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Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Local sculptor
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Shoe fixit man has sculpturing in soul
By CAROL LUMAN
Staff Writer
By day a shoe repairman and by night a soliton.
Jim Patti works with his hands in both professions, but when repairing shoes he's making money for his first love—sculuturing.
He and his brother, Charles, are partners in Patti Shoe Service, 1017 Massachusetts St.
out, after his eight-hour day there. Patti goes home, where he spending four to six hours more in his garage workshop.
Although he has been sculpturing only about four and a half or five years, its evident from a tour of his honeymoon that he had a great deal of time to his artistic talents.
PATTI WORKS more in bronze, clay and synthetic metal, but that's only because he "hasn't got around to other materials vet."
"Every material is a whole new ball of wax." Patti said recently. But somebody I would like to work with her would be able and other kinds of stone carving."
Patti's eagerness to try different artistic mediums and types of sculpture is part of his talent, or so the late Bernard "Pooz" Frazier, professor of painting and sculpture, and KU sculpture in residence, often told him. Frazier and Patti met when Patti's wife, Celia, asked the KU sculptor to
FROM THAT INITIAL contact, a warm friendship developed, the memory of which Pati treasures.
"He was a very great teacher as well as a sculptor." Patti remembers, "We became very good friends and he was very helpful when I had a problem with my work.
The friendship worked both ways. Sometimes Frazier would come to Patti if he had problems with a piece of sculpture.
bernard gave me all guidance, inspiration and knowledge of what I know about sculpture," Patti said.
Even now, when he runs into a dead end, Patti sometimes thinks about what advice his friend would have offered and often can find the solution.
"WHEN I THINK about it," Patti said, "I can often think of what Bernard have said. This is a great help."
Several of Patti's larger works are well known to many Lawrence residents.
A staute of young Langston Hughes, a famous Lawrence poet, is on display at the Elizabeth M. Wattins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St.
The lifesize statue, which weighs nearly 400 pounds, was commissioned by the Langston Hughes Memorial Committee. Patti spent almost a year working on the bronze statue. He completed it in December 1974.
A PROJECT ON which Patti collaborated with his neighbor Bob Rose also has netted Patti some local fame.
The project was the Douglas County
Bicentennial Bell. The bell, which
weights over 300 pounds, is also on
display at Watkins Museum.
Patti chuckles when he talks about the bell and says luck was on their side when he and Rose took on the project.
Neither had ever made a bell before, but the final project, which soon will be on display in the new Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, has perfect tone.
IF THE DIMENSIONS of the bell had been off only a fraction of an inch, it would have "sounded like the devil," a bellmaker once told Tatti.
Another of Patti's works is a memorial plaque dedicated to a Lawrence resident, Bee Leumerman. The plaque was written by her and was a paraplegic, riding in his specially-designed cart. The plaque is inscribed with the words "Remember me—I'm that little man gone blind. I was to sell pens on the street cor
Patti traced those words from letters written by Beuerman.
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Friday, October 22, 1976
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87 No.44
ACLU questions pamphlet policy
By JIM COBB
Staff Writer
A Kansas Board of Regents policy that bans on-campus distribution of political information in some instances will be tested in the ACLU's case. Liberties against the ACLU) its war.
Jim Lawning, an ACLU attorney from Wichita, said yesterday that he considered both the Regents' policy, and a University law interpretation of it, clearly unconstitutional.
In an Oct. 4 letter to Chancellor Archie Dykes, Lawing said that he thought the policy needed amending, because "pamphleteering on public property is an abomination." He also allowed Dykes a reasonable amount of time to rescind "obvious portions" of the policy.
IF THE POLICY isn't changed, he said, ACU members "and other people" will pass out political pamphlets at a public event in violation of the policy. He said the policeman would also provide the ACU with a court case that could test the police's constitutionality.
Lawing mentioned the KU- Iowa State football game Nov. 6 as a possible time when pamphlets might be distributed in Memorial Stadium.
The policy was approved by the Regents' Council of Presidents and the Regents in 1970. Part of the policy included in a report on the process for service chancellors of the Lawrence and Med
Center campuses, says: "Distribution of political hand bills and other advertising is banned from areas where public events are held on campus."
MIKE DAVIS, University general counsel, said that the policy was very broad and that, if literally interpreted, would require the use of pamphlets anywhere on campus.
obligation to enforce it. I don't see it as a very onerous restriction." he said.
The University Events Committee recently asked Davis' office for a new interpretation of the policy. Vickie Thomas, administrative assistant to Davis, said the new interpretation clarified one issued by the University Counsel Charles Oldfather.
OLDFATHER'S INTERPRETATION was that political handbills couldn't be distributed inside a room where a meeting was taking place.
Davis said that his office had always interpreted the question to make it as interactive a posist.
'It is a Regents regulation. We have some
The latest interpretation bans distribution "up and down the aisles of various auditoriums and meeting rooms." It would allow distribution "in areas of general interest," and it might pass on the way to an event. This would include lobbies, for example."
The interpretation further states that people handing out pamphlets can't impede the passage of other people at an event by providing them with such a wav as to cause a line to form."
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More frats fail fire code
By DARYL COOK
Staff Writer
The fraternities had been inspected earlier this month, but reports weren't released until they had been revised by the fire marshal's office.
The Kansas State Fire Marshal's office yesterday released reports of its inspections of seven University of Kansas fraternities and, as had been the case with other KU fraternities and sororites, none was in full compliance with the state fire code.
Alpha Phi Alpha, 104 Mississippi St., is the only remaining KU fraternity to be
inspected. Members are remodeling the house, according to the reports.
Four fraternities-Alpha Tau Omega, 1537 Tennessee St., Delta Upsilon, 1025 Emery St., Delta Chi, 1245 W. Campus, and Acacia, 1100 Indiana St.-didn't have fire alarm systems that met the approval of the fire marshal's office.
THE FRATERNITIES must have their plans to update alarm systems and install approved smoke detection systems at the fire marshal's office within 30 days after the inspection, Paul Markley, state fire protection technical adviser, said.
Omega, said that his house already had a smoke detection system, but that it wasn't wired into the fire alarm system as required by the state fire code.
Green said that Greek Management, Inc., a fraternity food service cooperative, which is expanding to include other services for its members, has set up a stallion of fire alarm and smoke detection systems for several houses, and that the installations would begin as soon as a building is closed.
Publicity jeopardizes football game in KC
Lee Green, president of Alpha Tau
NOW THAT inspections of KU fraternities and sororites have been completed,
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Staff Writer
By STEVE LEBEN Staff Writer
A possible move of the annual University of Kansas—University of Missouri football game to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., has been jeopardized by a pledge, say two officials who have been involved in preliminary discussions about the idea.
Rov attacks GOP stands
The two officials, J Hammond McNish, a member of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board (KUAC), and Mel Sheehan, athletic director at Missouri, both have been appointed to the position because a completed proposal for the move hadn't been made.
SHEEHAN, TOO, said the discussions were supposed to have been confidential and that he hadn't yet begun discussion with him. MU officials would need to be involved.
McNish said the discussion within the KUAC Board was supposed to have been kept confidential by the board members to discuss between KU and MU officials.
THE STUDENT SENATE passed a resolution Wednesday stating its opposition to such a proposal. The resolution said the university should offer parking and parking, a decrease in visits to the campus by alumni and potential students, and deterimental effects to "the spirit of the University's amateur, collegiate athletic teams" were reasons behind the resolution.
"I think our people at those levels where
HE SAID HE thought the publicity had seriously jeopardized the proposal because it would hamper discussions with MU officials and cause a "premature making up of minds" before the possible advantages were fully presented.
"It was an attempt to do something very positive, but I don't think there any real sense in arguing for it now because it looks like it'll be killed," Mneh said. "It is my belief that they should have Texas game. I definitely feel it shouldn't have been made public yet."
Emotional issues such as abortion, amnesy, gun control and busing are growing daily and are cartoonfacing the more imminent loss of unemployment and infation. he said.
"I think the major issues in this campaign are jobs and a stable dollar," he said. "Jobs are closely associated with inflation. We are doing that," he said. "We can't we can don't do anything about inflation."
The presidential campaign has reached a critical stage where emotional issues are superseding more important issues. Bill Clinton, the president, a congressman from Kansas, said last night.
Staff Writer
By BETH SPRINGGATE
ROY SAID the Democratic presidents of
the 1980s seemed to have little trouble in
defeating the Republican candidates.
"The record is when Kennedy and Johnson were presidents of the United States, the unemployment rate was 2.2 per cent on the average," he said.
Roy was the unsuccessful challenger of Bob Dale, now Republican vice presidential nominee.
ROY WARNED about 80 people at the speech in the Kansas Union Ballroom to be skeptical of Ford supporters because many are outfanned in conformed to Ford's stands on the issues.
He said one solution to inflation was to cut unemployment compensation and welfare
Since then, he said, the average unemployment rate has been 6.8 per cent.
"If we're to have a stable dollar in this country, we've got to people in this country off the government payroll, off unemployment compensation, off welfare.
We can have a stable dollar and we can have jobs." he said.
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He said he wanted to correct those people who might have been misinformed by disclosing the Republicans' real purpose in supporting certain issues.
He said, "I think Republicans care about abortion because it gets votes."
As a physician, he said, he has witnessed the death of an 18-year-old girl who had
been "butchered" during an illegal abortion.
they should be involved still should be contacted, but I think this will jeopardize it." he said. "I'll have some negative effect because it takes it out of the context of my life." The judge already made up our minds because it's public, but that's certainly not true here."
THE SENATE RESOLUTION was passed by the Senate on Thursday, Board—Jill Grubaugh, Senate Sports Committee chairman, and Tedda Tasheff, student body president—and by Steve Browne.
Grubbaud said the three cosponsors had decided that the matter needed to be made public before they decided to write the resolution.
IF FORD REMAINS in office, Roy said,
"The most liberal abortion in the country was"
"when Dr. Browder served."
"I felt the first time the public would've known about it would've been the announcement that the game would be held in Kansas City," she said.
GRUBAUG SAID Clyde Walker, KU
atlantic direction ,had bad the KIAC
He questioned Ford's stand on amnesty, noting his pardon of former President Richard Nixon. He said it was a contradiction that Ford would pardon Nixon for making a mistake but wouldn't pardon young men for also making a mistake.
He said the government lacked money for health and education aid because it spent excessive amounts in other areas. The swine flu vaccine looks good for the Ford administration, he said, but in reality it is at the expense of other health care needs.
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The fraternity members, guided by ropes, slid down the hill and used five gallons of water to wet the middle and middle parts of the S. After the brush was cleared on the sides of the S, five gallons of white paint was sprayed on the ground to join the two sides of the S to the top.
Roy then criticized Dole, whom he called "Soiro Amnew Jr."
The entire operation took 25 minutes. The fraternity members asked not to be identified.
A third car, carrying the fire extinguishers loaded with paint, drove to the top of the hill after the security men save the all clear signal.
HE SAID, "I have not seen any evidence of distinction in Bob Dole. He hasn't accomplished anything. He's a remarkable man. He campaigned the way I expected him to campaign. He said things that were funny."
The first car arrived in Manhattan and went directly to the top of the hill. Two men stood on the steps away from the sides of the S and a third manned one of the walkie talks.
Two members equipped with the other two walkie talkies were stationed on each side of the drive leading to the top of the hill. The driver might try to stop the project. The driver of the second car patrolled the roads near the hill and kept in contact with the rest of the team.
the fraternity members, armed with
four fire extinguishers filled with paint,
three waltke tikes, three rakes and 200
sheets of paper towel, laid out and arrived here at 1:45 am. today.
It was the first time since 1972 that the annual KIL-KState football game, the annual KIL-KState football game
A second car followed close behind.
By CARL YOUNG Contributing Writer
Jayhawk raiders turn KSU's symbol into 'KU'
MANHATTAN—Twelve members of a University of Kansas fraternity slipped into the home of the Kansas State University Wildcats here early this morning and changed a 100-foot high fence to overlooking Manhattan into a huge "KU."
Roureetings
Bill Roe former congressman from Kansas, with members of the audience after his speech last night in the Kansas Union.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Democratic presidential nominee, and Carter's running mate,
was the most critical of Boe Dole. Republican
w-presidential nominee