University Daily Kansan, September 1. 1983
Page 7
Watson stiffens closing rules
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
When the lights in Watson Library flash on and off, the employees are warning patrons it's time to leave. Apparently, some "stowaways" have been hanging around the stacks after hours.
The problem with unauthorized people staying in Watson after it closes is being recited by a tougher lawyer, leading to an associate dean of libraries.
The associate dean, John Glinka,
said yesterday that employees had been ordered to begin showing patrons from the building 15 to 30 minutes before closing instead of waiting until just before closing time.
"We did have a little bit of a problem with people losing track of time and staying after closing. It meant that we had to intensify our losing policy. Glinda said, toothed her teeth more aggressively. People make tight rounds of the stacks and blink the lights earlier now."
WATSON'S CIRCULATION desk closes at 11:45 p.m. and the library staff closes the stacks at 11:30 p.m. The building closes at midnight.
The problem with patrons staying in the building after hours was recognized in a library employee's newsletter issued in February.
The newsletter recalled that one evening last semester the building was closed at midnight with one staff member inside. However, the newsletter said, turnstile records indicated that 20 people left the building after
Since then, employees have been required to sign out if they leave the building after midnight, so that they can be known if people are staying after hours.
THE NEWSLETTER SAID the reasons for the measure were obvious because of the library's expensive library terminals and other equipment.
Because the doors are locked from outside, anyone left in the building can leave unassisted, Glinda said.
Employees with keys may enter
while the library is closed and employees with special permission cards may stay after closing, Glinka also said.
"This does give us a better idea of who is in the building." Glinka said.
The library staff has been able to tighten its rounds because the staff is more familiar with the building than it was a year or two ago, Glinda said.
"We essentially had a brand new building the last two years and, for inspection purposes, weren't completely familiar with it. We have a better idea of what can happen in here now." he said.
KENDALL SIMMONS, head of Watson's circulation department, said that minor vandalism occurred on the floor and a door seemed to have stopped this year.
"We had some minor thefts and a little bit of a problem with someone using a rubber stamp and leaving his brand on everything," she said. "But that seems to have calmed down this year.
"If we find you in the stacks after hours, we'll make sure that you leave."
Cukor honors museum's request
By ANA DEL CORRAL
Staff Reporter
Director wills landscape to Spencer
Staff Reporter
PRATHER SAID THAT the painting had arrived during the summer but that it wouldn't be exhibited yet because it was being re-framed.
The movie director who won an Oscar for "Mary Fair Lady" in 1964 died in January and left the University of Kansas a valuable Grant Wood sculptor of paintings and sculptures for Spencer Museum of Art said yesterday.
In 1959, an official at Spencer museum wrote to George Cukor, the director, and asked whether he would donate the painting to the museum. The painting, called "Near Sundown," had been displayed at the University and was on display.
"After Cukor died," she said, "we wrote to the executors of the will."
Cukor agreed to part with the painting, but wanted to keep it during his lifetime, said Marla Prather, Spencer curator.
However, she said, the painting is
expected to be ready for display in a month.
Prather said she could not reveal the value of the painting.
The painting is a landscape painting
"It is a very valuable painting and for that reason we don't reveal the price."
of rolling hills and round trees, Prather said.
Wood was born in Iowa in 1892 and was part of a triumvirate of Midwestern painters of the 1930s who became disillusioned with the abstract and made European styles, and who painted an idyllic picture of America, she said.
THE GROUP OF painters, to which Wood belonged, called itself the Regionalist School. The painters tried to capture Midwest landscapes during the worst part of the depression, Prather said.
"It is a perfectly lovely painting," she said. "The hills have a human, fleshy quality to them."
The oil painting on canvas is 15-by-26 inches, Prather said.
The other painters of the triumvirate were Thomas Hart Benton, of Missouri, and John Stewart Curry, of Kansas, who painted the Capeital capital murals
Ukor also left a $2 million Braque painting to the University of Southern
Cukor was born in New York in 1899 and directed several movies while working for Metro Goldwyn Mayer, including "Love Among the Ruins," which was an Emmy Award winner, and 1801 movie, "Rich and Famous."
He also directed "Little Women," "Gaslight" and the original version of "A Star is Born."
He died at age 83.
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