White on black
Photo by Rick Pendergrass
Eugene White, an artist specializing in paintings of negroes, will display his collection today in the Kansas Union. White said he tries to contribute to black awareness through his paintings. The display at KU is part of a nation-wide tour.
Black awareness stressed in art display at Union today
To help contribute to the black awareness movement, artist Eugene White's works of art are being displayed today in the lobby of the Kansas Union. White's display, titled "Works in Black," is part of his 28th tour of the United States.
"I have been told there is a powerful, violent beauty in my artistic expressions of black people, combined with a poetic beauty of the black idiom," White said.
"I was interested in art at a very early age," he said, "and being a grass roots person, born in a very complicated time for black boys in the South, I became discouraged with school."
White, who owns an art gallery and studio in San Francisco, has studied in several art schools and
colleges. He describes his drawings as being the kind of experience only a black could ever know.
"College students are the ones who have the knowledge to help the black cause," White said. "They are the ones with the knowledge to help black people in the future," he added.
White explained that one picture of him sitting in jail is a self portrait representing a projected symbol of living black experience.
Another picture is of two young Negroes titled "Mischievous." "It portrays the boys being scolded by their mother and waiting for punishment from their father," he said.
In the background of the portrait is a bible on a table. White said the bible is a "heavy book"
that can be a help for some people and a crutch for others.
White said his pictures attempt to show that common people can contribute to society. He said that blacks do not have to be "super niggers" to compete with whites.
"I think today's uprisings have brought a lot of self awareness on our part that will not vanish as quickly as it did a few years ago," he said. "I feel that we have a real motivating force of historical development in art to embrace our past," he added.
White said his exhibit is not just for interested blacks but for whites as well.
"I feel that through this medium I can create a more profound, vivid and truthful picture of the raging blacks of our struggle," he said.
KU, CU to offer study program inside Soviet Union this summer
The University of Kansas and the University of Colorado, in cooperation with the Council on International Educational Exchange, will conduct for the fifth consecutive year an intensive Russian language program in the Soviet Union during the summer of 1970. A total of eight credit hours from either university will be given for the program.
Stephen Parker, associate professor of Russian literature, said this KU-CU program is one of seven throughout the United
States. Applicants can be from any university in the country.
The nine week program from June 22 to September 4 will consist of six weeks of intensive study at Leningrad State University.
The students will then have two weeks of scheduled travel throughout Russia. The final week will be left to the students to travel throughout Europe.
A total of 210 students,including 45 from the KU-CU group. will stay in a dormitory at Leningrad State University. Students
will attend classes from 9:00 a.m.
until 1:00 p.m. Monday through
Saturday.
Scheduled in the afternoons for the students are such excursions as trips to famous Russian authors homes, including Pushken, Blok and Dostoevsky, and a tour of historical places of interest in Leningrad.
"This is an excellent program," said Parker, "because it not only offers the students a chance to travel, but also an intensive study of the Russian language under an excellent Soviet staff."
The University of Kansas Student Senate Committee on Teacher and Course Evaluation released preliminary findings of its survey Wednesday.
Results announced on evaluation survey
The survey was run in 83 volunteer classes from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Journalism and the School of Engineering.
George Laughead, Dodge City junior and chairman of the evaluation committee, said the survey confirmed expectations that teachers who volunteered to use the survey on experimental basis would be more interested in education and thus receive above average ratings on their teaching abilities.
About 76 per cent of the students rated their classes from fair to excellent compared with other courses taken at KU. Most students reported that their teachers were technically competent in preparation for class, stating general course objectives, integrating lecture topics, showing general enthusiasm, stressing application of knowledge and responding good-naturedly to corrections by students.
The survey revealed a deficiency in faculty administration
in examination procedures and distribution of grades. Students surveyed felt their instructors did not explain their grading procedures clearly. Students also complained that exam questions generally were not stated fairly or clearly.
The primary inadequacy of education in the surveyed courses was lack of intellectual stimulation beyond the basic requirement of the course the survey said. To a great extent students did not feel inspired to take another course in the same or in a related field.
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Foreign students eligible for summer study program
Students from abroad who will be completing their studies this spring are eligible to participate in an exchange program called Summer Crossroads. The program is sponsored by the Institute of International Education and is designed for foreign students to express opinions and share experiences of their American education.
The program is conducted in three locations during three consecutive weeks in June. The program in Colorado Springs runs June 7-13, in Los Angeles from June 14-20 and in St. Petersburg, Fla. from June 21-27.
Students participating in Summer Crossroads will stay with
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local families and take part in structured discussions, social events and sightseeing. Students must pay for transportation and personal incidentals, but guest families will cover other expenses. A limited number of travel grants are available from the State Department, however.
Interested students can apply through their foreign student adviser. Applications are due by May 1.
Art price record
NEW YORK (UPI)—An anonymous buyer broke the world auction record for a painting by Dutch impressionist Vincent Van Gogh by paying $1.35 million Wednesday night at an auction.
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