Page 12 University Daily Kansan Friday, April 18. 1958
Puerto Rican Art To Be Exhibited Here Saturday
Puerto Rican rural community life and problems will be depicted in an exhibit of 18 woodcuts, 14 posters, and a portrait from Saturday to May 10 in the Museum of Art's lower gallery. The exhibit was a gift to Seymour Menton, assistant professor of Romance languages, from Pedro Juan Soto of the Division of Community Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"By focusing the attention of the continental American public on the aspect of Puerto Rican culture, this exhibit, besides its artistic value, will have the effect of partiy counterbalancing the excessive publicity given to the socio-economic problems of the Puerto Ricans in New York City," he said.
Seven Puerto Rican artists are represented in the exhibit: Felix Bonilla, Jose Melendez Contreras, Juan Diaz, Lorenzo Homar, Tony Maldonado, Carlos Rivera, and Rafael Tufino.
The woodcuts and posters illustrate scenes from educational, historical and folkloric movies and booklets. The exhibit contains a portrait of Pablo Casals, the Spanish edlist, by Lorenzo Homar. Several of the works of art have won prizes in international competition.
"In the Division of Community Education, artists and authors are cooperating to improve conditions of rural Puerto Rico," Dr. Menton told a Daily Kansas reporter.
The opening of the exhibit precedes by one week the 15th annual Cervantes Day, sponsored by the department of Romance languages.
WE WISH YOU LUCK—Ray Burcham, Bonner Springs freshman, started growing a beard in May of 1955 after returning from a trip prospecting for uranium. He has decided not to shave until he actually hits the jackpot in his prospecting for uranium. Burcham prospects only as a hobby. He is majoring in mechanical engineering at the University. (Daily Kansan photo)
Job Picture Looks Bright
Joe College, class of 1958, may find that a college diploma is no longer an automatic ticket to a job. But the alleged business recession isn't scaring students at the University.
"The job picture looks bright for KU's 1,300 June graduates." said Arno F. Knapper, assistant professor of business administration and director of the Business School Placement Bureau. "Although companies are being more selective in hiring students, the limited number of job offers dispatched have been offset by the increase in the number of companies that have visited the campus this year."
"All of our graduates are finding jobs," said Dean John S. McNown of the Engineering School "and I see no setback on hiring."
Representatives from 87 companies have conducted interviews at the Placement Bureau since September. Many of the companies have visited the campus more than once this year.
The Engineering School feels that its students are in a healthier situation now that companies are being more selective.
"I think that the companies should be more selective because when a boy feels that he has competed for a job, he will be hapier with his job and his employer will be happier with his employe," said Dean McNown.
Journalism Jobs Plentiful
There are more jobs for Journalism School graduates than can be filled, but journalism seniors have decided that the best way to get a job is to go out and look for it.
A car, letters of application and four days of vacation were the only tools employed by one Journalism School senior who secured six job offers from metropolitan newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio during spring vacation.
"Graduating journalism seniors have big ideas about jobs," said Dean Burton Marvin of the Journalism School. "Generally they can get general reporting jobs on small city papers, but they must have several years of experience before they can get into big prestige jobs."
Engineers lead the pack in receiving the most job offers, since the demand for engineers is better than a third higher than a year ago. But the actual number of job offers received by each student is impossible to trace since the students correspond directly with the company.
Personality Top Factor The most important single factor in selecting candidates for jobs, according to Mr. Knapper, is personality—not grades. Even in engineering, such things as poise, ability to work with people, appearance and related characteristics count most.
The order in demand for men graduates, according to the Placement Bureau statistics, are engineers, salesmen, business trainees, accountants, chemists, production management experts, insurance men and financial trainees.
Women graduates most wanted are general business trainees, salesgirls, secretaries, engineers, statisticians, chemists, and merchandising experts.
Although hundreds of recruit officials have been beating the campus looking for male help, they generally wait for the women to come to them.
Monthly pay-average starting pay for men is $410, compared with $383 per month a year ago. Engineers will get the most—$433 a month. Accountants will average about $389 and salesmen $385. A master's degree is to add about another $100 a month to a neophyte engineer's pay and a Ph.D. will add another $150 over that.
Salaries for women, job for job, are somewhat lower than for men. Sure, it's not fair, but industry's answer is that they can't be sure a girl will stay put.
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German Art Studied Best In America'
The best place to study German art and its emotional experiences is right here in America, Klaus Berger, associate professor of art history, said at a Student Union Activities art forum Tuesday.
"The contemporary German expressionalist was driven from the country under political pressure in 1938, Prof. Berger said." Now you can find more German art in America than in Germany."
"German art has always been strikingly different from French and Italian art in that the stress is on individual expression rather than formal relations. You can warm up to and live with German art because it is characterized by invertness. Many of the pictures do not show ideal beauty, but they are true to life. The models look like people you and I have humar relations with," he said.
Prof. Berger, who has seen German art from three different viewpoints, said "I don't say it is the best art, but it definitely has this human quality that is lacking in the Romance people's formal detachment."
During the forum Prof. Berger showed pictures on two screens to point out the differences in Germanic and Romance art.
"One can see the difference in the pictures just because they look different," he said, "but the real difference is in the structure, meaning and intention which the artist gives.
Relays, Exposition Open
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