CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 7, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
JRP to be closed this summer
Joseph R. Pearson Hall will be closed this summer for kitchen renovation and elevator remodeling, the director of housing said yesterday.
Because of the remodeling, director J. J. Wilson said, the housing department has proposed opening Ellsworth Hall for this year's summer school residents. JRP usually is the only residence hall open during the summer session.
The B.A. Green Construction Co. was awarded a $116,240 contract to renovate JRP's kitchen. Wilson said.
Wilson said new equipment would be installed to help in the preparation and serving of food. Also, he said, new walk-in refrigerators would be installed.
While the hall is closed down, Wilson said, the elevators will be removed. U.S. Elevator Co. was awarded a $44,000 contract to remodel JR3's elevator.
Salaries to be topic of meeting
A meeting to discuss Gov. John Carlin's salary recommendations for classified employees will be at 7 tonight at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Norman St.
Charles Dodson, executive director of the Kansas Association of Public Employees, will talk about the 6 percent salary case recommended for state employees.
The recommendation has been criticized by employees who said the plan would not revive it.
Man, 19, charged in stabbing
HERINGTON - A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection with the stabbing death and robbery of a 26-year-old Hertington man whose body was found in his home shortly after 3 a.m. yesterday, authorities said.
Patrick Howell, Herington, was being held last night in the Dickinson County Jail in Abilene in lieu of $250,000 bond on charges of first-degree murder, felony assault and aggravated burglary and aggrivated assault in the stabbing death of Fred E. Herbel.
Authorities say Herbel was repeatedly stabbed in the neck and chest. An autopsy on Herbel's body was due to be performed last night in Wichita.
2 profs get Fulbright grants
Frank Baron, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, and Barry W. Festoff, associate professor of neurology at the College of Health Sciences, last month received Fulbright grants to conduct research abroad.
Baron, who is in Budapest, Hungary, until July, will study the connection between Wolfgang Talhauser, a Hungarian doctor, and Paracelsus, a Swiss physician and scientist of the Renaissance.
Festoff, who is in Paris until July, will research the neuromuscular junction in mutant mice and in human pathological conditions.
The Fulbright program is administered by the International Communication Agency and includes more than 100 countries.
Roy Stewart/KANSAN
ASK to discuss drinking age
At the meeting, ASK chapter members will prepare for a legislative assembly Sunday at Washburn University in Topeka. Representatives from the six ASK chapters in Kansas will be at the assembly to discuss policy and lobbying practices and to hear a legislative update from ASK officials.
The KU Chapter of Associated Students of Kansas will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Council Room of the Kansas Union to discuss the drinking age legislation now before the Kansas Senate and House of Representatives.
Today will be partly sunny. The high will be in the low to mid-20s. Winds will be from the southeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be fair. The low tonight will be 0 to 5 below. The high tomorrow will be in the mid-to upper 20s.
Class forsakes books for creativity
Compiled from Kansas staff and United Press International reports.
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
Weather
While the use of textbooks may be a way of life for most students at the University of Kansas, it's not for everyone. For those students enrolled in VisCom 550, books and studying clearly are two of the last things on their minds.
VisCom 550 is a class like no other. There is no syllabus. There are no lectures. And other than a weekly meeting, there is no required time for students to attend. It might sound like the perfect class.
Not necessarily, students in the class say
"It's terribly grueling work," said Jenny Faw, Manhattan senior. "It's ruined my social life."
VisCorn 550, The Arts, is a group of 13 Fine Arts students who work as interns for the University. They design, produce and supervise just about every printed piece of promotional matter that comes out of Murphy Hall.
Lisa Wilkerson, Andover senior, sits at a desk surrounded by her artwork. Wilkerson designed three of the posters on the back wall: Native American Women and Families, Mozart and The King Lear Project. She said the Wheaties poster was just for inspiration.
THE PROGRAM WAS established six years ago as a way to unify the design for promotional materials for performing arts faculty and senior, and coordinator of The Arts.
The interns for The Arts are chosen for their ability to design and produce printed works.
“It’s not necessary that they have taken any particular prerequisite,” she said. “There’s no real age or class requirement. Although it’s encouraged they take design advice, it is not required. They’re selected solely the basis of the portfolios they submit.”
The Arts' adviser, Jerry Moore, associate dean of fine arts, said that both faculty and students had been very receptive to the program.
"THE ARTS HAS Gone over tremendously," Moore said. "I have people call me up all the time asking if the program could be expanded so that the students could work on projects other than just teaching." He says space and enrollment restrictions, I have to tell them that we just can't take on any more work."
"This class often feels like a full-time job," said Lisa Wilkerson. Andover senior, deadlines, the pressures, the clients, all major jobs very demanding, and very frustrating."
The interns receive six hours of credit for designing and producing posters, programs, ads and window displays for all New Hall theatre and music productions.
FAW, WHO IS a returning intern from law school, and produced two or three projects a semester.
"Just recently I've done the promotion for the Guarneri string quartet and the Blue Horses Theatre for Young People," she said. "And right now I'm working on the spring chamber choir concert program commemorating the 300-year anniversary of Brahms and Handel."
The students sketch their own designs and then present them to both Moore and the artist.
Students work with the directors and conductors of the plays and concerts who, based on their budgets, set the amount of money to be used for the project.
"MAKING THINGS TO everyone is approval is when the frustration comes back again and again it means going back again and again it means that person's liking. It's disheartening
Bolter said that although tears and frustration were commonplace for The Arts interns, most students agreed that it would have been better to have they could obtain while still in school.
sometimes, but I guess that's what it is like in the real world."
"These students now have something significant to put in their portfolios," she said. "This experience will definitely help them get a job. Most of the students have gained a much greater knowledge of the business."
Aging U.S. needs study director says
By PATRICIA SKALLA Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Walter Crockett, the director, said no center helped to increase the understanding of the elderly by aiding students and faculty in their interest in and were researching the elderly.
The increasing number of elderly in the United States have created a need to better understand what affects the lifetimes of the aging, the director of the KU Gerontology Center said yesterday.
In 1977, Crockett said, some faculty members said that a formal gerontology office was needed because Kansas had one of the largest elderly populations in the nation.
"It it became obvious that Kansas needed such a thing," Crockett said. "We try to coordinate programs in the University that are concerned with aging."
A GERONIOLOGY major is not offered at the University of Kansas, Crockett said. Courses that deal with aging are listed in the College Catalog, and actually are offered by other departments.
Graduate students interested in the elderly may concentrate in gerontology by taking 12 credit hours in courses about the aging. The student also must have practical experience in clinical work or research with the aging.
The concentration in gerontology was informal until its recent approval by the Board of Regents, Crockett said. The formal program won't begin until next semester, but now are deciding what curriculum requirements will be necessary for the concentration.
Jan Jess, the assistant director in the field practicum office in the School of Social Welfare, earned her master's degree in sociology concentrated in gerontology at the University.
SHE SAID SHE chose the program because she had always wanted to work with the eldery, and the program offered a practicum in the field.
As the field director, Jess sees many social welfare students who are deciding to concentrate on work with the elderly. Students are realizing that in 20 to 30 years a large elderly population will spawn many job opportunities in gerontology.
Lynn Osterkamp, research associate for the gerontology center, said people realized that the elderly needed more services. The older adults were aging, she said, and people are living longer.
Crockett said the center did not help only students; it also encouraged teachers to teach classes on the aging and supported those who are researching the elderly.
The center helps the faculty by informing them about what the federal government and other agencies concerned with activities of the elderly. Crockett said. By keeping the information, the center brings people together who are researching the same subject.
The future of the gerontology center needs promising, not only because of the increased interest in gerontology, but also because the gerontologist is the bureau of child research. Crockett said.
Bequests are a popular form of giving to KU
Graduates remember students in their wills
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas lingers in the minds of many of its graduates beyond the last step of their commencement walk. Some even remember long enough to include KU in their wills.
The Kansas University Endowment Association received more than $3 million in bequests last year from alumni and others. The Kansas University Director, planned of giving, said Tuesday.
"OFTEN THE UNCERTAINIES of old age cause people to feel uncomfortable a gift for fear they will need their
gifts which they would not have been able to afford during their lifetime.
to "build a greater University than the state alone can build," he said. "As one chancellor put it, the private support that the alumni lend provides us in the icing on the cake."
Giving by will has become an important part of the University's charitable tradition Bowman said. It helps many donors make
The Endowment Association started the planned giving program, formerly called deferred giving, to help alumni who wanted to gift to KU after their death, Bowman said.
'Often the uncertainties of old age cause people to feel uncomfortable making a gift for fear they will need their money.'
— Laird Bowman director of planned giving
money" Bowman said. "They feel more comfortable putting it in their will."
The Endowment Association, which receives no state money, was chartered in 1891 as a nonprofit corporation. It was established to encourage, receive, invest and administer gifts to benefit the University, Bowman said. The Endowment Association is
Although most of the bequests come from KU alumni, many come from people who have no apparent affiliation with the University, Bowman said.
RECENTLY, THE UNIVERSITY received $500,000 from a woman in Newton who had no apparent connection with KU, he said.
"She wasn't on our alumni records."
Bowman said. The Endowment Association had never heard of her until it was notified that the money had been left.
Many students hear of the bequests left to the University, he said, but they may have only a vague idea that the money provides loans and scholarships for students.
Last year the Endowment Association provided to KU $4.2 million in scholarships and issued 6,500 student loans totaling $2.5 million.
Other bequests help the University provide money for distinguished professorships, which allow the University to hold on to their faculty by supplementing their salaries.
Other bequests have provided money to help build the Spencer Research Library, the Spencer Museum of Art and the Adams Alumni Center. About 44 of the 87 buildings on campus were financed partially or totally through private contributions.
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