Summer Session Kansan
Monday, June 18, 1979
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Astronomy muse roams KU museum
15Y BONNIE DUNHAM
Staff Reporter
Urania, Muse of Astronomy, blended science with the humanities yesterday in activities ranging from skywatching workshops to a concert performed by the Lawrence String Quartet at the Helen Foresman Schoen Museum of Art.
The seventh in a series of nine Musing in Museums presentations could be compared with a Homeric festival with a wide variety of activities to arouse the senses and the mind, Michael Shaw, director of the museum program, said yesterday.
The muses are the nine daughters of Zeus, king of gods, and Menosmyea, goddess of memory in Greek mythology. The muses represent history, astronomy, tragedy, comedy, dance, epic poetry, love poetry, lyric poetry and religion.
"URANIA IS the only muse who is a science, so we involved the astronomy department. Yet astrometry was brought in as a muse, not as a science," Shaw said. "We have coined all sorts of people working with the museum in this series."
The Greeks did not separate the nine muses as rigidly into specialities as is now done, Shaw said.
A museum, in its original meaning, is a home for the muses, not a place to just look at paintings. Shaw said, and the Spencer program has "achieved a significantly wide range of music acquisition and active responses of the mind," shaw said.
YESTERDAY'S MUSING activity also included science fiction films and children's workshops in shadow stick astronomy.
Although the series is attracting more people to the art museum, Shaw said, he is not certain what type of audience the series is reaching. There has been an attempt to bring in more people outside the academic community.
"Muses warm the building and the Spencer Museum of Art is a building that needs a little warming. It is where really serious leisure takes place," he said.
The Greeks regarded leisure and play as seriously as Americans regard business, Shaw said.
Taking leisure activities in the arts seriously still requires active responses of the mind, he said.
"People's responses to drama are automatic. They weep at play, but not at an art museum. Yet they can and no doubt some people have."
"IT'S MUSIC, dance, poetry reading, looking at works of art which brings the muses together; all of this taking place at once." Shaw said.
The Greek traditions became one of Shaw's major interests while he was an undergraduate at the University of Texas. He worked in Corinth during the summers of 1864 and 1865 excavating an ancient city, which is returned and for a short visit in 1971.
Shaw said he thought the university community was comparable to that of the ancient Greeks.
"IT'S MOMENTS SEEMS to me that it is impossible to live in America, at any rate, except in a University at the moment when it is at the atmosphere that serious theatre is still cultivated. It is small enough that you can still function as a citizen in the Greek sense of the word. The university is the place where most of the events where leisure is seriously regarded."
Shaw will present a lecture on Orion and the Seven Sisters at p. 2 June. 24, followed by a dance and poetry percussion central gallery at Spencer Museum of Art.
The astronomy exhibits, including NASA's Jupiter photographs and the lunar paintings of Lamar Dodd, will be on display through Aug. 5.
By VALERIE HOWARD
Summer camp schedule changes
In today's inflationary economy, parents are sending their children to shorter colleges or smaller schools and 3rd annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp at the University of Kansas is accommodating the parents with new programs. Thomas Stidham, assistant camp director,
Staff Reporter
"For that reason, long-term camps across the nation are suffering and our long four-week camps were declining in enrolment," he said. "So we are allowing students to stay for the entire four weeks or for a two-week session for the first time."
The main part of the camp started yesterday as 440 junior high school musicians and artists registered for their week-long session, he said. More than 100 high school and junior high school students are anticipated to enroll in all of the camps.
THE MIDWESTERN MUSIC Camp was started in 1938 for musicians only, but camps in various areas of interest have emerged under the umbrella of the camp name, which has been changed to include music and art.
Students have come from all parts of the
country and Canada for the sessions in art and design, music, speech and debate, astronomy, journalism, dance, linguistics and physics, Sthdam said.
Enrolment steadily at 1,200 and dropped slightly to 1,000 in the past few years, accr.
This year's enrollment will not be completed until after registration for all the camps, but an early enrollment report will be collected in the various camps Friday morning.
"We have a larger amount of students enrolled in the four-week senior high music camp than either of the two-week sessions, but the total of the students attending the two-week sessions is greater than the other attending the full four weeks," he said.
STIDHAM SAID* an increase in enrolment would indicate the schedule
The schedule change will not change the staffing of the camp or the scholarships
Counselors for the residence halls were hired for the entire summer and scholarships were given upon recommendation of the students' teachers, Stidham said.
"We send our information to teachers
across the nation and ask them for prospective campers, then we offer scholarships based on ability and the difficulty of the instrument played," he said. "If the student receives a scholarship, he will attend three weeks, he will receive half of the scholarship."
THE JUNIOR HIGH musicians will study under KU faculty members and composer Oj Rellery. A concert of the week's presentations 9 a.m. Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
The senior division of the music camp,
June 24-July 21, will cost $95 for the
four-weeks or $250 for a two-week session,
'June 24-July 7' or 'July 8-21'.
Scholarships and commuter reductions are available, Stidham said.
Senior high concerts will be July 1 and 15 at 2 p.m., chorus and orchestra, 7 p.m. bands; and July 7 and 21 at 1 p.m. in the University Theatre.
GUEST CONDUCTORS DURING the four weeks will include Col. Arnold Gabriel, conductor of the United States Air Force Band; William Katz, a New York music teacher; Abraham Chapelle, conductor of the El Paso Symphony, El Paso, Texas; Charles Forque, a high school teacher from Plano, Texas; Russell L. Willey, the founder
of the original Midwestern Music Camp; and Gerald M. Carney, former resident conductor of the camp symphony orchestras.
The cost is $300 for a two-week art session and $550 for the entire four weeks. Scholarships and a commuter discount are available.
The art sessions for senior high students will be offered as two two-week sessions only, although students can sign up for both sessions. June 24-July 7 and July 8-21.
Other camp sessions include:
ACCORDING TO A secretary for the Speech and Drama Institute, scholarships have been discontinued and the price of the camp lowered. Two two-week high school sessions are offered, June 17-July 7 and July 8-22, for $235.
Astronomy, June 24-July 7; or July 8-21;
modern dance, June 18-22; ballet, June 25;
linguistics, June 24-July 21; physics,
July 8-21; and journalism June 17-June 29.
The 37 junior high journalism campers finished a week of camp by publishing the newspaper *Moon Gazette*.
Parents interested in enrolling their children in upcoming sessions should contact the various departments for information.
Team hunts Kansas uranium ore
A Kansas Geological Survey team yesterday began sampling southwest Kansas well water as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's nationwide effort to find new uranium reserves for nuclear generation, a survey official said Friday.
The samples will be tested for higher than normal uranium content which would indicate the water had directed uranium deposits, said Project Director Pieter Berenden. Berenden is a research associate with the Geological Survey.
Berendsen said the chances of finding ore in samples from the region were like
“finding a needle in a baystack.”
A six-man team of Berendsen, Karen Willebaugh, project supervisor, and four student will work near Mende for the project. The project will be located near Liberal, Ulysses and Garden City for six more weeks. The project is financed by a $73,000 grant from the Department of
BERENDSEN AND WILLEBAUGH selected the sites on the basis of records at the Kansas Geological Survey, the Kansas departments of health and agriculture and from drilling records, which show the presence of potential uranium host rocks.
At each of the 750 sampling sites, which include irrigation, stock and domestic wells, two pairs of students will take three eight-ounce deepwater samples.
The project group will send two samples from each well to Union Carbide Co. in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where the samples will be tested for uranium content. The Survey will use the third sample for an evening nitrate analysis.
The team also will run tests to measure levels of temperature, alkalinity, pH carbonate, bicarbonate and dissolved oxygen.
laboratories involved in the energy department's program have test results showing higher than normal uranium contents, Berendsen said, companies can begin exploration in areas where the samples containing uranium were found. Uranium exploration has been done only in the vicinity of previous ore discoveries.
"We probably do have quite a bit of un-discovered reserves within the country." Britten
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Lawrence man writes book about his youth
The Department of Energy's program, called the Nuclear Uranium Reserve Evaluation, is three years old. Berendsen and Krauss will take three to four more years to complete.
Bob Sillipigni graduated from the University of Kansas in December of 1976 with a degree in psychology but no desire to enter the profession. What he really wanted to do, he said last week, was to write a book.
"6:16" starts with Silipigni suffering a hermitated case that eventually forced him to have an operation. He went into the hospital by moving the man in 6:16 in his last track meet.
The book started with a diary Silipigin kept while experiencing a lack of self confidence as a junior at Lawrence High School. The book, titled "6i-18" is written in diary form and deals with Silipigin's experience in overcoming an anxiety neurosis.
Once Sillipgni entered the hospital he didn't leave.
"I hooked onto the hospital as security," he said.
"I wrote the diary for therapy." Silipigni said. "It was my pal, my escape."
In order to cope with his problems,
Shilipk began to keep the diary as a release
of his feelings.
While a student at KU, Silipini decided he wanted to make a book out of his diary. At the time, he felt, he wasn't ready to work. After graduation, he said, he fell ready.
With no idea about how to get a manuscript published, Slipligni said he began to look at books that dealt with subjects similar to his. He then found the address of a suitable publisher and sent him his story idea.
After numerous rejections, Silipigin's idea was accepted by Vanguard Press in May 1977. After completing the manuscript, he left the company to Vanguard in September of that same year.
It took nearly 18 months before the manuscript became a published book.
Since the book's publication in February 1979, Siligippi said, he had combined promotion of "6:16" with his desire to help others who have the same problems he had.
He has spoken to various youth groups as well as to classes at Lawrence High School. Silipgni said he was trying to arrange taking engagements, including some at KU.
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A number of reported auto thefts kept the Lawrence Police Department busy last week.
Friday night, a 1974 Chevrolet Vega valued at $21,200 and belonged to Dewey E. Alaire, 1529 Eldorado Drive, was reported stolen. It was recovered the next day parked in a nearby parking lot. Police said they did not know if the car had been stolen.
Gaylord E. Richardson, KU associate professor of architecture, 1428 Tennessee St., reported early Saturday morning that his 1975 Honda had been pushed out of its parking space. Police reported this as an incident auto theft. The car had been unlocked.
A routine traffic violation resulted in the recovery of another stolen car before its loss.
had been reported to the police. Police stopped a 1970 Datsum for a traffic violation in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street and arrested him. He prove he owned or belonged in the car, he was taken into custody. Soon after that, the owner, Irvin C. Mattick, 2340 Murphy Drive, reported the car stolen from the 1600 block of Sugar Hill Park. It was released the name of the driver of the car.
A 1963 Chevrolet owned by David J. Coons, $847% Massachusetts St., was reported stolen Saturday night. Police recovered the car yesterday.
A Lawrence woman's purse was stolen yesterday afternoon while she was visiting the Spencer Art Museum on the KU campus, KU police reported.
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