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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Kansan
Wednesday
April 29, 1998
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Vol. 108 • No. 147
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David Vertacknik, associate professor of design, evaluates ceramic artwork. Vertacknik looked at ceramics from art students yesterday at the Art and Design Building. Photo by Tara Bradley/KANSAN
Students fire out art for profit in ceramics sale
POTS OF GOLD
By Chris Horton
korton@kansan.com
Konson staff writer
It's time to buy your Mother's Day flowerpot.
The University of Kansas ceramics department will be conducting a ceramics sale tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Judy Arnold, Leavenworth senior and participant in the sale, said the sale would feature works from about 12 advanced ceramics students at the junior, senior or graduate student levels.
A group of ceramics professors evaluated the technical aspects of the students' works yesterday, she said. If the jury found a technical flaw, the piece would not be eligible to be entered into the sale, Arnold said.
The sale will take place on the lawn north of the Art and Design building, weather permitting. If it is raining, the sale will be in the building's snack bar area on the third floor.
"The proceeds will go to benefit the ceramics department for visiting artists, new equipment and program enrichment." Arnold said.
"It's a variety of sculptural and functional work, ranging from colorfully painted low-fire surfaces to the mellow earth tones of salt- and wood-fire surfaces." Arnold said.
The sale will offer a wide range of work, she said.
Griffitt, a ceramics major with works available at the sale, said that ceramics was an appealing medium to express himself artistically and that he enjoyed the elements of clay and fire.
Bob Griffitt, Topeka junior, said the students submitting the ceramic art would determine the price of their works.
He said the process he used to create a ceramic piece involved throwing, or forming, the object on a potter's wheel, which was followed by several other stages.
CERAMICS SALE
Where: On the lawn north of the Art and Design building. If it rains, the sale will take place in the building's snack bar area on the third floor.
Prices of ceramic works will be determined by the students who submit them.
Whose work: About 12 advanced ceramics students at the junior, senior or graduate student University levels.
■ When: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow
Griffith's ceramic works are baked in a kiln at 2300 degrees Fahrenheit, he said. During the glaze stage, he bakes the ceramics at 1900 F. Griffith said that working with fire was his favorite aspect of ceramics.
"After I throw it, I let it dry for a few days and then fire it, glaze it and fire it again," he said.
The flexibility of clay, both physically and aesthetically, attracted Suzy Sharp, Overland Park senior, to major in ceramics.
"Like that you can build functional things as well as sculptures." Sharp said.
She said the University was lucky to have two kinds of kilns for its ceramics students. The two varieties of kilns are wood-fire and salt-fire, she said.
The salt-fire kiln is the more modern method of glazing a ceramic work, she said. The kiln is fueled with natural gas and receives salt on the second firing, which replaces the need for a glaze and gives the baked clay a bumpy quality.
"The salt acts like a glaze itself," Sharp said. "It's a cool process."
"You have to keep feeding wood to the fire," Sharp said. "It's old-fashioned — it's how it used to be done."
Sharp also will have works in the sale, she said.
A wood-fire kiln, which gives baked clay a drippy ash look, is more much labor-intensive, she said.
Textbook theft on rise near end of semester
The end of the semester is nearing,
and textbooks are a hot commodity.
By Laura Roddy
lroddy@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
"It's a time we see more thefts of books," said Sgt. Kerry Keary of the KU Public Safety Office. "It's also a time when you really need your books."
Book buyback happens all year, but most students wait until they finish their finals to sell back books to bookstores. The Public Safety Office and area bookstores say that it is easier for students to protect textbooks from being stolen than to try to recover them after a theft.
"Don't leave them unattended for any amount of time." Keary said.
If students have to leave their property, he said, they should leave it only with a trusted friend.
PREVENTING TEXTBOOK THEFT
The area bookstores do a good job of trying to identify possible stolen textbooks, but students also can identify books in some unique manner, Keary said. For instance, students
Tips for avoiding and dealing with textbook thieves
- Don't leave your backpack, or any other property, unattended
- Personally identify books with a name in a place other than the inside cover
- Report thefts to the police as soon as possible
can write their KUID number on a particular page.
Mike Reid, manager of the KU Bookstores, said that it was better to choose a location other than the inside cover to personalize textbooks because that was the first place thieves looked.
Keith Kielman, Jayhawk Bookstore's textbooks manager, said that employees would become suspicious if a student brought in multiple copies of the same textbook. Someone bringing in a mixture of books, such as an upper-level engineering text and an introduction-level math book, also would arouse suspicion, he said.
"If somebody sells back too much, I'm going to question it," Kielman said.
Reid said that all of the area bookstores tried to share information to help reduce thefts and that books reported stolen could be flagged in the stores' systems.
Reid said that if someone seemed suspicious, the KU Bookskoles did not have to buy the textbooks back or could offer an extremely low price and get the student's KUID number to report to the police.
Kielman said that book theft in Lawrence could be worse.
"I think you'll see a lot more theft in cities where there are a lot of campuses in town," he said.
Lexi Flower, St. Louis freshman, said that students should be smart about their property.
"In general, I keep my stuff with me,
but I don't lose sell over it," she said.
Cold, rain won't go away
Low temperatures settle in Kansas for next few days
By Sara Anderson sanderson@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
If you're saving something for a cold, rainy day, here your chance.
"Normally, winds move from east to west, so you will get little thunderstorms and they move on," he said. "But this system is separated from the general atmospheric flow and is showing no signs of going anywhere. It's just sitting here."
Usunually cold temperatures have settled across the South Central Plains this week, said Steve Kays, meteorologist for the National Weather Service. He said temperatures would stay cold until the current storm system moved out.
last weekend and that 70 was a normal temperature for this time of year.
Kays said that the front moved in
Tory Howze, Lenexa sophomore,
said she did not like the cold weather,
but she was not surprised by it.
melt temperature for this time of year:
"It was in the 80s on Saturday, and it's in the 40s now," Kays said. "We usually have a big difference in temperatures from daytime to night, but now there is only a couple of degrees difference. Until the clouds move out and we get some sunshine, temperatures will stay the same."
"It's supposed to be spring and warm outside, but I guess it's Kansas, so it will probably be snowing tomorrow," she said. "It was unusually warm in the fall though, so I guess we're paying for it now."
"This is common during the spring time because it's kind of a transition time between seasons," he said. "It doesn't happen in the summer or winter as much, but in the spring it's normal."
Kays said this type of weather was not unusual for this time of year.
The system should move out tomor-
WEATHER FACTS
The system is supposed to move out tomorrow. Weekend weather should be mild and dry, with highs in the 70s.
Temperatures should stay around the 40s until the storm system moves out.
row, and weekend temperatures should be mild with highs in the 70s.
"We've checked the report, and it's supposed to be a great weekend," he said. "Unless it needs to be canceled because it is dangerous with all the equipment, the show will go on."
Matt Twweit, Hutchinson junior,
said he hoped warm weather would
return.
"It makes it seem like school is going to drag on forever," he said.
I have to pay for this, too?
Jennifer Herren, Heisington senior, tries on graduation gowns at the Kansas Union Bookstore. Commencement exercises will be at 2:30 p.m. May 17. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
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