University Daily Kansan, December 2, 1982
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Sculpture depicts trip on I-70
By BOB LUDER Staff Reporter
His official title is "Interstate 70,
doubtful that anyone
would guess it.
"Interstate 70" doesn't look like an interstate highway, or any other kind of road for that matter. It looks more like a bunch of big and small, black metal trucks parked wedged together maybe something you see in "B.T." riding through the air on.
However, at least one expert considers the sculpture a work of art.
MARLA PRATHER, curator of painting and sculpture in Spencer Art Museum, thinks that the piece is original and holds a symbolic message of what it's like to drive on today's highways.
"I would guess that the piece was inspired by a drive across Kansas on Interstate 70. " Frather said recently.
"The blackness of the sculpture probably denotes the loneliness of the highway, and the discs and pipes are the car's wheels and axles."
The work was, in fact, inspired by a drive on the interstate, said sculptor Richard Hollander of Kansas City, Mo., but not on *n lonely drive across Kansas*. He got the idea one day while getting on the train to downtown Kansas City during rush hour.
"THE DISORGANIZATION of the work symbolizes my instant reaction of fear and insolmity at the moment I entered this busy street," Hollander explained. "Haven't you ever driven onto a busy street and experienced a sudden realization in an all the traffic? Well, that's the feeling I had when I got the idea to do a sculpture on it. I'm pretty proud of that particular piece."
"The discs on the sculpture are symbolic of locomotive wheels, like on the train depicted in Figure 5."
trains always fascinated me when I was young. The connecting pipework is the gears and axles."
HOLLANDER PICKED the Marvin Grove location himself and expressed great satisfaction in his choice.
The sculpture, located about 100 yards east of the Campanile in Marvin Grove on the KU campus, was originally loaned by Hollander in the fall of 1980 but was recently purchased by the Spencer Art Museum.
"I're a rare spot for a sculpture of modern art simply because it's a good spot. Pieces of modern, abstract forms of art are often placed up against the wall of a building where nobody can see it. I find myself in well with the surrounding environment, and I don't think I could have picked a better place for it.
"All I can hope for is that when people walk by and see it, it'll make me happy."
1,000 guerrillas give up in Thailand
By United Press International
BANGKOK, Thailand—About 1,000 Communist guerrillas and sympathizers laid down their arms yesterday in a mass surrender that the Thai government said broke the back of the insurgency movement.
The rebels surrendered to the government at Banak, a communist stronghold in northeastern Thailand about 335 miles from Bangkok, in a ceremony designed to attract maximum public exposure.
It was the largest surrender of Communists, all of them ethnic Thais, since their campaign to topple the government began 38 years ago.
ABOUT 250 PEOPLE between the
ages of 15 and 50 handed over rifles and the Communist Party of Thailand gold
Another 750 relatives and others who supplied food, communications, lodging and other help to the guerrillas joined the mass defection in Banak, for years the symbol of Communist rebellion.
Intelligence officers said the defectors' peaceful march down the hill from Banakb's business center to the community school represented success in the movement's efforts to break the insurgency movement through peaceful means.
The Thai army commander in chief,
Gen. Arkhit Kamlangek, told the
Banak ceremony the surrender meant
"the armed struggle of the Communist
Party of Thailand has ended completely" in the area.
THE COMMUNIST PARTY, backed by the Chinese up until 1977 when China and Thailand established diplomatic relations, reached its zenith in the late 1970s. Government estimates put its strength at the time at 30,000, but the numbers had dwindled to about 3,000 before the surrender yesterday.
The local Communist Party secretary who voiced the official surrender at yesterday's ceremony said he and his comrades were "happy finally to join the ranks of construction after so long a period of destruction."
Government officials admitted the ceremony was "staged for maximum impact," as one intelligence officer put
Teleconference to focus on robotics Seminars to be shown via satellite
By BRET WALLACE Staff Reporter
The first series of teleconference seminars will begin at the University of Kansas (this month, Marilyn Long, Marianne Berry, and Robert O'Neill) continuing education, said yesterday.
A group of about 20 people will gather in Learned Hall Tuesday for the teleconference, which will deal with robotics. Robotics involves the construction and maintenance of robots and an applied application to the field. The four robotics experts leading the seminar will be in South Carolina.
TELECONFERENCE SEMINARS are led by a group of people and broadcast live via satellite to "ground stations" scattered across the nation, on the ground or in an interactive mode, as the station in Learned is, the people at the ground
stations can ask questions of the speakers.
Long said the donation of a receiving dish to the School of Engineering by Birdview Satellite Communications Inc., Chanute, allowed the University to start the program, organized by the School of Engineering and the division of continuing education.
Phil Anderson, site coordinator for the project, said he initiated the project at KU because the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers is promoting the program. The IEEE is sponsoring the robotics seminar.
ANDERSON, WHO is president of Kantronics Company Inc., 1202 E. 23rd St., and adjunct professor of electrical engineering as a supporting alumni of the School of Engineering, said the participants would have the opportunity to ask questions, and the panelists would answer the most asked questions.
Long said most of the people coming to this conference were from large manufacturing firms, such as Bendix, General Motors and Hallmark.
The registration fee for the conference is $125 for members of IEEE or $175 for nonmembers, she said.
TELECONFERENCE SEMINARS, which started about six years ago, have become popular in the past two years. Long said. They cost less than bringing a conference to an area or having to travel to a conference. They also allow people in all parts of the country to see a conference.
Continuing education is planning to bring other teleconferences to KU on a variety of topics, Long said. Seminars are planned for next semesters. Students will be broken into the television pattern and earth-shelter housing.
The cost of these other conferences will be less than the robotics conference, she said.
KU selects Phi Beta Kappa members
Twenty-four KU seniors and a recent graduate have been selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, a national liberal arts and sciences honor
range of interest beyond their major field of study.
They will be initiated at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Aldersdam Auditorium of the Kansas Union. The program's speaker will be Richard Schowen, the KU Solon E. Summerfield Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.
Last year's Phi Beta Kappa class had 74 members. Another group of seniors will be selected for the honor this spring.
THE INITIATES had a grade point average of 3.8 or higher, and their test scores were 70 or better.
Those chosen were: James Barrett,
Caldwell, Gwendolyn barstow, Sharon
Springs; Pamela Beer, Overland Park;
Debora Bella, Springfield; Mark Box,
Parkville, Mo.; Melinda Brown, Over-
land Park.
Larned; Ellen Curnes, Lawrence; Lori Dinky, Pawnee Rock; Joy Echer; Lucas; Jay Gingrich, Fairway; Bradley Joselove, Deerfield, III; Susan Lan, Lawrence; Gregory Moran, Kansas City, Mo.; Jacob Murpure, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Gregory Nabors, Lawrence; Paul Payne, Topeka; Jennifer Porter-Sakumura, Overland Park; Terri Reicher, Lewood; Clark Stick, Atchison; Kirk Wallace, Minneapolis, Kan; Lisa Walter, Wathena; Linda Walton, Belle Plain, Joel White, Wichita.
ALSO CHOSEN WERE: 'Olellen Cacy, Overland Park; Jano Castenle,
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