CAMPUS AND AREA
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University Daily Kansan, January 25. 1984
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A solitary figure carrying a briefcase walks across the frozen Campanile hill. The man was traversing the snowy hill last week
Educators oppose increase in school day
By United Press International
TOPEKA — A bill to lengthen the Kansas school day by 15 minutes looks as if it will be short-lived.
Educators told the House Education Committee yesterday that schools could make better use of existing time and adding time to the required school day.
John Koepek of the Kansas Association of School Boards said ways to improve time use should be examined first.
"Before we begin recommending lengthening the school day or year, let's make sure we are doing our best to utilize the existing school day to the maximum extent possible," Kopek said. "It is premature to implement a
proposal that is cosmetic."
CRAIG GRANT OF THE Kansas-National Education Association said two-thirds of the state's school districts already had extended their school days based on a local assessment of needs. He said decisions on lengthening the days beyond the required six hours should be left to the local districts.
In an interview following the hearings, committee chairman Don Crumbaker, B-Rewster, said he detected little sentiment in favor of the bill and probably would not bring it to a vote.
If the bill does not move out of committee to the full House before the end of the session, it is dead.
In other education action, the Senate Education Committee heard testimony favoring the continuation of statewide
competency testing.
Although testimony before the committee favored continuing minimum competency testing, several groups wanted amendments made to the bill.
KNEA PRESIDENT NANCY Lindberg said her organization did not oppose testing, but wanted to move the last test from the ith to ith grade to give teachers more time to work with students.
The bill before the committee would require competency tests in reading and mathematics to be given in grades two, four, six, eight and 11.
"The purpose of the test should be to see how well a student has done, to be able to help him the next time around," the teacher said of the test should be remediation."
Ms. Lindberg also asked the committee to eliminate the second grade test because it would come too soon in the child's life.
Robert Wootton, speaking on behalf of Gov. John Carlin, said the governor supported the bill but also wanted it to be given in the 10th, not 11th grade.
Wootton also asked that a provision for the expiration of the testing period be made.
State Board of Education member Robert Clemons of Independence said
The Senate committee took no action on the bill. Testimony will continue.
Students giving free advice to area businesses
Staff Reporter
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reporter
Something doesn't usually come for nothing. But through the KU Small Business Institute, small area businesses can receive management counseling free from KU students.
The program, which is financed by the Small Business Administration, offers services to about 30 small businesses a year in northeast Kansas. The program provides a learning experience that students can't get from listening to lectures, the institute's director said.
the institute, said recently that about 40 students were helping to businesses this semester. The number of students required by the business's need
Joyce Claterbos, assistant director of
Under faculty supervision, business, engineering and journalism students are assisting businesses with financial procedures, marketing, sales, expansion, improvement, operating plans and feasibility studies, she said.
JILL CRIAG, ELGIN, III., graduate student, last semester helped a small-business owner who wanted to start an office supply business.
Craig and one other student studied the existing business to find problems.
supply companies to find what made some successful and some not. At the end of the semester, the students wrote presentation for their client.
Marilyn Taylor, associate professor of business, who has been the director of the institute since 1978, said both the small-business owners and participating students benefitted from the program.
For the students, the program provides class credit and an opportunity to apply the theory learned in the classroom to problems in the business environment.
"We refined our skills and learned to emulate with our client." Craig said.
"OUR CLIENT WAS happy with the results. It was rewarding to know that we had helped someone and it would be profitable for him."
"It wasn't like a class where you only deal with one subject at a time.
Claterbos said that since its beginning in 1975, the institute had assisted more than 150 businesses, with a massive distribution to retail and service.
The institute keeps the names of the businesses confidential because many of them don't want their business problems publicly announced, she said.
The institute is now looking for businesses that want assistance during the summer.
Wellsville native's art shows amazing range
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The images Elizabeth Lyton creates with yellow and colored pencils don't go well together (60 in. wide).
Her artwork can't be found in a local discount store, but the 74-year-old Wellsville native has several of her paintings painted in Gow. John Carlin's office the Nebon Art Gallery and Library in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Don Lambert, director of the Topeka Arts Council told a small crowd last week in the Ecumenical Christian Centre, of the admiration he has for Levi.
Layton has been drawing for six
eight hours every day with crayons and
pencils.
SINCE SHE STARTED drawing in 1977, she has received national attention through her art shows in New York City and Washington, D.C. and was featured in the January issue of the Saturday Review of Literature.
"Her drawings are haunting, shocking, charming and often humorous," said Lambert, the author of the article on Lapton.
She shows an artistic range from amazing technical skill to naive so-
ciousness.
"All of her life, she was inflicted with a poor self-image," he said. "So when you were young, you had to
Her life was afflicted with difficult times, leading to near self-destruction, he said. But when she took up drawing, her life was important.
LAYTON WAS BORN in 1909, in Wellsville, Kan, the daughter of the town's newspaper owner. When she turned 30, he said, her husband divorced her and left her to run the paper and a household of five children.
"She fell into a deep depression that resulted in years of psychiatric help, and she never recovered."
shock treatments in Kansas City."
Eight years ago, she suffered two major traumas, leading to a suicide attempt, he said. She had a minor stroke, which left her temporarily lost and following her recovery, her oldest son, a prominent Kansas lawyer, died.
Acting, upon the advice of her eldest daughter, Layton traveled 12 miles every day to take part in an art class at Ottawa University.
"Something needed to be done to get involved in something creative [lampe type]."
Layton was very disturbed that her drawing class was going so poorly, he said. When she got home from class she saw her reflection in the mirror and began to draw her face.
Her drawings were very simple at first, but unusual, he said. They often showed distorted features of an elderly woman or children of old age and corruption of society.
"WHEN I ATTENDED the Ottawa showing, I was stunned." he said. "Her face is awful."
"I came into the newsroom with one of her drawings, screaming about its originality and beauty," he said. "No one liked them. So I took them to the nearest art gallery and no one liked them there either, but they displayed
After several weeks, the drawings became a popular attraction, he said
Her art soon became popular statewide, but it continued to grow from all that.
In 1890, the Nelson Art Gallery,
Kansas City, Mo., chose one of her
drawings as the best of the 600 in its
yearly art competition.
Layton's work is in demand, he said,
but she refuses to sell her work. She
places as much value on her art as she
does on her life.
"After all," Lambert said, "It save[] her life."
Kansas called 'boring' by Michigan governor
From Staff and Wire Reports
Michigan Gov. James J. Blanchard yesterday aired his feelings about the possibility of a runoff.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — He didn't insult Kansas with jokes about Dorothy and the Land of Oz. He simply said Kansas was "boring."
"Their idea of a fancy hotel was a Holiday Inn." he said.
Last fall Blanchard attended the Midwestern Governors' Conference in Lawrence at the Holiday Inn Holidome. 200 W. Turnipe Access Road
"If Kansas is boring, then I'm sure the people in Kansas probably think it's better to be bored and employ them in Michigan or enjoy them in Michigan," said Mike Swenson.
Blanchard's comments rewroteb refuil to Gov. John Carlin's staff, which included his remarks about the war.
Carlin's press secretary
Blanchard was responding to a caller who asked what Michigan had to offer them. "They're looking for something," he said.
Gov. Blanchard remarks about Kana- wa were carried yesterday by 12 radio station.
In his response, Blanchard stressed Michigan's attractions, including its
"I'm sure Gov. Blanchard is proud of everything there is to do in Michigan." Swenson said. "The only problem is you have to wait until June when everything thaws out."
"We certainly invite all Michiganians to come to Kansas to enjoy the spring."
The budget for the conference, which was paid for by contributions from private corporations in Kansas, was $66.000. Swenson said.
"I'm sure he regrets ever having made such disparaging comments."
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