Thursday, March 21. 1974
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Volunteers Needed
Volunteer Clearing House needs student volunteers to work in Douglas County service agencies. Present needs include volunteers for the Bert Nash Mental Health Center, the Audio Readier Service, volunteers for people and on-call or substitute drivers.
Call 844-3869 or go to 114 B Kansas Union for more information.
Mud Creek Plans to Be Discussed Tonight
An Observatory Open House sponsored by the University of Kansas observatory and the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, new comet Saturday if weather permits.
Owl Society, honor society for junior men,
is accepting applications for membership
for next year. Membership selection is
based on achievement and extracurricular activities.
Applications are available from society members and at the Alumni Association office in the Kansas Union. Applications are due Tuesday.
Group to View Comet
The Mud Creek controversy will be discussed by city and county officials and representatives of local environmentalist groups at 7:30 tonight in the fourth floor meeting room of the city office building at 9th and Massachusetts streets.
The open house, to view the Comet Bradfield, will be at sunset Saturday at Wells Park, on Louisiana Street extension, four miles south of 32d Street.
Mayor Nancy Hambleton has invited officers of the Audubon Society and the University of Chicago to attend the Corsage of Engineering to attend the meeting. Members of the city and county commissions and George Falter, chairman of the Kew River Valley Drainage District
Biochem Prize Given
Dhiren R. Thakker, Bombay, India graduate student in the department of biochemistry, is the 1973 winner of the Medal for excellence in Biochemical Research.
Honor Men Sought
The award will be presented Thursday, April 4, during an all-University Lecture at 4 p.m. in room 324, Malot Hall, Hector F. DeLacua, professor and chairman of the department of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, will speak on hormones derived from vitamin D.
and county officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over flood protection for a section of Mud Creek extending about 5 miles southwest of the Bellevue pike north of the Lawrence city limits.
A stalemate has developed between city
The corps announced earlier this year that it was abandoning its original plan to channel the section in favor of an alternative plan which the corps said would save government about $18 million and will have less impact on the environment.
Dan Palmquist, chairman of the scenic and natural resources subcommittee of the
Douglas County Environmental Improvement Council, released a statement last week with the backing of the Audubon Biodiversity Center Club and Zero Population Growth.
If no flood is provided along the
cliff, about 125 acres of city land will be
covered.
is involved may file legal action against the city.
Local officials are upset over the corps' decision because the city and the drainage district had already purchased right of way under the terms of the original plan. The city should have made it necessary under the alternative plan and have indicated that the city and the drainage district would have to pay an additional $850,000 for more right of way. The officials, however, fear that the actual additional costs are not figure.
The statement supports the corps' decision to abandon the original plan, noting that channelization has been "thoroughly completed" and that legislation banning the procedure is likely.
Erosion has already occurred along a section of Mud Creek south of the turnipwike channelization was used, the statement said, and the farmer whose land
The city, county and drainage district sent a joint statement to the corps in February criticizing the corp's decision. The corps' response to that statement, a from the corps district office in Kansas City, was received Monday by the city.
"Under the guidelines and requirements that the corps must operate," it notes, "we cannot now recommend the original plan for Mud Creek."
Professors' Paintings Exhibited in Spooner
Paintings can't convey messages, according to Richard Dishinger, so there are alternatives.
Paintings by Dishinger, assistant professor of painting and sculpture, and Peter Thompson, associate professor of art history in the basement of Spooner Art Museum.
Nothern man works from a preconceived design and both said that the finished product is so much better.
"Painting is a process of discovery." Thompson said yesterday. A preconceived idea, he said, rules out any chance for artistic growth.
Thompson refused to teach a girl how to draw because she would use the art of drawing "as though it were a shovel to dig a hole with."
Thompson said that society has become totally goal-oriented.
"The only reason to do anything is because that is what you want to be doing," he said. "There's no way to get a good job." He said, "going to be left over when you're finished."
Painting is similar to walking down stairs, Thompson said.
"You have no problem doing it because you have control. But, if you think about it, you'll probably fall and hurt yourself," he explained.
An exhibition is secondary to the actual paintin. Dishiner said.
"You have to do something with them after you've done them," he said.
His work in the exhibition was done as part of a general research grant from the University of London.
Dishanger considers himself a formalist painter, one who deals with the historic past.
Disigner is involved primarily with color because he said it is the most flexible of the three colors.
Trying to find an "earth-shattering" color combination, he said, "becomes an obsession in some ways. I keep hoping that it happens."
K.U. Experimental Theatre
THREE SISTERS
8 p.m.-March 28 thru April 6-864-3982
Thompson's and Dishinger's works will be on exhibit through Wednesday.
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