Saved from demolition
Ghetto store becomes street university
MIAMI (UPI)—Roy Barry and Charlie Smith have signed a five year lease on a dilapidated two story ghetto store, once marked for demolition, which they plan to convert this summer into a
youth run "University of the Streets."
The university will be located in the heart of Miami's central Negro district—an area still scarred by three days of rioting in the summer of 1968.
Art by KU faculty on display at Omnibus
An exhibition of paintings featuring recent works by KU faculty members Richard Dishinger, Robert Green, Maude Ellsworth and Robert Sudlow will be displayed in the gallery of the Omnibus, 846 Indiana, now through July 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dishinger, instructor in the drawing and painting, has the most "avant-garde" canvas in the exhibit. Titled "Upstairs, Downstairs" it is an example of "hard-edge" painting, stressing razor sharp contours:
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Green, professor of drawing and painting, has two colored ink paintings in the exhibit. Titled "Cedar Beau Bay" and "summer in the Tetons," these paintings have great impact—which is an unusual accomplishment in this media.
Miss Maude Ellsworth, a retired faculty member, has two watercolors in the exhibit titled "Spring Fling" and "Irish Village." Miss Ellsworth uses a limited palette in expressing the delicate mood of these landscapes.
Robert Sudlow, associate professor of drawing and painting, painting in the impressionistic style, has four canvases in the exhibit.
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Two of Sudlow's works, "Amy in Bright Morning," and "Peter in Late Afternoon," are light studies capturing a specific time of day. His other two canvases are: "Wood and Field Study" and "Light Study No. 1."
Also featured in this exhibit will be the works of Leonard Schneider of Lawrence. His three canvases, titled "Kay," "Annie," and "Annie's Group," are full length representational portraits against a white background and painted in a "new-realist" style.
As Barry, Smith and a dozen other youngsters envision it, the University of the Streets will provide ghetto youth with neighborhood recreational facilities, formal and informal courses in art, music, dramatics and black culture, "and a clean place to meet, rap and discover themselves."
The idea of the university, according to Smith, "is to help ghetto youth bridge the gaps that separate them from the white society-communication confrontation and education."
Florida Atlantic University and Miami Dage Junior College have agreed to sponsor courses for credit at the University of the Streets. Smith and Barry have a long list of volunteer teachers and several businesses have offered equipment.
What they need is money-
Smith, 22, a postal employee is chairman of the board of "Black Inc." a nonprofit corporation chartered by the state of Florida. Barry, an area director of the Economic Opportunity Program Inc. of Miami, is a charter member of the corporation and its "senior" adviser. He is 25.
$220,000. So far they've got only
1,500 and a lot of polite "we'll
think it over" replies from businesses
they have approached.
"I think everyone is sitting back and waiting for the other guy to make a move," Smith said. "But when people see how this project will benefit them I believe they'll move."
Smith, Barry and the others working to make the University of the Streets a reality approached the project in a businesslike manner. One of the first things they did was to incorporate.
Black Inc. got its first big break from Joseph Caleb, the powerful black president of Local 478 of the International Laborers Union. He kicked in the $1,500 they needed to sign the five year lease. Caleb also agreed to provide much of the manpower needed to renovate the building that Smith and his colleagues personally saved from a wrecking crew last month in their only break with nonmilitancy.
A primary goal of the university is to open new areas of employment to ghettoyouth.
"Most blacks don't know there
Art history teacher will retire to 'professor emeritus' status
are jobs available in such professions as photography, writing, modeling, stage design and lighting and the arts, such as painting, sculpture and ceramics." Smith said. "It will be the aim of the university to expose new things to them and teach them the skills that will open new careers to them."
Dr. Klaus Berger, member of the University of Kansas art history faculty for 20 years and since 1967 holder of the distinguished title of University Professor, has elected to take early retirement this month.
"The first thing we'll open is the gym with judo and karate courses. These will be the drawing cards for total involvement in the university," Barry said. "Besides it doesn't take much equipment and it will get the university operating."
Wometco Inc., an entertainment oriented firm, donated the old ghetto Ritz Theater to Black Inc. and Smith says they hope to convert it to a ghetto "little theater" through which black writers and actors will be exposed to the community and ghetto youth can learn the various types of work available in the theater.
The bottom floor of the two story building—once a department store—will be devoted to offices and recreational facilities such as a gym, music rooms and a snackbar. The upper floor will house the classrooms.
The whole atmosphere of the university will be informal. The volunteer teachers will be carefully selected.
"It was the wrong kind of teachers in the formal atmosphere of a white community that drove many of the kids out of school in the first place," Smith said. "We can't make the same mistake here."
The native of Berlin, Germany, will add "emeritus" to an outstanding teaching career at Kansas, but will continue to be regarded as a great international authority on art by scholars around the world.
Since the idea of creating University of the Streets in Miami's central Negro district was born last June, Smith and Barry have spent most of their time trying to save the two story building from the demolition crew until they could raise enough money to lease the building.
On April 28, Smith and a dozen other Black Inc. members had a tense face to face confrontation with a city wrecking crew. Smith wrapped himself around a steel crane wrecking ball and the others climbed atop the building and refused to move.
ment of Bavaria for a year. He taught at the University of Kansas City three years before joining the KU faculty in 1950.
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In 1952 he added the chairmanship of the art history department and was acting head of the Museum of Art. In 1954 he held a Fulbright fellowship to teach at the University of Cologne, Germany. It is a rare distinction for a native German to be invited back there.
Born in 1901, Dr. Berger studied art history, aesthetics and philosophy at the universities of Munich, Heidelberg, Gottingen, and Berlin and the Paris Ecole du Louvre. He earned the Ph.D. degree at Gottingen, magna cum laude, and was a visiting professor at the University of Lille, France, head of the art department of University of Berlin Extension, and special advisor at the Paris Bibliotheque Nationale.
He came to the United States in 1943, taught at Northwestern University, served a year at Biarritz Army University, and as Monuments and Fine Arts officer of the U.S. Military Govern-
In 1958 he was an official American delegate to the 19th International Congress of Art History in Paris, and in 1962 he was an American-Soviet Cultural Exchange Scholar to Leningrad and Moscow.
A new record summer session enrollment of 5,886 was recorded as classwork began Monday morning, William L. Kelly, registrar, announced.
Enrollment increases 6 per cent
The figure reflects a gain of 342, or 6.3 per cent, over last year's record.
Kelly estimated the final count would be more than 7,250 persons registered for credit throughout the summer. Last year's official count was 7,083.
As of Monday morning, there were 4,964 students registered on the Lawrence campus, up 283 over last year, and 922 at the Medical Center in Kansas City, up 59.
Enrollments for credit on the Lawrence campus is expected to increase to about 6,300. Little change is expected in Kansas City.
Kelly's figures do not include high school students who will attend the Midwestern Music and Art Camp or non-credit enrollments of more than 5,000 persons for events scheduled by University Extension.
SenEx sidetracks BSU appropriations
The Student Senate Executive Committee temporarily discarded appropriations for two KU student organizations in a meeting Monday.
Appropriations of $14,125 to the Black Student Union (BSU) and $10,000 to Catalyst, a social action organization, were sidetracked until after a meeting with the Student Senate finance and auditing committee to consider the requests for fee money.
All appropriations come from student activity fees.
The action does not mean the two organizations will not get funds. Appropriation requests are being restarted after the Senate's procedures for appropriating the grants was challenged in the KU judiciary.
The Senate is not committed to funding any organizations as yet, Miller said. The finance committee is trying to get fund requests from organizations which have received allocations of fees in previous years so that the committee can recommend a budget for appropriations from the expected $400,000 in student fees available to the Senate.
David Miller, Eudora senior and treasurer of the finance committee, said some funds may be available from fees collected for the current fiscal year to fund BSU and Catalyst summer programs. The bulk of the allocation to them, he said, must come from next year's student fees.
Top scholars elect six to serve on committee
The Summerfield and Watkins-Berger scholars at the University of Kansas have elected six of their group to serve on the University Honors Scholarship committee for the 1970-71 school year
They are: Larry L. Aldrich, 123 N Elm, Osborne, who will be a junior; James E. Beckman, 621 W. 9. Concordia, to be a senior; Stanley L. Jones, 249 W. Main, Gardner, to be a junior; Nancy Jorm, 111 N. York, Oberlin, to be a senior; Susan Krehbiel, 1800 N. Jefferson, Hutchinson, to be a
sophomore and Pam Meador, 212
W. 19. Hutchinson, to be a junior
They will be on the committee that plans the selection program for and makes the award of Summerfield and Watkins-Berger scholarships, which are the highest honor KU can confer on Kansas high school senior boys and girls. They also will help choose the recipients of Honor Scholarships, an award of recognition next to that of the Summerfield and Watkins-Berger awards.