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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 19, 1993
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Louis Michel, architecture and urban design professor, and long time admirer of Michelangelo, stands next to a picture of David. Michel is doing research on how light affects different materials.
Professor exhibits bright idea
By Will Lewis
Kansan staff writer
Lights dimmed and lights brightened inside the miniature model of a museum.
A figurine at the end of the corridor transformed from a white blur into a carefully sculpted piece of art.
The model is a part of a lab full of lights and gadgets used by Louis Michel, KU professor of archi
At his Light and Space Laboratory in the Lindsey Annex, Michel is able to demonstrate how different kinds of light can change the appearance of paint, wall fabrics, wood paneling and other surfaces.
Michel, who started building the lab 15 years ago, uses demonstration models to show how the human eye sees architectural space and how light affects these spaces. The models allow his students to observe and test different lighting of interior architecture.
The Luminance-Brightness Rating system he crea predicts how the color and brightness of diff
different materials varies under different lighting.
Michel hopes paint and interior fabric industries will adopt his system and note brightness on all their samples, which would give a better indication of what the final product would look like.
With the system, architects, interior designers and lighting engineers would be able to work with different technologies.
"One of these professions can work against the other unknowingly," he said.
To demonstrate, Michel inserted a sample piece of cherry paneling into one of his devices and showed how it host its warmth under fluorescent light on the same sample made it look like a different
"These changes can be subtle or extreme," he said.
Michel said the key to his system was taking the nature of people into consideration when designing it.
"My orientation is human-centered, not style-cen-
tered," he said.
"I don't go by what they're doing in New York, I go by what is good for the vision and comfort of human beings. I want my work to contribute toward humanizing architecture, which it desperately needs these days."
Michel said he had learned a lot by talking to professors in other fields such as architectural engineering and psychology.
His research and teaching recently earned him an award from the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C.
"You really benefit when you talk to other people who are specialists in fields related to your own"
Michel is negotiating with a publisher on a book he has written on architectural space and light theory. The book will be the first of its kind.
But the completion of his book does not mean his work is done.
"I don't want three months to go by without a major advance in the growth of the lab," Michel said.
State,KU officials discuss budget
By Ben Grove
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
KU officials and Lawrence legislators met Saturday morning in the first of their monthly meetings to discuss strategies for advocating for the University's needs.
The meeting's guest speaker, state budget director Gloria Timmer, outlined the budget process and what had recommended for the University.
Much of what Timner said was not new. But the setting in which she spoke was important.
Lawrence legislators and KU officials meet one Saturday morning each month. Much of the time is spent discussing how much money the University is likely to get.
Budig keeps that relationship close through Jon Josserand, assistant for governmental relations, who is Budig's communication link to the Statehouse.
"Our approach is a team approach," Chancellor Gene Budig said. "We have legislators who understand the complexities of the University of Kansas. We will work closely with our representatives."
Before the meeting, Josserand said he expected to keep in daily contact with Lawrence representatives, especially State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, who served on the House appropriations committee.
The committee eventually drafts appropriation bills that include budget recommendations for state agencies, such as the Regents universities.
Sometimes Josserand briefs Charlton.
Charlton was joined at Saturday's meeting by state representatives Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, and Forrest Swall, D-Lawrence.
Timmer's comments focused on Finney's budget proposals, released Jan. 12, which include a 3-percent increase in faculty and unclassified staff salaries and a 5-percent increase in student salaries.
Later, Timmer said that the governor had a number of recommendations she wanted untouched, including several recommendations for money for Regents universities.
A King's Day
Celebrations honoring civil rights leader leave sponsors hopeful for positive change
By Angela Sclara
Kansan staff writer
Sponsors of this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Day events are pleased with how the weekend's activities turned out and are hopeful about their effect on the community.
"This is the best we have done in an eight-year time period," said the Rev. Charles Kennybrew, coordinator of the on the weekend's activities, which included a banquet, gospel programs and films.
The activities had a positive effect on the community, said the Rev. William Dulin, president of the Ecumenical Fellowship, a co-sponsor of the week's activities.
"People's minds won't change overnight, but hopefully people will take a look at themselves, and there will be a gradual opening of minds and hearts," he said.
The kickoff to the celebration commemo, rating the life and teachings of the civil rights activist was a banquet Saturday at the Kansas Union with keynote speaker Susan Taylor, editor-in-chief of *Essence* magazine.
Taylor made a call for action to the audi-
ence, telling audience members to pick an issue and fight for it.
Norman Yetman, professor of sociology and American studies, heard Taylor's message loud and clear.
"She challenged people to address the problems in our own community," Yetman said.
Kennybrew said the young people at the banquet were responsive to Taylor's message.
"Afterwards, they wanted to interview her and talk to her more," he said. "She challenged us to make a change."
But Kennybrew was quick to add that change would not happen quickly.
"It may not happen overnight," he said.
"But she planted the seed, and now they will think about the message — it will eventually take hold."
James Baucom, president of Black Student Union, said he thought Taylor called for change one step at a time.
"She called on people to pick one cause, spend time with that cause, invest in it and make a difference," he said.
The Original King Kids of Texas sang at the Plymouth Congregational Church yesterday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Kathleen Driscoll / KANSAN
The Lawrence High School Theater Department and the Lawrence High School Black Student Union are working on a production, "T-Money and Wolf," a play addressing dual themes: value problems in contemporary urban America and Nazi's racist ideology in the German youth of World War II. Kryndra Jones, left, who plays a nun acquainted with Terry, played by Richard Thomas, right, chastises him for choosing to work for a drug dealer.
Doug Hesse / KANSAN
About 50 people attended the "I Have a Dream" multi-media presentation at Smith Hall yesterday, which featured a panel of KU faculty and students.
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