University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 5, 1989
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Architecture to offer Task force releases objectives new major this fall
by Brett Brenner
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas will offer a new degree in the fall when the School of Architecture adds Architectural Studies to its other majors.
Lois Clark, assistant dean of architecture and urban design, said the program, which had been in the planning stages for about three years, would offer students an alternative to getting a degree in architecture.
To earn the degree the student would be required to complete the courses needed for a liberal arts and sciences degree. The new degree could be earned in four years, but architecture is a five-year program.
"This is for the student who is interested in learning about architecture, but not in being an architect." Clark said. "In the past, these students usually majored in art history, environmental studies or history. We anticipate that this would be for the next generation of law and work in environment law."
Clark said students who completed the program and then decided to
become certified architects could enter the accelerated architecture program, which lasts three summers and two school years.
Clark said there were about 22 students who expressed interest in the new program. She expected 12 to graduate from the program in May 1991.
No extra money was used to start the program. Clark said.
"There were no extra funds, that was a prerequisite," she said. "There will be some faculty adjustment though."
She said that although no report to the program had been mixed, the program was approved unanimously by the department and school.
Mary Bauman, senior architecture student from Ridgefield, Conn., said she thought the program was a good idea.
"I know lots of people who have dropped out of architecture for various reasons but have hours in the school," she said. "This allows them to use some of those hours to get a degree."
The Minority Task Force action plan released yesterday provides specific objectives for improving the acceptance and continuity of cultural diversity at the University of Kansas
Kanson staff writer
The 29-page report includes objectives for improving the status of minority issues. This was the second of two reports released by the task force in February 1988 by idith Ramalay, executive vice chancellor
The first report, released in November, avoided specifics but established three major goals: to attract and retain more minority faculty and staff; to recruit and retain minority students and to improve the acceptance of racial and ethnic diversity on campus.
Three committees were appointed in December to compile the second report to specify ways that the goals could be achieved.
The suggestions were divided into five categories: campus climate, recruitment and retention of faculty and staff, recruitment and retention of students, periodic review and enforcement, and
Robin Evereola, director of University Relations and implementation would begin immediate
"We're talking about such varying projects of such a magnitude," she said. "Some will take long."
because the needed administrators and offices were already at KU
For example, James Turner, director of the office of affirmative action, will monitor the implementation of the recommendations, Ramay said.
"This is consistent with our plan to change the role of the affirmative action office on this campus to move beyond its regulatory and compliance activities to include educational activities designed to foster social equity on campus and a culture that values diversity." Ramaley said.
The Campus Climate Committee considered more minority groups than those specified in the first report. The first report focused on American Indians, Asian Americans, blacks and Hispanics. Those groups make up 6 percent of the students at the Lawrence campus this spring.
The second report reads, "Our use of the phrase 'cultural diversity' refers not only to officially defined minority groups, but to all racial, religious and ethnic groups that have retained their distinctive cultural identities and are not considered by themselves as members of the majority."
Campus climate objectives included creating awards for individuals or groups that promote diversity and adding history of KU minorities to orientations for faculty, staff students and police
Some objectives established by the Student Recruitment and Retention Committee were to develop a lecture program for junior high school students in the English Department, preparatory courses, to establish a four-week
academic program for incoming freshmen at academic risk, and to be more aggressive in recruitment, making welcoming phone calls to newly admitted students.
The committee also proposed the allocation of about $10 million through Campaign Kansas for
John Scarffe, public relations director for the Kansas University Endowment Association and Campaign Kansas, said the Endowment Association would attempt to raise the $10 million by 1992. Eversole said financing to achieve the objectives would involve all participating departments.
"They're still in the process of putting together the next fiscal year based on the allocations from the Legislature," she said. "As they work up their budget, they'll have to attempt to include that in their budget structure."
"A lot of times they're just trying to make it look good," she said. "They put out this report, but we haven't seen any concrete evidence that something is being done. We need a guarantee."
But Kimberly Davis, St. Louis senior, who is biobased and was frigidated by the bureaucracy, is poised.
Eversole said, however, that the new report was a guarantee of the University's commitment.
"They can watch very closely and participate in achieving the goals described here," she said. Rosita Dorsey, director of the office of minority affairs, said the plan was a beginning.
SUA offers students study break from finals
"This is billed as an action plan," she said. "It looks good. Come see me again next May."
bv a Kansan reporter
Students will have a chance to take a break from studying for finals next week when Student Union Activities and the Kansas Unions sponsor the "Final Frenzy."
Free musical entertainment from AI and Joe of the Love Squad will be offered from noon to 1 p.m. in front of the Kansas Union, as well as free lemonade and popcorn. There will also be a "write up" for the gratin will near the fourth floor gallery at the Kansas Union.
Specials will be offered from May 8 through 18 at several union stores. The Jaybowl will offer 60 pent games. The Hawk's Nest will serve free coffee after 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. Plain or Peanut M&M's will be on sale for $3 a pound at the information counter.
With the presentation of a book buy-back receipt, students can receive a free 1988 National Championship mini-poster at the KU gymnasium. The Union is providing a typing room from 7.4 to 9.9 p.m. in Alcove B
Students can win a 35-mm camera, a case and a roll of film by including their name and summer address on the customer claim slip when developing film. The drawing will be May 31, and prizes will be mailed to the winners.
Another way to win prizes is to enter the contest for the best excuse given for missing a class, exam, or project deadline. There is a 50-word limit. Prizes include a $25 KU Bookshelf Gift Certificate, two tickets to Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Mo., and dinner for two in the Prairie Room at the Union plus a pound of M&M's.
Gretchen Progeon Special to the KANSAN
Ken Zaremski, Leawood senior (left), and Richard Ye, Mission Hills senior, practice.
Instructor to bring painting to life
Kansan staff writer
by Christine Winner
An oriental watercolor painting caught a KU choreographer's eye last year at the St. Louis Museum of Art.
Brenda Hotard, instructor in dance, was inspired to create the modern dance piece "Letters," which will be performed at 8 p.m. today at the Folly Theater in Kansas City, Mo.
The painting, titled "Did You Receive My Love Letter," shows a high-ranking male official peering at her face.
"It says a great deal and implies even more." Hatard said.
City in Motion, a modern dance cooperative in Kansas City, Mn., invited 11 members of the University Dance Company to dance at the Folly as special guest performers along with the Susan Warden Dancers, of Kansas City, Kan. The cooperative also has a professional company, City in Motion Dance Theater
The dance, which evolves in seven stages, is based
on the idea of giving and receiving letters. Hotard said, It begins and ends with ensemble sections and has a trio, a women's quartet, a men's quartet, a solo and a duet between sections.
Hotard arranged a taped collage after she started to choreograph the piece. A mix of voices, a constant sound pulse and U.S.songs about love letters make up the collage. Sources include Fats Walters, the Carpenters, Elvis Presley, Laurie Anderson and Judy Garland.
hotard said she started working on the piece in October and presented it to *City in Motion* as a work-in-progress in early February. She said it was well received by the audience.
received by the team.
The work has been condensed and refined since then. Hotard said the movement ranged from pedestrian to highly stylized and technically demanding.
night at the performance are available at the Folly Theater box office, the City in Motion Dance Theater and area CATS outlets.
Gretchen Pippenger/Special to the KANSAN
During a rehearsal, Eric Otte, Omaha, Neb., freshman, lifts Carey Wagoner, Lawrence freshman.
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