Thursday, September 19,1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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McKay says artsies need class changes
While some sculpture classes meet in Memorial Stadium this fall, others meet in nearby Bailey Annex. Across campus in Sudler House, students study occupational therapy.
Three blocks away, the jewelry and silversmithing departments are housed in the Mechanical Engineering Building. Weaving classes meet next door in the Radio Broadcasting Building.
From his cube-size office in 13 Strong Hall, John S. McKay coordinates these widely scattered departments. He is Associate Dean of the School of Fine Arts—a position created in the school last spring.
"Sculpture is badly housed," McKay said, and there is "great need for more studio space in Strong Hall. This fall we turned away 50 to 100 students enrolling in Introduction to Drawing because there were no more sections or rooms." The new dean estimates that there are 750 to 800 undergraduate and graduate art students.
Mckay not only has "housing problems," but also finds present cataloging of courses and credits confusing to students.
The new dean would like to see a basic foundation program in the School of Fine Arts in which all freshman art students would take the same basic courses. Students would take general courses their first two years selecting a particular department of study their junior year.
"The artist has to be educated in a general sense; a designer has to know something about society."
One aid to coordination, believes McKay, would be a new visual arts building. This year a faculty committee is to study the curriculum and recommend changes.
Some facilities are adequate, stressed McKay, but a new building would not only be more convenient, but also more economical because equipment could be shared.
Besides serving as Associate Dean in the School of Fine Arts, McKay is vice president of the
National Association of Schools of Art which is the association of professional art schools and the accrediting agency in the field of art. With the addition of KU last spring, association membership reaches fifty.
Before moving to Lawrence July 1, the new administrator served 14 years as Ass't. Dean of the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
He is a graduate of the University of Illinois where he studied industrial design. Later he attended graduate seminar and institute of design.
McKay is married and has two children: a 19-year-old son attending Arkansas State University and a daughter, 21, who has worked for Trans-World Airlines.
University residence halls, despite a population drop of nearly 3 per cent, are still filled to near-capacity. J. J. Wilson, director of housing, announced Wednesday.
Residence halls still nearly full
An unofficial count, Wilson said, showed a decrease of 160 from the 1967 fall population of 4.670.
Fewer rooms are available this year because former rooms have been converted to offices for dean's representatives and College-within-a-College personnel. Wilson didn't know how many rooms have been converted.
The conversion of Ellsworth and Oliver to co-educational status has decreased the flexibil
ity of those halls in accomodating students, Mrs. Donna Shavlik, assistant dean of women, explained.
The need to house freshmen women and upperclass women separately creates an added problem for the housing office, Mrs.Shavlik said.
Although there might be vacancies in those dorms, she said, an overflow of men students can't be housed on a women's floor.
In the case of women students, for example, freshmen must observe closing hours. Upperclass women have no such restrictions.
Different living areas are also
assigned to each College-within-a-College. While giving students a chance to interact with others of common social and academic interests, this adds to the housing dilemma.
The KU Film Society plans to show movies filmed in the 1940's and earlier and will feature three silent films throughout the year.
Vigo is one of the most tragic figures in French cinema, explained Cote, dying in his early twenties after having made only three short films.
Wilson cited two other factors influencing this year's population drop:
- The newly-instituted rule allowing junior women to live in off-campus housing.
- The proportional increase in the number of graduate students over the number of undergraduates.
There will also be an open discussion with coffee and short films for all interested persons tonight at 8:30 and 10 p.m. in the Big 8 Room of the Kansas Union.
Film society will present French flick
A 45-minute film officially banned by the French government for 10 years will be shown at the formal organizational meeting of the KU Film Society Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
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It is Jean Vigo's classic "Zero for Conduct" filmed in 1935. Banned until 1945, the film is about life in a French boys' school and it had a profound effect on the French New Wave, says Ron Cote, last year's Film Society president.
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The show, which will continue through Oct. 18, features 12 abstract paintings which Vaccaro created within the past year.
Bolt drama will be given
Twelve KU students will be known as the Creede Repertory Theater for two days.
The group, which comprised the entire staff of the repertory theater in Creede, Colo., last summer, will present Robert Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons" at 8:20 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Murphy Hall's Experimental Theater.
Paintings by Nick Dante Vaccaro, associate professor of drawing and painting in the School of Fine Arts, are now on display at the Jewish Community Center Gallery in Kansas City, Mo.
The drama department requested they perform one of their summer plays and the group chose this play, which is a re-creation of the turbulent era of England's Henry VIII and his controversy with the Roman Catholic Church.
Vaccaro previously has been awarded purchase prizes from the San Francisco Museum Print Exhibit, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art (Alabama), and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas.
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