October 26, 1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
HOPE award to be given before homecoming game
The 1984-85 HOPE award winner will be announced tomorrow at a ceremony before the KU-Oklahoma homecoming football game. The winner will receive a plaque and a cash award of between $200 and $300.
Seniors voted Wednesday and yesterday for the winner among six semifinalists.
Timetables available Tuesday
The HOPE award, the Honor for an Outstanding Progressive Educator, was started by the class of 1959 and first given in 1960.
Spring semester timetables will be available beginning Tuesday in the basement of Strong Hall, the director of student records said yesterday.
The timetables will be picked up from 8:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m.
Gary Thompson, the director, said.
Students will be limited to one copy each.
Undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences must pick up their student fairs from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
An Austin, Texas, company builts a low-power television station in Lawrence also plans to establish a low power station in the company's vice president said yesterday.
Topeka to get new TV station
Undergraduate students in other schools may pick up their folders between Nov. 5 and Nov. 9 in their dean's offices. From Nov. 9 to Dec. 28, they hold their folders in their department offices.
The company, Low Power Technology Inc., has applied for a license from the Federal Communications Commission to build a low-power station in Topeka, said Christopher Fager, the vice president. Low Power Technology has about 500 applications on file with the FCC for stations in other parts of the country.
Speech group honors alumna
The division of speech and drama will hold a reception to honor a former KU faculty member at 4 p.m. today in the Watkins Room of the Kansas Union.
Kala Mays Storm will receive the Divisional 1984 "Alumni Honor Citation" award. She is now the president of Murray State University in Murray, Ky.
Stroup received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in 1959. She later became a faculty member at the University of Chicago, as the dean of women at KU until 1974.
Panhellenic officers chosen
Officers for the 1985 Panhellenic Association were chosen Sunday by a 13-member delegation, the current Panhellenic officers and Donna Stewart Panhellenic Association members. Organizations and activities office Twenty-one women ran for seven offices.
The newly elected officers are Missy McKeen, Alpha Gamma Delta, president; Chris Sinatra Delta Delta Delta, vice president for membership. Lisa Boerger, Kappa Alpha Theta, vice president for pledge affairs; Ellen Adler, Kappa Kappa Gamma, vice president for campus affairs; Traci Olds, Alpha Chi Omega, public relations coordinator. Laura Burgh, sigma Gamma, secretary; and Beth Lillie, Alpha Delta Pi, treasurer.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy but pleasantly mild. The high will be in the lower 60s and winds of 10 to 20 mph will be from the south. Tonight and tomorrow will be cloudy and warmer and there will be a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. The low tonight will be in the lower 50s. The high tomorrow will be in the low 70s.
Compiled from kansas staff and United Press international reports.
Because of a reporter's error, an incorrect date for the University of Kansas Collegium Musicum its tall concert was reported in yesterday's Kansan. The concert will be at 2 p.m. on Nov. 4 at the Helen Foresman Sponsor Museum of Art.
Correction
Venus statue regains glory after 19 years
By BENGT LJUNG Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Venus de Milo was not used to the attention she received yesterday.
In old Rome, she was regarded as the perfection of beauty. But for the last 19 years at the University of Kansas, she has been stored in a dark warehouse.
About 30 people yesterday came to the department of classics' showing of the goddess of love at the warehouse on Bullene Avenue.
The warehouse was humble compared to the temples built in Venus' honour, but she had admirers once again. And next to Venus stood her old friends, Apollo Belvedere and Hermes carrying the infant Dionysus.
Chris Botz, Lawrence junior, inspects a newly restored replica of the classic sculpture, Venus de Milo. The sculpture, which is part of a 144 piece Wilcox collection that has been in storage since 1965, was one of 29 of the statues displayed yesterday by the department of classics at a warehouse on Bullen.
The real statue of Venus de Milo is in the Louvre in Paris. The real Apollo is in Greece, and the real Hermes is in the Vatican City. The University has had its own set of the classical replicas for 98 years.
IN 1886, KU bought the replicas from a cast maker in Boston. But for the last 19 years, it almost has been easier to go to Europe to see Venus and Apollo than to see them in Lawrence.
The classics department has brought 29 of the 114 pieces in the Wilcox collection out of hiding after 19 years. They have been housed home in an east Lawrence warehouse.
The department recently has restored the plaster casts of Greek and Roman gods and emperors for $7,000. The money was donated by the collection's former curator, Mary Grant, and the Kansas University Endowment Association.
"Some of them were so badly damaged I thought I shouldn't even try," he said.
THE STATUES HAD been in storage sheds on West Campus, where they were damaged by water, said Elizabeth Banks, curator of the collection and associate professor of classics. They looked like combs before the restoration, she said.
The statues have been homeless ever since old Fraser Hall was demolished in
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student in the college to clean and
clean water.
By keeping the statues in storage, Banks said, "the University has not honored its
commitment and responsibilities to its students."
The statues were to be installed in the foyer of Wescow Hall, which was to have been 23 stories tall. But when Wescow was down, there was no room for the statues.
"WE TRIED TO get space in one place or the other," Banks said. "What we have now is a commitment to a room in Lippincott."
The classics department now hopes the collection will be installed in 103 Lippincott Hall by 1966 - the collection's centennial.
"I don't know when Lippincott will be ready," Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said at the showing. "It will take some substantial renovation and improvement to the security. We're aiming to do this at the earliest opportunity."
Lack of progress no surprise, developer says
By CHRIS BARBER
Staff Reporter
The seeming lack of progress in the city's downtown redevelopment project is not surprising at this stage of the game, the head of the project said yesterday.
Duane Schwada, president of Town Center Venture Corp., said he had fielded complaints recently that nothing has happened with the downtown project since Town Center took over as the city's developer of record in January.
"These things take time," Schwada said.
"That's a point we've made from the beginning."
Town Center has proposed an enclosed mail covering the 600 block of Massachusetts Street. However, two more plans for retail development have been proposed recently.
MORE RECENTLY, STEVE Clark, of Steve Clark Commercial Real Estate, 1611 St. Andrews Drive, proposed a smaller enclosed mall utilizing the riverfront Bowersock Mills buildings next to City Hall.
Clark has said his mall could be compatible with Town Center's pooject.
Delta Properties Inc., of Baltimore, has requested rezoning of an area south of town on Iowa Street for a suburban shopping mall. This proposal brought objections from city commissioners, who said they wanted to see Lawrence's retail development remain downtown.
Mayor Ernest Angst said recently that it was time to "fish or cut bait" with the Town Center project. He and other community representatives said they wanted a large department store to commit itself to development in Lawrence.
Schwada said yesterday retailers would have to be convinced that Lawrence was different from other cities that had failed in their downtown projects before they would
"I have spent too much time examining communities that have failed," he said. "The problem is nobody stays with their downfall, so simply give up and build a suburban wall."
But in every town that succeeded in redeveloping its downtown instead of building a suburban mall, he said, city officials went through lengthy negotiations and wavered back and forth, much like Lawrence now.
SCHWADA RECENTLY VISITED several malls around the country and he said he saw both failures and successes
After Manhattan named a developer of record in 1979, it took about three years before the developer received commitments from large retailers, he said Manhattan
Schwada cured Maribannat's downtown mall project, which he said had made the building more attractive.
rejected four proposed suburban rezonings in six years.
"Successful communities have had all kinds of hurdles to cross," Schwaad said. "But they made a commitment to stay with their downtown. They all rejected suburban zonings. It needs to be clear to retailers that something is going to happen downtown."
CITY COMMISSIONER NANCY Shontz said yesterday that Lawrence had been showing its support for downtown development.
"The commission has discussed lots of ways to support downtown," she said. "The ball is still in the developer's court. But I'm sure the commission will help out wherever it can."
Schwada said he had met with Clark about the riverfront mall.
"We haven't analyzed it much in detail." Schwada said. "We have to analyze what happens there in relationship to our program. That development by itself is not enough to curtail a suburban mail.
SCHWADA SAID THAT although retailers preferred the simplicity of suburban malls, he did not think a suburban mail was in Lawrence's best interest.
"It's a well-known fact that if you have a well managed, well-constructed, well-organized suburban mail, you lose retail attention and become very about trying to do the downtown project.
Candidates ignore issue, write-in says
New GOP candidate challenges Branson for 44th District seat
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
Republican Garry Bicksler, the write-in candidate who is opposing State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, for her seat in the Kansas House of Representatives, called abortion the most far-reaching issue in the campaign.
None of the Lawrence candidates running for the Kansas Legislature will discuss the most important issue in the country, a write-in candidate for the 44th District said yesterday.
The 26-year-old Lawrence microbiologist said he was running a write-in campaign to call attention to the importance of the work in preventing waterborne diseases, which have been ignored by Lawrence candidates.
"We're all fearful of nuclear war, but we have a present holocaust happening now, and that's abortion," he said.
Branson, who is pro-choice, said she was not worried about Bickler's write-in camp. "He's a very good writer," she said.
"I THINK IT'S fortunate that he's running on a single issue like this, because it's so important for a representative to have a grasp of a number of issues," she said.
"I think voters would want to know the candidates' stands on issues such as classification and reappraisal, burial of hazardous waste and state revenue, which is so critical to education both in the public schools and the Regents budget." Branson said.
If he were elected, Bickler said, he would educate himself on all issues. But he said he thought issues such as abortion and the use of drugs, which he opposes, were the most critical ones.
"I think there are some very concerned citizens," he said. "They haven't really been given a choice as far as these issues are concerned, but the majority of them which them because they're too controversial."
OTHER ISSUES MENTIONED in Bickler's campaign pamphlet are enforcement of anti-obscenity laws, legislation to return capital punishment to Kansas and a cutoff of state funds to Planned Parenthood, a family planning service that provides health care benefits, including contraceptives to minors, to low-income families.
Bicksler did not file for candidacy before the June 11 deadline. Anyone who hasn't filed by that date may not be elected to a state legislature, and members of the voters put that candidate's name on the ballot.
Bicksel has not been endorsed by the Douglas County Republican Party. After the primary election in August, Bicksel said, he felt that the county of the county party, that he wanted to run.
BICKSER SAID GALYARD told him that the Republican Party wouldn't endorse him, mainly because he was so late in deciding to run. Bickerser also said that his views were more conservative than Galier, that might have contributed to the decision.
Galyard was out of town yesterday and was not available for comment.
Bickseld said he was confident he soon would receive the Republican endorsement after he had campaigned and made his views known for a few days.
Bickler said it wasn't wrong for anti-b abortionists to try to legislate morality.
"People say we're teaching morals, but that's just what organizations like Planned Parenthood are doing by telling girls it's all right to go out and do anything they want." he said. "They're pushing their lax morals onto others."
Branson said the decision on whether to have an abortion was one that should be made with care.
"This is a very personal decision that would be made by the woman, her family or friends."
HALF PRICE FOR KU STUDENTS
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Chamber Music Series Presents
EMERSON STRING QUARTET
"Something almost magical happens when they perform."
Program
Quartet in G major, Op. 76, No. 1
String Quartet, Op. 3
Quartet in D major, Op. 11
Program
Haydn
Berg
Tchaikovsky
3. 10 p.m. m. Sunday, October 28, 1984
Crainer-Prever Theatre/Murray Hall
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office
All seats reserved/For reservations, call 913/864-3982
Public: $B & $6. Students: $4 & $3. Senior Citizens: $7 & $5
This program is partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee,
Swallow Society and the KU Endowment Association
BAHAMA MAMA GETAWAY!
Sat., Oct. 27