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MONDAY, DEC. 5, 2016 | VOLUME 132 ISSUE 31
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
Campus pays respect to Nick Herren with vigil
▶ HAILEY DIXON
@_hailey_dixon
Nicholas "Nick"
Herren will be remembered for his beaming, crooked
"He was really great," Prins said, "Words can only say so much about the character of Nick."
Prins said Herren adored those around
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Andrea Ringgenberg/KANSAN Monica Restrepo, a senior textiles student, works on her textiles project. She's inspired by her childhood memories and early life in Colombia.
MONICA RESTREPO
Draws on childhood for inspiration
By Courtney Bierman
@courtbierman
As a child in Colombia, Monica Restrepo would watch her mother tailor men's shirts in their backyard. Two decades later as a textiles student, Restrepo uses her work to recreate that same sense of softness and comfort.
"There's a very, very big therapeutic aspect to textiles, and to me that's very important," she said.
Restrepo, now a senior in the Department of Visual Art, moved from Manizales in central Colombia to Overland Park 16 years ago. Although she said art has always been her passion, she didn't become interested in textiles until starting school at the University.
"When I started taking classes here, I fell in love with it and found that I could express myself easily through textiles," she said.
Most of Restrepo's surface design work is inspired by things she associates with her childhood. Several yards of brightly colored cloth lay spread out on a table in her Chalmers Hall studio, a work in progress. The cloth is decorated with various
screen-printed oblong shapes in pink, blue and yellow, which Restrepo said remind her of birth-
between functional and decorative work: quilts are functional in that they can be wrapped
day parties and confetti.
When she isn't designing or screen-printing, Restrepo likes to dabble in weaving, dyeing and other media offered by the textiles department. She's also working on a quilt to explore the line
around a body to provide warmth,but they're usually beautiful enough to be displayed in some way.
"A quilt is very functional," Restrepo said. "It's very detailed and artistic, and it actually
could convey some emotion, but it also has a really intentional purpose to it."
Restrepo said that the more time she spends on a piece, the more rewarding it is to see the finished product.
"Everything has to be very time sensitive, so you have to be very patient, and you have to dedicate a lot of time to sewing and for things to actually look how you want them to look," she said.
After she graduates in May, Restrepo is interested in a job in surface design. A job in textiles or the fashion industry would allow her to design patterns for large swaths of cloth that get made into clothing or home goods. Mary Anne Jordan, the chair of the Department of Visual Art, said Restrepo is a hard worker, which is what it takes to succeed in the industry.
"I think she'll be ambitious and self-sufficient," Jordan said. "People have to be ambitious when they're seeking a career in textiles, and I think she will be."
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year's DEI report, which suggested "that the University place the Student Senate under immediate review and restructure the organization of student governance at KU."
According to the proposal, the committee shall "consider, draft, and/or propose amendments to the relevant governance documents." Essentially, this means that the members will
The rationale for the new ad hoc committee, according to the proposal, was that while a Multicultural Student Government could benefit students, leaders should take a look at how the Student Senate system functions as a whole.
rently held by Student Senate. The proposal was tabled.
One of the biggest issues that was empha-
"The implication of the diversity committee's report is that the coalition system is discriminatory," she said. "It is incumbent upon us to say 'OK, let's have someone go deep in on it and see what
and Science senator. "Most important of these is that I worry about how it is going to affect the autonomy of our governance structure ... It will say to Student Senate that 'We are going to violate your autonomy and tell you what you have to do with your rules,' and I think that is totally unacceptable."
Pam Fine, a Faculty Senate representative and journalism professor, said looking into another election method could benefit minority students.
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ranger, and needed to look up the 2002 tuition cost, and compared it to this year," he said "I saw how large of an increase there was. I was pretty upset, so I started talking about it with people."
According to a University press release from 2002, the cost of in-state tuition per semester was $1,741.75 while out-of-state was $5,343.25. Current-
her. we're fighting for lower tuitions prices at all of these schools, not just KU."
Co-founder Lev Comolli, a Lawrence native, approached the University's Amnesty International chapter at the beginning of this semester to pitch KUART.
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