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Friday. October 20, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Panorama Includes 150 Animals
Museum Features Wildlife
Rv PAUL HUI
By PAUL HUI
Kansas Staff Writer
The University of Kansa.
Museum of Natural History is not the largest museum in the world, but one of its exhibits is second to it.
"The Panorama of North American Mammals" on the museum's 1st floor and in the world, according to Tom Swearingen, museum artist and the man responsible for maintaining the museum.
The panorama is enclosed by display windows arranged in a semi-circle. The panorama's 550-foot stage has eight sections, each depicting a life-zone of the North American continent. The North American animals are displayed in fascimiles of their natural habitat.
The display is dotted with approximately 100 swearing animals. Swearing animals, said, Animals in the collection range in size from polar bears to ants who swear
Between 82,000 and 100,000 people
patients Philip Himmelman, directing
the museum. The panorama
ranks among the museum's
greatest works.
APART FROM its educational and artistic value, the panorama is rich in historical background. Lewis Dandy Lschey, naturalist for whom the museum building was created, was the creation of this panoramic exhibit. The museum was built in 1901 to house the original collection of animals Dyche brought back from Lawrence to展出.
The panorama a expanded through the years, Humphrey form with the completion of the tropical and lower Sonar lifesites in 1932, under former director E. Raymond Hall.
At the center of the panorama is a waterfall which empties into a pond. The running water adds life to the scenery behind the waterfall and maintains a constant level of humidity in the air, Sweringen said. Humid air is essential to preserve the textures of the rock face below. The panorama. Sweringen estimated that at least 100 gallons
of water dissipated in the air each month.
THE WALRUSES displayed in the Arctic life-zone section, which is farthest from the water, do not get enough moisture from the air. Swirtingen said, and their cracking skins need constant
Swearingen said maintenance included watching the lighting and waterfall and keeping roaches out of the display. Animals in the panorama are cleaned twice a year to wipe off
The plants and foliage, are dried or artificial, are coated with spray once year. Swearingen said a lot of care had to be taken when working inside the exhibit because the fo'age is hard.
"They (the animals) will last indefinitely with good maintenance and care," Swearingen said.
He said he hoped to replace the snowshoe rabbits, which have been damaged by carpet beetles, and to find new wolverines and elk in the same habitat, removed to alleviate the crossing inside the panorama, he said.
Swearingen said vandalism wasn't a problem in his management, but that the museum was seldom visited. It belongs to the museum belonged to them.
HUMPIREY SAID he hoped the pancookers would have a new design, and the system would enable visitors to listen to a series of taped cerminations.
On the mezicanine of the U.S. Navy, Commander Comanche, the sole survivor of Custer's detachment of the U.S. Seventh Cavaliere in the battle of the Little Bighorn.
Comanche, rivaling the panorama in popularity with visitors, was a source of controversy last year. Local Indian groups protested that the印第安人 carried erroneous information about the Indians. As a result, Humphrey said, the ixt that appeared on the plate was changed. If now the account is correct, more friends in the dian点 of view, said Humphrey, and helps to provide a new
angle to this chapter of American history.
AS A RESULT of the dispute over Comanche, Indians are now working closer with the museum staff. Humphrey said.
"We are planning to develop a series of exhibits by Indians about Indians." he said.
He said the project would "help develop a better understanding of American Indians by others who are not Indians themselves.
These exhibits will also help the Indians learn more about their own culture and history, Humphrey said.
These exhibits, when they are completed next year, will be displayed on the mezzanine with Comanche.
Comanche was acquired and mounted by Dyche and came to the museum by way of the Chicago World's Fair.
Association and the American Federation of Teachers, AFLCIO, chief bargaining agents for the nation's two million school nurses, say that nonwage workers are a major cause of strikes.
In some recent cases, teachers have been willing to foreign students in such areas as class size and cutbacks in instruction.
The wage-price freeze, a critical shortage of teaching positions, cutbacks in educational programs, and reduced funding to be held accountable for progress of their pupils have contributed to this
Although decreasing as a cause of school closure, ongoing issue has been the refusal of boards of education to write letters with teacher representatives.
trend.
At a time when most school budgets class size and cutbacks in instructional programs are emerging as two of the thorniest
John Dorman, an official of the Illinois Education Association, is growing class size, elimination of large classes such as art, music, physical education and vocational classes, loading loads and less preparation time.
"The cutback process," said
"At least three of the surries which occurred this year were in a training institution which came out of the annual cutback and faculty decimation."
The Organization of Arab Students presents ABDEEN JABARA
An Arab-American lawyer who is presently involved in a lawsuit against the U.S. government for its CENSORING of parts of the BENACON PAETS
PENTAGON PAPERS relevant to the U.S. role in the Middle East.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's taking more than fattened pay checks to please a growing number of teachers, increasingly they are striking over issues related to their professional roles and the need for education.
He will Speak on: "The liquidation of the Palestinian people as the Western powers' solution to the Middle East Crisis"
Forum Rm. Kansas Union
Sat. Oct.21
8:00
People with High IQ Plan Lawrence Club
Students, faculty and community members are trying to form a Lawrence chapter of Mensa, an international organization whose phone IQ is in the upper two per cent of the international average.
To join, a person must have a high score on one of several intelligence tests, or must have scored 1,300 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or the Entrance Examination Boards.
According to Charles Hartman, organizer and member of the club there are already 12 people who are also here at the University from other chapters. Harman said the group was trying to find those persons who were already affiliated and were trying to get new members.
Nonwage Issues Pester Teachers
The organization was formed in England in 1945, and now has over 18,000 members, most of whom are in the United States, he
Most people in the club have an intelligence quotient of at least 140, according to the Benet Intelligence Test, Harman said.
He said that the reason for the organization was that those who have high I.Q.'s have a response to the think of new ideas in many fields.
The organization took its name from the Latin word for table, and in this sense, stands for discussion.
He said that the criterion for
"The organization is mainly for the exchange of ideas," said Hartman.
For
"There is also an enjoyment of discussing many subjects with someone who has a high intelligence," said Hartman.
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He said that this was the best membership requirement that the organization could set up now.
high scores on the intelligence tests was probably not a fair basis for membership, because of inconsistencies in the tests.
The national organization
publishes two publications, a national
magazine and a magazine consisting of
research papers every two
weeks.
He said that the group was a cross section of all types of people and that there were inner friendly there were within any organization.
"Entire chapters of the club do not take a stand on an issue," said Hartman. "All opinions are made individually."
The Lawrence chapter of Mensa hopes to get more members and start bi-weekly discussions in the near future.
Anyone already affiliated with
their employer should know those
that think they might qualify
due to ACT or CEBE
scores from a medical school.
7:00 p.m. for information.
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