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University Daily Kansan, August 24, 1982
Committee votes for Chicago developer
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
The Downtown Improvement Committee yesterday ranked three downtown developers in order of preference and their recommendation now will go to the Lawrence City office, which will make the final choice.
Nine of the 14 members of the committee chose Link Programs, Inc. Chicago, as their first choice. The committee received three second-place votes.
Sizer Realty Co., Kenner, La. was second in the overall voting behind Link Programs. Sizer realer votes and three first-place votes.
Many members of the committee said that deciding between their top two choices was difficult and that either of the three two choices were acceptable.
would be accepted.
Two Crownes, Inc., Fort Worth,
Texas, was ranked as the third
choice on all of the ballots.
"Our decision seems clear and fairly unanimous," said Pete Whitenight, chairman of the downtown committee, which is made up of 14 people representing a variety of interests in Lawrence.
The committee earlier had chosen three developers from a field of eight who wanted to handle the redevelopment of downtown Lawrence.
In making their choices, members of the committee said they considered previous projects the developers had worked on, the experience of the developers in dealing with federal grants and other funding sources, connections with large range of such developer had and the type of project the developers proposed.
The committee now will write a letter to the commission, which will list the developers in order of its preference. The committee also discussed several questions and areas discussed needed in the letter to the commission.
The commission and the downtown committee will interview the three developers during the week of September 20.
The commission, however, will make the final decision on which
developer will be named the official developer of record.
Some of the concerns the downtown committee said should be addressed further included the location of the proposed redevelopment and the size of the project to be undertaken.
The committee also indicated that the developer's contacts with large retailers or department stores should be discussed, as should the needs of customers' willingness to use two story structures in the redevelopment plan.
Mayor Marci Francisco said the commission would have to consider those additional items when making its decision.
Earthquakes in state interest scientists
By LINDA LANG Staff Reporter
Earthquakes in Kansas may seem unlikely, but they are real and may have important consequences.
Most Kansans are unaware of the usually imperceptible earthquakes that have been recorded in the state, but the Kansan people know they have about them and wants to find out more.
In June, the Kansas Geological Survey on West Campus received a three-year grant for $203,000 from the NRC to continue studying and recording the
small earthquakes in the state and to learn more about what is causing the tremors recorded in southcentral and eastcentral Nebraska.
Their findings may prove to be beneficial to your health.
Don Steeples, a geophysicist at the Geological Survey who works on the project, said the NRC wanted "to know what the earthquake risk is to make certain the way that nuclear plants have been designed and will continue to be designed is up to NRC requirements."
FINDINGS OF THE STUDY, conducted by Steeples and Ralph Knapp,
also a geophysicist at the Survey, will be reviewed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation to guide the construction of dams. The Department of Transportation Uniform Building Code, a standard often used by cities to inspect buildings.
WORK SPONSORED by the previous grant helped determine that the Humboldt Fault Zone, an area of geologic faults that runs from Nenaha County to Cowley County in Kansas, and the Central Valley, extends from Wichita to the Black Hills in South Dakota, still were producing small earthquakes.
More than 40 small earthquakes have been recorded in Kansas since the study began. Most had a magnitude of 1.5 to 2.5 on the Richter scale. Earthquakes with a magnitude lower than three generally are not perceptible.
The only perceptible quake recorded during the study occurred in June 1981 northeast of Concordia in Washington County. It had a magnitude of three and broke a few dishes and knocked the plaster off the walls of some homes.
An earthquake with a magnitude of about 1.6 was recorded southeast of Lawrence about a year and a half ago.
Former director opens Spencer art show
When Charles Eldredge stepped to the lectern last night in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art, most of the crowd of about 75 people probably knew who he was. However, he said most of the crowd had probably not heard of the subject of his lecture—American painter Charles Walter Stetson.
by VINCE HESS Staff Reporter
Museum. He assumed the National Museum position July 1.
Eldredge, director of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., was at the University of Kansas for 12 years, first as curator of collections then as director of the Spencer
His hour-long lecture and slide-slow last night examined the life and work of Stetson, a self-taught naturalist painter who received international acclaim in the late 1800s and early 1900s but who was soon forgotten in the wake of abstract art, which was gained increased attention by the time of his death in 1911.
A show titled "Charles Walter Stetson: Color and Fantasy" opened at the museum Aug. 22 and will close Oct. 3. The show contains about 50 oils and watercolor paintings and cabinets featuring small paintings by Stetson.
Eldredge said in an interview that he hoped to compile other art shows while
meeting his duties at the National Museum.
"It's been a fun project," he said.
"I'm anxious to deal with a major fig-
Eldredge said he became interested in Stetson through a series of coincidences. He found some of Stetson's etchings in a second-hand store in New England in 1973, and in pursuing his speciality, American art and symbolist aesthetics, Eldredge again came across Stetson's work.
Eldredge earned his doctorate in art history with an emphasis on American art and modern art at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. He received a fellowship from the Smithsonian for spring 1979 and studied at the National
Museum. His sabbatical work formed the basis for a symposium and show of American art at the Spencer Museum in 1980
The 1980 show had one painting by Stetson and Eldredge continued his resurgence.
Stetson was known for his use of symbolism and color. Other painters of the era also experimented with mythological characters and colors, but Stetson was the "culmination" of the art innovations of his time. Eldredge said.
"I think he is forgotten because of changing tastes and times." EldredgeHD
"As a sponge, he served to soak up many of the contrasting tendencies of the sea."
Library, museum receive federal grants
The art museum has been awarded $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to support an art exhibit, "The Medieval Garden."
The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art and the University of Kansas Libraries have received almost $250,000 in federal and Kansas University Endowment Association grants this year.
The libraries have received $100,000 from the Endowment Association to purchase selected books and journals during the 1982-43 academic year.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig announced the library grant at yesterday's conference.
In fiscal year 1982 the museum received $97,322 in grants, which was used for such purposes as art exhibits, exhibits, and general operation expenses.
"This gift is especially gratifying, for it recognizes that the library is the
exhibitions or print publications, and would like of conservation would without it.
According to the fire study, false alarms made up more than 25 percent of all the calls the fire department answered last year.
Five dollars is allotted for the AURH budget from each individual housing contract, Dowdy said. The rest of the budget pays for a movie series, the AURH newspaper, lectures, parties and office costs.
The pamphlet also warns that false alarms can prevent firefighters from being available for real emergencies, and people to not treat alarms seriously.
At the convocation, Budig said, "Perhaps the most disturbing trend in our country today is the reluctance to invest in the education, to invest in our future."
"We'd do just about anything not to have any more false alarms; said MaJ. But we should."
heart of the University," he said. "Without an adequate library, there can be no university. This generous gift will help maintain our strength and our heart."
Last year, 259 false alarms were reported. The fire department catered for 243 of them.
Elizabeth Broun, the museum's acting director, said that such funding would allow the museum to continue staging high quality exhibitions during a time when other funds are being reduced.
The Medieval Garden exhibit will be composed of paintings, tapestries and early prints from public and private prints from various parts of the country.
The exhibit, which is being coordinated by Marilyn Stokstad, KU Distinguished Professor of Art History, will be on the museum from March 20 to May 1, 1983.
Room fire prevention methods in the pamphlet included not overloading electrical outlets or stringing electrical cords under rugs and around furniture. Not smoking in bed and extinguishing flammable items in the room also are important precautions.
Hall officials distributed 4,800 copies of the pamphlets to residents last week. The publication costs, which totaled approximately $150,000 for the $22,500 AURH budget, said Dowdy.
If a KU hall resident is caught turning in a false alarm he is turned over to Lawrence police for prosecution, said Kevin Brown, the office of residential programs.
"It is also recommended that they leave the hall," he said.
Smoke and panic are the two worst enemies during a fire, according to the National Fire Insurance Association.
Residence halls spark fire prevention program
By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
RESIDENTS SHOULD prepare for a possible fire by finding all fire exits and escape routes, learning how to operate alarms and extinguishers in the halls and carefully reading all fire emergencies information, the pamphlet states.
The pamphlet, modeled after information given to hotel guests, was written in cooperation with the Lawrence AUHR, said Bob Dowdy, AUHR president.
The four-page pamphlet stresses using common sense and what Dowdy calls "preventive medicine," or planning, to avoid tragedy during a fire.
The library grant, coupled with internal reallocations, will boost the libraries 1982-83 budget by more than 17 percent over last year's funds.
Efforts by University of Kansas residence halls to curb false fire alarms and to increase residents' awareness of fire safety procedures have been paid
The groups are tackling the problem of fire safety awareness in University residence halls and have distributed a training course to explain what to do in case of fire.
The office of residential programs, the association of University Residence Halls and KU residence hall staff expect even lower totals next year.
There were 25 fewer fires in Lawrence in 1981 than in 1980, according to a recently released yearly fire incident report by the Lawrence Fire Department. The Fire Department responded to only four false alarms at KU residents, which fire officials said was a low number for the week before school.
KU libraries' collections of nearly 3.6 million rank in the top third in size among the Association of Research Libraries.
Staff Reporter
Without the art grants, Douglas Tilghman, Spencer's assistant director for administration, said the museum would be unable to put on many of their
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