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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Visual Arts to Benefit from Erection of New Center
By CONNIE PARISH
Kansan Staff Writer
With the construction of a new visual arts center, the visual arts division of the School of Fine Arts hopes to increase the efficiency and quality of instruction and to provide space for new students who aren't necessarily professionally inclined majors.
This is a key statement in the recently published architectural program for the visual arts facility prepared by members of the visual arts facility building committee.
IN 1972, the Kansas Legislature allocated planning funds of $81,600 to the University of Kansas so that initial requirements for a visual arts center could be established.
The State Board of Regents recently approved $150,000 for final planning of the new center plus $5.4 million for construction. Final approval of these amounts must come from the state legislature, but if everything proceeds smoothly bids for the plan may be accepted according to Keith Lawton, director of facilities, planning and operation.
LACK OF space for special equipment in departments of design and painting and sculpture has plagued the division for years. And much of the space that is available to students activities students try to do because it was not originally designed for visual arts, John
Lack of facilities motivated a request to the Board of Regents to authorize limitation of enrollment in visual arts classes for nonmairs.
McKay, associate dean of the division of visual arts, said.
BECAUSE OF a lack of facilities and a restricted budget, the Regents agreed that enrollment in beginning art classes could be curtailed beginning in 1970. Those students were required to work with visual arts as a field of liberal culture have had a limited opportunity to do so.
In planning the enlarged facilities, one of the top priorities of the division was to construct new and expanded buildings.
painting and sculpture to include students who may wish to gain studio experience at a level lower than that required for professionally-inclined majors, according to a goal statement prepared by members of the visual arts division.
SOME OF the particular needs the division listed for inclusion in the proposed center include large work areas for advanced painting classes, classrooms for drawing, special use areas for printmaking, individual studio space and criticism rooms, lounge areas and slide and projection rooms are also deemed necessary.
The plans for the center call for one new
Kansan Staff Writer
KU's Reactor Aids Radioactivity Research
By DAGMAR R. PADEN
A nuclear reactor, which cost $150,000 in 1961, is supported by the Nuclear Reactor Council.
Three KU departments, chemical and petroleum engineering, civil engineering and radiation biophysics, have offices in the Nuclear Reactor Center.
The reactor is very important to
programs in the department of radiation biophysics, Edward Shaw, professor of radiochemistry at UCLA.
SHAW SAID the nuclear reactor causes the splitting of uranium atoms, which release neutrons. Researchers may then use neutrons to produce changes in chemical matter or biological systems in order to study the effects of radiation.
The nuclear reactor is also used to make materials radioactive. Shaw said.
There are several offices and services associated with KU that compile mailing lists of students and faculty. Many of the courses offered by KU have particular segments of the KU community.
The list can be obtained from several sources. The student directory is an obvious source for names and addresses and is probably the most popular source for admissions information of Admissions prints a mailing list of students that is available for purchase.
Many people, including KU students and faculty, receive junk mail in great volume because their names and addresses have mysteriously popped up on mailing lists.
The Computation Center has access to names and addresses of students and faculty, and the Office of University Relations supplies names and addresses of the faculty to people requesting the information.
The Office of Admissions and Computation Center supply the names and addresses of incoming students each semester for use by the KU Printing Service, according to William Smith, director of the printing service.
The Printing Service then prints the list and sells it to Time and Newsweek magazine.
Junk Mailers Get Names Of Students from KU Lists
It also sells the mailing list to Tuition Plan Incorporated and several local businesses, including banks and insurance companies. The request was requested a list could obtain if it he paid for it.
Agnes Barnhill, assistant registrar, said her office never had been asked for mailing lists but did give names and addresses of clients. He also said they did scrutinize these requests.
George Cognias, professor of law, said many people found junk mail annoying and misleading.
To be removed from a mailing list, an individual should ask his postmaster to send him an application for removal from a mailline list and storage of junk mail.
He should tell the postmaster the mail was unrequested.
If the local postmaster does not act and remove a name from the mailing list, the postmaster should stop receiving mail.
Russell Mesler, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, described an experiment in which strips of the metal tantalum were made radioactive. These metal strips were then inserted beneath the skin of snakes living on a reptile's back by the use of the antique history. A study at that department was thus able to study the movement of the snakes.
KU'S NUCLEAR reactor is important in providing instructional material for the department of radiation biophysics. For example, the nuclear reactor is used to make short-lived radioactive isotopes, Shaw said.
Lastly, KU's nuclear reactor is important in a program of training people to perform radiation protection activities around nuclear power plants, Shaw said.
RADIATION protection is involved with surveillance of radioactive sources to protect people, facilities and the environment. One kind of activity in this endeavor is the surveillance of nuclear reactors, Shaw said.
Radiation protection is of increasing interest, he said. A proposal has been made to build a nuclear plant near Burlington. Recently, a proposal was made
building and Fower Hall, which will be completely remodeled inside, according to plans.
to pound another such plant near St. Joseph,
Mo.
Not just anyone can run a nuclear reactor. Hobert Wooody, who operates the KU nuclear reactor, had to be licensed by the Atomic Energy Commission. To get his license, Woody had to pass both a written and an oral test.
WHAT SHOPPING CENTER HAS
WOOY IS also the photographer for the Nuclear Reactor Center. Mesler said the Nuclear Reactor Center at KU had the best high-speed photography equipment in the world.
IF THE BEST learning environment is to be achieved, all studio activities should be located in the same building or in a group of artists with similar structures, the visual arts division says.
One of the current uses of the nuclear reactor center's photography equipment is a study of bubbles. Messler said that much medical research needed to be done on bubbles.
Such a situation does not now exist. Classrooms, studios and offices for the visual arts divisions are scattered on and off campus in 12 different buildings. These range from two and Strong Halls on campus to up to three old houses and an old barn off campus.
Bubbles are important because they can damage propellers in pumps and ships. Bubbles hinder the performance of pumps because they are responsible for cavitation, which can erode even the hardest of surfaces.
Because the courses are taught in numerous buildings, the faculty within the division are isolated from each other, says the goal statement.
McKAY SAID because faculty members
seldom see each other, they had little chance for informal discussion of classes, which hindered improvement of teaching methods.
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Prof Writes on Russia
John Alexander, associate professor of history, has published a monograph concerning the exploits of a tugwiver Corsacke from New Zealand. Empress Catherine the Great of Russia.
The monograph is entitled "Emperor of the Cossacks."
He also said a major disadvantage was that students were unable to learn from their teachers.
Alexander has visited Russia on several occasions and is the author of one other book-length monograph, "Autocratic Politics in a National Crisis." He is presently working on a history of the Moscow plague of 1771.
THE NEXT step in the planning of the visual arts center is the appointment of an associate architect to work with the visual arts division in making final plans for the center. Lawton indicated that would mean having a few weeks of the Board of Regents ruling, according to his office, however, the architect has not yet been appointed.
But visual arts students trudging from glassblowing classes at Chamney Barn to Broadcasting Hall for textile design to Strong Hall for printing can, this semester, at least find comfort in the hope that things won't always be this way.
The new visual arts center is closer to becoming reality.
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