UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Tuesday. April 22, 1997 5A New sign will list events Lied Center to advertise future shows with display By Mark McMaster Kansan staff writer If a construction project on the southwest corner of 15th and Iowa streets caught your eye, that's the point. A large electronic sign that will advertise Lied Center events is being built at the intersection. The Douglas County Bank is providing the $150,000 for the sign's construction. Lied Center operations manager Fred Pawlicki said the sign is expected to be completed in June. Pawlicki said 35,000 to 40,000 cars passed through the intersection each day. "The sign will help people locate the Lied Center and advertise events that will be happening," Pawlicki said. "It'll be a good marketing tool." "It has two faces, one facing Iowa and one facing 15th, and can be read by just about anyone in the intersection." Pawlicki said. In fact, the sign will be so attention-getting that it would violate some Lawrence regulations if it were not on state property, said Gene Shaughnessy, chief building inspector. The sign's height and moving display, if used to display more than just time and temperature, would violate city ordinances, Shaughnessy said. "We've had some inquiries about it," he said. "But because it's on state property, we can't regulate it." The ordinances were made to ensure that signs did not dominate the city's landscape, Shaughnessy said. Laurie Fletchall / KANSAN Pawlicki said the sign would be an attractive addition to campus. The new electric sign at the corner of 15th and Iowa streets will advertise future events at the Lied Center. "Our whole intention was for it to blend right in and not be an unsightly monument," Pawlicki said. "The architecture of the sign is designed so that it looks exactly like the brickwork on the Lied Center so that it's aesthetically pleasing." Douglas County Bank executive vice president Pat Slabaugh was enthusiastic about the project. "We certainly appreciate the opportunity to be involved," he said, adding that he thought the sign would attract patrons who otherwise would not have known about the events. Natural History Museum features evolution exhibit By Osvaldo Munoz Special to the Kansan The Natural History Museum will display an exhibit about a topic of recent scientific, religious and social discussion. Since Pope John Paul II's October recognition of Charles Darwin's 1859 theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis, evolution has entertained new debates including its former archival theory. creationism. The traveling exhibit, organized by the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis, Minn., opened April 6 and will be displayed until June 15. The exhibit is free. That issue, along with other exhibits about the origins of biodiversity and the process of evolution and natural selection, is the focus of the Natural History Museum's new exhibit, Exploring Evolution. The exhibit traces Darwin's voyage around the world during which he studied thousands of species of plants and animals. The trip's studies led to the writing of his book, The Origin of the Species bu Natural Selection. Visitors can study 13 species of related finches from the Galapagos Islands to see how Darwin concluded that the finches, with beaks of different shapes and sizes, had evolved from a common ancestor. The exhibit also includes explanations of human ancestors, natural selection and evidence to prove that dinosaurs evolved from birds. Jama Kolasick, public education program assistant at the museum, said that although evolution was a complicated issue, the exhibit's purpose was not to bring people into conflict with their religious views. "This is a fair presentation," she said. "It just presents a way of investigating the world." Robert Brooks, KU entomologist and a creationist, said that evolution addressed an emotional issue that people could not avoid. if we don't believe in God, in his son, we will go to hell," Brooks said. Brooks said the theory lacked evidence. "There is not intermediance between monkeys and humans," Brooks said. "If you look at the different fossil remains, scientists say they are hominoid — they are either monkev or they are men." Larry Martin, KU paleontologist, said science and religion differ in the way the facts and truth are presented. Although evolution is a controversial topic, it does not need to be, Martin said. "There are a large body of Christians who officially accept Darwin," Martin said. "There could be a God directing the whole system. Maybe that system is evolution. Why not? How can you tell God that he can't use evolution?" Conference spotlights literature Special to the Kansan By Gerry Doyle The German Graduate Student Conference, which organizers plan to be an annual event, was held at the Max Kade center, 1124 W. 11th St. Love, relationships and literature were in the air when KU graduate students in German gathered on Friday and Saturday to present papers and discuss their field. In addition to graduate students presenting papers, keynote speaker Anne Winston-Allen presented a paper, Love and Spiritual Gardens, about German literature. Winston-Allen, who obtained her doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1979, is a professor of German at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. The conference, which 35 people attended, gave the graduate students a chance to do more than just perfect their language skills. "It focused on literature as well as linguistics," said Mark Nesbitt Daly, Lawrence graduate student and creator of the conference. "In the same way that English majors don't spend the majority of their education learning to speak English better, we want to understand German literature and literary history. There was a very positive response from everyone involved." The conference covered a variety of German works, all with a theme of love and relationships. Despite the esoteric focus, the presentations and questions were varied, said Warren Maurer, professor of Germanic languages and literature. Besides offering professional assistance and education to graduate students, the conference also benefited undergraduates, German majors and non-majors. Nesbitt Daly said the conference provided students interested in foreign languages an insight into what graduate students did to become professors. "The papers covered a wide array of literary works from medieval times to present," Maurer said. "The students were enthused and expert in their analysis." 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