to the National force in Topeka and to local radio status.
Lighting a cigarette inside the warmth of the weather forecasting laboratory. Relish the heat by keeping your back more general forecasting information on the wire, incorporating KU data with the camera.
His short black hair is beginning to gray and his Levi's and western-cut flannel shirt fit snugly over long underwear.
Relhian and his wife, Linda, have a 3-year-old son, Cale, and a 3-month-old daughter, Erin.
HE SAID he wanted a good education for his children and would like to work as a foremaster for 15 to 20 years, away from home, to teach young people a small town environment of his hometown.
Rishan said living in a larger place after graduation would give him a chance to develop his career, save some money and prepare for elementary education degree into practice.
"I always watched the weather and I never knew what things were happening," Relihan said. "Now I know why you get a fire truck five miles in front of a thunderstorm.
"Farming's nerve-racking," he said, "but when you plant something and see it coming up, it's a feeling I couldn't describe."
Envisioning his future farm, Relihan told of the land's hold on him.
He said that some day he would return to
Smith Center and inherit or buy some of his grandfather's 1,000 acres.
"It's really good land, and if you don't mismanage it," Relihan said, "you can make do."
PAST FARMING experience has come from many summers of working on Smith County farms, Relihan said. But the coming summer will be his last spent on the farm
Ribalan said he returned to the farm in 1976 after his marriage. Linda, also from Smith Center, occasionally worked as a substitute teacher there and in Lawrence.
A commission on his grandfather's farm receipts enabled him to return to KU last spring.
Rehlian said the responsibility of marriage, and the birth of his first child, jarred his life, but had since been a steady force.
"I was barely ready to be married, let alone have kids," he said, "and I just had a hard time accepting it."
"I'm down at KU for one thing. I'm not a sophomore or a freshman running around drinking beer. Those days are gone."
Until the farm became reality, Relihan said, meteorology would hold his interest and fill his time well.
He said people often called the weather laboratory for information and that he enjoyed giving it to them.
"Once someone called us up," he said,
"and asked what the average temperature was for Davonta Beach."
"Sometimes they expect too much."
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