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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, May 8, 1968
KU hosts sculptors from U.S., Canada
The Canada Council for the Arts and the Kansas Cultural Arts Commission are helping sponsor the Fifth National Sculpture Conference to be held at KU Thursday through Saturday.
Over 300 artists are expected to attend the conference, directed by Dr. Elden C. Tefft, professor of design at KU.
The Canada Council for the Arts is sending three Canadian sculptors: Sheldon Cohen, Zbigniew Blazje, and Gino Lorcini. The artists will appear in an exploratory dialogue on the relationships of science and art.
The Kansas Cultural Arts Commission made a grant to bring John Canaday, art critic of the New York Times, to speak Friday. The commission also is helping to support an exhibit of works by the three main panel members: Frank Gallo of the University of Illinois, Roger Bolomey of Hunter
College, New York, and Bruce Beasley of San Francisco.
The three will discuss studio application of plastic technology Friday morning. An exhibit of their works will be in the Museum of Art.
Saturday morning the conference will turn from plastics to light. A demonstration of a hologram—the 3-D projection of an image by laser beams—and its application in sculpture, will be presented by professors Harry E. Talley of KU and Robert Mallery, of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Talley is an associate professor of electrical engineering. Mallery is a painter and sculptor in lights and plastics. He is also working on computer programming in sculpture.
Over forty people will participate on the $ \frac{2}{3} $ - day program. All the sessions will be held in the Kansas Union.
Junior woman receives $200 award
Miss Lou Abernathy, Topeka junior, is the first recipient of the $200 Betty Wahlstedt scholarship in the behavioral sciences at KU.
The Wahlstedt award is based primarily upon academic achievement and professional potential and memorializes Betty Wahlstedt, a psychologist. The memorial fund was established by personal and professional friends and the family of Miss Wahlstedt, who received an A.B. degree from KU. She earned a master's degree in psychology from the University of Montana, and had done work toward a doctorate at the University of Minnesota. Until approximately one year before her
Miss Abernathy is majoring in psychology and mathematics. She has a 2.96 grade-point average and has been a member of the editorial board of the University Review, an undergraduate honors publication.
death in 1966, she was a psychologist in St. Paul, Minn., schools.
Miss Abernathy also holds a Landis Mathematics Scholarship and is the author of a soon-to-be-published article analyzing the concept of attitude in "Search," a publication of the KU honors program.
Wescoe says veto power based on law
At an ASC leadership seminar Sunday night in the Kansas Union Chancellor W. Clarke Wesco told newly elected ASC representatives his veto power is based on Kansas law and he is ultimately responsible for students at KU under this law.
Wescoe cited the four times he has used the veto in the past eight years explaining why in each instance he thought it was necessary.
He also added he is always open to students and will talk to them as much as he has time. He said students have first priority with him.
Also speaking with Wescoe were former student body presidents Al Martin, Shawnee Mission senior, and Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior.
Martin said the real aim of student government is to develop freedom for the students.
"To achieve a greater respect and thereby a greater responsibility and authority, students should have the right to participate as equals with administrators and faculty members," Martin said.
He said a student leader must do more than play the role and student representatives must abandon the notion of a power struggle between students, faculty and administrators.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Tuesday called for schools of music to "meet the requirements the art demands, not those of the Board of Regents."
Composer calls for student creativity
Norman Dello Joio, guest composer at this week's tenth annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music, speaking on "The Role of Music and the University," said universities should "take a stance which looks at music not as entertainment but as worthy an endeavor as science or law or engineering."
The composer said in his numerous visits to universities across the United States he had found widespread concern over music stands and band uniforms "but rarely concern over the content of musical programs." He said a good artist distruits organizations because too much unpredictability exists in himself as a creative person.
Dello Joio, speaking to a group of KU students and faculty members in Swarthout Recital Hall, complained that at the age of five or six a child must no longer be creative but must become involved in "musical conformity."
Dello Joio warned that universities have traditionally been "repositorys of the past" where creativity is stifled beneath too many rules and requirements.
Cindy Brecken Contemplate Cole .
803 Mass.