KANSAN
Tuesday, September 2, 1980 Vol. 91, No.7
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
A lone tree provided the foreground for a lightning display during yesterday's thunderstorm. The view looks north about three miles west of Lawrence on Highway 24.
Volunteers strive for campus safety
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
Coordinated campus programs and dedicated student volunteers are the key to making the KU campus a safer place after dark, according to the head of Campus Safety Services.
Kasey Ward, Norwich junior and president of the student organization, said that Campus Safety would be working this year to expand its focus on providing awareness of the need for effective safety precautions.
Campus Safety created an escort service last November to provide escorts for students when they are going to a university.
The escort service will continue this semester and the group will also provide safety recom-
The lighting committee, for example, tries to insure that dark areas of the campus receive proper illumination and has worked to have blue light installed at several campus locations, she said.
LAST SEMESTER, the committee worked closely with Caryl Smith, dean of student life, in taking a survey of students and campus officials that show a need for increased lighting. The university is in greatest need of increased lighting.
The Campus Safety education committee prints literature on good safety habits and speaks to living groups about crime prevention and self-defense techniques Ward said.
The escort service, which has received the most publicity of all Campus Safety programs, is
The escort service is important, but the other
contributions of Campus Safety need to be emphasized, Ward said.
"User response to the escort service was not "overwhelming last semester," she said. "It's hard to ask volunteers to sit three hours waiting for the phone not to ring. Instead, I'd like to start with the basic skills that all people exactly what the services can provide, other aspects haven't been emphasized before."
AS PART OF FALL long-range plans, Ward said she would like to set up a referral service with other health organizations.
The Commission on the Status of Women and the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center have interested callers to Campus Safety, a prairie district Ward said she would like to continue and expand.
The KU Gung Fu Club has offered to work with
with 64FETVTV.
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SenEx debates plan to refine Judiciary
By CINDI CURRIE
the proposal, which restructures the grievance procedures of the University Code, Rules and Regulations, which changes the composition of several governing boards and simply re-names others, was written this summer by a SenEx-appointed task force.
A proposal designed to streamline and organize the University Judiciary grievance procedure was all but approved by the University Senate Executive Committee Friday.
Staff Reporter
The proposal was approved as written, subject to the committee's re-examination of the Ombudsman Advisory Committee, which is included in the code.
The Ombudsman Advisory Committee nominates the University Ombudsman and serves as an adviser at the ombudsman's request.
SEVERAL SENEX members expressed concern about the continuation of a committee that appeared to have no job except to nominate the ambudsman.
Felix Moos, SenEx member, said that the purpose of the ombudman was to cut through the paper work involved in grievance cases and that a permanent advisory committee was not necessary and would destroy the purpose of the ombudsman.
Gerhard Zuther, former SenEx chairman and ex officio member, said. "The nice of having Gerhard Zuther as a chairman is that he
Moos said that if the purpose of the change in the Code was to simplify and streamline procedures, he was not sure that an advisory committee should be included.
FRANCIS HELLER, chairman of the task force, said he had placed the ambudsman and advisory committee in the original code because it was the main focus of such a system at Ohio State University.
He said the ambassador at Ohio State said he found it useful to have a group of people he could go to to discuss taking up a case. Therefore, no issue had to be decided by one person.
"There was always a group of people for him to fall back on," Heller said.
After the proposal is passed by SenEx, i. will be sent to the Student Senate, Classified Senate and Student Organizations and Activities for additional comments.
THE RESULTING PROPOSAL will be presented to the University Council at its
November meeting and, if passed, sent to the chancellor for approval.
Heller said the task force had attempted to alleviate the problems that faced the existing system when they developed the changes for the present code.
He said the problems revolved around a complex system that was difficult to understand, was not representative of all factions of the U.S., and was guilty of not quickly dealing with cases.
"The essential structure has come to be so complex," he said, "much so that, people with little training can see it."
J. HAMMOND McNISH, former Judiciary chairman, said the Judiciary required that all other administrative possibilities be exhausted before a problem was presented to the Judiciary.
He said a student with a complaint had to go to a faculty member, the department, the dean and finally the professor.
According to the proposal, the University Judiciary committee would be renamed the Judicial Board and would have 88 members. The University Judiciary has 89 members.
The grievance procedure would be redefined from complaint to completion. A timetable is proposed for action of the Judicial Board.
HELLER SAID THE proposal was likely to be changed and amended, and he could not speculate on its success before it went into effect. But the actual doing can't be "harmed."
THE PROPOSAL allows up to 55 days for choosing a mediation panel, having that panel report and naming a hearing panel. Within the next 83 days, the hearing must be completed, a request for an appeals panel should be made and the report should be finished.
Other changes to the University Code in the proposal include:
- The Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals would replace the Board of Parking and Traffic Court. The duties of the board would remain the same.
- The Advisory Committee on Campus Grievances would be replaced by the Ombudsman Advisory Committee. The duties of the committee would remain the same.
Players tackle ticket publicity
- Classified staff members would be placed on the Board of Parking and Traffic Appeals, the Judiciary Board and the Ombudsman Advisory Committee.
By ARNE GREEN Staff Reporter
Several campus living groups will have to set an extra place for dinner Saturday, as members of the KU football team leave their traditional training table for dinner with the fans.
The promotion is part of a campaign conducted by the athletic department, with the help of Student Senate public relations, to increase student season ticket sales. According to Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, is this the first suchcampaign ever aimed directly at students.
"This is to promote the fact that football players are normal people," said Sue Heley, Prairie Village junior, who is working on the promotion. "It is also an opportunity for students to play football or for out at the stadium, and an opportunity for players to meet the people doing the cheering."
As part of an effort to increase student interest in the football program, some KU players will visit KU residence halls, scholarship halls, and campus offices on Sept. 6 to eat dinner and meet with students.
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After a year of budget cuts that saw the University drop men's gymnastics, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation is hoping a solid football program can put KU athletes back on financially solid ground.
Starving days over for commercial artist
Today's forecast calls for sunny skies with little or no chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Temperatures are expected to be near 90 and winds easterly about 5 to 15 mph. Tonight should be clear with temperatures in the low to mid 60s.
There is little or no rain predicted for Thursday or Friday. Temperatures are expected to range from the upper 60s to the lower 80s.
Wednesday's skies should be sunny with temperatures in the mid 60s, again with cooler winds.
Mr. Josephine Theatre Presents
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John Collier, prize-winning illustrator, will teach two design classes this semester at KU.
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By VANESSA HERRON Staff Reporter
John Collier sat in his living room, his paint-spattered shoes resting gingerly on the thick, new carpet. In the past 10 years, Collier's work as a commercial artist has won him nine awards. He is particularly adept of Illustrators and a one-year position on the University of Kansas design faculty.
But yesterday, he was painting his basement.
"This is called 'White Enamel on Studio Walls', he said, resturing broadly.
A little later, he slouched back on his cream-white sofa and talked about the old days, when he lived in New York City with his wife, two children and no job.
"When I came to New York, I thought everybody would fall in love with my work and give me jobs immediately," he said with an earnest smile. "he year—that's all, I just sat there and starved."
Well, not quite. His wife, Shirley, found a job as a secretary to help pay the bills, and later, he was hired by Time-Life Films as an art director.
COLLIER CALLED into the kitchen and asked his wife exactly when those leans years in New York were. He had to raise his voice over the hum of the dishwasher.
"Well, Kimmy was two—it was 1972," she called.
"Was it that long ago?" he asked, shrugging. "Well, she should know."
1972 seemed a long time ago to Collier, who at 32 years old, is a prize-winning illustrator. He will teach two classes at KU this fall he will a grant from Hallmark Cards, Inc.
After the first two years in the big city, assignments from publishers and magazines began to trickle in, Collier said. His smoky pastels appeared in magazines, such as The New Yorker and Redbook, and he was hired by Columbia Records, CBS television and the Shell Oil Co.
COLLIER CAN safely say he has made it.
He never takes a job that offers less than $1,000, he said. That is not the highest price he heard, he said, but it is high enough for him.
When Collier first showed his work, he was a young graduate at McPheron Central University.
Collier said there were two rules for success in the crowded commercial art industry.
"The first one is simple," he said. "You have to get out there and show your work. But the second rule is not simple at all: You have another work worth showing once you get there."
classes and his slim portfolio contained three drawings.
"I didn't know anything. I could draw, but I didn't know anything about typesetting or design," he said. "They asked my boss to fire me, so he wouldn't. Maybe he felt sorry for me."
MOST PROFESSIONAL artists have at least 10 pieces to show employers, Collier said, but he was hired on the strength of one illustration.
Later, Collier left of his own accord for Minneapolis. Then he packed up his family and headed where his friends and employers had told him he belonged—New York.
MOST ART directors for magazines and publishing houses are artists themselves, which Collier sees as both good and bad news for young illustrators. Well-informed art directors are more likely to recognize good work—even from an unknown artist, he said. But they also will know bad work when they see it.
Most magazines and publishers—and most jobs for illustrators—are in New York. He explains.
"I always naively thought I'd be able to earn a living, and sure enough, I did," he said.
"In the arts," Collier said, "if you don't know what you're doing, it' s obvious."
In his classes, Collier will show students how to look as if they know what they are doing by presenting their work with slides, laminated prints and color photographs.
"Getting it together is not really that hard," he said. "The hard part is trying to get enough individual pieces of enough quality to show. It took me years."
But once they have broken into the business, illustrators have year-long jobs, Collier said. This year, Collier will draw poster covers and book jackets in his spare time.
He adapts many of his paintings, including an album cover for Ella Fitzgerald, from photographs. Sometimes he has two months to perfect an illustration, and sometimes, as with a recent Time magazine cover, he has one night.
There is a fine line between commercial and
professional business on Monday, he wants to
move that line into fine art.
Collier looked down at his coffee table and struggled for words. On the table was a book he years' best illustrations, bearing one of his paintings cover. He apologized for sounded conceited.
"After awhile, you can outclass the
afterward," he said. "That's why I'm moving into fine arts.
"I just want to see how good I can be—I don't know yet."