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University Daily Kansan, February 9, 1983
New research program for sci-fi to start soon
By DAVID POWLS Staff Reporter
A chance to become a leader in the study of science fiction prompted the KU Center for Humanistic Studies to start a new science fiction research and study program, the center said this weekend.
Center director Richard De-George said the study and research program was the first of its kind.
He said the program was started because, KU had two people in the forefront of the science fiction field and the only one who has a science fiction scholars and writers.
"The University agreed to furnish $2,000 a year until they get established." DeGale said.
In the future, the supervisors of the program will be responsible for finding their own sources of revenue, he said.
STEPHEN GOLDMAN, co-director of the program, said that KU was already well-known for its study and research in science fiction because of James Gunn, the other co-director.
"James Gunn is respected internationally for his writing and research." Goldman said.
The program was classified as part of the Center for Humanistic Studies because that was the most relevant field. He said the University's budget, he said
"We will be going to authors, publishers and foundations for our funding from now on," he said.
until from now on, he said.
He said the program would try to
raise money by researching the history of science fiction in academia for publication and establishing a science fiction yearbook.
MARY GERSH, director of the University of Kansas Regens Center, said that the Regens had studied the study center last December.
science fiction is a respectable part of literature," she said. "Anything that enhances academic respectability is desirable."
She also said the center would encourage contributions to the University's science fiction collection, increase research and study in science fiction and attract science fiction leaders to the University.
Goumann said that for the past six summers KU had sponsored an intensive institute for science fiction teachers which had attracted such leading science fiction writers as Jack Nickleby, Gordon Pickson and Frederick Pohl.
"SCIENCE FICTION is a kind of literature that places in the foreground the question of man and his relationship to his environment. It's a study of how the human race survives changes," he said.
For the past three years, the John W Campbell Award for the best science fiction novel of the year has been presented during a conference at the University, he said. The Campbell winner is selected each year by an international committee of authors and scholars.
"Some people cannot accept science fiction because they cannot see a tradition in it," he said. "We're still fighting that battle."
On the record
A KU STUDENT was assaulted but not harmed Monday night while walking through Gower Place, south of the Scholarship Hall, police said yesterday.
Police Sgt. Larry Loveland said a man grabbed the KU woman from behind and forced her to the ground. He then escaped to the man until he released his grip on her.
Lyle Sutton, Lawrence police detective, said he would assign a
Loveland said the assailant walked with the woman until he saw several men. He then fled on foot, Loveland said.
BURGLARST STOLE $1,600 in cash from the Pizza Shoppe, 601 Kasold Dr., early Monday morning, police said. The burglars entered the business by
prying open a rear door, police said.
Police have no suspects in the crime.
BURGLARS STOLE a television and a cassette player, valued at $399, early Monday morning from the office of the New York Life Insurance Co., 901 Kentucky St., police said. Burglaries entered the building by forcing a door open, the report says. Police do not have a suspect in the crime.
A CAR STEREO, worth an estimated $181, was stolen Monday from a KU student's car parked in the 900 block of Jana Drive, police said.
ANOTHER CAR STEREO was stolen Monday night from a Lawrence resident's car parked in the 400 block of 21st Avenue. The police estimated the stereo was worth $300.
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Louis Michel, professor of architecture and urban development, spoke to residents of Hashinger Hall last night in the hall's "Future Directions" lecture series.
Prof says diverse styles lack quality of beautv
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
Students must find beauty within themselves before they can bring it to their ever-changing and complex society, a professor of architecture and urban design said last night.
"We cannot stop the major forces that thrust through our civilization, but we can stop the degeneration of individual persons." Louis Michaels wrote in *Hassinger Hall* as part of the hall's "Future Directions" lecture series.
He listed 70 art and architectural styles — including cubofuturism, deviationism, pop-non-pop-artism, gave society meaningless diversity.
He said people were subjected to unpleasing disparities in architecture, music and other aspects of popular culture.
"WE DON'T HAVE the right to hand this list down to our children. We need to give them humanism," Michel said.
"The total spectrum of the modern environment lies in the pendulum swing between the Taj Mahal and the inner city," he said.
Modern architecture and environmental design have no standard values that compare to earlier eras such as the Renaissance, he said.
The lack of standards stems from people's kaleidoscope of tastes and opinions, which are formed in the almost total freedom they have, he
"There cannot be any great art, architecture, literature or music without discipline, and no discipline without sacrifice," he said.
"33rd Street is the abysmal pits," he said. "You and I cannot sit on 23rd Street and have a normal conversation."
HE SAID THE clashing mix of architecture found on 23rd Street was created because companies were free to design, style, devoid of any standard design.
By starting good habits in college, such as managing time efficiently, students can develop good values that can bring continuity to an overwhelming expanding popular culture, he said.
He said an environment conducive to learning and growth was important to a good life.
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Scholarship hall residents for years have received individual checks for any money left over from the hall's food budget.
That practice will end this year because the Kansas Board of Regents approved a 100 KU housing design in 2014 that rejected the money for hall improvements.
J. J. Wilson, director of the KU housing department, said last week that in previous years, money left over from the lease was distributed up and distributed to each bail resident.
This is the first school year in which the extra money will go back to halls.
WILSON SAID that each hall had determined what improvements to make and that the housing department had given final approval.
However, unlike officials at other halls, those at Pearson Scholarship Hall say they could end up with $3,000 in budget to spend on hall improvements.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life, said
The new policy would benefit the halls
and provide a more comfortable learning.
EACH RESIDENT of Pearson received about $65 last year in food rebates, for a total of about $3,000, said Beulah Harding, resident director of the ball. Without those savings, she would be hurt by the changes, she said.
Although the policy was brought up the year before, it was proposed too late.
There is a substantial need for some of the halls to make improvements," Smith said.
The new policy should not greatly affect the budgets of the halls because the size of the refund checks has not been substantial, she said.
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"It will be more obvious that there was a rebate if it goes towards hall improvements instead of the residents' pockets," he said.
Roger Martin, Topeka senior and proctor of the hall, said he was glad to have the rebate. He said the hall would allow him things that it could not otherwise afford.
Pearson offers breakfast for its residents if they want to fix it themselves. Harding said.
MARTIN SAID several ideas for improvements were a computer terminal for the hall, new carpet and repaired walls.
John Conard, Lawrence sophomore and president of the hall, said he thought the new policy would help the hall.
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"The students are the losers with the new policy." Harding said. "That money used to go a long way in helping the students in today's economy."
narding, who is responsible for the hall's food budget, said she had put the food rates well below the budget but had not skinned with the food.
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"There's never much left over," McAllister said. "The residents are more than willing to have the money go to the hall."
One reason that Pearson has kept below the budget is that, unlike the other halls, it does not serve an organized hall breakfast, she said.
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