University Daily Kansan, June 5. 1985
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Animal art mounts challenge
Area taxidermists show right stuff
By Sherry Gering Staff Reporter
Two local taxidermists made sure the horse looked surprised, the skunk angry and the mouse frightened in their mount that won the People's Choice Award in the Third Annual World Taxidermy Championships May 28-June 1 at the Kansas Union.
"We've learned a lot about taxidermy," said Tom Swearingen, director of exhibits at the KU Museum of Natural History. "I think we brought some honor to our peers, our university and our state."
Swearing and Don McDermott, a Eudora taxidermist, won the award with his display of a colt encounterer, titled (kitted) "the First of the Lessons."
"If you can win anything or get a ribbon in anything, there's a lot of honor." Swearingen said.
Winning did not come easily for Swearingen and McDermott. Swearingen said it was becoming more difficult to win because taxidermists were working harder and striving for perfection.
For Swearingingen and McDermott, that meant making the mannequin for the horse themselves, skinning a skunk and making plants of plastic, Swearingen said.
About 385 taxidermists entered the championships, and about 486 mounts were on display, said Skip Skidmore, chairman of the judging committee. The taxidermist canoe United States, Canada and Australia.
Skidmore said that about 500 taxidermists came to the championships, some of them just to observe and learn.
"Now that we have competitions, the quality of taxidermy has grown by leaps and bounds," she said.
Donna Fisler, Hermiston, Ore,
said she just came to learn. She said
that taxidermists did not used to exchange
information but were now doing so because of the competitions.
Tom LeCroy, who sells taxidermy supplies in Arkansas, said that 20 years ago, taxidermy was considered to be a hobby and meant "stuffing" animals. But now it is thought of as a profession and an art, he said.
LeCroy said that taxidermists no longer had to make their own mannequins but now buy them anatomically correct. He also said that instead of using cheap glass eyes that were painted in the middle, taxine coud order eyes that were lifelike and matched the animal's exact eye color.
Fisher said taxidermy was so exact that, for example, taxidermists would need to know that on a deer, the white hair went on the inside of the nose. They also would need to know the direction of the eyelids and how many veins there were and where to place them.
The purpose of taxidermy is to make the animal come alive, she said.
"I think animals are beautiful," Fisler said.
Co-signers necessary for loans
Co-signers now will be required on all short-term Kansas University Endowment Association student loans except for emergency loans and in cases when students cannot get co-signed. The endowment Association said Monday.
By The Kansan Staff
how their associate would in the past, short-term loans didn't require co-signers, said Bill Shunk, the loan officer. But the new policy was adopted because of the large number of unpaid loans every year. The policy became effective Saturday.
"Every year we have about $100,000 of unpaid loans," he said. "We're trying to reduce that amount of loans that we have to write off. By requiring co-signers, we think we can reduce that amount by 50 percent, which will mean we'll have $30,000 more we can loan to students."
Last year the limit for an undergraduate short-term loan from the Endowment Association was $1,200. The limit was $2,400 for a graduate student. In January, those amounts were reduced to $600 for undergraduates and $1,200 for graduate students.
"Periodically we have to adjust the amounts available so that the needs of all students can be covered," Shunk said. "In January, we reduced the amount available to students because the need for endowment funds exceeded the amount of funds available."
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Haworth addition almost ready
Rv Shawn Adav
Staff Reporter
Work on the eight-story, 104,000-square-foot addition to Haworth Hall is nearly complete and the new facilities should be ready for classes this fall.
James Canole, campus director of facilities planning, said yesterday that the division of biological sciences already was moving into the seventh and eighth floors and building that might be completed by mid-July.
Figures on the final cost of the addition are not available, Carole said. The projected cost in 1982 was $13.8 million.
The addition will provide space for programs in biology, biochemistry, botany, entomology, physiology, cell biology systematics
and ecology. The division of biological sciences will occupy all eight floors of the addition as well as the main hall and the original part of Worthing Hall
Some of the programs are now in Snow Hall and in old Haworth Hall.
Hose Hall and in old Haworth man. However, not all biology personnel will be moving into Haworth right away. Gunther Schillach characterized the department of science, said that the division's administrative offices would remain in Snow Hall until mid-August. New offices in the original part of Haworth are expected to be renovated by then.
Some classes of the biological division will be taught in Snow Hall at least for the next academic year. Schlager said. The division won't have enough classroom space until
it can use the first two floors of old Haworth, which now are occupied by the department of human development and family life.
Schlager expects the department of human development and family life eventually to move to another building
Schlager also said that the Museum of Entomology in Snow Hall and personnel connected with the museum will snow Hall for the forceable future.
As for Snow Hall it itself, which is 58 years old, renovation may be near. Plans call for the computer science and math departments eventuating to occupy a large part of Snow Hall if finished, he said. But for now, the building will provide temporary space for several departments.
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Med Center appoints two officials
The University of Kansas Medical Center recently appointed two people to fill the positions of associate professor and dean at the School of Medicine.
Jane E. Heney, deputy director of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., was named associate vice chancellor in May. She also will be an associate professor in the School of Medicine's
department of pathology and oncology.
In the other appointment, Eugene Donald Jacobson, vice dean for academic affairs at the University of Cincinnati's College of Medicine, was named dean of the School of Medicine.
Henney will assume her post Sept. 1. Jacobson starts July 15.
RECREATION SERVICES SUMMER 85 ACTIVITIES
BASKETBALL 3 ON 3
Managers meeting will be held Tuesday, June 11 at 6:15 p.m. in 2021
Robinson. Play begins Tuesday, June 18 and all games will be played on
Tuesday's and Thursday's at 6:00 p.m. in Robinson's main gyms 1 & 2.
BASKETBALL 5 ON 5
FULL COURT NOON
This league will play one game per week on Wednesday from 11:30-1 p.m.
Entry deadline will be Monday, June 17 at 5 p.m. in 208 Robinson.
Insufficient entries will cancel tournaments.
GOLF TOURNAMENT
There will be 2 golf tournaments held at the orchards, one on June 21, and
the other July 19. The tee-off time is 5:30 p.m. Green fees will be paid at the
course. The entry deadline will be Wednesday, June 19 for the first
tournament and Wednesday, July 17 for the second. The tournament will not
be rescheduled due to inclement weather. Entry deadline will be 5:00 in
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TENNIS
The entry deadline for Slow-Pitch and Co-Rec teams will be Wednesday, June 5 at 5:00 p.m. in 2028 Robinson. The managers meetings for Slow-Pitch and Co-Rec will be Thursday, June 6 at 10:30 a.m. The entry deadline for Toney Gowan Fast-Pitch will be Wednesday, June 5 at 6:30 p.m. in 2028 Robinson.
The Singles/Doubles/Doubles Tournament will begin on Sunday,
June 23 at 1:30 p.m. and continue through the week of June 23-June 30.
The entry deadline will be 5 p.m. in 208 Robinson on Thursday, June 20. A
can of unopened tennis balls will be the entry fee.
SAND VOLLEYBALL
A managers meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 11 at 7 p.m. in 202
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