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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 1, 1958
SIGMA KAPPA DEDICATORS — (from left)
Mrs. Donald Alderson, Mrs. W. Clark Harquiss,
Mrs.
Kansas City, Mo.; Fred Ellsworth, and Raymond Coolidge, Topeka.
Sorority Building Started
Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new Sigma Kappa house at 1325 West Campus Road were conducted Saturday by George Baxter Smith, dean of the University.
About 75 sorority members, alumni and friends attended.
Taking part in the ceremony itself were Mrs. Donald Alderson, chairman of the building committee,
Lawrence; Mrs. W. Clark Harquiss, Sigma Kappa Corporation President, Kansas City, Missouri; Fred Ellsworth, KU Alumni Secretary, Lawrence; and Raymond Coolidge, Architect, Topeka.
Other guests on the program included Mrs. R. G. Mahieu, province president; Rev. Andrew Berry; Laurence D. Woodruff, dean of students, and Donald K. Alderson, dean of men.
Sigma Kappa has occupied a residence at 1625 Edgehill Road for 34 years. The sorority has been on the KU campus for 51 years. The new chapter house is expected to cost $187,000. The B. A. Green Construction Company of Lawrence is the contractor.
Chief Advises Precautions
Campus Police Chief Joe Skillman Monday afternoon offered advice for the KU student to follow during the Easter vacation. Chief Skillman warned members of organized houses to leave someone in charge of their house to prevent any break-ins.
He also warned students to lock up all valuables before leaving. All empty houses should be locked and all water and gas turned off, Chief Skillman said.
For the trip to and from home, he cautioned students to "be alert and be careful."
"Students shouldn't try to outsmart the safety engineers who set up highway speed limit signs. They know what they're doing and the students will be a lot safer if they heed the advice of the signs," he said.
There is a tendency for drivers to increase speed during nice weather, Chief Skillman said. It is important that the student plan ahead and get started on his trip on time, he said, so that such speeding won't be necessary.
Traffic deaths reported by the Kansas Highway Patrol in the last 48 hours,2; March total,27; toll this year,88,and toll this time a year ago.124.
John Coyle, Atchison junior, has been selected by the School of Pharmacy to receive a $300 scholarship next year. The scholarship is given by donations from Kansas retail pharmacists for next term.
Junior Receives Scholarship
DEVONSHIRE, ENGLAND—The Instow Parish Council asked for advice today on a pressing local problem. The bulldogs have been breaking into tradesmen's cash boxes and eating the cash.
Bullocks Pose Problem
50 Cents A Car—
You'll Pay To Park At Union
A coin-operated automatic parking gate will be installed during the spring recess at the entrance of the guest parking lot east of the Union, Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations and chairman of the parking committee, said.
"The 53-car lot, which has been reserved for guests during the day the past two years, will be open to anyone's car on payment of the fee." Lawton said.
Lawton explained the three factors on which the decision to put this lot on a pay-basis was based.
The fee will be 50 cents throughout the 24 hours of the day, with no limit on time.
The Kansas legislature has said clearly that surfacing of parking areas and creation of new lots shall be paid for from parking fees. The lot east of the Union is a preferred accommodation and should be expected to contribute to development of the over-all parking program, Lawton said.
Because of the unevenness of the guest load at the Union, the lot has not had maximum usage. "Although most users are expected still to be those spending most of the day at the Union or nearby buildings, we believe the lot will be useful for students and staff members who have brief but urgent need for preferred
parking." Lawton added.
"We hope to gain experience that will point to better solutions of parking in other areas of the university."
Visitors not caring to use, the payparking lot may still obtain guest stickers that can be used for parking elsewhere.
The meter can be reached from a car window. Only one car will be able to pass through as closing will be actuated by a treadle mechanism. Treadle mechanisms will automatically open the gate for exiting cars. The coin mechanism will reject payments when the lot's capacity is reached.
Lawton said operating procedures would be readjusted if the operating experience so indicates.
Lawton reported that parking fee earnings, mostly obtained at athletic contests, are not sufficient for any large project but he hopes work can be initiated on the first priority project, which is the creation of a large parking lot in the area of the old baseball field, northwest of the Union.
70 Benton Paintings To Be Shown April 12
An exhibit of more than 70 paintings of Thomas Hart Benton will open at 9 p.m. April 12 and continue until May 18 in the Museum of Art.
The exhibit is the second in the museum's series devoted to the three artists responsible for the "American regionalist" movement in painting: Mr. Benton, the late John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood. The opening of the exhibit will continue.
The opening of the exhibit will follow a Humanities lecture at 8 p.m. in Fraser Theater at which Mr. Benton will speak about "American Regionalism—30 Years After."
In the lecture he will analyze the period of regionalism, discussing his own works and those of Mr. Curry and Mr. Wood.
Mr. Benton was born in 1889 in Neosho, Mo. He has been a teacher, author, and lecturer as well as a painter, and is represented in many of the leading art museums in
Pictures for the exhibit were borrowed from Mr. Benton and museums and private collectors throughout the country.
His murals appear in the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New School of Social Research, both in New York City; at Indiana University, and in the Missouri State Capitol Building in Jefferson City, Mo. He lives in Kansas City, Mo.
An illustrated catalog of the exhibit has been published by the Museum of Art.
America and abroad.
Betsy The Chimp Needs A Helper To Paint
The secret of Betsy the chimpanzee's success as a painter lies in her manager's ability to take the canvas and brush from her at the right time. The "artist chimpanzee" creates nothing by herself, Dr. H. W. Janson, Humanities lecturer from New York University, said at an SUA coffee forum Monday in the Union Music Room.
"Without a human to stop her at the precise moment, the effect would be chaotic. However, very few people have had a chance to take anything away from her. She works awfully fast," he said.
Betsy lives in the Philadelphia zoo; her art is the result of a promotion stunt by the zoo director. Dr Janson said Betsy started painting to raise money rather than for the sake of art, but he said the director must have had an interest in art or he would have thought of another scheme.
Dr. Janson said no animal alone can produce a work of art. Betsy doesn't know what she's doing and therefore needs human imagination to make her daubing become art, he explained.
Dr. Janson said Betsy's work may be classified as art although there is manual activity on the part of the person taking the canvas away. To the extent that a person succeeds in taking it away at the right moment, it becomes legitimate, creative art.
"The human doesn't set a goal in helping Betsy. Merely following a pre-conceived goal produces a work of craft. The element of chance plus imagination enters into every work of art. If you want, you can let the chimpanzee play the element of chance."
Dr Janson said there will ultimately be a change in the direction of art as there has always been in the past. He said it would be impossible to predict what direction art will take in the next 50 years.
"If you eliminate all controls you can achieve an effect you can't get in any other fashion, but the total effect would be chaotic, like a child's finger painting. The extreme abstract character of Betsy's art is produced by human imagination and not her choice of colors or anything else. In fact, Betsy is color-blind," he added.
"The traditional painter stops when he has a picture which looks like the image he has in mind. Other artists don't know where to stop. Betsy wouldn't know."
Dr. Janson lectured to Art classes this morning and afternoon. He will give the Humanities lecture at 8 p.m. in Fraser Theater. His topic is the "Ancestory of Modern Art."
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