University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 14, 1986
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Football tradition compared to law school's
By PAMELA SPINGLER Staff writer
History of standout individuals adds prestige to both programs, Valesente says
Football head coach Bob Valesente could not be found in Parrish Athletic Center yesterday afternoon. He received a change of venue.
Valesente spoke about the KU football program to about 15 law students in Green Hall in a weekly noon forum sponsored by the Student Bar Association.
Although he wasn't on his turf, he stuck to his priorities, with academics ranking first, he said.
"You don't build a good house unless you have a strong foundation. Education is the foundation of our society and, in this atmosphere, it should be held in high esteem."
Valesette compared the football program to the KU law school. He
"There is no rule that says if you want to be a good football player, you should be a bum," he said. "In the long run, when you are 40, you realize what you did in the classroom was more important than what you did on the football field.
"Traditionally, the law school is ranked as one of the finest in the country, and it started with these people on the walls," he said, pointing to the pictures of graduating classes that line the room.
"KU can attract a lot of good football players because of tradition." Valesente said. The tradition doesn't tame the players but out from individual players, he said.
said that both had the tradition to attract top recruits.
To help build a stronger tradition.
he said, a sense of continuity was important.
Valesente compared the number of football coaches, 34, to the number of basketball coaches, six, that the University of Kansas has had since the programs began. He said programs had difficulty flourishing if leadership kept changing.
In any type of business, if you keep changing the leadership, it will change too.
The continuity of the leaders also helps the team build a winning attitude, he said.
"We have a fragile attitude on this football team because we haven't had continued success," he said.
Valesente mentioned the team's opponent this week, the University of Nebraska, and said its football program was one of the best.
"If I lost three tailbacks, I would have to go ask a manager to play." he said. "Nebraska has a true system of red-shirting that they've worked out. They have a truly outstanding football team."
Class displays a bit of culture
The School of Education created a melting pot in the Kansas Union yesterday.
By PATRICIA FEENY
Pat Weiss, assistant director of economy education and curriculum and instruction, and her multicultural education class displayed cultural elements from countries such as Poland, Ireland, Japan, China and Germany.
The school requires education majors to take the class, which teaches students about the contributions that ethnic groups have made to the United States. Forty-five students are enrolled in Weiss' section of the class this semester.
“这 gives students the chance to display the products from different ethnic groups that have contributed to America.” Weiss said. “It is a required class so that all students can appreciate the multicultural perspective.”
She said some students in the school e
ethnic gr
Student
Peggy Bolin, Fairway sophomore, said, "She's a good teacher. She makes the class interesting with this and things like field trips. She keeps our attention better than a textbook or lecture."
culture and to write a research paper.
The class took a field trip to Haskell Indian Junior College recently.
"With the cooperation of Haskell, we learned more about Indian cultures," Weiss said. "There are so many different cultures within a single tribe."
Weiss said participation in the exhibit and enrollment in the class would help those students who went into teaching to integrate different ethnic cultures and to know about their traditions. The students in their classrooms.
Kathy Fick, Overland Park sophomore, was responsible for contributing information about prominent Irish Americans. In ad-
we get first-hand knowledge of how Italian lives," Bowen said. "We can relate to Italian-American nights."
Lara Bowen, Overland Park junior, was part of the Italian culture exhibit.
Bolin said she learned that the noodles used to make spaghetti were not from Italy but probably from China.
The Polish table displayed sheet music, an album, graphs and even a polish sausage.
"It's been helpful," said Mary Holt, Great Bend sophomore and member of the Polish culture group. "We've learned about different places."
Rob Podrebara, Kansas City,
Kan., junior, said he didn't know
that Polish-Americans had the
highest median income of all
European groups in the United States.
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They can see works by these, and other artists, for free, right here in Lawrence at the Spencer Museum of Art.
By NANCY BARRE
KU students don't have to make a special trip to Paris or New York to see the masterpieces of Claude René Balzac in Homer Lowen or Dante Galileo Rubelli.
the "Divers" painting, which has traveled to exhibits throughout the
Staff writer
In addition to featuring temporary exhibits such as this fall's "The Photographs of David Hockney" and "Japanese Quest for a New Vision," the museum maintains permanent displays from its own collection.
In fact, some paintings from the permanent collection attract visitors from all around the country, said Keith Barrham, head美术馆 manager in 1977.
With brilliant color and bold brushwork. Honer portrayed men in harmony with nature, in a world uncontaminated by modern life.
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Stephen Goddard, curator of prints at the museum, who has studied triptychs and helped to acquire the "Deposition," said the piece was special to the museum because very few museums, especially university teaching museums, possessed intact triptychs.
An accomplished U.S. oil painter and illustrator before he turned to his prolific work in watercolors, Winslow Homer (1836-1940) was a master at his art when he painted "West India Divers" in 1899.
They are "West India Divers" by Winslow Homer, "La Pia de Tolomei," by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Ballad of the Loamer Louet of Lone Green Valley," by Thomas Hart Benton, the "Deposition Triptych," by a Fleemish painter known as the Master of Frankfurt and "The Virgin and Child," a carved wooden statue by Tilmann Miemenschneider.
"The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley" by Thomas Hart Benton.
the outside panels show, or folded out, so the inside panels are visible.
During the 16th century, triptych customarily were closed during the year and folded on holidays. The works were then done in black and white so they would
Barnhart and Carol Shankel,
managing editor of museum publications,
help to identify and explain the
five works injured about most often
Barnhart said he had worked around the art museum for so long that sometimes he served as an informal tour guide for curious visitors.
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country, depicts two young men relaxing with a boat in the water near a peaceful Bahamas beach. The charm of the painting lies in the complete lack of posing or affectation on the part of the models.
A triptych is a type of segmented painting that can be folded up so only
"Sometimes people will walk right in and say 'where's the Rossetti?' or, where's the Monet?" he said.
not be damaged by the sun, but the protected inner panels were done in vivid color.
The "Deposition Triptych," a 16th-century Flemish panel painting by the Master of Frankfurt, whose real name is thought to have been Hendrik van Wueluwe, was purchased by the museum in 1984.
"La Pia de Tolomé" was acquired by the museum in 1956 as a gift from Ellen Werner, a Lawrence resident. Werner, curator of decorative arts at KU before her death in 1988, bought the painting in London after seeing it in a gallery there.
"La Fia," which Rossetti modelled after a character from "The Divine Comedy" by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, was supposedly an especially intense project for Rossetti as well as in the model, Jane Morris, who was the wife of his best friend, William Morris.
The panels of KU's triptych are no longer connected and all six panels are visible at all times. The painting depicts a religious narrative of the "Passion of Christ" in chronological order.
Benton was known for paintings that depicted the spirit of pioneers in the United States and the traditional folklore of town life in the Midwest. Benton lived for years in Paris and New York, but returned to Missouri in the 1920s.
Dante Rossetti (1823-1882) worked on the painting from 1883 to 1890, during the last years of his life. An accomplished poet as well as painter, he was probably the most prominent member of a 19th-century English artistic group called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
"Virgin and Child" by Tilman Riemenschneider (1460-1531), completed in 1499, is one of the most curiosity柄画. Its story is according to Barnhart.
courtesy of the Spencer Museum of Art
It's one of those things you just
"The Ballad of the Jealous Lover," is a painting by native Missouri Thomas Hart Benton (1839-1975), is especially popular with Kansas because of its regional quality, shanked said.
Also, "The Ballad," completed in 1898, is one of Benton's most famous works. Shankel said.
don't take down," he said. "People often just stand there and stare at it for quite a while."
The Limewood sculpture depicts a standing Virgin, pensive and solemn, holding a playful baby Jesus. Depictions of the Virgin and Child, always important in Christian art, became especially popular during the Reinais sance e, when Ernnisenscheid did his work.
The sculpture emphasizes the human quality of the parent-child relationship, something rarely found in early Christian art.
courtesy of the Spencer Museum of Art "La Pia de' Tolomei," by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
courtesy of the Spencer Museum of Art
"There's no question that Spooner is a beautiful and charming old building," Shankel said. "But if just
Museum features help to preserve art
Staff writer.
Now, the marble bust, donated to the University by Lawrence in 1878, has to share space with at least 25,000 people. It is a memorial of University's Spencer Museum of Art.
By NANCY BARRE
The present museum building was completed in 1977, but before the late Helen Forsman Spencer donated the more than $5 million necessary for the museum's construction, the collection was housed in Spooner Hall where the Museum of Anthropology is now.
Carol Shankel, managing editor of museum publications, said the new building had been needed for a long time.
A bust of Amos Lawrence, the founder of the city of Lawrence, used to stand alone as the University of Kansas 'only art object.
In 1987, Thayer announced that she would donate a 9,000-piece collection to the University in memory of her husband, William. Bridges Thayer.
The diverse collection, which helped launch the University's art collection, included vast amounts of oriental art and decorative objects
"The newer building, together with the collection, has made Spencer one of the top five or six university museums in the country," she said.
wasn't big enough to hold the collection. The newer building has at least four times more space."
The Spencer Museum also provides special humidity and temperature controls to help preserve the art. The art was gradually becoming damaged in Spooner, where there weren't any climate controls. Shankel said
Two Kansas City women, Salie Casey Thaver and Spencer, were the primary benefactresses of the pregnancy
ranging from Egyptian amulets and Roman glass to English silver and Guatemalan weavings.
It also included paintings by 19th-
century masters Winslow Hosher,
George Ingle, Theodore Robinson
and Robert Henri.
Shankel, who did biographical research on Thayer, said that first of all, Thayer didn't originally intend to give the collection to the University, and secondly, she nearly took it away after she donated it.
"She wanted to establish a museum in Kansas City, but there just wasn't anyone who was prepared to handle the collection. Thankel said. The Nelson (Alkmaar Museum) in Kansas City, City, Mo. didn't exist then."
Since Thayer knew the chairman of the art department at KU, she finally decided to give the collection to the University. Shankel said.
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