Wednesday, January 23, 1980
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Camera catches lizards
By KEVIN MILLS Staff Reporter
What manner of man takes lizards and snakes to a motel room?
Joseph T. Collins, vertebrate zoologist at the KU Museum of Natural History, for one. In his spare time Collins is a professor of biology, especially reptiles and amphibians.
Collins is no amateur—he has 65 color plates of animals in their natural settings in a new Audubon Society Field Museum with American Reptiles and Amphibians.
"It's a very strange thing to be photographing for 12 years and finally see your pictures accepted," Collins said. "It's the pinnacle of wildlife photography."
Many of Collins' photos for Audubon
In many instances, it would be illegal to possess these animals," Collins said. "It is unfortunate that there is a beautiful animal. I don't want to see the animal removed from its natural habitat."
He usually finds the animal he wants a picture of, he said, takes it to his motel room and photographs it in a staged set. He then puts them back into a natural habitat. He then releases the animal.
were taken in Kansas, but his travels have taken him to the Amazon basin Mexico and throughout the United States.
Collins uses a special lens that requires him to come very close to his subjects. He sneaks away from colled rattlesmakes, he said, he has never been white while photo taken.
Spooner Hall renovation slowed
The completion of Spooner Hall's renovation, benign this fall, is nowhere in sight because of a lack of funds. Keith Shorter, director of facilities planning, said Friday.
Currently $265,000 is being spent to restore the roof and to replace all the windows of the house. In addition, the Kansas Legislature and the other half from the national Historical Preservation Commission are also spending.
But the foundation has stopped spending money on college buildings and the Legislature did not allocate any more money for the building this year, Lawton
Once so the roof and window work are completed, the building will stand as is until more renovation money is obtained, he said. In May 2014, the company built 25 percent of the work on the windows is
finished but no completion date has been set.
Because of the lack of money, Lawton said, it was decided that work on the exterior of the building would be done first so the foundation would not suffer any weather damage.
Spooner Hall has been declared a historic building by the National Trust and trust the renovation must therefore conform to the original condition. It was preserved in its original condition, he said.
Many of the original roofing tiles are made of wood, and there are windows, which are double-glazed for energy saving purposes, are in the shape of the original windows and have wood frames.
Caroline Signor was talking to Lawrence P. Caroline McMewan in his office yesterday morning before he and fire in the 300 block of West Ninth Avenue was announced over the intercom
Family's home destroyed by fire
By JENNIFER ROBLEZ
Staff Reporter
University Daily Kansan
Seconds later Signor learned that her four-bedroom, split-level house at 3016 W. Ninth St. was engulfed in flames.
"It was totally on fire when I arrived," McSwain said. The first report of the fire was at 9:57 a.m.
Initial statements by Signor and her husband, Donald, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey at the University of Kansas, has never started having family's firefighters.
"It looks as if it started in a wall near the fireplace and kept spreading," she said.
Signor said the family had used the fireplace for heat.
McSwain said the most intense area of fire was at the rear of the house where the fireplace was located.
"Once it got in the walls, it spread very, very fast," he said.
However, firefighters managed to keep the fire from entering a two-car garage adopting the house. A van and a car in the garage received water and smoke damage.
Firefighters at the scene said a brisk north wind and freezing temperatures had hindered their efforts. The fire was put out in 45 minutes.
The cause of the fire has not been determined, McSwain said, and damage has not been estimated. But the Sigors said
TONIGHT IS PITCHER NIGHT at THE HAWK
1980-81
POSITION OPENINGS K.U. Residence Halls and Scholarship Halls
RESIDENT ASSISTANTS must be sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate student for 1980-81 academic year
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All applicants should evidence above-average academic achievement, residential group-living experience, and availability for the entire 1980-81 academic year (August-May).
Applications and job descriptions available now in the Office of Residential Programs, 123 Strong Hall.
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"It's just a mess," Signor said. "It's pretty sad to see the destruction of everything you own."
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Peter Signor, a fifth-grade student at nearby Sunset Hill School, said he wished he would have had enough time to rescue some Central American Indian artifacts from the fire. The Signors also collected antiques, which were destroyed in the fire.
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