University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 24, 1977
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Staff photo
Is it alive?
One of the main attractions for visitors to the Natural History Museum at KU is the realistic panorama of North American birds and animals on the fourth floor. Admiring a life-size woodland Caribou in the Hudsonian Life zone of the collage recently were (from left to right): David Mitchell, 8, his brother Meade, 6, and their mother, Margaret
Living off campus allows choice but tolerance may be important
Off-campus housing offers students at the University of Kansas a chance to choose the type, location and price they want for their living quarters.
If the renter chooses carefully, older house can offer financial savings and safe living.
The off-campus housing a student selects may be determined by his budget, his living habits and his ability to tolerate noisy neighbors and plumbing problems.
Jose Saman, Caracas, Venzuela,
graduate student, leases a two-bedroom
apartment.
"The house is old but in good condition," Saran said.
If a house is a little more than a student wants or needs, he may find an apartment that meets his specifications. Lawrence apartments range from newly built complexes to older homes which have been renovated to accommodate several dwellers.
Different sizes of apartments in older houses are available, according to Jenny Weitzner, the president of The St. Sleeping rooms generally rent for $70 to $90 a month, she said. One-bedroom apartments usually rent for $110 to $150 and two-bedroom apartments start around $200
Apartments over downtown businesses may be economical if the renter doesn't mind parking problems and noise, especially from bar patrons. There are usually either two seven-room apartments or 14-room apartment above one business.
Last year five students rented a 14-room apartment at 815% Massachusetts St.
above Madsen's Watch Shop and Bible Sundries, for $225 a month.
Students who are willing to pay more may choose an apartment complete with balcony, parking space and use of a pool, in one of Lawrence's numerous apartment complexes.
To find out what a prospective landlord is, students can check the complaint file at the building's bulletin board.
Local museums offer variety of exhibitions for all people's tastes
Museums in Lawrence offer a variety of exhibitions ranging from fossils and stuffed animals to tropical insects to city history.
Fossils and minerals that are exhibited on the third floor include florescent minerals, a saber-toothed cat and mastodons.
The Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall on the University of Kansas campus, has collections of fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds and vertebrate fossils.
A panorama of North American plants and animals is on the fourth floor. It is one of the largest displays of its kind in the world. Several different scenes, from the arctics to the
THE MUSEUM HAS exhibits of native North Americans on the fifth floor, including Greenland Eskimos, buffalo, the Plains Indians and Indian artwork.
"Comanche," the horse that was the only 7th Cavalry survivor of the Battle of the Little Bichorn, is also displayed on the fifth floor.
Live snakes, bees and varieties of fish of Kansas are displayed on the sixth floor.
around the world, natural history objects, publications and educational toys and games.
Published in The Times, The Wall Street Journal and National Historical Press.
ONE OF THE LARGEST entomological museums in the country is housed in Snow Hall, George W. Byers, professor of entomology and acting director and curator of the museum, said that the third floor displays contained mostly large tropical insects that needed no magnification.
and the world, natural history objects, publications and educational toys and
Dvceh Hall was built in 1801 and is included in the National Register of Historic Places.
"We have some live insects, mostly big garland tropical things, colorful kinds." Byers said.
"We change them once in a while so people don't see the same things every time they come here."
Byers said that the museum sometimes put the more interesting specimens on display, in addition to other displays already on exhibition.
Although the museum is open whenever the building is open, Byers said that most of the specimens weren't readily available to the public.
"ITS PRIMARLY A service to entomologists on the state, rational and international level," he said. "Most of the things done there are used only by entomologists. The services they use are for the public to the sensitive community."
KU's system of museums also includes the Botany Herberium and the Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology.
THE MUSEUM OF Invertebrate Paleontology, in Lindley Hall, is primarily a research facility. It houses fossils of animals with backkones.
Although these two museums aren't open for general viewing, tours can be arranged for small groups.
The Herbarium, on West Campus, has more than 200,000 plant specimens representing primarily the central United States.
iine Space Technology Center in Nichols Hall on West Campus contains exhibits in the lobby that demonstrate research conducted in the building, Bob Walters, manager of the research facility.
Walters said the center would have a special exhibit this fall with objects from NASA and the Smithsonian Institution.
"We will also have memorabilia from Larry Winn from the years he served on the House Space, Science and Technology committee." Walters said.
Winn is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from this district.
The SPENCER ART MUSEUM was completed this summer and the exhibits that were formerly stored in the museum building. Both exhibitions will now closed. The Spencer Museum will open to the public in a museum setting.
The Watkins Community Museum, 11th and Massachusetts streets, displays items that reflect the history of Douglas County. Ann Clause, museum director, said that much of the collection is from the 19th century.
Clausen said the bank had been the headquarters for an international banking firm that had branches in New York, Louisiana, and London.
The building had seven different marble, oak and pine woodwork and mosaic marble fins, she said..
THE ORIGINAL CHANDELIER in the center stairwell also remains.
Included in the items on display in the museum are a Milburn electric car and a children's playhouse, believed to have been built in the late 1870s, which has been restored.
Clausen said the Watkins Museum recently received a $33,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a more nearly complete collection of local history.
Although not a part of the museum, the Kansas All Sports Hall of Fame is also housed in the building. It contains portraits of individuals who have distinguished themselves in sports, many of whom were associated with KU.
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