6A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2003
Finalist for fine arts dean job to visit campus for interview
By Lauren Airey lairey@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas officials have named the first of five finalists for the dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Donald Van Horn, the first finalist, will be in Lawrence until tomorrow to tour the Lied Center and the Spencer Museum of Art and meet with the search committee and senior administrators from the University and the School of Fine Arts. He will give a public presentation during an open forum at 4 p.m. today at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Van Horn has been the dean and professor of art for the College of Fine Arts at Marshall University in Huntington, W.
Va., since 1995. He earned his bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Nebraska and his master of fine arts from the University of Florida with a concentration in sculpture. He has also held positions at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, including associate dean for academic affairs and chair and associate professor for the Department of Art.
"He's a very nice fellow," said Michael Cornfield, professor of art at Marshall University. "He's extremely thoughtful and thorough. He's done a very fine job here at Marshall."
Information on the other candidates will be released within days of their interviews. The search committee looked at about 40 candidates for the position before narrowing the field to
five, said John Gaunt, chairman of the search committee.
The four remaining finalists in the nationwide search will be named in the next four to five weeks.
"We will be releasing information as we go along so we can give them the benefit of anonymity at their home institutions," Gaunt said. "We have worked rather intensively to identify these five candidates."
The current dean of the School of Fine Arts, Toni-Marie Montgomery, will leave the University at the end of this semester to become the dean of the School of Music at Northwestern University. Gaunt said the committee would finish interviewing the five candidates by mid-April.
— Edited by Leah Shaffer
Eric Braem/Kansan
An architecture project serves as a road block on Jayhawk Boulevard on Saturday, March 15. Students in professor Dan Rockhill's graduate design class created the sphere, which usually sits on the lawn of Marvin Hall. A concrete base now holds the sculpture in place, replacing the previous temporary anchors. Rockhill said he thought the sphere was likely set loose by fans reacting negatively to the men's basketball team losing to Missouri earlier that day. During production of the lead and plywood orb, one of the students sanded the lead, which caused some concern from the administration, resulting in blood tests for the entire class, Rockhill said.
Students spend spring break doing religious, charity work
By Cal Creek
ccreek@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
While many students sipped margaritas poolside or skied down Colorado slopes, several groups of students from the University of Kansas worked through their religious organizations to do community service and missionary work.
Ten KU students joined six Kansas State University students during spring break as a part of missionary work for Victory Campus Ministries. The group visited St. Louis University, Washington University, St. Louis Community College at Meramec and Harris-Stowe State College.
Erik Fish, Lawrence resident
Fish said he wanted to see other people who have had their lives changed by God.
"When I was a student my life was dramatically affected by realizing who Jesus Christ is," Fish said.
The group left for St. Louis on Monday and returned Friday. While there, they traveled from campus to campus talking to students, asking questions and establishing the contacts within the community that would be necessary to start new chapters.
like on these campuses," said Daniel Coke, Moorehaven senior, Victory Campus Ministries member and president of Champions for Christ.
"We were there trying to see what the religious climate was
Coke said his favorite part about the trip was meeting new people and sharing Christ with them. He said everyone they talked to was friendly, even if they didn't believe in Jesus Christ.
"As a devout Christian it's my duty to preach Christ and be his witness out of love not out of spite," Coke said.
The KU chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ sent six students to join 60 students from other schools in New York to do community service and missionary work.
"We just wanted an opportunity for students to do something together," Dawn Miller, Campus Crusade staff worker said, "It kind of broadened my view of what God's doing in our country."
The group worked in a soup kitchen called the Soul Saving Station in Harlem, where they served food to the needy. They also visited City College where they surveyed students in an attempt to start a branch of Campus Crusade for Christ on that campus. The next day the students opened a prayer table in the subway. Pedestrians approached them asking for prayers in regards to financial needs, the war and their families.
The group also helped out at an after school program in the Bronx
called Ever Lasting Hope. While there, the group played with children, helped with a Bible lesson and provided children with a place where they wouldn't be on the street.
Danielle Firsching, Wichita freshman, especially enjoyed working at Ever Lasting Hope. She said she liked playing with the kids and hearing them repeat Bible verses they had memorized.
"It was just awesome," Foreshowing said.
The American Baptist Student Fellowship had a slightly different experience during spring break. The group had planned to send seven students to Loveland, Colo., to help build a house for Habitat for Humanity. The day
after the group arrived a blizzard hit Colorado preventing the group from assisting with the landscaping work they thought they would do.
Instead the group helped clean and organize the Habitat for Humanity thrift store in addition to shoveling snow for the organization. The group helped dig out one woman's car which was stuck in the snow.
"The working in the thrift store and shoveling snow might not be the most glamorous jobs but they really needed it done so we we're happy to do it," said Megan Mercer, Topeka senior and American Baptist Student Fellowship president.
Edited by Leah Shaffer