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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.151
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Mike Boring, secretary in the University Theatre, and Amanda Clark. Lawrence senior, rehearse songs for the preshow of Kansas Summer Theatre's "As You Like It," by William Shakespeare. The production, directed by John Gronbeck-Tedesco, acting chairperson for the theater and film department, is set in the 1930s. Shows are at 8 p.m. July 10-12 and 17-19 in the round on the Crafton-Preyer Theatre stage.
Strong winds and a defective flange, or connecting collar, may have caused radio station KANU 91.5 FM to go off the air Saturday about midnight, station officials said.
KANU off air 36 hours
Sam Chapman, director of engineering, said a flange at the bottom of the transmitter tower loosened, causing air and moisture to enter the pressurized transmitter line.
The damage was not as serious as presumed initially and was easily fixed, he said.
"We fixed it within two or three hours after we found the problem," said Bob Prellwitz, owner of Hayden Tower Service. Topeka.
Prelwitz said the repair was estimated to cost about $1,000.
The station resumed broadcasting Monday about noon.
WEATHER
tomorrow
Mostly sunny/slight chance for showers
High: 85-90
Low: mid-70s
Partly cloudy/slight chance of thunderstorms
High: low 80s
Low: upper 60s
Friday
Sunday
Party cloudy/chance of thunderstorms High: 90
increasing chance of thunderstorms
High: mid 90s
Low: low 60s
Cross
Low upper coul. | Low lower coul.
Source: The Associated Press
Increasing chance of thunderstorms
High: low 90s
Low: high 20-35
Rainy flore Kansan
Program aims to introduce art into teaching
By Carmen Phelps Special to the Kansan
Incorporating art into classroom teaching may become possible for professors in all departments at the University of Kansas as a result of a program being developed by Marilyn Stokstad, distinguished professor of art history, and the Spencer Museum of Art's education staff.
Stokstad will return to KU in the fall to begin facilitating the program, which will be designed to encourage professors in various fields to use artwork in their classrooms. The professors will be instructed in areas such as interaction with art and objective analysis.
Andrea Norris, director of the art museum, said that through the program, which is entitled "The University in the Museum," professors may discover ways to relate art to their fields.
"We want to introduce professors to collections and find ways of integrating art into different departments," she said.
Norris said that as faculty members in other programs learned to integrate the museum collections into their courses, more students would learn that art relates to learning and life.
Pat Villeneuve, curator of education,
said that aesthetic scanning, a technique
used to encourage interaction with art,
would be a useful method for professors
who found an interest in the program.
Using this approach to understand art is
necessary if people are to analyze artwork
objectively, she said.
"Aesthetic scanning is a simplified version of formal analysis leading toward
interpretation," Villeneuve said. "It's a strategy for looking at and talking about art objectively. Using this method, anybody looking at art will be enabled to figure out what it is that they are seeing.
"Many adults and young people alike haven't learned what art is about. Aesthetic scanning would give all professors a way of understanding something that they're never seen. They may learn that arts, along with their field of study, may complement each other."
Norris said that Carl Kurt, professor of structural engineering, gave his students assignments which required them to go to the art museum at least once. Kurt said that one of the themes of his computer graphics course was communication and how to
convey information graphically.
"The University in the Museum" is one of several programs being developed by the art museum. The program will be financed by a $165,000 grant the museum received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
"This grant both recognizes the excellent reputation of the Spencer as a teaching museum and provides new opportunities for us to explore using the collections for University education," Norris said.
Pigeon plague causes a stink
Tina Kienklen, office specialist in the department of pharmaceutical chemistry, scrapes pigeon feces from a window ledge outside her office in Malot Hall. The office asked facilities operations in March to clean up the feces. Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations, said the area would not be cleaned until the pigeons could be removed from the area.
By Doug Hesse
Special to the Kansar
Accountants in the office of pharmaceutical chemistry in Malott Hall have been raising a stink about pigeons that roost near their windows. Yesterday, after donning lab coats and rubber gloves, they scraped pigeon feces from the window ledges.
"The smell was coming through the closed windows," said Tina Klenklen, office specialist in the department. "We were just tired of smelling this stuff." She said that the hot weather caused the odor to intensify.
The problem has existed for a long time, but the windows, which overlook a courtyard, were locked and no one knew where the keys were.
Out of desperation,yesterday someone in the office tried an old key, which opened the windows. Employees used bleach, disinfectant, sponges and putty knives to scrape the pigeon feec off the ledges.
"We tried to go through the right channels," said Pat Williams, accountant in the department. "We sent our answers on March 20 to request cleaning."
After other letters and faxes, facilities operations still had not cleaned the windows or ledges. Williams said.
Haleh Taghavi, an accounting research assistant in the pharmaceutical chemistry department who helped get rid of the feces, said that cleaning windows was not in her job.
"At least now it reeks of bleach and of nippon noon," she said.
hot of pigeon pop, she said. Facilities operations decided there was no reason to have the windows cleaned if there was no way to get rid of the pigeons, said Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping.
"If we cleaned them now, they would be messed up by the time
school starts up in the fall," he said. Facilities operations wants to get rid of the pigeons first, so that cleanup occurs only once.
"We've tried every commercial device we could find to get rid of the pigeons," said Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations. "We are about to try a device that has worked well in Disneyland."
Facilities operations plans to string fishing line across the opening above the courtyard, in hopes that the strings scare the nigons away.
Contracting to have the windows cleaned would cost $900 to $1,000, Richardson said. To avoid the smell, the cleaning would have to be repeated nearly every month.
If the strings work, the pigeons probably will roost elsewhere, simply moving the problem, said Mike Russell, Environmental Health and Safety.
Besides being unightly, the pigeons create a potential health hazard. Russell said. Histoplasmosis, a disease transferred to humans through bird feces, is one of the potential risks. It is a type of respiratory disease caused by breathing in a large amount of fungus that grows in the feces.
Williams does not have histoplasmosis, but she has been on medication for a lung infection for several months, she said. "If you want to live in a healthy environment, you have to do some strange things."
In some places, the floor of the courtyard is about a foot deep in feces, Williams and Endacott said.
Endacott said he thought the toxic chemicals stored in Malott were a greater health concern than the pigeon feces.
But Russell said air intakes near the feces could present a health hazard.
Police prepare for anti-abortion rally
KU expects calm crowd of 15,000
By Anne Grego
Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas police do not expect confrontation when 15,000 anti-abortion activists attend a rally Saturday in Memorial Stadium and around 1,000 pro-choice activists gather on the Hill.
"Both groups are conscientiously trying to minimize problems," said Lt. John Mullens of the KU police. "Both groups are non-violent or not into civil disobedience."
20,000 people attended the rally at Wichita State's Cessna Stadium during the height of Wichita's anti-abortion protests.
The groups directly involved with Saturday's rally are in contact with the KU police.
extra KU police will be patrolling the event, Mullens said, adding that a policy prohibited disclosing the number of officers beforehand.
Capt. John Davis of the Wichita State University police said a similar rally last summer was held without incident. About
The average attendance at a football game last year was 34,800, and a sold-out basketball game at Allen Field House draws 15,800 people, according to sports information records.
"We have enough people to handle the size of a crowd in the stadium," he said.
Lawrence police will help regulate traffic after the event. Mullens said.
The Parking Department will be charging
the standard $2-a-car rate for parking to pay for the extra employees needed to handle the event, said Donna Hutine, assistant director of the Parking Department.
The department will block off Memorial Drive and parking lots surrounding the stadium Saturday morning, she said.
"We're going to handle it just like a football game," said Jeff Ely of the Parking Department.
Mullens said Saturday's event was considerably more stable than a sporting event.
Saturday's weather concerns University officials.
"The biggest issue is the heat," said Ann Eversole, director of the Organizations and Activities Center.
The National Weather Service in Topeka predicts that Saturday's temperature will
be in the under 80s to low 90s
Mullens said the heat could be a problem and lead to medical emergencies such as heat strokes.
The University has one other concern—the football field's artificial turf.
The turf was installed two years ago at a cost of $650,000, said Darren Cook, supervisor of facilities for the Athletic Department.
"We have a major investment in the turf," he said.
The department required the rally sponsors to hire temporary employees to regulate who goes on the field.
The University Events Committee has also required the Kansans for Life and Lawrence Kansans for Life, the sponsors of the rally in the stadium, to purchase event insurance to cover any damages.
CAMPUS SNAPSHOT
Campaign Kansas exceeds goal by $113 million
By Chris Moeser
Kansan staff writer
Campaign Kansas, the largest fundraising drive ever conducted by a Kansas university or college, concluded June 30 with donations to the University of Kansas totaling $262.9 million.
That total exceeds the original goal, set in 1987. by $112.9 million.
Campaign Kansas, a five-year plan to increase private financing at KU, began July 1, 1987, with a goal of $150 million. In September 1989, the campaign executive board raised the goal to $177 million.
Donations will help finance 29 distin
guished professorships and endowed chairs, technological materials for two engineering laboratories and more than 200 scholarship funds, including $1.9 million for minority scholarships.
Of the $262.9 million pledged, 63 percent consisted of cash donations, 17 percent was to be paid over time, 11 percent was deferred and will be realized through life insurance, wills or trusts, and 9 percent was gifts directly to KU.
Campaign Kansas met its goals in five of nine areas:
A goal of $22 million received $40 million for endowed chairs, distinguished professorships and faculty development.
Goals of $20 million for scholarships and $3 million for scholarship halls received $28 million
An objective of $6 million raised $8 million for libraries
A goal of $19.5 million raised $29.3 million for athletic facilities expansion, Memorial Campanile renovation and Lied Center construction.
An $11 million goal for programs such as the Kansas Eye Bank, a home care and teaching hospice, the Hall Center for the Humanities and international programs received $47.6 million.
Objectives were not met in four areas:
A $14 million objective for laboratory and computer acquisitions got $10.5 million.
- A $6 million goal for the Spencer Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Anthropology received $4.4 million
A $3.5 million goal for unrestricted use received $37.8 million.
More than $43 million was donated for projects not included in campaign priorities.
A $9 million goal for University of Kansas Medical Center construction received $4.2 million.