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Wednesday. August 20,1975
University Dally Kansan
Dyche Museum ...
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covered when the addition to the museum was completed in 1963.
"It must be divine providence that the vine nets" covered Darwin's name." Alfred E. Johnson, curator of the museum, said recently.
The building is a national historic landmark.
Lewls Lindsay Dyche
UK banners and emblems covered the museum's uncompleted interior in 1902 for the inauguration of Chancellor Frank Strong and the evening dinner that followed.
In 1909 Dyce was granted leave from the University to become state fish and game warden. He spent little time in Lawrence during the next few years, and Charles D. Bunker assumed much of the responsibility for collections of recent vertebrates in the museum.
Bunker, a self-taught naturalist, apparently had an extraordinary ability to motivate his students. "Bunker's boys" as he students have come to be called, included Alexander Whtome, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Remington the director of the National Museum; William Henry Burt, a mammalologist at the University of California at Berkeley; and Claude Hibbard, a famous paleontologist.
When Dyche died in 1915 of heart disease, rather than from complications of a glia monster bite as was at first suspected, the museum was named Dyche Hall.
Dyche went on 23 expeditions during his years at KU and collected 35 antlepiopes, 14 buffaloes, 19 grizzly and polar bears, 45 bighorn sheep, 15 Rocky mountain goats, 19 moose, 10 lynxes, 10 walruses, 7 caribou and 3 Greenland reindeer for the museum.
When Dyche was opened again in 1941, the museum's main attraction was a landscape panorama of the largest single group of mounted animals on display in the world. More than half of the 200 mammals in the playground were the same ones that Dyche had taken to recreate when they first opened again, they were placed in a realistic reproduction of their natural surroundings.
During this restoration period, the museum's collections were placed in storage around the campus, and specimens were stored on acid-labeled labels on the bones stored under the stadium. Dust and moisture damaged other specimens. Responding to these losses, Governor A. Huxman signed a bill that $35 million would funds to rebuild the inside of the museum.
Dyche justified collecting the large mammals, some of which were nearing extinction, by the very fact that they were endangered species. He thought that rare animals should be displayed in museums and used for research.
On November 30, 1832, the museum was closed by the Board of Regents after the state fire marshal declared it unsafe. The inside of the building was torn out and replaced in 1938, but its interior wasn't completed until June 6, 1941.
It took S. T. Dickenson, the museum's staff artist and a one-time vaudeville set painter, 13 months to paint the 550-foot backdrop.
During the summer of 1942, the School of Fine Art's painting and drawing department, located in Strong Hall, was moved to the third floor of the museum. The move was made when the University admitted 500 Navy machinists' masters. Naval authorities insisted that housing and classes be centralized and leased the west wing and endure a new building. The library large enough and safe enough for military barracks. The art department was moved in the frantic redistribution of departments, faculty and classrooms which followed.
A fire in the tower of Dyche Hall in December 1949 destroyed $3,500 worth of small animal skeletons and specimen boxes. Firemen said that during the fire, members of the museum staff were in the smoke-filled tower room pleading with the firemen to throw out valuable skeletons and specimens. The fire was quickly controlled.
Under the directorship of E. R. Hall in the 1950's, the panorama underwent additional
modification. A 15 by 20 foot tropical display, requiring thousands of handmade leaves and hundreds of flowers, stems and virus, was added. Expeditions to Panama made to collect specimens, and research data and to take photographs for the exhibit.
"I climbed $^b$ there like Michelangelo," Mengel said. "The ceiling is a dome and I had to distort everything to make it come out right."
When the tropical exhibit was completed, the older part of the panorama looked tacky by comparison and had to be improved. he built a new floor in the eight temperature-determined life zones, from an arctic zone on the northern tip of Alaska to a tiger life zone in Central America. He painted the background of the panorama Georgetown Young modernized the foreground. The sod
for the great plains sections was dug in western Kansas. Robert M. Mengel, a curator of the museum, painted cranes and geese on the ceiling of the panorama.
Describe what the public sees an only the tip of a super iceberg, Mengel said that less than one tenth of one per cent of the museum's collection is on display.
The museum contains more than 4.5 million specimens.
Between 75,000 and 100,000 visitors come to the museum each year.
KU government . . .
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in behalf of the Faculty Senate, and what it decides becomes law unless a professor gets up a petition for the Faculty Senate to review the council's actions.
THE FACULTY SENATE Executive Committee (FacEx, aAs) consists of the six faculty members of SenEx. (Be patient. We'll set to SenEx in a minute.)
FacEx is a workable version of the Faculty Council. It confers regularly with the chancellor and runs the day-to-day business of the Faculty Senate.
If a faculty member doesn't think he's
very likely by the administration,
he goes to FAGER.
On your third and final finger is University government, which is a combination of student government and faculty government.
THE ELEMENTS IN University government are the University Senate, the University Council and the University Committee, named (you guessed it) SenKp.
The University Senate is composed of all the members of the Student Senate and all the members of the Faculty Senate.
among other things, organization of the administration, requirements for graduation, standards of academic conduct and long-range plans.
AN UNWIELDY BODY by all accounts, the University Senate meets twice a year and rarely gets a quorum. Like the Faculty Senate, the University Senate votes by mail ballot, so it takes a while to reach a decision.
Twelve student senators and 39 faculty senators make up the University Council, which meets once a month and is small. The Senate of the University Senate is supposed to do but can't.
At last we come to GenEx, which some people think is the most powerful governing entity in the world.
Three student members and six faculty members of the University Council make up
SENEX MEETS WITH the chancellor and his associates continually to discuss any issue that is a problem for the University.
Its power comes from its function in the transfer of information. The members of SenEx carry the thoughts of students and faculty to the administration and the thoughts of the administration back to students and faculty.
Constructing a panorama in Dyche Museum.
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