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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday. November 13, 1997
Rummaging for recyclables
Melissa Coleman, Leawood junior, and Meg Rheark, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, dig through a trash can in front of Wescoe Hall. Coleman and Rheark, along with about 25 other students, picked through trash cans on campus yesterday searching for recyclables that had been thrown away. The gathered recyclables will be displayed today in front of Strong Hall during a recycling rally. The Recycle Rally will be from noon to 1 p.m. in the rotunda of Strong Hall. Fourteen student groups have organized to present the University of Kansas administration with 10 demands for a comprehensive recycling program. Photo by Tara Bradley/KANSAN
Company fills niche in news market
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The production crew, which works on a contract basis, goes on assignment if a news story comes up or if the crew members have ideas for a news story. Wilkins said.
For example, the crew recently did a story in Topeka for "American Journal" about Michael Landon's daughter.
Pitacek said that 60 percent of the stories the crew worked on took place in the Midwest. The other 40 percent are filmed anywhere in the country.
"We work for whoever needs work done for them," Wilkins said.
The company also does a lot of production
work for international television networks such as RTL in Germany and BBC in the United Kingdom. Wilkins said.
Of the 16 employees at Video Information News, four are KU students.
Gwendolen Mason, Wichita graduate student, has worked for the company for about a month. She received her undergraduate degree in broadcast journalism and did not want to lose touch with that, she said.
Mason, who works for the research department, said that there were a lot of unique aspects about the company.
"The fact that they're surviving and even thriving in the Midwest is pretty unique," she said.
Students get chance to showcase artwork
By Carrie Moore
cmoree@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
For the next two weeks, Student Union Activities is allowing KU students to display their artwork in the Kansas Union Gallery
Once students get past the gallery guards, who are there to monitor the exhibit, they can browse through the artwork, which includes a table-and-chair set with a handmade mosaic design, various sculptures and a variety of paintings.
Nicole Mermis, Houston junior and SUA art coordinator, said that it was an SUA tradition to show students' artwork at the gallery.
Karen Larson, Scandia senior, is one of seven students whose work is displayed. She said that this was the first time her artwork ever had been shown.
"It's sort of flattering that someone would buy something that you created," she said.
The prices for the artwork range from $50 for a small painting to $1,200 for a two-piece painting.
Larson said that most of her paintings started at about $600 but that she was willing to lower the price.
Mermis said the students who were participating had submitted an application to have their work displayed. Usually, everyone who applies gets a piece of his or her work shown, she said.
"This show is really, really small this semester," Mermis said. "It's not up to what it usually is."
Mermis said that more students usually
This table set and painting are part of a student exhibit on display in the Kansas Union gallery. Photo by Geoff Krieger/KANSAN
displayed their work during the spring semester. Along with next semester's spring exhibit, SUA also will provide space for display of student work sometime in April.
"It's very significant to me personally to have people see what I do," she said.
The exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Elections commissioner named
Kansan staff report
A new student elections commissioner was chosen last night.
Audrey Nogle, El Dorado junior and chairwoman of last year's elections commission, was chosen from a pool of seven students that applied.
"It was a tough decision," Brad Finkeldei, elections-commission chairman, said. "We chose Audrey because of her experience with the board and her great communication skills from Fort Hays State. She was student body president there."
The elections commission, which was appointed early this semester by Kelly Huffman, StudEd chairman, and approved by Senate, has eight members — two members
Finkeldei said that an elections commissioner needed to be able to deal with candidates, other elections commission members and the media.
of the University Affairs department staff, two law students, one graduate student and three undergraduate students.
"They also need to have good organizational skills," Finkeldei said. "A lot of the work is very detailed."
Huffman said that the job of the elections commissioner was to run the student elections and monitor the activities of the coalitions and candidates. Elections are in spring.
To avoid political partisanship, the commissioner is hired by the Office of Student Affairs. The elections commissioner will be paid $7 per hour.
New system will keep tabs on lab users
ment's five secured laboratories.
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He said that although the department had never had serious security problems, professors often wished they had a way to keep track of who was in the lab.
"Each person has an individual code and the pad is computerized to keep a record of who has been in the lab," he said. "It is a research lab, so we only give the codes to people who need to be in there."
Exchange shares music with other universities
Allen Ambler, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, said he was in charge of one of the depart-
By Tom Winter
Kansan staff writer
twinter@kansan.com
"It is the determination of the professor whether or not students have open access from 8 to 5 or if students will have codes that allow them to use the lab after hours." Waterfield said.
Tuesday night, Nina Gordon's fingers danced up and down the neck of her cello during the piece "Tarantella" by David Popper.
Ed Laut, professor of cello,
will visit UMKC in the spring
to complete this exchange.
Gordon, a professor of music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, played at Swarthout Theater in Murphy Hall as part of the ongoing Visiting Artist Series.
The series, which has existed for more than 20 years, is an exchange between KU music professors and music professors from other universities.
"The general idea has been going on a very long time," Laut said. "This is outside of the Lied Center series."
Laut said he enjoyed listening to Gordon play.
"I think it's delightful; she's
very energetic," he said.
Gordon, who was emotive throughout the performance—frowning as she slowly pulled her bow across the strings in Beethoven's Sonata No. 5 to produce low melancholic walls—said she had been playing the cello since she was 8-years-old.
Gordon does not play only at university recitals. She also plays in the Kansas City Symphony.
At Tuesday's performance, the Russian-born Gordon began by playing Jewish music and finished with Russian music to display her ethnic background, she said.
"This is my eighth season as the principle cellist," Gordon said.
She also played as a substitute cellist in Israel when she went there to visit.
Although she has played around the world, this was Gordon's first performance at the University of Kansas.
"I'm pretty happy with the performance," she said. "There were a couple of accidents, but it's a live performance."
John Katich, professor of journalism, said that he enjoyed listening to Gordon play.
"It was a very fine performance; the last piece we heard was stunned," he said during intermission, shortly after Gordon finished playing "Tarantella."
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