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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, May 15, 1968
STONEHENGE JUNIOR?
This 6,000-pound, 22-foot square sculpture which represents "nothing in particular" recently set up in front of Gatehouse Apartments on Iowa St. Malcolm Whitney, assistant instructor in design at KU, completed the sculpture in eight months.
Instructor completes sculpture representing nothing in particular
A 6,000-pound, 22-foot square sculpture representing nothing in particular has been completed by Malcolm Whitney, KU assistant instructor in design.
The orange, welded-steel object is possibly the largest piece of sculpture in Kansas. It took Whitney 1,000 hours in eight months to complete the non-objective object in the sculpture section of the football stadium.
The general comment on the object seems to be "it looks like someone went to a lot of trouble to do something for no apparent reason."
The sculpture was temporarily set up at the Gatehouse Apartments last week. It took the aid of a crane to lug the piece onto a truck and move it from the stadium.
"I had the guts to build the thing, now I have to find someone with nerve enough to buy it." Whitney said.
The purpose of the object is to stimulate the imagination of the onlookers. Whitnev explained.
Other sculpture students nicknamed the object "the giant grass killer."
"I want to give people something they need but haven't realized," Whitney said.
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model; it is symbolic of imagination and is designed for people to walk through, under and around. Whitney said.
This piece of sculpture is meant to inspire and is probably best suited to be permanently set up at a private industry, he added.
Whitney said that the object was difficult to build because the lighting was dim at the stadium and the cold weather really bothered him.
The object was Whitney's thesis project and he was quite thrilled on its completion because it proved he could do such a mammoth project.
Design rates $100 in ASCE competition
Two KU civil engineering students have won the $100 first prize in a design competition sponsored by the Southern Pressure Treaters Association.
Dean of Faculties leaves to join U of Washington
Lynn E. Couch, Syracuse, and Elaine C. Taylor, Kansas City, both seniors, designed an exhibition hall containing 80 x 100 feet of floor space, utilizing three hinged laminated wood arches in the roof of the structure.
The award was presented last week at a joint meeting of the Kansas Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers with the ASCE student chapters from KU and Kansas State University. M.H. Grawe of the International Paper Company presented the award on behalf of the sponsors at the meeting in the Kansas Union. Their design is now eligible for a $1000 award in national competition.
Herbert J. Ellison, associate dean of faculties for international programs at KU, has resigned to become a faculty member at the University of Washington in Seattle.
In his six years here, Ellison has been chairman of the Soviet and Slavic department and chairman of the KU Council for International Programs.
A Russian history expert, Ellison has written numerous articles and two books on Soviet history. He has also been a lecturer at several other universities.
One facet of KU Ellison says he appreciates is the number of students and faculty who have travelled to the Soviet Union. There are more than a dozen students
here who can speak Russian fluently, he added, which is far above the average for the midwest.
"KU is a unique environment for students—it is a residential university and operates like a small city, unlike most of the state universities," Ellison said.
Ellison's brief tenure in International programs at Kansas has been spent in preparing plans and proposals for continuation and development of various international programs here, administering the Ford Grant, the several overseas programs and the summer and academic year overseas student programs.