University Daily Kansan, April 12, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Former residents say Watkins is rundown
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
Four women who lived in Watkins Hall during the 1930s toured the hall yesterday with J.J. Wilson, housing director, and said they thought it as if housing officials had failed to repair the necessary repairs over the years.
"I thought a good deal of maintenance had been neglected," said Verda Shields, one of the women, who now lives in El Dorado.
Shields said she wrote a letter last month to David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, concerning complaints she had heard about upkeep of the hall. The letter was referred to Wilson.
She said that in his reply Wilson offered either to meet her in El Dorado or to conduct her on a tour of the hall.
Wilson said, "I suggested the best way for us to discuss it was for us to tour the hall."
SHIELDS SAID SHE noticed makeshift repair work during the tour. She said that she had heard from students about the need for improvements at Watkins and that she hoped the visit did some good.
"I was glad to see my friends and was glad to see what it was really like at Watkins," Shields said.
Harriet Wilson, another of the women who toured the hall, said she and the three other women were working on the project, maintained as well as it should be.
Mrs. Wilson said the four women lived at Watkins at the same time in the late 1980s. Frances Brown, a longtime resident of Parsons, are the other two women.
After touring the hall, Mrs. Wilson said, the women found no structural
problems with the hall, but saw other things wrong.
"It just didn't look as nice and shiny and pretty as we thought should have been." Mrs. Wilson said.
IN 1939, Elizabeth Watkins established a $250,000 trust fund for the “maintenance, upkeep and operation” of Watkins and Miller halls. The fund now has more than $1.7 million.
Wilson said he didn't think some of the improvements the women pointed out were as pressing as they were. "He told me that," he said he understood their concern.
He said that during the time when the women lived in the hall, the residents made maintenance requests more often.
Mrs. Wilson said the women suggested to Wilson that maintenance workers should make frequent tours of the halls to check on the upkeep instead of relying on residents' requests.
The women may have viewed the hall through "sentimental eyes" by comparing the hall to the way it would more than 40 years ago, Wilson said.
Ann Fidler, Watkins hall director, said the tour and the women's talk with Wilson might make housing officials more responsive to residents' requests for improvements at the hall.
Some of the complaints of the hall have concerned cracking plaster, leaking ceilings and peeling paint, stains on walls, senior and a Watkins resident, said.
The women, Eck said, took a thorough look at the hall with Wilson and made several comments throughout the tour.
"I think their major concern was that when things were fixed, they weren't fixed well." Eck said.
Local dance troupes to grace performance
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
The four dancers wrapped themselves in giant curlers, modeled them, paraded them and finally broke free of them.
The curlers, designed by Law-
rence textile artists Wendy Weiss
and Jayne Schell, are props for
the facial parody of the beu-
tiful industry.
The dance is scheduled to be performed by 4-5-6 Speed-Up, a Lawrence dance company, in a Dance Company this weekend.
Performances are scheduled for 8 and 2 p.m. today and 8 p.m. tomorrow in the dance performance laboratory, 240 Robinson Gymnasium. Tickets for the concerts are $2.50 for the public and $1.50 for students, and are available in the SUA office, the dance department office, 251 Robinson and at the door.
THE DANCE WILL be accompanied by original music by Martin Olson, a Lawrence composer.
Joan Stone, artistic director of 4-5-6 Speed-Up, said she had choreographed "Curlers" to show the traps of the beauty industry and the freedom the dancers find when they shed the curlers.
Stone also choreographed "Tete a Tete," in which two dancers struggle to communicate.
"Pick Up Sticks", performed and choreographed by the members of 4-5-6 SpeedUp, will open the concert. Music composed by Stanley Shumway , chairman of the music department, accompanies the piece, which was first choreographed for the University Symposium of Contemporary Music in February.
Cynthia Stone, Dodge City junior and one of the group's members, said dancers maneuvered a sculture made of sticks into the water.
“Kinetic Abstractions” and “Shapes in Space” are the other two works choreographed for the symposium.
*KINETIC ABSTRACTIONS* was a joint choreographic effort by five members of the University Dance Company and Janet Hamburg, artistic director of the company.
"In 'Kinetic Abstractions,' the dancers manipulate the sculpture in a much more abstract way than the 4-5-6 section." Hamburg said. The second section, "Shapes in Spaces," which Allison Baker photographer uses the set as an environment for the dancers to move through."
Baker, Kalamazoo, Mich., graduate student, and choreographed "Threees by Four," a light, rhythm study of three count phrases, or combinations of steps, for four dancers.
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