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A special exhibit for the Musing in *Museums* Program is displayed in the Muses Lounge at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum. A special lecture by the museum's curator
which presents particular art works from the gallery collection, pertaining to the first of the nine Muses to be featured in the two year program. The program is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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fourth annual exhibition of this kind, which is an audience favorite, Eldridge said. This "collectors choice" exhibition kicks collection dealers and artists out on the market.
"It is always a good show," Eldredge said.
THE MUSEUM is also sponsoring an ongoing program called "Musing in Museums," that is supported by a $90,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities. The program features an integration of the fine arts through the symbolism of the Greek Muses, Eldredge said.
According to Greek mythology, the Muses were the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnenosmyae who were able in inspire incantation and active abilities in mortals as well as in gods.
Terpsichore, the Muse of Dance, will be featured for six weeks. At the 2 p.m., Aug. 27, opening there will be six dances in the central court ranging from primitive to modern. Terpsichore is the third Muse to be featured in the program.
The museum staff organizes the exhibitions, and can take two
videos. Edelridge, Eldredge
Carol Shankel, museum program coordinator, said, "We get the shows by
available. We put our name on a list and if we afford it, we bring here and if we can afford it, then we take it.
ELDREDGE SAID, "We try to relate the shows to teaching programs across the campus."
The museum, in its eighth month of operation, accommodates a significant number of the University's art treasures that have been hidden from view for many years because of a lack of adequate space and unsafe conditions. The new building permits proper preservation, exhibition, and study.
The first piece of artwork that the University received was a bust of Amos Lawrence, for whom Lawrence is named. Lawrence himself of himself to KU one hundred years ago.
Gradually the University acquired other gifts of art. Then in 1917, Chancellor Frank Strong announced the invitation of Salille to attend the City, to give her large collection to KU.
The Thayer collection is diverse. There are paintings by 20 well-known turn-of-the-century artists including Winslow Homer, George Monet and Horace Martinus, George Inness, and Homer Martinus.
THE COLLECTION also includes beautiful textiles; Oriental silk, Egyptian cotton; and fine wool.
Europe and Mexico, weaves from Guatemala, old broaches, embroidery, velvets, robes and costumes. The collection has 9,000 objects.
John Maxon, who was museum director in 1948, remodeled Spooner Hall, where the collection was housed. Better use of the space enabled the museum to display more works, but space was limited and the collection was growing.
Maxon wanted a collection with an emphasis on traditional European paintings and sculpture, and under his direction the university's art collection changed.
Maxon's successors, Edward Maser,
Marlin Stokstad and Brad Waller,
continued to collect European art but at the
place they broadened the scope of the
collection.
ELDREGED, WHO became director in 1971, has continued the emphasis started by Maxon, but also has broadened the collection with American works and with drawings. Eldreged's special interest is an art of the 19th and early 20 centuries.
According to Eldridge, the university, community, and state will continue to profit from new schools.
"This museum makes art an every day experience in Lawrence," he said.
KU governance system offers good communication
The governance system at the University of Kansas is a network of faculty and students that provides medium of communication with the University administration.
Though all legal authority is ultimately invested in the chancellor, the government branches play a vital role in the decision-making that directly affects those at KU.
The senate code, drafted and approved by students in 1969 partly as a result of the massive demonstrations here in the late 60s, created four major governmental institutions: the Student Senate, the Faculty Senate, the University Senate and the University Council.
The additional bodies—the Student Executive Committee and various committees and boards make the University a veritable labyrinth for the non-participant.
The chairmen of the student senate committees, along with three student members of the Student Senate Committee, the student member of the Council, Harper, Robinson and an elected chairman, comprise the 13 members of the Student Senate Executive Committee (StudEx).
Students also serve on various governing boards, such as the Parking and Traffic Board, which decides who can park where and how much he'll have to pay, the Athletic Seating Board, which decides who can sit in a seat, and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
Yet University government isn't that hard to understand.
Each student senator is a member of at least one of the seven senate committees, which are student rights, academic affairs, and education; and auditing, student services and sports.
The first branch of the government is that which belongs to the students. It begins with the Student Senate, which consists of one student senator for every 200 students in the school and a body president and vice president, the vice chancellor for student affairs, the dean of women and the dean of men and one representative from each organized living group.
Mike Harper is the president and Reggie Robinson the vice president for this year's 100th anniversary.
The senate has the power to act on all matters that affect students. Student rights privileges, organizations and housing are some of the matters the Senate addresses itself
StudEx sets the Student Senate agenda and acts for the senate in times of emergency.
The student government's faculty counterpart begins with the Faculty Senate. The Faculty Senate is comprised of the chancellor and his administrative assistants, the vice chancellors, the senior deans and every tenured faculty member.
Because the Faculty Senate is so large, it meets rarely and votes by mail.
This body advises the administrators on matters concerning faculty members. The senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems has original jurisdiction over any faculty member's complaint that administrators have violated his rights under the doctrine of tenure, which guarantees academic freedom.
The Faculty Council is composed of the 39 faculty members from the University Council and is a workable version of the University Council for a year, but can be called into special session.
FacEx confers regularly with the chancellor and runs the day-to-day business of the Faculty Senate. Also, if a faculty member doesn't think he's been treated fairly by the administration, he goes to FacEx.
The council acts on behalf of the Faculty Senate. Its decisions become law, unless a professor petitions the senate to review the council's action.
The Faculty Executive Committee (FacEx) consists of the six faculty members of the Senate Executive Committee, and provides link to the University administration.
University government is the third branch of the network. A combination of student organizations and faculty members, the elements are the University Senate, the University Council and the University Association of Students.
The University Senate combines all the members of the Student Senate and all the
members of the Faculty Senate to create the unwieldiest body of all.
It meets three times during the academic year and rarely gets a quorum. Like the Faculty Senate, the University Senate votes by mail ballot.
The University Senate concerns itself with, among other things, organization of the administration, requirements for teachers, and of academic conduct and long-range plans.
Twelve Student Senate members elected by that senate and Student Body President Mike Harper as an ex-officio member, the 39 members of the Faculty Council and the chancellor and vice chancellor comprise the University Council.
The University Council meets once a month and is a sleeper version of the U.S. Council.
Three student members and six faculty members (Pacchx) of the University Council
SenEx is empowered to act for the University Council and University Senate in all matters requiring expeditious action. It meets with the chancellor continually to discuss any issue that is a problem for the University.
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