CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, August 31, 1984
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KU professors didn't know other exists
Sculpture poster not original
Chris Magerl/KANSAN
Don Steeples, chief of geographies geochemistry at the Kansas Geological Survey, displays a poster he posed for this spring. Steeples and Rex Buchanan, assistant director of the Kansas Geological Survey, financed the poster.
By CHRIS BARBER Staff Reporter
The controversy surrounding KU's Salina Piece seemed to have died down until two KU professors at the Kansas Geological Survey decided to express their views about the 35-foot tall sculpture.
A poster toiers the theirs had been published in 1978 by a Fortland, Ore.
The two produced a poster making fun of the sculpture. Now, the poster produced by Don Steeple, chief of geophysics and geochemistry at the survey, and Rex Buchanan, assistant, is being displayed, he has run into copyright troubles.
THIS POSTER SHOWED A man named Bud Clark, who later became mayor of Portland, wearing a trenchcoat and flashing a piece of artwork. The poster carried the caption, "Expose yourself to art."
Buchanan and Steeples' poster is essentially the same, except it features Steeples in a treenchest The Saira in the Sama Piece. The caption is the same.
"We just wanted to poke a little fun at the thing." Steeples said. "We didn't know they had a copyrighted poster. We thought it was an original
The company, Mason-Ryerson Publishing, Inc., owned the copyright on the poster, and notified Buchanan and Steeleens of the similarity.
These problems top off a long history of troubles centered around Salina Piece.
WHEN IT WAS FIRST donated almost three and one-half years ago, the sculpture, created by sculptor Dale Eldred, was originally intended to be installed in October 1961 at the Art Center of 16th and Sunflower streets.
vigorous objections from nearby residents. Vandals wrote such slogans as, "I'm an eyesore," and, "Take me away" on it.
But the idea of planting the huge, black steel sculpture amidst the greenery of Mount Oread drew
Even the sculpture wouldn't cooperate in the first installation attempt
It slid to the ground immediately after it was erected.
This failure spurred a series of investigations into the structure's
safety. Some local residents feared passers-by could be injured if they climbed on the statue.
SALINA PIECE FOUND a temporary home when it was moved to the facilities operations storage yard west of Iowa Street two months later.
The sculpture lay in state for more than two years until, after some structural reinforcing, it was finally erected in January 1984 near the northeast corner of the KU Endowment Association building.
When Buchanan and Steeple were notified of the copyright on the poster, they had to stop selling their posters, or risk a copyright suit. The posters sold briefly for $2.50 at the Oread Bookstore.
"We really weren't worried about them cutting into our sales," said Mike Ryerson, president of Mastenau. "I have no intensities."
"It's just that my lawyer told me that I'm obligated by law to notify them that we own the copyright."
CHARLES DUFFY, RYERSON'S lawyer in Portland, said that Ryerson had to notify Buchanan and Steeples of the copyright, or the copyright would be waived.
"We know it wasn't an intentional rip-off," Duffy said. "But any time there is a close call, we have to act on it. We've had people all over the world who have tried to rip us off on the poster."
Ryerson said that the original poster had sold about 300,000 copies, and that it was still available nationwide.
Buchanan and Steeple now are stuck with about 900 of the original 1,000 posters they had printed.
"We sold a few, gave some to friends, but that's about it." Steeples said.
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CMILA, VOGEL. STUDENT body president, and Dennis "Boo" Highierger, student body vice president, are heading the Student Senate Ad Hoc Committee on South Africa, which met on Monday in the Kawasaki Union to plan activities for the special week.
Highberger said the committee also planned to introduce two bills to the Senate.
The purpose of the committee's declaration is to "heighten the awareness of KU students of the aparthief practices in South Africa" and to encourage committee member and first year/year law student
By LEROY LEIKER Staff Reporter
KU group specifies week to protest policy of racism
An ad hoc committee of student volunteers, including the student body president and vice president, has declared the week of Sept. 17-21 as South Africa Week at the University of Kansas.
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One bill would petition the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest itself of any investments in South Africa because of government-sanctioned racial discrimination, he said.
Highergeran said he was confident that the bills would pass the Senate with little opposition. However, he said, he was not "overly concerned" getting results from the Endowment Association or any corporations.
The second bill would ask the Student Senate to stop buying materials or otherwise doing business in South Africa, conduct business in South Africa.
Scheduled activities for the week include a rally at noon on Sept. 19 in front of Watson Library, a presentation by the Creative Dance Association at noon on Sept. 21 in front of Watson Library and a performance on Tuesday on band on the evening of Sept. 21 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Other planned events are a public forum and panel discussion.
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