CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, January 12, 1984
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KU to display 'Salina Piece' on campus
By YASH BHAGWANJI Staff Reporter
Despite criticism heaped on it since the day it was moved to Lawrence, the "Salina Piece" abstract sculpture may soon be back on display.
The sculpture's new home will be in the northeast corner of the Kansas University Endowment Association building on West Campus.
But the weather will dictate how soon the move will occur, Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said recently.
Anderson said the foundation had been completed and his crews were waiting for the contractor to furnish the crane to move the sculpture. The contractor had not called to confirm any dates by Tuesday.
The sculpture is now in a storage area on West Campus. Anderson said.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said that an engineering firm had studied all questions raised concerning the safety of the sculpture and that special foundation and back-up support structures had been added to the original design without changing any of the piece's outlines.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, whose office was responsible for recommending sites for the sculpture, said the West Campus site was chosen because of the large size of the sculpture.
The steel sculpture is 35 feet tall and measures 776 square feet at the base. It consists of a huge inclined plane supported by angled girders.
John Simpson, former Salina legislator who had commissioned Dale Eldred to design the sculpture, donated the sculpture to the University of Kansas in 1881. The piece is named for the central Kansas town.
Steve Menaugh, coordinator of public relations at the Endowment Association building, said some people who had seen the sculpture didn't like it.
"People here like the open field and would be averse to any kind of objects," Menaugh said.
Cynthia Pistilli/Kansan
Students waiting in long lines compose a common scene during the first few days of school. These students waited in line yesterday at Strong Hall to get copies of their class schedules.
JOPLIN, Mo. — The man who hired Christine Craft as co-anchor at a Kansas City, Mo., television station testified yesterday that he had no plans to change her appearance, but that he had used makeup and clothing consultants.
Former boss says Craft knew about consultants
By United Press International
Metromedia attorneys planned to finish their case by the end of the day. The seven woman, five-man jury could avoid a retrial if the attorneys concluded their case Tuesday.
The wiltness, Ridge Shannon, was Metromedia Inc.'s first in the seventy-old trial of Craft's $3.5 million fraud claim against Metromedia. Metromedia owned KMBC-TV when Craft worked there eight months in 1981. Shannon was news director at that time.
SHANNON, WHO NO longer works at KMBC, testified that he was not lying when he told Craft in pre-employment meetings in November 1980 that the station did not plan to change her looks. He said he emphasized that she would
not be subjected to a "makeover" like she experienced at CBS's Women in Sports.
While there, Craft said her hair was dyed platinum blonde and cut, her eyebrows were dyed black and she used to wear abnormally heavy makeup.
HOWEVER, SHANNON testified that he told Craft in their first conversation about consultants and their services of making clothing and performance wear.
Craft claims Metromedia, through Shannon and station manager Kent Replogle, lied to her about wanting her as a journalist and about changing her appearance. She also testified the only mention of media consultants in pre-employment negotiations was that they were used from time to time.
This is the second trial on Craft's suit. In August, a jury in Kansas City awarded her $500,000, but U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Stevens Jr. overturned that verdict in Ohio and this court rejected $1.2 million, also alleged sex discrimination and violation of the Equal Pay Act.
Med Center works to finish gift of sight for infant
By DAVID SWAFFORD Staff Reporter
Within two months after she was born, doctors discovered that the daughter of Ward and Jane Cook, Topeka, was suffering from a rare eye disease which had made the baby legally blind at birth.
After a cornea transplant, Katie can now see with her left eye. But the Cooks are still waiting for a cornea to restore sight to her right eye.
"WE TOOK HER to a doctor when we noticed her eyes were cloudy and very sensitive to light," Mrs. Cook said.
During her young, 6-month life, brown-haired Katie Cook has undergone many stressful tests. And after an operation in October that took more than three hours, 32 stitches remained around her left cornea.
"She also had her eyes shut a lot of the time."
Doctors then told the Cooks that Katie needed surgery to replace her corneas because the transparent layers of both were defective.
They also told the Cooks that the surgery had to be performed quickly so that the baby's brain would not reject the new, transplanted corneus.
The Cooks took Katie to the eye bank at the University of Kansas Medical Center. A widespread search then began to locate matching infant cornea.
A cornea can be transplanted within 72 hours of a donor's death. Jones said.
"I called about 10 eye banks around the country and was able to locate one infant cornea tissue in St. Louis, Mo." said Jean E. Jones, director of the eye bank at the Med Center. "All the people I talked to were really helpful."
After being removed from a donor, the chilled in a solution until transplanted.
Michael Hettinger, M.D., an assistant professor in the Med Center's ophthalmology department, performed the surgery. He said that standard procedure was to operate on the worst eye, but that both of Katie's eyes were so severely defective that it did not matter which eye was operated on first.
"KATIE'S CONDITION was rare for such a young child." Hettinger said. "The operation was more difficult than it would have been for an adult because a young child's tissue has a different texture than an adult's and is more difficult to handle."
MRS. COOK SAID, "I know that she is able to see now. Her eyes are still very sensitive to light, but now she will open her mouth when I bring a spoon toward her."
Katie returned home to Topeka three days after the operation, Mrs. Cook said. For three weeks following the surgery, she had to force Katie's left eyelid open daily to apply drops to the eye.
She said Hettinger told her that he thought the baby previously saw only forms, perhaps through what looked like shattered glass.
"Katie got to where she would press her eyelids down very tightly, making it almost impossible for me to open them. Also, she got to where she cried every time I did something to her face," Mrs. Cook said.
She said Katie was just now starting to develop a personality because the tests were over for a while.
KATIE IS SCHEDULED to undergo surgery on her right eye as soon as a
matching infant cornea can be found.
Mrs. Cook said.
"I have a lot of admiration, Mrs. Cook said, "for the family who donated the cornea tissue for being able to give their child's eyesight to another child."
She said she did not think the trauma of the lengthy procedure to replace Katie's corneas would affect her later life.
"She is now looking at everything for the first time. Just by looking at Katie experience everything as new, it has changed so much in every thing we take for granted."
"I think she won't remember any of this because she is so young," Mrs. Cook said. "We'll be the only ones who will remember. I hope we can get the second one transplanted while she is still so young."
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