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University Daily Kansan, April 9, 1981
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Wilcox art pieces loaned to two halls
By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
The Venus de Milo and her companions have been waiting for a new home since 1965. Bundled in plastic garbage bags and rotting wooden crates, the statuary of the KU Wilcox Collection stand in a drafty, damp tin shed near 15th and Iowa streets.
Although the Venus has been placed on hold indefinitely by the University, part of the collection has been unpacked and loaned to Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall and Templin Residence Hall.
Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics and curator for the collection, said that several small figurines and vases were being cleaned in preparation for the move to Templin.
"About 12 of the smaller casts, including Greek, Roman and Egyptian work, will be loaned to Templin for display in their trophy case," Barks said. "I am in the casts." They them in distilled water to clean them.
"I also had six pictures of 'I tipped re-matted and re-framed, and they are in Grace Pearson now. As far as I am concerned, these
pieces can stay in these locations until a permanent site for the entire collection is found."
STUDENTS FROM TEMPLIN and Grace Pearson contacted Banks after learning that the Wilcox institution was being stored in a shed.
Glenn Allen, resident director at Templin, said several of his residents had asked if there wasn't something they could do about finding a more suitable place for the collection.
"We had seen the article in the Kansan about where the pieces were being stored," Allen said. "It was discussed, and Rin Hones, our vice president, suggested that it might be displayed of the collection to be displayed here.
"We talked to Prof. Banks and proposed that some kind of program be arranged to display part of the art museum," he said, "and we were houseed all together somewhere."
ALLEN SAID THAT IF the trophy case display was a success he would try to obtain more money to build more cases.
He said that he would like to have some of the life-size casts on display but that the hall didn't have enough cases yet.
Howard Bauleke, Lawrence senior
and president of Grace Pearson,
helped Banks select the pictures that
were lent to the scholarship hall. He
gave his best in the collection he
wrote water-logged.
He also said that poor storage conditions had made it necessary to re-mat and re-frame all of the pictures.
Banks said that the classics department had paid for the work.
"The total cost was about $450." Banks said. "I used funds from a gift to the classics department by Prof. Emerita Mary Grant. The gift was to help with the installation of the collection into its new museum in Wescoe Hall.
"When the plans for the museum in Wescoe fell through, the money was just left to earn interest. I thought this was a legitimate expense because the pictures are now, now, when we get the space for one."
Most of the Wilcox collection still is being stored in the tin shed, but Banks said he had lost hope that a security would somehow find space for it.
"I am pleased with the response we have had about it," she said. "I am looking into some other details, and being the entire collection somewhere."
Bill Keith
Gerry Riley
Nursing scholarships proposed
While many state legislators say that they are serious about cutting medical student scholarships, they are in the same breath proposing to create a similar scholarship for nursing students.
At a time when legislators are decrying the cost and ineffectiveness of the medical student scholarships, the same people are pushing for a program virtually equal to the one they are condemning
ONE OF THE LEADING proponents of the movement, State Rep. Mike Hayden, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said yesterday that he was wholly heartedly in favor of a scholarship for nurses.
"There is a shortage of nurses in the state, and it is a serious shortage." Hayden, R-Atwood, said. "The problem being worked on with the medical student's scholarships would be taken care of in the nursing scholarship bill."
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
The problem that Hayden and other lawmakers have found with the
Branson said Monday that she had been working closely with Hayden on the nursing scholarships idea and that she thought he would introduce something to the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday.
Similar distinctions, Hayden said, would be written into the nursing scholarship bill next year.
RECENT LEGISLATION, however, has increased the penalty interest rate, more tightly defined the areas qualified for post-educational practice and shortened the repayment period for those who back out of the agreement.
"We brought it up and decided to hold it until next year so an interim study committee could examine the feasibility of the scholarship," Hayden said, not not mean, however. "I am opposed to the matter, it just needs careful study."
HAYDEN, HOWEVER, said yesterday after the committee meeting that the subject was considered, but it will be finished until next year's session.
Instead, they have preferred to repay the scholarship with a 10 percent interest penalty. To some medical students, this was seen as an easy way to raise money for school. They convert the scholarship into a low interest loan.
Branson said she agreed with Hayden's estimation that there was a critical need for more nurses in the state.
medical scholarships bill was that some students who were expected to practice in Kansas after medical school failed to fulfill that obligation.
"Rep. Hayden told me at the interested of the session that he was interested in this kind of a scholarship." State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said. "He said that he would propose something along those lines, and that he would make sure that while medical scholarships were phased out, the nursing scholarship proposal would not be forgotten."
"There are hospital wings that have closed down because of a lack of nurses," she said. "The shortage is severe and staff hospitals and especially in nursing homes."
"I think that this program would definitely increase the low number of nurses in the state. It is a shortage that we need to address," doctor shortage-if not more critical."
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