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Thursday, April 6, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
SenEx counting Council election votes
by Candy Niemann Kansan staff writer
Ballots are being counted today for a University Council election that originally did not have enough candidates to take place.
University Council, the KU faculty's largest executive governing body, had only 12 nominations for membership at its Feb. 15 deadline.
The Council is composed of 39 faculty members and 12 students, and one third of the faculty seats are served by the council. The council serve three-year terms. Regulations
require twice as many nominations as seats available to hold an election, which left the Council 14 nominations short at its deadline.
"So we extended the deadline and went out and talked to people, asking them to run," said Evelyn Swartz, presiding officer of Council.
Ballots were sent out to the 1,200 members of Faculty Senate on March 16, with 32 candidates on the list.
Ballots were due yesterday at 5 p.m. and will be counted today in a meeting of the Senate Executive
"I think the reason there is not a tremendous demand to be in governance right now is that the University is pretty quiet," said James Seaver, professor of history, who has been appointed in University governance since 1902.
Committee.
"There are no terribly burning issues to draw people in."
The faculty's lack of familiarity with University governance might account for few nominations, said Bob Jerry, chairman of SenEx.
"But I'm optimistic that in the
future we will have more interest," Jerry said.
To be eligible to run for Council, a candidate must have five signatures from colleagues and have been off Council for two terms.
Swartz said Council might be changing the eligibility requirements next year.
Jerry said some faculty members might not have the time to spend on Council.
"People are busy teaching and researching," he said.
KU computer program attracts $100,000 grant
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
A KU professor's computer program, designed to help teach the electromagnetic theory, has attracted a $100,000 grant from AT&T for further development.
"This is just to help us teach the electromagnetic theory," said Sipasrased Gognien, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering. "A lot of our mathematics. Students get lost in all that math."
Gogineni began the project in 1987 after American Telephone & Telegraph Co. approached the University about using its UNIX-based 3B2 computers
Five computers were given to the school. After reviewing the work that Gogineni and Shailesh Shukla, New Delhi, India, graduate student, were asked to perform these computers and the main processing computer.
A&T has given KU $2.7 million in equipment and direct research support since 1984, including
the $100,000 for the equipment.
Gogineni supplied the ideas for the program, and Shukla created the graphics and the text.
The electromagnetic theory is the basic principle behind how electronic signals are transmitted. Gogineni and Shukla have been working on the program since 1887, have developed three programs and are working on five more that are scheduled to be finished by December.
The program was demonstrated last fall to students. This semester, the students in the second and third semesters were offered a course.
"The students can graphically see it, so if somebody misses a class, they can do the same step-by-step procedure with the program," Goginji said.
Stavros Yiannaki, Nicosa, Cyprus, graduate student, a teaching assistant that teaches the lab class for the second level of the program during the period as a tool to help them understand the material.
It looks helpful for beginners', Yiannaki said.
Shukla said the program helped the students because it was hard to understand the abstract theories from a blackboard drawing. He conducted a survey this semester and used the feedback to improve the program and to build on the four programs that he plans to have done by December.
"Students see the visual interpretation so they can picture what is going on."
"The program is meant for the students"
Sixteen would be happy with it, and if they
were not happy, they would not.
Chris Thomas, Lawrence senior, said the program helped to make the Smith chart, a graph used to make mathematical calculations, more understandable.
Regionalist's art exhibit to open in Kansas City
"Seeing it done graphically step-by-step is easier than reading it in a book," Thomas said. "The Smith chart is not something that's easy to use if you used to it, so it was really helpful in the beginning."
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Call Thomas Hart Benton a failed artist as one critic does. Quibble over whether regionalism was a legitimate movement in American art history. Accuse him of betraying him by turning away from fashionable modernism to paint realistically.
But because his paintings about everyday people appeal to everyday people does not mean they are unisophisticated, said Henry Adams, curator of American art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The paintings, his murals especially, are bold, colorful and dramatic. They have, Adams said, the tendency to pop off the wall.
April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of Benton's birth. Were he still alive, the artist could celebrate with his fans at Kelly's, a popular salon and the kind of place where Benton would be pleased to have his pictures hang. An afternoon bourbon party is held each Sunday in his honor.
Benton spent much of his life
benton among the intellectual and creative
in the world's most exciting cities.
His Kansas City home was once a
fairground, where he and poet Carl Sandburg, and folk
songsters Burl Ives and Pete Seeger.
Or he could attend the opening of
the first major exhibition of his work
his death. The Nelson Akts
and 40 of his paintings beginn
ing April 16.
Bourbon oiled their conversation and Rita Benton set a memorable table.
He was happiest, though, trudging across the South and the Southwest, sketching farmhands, saloon girls and factory workers.
Benton's greatest works were murals painted for the states of Indiana and Missouri. The Indiana mural was commissioned for the World's Fair in 1933 and now hangs at Indiana University. The Missouri mural, finished in 1936, is in the House Lounge in the Capitol at Jefferson City.
"I like people; and primarily, I paint for them," the artist said at the height of his career in 1896. "If they can see something in these paintings out of their own lives, I don't care what they think or know about art."
"You are constantly trying to figure out whether he was a fool or a genius. The answer is, of course, he was both," said Adams, whose Benton biography will be published as 'the exhibition opens.'
Benton loved bourbon and books,
his harmonica and family musicales,
bourbon, ordinary Ozarks folk, telling stories, stirring up things, locomotives and bourbon. Most of all, he loved to paint.
The exhibition, the first traveling show staged by the museum, will close June 18 in Kansas City and open Aug. 4 at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Nov. 17 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and April 29, 1990, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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