University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFS
Rock Chalk Bar opens today
Beer will flow again today at the landmark tavern formerly Hawk's Crossing, the new owner of the bar said yesterday.
The Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W. 12th St., will open at noon today, Michael Schulteis, the owner, said. Schulteis said he would serve a cocktail of beer to celebrate the grand opening.
A two-man band, Vern's Turbinais, will play at the Rock Chalk tonight at 8:30. ochieens said, Saturday night, KJKH will perform "Town" remote broadcast at the tavern.
Schulteis said the City Commission had approved a 3.2 percent beer license Tuesday night after the tavern had passed building, health and fire inspections Monday.
Awareness of Israel promoted
To promote awareness about Israel, two groups are sponsoring Israel Awareness Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 5 in the Kansas Union.
American-Iraeli Friendship Organization and Hilile, a Jewish student organization, are sponsoring the event. It will have Eight and Javawk rooms of the Union.
Ron Mandelbaum, president of American-Israel Friends Organization, said the organizations wanted to show the positive aspects of Israel, where Moslems, Christians and Jews were living together in a productive society.
Two slide shows and a movie will be shown during the day. A poster exhibit, "Faces of Israel," and Israeli art and jewelry also will be on display.
Workshop to help dog owners
The Museum of Natural History will conduct a workshop from 9 to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow for dog owners. The workshop's location is at the museum's relationships between owners and their pets.
Elizabeth Patton, the museum's program developer, said the program would discuss matters concerning pet care, city laws that apply to dogs and the ancestry of dogs.
Essav contest open to students
The cost of the workshop, which is sponsored by the museum and the Lawrence Jayhawk Kennel Club, is $4 for members of Museums Associates and $5 for non-members. For information and registration, call 864-4173.
Students may enter unpublished essays in the Edward S. Robinson Memorial Essay Contest. Prizes of up to $100 will be awarded, depending upon the quality of the essay.
The contest is open to undergraduates and graduates. Each student may submit only one entry. Essays should not exceed 25 pages.
Essays are due March 30 in the department of philosophy, 3052 Wescoe Hall
The essays will be judged by members of the department and a representative of the Graduate Association of Students of Philosophy. The winner will be announced by the beginning of May.
Woodcarver to explain craft
The Museum of Natural History is sponsoring a demonstration of water fowl
Weather
Today will be partly sunny with a high in the mid to upper 50s. Winds will be variable at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be increasingly cloudy, with a low of 35 to 40. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high in the 50s.
Compiled from Kanson staff and United Press International reports.
Correction
Because an editor's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan incorrectly identified Pi kappa Theta fraternity, 1914 Stewart Ave, as Pi kappa Theta fraternity.
Loraine Pal/KANSAN
Cername park KANSAI
Kevin Haywood, left, Kansas City,
Mo., senior, works on a pot for his
Ceramics I course. Haywood said
yesterday that it took about one hour
to create a piece that he is satisfied
with. Pottery can be a grimy
business, above, but a market flooded
with fine arts graduates makes finding
a job an even stickier business.
Jobs hard to find in the fine arts Jewelry and riches don't match
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
The job market is flooded by students with fine arts degrees, David Vertacnik, associate professor of design, said yesterday.
Vertacik said most ceramics students didn't find jobs when they left the school. Instead, they usually pursue a master's degree or try to find a teaching job, he
"CERAMICS IS NOT an easy medium," Vertacak said. "There are studios you can apprentice in, and then if you're really good, you'll get a job just like in everything
Gary Nemchock, associate professor of
Tucked away in a corner of the Art and Design building, students hover over tables and vices, molding brasses of brass or copper ornamentations that reflect weeks of patience.
And if effort equaled reward, these students would have many riches when they graduated with bachelor's or master's degrees in jewelry and ceramics mallets.
In the building's basement, pottery wheels spin and kilns fire ceramics that the students have created with their hands and minds.
design, said jewelry students spent most of their senior year developing portfolios to show to jewelry retail and wholesale store owners.
The students also might decide to search for jobs in jewelry design, repair, or with larger companies and industries, Nemchock said.
Susan Ringer, Liberal senior majoring in jewelry, said she eventually wanted to own a jewelry shop. Also, she is taking care of her health and she will be able to manage her finances.
*Jewelry majors are concerned that that man could be finger audited but can't market them.*
ALISON MERRIGAN, KANSAS City,
Mo., senior, was spinning a pot on the
pottery wheel as she discussed the problems
of setting up her own business.
She said that to set up her own ceramics purchase about $10,000 worth of equipment.
"It's really a matter of selling yourself," Mr. Morrow says. "You have to establish your own clientele."
Although finding a job is important, Vertacuk said, for most ceramics majors making money is secondary to making ceramics. He said fate had led him to his job, in which he enjoys being surrounded by people who work with their hands.
jewelry were happy working in jewelry stores and designing custom-made jewelry.
EACH DECEMBER, JEWELRY,
ceramics and several other fine art classes
exhibit their works for sale in the Kansas
Union. Displays include painted dishes and
mugs, sterling silver and gold bracelets
and earrings.
Students purchase all their own materials, including precious stones, to put into metal to create a piece of jewelry, Nemchock said.
Nemchock said many KU graduates in
However, not all students enrolled in high school are fine arts majors. Nemeth said,
One such student, Laurie Reunebaem, Wichita senior major in occupational therapy, took ceramics because it is considered a therapeutic medium in which people can quietly make ceramics by themselves or in a group.
Another student, Charles Lee, Overland Park freshman majoring in English, yesterday afternoon filed brass links that he soon would fashion into a bracelet.
He said that by taking the class, he could appreciate seeing $10 earrings in stores and buying a new one.
"I put in about 20 hours a week and the hard work and patience it takes," he says.
Board wants student fee to be raised
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
In an effort to save the West Campus bus route and to add another night route, the Transportation Board decided last night to reopen a bus service for students fee for an increase in the student activity fee.
The board had requested $366,976 for fiscal
1986, but was allocated $244,343, the same as
the previous year.
Mark Sump, board secretary, said that because the board did not get the increase in financing it had asked for, the board was told to send $40,000 to the fee for a $3 or $4 increase in the activity fee.
Sump said that for this reason, the board thought it necessary to ask for financing in new projects.
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE recently recommended raising the activity fee $1, from $24 to $25, for the 1985-86 school year. The increase this would not benefit the board.
"It's essential that we get this money," Sump said. "If we don't get it, we'll either have to cut back services, raise the price of bus passes, or both."
"There are many groups that are legitimately asking for more money," he said. "But we haven't had an increase in our portion of the activity fee since the board was established in 1800. Since that time, not only have costs increased significantly, but also costs have increased significantly."
The board now gets a $6 portion of the activity fee per full-time equivalent enrollment. Full-time equivalency is calculated by dividing the total number of credit hours by the average course load of undergraduates, which is 10%. We'll likely that the Senate will approve an
"It is likely that the Senate will approve an increase of some amount," he said. "That is important."
The most recent additions to the bus system, Sump said, were the West Campus route and the night route. The future of these routes, as well as the expansion or addition of other routes, he said, would be jeopardized without an increase in revenue.
“Our costs per rider have greatly risen over the past few years, and we plan to make this known to the Finance Committee,” he said. “The price of a bus pass remained at $30 this year. But without more money, an increase is almost inevitable.”
Sump said the board planned to make its proposal at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting.
The board also decided last night to tentatively conduct bus route hearings April
"By this time it's likely that we'll have a good idea of our financial situation and we can then decide what routes can be expanded or cut back," Sump said.
Hearing to decide Alumni Center's tax status
Staff Reporter
By DeNEEN BROWN
The state Board of Tax Appeals will consider arguments next week on whether the Adams Alumni Center should acquire tax-exempt status.
A hearing before the board will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at the State Office Building in Tonga.
The state board will hear arguments from both the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the Douglas County Appraiser's office as to whether the alumni center should be exempt from real estate and property taxes.
The Alumni Association paid half of the amount of its personal and real estate property taxes on the alumni center, 1266 Oread Ave., on Dec. 19 under protest. The actual amount paid was $24,667.39 in real property taxes and $7,240 in personal property taxes.
THE ASSOCIATION OWED $63,822.78 in real estate and personal property taxes but paid half that amount as allowed by state law when a taxpayer pays under protest.
On Wednesday, the board could approve
the protest and refund the taxes paid, or it could deny the protest and the refund and require the Alumni Association to pay the other bail of the taxes.
Don Gordon, Douglas County appraiser,
said yesterday that the board would base its
ruling on whether the alumni center was used
exclusively for educational purposes. If the
building is used solely for educational
purposes, it would be tax exempt.
Gordon said the county's main argument would be that the alumni center was not used exclusively for educational purposes because it private club and restaurant in the center.
"The county feels that the second floor being used as a private club and dining facility jeopardizes that exclusive use," Gordon said. "We can't see a connection between that exclusive educational use and a social setting, seems to be more social than educational."
FRED WILLIAMS, EXECUTIVE director of the Alumni Association, said he had no comment on the case.
"It would be asking us to give the play that one team would have to the other team before the game."
Brad Smoot, an attorney for the Alumni
Association, also said he had no comment regarding the argument in the summit Association.
"I can't comment on our case." Smoot said. "We want to let the Board of Tax Appeals to be the first one to hear and judge our case."
But Smoot had said last month that the Alumni Association would base its arguments on a clause in Kansas law that said employers cannot discriminate against educational purposes would be tax exempt.
HE HAD SAID that the association would use the 1984 Kansas Supreme Court decision that ruled the National Collegiate Athletic Association's offices in Johnson County were tax exempt because they were used to benefit education.
The court concluded in that case that the NCAA was involved in regulating and promoting intercollegiate athletic events and sponsored sports used exclusively for the benefit of education.
But Gordon said the emphasis of that case was the clause "exclusive educational
Gordon said that the NCAA building had three floors of administrative offices and an employee lunchroom on a lower floor.
"But the private club in the alumni center is entirely different from a lunch room for employee use," he said. "The county has a hard time seeing the benefit of education in a private club."
GORDON SAID HE and Daniel Young, the attorney for the county, and Smoot toured the Alumni Center yesterday.
"It's a fantastic facility — very nice," he said, "but I don't think it's exclusively educational. The third floor might be of educational benefit, but it's the first and second floors that I have questions about — especially the second floor."
Until 1983, the Alumni Association's office was in the Kansas Union, which made it exempt from personal and property taxes.
In 1893, when the Alumni Association moved to the alumni center, the tax-exempt status was lost. The land that the alumni center now sits on was owned by the Kansas University Endowment Association until it was transferred to the Alumni Association.
Before the move, the land was used as a University parking lot, which made it exempt from taxes. But when the use of the land changed, it lost its tax exemption.
APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED
for Student Senate Elections Committee
B105 of the Kansas Union
—paid for by Student Senate—
Deadline for applications is 5 p.m., March 1, 1985
For more info call 864-3710
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