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University Daily Kansan, September 27, 1982
Anthropology museum opens show
THE KU Museum of Anthropology and the Center for Latin American studies have opened an exhibit of relics depicting life in prehistoric Central America, a professor of anthropology said yesterday.
The professor, Robert Smith, said many of the relics were precious because they represented a cross-section of American cultures. He said that he was designed to show Costa Rica as a "prehistoric cross-roads":
"People would pass through and leave things behind," he said.
SMITH SAID the exhibit was divided into three regions: Nicova to the north, Díquè to the south, and the west/Highlands region in between.
"We're dealing with very sophisticated people," Smith said, noting that the pieces were dated no later than the time of Christ.
"Many of the pieces are extremely precious, very rare," he said.
The show features several metates,
tables that the native Americans used to grind corn or roll tortillas, many of which are adorned with the decorative figures of animals.
James Seaver, professor of history, said that the jungar was the most fearsome animal to the natives and had many allies many of the relics of that period.
SEAVER, who traveled to Costa Rica for two summers during the mid-1980s to research and catalog these materials, donated several pieces to the exhibit.
Inmates redo library furniture
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Hands that may never again touch freedom have given new life to the old furniture in Watson Library.
In the past year and a half, inmates at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing have refinished more than two-thirds of the KU library's furniture, some of which is a century old, said Jim Ranz, dean of libraries.
Prisoners have sanded, varnished and put back together thousands of furniture items, including 2,000 chairs, 200 tables and thousands of book shelves. One first truck loaded shelves headed for Larsen Feb. 9, 1981. Ranz said recently.
And the prisoners, some of them serving life terms, did a good job, he said.
**THAT TRIP** has been made 58 times since then. Most of the refinishing has been completed in time for this week's library rededication ceremony, he said.
"People have been conditioned to think that anything that comes from a prison is ugly and junk," he said. "But that just hasn't been our experience. The quality has been very close to commercial quality."
"It was just beat up," Ranz said of the old furniture.
"It was very diretputable looking,
we were ashamed of the way things
looked."
BESIDES GETTING a good job, the University of Kansas also got a good buy on the furniture refinishing, he said.
University officials paid about $100,000 to have the furniture redone. The same amount of work would have been done on the commercial market, he said.
New furniture would have cost even more. Budgetary constraints made refinishing the old furniture a necessity, he said.
Ron Baggett, sales representatives for the Kansas Correctional Industries at Lansing, said most of the $10,000 spent on the equipment requiring and refinishing the furniture.
Working on the furniture was a labor of love for many of the prisoners, he
THE INMATES, serving from two years to life for a variety of crimes, worked in the refining and reupholstering shops at Lansing, he said.
"They really wanted to do a good job on some of those pieces," he said. "It was a tough one."
One of the inmates approached Baggett last week and asked him to land another project like the library project, he said.
At the dedication ceremony Friday,
four of the inmates will stand alongside
one digitaries at the event. KU officials will present to them six photographs of the redone furniture as it now sits in Watson.
The inmates received from 60 cents to 8.15 a day for their labor in the prison.
"I's not intended to represent any appearance of pay for the work they are doing," he said. "It's an incentive pay." It worked to work instead of sit in their cells.
SOME OF THE workers have saved up enough money to buy stereos, he said, adding that most of the inmates receive the money to buy small luxury items.
After the furniture was shipped to Lansing, it was refinished in assembly line fashion, Baggett said. But prisoners occasionally did their own projects, especially with the card catalog cases.
the prisoners at Lansing do much of the re-upholstering work for the KU housing department, Baggett said.
The re-upholstering and refinishing shops are only two of six prison work programs in the Kansas Correctional Industries, he said.
THE PRISON PAINT shop produces about one-half million gallons of traffic paint a year for the state, he said, and inmates also make road signs, 39 varieties of soap, denim clothing and towels.
"The refinishing shop is very new." Baggett said, adding that the shop was started only a year before the first library shelves reached Lansing.
Different add and drop policies begin today
Today begins the second five-week period of school, and that means different add and drop policies for different schools.
Starting today, students who drop a class may receive an 'F' depending on the policy of the school offering the class, said Gary Thompson, director of the office of student records and registration.
Students should consult the fall timetable to check the policy for a specific school, he said.
Students also can contact school offices for more information, he said.
He said graduate students, no matter what area of study, had only one policy for dropping classes, according to the timetable.
GRADUATE STUDENTS who drop courses must follow a policy in which the instructor gives a grade of 'W' or 'E', depending on the quality of work completed at the time of withdrawal, according to the timetable.
Graduate students also are required to get approval from an adviser, according to the timetable.
Alumni still interested Adkins gives up on beer sales
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John Stauffer, board member from Topeka, said "I just don't think that (the stadium) is the proper setting for beer sales."
Beer sales in Memorial Stadium is a dead issue, and the Student Senate's attempts to get the KU Alumni Association to endorse the proposal have come to a standstill. David Benton, student body president, said last week.
BOARD MEMBERS have told him in conversations "that we really don't want to be in the position of emulating Colorado." Adkins said.
Staferue said the Alumni Association should not take a stand on the matter because it did not have a say in making the decision to sell beer.
Adkins said the argument that beer sales would raise money for the University had failed to sway alumni, as did the fact that other universities, such as the University of Colorado, sell beer in their stadiums.
But the 15-member board voted unanimously at its Feb. 20 meeting that it "does not at this time favor the sale of beer at athletic events in Memorial Stadium or Allen Field House," according to the minutes of the meeting.
The Board of Regents ultimately decides whether beer will be sold in the stadium, according to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
AT THAT TIME the board said it was interested in hearing students' views on beer sales and invited Adkins to tell the team its fall meeting about students' concerns.
"It if happens in the next five years, I would be surprised," Adkins said. "I think they (the Alumni Association) see it as a superfluous effect that might have a damaging affect to the reputation of the University."
The Alumni Association, however,
would like to continue discussing the
proposal with students, according to
president of the Alumni Association.
SIMONS SAID the Alumni Association's executive board did not discuss beer sales at great length at its Sept. 11 meeting, when Adkins talked to the board about students' concerns, including stadium beer sales.
Adkins had hoped that the talgite party before the KU-Wichita State University football game might generate support for the beer proposal tomorrow.
Eriksen said he favored stadium beer sales because the University might as well make money from students' drinks, which goes on now without beer sales.
JOHN ERIKSEN, board member from Hutchinson, said "I don't think a board of 15 people deciding on something like that and speaking out for the whole Alumni Association would be fair."
Cobb said beer sales was not one of his priorities. Although the administration is always interested in the views of the alumni, the Alumni Association's positions do not always influence the administration's decisions, he said.
"I sure want to hear the pros and
cases," said Dolph Simmons Jr., president
of the board of directors.
He said, however, that the prospects of the Alumni Association or the administration endorsing stadium beer sales were bleak.
Watson renovation to be celebrated
By VICKY WILT
Watson Library's completed renovation is being celebrated this week with activities surrounding a rededication of the library.
"I think people had a really rotten time with the renovation, and now they should have a good time," said Carol Chittenden, reference librarian and an organizer of the rededication committee.
Staff Reporter
By VICKY WILT and DARREL PRESTON Staff Reporter
Charles Getchell, member of the rededication committee, said this was a week to look back upon all that the staff had undertaken during the renovation process.
THE REDEDICATION is in honor of Carrie Watson, who was the University's first librarian in 1887 and remained as librarian for 34 years.
"I'll look for hairstyle, the shape of face and the upper part of the body. She was rather well-built in the upper body," he said. "Dress is important, too. Women in those years wore dark clothes with long sleeves."
"If the crowd doesn't quiet down, we will know that the contestant doesn't have what it takes to win." she said.
student at the University when Watson was librarian, he said, and knew her by casual acquaintance. He said he would judge mainly on the contestants' accuracy in depicting Watson's physical appearance.
Students can try to imitate Watson by quieting or shushing the crowd watch
Also taking place Wednesday afternoon will be the Carrie Watson Memorial Croquet Match on the Watson Library lawn. Winners and other students will participate in croquet match will receive KU bookstore certificates, Chittenden said.
The contest will be open to men and women, Chittendon said. All contestants will be required to wear Watson's (or backlace) or at least an imitation one).
The ribbon-cutting ceremony will be at 2 p.m. Friday. Robert Vosper, a librarian from 1832 to 1961, will cut the ribbon and speak at the ceremony.
FORMER CHANCELOR Raymond Nichil will judge the contest. He was a
A Carrie Watson look-like contest will be held at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday in front of the library. A display case in the Watson Library lobby has pictures of Watson and details of the event, Getchell said.
Man killed in collision near Baldwin
Chittenden described her as a tenacious woman who insisted on quiet in the library reading rooms.
Douglas county sheriff officials are still investigating the cause of a fatal accident that occurred early Saturday morning east of Baldwin.
morning. Orie Zeek, 55, Edgerton, was killed about 4:30 a.m. Saturday when his car collided head-on with another vehicle
Although one of the vehicles was driving on the wrong side of the road she officials offloaded yesterday had not determined what driver was at fault.
THE OTHER DRIVER, Thomas Higgins, 20, Wellsville, was taken to Memorial Hospital in order to recover from incurable injuries to his chest. He was reported in satisfactory
on U.S. Highway 56 about three miles east of Baldwin.
condition yesterday, according to hospital officials.
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8:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 30, 1982
University Theatre/Mutliche Hall
Tickets are on sale September 1 at the
Murphy, Hall Bottle Dr.
All seats reserved.
Public: $5会员价; $7门票价.
Special discount for KU students,
citizens and other students.
For reservations, call 912-644-0821.