The University Daily
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KANSAN
Vol. 93, No. 149 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, June 15, 1983
Weather
Today will be sunny with highs in the low to mid 80s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the northwest at 10 to
Tonight will be clear with lows in the mid to upper 50s.
Tomorrow will be fair with highs in the upper 80s.
Ann McBride, recently hired physician at Watkins Memorial Hospital, relaxes in her new surroundings. She says she is looking forward to educating students about health care.
Female doctor satisfied as breadwinner of home
By GENE HUNTER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Ann McBride, a recently hired staff physician at Watkins Memorial Hospital, is comfortable in the hospital.
McBride, 31, said that when she began her residence she found herself having to put in 12-14-hour days which left her no time to take care of her infant son.
HER HUSBAND QUIT work and stayed home to take care of their son. Since that time, they have had two more children and he has made a career of business.
But because of her long hours in private
practice in Joplin, Mo., her husband could never get out of the house.
"My working all the time was putting a strain on us," she said. "It became apparent that we were not ready."
That change would be leaving her private practice in Joplin and coming to Lawrence to
SHE ACCEPTED the job at Watkins because it offered regular hours and more free time to spend with her children. It also gave her husband more time away from the house.
She said that her husband did not plan to return to work when the children were older. She said she had been a teacher.
McBride, a Lawrence native and graduate of
WOODSTOCK UNIVERSITY.
USA Today may come to town
By MATT SCHOFIELD
Staff Writer
USA Today, America's largest nationwide general interest daily newspaper, will be sold on the streets of Lawrence next year if negotiations with the Lawrence Journal-World to print the newspaper work out, John Garvey, production director of USA Today, said yesterday.
A contract would probably be signed within a month. he said.
"WE'RE OPTIMISTIC about it. We've been negotiating seriously for about three months, but we're not done yet."
Ralph Gage, general manager of the Journal-World, refused to comment on the possibility of USA Today's coming to town. The former Simons Jr. could not be reached for comment.
USA Today, a Gannett newspaper, began publishing in September. It is now the nation's third largest newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News.
THE PAPER IS in 19 markets and has a circulation of about 1.2 million, Gervay said.
He said that before the paper could be printed in Lawrence the Journal-World would have to double its printing capacity. He expected printing to start in the first quarter of 1984.
If USA Today signs a contract with the
JournalWorld, papers will be shipped from Lawrence to Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita
He also said that they would put "a couple boxes, honefully a lot of boxes. in Lawrence."
GARVEY SAID GANNETT was interested in Lawrence as a printing location for a number of
"They're operating on an offset press; their presses are of good quality, and they're in a good location," he said. "And also because of Dolph Simons. We know he'll do a good job."
No definite printing number has been announced yet, he said, because estimates of this year are not available.
But any new newspapers in a market area worry newspaper editors, said Pam Johnson, assistant managing editor of the Kansas City newspaper. "We think that effect EUSA Today had on markets it moved into."
She said that USA Today was generally viewed as a supplemental newspaper, but that some people saw it as a news source.
"WE'RE GOING TO MEET head-on in the streets with USA Today," she said. "It's inevitable we're going to lose some readers who only buy one newspaper."
She said USA Today was now concentrating on street sales, and because the Star's circulation was mostly home delivery it would not be threatened as much as other metropolitan
dailies. But USA Today is trying to move into the home delivery market as well, she said, and that could hurt.
JERKY DICK, DESIGN editor of the Topica
Capital Journal, and he was surprised to learn
that many people don't recognize his name.
"I think they are figuring out their system pretty fast," Johnson said. "I certainly don't think it will take them years to initiate it by any means."
"I had heard rumors that eventually USA
would come into this market, but I didn't
know," she said.
In any case, Johnson said, the Star would not suffer much in advertising revenue because most of USA Today's advertisers are national. She said that although USA Today had a greater overall circulation, the circulation it had in specific metropolitan areas was usually much smaller than that of established newspapers in a market.
Criteria to cut programs continue to be debated
"I think some of our national advertisers might be interested in USA Today," she said.
By ANN REGAN
Staff Reporter
Try as they might, KU faculty members cannot seem to end debate on a very touchy subject — determining guidelines for elimination academic programs at the University of Kansas.
The University Senate Executive Committee has agreed to form a new committee to develop a policy about program discontinuance. James B. Carruthers, associate professor of English and Spanish, has been appointed.
A policy on program discontinuance, approved in April by the University Council, was defeated 268 to 138 by a faculty mail ballot held in May.
Program discontinuance would permit academic programs to be cut for reasons other than financial, such as low enrollment or duplication of the program within the University.
A policy on program discontinuance would have to include criteria explaining what would happen to faculty members if a program were cut.
The University Council is the main body of all University governing units. All University
CAROTHERS SAID that the committee would report its recommendations to the University of Arizona.
Of the 1,300 eligible voters, fewer than one-third returned ballots.
Caroters said the reason so few voters may have turned out was because the election was too close.
THESE WHO DID vote had differing opinions on the ability of the proposed amendment to meet the needs of the faculty involved if a program should be discontinued.
Lee F. Young, professor of journalism, voted in favor of the proposed amendment but said he
"I'd hope that if any action is taken to eliminate a department there would be a more efficient one."
William Johnson, associate professor of geography, voted against the amendment.
See ELECTION page 5
Wilcox classical art collection still gathering dust
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Ninety percent of the biggest Greek and Roman archological collection in the Western United States lies stored in boxes in a building on St. Street — University Daly-Kansan, Oct. 20, 1987.
Ahmad Raee picked up a thin stick and pushed it through a watery groove in Apollo Belvedere's gray curls. As he pushed the stick, it pealed off a gob of gray paint.
Rae wiped the paint from the stick and firmly inched it between the curls again. Another ball of gray paint peeled from the surface.
RAEE, A KU Fine Arts graduate, was not surprised. He has been working since the middle of last semester to restore casts of statues in the Wilcox Collection of Greek and Roman
"Some of these statues have four layers of paint," he said.
He pushed the stick into the curls lined with
It was the first time in 17 years that the statue had been cleaned.
The Laocon, which shows a Trojan priest being attacked by two serpents, is so badly damaged that it may never be displayed again. The Banks, curator of the collection, said yesterday.
BECAUSE OF THE poor condition of the shed, much of the collection was damaged. Rain leaked through the roof and damaged many of the plaster casts.
From 1888 to 1965, the collection was displayed on the second floor of old Fraser Hall. After old Fraser was torn down in 1965, the collection was stored in a shed on West Campus.
Apollo Belvedere is just one of the many statues that make up the Wilcox Collection.
THE COLLECTION WAS then moved from the shed to a warehouse in southeast Lawrence so that restoration could be done — restoration not collection. In the collection but of the status of the museum.
To prevent further damage to the collection, plans were announced last fall to display the collection.
The A.M. Wilcox Museum is displaying casts and busts of Greek gods, along with Greek and Roman sculpture, coins and vases on the second floor of Fraser Hall. — Kansan, Nov. 20, 1959.
The Wilcox Collection, originally known as the Classics Museum, was established in 1888 by A.M. Wilcox, who became chairman of KU's Greek department in 1885.
The museum consisted of 114 objects, including models, maps, charts and plates. The Venus de Milo, the Emperor Augustus, a figure from the Parthenon, busts of Roman emperors and several reliefs were considered the most important objects in the collection.
THE ITEMS WERE not originals but were plaster casts of originals. Nonetheless, they were considered valuable for instruction.
"The best way to learn Greek sculpture," Wilcox once said, "is through casts, which at the same time illustrate Greek mythology and teach the viewer about the practical, moral and religious life of the Greeks."
Wilcox was curator of the Classical Museum until 1013. The museum was named after him at
IN 1907, THE museum was able to acquire for less than $200 about 200 Roman artifacts. Among them were: ivory toilet articles, terra cotta cups and fragments of Pompeian wall paintings.
"It will be a perpetual memorial to him," said one professor from that era.
The museum collected more works in a manner which became almost as notable as the works of the artists of the past.
Later, the museum acquired a fifth-century
Greek kylx (cup) which was smuggled in
the Middle East.
The Wilcox Museum will be moved to the humanities building where a display will be built. But until completion of the building in 1968, all furniture and items remain stored in boxes. Kansen, Oct. 20, 1987
Attempts were made to display the collection in the art museum, but the policy of the art museum was to display only original works, not copies. The coins from the collection were placed in a bank safety deposit box. The vases were stored in a cabinet in Wescoe.
Budget cuts, however, forced a reduction in the size of the building. And when Wescoe Hall was completed in 1973, no space was allocated for the Wilcox Museum.
The collection was supposed to be displayed in a gallery in the new Wescoe Hall, originally proposed as a 25-story building.
IN THE EARLY 1970s, Elizabeth Banks, curator of the Wilcox Collection since 1968, proposed a small, special exhibit of the artifacts in the University discouraged the idea she said.
"The collection was packed by professional packers and the administration has been
Elizabeth Banks, curator of the Wilcox Collection and professor of classics, is the healing hand for the many statues that have been damaged while in storage for the past seventeen years. She has spent a lot of time likely removing paint from the statue of Marcus Aurelius. A cast of Venus de Milo is in the foreground.
Commission OKs group home after angry discussion
Staff Reporter
By LAURA FLEEK
The vote was 3-1 with Commissioner Mike Amyx voting against the use permit needed to operate the home.
The Lawrence City Commission, after more than an hour of heated debate by both supporters and opponents, last night gave approval for a local agency to operate a group home for mentally retarded adults in a southwest neighborhood of Lawrence.
He said because of that opposition the clients would not be welcomed and would therefore not be able to become integrated in the neighborhood.
The group home will be operated by Cottonwood wood, 2801 W. 31st St., and will be located at 461 N. 31st St.
Amyx said that he had lived near mentally retarded people and that they were tremendous neighbors, but said that he voted against the house of the neighbors' opposition to the home.
Daniel C. Smith, 2905 W. 23rd St. Terrace, who lives near the proposed site, told the commission that he was concerned that clients living in the group home might be dangerous.
HOWARD HASLER, director of Cottonwood, said that the home would house six mentally retarded adults in an effort to mainstream them into society.
HE ALSO SAID that because the home would be located near busy streets he feared for the clients' safety, saying that mentally retarded people were like children.
"I wouldn't want to hit one of them," he said. The proposal was met with a variety of emotional reactions from residents of Prairie Meadows Estates.
One resident, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that 100 percent of the homeowners in the disputed area were against the proposal.
He said that the location of the group home was as important as the fact that mentally retarded people would live there. He said that residents were concerned that if a group home were allowed in the neighborhood it would set a precedent for other multi-family homes in the area.
BUT HASLER SAIDa single group home in the neighborhood would not establish a precedent of any sort. He said he did not think a group home would affect the current single family zoning in the city.
He said that group homes have advantages over institutions.
"Families want their sons and daughters to live in a community rather than an institution." Hasler said. "Cottonwood wants to put a group home in every community."
Hasler said that he was grateful for the support of the commission and that he hoped the commission would act.
After the commission approved the proposal, supporter Rutherford Turnbull, 1566 Alvamar Drive, said it was sad the whole process had to happen.
TURNBULL, CHARIMAN of the KU department of special education and father of a mentally retarded child, said, "I don't think that their fears are well formed."
"I hope that one day the neighbors that are against this will come back and testify for us."
In other business, the commission approved a request by the Fruit and Vegetable Producers Association to operate a farmer's market in the area of a parking lot at 11th and Massachusetts streets.
The market will be open from 5 to 9 p.m. each Wednesday through Oct. 26.