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THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 96 (USPS 650-640)
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Their styles were different but their messages were the same: KU students and faculty are concerned about the situation in South Africa.
The University Senate Human Relations Committee conducted the first round of public hearings on South Africa last night in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Public airs views on S. African rule
The committee heard statements from eight groups and individuals. The hearings continue tonight with nine speakers scheduled to present their views.
By Tim Hrenchir and Lori Poisson
and Lori Poison Staff writers
See related story p. 12.
The South African government follows a policy of apartheid, which is legalized racial segregation.
Chris Bunker, Shawnee third-year law student and president of the KU Committee on South Africa, told the human relations committee that his committee was frustrated with the
lack of communication with the Kansas University Endowment Association.
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"This is the kind of issue that really sets people on fire. There is nothing more obvious than apartheid is the worstest thing you've ever seen."
In the past year, some students and faculty members have protested the Endowment Association's ties to companies that do business in South Africa.
"We've sat in, we protested, we've educated, we've worked politically," Bunker said. "At this point, I don't know what else we can do.
Bunker suggested the University take legal action to prove that the Endowment Association is not a separate entity from the University. Therefore, he said, the Endowment Association would be forced to abide by the wishes of faculty and students
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The castigione che Dio sol sa (the caste that only God knows) in Spannocchia, Italy, serves as a cultural and educational center for students.
Photo courtesy of Dana Torchia
Villa is fairy-tale classroom
By Abbie Jones
Kansan Magazine writer
Call it a fairy tale. Students live in an Italian villa, relax in red poppy fields and revel in artistic projects — all because the daughter of an Italian count fell in love with a KU graduate.
The story grows. The Etruscan Foundation, which began with this international romance, promotes architecture, dance and literature in its most practical form — being there. Today young architects can reconstruct an Italian farmhouse while dancers perform in the streets of Tuscany.
The Italian Count Cinelli founded the Etruscan Foundation in the late 1950s to promote archeological studies, said Harris Stone, associate professor of architecture and local sponsor of the program. The organization now has expanded to include a variety of cultural ventures.
Cinelli's home, a 2,000 acre family estate in Tuscany, Italy, and field headquarters for the foundation, houses participating students who receive real life experience in their fields of study, Stone said.
As a result of changing agriculture in the region, the aristocracy in Tuscany have turned many of the estates into condominiums, he said. But Cinelli, a respected archologist, wanted to make his villa a center of archeological study.
Stratton wanted to expand the program, and in 1982, he and his wife and Stone developed the first architectural program. The couple needed a place to live, so the Count gave them an abandoned farmstead to restore and live in.
The University's link to the program formed when a KU graduate named Randall Stratton met the Count's daughter, Francesca, while studying in Spannocchia. The couple later married.
The architecture students now work on the Tuscan farmhouse preparing it for Stratton and his wife.
Stone said Cinelli once said, "I don't want to be a hotel keeper."
"We are really in historic
The purpose of the program, he said, was to get students to do work that wasn't possible in the classroom. Actual "hands on" experience is the key, he said.
"It breaks down the barrier between the design process and the construction process," he said.
Steve Kratchman, St. Louis senior, said the practical skills he gained from the program filled holes in the University system.
"There isn't so much information that travels from the teacher to the student," Kratchman said. "You have to do it yourself. It requires time and making mistakes."
preservation," Stone said. "We want the building to be true to itself."
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For six weeks, students do rough construction work such as knocking holes in walls, building archways and finishing the interior of the farmhouse. Students make in-studio design proposals for other farmhouses and tour Italian cities to study the architecture.
undergraduate research grant to study courtyards in Tuscany. For five weeks he waited on tables, cooked and gardened at the villa to earn money while doing research before the architectural program began.
"The students do the whole range of historical preservation
Stone said 11 architecture students were chosen from 24 applicants for last summer's program. The first year the program attracted only seven students.
activities," Stone said. "We use only traditional Etruscan building techniques and material. We build them the way those farmhouses have always been built."
"it's catching on because it's catching on nationally," he said.
s catching on because it's catching on nationally," he said. The first summer all seven students were from the University of Kansas. Last summer 11 of the 16 students were from KU and the rest were from other universities.
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Spannocchia has military roots dating back at least to the 12th century, he said. The villa's main tower was used to defend the feudal estate during the 12th century and was a German headquarters during World War II.
Stone said a German and an American helmet with bullet holes in them were mounted on the walls of the castle's dining room.
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