Wednesday, April 24, 1974
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Designer of 300-Foot Monument To Give Slide Lecture Tomorrow
Victor R. Timmerman, former professor of visual arts, who will soon receive international recognition for his design of a 3040foot sculpture in Europe, is at the University of Kansas to participate in the International-International Sculpture Conference.
Prize money in the amount of $2,750 has been awarded to Timmerman for his design of a lightning rod.
turnpike intersection in Ghent, Belgium.
Timmerman will present a slide lecture about the project at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the library.
is $5 million.
The sculpture's interior will house a restaurant, a cafeteria, an art gallery and a museum.
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The monument will be 305 feet tall and contain 2,400 tons of steel. Total surface area is approximately 17,600 square feet.
Artists, Critics Will Attend 8th Sculpture Conference
The Eighth National-International
Sculpture Conference opens tonight with
a lecture by H. Harvard Arnason, art
head of the installation will be at 7:30
in Woodruff Auditorium.
Artists, critics and art scholars from 15 countries will attend the conference. Among the sculptors will be Martin Etienne of Austria and Patriz Varanol of Iran.
The conference will continue through Friday, Tomorrow and Friday at Allen Hall.
strations and displays of sculpture in various media. During the afternoons and evenings they will meet at the Kansas Union sculpture garden where sculptors on current sculpture and techniques
Photographs of French sculpture sponsored by the French government will be held.
The site of the sculpture inspired its design, Timmermann said yesterday. The monument is over an intersection. When approaching the crossing, travelers have an option of going straight, left or right. The sculptor's symbolizes those directions he said.
Harold Rosenberg, art critic for the New Yorker magazine, will give the closing address at 8 p.m. Friday in Woodruff Auditorium.
Furthermore, the site is in an industrial area that contains many vertical buildings. He wanted the angular shape of the sculpture to offset the vertical buildings.
Timmerman's concept was chosen from 270 entries from 38 countries. The final decision was made by a jury of two persons and consisted of four countries neighboring Belgium.
The jury recognized Timmerman's project as the most valuable contribution because of its functional and aesthetic qualities. The jury said the monument "responds to the challenge of the creative potential of our times."
Architectural plans for the project are being done in collaboration with architects Jean Van Den Bogaer and Jos Van Dijks. The consulting engineer is Elie Mas.
Timmerman is a professor of architecture at the University of Ghent in
Athletic Dept. Staff to Get Raises
BY KENN LOUDEN
Kansas Staff Reporter
By KENN LOUDEN
Salaries for members of the University of Kansas Athletic Department will increase
The announcement came only one day after the athletic board decided to raise the price of student season tickets for football and basketball. However, Athletic Director Tom Walters said the salary increases were not made solely because of the increase in student tickets.
He said the funds for the salary increases would come from all gate receipts, in addition to the taxes.
"All our revenue is placed in one pot," Walker said. "No distinction is made as to the amount of cash."
Walker said the salary raises were in line with the increase in the cost of living and with what the other Big Eight schools paid members of their athletic departments.
In addition, he said, the increases were much less than the 10 per cent increase in the number of teachers.
He said the members of the athletic department deserved the salary increases for their fine performances during the 1973-74 football and basketball seasons.
"It is a reward for good service," Walker said. "We want to keep people like that on our team."
Football season tickets will cost $15 for
the 1974-75 season, and basketball season tickets will cost $13. Last season football season tickets cost $6.50 and basketball tickets cost $5.50.
Statistics from the 1974-75 proposed athletic budget indicate that the net income from football is expected to be $7,150 and basketball is expected to show a loss of $12,750.
Walker said the problem with basketball revenue was related to the practice of split gates—dividing the revenue from the game with the opposing team.
"Many of the schools we play don't have good facilities for basketball," Walker said. "Schools like Colorado will only have a couple thousand students show up for a game, and we don't receive much money from the split gate.
"The University of Kansas will have many times that many people at home games," he said, "and we have to divide the proceeds with them equally even though they give us a much smaller amount from their home games."
To increase the basketball tickets any more would be to give away more money to
Walker said the increase in student season tickets for basketball would make KU's ticket prices comparable to those at the other Bie Flight schools.
John Beisner, Salina junior and student
body president, said the increases in athletic department member's salaries couldn't be directly attributed to the increase in the price of student season tickets. However, Beinser, also an ex officio member of the athletic board, said the increase in salaries shouldn't be compared to the increase in salaries for faculty members. The staff was more receiving a raise that they had been denied for a long time, he said.
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City Band Concerts May Be Cut
Half of Lawrence's South Park Band Concerts may be cut this summer unless the city can provide financial aid, Janis Hutchison, member of the Lawrence Arts Commission, said yesterday at the Lawrence City Commission meeting.
There have been six band concerts each
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For the last two years, the city has taken funds from its general operating budget to allow purchase for the bands, she said, but now more money is needed.
Hutchison said that funds had been divided for other summer musical entertainment and that the band concerts will be $2,000 to maintain three of the programs.
Although Kansas states provide for a mll levy to support the band, Ham堡ton said, the city abandoned that mll levy years ago, and it wouldn't be possible to include it in the 1974 budget at this late date. Commissioner Barklev Clark said that he
"In view of the large summer population, including many University of Kansas students, and the lack of cultural entertainment, I feel that this program deserves the attention of the city," Hutton said. "The average shortage, many people will be looking for entertainment in Lawrence instead of traveling elsewhere."
City Commissioner Nancy Hambleton said that the city would have trouble funding the program but that perhaps a public appeal could be made for money to support
thought the money was for a worthy cause and that perhaps the program could be financed on a matching fund basis where the city would provide $1,000 if the Lawrence Arts Commission could raise $1,000.
The commission decided to refer the request to Buford Watson, city manager. Watson said he would make his recommendation weeks at the next commission meeting.
In other business, the commission decided to defer for two weeks granting an increase in tax fares requested by Ward and owner of Yellow Cab Cb. and Union Cab Cb.
Mayor Jack Rose and Commissioner Fred Pence were unable to attend the meeting because they were in Washington, but supported funds for the Clinton Parkway project.
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