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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 15. 1990
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Legislation asks for suspension of all drug offenders' licenses
States must suspend the driver's licenses of all convicted drug offenders or risk losing part of their federal highway funds under newly approved legislation signed by President Bush.
The measure applies to all states and all illegal drugs, including the 10 states where possession of small amounts of marijuana has been prohibited but is still considered an intrusion of the law.
It calls for withholding 5 percent of federal highway funds starting Oct. 1, 1993, from states that fail to impose six month suspensions on drivers who drive in the state. The cut would increase to 10 percent Oct. 1, 1993.
About half the states now allow suspension of drug offenders' licenses, but only a few, such as Texas and California, are allowed.
New parliament in Georgia to seek liberty from U.S.S.R.
Georgia's new parliament declared yesterday it will seek full independence from the Soviet Union, which it accused of seven decades of "bloody terror and repression."
Georgian lawmakers set in Tbilisi, their capital, for the first time since a pro-independence coalition, the Round Table for a Free Georgia, wom Oct 28 parliamentary elections. Those elections were the first rue multiparty polling in Soviet history.
Parliament voted 238 to 5 with one abstention to elect Round Table leader Zvias Gamsakhuria, a 51-year-old author, as Georgia's president.
In Lithuania, Prime Minister Kajiime Pruniskie said her Baltic republic might soon face a second Kremlin economic blockade. She sought help in advance from other Soviet republics, Western companies and former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart.
NATO, Warsaw Pact to sign
accord ending military rivalry
The nations of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
WASHINGTON — President Bush yesterday clashed with leaders of Congress who were trying to limit his war-making powers, but he assured the leaders that he will use military force to push Iraq troops out of Kuwait.
Bush and Congress clash over war-making powers
The Associated Press
In a two-hour meeting, Democratic leaders insisted that Bush must seek congressional approval before taking military action in the fight against ISIS and refused to give any guarantee that he would do so.
"The president did not indicate a commitment to do that or refusal to do that." Senate rule 1695.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Bush would follow the Constitution, but he added, "It'a a tough one."
Although he acknowledged that only Congress had the authority to declare war, Baker said, "There are many, many circumstances and situations indeed where there could be action taken against U.S. citizens or against U.S. interests that would call for a very prompt and substantial response."
Baker acknowledged sharp differences between Congress and the White House about Bush's plans.
The debate centers on whether the War Powers Act is constitutional. Baker said. "We think there
are provisions in there that are clearly unconstitutional."
The 1973 act, prompted by congressional discontent over the way U.S. troops were used during the Vietnam war, requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours after U.S. forces are put into a situation where they may become engaged in hostilities. It also requires those forces to be withdrawn within 90 days if Congress doesn't declare war.
Fears of war in the Middle East were flamed by Bush's decision last week to send up to 200,000 troops to the Gulf, nearly doubling the U.S. budget, adding what Bush called an offensive capability.
Some lawmakers, including Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole, have called for a special session of Congress to vote on the gulf crisis, but that proposal appeared to be dead yesterday. "There is no way to address this side," Senate Foreign Relations Chairperson Chailborne D.R.I., said he as left the White House.
Rep. William Broomfield, R-Mich., senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said there was a bipartisan agreement that "it would be just poor judgment to have it right now."
Baker said the huge buildup of U.S. troops did not mean the United States was plunging into war.
Police storm Berlin neighborhood
Hundreds injured during march for affordable housing
The Associated Press
BERLIN — Thousands of riot troops stormed a barricaded neighborhood with bulldozers and armored trucks yesterday and smashed a defiant community of radicals in the heart of Berlin.
Commuters watched as officers burst through the makeshift barriers after daybreak and batted out the gunmen.
Street and adjoining streets where leftist radicals had taken up positions.
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Armored personnel carriers and bulldozers burst through several barricades and officers used clubs, water cannons and tear gas in pitched battles with the radicals.
After the fighting, Mainzer Street was filled with
militiamen. Deaths of the structures were
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Gallery tours highlight displays
Nelson-Atkins Museum helps to guide novices through maze of ancient and modern displays
Kansan staff writer
By Jamie Elliott
Some people can't tell the difference between a Warhol and a Monet. But amateur art lovers and serious collectors alike can benefit from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's education and tour programs.
But to help the ill-at-ease discover the Nelson's art treasures, the museum has a variety of tours, classes and lectures.
The Nelson, 4525 Oak St. in Kansas City, Mo., has five floors of art rangining from Oriental to African, Renaissance to Modern. Its 40 galleries offer visitors thousands of works of art, all little overtly wowing for some people.
The tours are offered at 10:30 a.m.
11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday, and 1:30 p.m., 2
The Nelson offers general museum tours Tuesday through Sunday. The tours take visitors through the museum's permanent collections, said Lisa Austen, museum public information assistant.
"The tours are designed to give you brief highlights of the whole museum." Austen said. "The special tours change every week."
"Sunday Special" tours, which concentrate on particular parts of the Nelson collections, are offered at 2 p.m. every Sunday and are free.
Austen said the Sunday tours rotated every week among several of the city's top art students, American art and ancient art. This Sunday's tour is still undecided, but on May 25, the tour will focus on three shows; the Dec 20 tour will deal with Chinese Art.
Austen said the museum also offered tours dealing with timely subiects.
"Less regularly, we have a tour called religious art," usually around a holiday "Christmas or Easter." she said. "As periodically we have a tour."
on the culture and history reflected in the works, information about the artist and possible influences by other artists.
Novice should not feel intimidated by art, Austen said, because the tours help widen their understanding
Museum tours usually last about half an hour and include information
"That's exactly what they're designed for," she said.
The tours are led by museum docents, volunteers from the community.
"They go through three years of training," she said. "They get the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in art."
Lectures and films are two other opportunities the museum offers to its natrons. They usually are free.
Austen said the lectures often dealt with pertinent issues at the museum, such as recently acquired works or visiting artists.
"We try to put our lectures together with things that are topical" she said.
Theatre on Nov. 18. Scott will tell stories about the myths and legends that influenced the late Latvian sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, whose exhibition is on Nov. 25, at the Art Gallery of Oyala. The lecture will be at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
The Nelson will feature Susan Sylvia Scott of the Midwest Storytelling
Two new exhibitions will open in December. The second part of the three-part exhibition, "South Asian Textiles," will open Dec. 2, and "Organic Abstractions" will open Dec. 7 at the Horizons Gallery.
To open the Christmas season, the Nelson will have a tree lighting and concert Dec. 1 at the Atkins Auditorium. It will begin at 5 p.m. and is free. The Kansas City Chorale will provide entertainment.
Classes at the Nelson range from 50-person lecture classes to 12-person studio classes, said Carol Ingle, director of adult programs.
Classes are taught by Nelson staff and university professors. Inge said that classes for the general public
"Some classes are one day, and others can last six to eight weeks." Inge said. "In a studio class, obviously it takes some doing. Other (often) topic we want to explore in depth and we can do it in a one shot deal."
oere often taught by staff lecturers, people hired by the museum to teach certain classes two or three times a year.
Like the tours, the classes are not meant to be intimidating to people unfamiliar with art.
"I would hope that the average layperson could come in and not be intimidated. I ingre said." "They are very confident," seminars or anything like that."
Upcoming classes at the Nelson include:
Modern Sculpture: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Nov. 17. This class will be held in Atkins Auditorium. The cost is $20.
The Heavenly Jerusalem: 3-45
And the New Testament at Atkins Auditorium. Wojciech Leschowski. Hatch distinguished professor of architecture at the University of Kansas, will lead the class in a study of the great cathedrals and monasteries of medieval Europe and their influence on later architecture. Lecture topics will include "The Gothic Cathedral," "The Ivan Gothic Cave Revival."
Cost for the lectures is $8 a session, but KU students can attend for half-price.
Jazz, vocal groups give fall concerts
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
Music lovers will get an earful in the next week.
University Singers will perform Sunday, and KU jazz groups will team up Monday for a fall concert. Both concerts are free.
the jazz concert will be at 8 p.m. Monday at Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Daniel Gailley, director of Jazz Ensemble, said he did the joint concert was something rarely done at the University of Kansas.
The concert will include Jazz Ensembles I, II and III, standard jazz big bands; KU Jazz Singers and KU Jazz Choir.
Galley came to KU this year from the renowned jazz program at the University of Northern Carolina. He was also byron McCurdy, the former jazz coordinator.
"They have it in the past done a lot of them together in the same night," Galley said. "It's something I wanted to try this year."
"We're using synthesizers, and there will be some surprises, the sheer potential of the use in state-of-the-art technology and equipment. The Jazz Singers will be on stage."
One of the more interesting selections, Gailey said, was a song called "Oops" by a jazz fusion group, "Steps Ahead."
The groups will perform about 30 selections, Galley said, and will feature works written by him and by his friend Tayler, Jazelle Ensemble I drummer
"But I'm taking a whole different approach, especially in the program and music," Galley said. "We're doing a lot of more contemporary selections."
"It's going to be a real entertaining program," Galley said. "There are more numbers, but there's also some really entertaining stuff in there."
Richard Quinn/KANSAN
KU Jazz Ensemble, directed by Daniel Galley, rehearses in Murphy Hall for Monday's performance.
day, as the University Singers present their fall concert at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murpheal Hall. This group is made up of a group, said director Kevin Kellin.
Those interested in music also can sample choral music at 7 p.m. Sun-
Kellim said the group, which consists of between 30 and 35 singers, would perform a variety of recent choral works.
opened it up," Kellim said. "It's a good group."
The University Singers are ready for the fall concert, Kellim said, adding that a recent Topeka performance had gone very well.
SUA plans campus return of coffee-house theater
"Traditionally, it's always been just freshmen, but this year we've
the 20th century," he said. "And we'll highlight some of the individual singers with solos."
By Julie Denesha
In a darkened room clouded with smoke, students drink coffee and watch the performers on stage. A musician performs the most work, a musician begins to play.
'We'll feature choral music from
Special to the Kansan
Featuring unconventional music, avant-garde and student films.
Twenty years ago, that was the scene at the coffee house on campus. This spring, SUA plans to bring it back. The arts coffeehouse in New York has worked with an avant-garde theater series in the new party room in the Burge Union.
The last open-form coffee house on campus, The Middle Earth Coffee House, closed in 1970. It met in the Kansas Union, Alan Scott, charperson of the Student Union Activities Committee, is working to bring it back.
poetry and performance art, the coffee house will try to reach an audience that has received little attention on campus.
"I want to create a forum for fine art on campus," Scott said. "I think its vital to bring together a catholic community that is currently under-
nourished on this camus."
Scott had he wanted enough structure to have a schedule of events but hoped that an open-mike format would provide spontaneity.
"It all depends upon Student Senate," Scott said. "At this point, there are so many variables."
He estimated the project would cost about $2,000, but he is trying to reduce the cost by finding a corporate company to consider sponsorship.
Scott said he wanted to draw attention to new and unfamiliar plays that otherwise would not be seen.
"Plays like West Side Story get seen all the time," Scott said. "There is an entire body of work that is underground just because it is uncontroversial."
Susan Hoffman, program adviser for SUA, said Scott had recently met with performers.
"He has to go back through our board," she said. "It is still very much in the planning stages."
All acting and directing of the avant-garde theater will be done by students, Scott said. A sign-up sheet for the SUA office of the SUA office in the Kansas Union for
Using the coffee house as a base, Scott said he wanted to expand avant-garde theater throughout campus; extending even to the airwaves. To accomplish this, he is working with students to produce a series of radio plays.
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"There will be a broad spectrum of things like street plays, music and things like that, but I want to keep it enclosed." Scott said.
"I've talked to a lot of people in the past year and have sensed that this is something they want," he said.
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