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CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 3, 1995
3A
Artists compete for money
Students display work win scholarship awards
Kathleen Driscoll / KANSAN
By Novelda Sommers
John Blankenship, Warrensburg, Mo., senior, looks at art that was submitted by KU students to be judged for scholarships. The work is on display today on the fourth floor of the Art and Design Building.
Kansan staff writer
Like a lot of art, Kerry Niemann's sculpture has a story behind him. Her clay bust of a man, on display at the art department's scholarship show, once had mice living in it.
Niemann, Leavenworth senior, said that while she was storing the sculpture in her locker in the Art and Design Building, some mice made a home in a hollow in the back of the sculpture. She patched the hollow before the show.
Niemann is one of 60 students who were nominated by professors in the art department to display their work on the fourth floor of the Art and Design Building and compete for scholarships.
The nominees were allotted equal amounts of space to display their work. The paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints are on display until 4:30 today. The scholarship amounts will be released this week.
"They give you the space, and you can cram whatever you want into it." Niemann said.
Judith McCrea, chairman of the art department, said the department awarded about $60,000 in Kansas University Endowment Association funds to students.
A committee of four professors reviewed the work Saturday to decide who would receive scholarships. McCrea said about half of the nominees received awards.
"Going to the University is very expensive," McCrea said. "And being an art student, you have a lot of extra expenses because of the supplies you have to buy. We are trying to encourage students to continue their careers in art."
Besides departmental scholarships, 13 scholarships from the Hollander Foundation also were given. The foundation, based in Kansas City, Mo., is named for Richard Hollander, an artist who invited KU students to take field trips to his studio. Hollander died in 1992
"He was concerned with young people beginning their careers as artists," said Richard Gillespie, associate professor of art, who was a friend of Hollander. "He was always supportive of artists, and he loved art. That's why he set up the foundation."
Gillespie, who was on the committee that chose the winners, said it took about 12 hours for the committee to make the decisions.
"Obviously, you can't award scholarships to everyone," Gillespie said. "They are all very capable people."
The departmental scholarship winners will display their art in the gallery on the third floor of the Art and Design Building April 9-14.
Hepatitis A shot offered at Watkins
By Robert Allen Kansan staff writer
Students who are traveling abroad this summer might want to begin their trips with a visit to Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Watkins now is administering a vaccine for hepatitis A, an inflammation of the liver that is common in developing countries. This is the first time a vaccine has been available for the disease, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins.
In the past, Watkins administered shots of gamma globulin, a protein found in blood plasma, to protect against the disease. However, gamma globulin only provides protection for four to six months, Yockey said.
Hepatitis A is found in developing countries that lack water and sewer systems similar to those in the United States, Yockey said. Mexico, China, Japan and the Philippines are examples. The virus is spread by contamination of drinking water by fecal material. The virus also can be spread through contaminated food. Death from the virus is rare, but it definitely occurs, he said.
"Now what's new is the hepatitis A vaccine," he said.
"One or two shots should last the rest of your life."
"We've had one student in the last 10 years who died from it," Yockey said. "The student died so fast, we never really quite figured out where he contracted it."
The vaccine works by stimulating an immune response in the body, said Renee Readinger, a staff pharmacist at Watkins. Dead samples of the hepatitis virus are injected into the body, and the immune system creates antibodies to fight them. The body then will be able to recognize and fight the virus if it is encountered again.
The vaccine costs about $50 and requires two weeks to take effect. Gamma globulin still will be available at Watkins, Yockey said.
Interactive class comes to KU
"If someone came in today and said, 'I'm leaving for Mexico tomorrow,' we would give them both," he said.
Students design new educational material
By Paul Todd Kansan staff writer
Some KU students are guinea pigs running through cyberspace.
Twenty students are taking a new class this semester in which they learn to make their own interactive computer programs. The class, Introduction to Interactive Media, uses the software HyperCard and MacMedia Director 4.0 to create interactive games and educational materials.
Liane Judd, assistant professor of design, teaches the class in the Art and Design building's computer lab. She said that she developed the class after using interactive programs on the Internet and that the class gave students the experience needed to work in the computer field.
"It seemed to me that there were a lot of opportunities in the professional marketplace for students in this kind of new media," Judd said.
She said that her students had two assignments for the semester, the second of which was a group interactive project. The groups were supposed to come up with an idea for a viable interactive program, plan it and then design it.
"The students formulated ideas for what they thought would be
"It seemed to me that there were a lot of opportunities in the professional marketplace for students in this kind of new media."
Llano Judd assistant professor of design
acceptable interactive topics," Judd said. "And when I say interactive, I mean something that engages the viewer."
The project ideas include a tabloid newspaper, a mythology program and a educational program in which a character takes the viewer through a series of social issues, Judd said.
"The students are to use still graphs, text, video and animation," she said. "It's loosely constructed in that the writing comes in terms of
content developing."
Jeff Petersen, Overland Park senior, said he made on-line music and record reviews, complete with the music and information about the artists.
Petersen, an industrial design major, was one of 35 students who applied for the class last fall. Twenty were accepted after portfolio reviews and interviews by the instructor. He said he wanted to take the class because interactive computers were the future of entertainment and educational software.
"There's a lot of uses for interaction with computers, which will be big in the future," Petersen said.
About 10 of the students in the class are design majors, but there are also students from other disciplines such as journalism and English.
Mark Scoggins, Lawrence senior and a creative writing major, said he took the class because it would provide him with a good job skill.
"There are not many classes that I can think of that give expertise you can use somewhere," he said. "Taking philosophy is not giving you a job skill."
Judd said the class members thought it should be offered regularly. The class will be evaluated by her and the department before it is possibly offered again for next spring.
Whether the class will be offered again is uncertain.
BARNES: Focused on community
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Albert Neutel, who has worked on Barnes campaign, said he supported Barnes because he wanted to see property taxes decreased.
"I feel very strongly that property taxes are too high," he said.
Neutel said that by increasing industry in Lawrence, high school graduates who did not want to attend college would have local job opportunities. Barnes is the candidate who could make that happen, he said.
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JO BARNES
The following are Jo Barnes' top three priorities if she is elected to the city commission;
To implement Horizon as a flexible plan so
2020 as a flexible plan so that unanticipated changes can be dealt with effectively
Broadening the industrial tax base
Determine what the needs and wants of the community are, and address the needs before the wants
KANSAN
CAMPUS BRIEF
Cho cancels Friday show but reschedules
Comedian Margaret Cho, whose show was canceled Friday, has been rescheduled to perform at KU.
Cho, who canceled her show because she was losing her voice, will perform her standup routine at 8 p.m. April 27 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Sue Morrell, Student Union Activities adviser, said that those who could not attend the rescheduled performance could receive a refund beginning tomorrow by bringing their tickets to the SUA office on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
Tickets for the show still are available at the SUA office. They are $5 with a KUID and $8 without a KUID.
"We're excited that it worked out and that we can still bring her here," Morrell said.
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