Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1963 University Daily Kansar
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STUDENT COLLECTION—Art coordinator William Ittmann, right, Cincinnati, Ohio, senior, and his assistant, Kaye Whitaker, Wichita junior, hang "Ban the Bomb," a silk screen poster by Ben Shahn owned by Stephen Baratz, KU graduate student.
Art collecting, a field formerly reserved for millionaires and art museums, has now been invaded by students.
The Exhibit of Prints and Drawings from Student Collections, from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the KU Museum of Art, will demonstrate this point.
William Ittmann, Cincinnati, Ohio, senior and coordinator of the exhibit, said the 40 prints and drawings, and several displays are owned by KU students. He also said the displays were valuable as art objects.
SOME OF the works included a 1946 Albrect Durer engraving of a pig walking outside a castle's walls and a 1962 William Fuhri charcoal drawing, "The Rich Giving Alms to the Poor.", Paintings by Van Dyke, Picasso and Rembrandt will also be shown.
A 2,000-year-old bronze bird from Persia, American sandwich glass dating to the 1840's and an 1880 Portuguese tureen in the shape of a cabbage are some other exhibits. Display cases will also contain books, ceramics, glassware and silverware.
Ittmann said some of the books contained original lithographs and drawings by famous painters.
THE IDEA of a student owning an art collection is new, Ittmann said. "Most people consider art-collecting the pastime of art museums and rich people. It is a new idea to think about a student of limited means buying art objects." Ittmann said.
He said an original painting or drawing costs only a little more than a poor reproduction, so it is possible to be an art collector without being a millionaire.
Watson Library Work Nears Final Stages
Ittmann said he hopes the exhibit will stimulate some student interest in art and art collecting as a possible hobby.
Construction of the new additions to Watson library is nearing completion, according to John Glinka, assistant director of the library.
"The contractors who are building the addition to the stacks on the southwest part of the library say they will be finished by late December or early January," he said.
"The addition on the east of the library will be completed sometime in February, and we plan a dedication ceremony sometime in March."
PARTS OF THE new east wing are already in use, with the Photographic Bureau and some of the library offices moved in to their new quarters about a month ago.
When construction is finally completed, some of the familiar names in the library will no longer exist. The undergraduate reading room will be converted into general study area, and the only books in this area will be those at the reserve desk.
The education library will have ceased to exist. The space once occupied by this will become offices for the directors of Watson.
The main reading room of the library will be in the new east wing on the first floor, Glinka said the walls of the reading room will be lined with books like the old undergraduate library, but he expects that a more diversified selection of books will be available.
"If we can get these books into one room." said Glinka, "we can get them within 48 hours for people who wish to check them out. We currently have to send someone running across campus to look in these storage places to get one of these books."
WITH ALL OF the added space, the library will attent to move its "dead book" collection into Watson.
The "dead books" are those which are out of print or hard to obtain by ordinary methods. At the present time these books are stored all over the campus wherever space is available.
Watson library will have several new features when construction is finally completed. Most of the top floor will be seminar rooms and areas for faculty research. A public elevator will run from the basement to the top floor.
STUDENTS MAY have noticed little booths along the walls which look like phone booths. These are going to be used for students who
want to bring their typewriters with them to the library,
In these booths, they will be able to use their typewriters without disturbing anyone.
Air conditioning will be provided for the entire library during the late spring and summer months.
The new additions to the library will increase its capacity by an estimated 475,000 books. The present capacity is about 550,000.
At least one room will be returned to its normal function after construction is finished. The smoking room will be put into use after the Kansas book collection is moved to its new quarters.
Engineers Start New Program
The American Society of Civil Engineers is attempting a new program in which high school seniors are informed as to what they can expect in college, and are given an appreciation of engineering as a profession.
The ASCE is compiling a folder that will contain information on all departments in engineering for the representatives to follow.
Sherwood said they would discuss each department of engineering and answer all questions that the student may have.
According to Bob Sherwood, Kansas City senior and a member of ASCE, the purpose is to "interest the high school senior in the appreciation of engineering as a profession, and to inform him of the necessary qualifications that are required of him as a college student."
THE PROGRAM will send three representatives to high schools, and they will conduct seminars for all seniors interested in engineering.
"We've sent out 50 letters to high schools so far and we've received 40 per cent acceptance." Sherwood said.
The seminars will be conducted during the semester break, and later during the spring vacation.
"WE HOPE to send out 50 more letters before Christmas,' he said.
The program was given to the ASCE by the engineering student council as a pilot program to find out if such a program would be successful.
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Peace Corps Exam Scheduled Saturday
A national, non-competitive examination for entrance into the Peace Corps will be given at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Lawrence post office.
John Fairhurst, Wichita senior and KU Peace Corps committee chairman, said anyone over the age of 18, married or single, may take the test.
Fairhurst said married couples may serve together, but added that they may not have any dependents under the age of 18 years.
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