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University Daily Kansan, September 1, 1982
Docents learn, then guide at Spencer and develop their interest in art
By MATT BARTEL Staff Reporter
For people who enjoy looking at art and learning about it, be a doe can be a rewarding experience, Barbara Bucka, docent chairman, said yesterday at an introductory meeting at Spencer Museum of Art.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines a docent as "a teacher or lecturer at certain universities who is not a regular faculty member."
Sandy Praeger, docent coordinator, told the seven people who attended the meeting that docents at Spencer Museum serve as volunteer guides for visitors and touring groups who request them. She said since many of the docents started with no backround, a volunteering help they learn.
"A new docent coming in is really not at a disadvantage." Prazered say, "Our goal is to teach people how to look at art, rather than teaching art.
enced doents worked together and attended training sessions that were held twice a year. The fall training session begins Sept. 14 and runs Tuesday through Thursday for two weeks.
Praeger said the sessions featured film and slide presentations, gallery talks and demonstrations designed to help dopems develop a visual awareness that would assist them in their presentations to visitors.
To help them develop their skill as guides, the new doeens give tours with the doeen coordinator who can give them immediate feedback on how to improve their presentation, she said.
In addition to the tours, the museum has a program of slides and discussions given by docents to Law students. There are seventh graders, Praer said.
The slides and discussions, given in the classroom, are then followed by a visit to the museum, where the students are encouraged to respond to
what they see by describing the relative warmth of colors or the personality of the person in the portrait, Praeger said.
"We want the museum to be alive and vital," Buck said.
The doent program stresses techniques for helping people understand elements of art for themselves, such as color, form, movement, or warmth and coldness, she said.
Prager said the school program included a small classroom museum collection, featuring pieces donated from the annual "Art in the Park" show. The students in each classroom elect a piece of art, which is then put on display in that classroom for one week.
Many of the new docents said that while they had no art background, they enjoyed learning about it through the docent program.
"I enjoy art, and this is a just a good way of learning more about it." Betsy Weaver proposes this lesson for years, ever since we moved to Lawrence.
The service will be able to respond to emergencies more quickly because an ambulance will be housed at two locations, McFarlane said.
The Douglas County Commission will open bids on a second ambulance station Sept. 8.
THE SERVICE PERSONNEL will be better able to coordinate its activities with the hospital staff because it will be close to the hospital. McFarlane said.
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The architectural firm whose bid the commission accepts will start construction of the station according to the timetable stated in the firm's bid, said Ted McFarlane, director of the Douglas County Ambulance Service.
The service had planned to move into the new building during early 1982, McFarlane said. Now construction of the building probably will not be finished until the beginning of 1983, he said.
The building plans were slowed down last year when the commission and the ambulance service began working out how much land to give for land of the station, McFarland said.
Then last spring, the service, the commission and the hospital waited for the Kansas Legislature to pass a law changing the bond revenue requirements to allow counties to raise up to $100,000 to finance projects costing up to $300,000. McParlane said the new station, which will house the service's main offices, is estimated to cost $300,000.
THE COMMISSION ISSUED $100,000 in revenue bonds over the summer.
The building will be built north of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St. The station is now at 1839 Massachusetts St.
The rest of the money to finance construction of the building will come from the federal revenue sharing agency, the Bradley county commission chairman.
In addition to building the new station, the service has budgeted $50,000 for remodeling the current building. McFarlane said.
The Lawrence Fire Department abandoned the building in the mid-1960s because the department thought the building was unsuitable for a fire station, he said. It has not been worked on since 1974.
The service will be able to park all five of its ambulances in the new building, according to McFarlane.
It has been unable to park one of the ambulances inside the garage at the station because of lack of space, he said. The Kansas Department of Health told the service in July 1981 that it was unable to its ambulance in front of the building.
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Within the August 18th issue of the Kansas City Star is an editorial entitled "Abortion: not an issue for Congress." The editorialist claims that the very consideration of abortion results in senatorial indiscretiousness because "a definition of life is not something which can be made by politicians or government. Throughout the history of human civilization, no one has ever been equipped to do so than the sages of past years." The editorialist concludes that "Government simply should not be involved in trying to legislate this very personal consideration."
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Is life merely a "very personal consideration?" Anarchy, the dictionary tells us, is the "absence or denial of any authority, established order, or ruling power." Every national stricture against murder has rested on a definition of life. This was just as true in Babylon over 3700 years ago as it was, until relatively recently, in Western Europe and the United States. The growing body of information confirming the thesis that life begins at conception is the variable that has created the present controversy.
An abortion usually results from a contract between unequal. It is frequently a young or poor or distraught female who brings herself and her child before the unctuous, grasping abortionist. This qualified practitioner of medicine is then remunerated for terminating the existence of someone who is Indisputably both helpless and biological alive. When the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood use their considerable resources to terminate an unborn child, they require that the recipient of an abortion be informed by her physician "that the unborn child is a human life from the moment of conception," they convincingly demonstrate how unimportant factual material is to them. These organizations and others of their like lead many individuals to confuse liberty with license and anarchy.
Walter Lippman once said: "As the free press develops, the paramount point is whether the journalist, like the scientist or scholar, puts truth in the first place or in the second." If our free society is pro-agricultural, it is an abortion. The truth is that an abortion, which pits an abortionist and his death-dealing implements against a tiny, dependent, innocent infant, is nothing other than the ultimate act of oppression.
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