University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1980
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Graffiti adorn KU restroom walls
By TIM SHARP Staff Reporter
"I'll never let schooling interfere with my education."
"Build windmills, not nukes!"
"For a good time, call Bunny, 864-0000."
A part of everyone's typical day is pausing to answer a call from nature, and at the same time, scanning the walls to read the graffiti on them.
There is something about a bathroom wall that makes some people express their frustrations, desires, wit and wisdom, and things they wouldn't reveal to their close friends or loved ones.
It's an outlet for social repression," said Akard, associated instructor in sociology.
Society does not allow free expression on social situations, he said, Graffiti, however, allow this freedom in the privacy of one's own bathroom stall.
PEOPLE HAVE expressed themselves on walls throughout history. The Romans protected the walls of their public baths from deafness by placing religious emblems on them and calling the wrath of the gods upon such places to profane them, according to "The Handwriting on the Wall," by Ernest L. Abel.
The Tower of London has a gruesome
collection of graffiti. Kings, queens, saints and scholars, while waiting to be executed, scratched their political or religious ideologies into the walls with nails. When nails weren't available, they used their own blood. Abel savs.
Patrons of KU restrooms don't write their messages in 'blood, but they do want to be visible.'
A recent survey of campus campus fourteen buildings that are written on building walls is
Summerfield, Wescow, and Flint hills had more graffiti on their walls than Snow Hall and the Military Science Building, which had no graffiti at all.
Graffiti at KU cover many topics, but focus on politics, music and sex.
The quality of the graffiti ranges from the state of the world to crude sex.
ONE PERSON wondered, "Why can't Americans and Irianians lay their national bitterness and solve the human beings should?"
Someone else asked, "Where can I find some loose women?"
Dave Wallace, junior at the Kansas Union, said he tried to keep up with the graduate class.
"There's no way you can control it when some people go crazy," he said.
Wallace called that bathroom "Graffiti Alley." He said more graffiti were written in that bathroom than in any other in the Union.
He also said there was a phantom philosopher who had a fetish for finger painting with his feces.
Someone once spread red ink all over the back of a stall in the bathroom on the floor.
Wallace said he didn't understand why students defaced bathroom walls in the Union.
"They're the ones paying for the building," he said. "I'm a student, too, so I try to keep it under control."
Some people may consider gratim to be eyesores and vandalism, but graffiti's historical uses are just being discovered, according to Abel. The messages on the walls will leave a record of the mood and feelings of the times and will be valuable to sociologists and historians.
Motel tax to finance tourism bureau
The Lawrence City Commission tonight will appropriate $15,700 in motel tax revenue to create a city convention and tourism bureau.
The bureau will be run by the Chamber of Commerce.
Glenn West, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, said yesterday that the bureau would have a director, a part-time secretary and several temporary employees to help register guests at conventions and distribute information to visitors.
John Myers, former director of the KU office of admissions and records, will be the bureau's director, West said.
West said Myers would encourage companies and organizations to have conventions in Lawrence. The bureau will oversee conventions, pass out information to convention guests and mail information to people interested in visiting Lawrence.
The 2 percent guest tax has been collected in Lawrence since April.
The guest tax was created by a 1977 state law that allows cities to motel room rates. Guest tax versus hotel taxes only to fund local tourism bureaues.
The bureau's budget will depend on the number of motel rooms filled each year, West said.
Kansas artist's sketches shown at Arts Center
An exhibition of 30 colored drawings by Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton, a Wellsville native who began drawing three years ago at age 69, opened Saturday at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
Layton, who recently was named Kansas Governor's Artist, began drawing after learning blind contour drawing in a class at Ottawa University.
In blind contour drawing, the artist looks at the subject he is drawing instead of the paper, which often produces distorted images.
"I don't really think about them; I just draw them," Lyaton said of her drawings. "I've got enough ideas to go on forever."
Unlike Grandma Moses, another later-blooming artist, Layton does not draw scenes from her past. Her drawings deal with the present. They reflect her own experiences and almost without exception contain self-nortraits.
ONE OF LAYTON'S drawings,
"Mona LISA," shows Layton as Mona
Many of Laxton's drawings show her feelings about growing old.
Lisa, with her hair loose and a slight smile. She is surrounded by a collage that includes a pink devil, an angel, a knight on a white horse, a corse, false teeth, a half-empty bottle of perfume and an aspirin bottle.
The caption reads: "These are some of the things that the Mona Lisa, if she had lived to be old, probably would have been thinking about."
Another drawing, "The Garden of Eden," shows Lyatton as Eve, running away from a small green snake that is offering her an apple. The caption says that a woman would not listen to a snake but would run.
"I got tired of women being blamed for anything," Leyton said. "I support it."
A woman told Layton that she could tell from the drawings that she and Layton had shared many of the same experiences.
"We don't have exactly the same experiences, but we have the same feelings," Layton said.
Layton's drawings will be on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday until Oct. 25. The exhibit is sponsored by the Douglas County Council on Aging, the Lawrence Art Guild and the Lawrence Arts Center.
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