University Daily Kansan, March 8. 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Humanities center acts to meet grant
By BETH REITER Staff Reporter
The challenge to raise money for a $1 million grant will end soon for the Center for Humanistic Studies.
The University of Kansas was chosen in 1893 to receive a $1 million challenge grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency that supports the humanities. But the University, which has been raising donations since it accepted the challenge in 1893, must raise $3 million by July to receive the $1 million.
"We will meet the challenge," Theodore A. Wilson, director of the Center for Humanistic Studies, said Wednesday.
The money would be used to expand library collections, professor
ships, post-doctoral fellowships research and teaching. Wilson said.
The center was established in 1976 to provide support for faculty research, help in finding outside support for research, and assistance to faculty in the preparation of research proposals, Wilson said.
Sarah Trulove, assistant director of the center, said, "The center develops programs to enrich, improve the humanities. The center is a source for giving aid and comfort to humanists."
SINCE THEN, THE PURPOSE of the center has expanded to include coordinating activities for faculty such as workshops and informal gatherings, Wilson said.
Faculty can get assistance for writing proposals for grants at the center. The staff will negotiate between the faculty member and the
agency that finances the grant about how materials, advertising, lecture fees, publication costs and salaries will be paid.
"Grant writing has a particular style." Trulove said.
The center, which had been located in the Spencer Research Library, was moved to the second floor of the Watkins Home last spring.
IT HAS ATTRACTED internationally known speakers such as George Bass, archeologist, Beatrice Farwell, historian, and Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, to lecture at KU.
Each spring since 1978 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has supported the Mellon Faculty Development Seminar, which the center coor- ders with the foundation has donated more than $500,000 for the seminar since 1978.
The seminar offers fellowships to 12 professors, six from KU, who produce papers and research a particular topic for a semester. Six professors from private colleges in the region, who spend the semester in residence at the University, make up the rest of the seminar faculty.
The center is sponsoring a new program, Humanities Seminars for Executives, Trulove said. The center has sponsored a previous seminar for executives at Hallmark Cards Inc. The seminars give the executives a week away from work for creative and critical thinking.
Engineering students may apply for a program that will offer them the chance to learn Spanish for two months in Mexico. Many corporations require Spanish as part of preparing the Spanish language would help engineering students, Trulove said.
Professors to discuss Soviet agriculture
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
Four of the West's leading experts on the Soviet Union will discuss Soviet agriculture and food production in theposium Saturday in the Kansas Union.
The speakers, who will talk about grain production in the Soviet Union and how it affects exports from the United States, will be Alec Nove, former KU Rose Morgan visiting professor of economics from the University of Wagstaff in Scotland; Karl-Eugen Walsgaard in Liechtenstein; Susie Liebig University in Gießen, West Germany; D. Gale Johnson from the University of Chicago; and Roy Laird, professor of political science at the University of Kansas.
The symposium, which will be free and open to the public, will be from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
THE SPEAKERS ARE expected to discuss Agricultural production capabilities in terms of the country's manpower and technology. The country will need to grow how much grain the United States will import in the next few years.
"The Soviet Union is expected to import some 50 million metric tons of wheat this year," Laird said Wednesday. "One third of all grain produced in the United States is exported abroad. And the Soviet Union imports a considerable portion of this. Soviet agriculture is indeed a very important topic for Kansans and grain producers everywhere."
about Soviet agriculture for more than 20 years, said Nove, Wadekin and Johnson were recognized as experts on Soviet economics and agriculture
Laird, who has studied and written
NOVE IS PROFESSOR emeritus of economics and former head of the Institute for Soviet Studies at the University of Glasgow. Wadekin is professor of economics at the Institute for East European Agriculture at the Justus Liebig University. Johnson is a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Chicago.
Laird said members of a British production company, Vision Group, also would be attending the symposium.
Vision Group, the production company, plans to film a four-hour documentary on the Soviet Union to
be shown on London television, using KU faculty members as sources and advisers for the project.
"If the documentary does materialize, Soviet agriculture should be a significant proportion of it." Laird said. "And the makers of the film would consult to consult with these panel members before and during any filming."
Bill Fletcher, chairman of the department of Soviet and East European studies, said Soviet grain production was more than just an agricultural concern because it had such an impact on the way the Soviet Union conducted other internal affairs.
"Approximately 20 percent of the Soviet population is involved in agriculture." Fletcher said.
Musicians to slide into town for jazz festival
By JEANINE HOWE Staff Reporter
Recital Hall during the day for $1. The festival begins at 8:30 a.m.
Students, faculty and music lovers plan to gather for a day of jazz at the eighth annual Jayhawk Invittational Jazz Festival tomorrow at Murphy
The public can attend high school jazz performances in the Swarthout
The festival will conclude with evening performances by the KU Jazz Ensemble 1 and Vocal Jazz Ensemble 2. The ensemble plays ten jazz saxophone on the "Tonight Show." The concert begins at 8 p.m. in the Crafton-Preacher Theatre.
Advance tickets for the evening performance are available at the
Murphy Hall box office. Tickets also will be on sale at the door tomorrow night. Tickets cost $5, but for students the price is $3.50.
Ron McCurdy, director of the KU Jazz Ensemble I and Vocal Jazz Choir I, said yesterday. "We want to provide students with a great performer, if not probably the top tenor saxophonist in the country, in the world."
Christlieb, the saxophonist, is scheduled to conduct a private workshop with the KU jazz ensembles tomorrow. McCurdy said KU students were eager to work with Christlieb.
Tom Smart, St. Louis sophomore,
said, "It's nice having a guest artist
coach, especially a famous one like
Crown, at our studio." It would
It would be great to play like him."
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