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Thursday, September 20, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Students collaborate on K.C. monument
By Amy Zamierowski
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
Many KU students work for weeks on projects that only their professors will see. But some architecture students recently designed plans for a monument that will be built in the Kansas City area.
Chris Heinz, Rich Majors and Alan Purvis, Kansas State seniors, discuss the winning gateway design.
Architecture and urban design students from the University of Kansas and Kansas State University collaborated on a design project during the first two weeks of this semester for a "Kansas City Gateway" monument
The monument is planned for the intersection of Sixth Street and Broadway, an entry point to downtown Kansas City. Mo.
"The monument will be seen as a gateway into the garment district and the downtown area," said Glen Huffman, director of architecture and urban design.
Leroy and David Sachs, K-State associate professor of architecture, were approached by the Historic Architecture Students in designing the monument.
Eleven two-person teams, each with one student from both universities, worked for two weeks to develop ideas for the gateway project.
Each team presented a model and a drawing to a jury of local designers and leaders in the community. The winning design was announced last
Jay Burrell, Kansas City, Mo. senior, and Michelle Domanski, K-State architecture senior, designed the winning model.
Burrus said the most difficult part of designing the monument was deciding how it would fit in to the
garment district and the Kansas City area.
"One part is modern and reflects the designs of Kemper Arena and Bartle Hall, which draw people to Kansas," Burrus said. "The other part of the design reflects the historical aspect of the garment district."
Burrus said they tried to choose modern materials for the construction of the monument, such as glass, concrete and steel. The planned
monument will be about $ 3^{1}_{2} $stories high.
Ellen Gohenne, curator of the Nellon Atkins Museum of Art and a member of the jury, said the design was well executed and designed and was clean and straightforward.
Sandy Steinering, St. Louis senior, was the gateway project was interesting because she was able to see her where her design would have been built.
"People from the garment district gave us a tour and told us how they were trying to bring the area back to life," she said.
This is the third time KU and KState have collaborated on an architecture project.
"There are rivalries between the two schools, but we worked well together doing research and making designs for the design." Stenering said.
History department cancels Japanese class
By Tatsuya Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
About 90 students who expected to attend a Japanese history class this semester received letters during the summer from the history department that said the class had been canceled.
The department offered another Japanese history class, but it was canceled last semester before enrollment.
The first class, "Age of the Samurai," was canceled because instructor Cameron Hurst, professor of pre-modern Japanese history, left for two years to serve as dean at a university in Japan.
A Japanese modern history class that Hurst taught, titled "Japan Since 1945: From Devastation to Superstate," was offered last semester. Hurst taught 50 students in the class.
No upper-level Japanese history class is offered this semester.
Another professor of modern Japanese history, Grant Goodman, retired in May 1989, leaving the department that the department has not filled.
Daniel Bays, chairperson of the history department, said the department had not received approval from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to fill the position.
He said the department had received approval to search for a candidate for the position. The
department plans to hire a professor who specializes in Japanese modern history by Fall 1991.
"There wasn't a delay for me yet, but there will be if a professor is not hired by next fall," he said.
Darrell Allen, Lakewood, Colo.
graduate student working toward a doctoral degree in modern Japanese history, he might have a problem because of the depart- ment of modern Japanese history.
Bays said the department would offer another Japanese history class. "Japan 1640 to 1945. From empire to Empire, 'next semester'."
The department plans to hire someone specifically to teach the class.
In the past few years, the history department has lost six faculty members. Three professors, including Goodman, retired, two died and Hurst took a leave of absence.
Three postions have been filled since then.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the college gave approval to the departments to hire faculty in the department sometimes cannot position when vacancies occur.
Board of Regents schools are required to pay back 60 percent of a professor's salary to the state when he leaves.
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