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Tuesday, February 26, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Still Life by KU Graduate Dennis Helm
Grad Paints Own Kind of Realism
By CAROL GWINN
Kansan Staff Reporter
A Coke bottle sits next to a beer can on a table splattered with paint. Eggs are suspended by slender strings above a plaster mask or sit in the foreground of a shiny ladie, which distorts a reflection with its convexity.
These are the paintings now being exhibited in the Seven East 7 Gallery by Dennis Helm, a University of Kansas graduate.
Helm said Friday that he used eggs in his paintings fairly often.
"I like them very much," she said. "I like
eating edits." There's something about
edits being edits.
Helm said eggs were often released to things hidden in the subconscious.
Helm said that he wasn't interested in the "slice of life" type of realism.
Hem said that in arranging his still life paintings, he "made to set objects up" in "painting a pleasant way."
"I don't paint realistically in the sense of looking at breakfast on the table and deciding to paint it as it is," he said, "but rather I try to paint things realistically the way people actually see them—more or less photographically."
"In selecting objects and putting them together in certain ways," Helm said, "there's no way to be sure how they're going to appear in the final painting."
"Formal requirements impose restrictions I can't foresee," he said, and that "they are hard to enforce."
"Very often things get into a painting that aren't there," he said.
"What I actually mean I can't express verbally."
"I wrestle aside with objects until I'm no longer affirmed," Helm said, adding that he was "offended very often" by the way things appeared in their color, or their factors.
He said that painting was essentially a spiritual exercise for him, "a struggling for self-esteem."
"I could say it's hell to paint." Helm said,
"at actually it's very easy."
He paints because of a desire to communicate on a non-verbal level, he said.
"Painting forced into language becomes distorted," he said. "I don't try to confuse people."
Helm said the only thing people needed to understand his paintings was their own particular background. He said that it took him 30 years, however, if they a background similar to his.
It doesn't bother Helm if he interpret his works incorrectly, he said. But when they "interpret in stereotypes," Helm said, it does bother him.
Helm said that his style hadn't changed very much in the past ten years as far as content but that his "voabulary" had been enriched by experience.
"It itaked me 10 years to get where I am now," Heim said when asked how long it took him to paint a picture. "If you want to paint it, might take我 15 or 20 hours. It varies."
"When they first contacted me, it was supposed to be a realism show," Helm said. "I think you'll have trouble with this title now."
The Poop, the latest effort in underground newspapers at the University, will present its budget request to the Student Senate sometime next week, Scott Frenkel, Salina septometh and member of the collective publishing The Poop, said last week.
By JAY GLICK
Kansas Staff Reporter
The 10 people in the collective are now paying for the paper and stencils necessary to create their new artwork.
The Poop Seeks Funds For Alternative Press
**MIKE Stemmetz, Lawrence graduate**
student and senate treasurer, said that The Poop was mumegrahed by the senate, but materials were provided by the collective.
The Poop has appeared weekly since Nov. 7, 1973. Freeman said.
When the newspaper began publication, Freeman said, it was too late to file for senate funds, but he said they hoped to get funds this semester.
"We really deserve funding," he said.
MEMBERS of the collective will begin circulating petitions among students in an effort to demonstrate to the senate that the newspaper does have the support of a substantial number of students, Freeman said.
According to Freeman, there were no alternative viewpoints being presented after the Haymaker ceased publication last spring.
Freeman said that The Poop had a style different from that of The Haymaker. He said The Poop was less dogmatic and easier to read than the Haymaker.
SHARON LEE, Wichita senior and a member of the collective, said some of the people who write for The Poop have had a career in working with other underground papers.
Freeman said his style was more conversational.
"Some of us have worked on things all the way back to Vortex," she said.
"I couldn't have written the things that were in The Haymaker," Freeman said, smiling.
Lee said that the tone of underground papers had changed since the days of Vortex and The Oread Daily. People's moods have changed, she said, and underground newspapers reflect the change in moods.
Class, Club Study Parapsychology
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"The Exorcist," a story of a young girl possessed by a demon, has focused the attention of the American public on the occult and parapsychology, the scientific study of psychic phenomena such as extra- and perception (ESP) and life after death.
Academics First in Poll
Academics should be the No. 1 priority for the Student Senate, according to an opinion poll conducted during student elections earlier this month.
Campus affairs were listed as the second priority and political affairs as the third priority, according to figures released yesterday by Lewis D. Gregory, Wichita junior and temporary elections committee chairman.
The majority of the 1,900 students who responded to the poll said LA&S 392 courses and student organizations should be funded by the university's administration didn't fund them.
John Beinser, Salina junior and student body president, said that the student body obviously wanted academics to be the first concern of the senate.
Funding of a University building for teaching purposes and funding of Feedback shouldn't be done by the senate even if the student doesn't provide the money, the students said.
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Rick Sheermann, Overland Park senior and parapsychology major, teaches the psychology course.
Psychic phenomena are receiving serious attention for the first time from both scientists and the public, he said last week. But a crucial problem remains in differentiating between parapsychology and the occult, he said.
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Sheeerman stresses class participation and uses discussions, workshops and films
“That’s one of the main airs of the course I teach.” Sheuerman said. “I’m afraid that things like 'The Exorcist' may unfurl to be leading people in the wrong direction.”
"The first thing I do is acquaint people with the terminology of parapsychology," he said. "Then I try to give them some idea of the scope of the field itself and the problems of scientific methods in psychic research."
Scheirman said his course provided basic knowledge in a field that has produced thousands of examples.
This is the second consecutive semester a course in parapsychology has been offered here, Sheuerman said. He applied for funding for the course after he learned that seniors and graduate students could plan and teach LA&S 292 courses.
Sheuerman said he thought everyone had nschvic experiences but most people
"passed them off as intuition or too vague."
There is no formal program of parapsychological research at KU, but Souherman conducted nine credit hours of independent study. He also taught Maynard Shelly, professor of psychology.
my ratthest dream is that there may eventually be a division of parapsychology here." Sheuerman said, "It should be independent, because psychic phenomena are as close to physics as they are to psycholinguistic biology and chemistry are also involved."
The KU parapsycology club may take a step in that direction by establishing an office where students would be able to report their own psychic experiences and learn about parapsychology as a science, Sheuerman said.
Sheuerman said yesterday that one of the first goals of the club would be to sponsor a University-wide seminar to educate students about parapsychology.
The club met again Sunday night to elect officers and draft a request for $900 from the Student Senate for films, guest lecturers and workshops.
An organizational meeting of the club last week attracted about 20 persons. Shearer
"I believe there is a great deal of interest here in psychic phenomena, and we hope to give this interest an outlet," Sheuermann said.
a parapsychology research program at KU may be years away, he said, but the club may be able to arrange workshops and lectures this semester.
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She said the end of fighting in Vietnam and the ending of the draft were events that contributed most to peoples' desire for non-involvement in political causes.
"IN 1979 and 71, there was a lot more political activism," she said, "so there was
Lee said that in 1974 an underground newspaper doesn't have as many overt problems to point to and consequently it is more difficult. But in much less apparent problems instead.
The Poop has no rigid policy regarding the selection of stories. Lee said the collective votes to determine which stories appear in the newspaper.
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Most stories in The Poop are written by the ten members of the collective, Freeman said. But he added that the collective would appreciate story contributions and letters. Freeman said The Poop would print letters that objected to positions taken by the newspaper, but that it hadn't yet received any.
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