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University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1983
Regional artists exhibit crafts at Union gallery
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Works of craftsmen from Kansas and five surrounding states are on display in the Kansas Union Gallery for the annual Midstate Six Designer Craftsman Exhibition.
The exhibit formally opened yesterday with a reception and awards ceremony for the winners of the show. March 31 There is no admission charge.
David Vertacnik, associate professor of design and exhibit coordinator, presented two awards of $300, two of $100 at the ceremony yesterday.
yesterday.
Only one winner was from outside the state and four were KU students or faculty members.
CURT JUST, Lawrence, won $100 for a glass sculpture, Randy McNamara, Wichita senior, won $300 for a clay sculpture, Sandra Newton, Detroit graduate student, won $100 for her design in fiber, and Jon Hawner, associate professor of design, on an abstract brass and bronze metal sculpture.
Havner said he had not expected to win.
"I center in hopes of getting my pieces in and getting exposure for my work," he said. "Prizes are a pleasant surprise. They're a boost for what I do. There's some encouragement there — that someone sees some value in it.
"It gives you a feeling that maybe you're on the right track."
Michael McTwigan, editor of American Ceramics magazine, judged the 36-piece exhibit made up of works of clay, enamel, glass, jewelry, wood, leather and other materials last Friday.
MCTWIGAN HAS studied at the
Parsons School of Design in New York, Lake Forest College in Illinois and Columbia University in New York.
COLUMBIA He is also managing editor of
His Industrial Design magazine.
The 28th annual exhibit has traditionally been open to Kansas artists. This is the first year regional craftsmens have competed.
Vertacnik said that including other states in the exhibition made the show more prestigious and gave Kansas residents the opportunity to compete
Havner agreed that having the diversity of craftsmen from several states in the show made it special.
“it's not just a competition with people in the neighborhood. It is a real feeling of accomplishment that, versus a metropolitan or one just in this area.”
VERTACNIK SAID almost 980 applications for entering the show were sent to colleges, craft-supply businesses, trade journals and people who entered in previous years.
in previous years.
Slides of the 120 entries were sent to McTwigan, who selected 36 works to be shown in the exhibit.
"It was hard selecting pieces for exhibit," McTwigan said. "I felt basically I was trying to choose work that would be innovative, experimental somehow."
In selecting the show's winners, McTwigan said he looked for originality and uniqueness.
"My problem in selecting the works was I felt the majority of the entrants were not adding something unique to their work, but simply followed a style or direction set by others previously," he said.
The exhibit is financed by a grant from the Kansas Arts Commission and various contributors.
On campus
THE LIFE ISSUE SEMINAR on "Parenting for Peace and Justice" will discuss "Nonviolence in the Family" at t.p.m. in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
TODAY
House:
THE KU GUN CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Satellite Union.
OPERATION FRIENDSHIP, an international social group, will meet at 7 p.m. in the Baptist Center, 1629 W. 19th St.
Anderson House
THE KU RUGBY CLUB will
practice at 7 p.m. in Allen Field
House
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOW- SHIP will have a Bible study at 7:30 p.m. in the Union.
TOMORROW
A STUDENT RECITAL by Virginia Dowling, soprano, and Michele Pinet, harp, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
THE PUBLIC RELATIONS STUDENT SOCIETY OF AMERICA will meet at 6:15 p.m. in the Council Room of the University.
THE KU MOUNTAINERING ASSOCIATION will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union.
TAU SIGMA DANCE CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in 242 Robinson.
CAMPUS CRUSADES FOR CHRIST will meet at 7 p.m. in the Alderson Room of the Union.
A SENIOR RECITAL by Robin Thornton, soprano, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout.
Bankruptcies, discrimination keep KU's five lawyers busv
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
The judicial process usually conjures up images of attorneys arguing their cases before black-robed judges in sober courtrooms.
Staff Reporter
However, the five lawyers who work for the University of Kansas spend a lot of time trying to stay out of courtrooms, and often lose court of course at the University, said last week.
The staff also answers questions people have about college-related legal matters, such as copyright laws and the educational records privacy law.
KU now is facing about 60 court actions, Thomas said, but much of her staff's time also is spent representing the University at hearings and reviewing some of the thousands of University contracts.
"WE ARE INVOLVED in many, many things in addition to lawsuits," Thomas said.
Romas said that her staff, which in addition to herself includes two attorneys at the Lawrence campus and two at the University of Kansas Medical Center, was tackling an ever-increasing amount of work.
It is normal for any large organization that does a lot of research, such as KU, to have many routine legal matters, she said.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONTINUE UNEQUAL TREATMENT
State Representative Keth Farrar recently introduced a bill requiring all Kansas high school seniors headed for state universities next year to pass a competency test in order to gain admission. The University Dalkan Kansas (UDK) describes Lawrence Unified School District Superintendent Carl Knox as feeling "that a standardized test would not be a fair way to assess teachers' or students from high schools in different parts of the state." This UDK article attributes to Supt. Knox the belief that "a competency test would deny many students access to state universities." In support of his claim that Rep. Farrar doesn't understand the learning process, Supt. Knox says: "Some people learn at one rate, some people learn at another."
Rep. Farrar's bill is designed to save tax dollars by eventually eliminating college remedial programs. Public funds are now used to convey the same body of information to students of both our high schools and colleges. As Supt. Knox admits, "a competency test would deny many students access to state universities"; this is true because our public schools often fail to perform their assigned task, i.e. transmit a generally recognized body of information to each of its graduates.
Because of this periodic failure to impart, professional educators are understandably opposed to any device which would measure their performance. While Supt. Knox concedes that the learning capacities of individuals differ, he apparently supports the large classes and consolidated schools which often override the individual and, as a result, egest undisciplined and intellectually deprived products.
President Kennedy once said:
Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity.
By leaving the dysfunctional public education mechanism untouched, the powers-that-bat both protect the societal niche of a few and insure us more division, violence, and decay.
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NDSL bankruptcies have grown substantially in the past four years, Thomas said, because new regulations allow the University to respond in court before students can declare bankruptcy.
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Previously, students could try to drop their debts without the University being represented in court, she said. NDSL loans are financed by universities.
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Ironmah said the University was facing about 10 or 11 lawsuits, many of which involve sexual, religious, racial or age discrimination.
Complaints are directed to the many University or state agencies that handle complaints in their areas, such as public fines, affirmative action and tenure, she said.
Some matters, especially discrimination or employee discipline, are handled by state and federal agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Kansas Civil Rights Commission.
Two discrimination cases have been filed against KU in recent months. In December, Dorothy Wilner, professor of anthropology, offered to discriminate.
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IN JANUARY, Willie Stagg, a former chemistry department employee, filed a lawsuit against the University for racial discrimination.
lost user rights. The bulk of legal disagreements usually never result in lawsuits, she said.
discrimination lawsuits filed recently had increased. However, she said, in the six years she had worked in the general court system, she had never been discriminated in lawsuits.
acial observation. Thomas said that the number of
AFTER THE COMPLAINT is heard, she said, the board recommends an action to the appropriate university or government office.
The University judicial system is designed to allow people to settle their complaints before they reach the courts.
Unlike lawsuits, which might take several years to resolve, she said, complains made to University boards can be resolved in two to three months.
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