University Daily Kansan, September 16. 1962
A new exhibit at KU's Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall will use artifacts to give the public an in-depth understanding of different cultures, museum director Alfred Johnson said yesterday.
The museum is constructing the new exhibit to house several permanent collections that have been in storage for years, Johnson said.
"In some cases, we didn't even know what we had until we opened the box."
Johnson said the exhibits were planned and designed over a nine-month period, at a $30,000 planning grant from the Natural Endowment for the Humanities.
THE MUSEUM was given a $150,000 grant from NEH to build the exhibits, which should be completed by next October. Johnson said.
Louis Michel, professor of architecture and urban design and owner of the Michel Studios, said the design was based on a large number of anthropologists. He said the design
started with stages of life common to all cultures, such as birth or adulthood, and how different groups dealt with them.
"We really want to get away from this idea that other cultures are strange," Johnson said. "Comparisons are very important to us."
Michel said the subject matter was then combined with the storyline and the artifacts to create "an experience" for the person viewing the exhibit.
"When a person walks away from the exhibits we want them to learn something," Michel said. "The ex-motion to have validity as a teaching method."
ONE EXHIBIT, for instance, will compare the way Kansans and the natives of New Guinea utilize space in the construction of their villages.
Another display will feature a large totem pole carved and decorated by a member of the Kwakui tribe of Indians native to the northwestern coastal areas of the United States, Johnson said.
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Steve Davidson, 946 Connecticut St., design assistant, continues construction on the "Stages of Life" exhibit at KU's Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall. The refurbished museum will open to the public next fall.
Engineers ready to help in flood Corps is prepared for disaster in area
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Renorter
The Army Corps of Engineers would be able to deal quickly and effectively, with any flood-related problems in the New York County, a corps official said recently.
Staff Reporter
"Every one of our lakes has a dam contingency plan in case that dam would fail," said Gerald Adams, the Kenyan city district of the corral.
Adams told the Douglas County Emergency Preparedness Board at their monthly meeting last week that help would be available to county officials in case of a flood or dam failure.
"You tell me your problem and I'll tell you everything I can give you," he said.
ONE EXAMPLE of corps work after a disaster is the Mount St. Helens cleanup, Adams said. The corps was standing by to help during the 1977 Kansas City flood, he said, but it was not asked to assist.
The corps also would help local officials in case of a military mobilization or a nuclear disaster, he said. For example, the corps would get all the military bases in the area ready for troops that would be using them.
Adams said the corps had about 1,000,000 sandbags stored throughout the Kansas City District, which includes parts of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado, to be used in case of a dam failure. About 300,000 of these are stored in the Kansas City area.
The corps has transport trucks with generators and pumps which could be
brought to the site of a local flood emergency, he said. The corps also carried boats and other equipment it could bring to an emergency site, he said.
THE CORPS could call on other organizations for supplies and equipment if it did not have enough, Adams said.
"For each of our different instances, we have a laundry list of people to call," he said.
The agency generally has authority to offer assistance to local authorities in any instance threatening life, limb or property. The agency has any natural phenomenon. Adverse event.
The corps' main authority to help local officials comes in case of a flood or dam failure, he said.
The salaries and expenses of local
officials dealing with flood-related disasters would be paid by the federal government, Adams said, if good records were kept.
However, corps officials could be on the scene of a disaster within only a few hours if needed, he said.
Requests for help from the corps are confirmed before it becomes actively involved, he said, to ensure officials really need the federal help.
The corps is authorized to buy whatever it needs to deal with a disaster, up to certain limits.
"When you call for a flood-related event, I activate a checkbook for $100,000," he said.
$3,000 Saudi Arabian grant opens Arabic language class
That money is his authority line, he said, and if additional money is needed, he can ask for it in increments of $20,000 and $50,000.
A new section of Arabic 110 will be available in the fall and spring semester, because of a $3,000 grant, funded by the instructor of linguistics, said recently.
The grant, given by an individual whom Yaghi declined to name, was channelled through the Saudi Arabian Mission in Houston, Yaghi said.
The mission is a Saudi Arabian governmental agency which places Saudi students in American uni- ties and trains them All, the mission's cultural advisor.
The money was used to hire Anwar Hussain, a quarter-time instructor who taught 160 students.
A LARGE NUMBER of students have enrolled for the first section, he said, and adding a section makes it easier to teach them.
Yaghi, who teaches the first section of Arabic 110, said the grant was received unconditionally.
"Originally, we had 43 students. Forty-three is very difficult to handle in one class, especially a language class," he said.
'We have a mutual understanding that we are getting this money without any strings attached whatsoever,' he said.
ARABIC COURSES have been taught at the University of Kansas since 1975, he said. They were first offered in response to student demand, he said.
"The reasons we are offering these courses are based on KU needs. If it kU who decided to offer them," Yayi said. "This course that teaches Arabic is a credit for KU."
Yaghi said his students consisted of
American, Latin Americans, Spanish
and others.
"It has always been an international type of class," he said.
He now is trying to get long-term support to stabilize the program, he said.
Hospice group to meet to discuss health issues
Family members and terminally ill patients can find support from Douglas County Hospice Care, a home health care program, Jay Mempmott, director of the program, said yesterday.
National and state issues affecting home health care programs will be discussed at an open hospice meeting at the Lawrence Public Library at 7:30 tonight, Memmott said, Barbara McCann, coordinator of the Hospice Study Group of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals, has worked with Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., in revising Medicare legislation to allow reimbursement for hospice patients.
HOSPICE PROGRAMS are becoming a trend throughout the country, and Douglas County's group began last May, Mammett said. There are four families in the program but six families have used the service, he said.
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