University Daily Kansan, April 9, 1982
Page 7
Thefts. equipment shortage hurt art program
By LISA GUITERREZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Students in the visual communications program in the School of Fine Arts need "Lucy" for their everyday work.
But school officials have had problems for the past few years keep-ing them busy to enlarge art materials, and other art equipment safe and in working condition.
"We do have serious equipment problems," James Moeser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said recently.
Theft and a lack of funds have caused the problems.
It is, fine arts faculty agree, a basic budget dilemma.
'We have a repair problem, and
that's a basic money problem," Moeser
said. "And people stealing
lenses off the machine."
THE SCHOOL OF Fine Arts receives between $15,000 and $17,000 a year for art equipment from money the legislature gives KU, Mooser said.
"If we had an adequate equipment, we'd have $75,000 a year," he said.
A supply and expense fund appropriated specifically for the design department of the school, of which visual communications is a program, supplies that department with $20,000 annually.
"This is about half of what it ought to be," Moeer said. "It's been gradually getting worse, but it's been going on for a long time."
Moeser said the problem of
inadequate equipment for the art
students, and used the school since
become dean in 1987.
LACK OF MONEY has stymied efforts to alleviate the growing equipment problem.
"One proposal is a new restricted fee of $25 for students in the fine arts school." Moeser said.
Amplifying the money problem this year is a sudden increase in stolen equipment and equipment parts, Steve Skaggs, assistant professor of design and visual communications area coordinator, said.
"This is a perfect example of what can happen when you resort to deal with it." Skagsley said.
*Everything is happening at once.*
Our problem is one that is happening to
SKAGGS SAID there were only two viewer machines in working condition now.
fit focal equipment that all the students use."
"We started the semester with four of them and had the lenses stolen off of two of them," he said.
Skaggs said the equipment, used by students in the illustration and graphics sections of the visual communications program could not be kept under lock
"We have a basic problem. We have a lot of students who need to work, and if we limit the hours they can work, they won't set the work done." Skaggs said.
The school follows an open-door policy, Skaggs said. Students have access to the school's equipment 24 hours a day.
"For some reason, this semester, someone has noticed that the lenses can easily be taken," he said. "No one else knows the problems we've had with threes."
"For a while, at the beginning of the semester, we only had one machine."
HE SAID someone stole the lenses from two viewers last fall during Thanksgiving break and Christmas vacation.
Skaggs said the school planned to place all equipment in one room this summer to make security of the machines easier.
"What we're trying to do right now is find the money to do this," he said.
The search for money has not been very successful.
Jonn McKay, professor of design and
chairman of the design department, said the school had requested a separate equipment area four or five years ago.
"It's just a lack of supply and budget money for the School of Fine Arts," McKay said.
McKAY, WHO has been with the school for 14 years, said the problem of deceptive and old equipment had existed since he had been with the school.
"There has been consistently, year after year, a lack of money for repairs and new equipment," he said.
That the problem had been a consistent one does little, however, to appease students who must make do with existing equipment.
Polish actor sees duty in Solidarity benefit
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Writer
Rajmind Klekot will appear in a benefit for Friends of Solidarity, but the Polish actor claims no knowledge of politics, only a duty to his people.
"Not politics, not Solidarity, but my duty as a Pole," the 43-year-old performer said. "I know the situation and what is possible."
Klekot, who began his 22-year professional career as a mime in the world-famous Polish Mime Theatre and has traveled internationally, will give a benefit April 10 at Swarorth Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. Proceeds will go to Lawrence Friends of Solidarity to purchase packages of food for Poland.
Klekot said he had once experienced the shortages the people in Poland had now.
"I remember in Poland between 1948 and 1955, how crazy it was. The whole world was fighting," Kleot said. "There was war in Korea and in Vietnam."
"And there was nothing to eat."
In 1797, during the Warsaw Theatre
KLELOT WAS BORN at Czeitstockowa, Poland, 150 miles southwest of Warsaw. After a sojourn with the Polish Mime Theatre, he and three other mimes formed the Warsaw Mime Theatre in 1974.
The group toured the United States and Europe from 1976 to 1979. In 1978, he was one of the few international stars invited to perform at the first Festival of American Mime in Milwaukee. Wis
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The group that is campaigning to remove City Commissioner Tom Gleason from office held a closed meeting next night to plan its campaign.
Fred Pence, spokesman for the Lawrence Committee, said after the meeting that there were two ways to run a recall election campaign.
"One way is through articulate garbage that fills the air so thick that it sticks and misleads the public," he said. "The other way is to present facts that can't be denied. I'm for using facts."
Pence said that Lawrence residents would vote against Gleason when they saw facts that the Lawrence Committee had researched.
"I think our campaign will be successful because we plan to present facts so that the people of Lawrence can see how well they did and did warranty recalls," he said.
of changing the form of government in Lawrence from a commission form to a council-mayor form.
Pence said there was a “pretty logical connection” between Gleason's views in 1777 and the letter he sent asking Watson to resim last February.
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Pence said that the money in his groups' treasury had been raised through $1, $5 and $10 donations.
"If the average citizen sees that Gleason was active in trying to change the form of government in 1977 and then sees that he wrote a letter to the city manager trying to fire him without just cause, I think they're going to see a link there," Pence said. "But our campaign won't draw conclusions for the people of
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Gleason said that when he ran for the commission last year, these same clichés were
GLEASON SAID that if that was all the Lawrence Committee could come up with, "the people of Lawrence will ask them to answer on question one on May 11."
"There were ads run saying that I was trying to get on the commission to get Watson out," Glesson said. "But they wanted me to work and they'll see through them again."
Gleason said that he was asked in 1977 to participate in one public debate on the issue of changing the form of government in Lawrence. He also said that he would argue with his petitions that ultimately forced the proposed change to a citywide vote.
It is impossible for one member of the commission to "get Watson out." Gleason said. He said that Pence failed to realize that this was a commission-manager form of government, not just a manager form of government.
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PENCE SAID that the Lawrence Committee's campaign would focus on the fact that some of Gleason's supporters had appeared in different activities opposing the manager form of government over time. He said that Tim Miller, a Gleason supporter, carried a "petition to overthrow the city manager form of government in 1977."
Miller, 936 Ohio St., said that was "ridiculous."
"I was sympathetic to the issue, but I don't remember whether I ever carried a petition," Miller said. "This is a serious, deliberate misrepresentation of the facts. I was not trying to overthrow anything. I was only trying to change the form of government in Lawrence. I think this speaks volumes on the recall committee's ability to tell the truth."
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