University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 24, 1987
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Local Briefs Informational scholarship meeting is set
An informational meeting about the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships will be at 3 p.m. Monday at Nunemaker Center. Students with a grade point average or 3.5 or higher are encouraged to attend.
The Marshall Scholarship program is Britain's way of thanking the United States for starting the European Recovery Program, which helped Britain and other European nations rebuild after World War II.
The program allows U.S. citizens who are graduates of U.S. universities to study for a degree at a British university for at least two academic years. Thirty students in the United States receive the scholarship annually.
The Rhodes scholarship, established by Englishman Cecil Rhodes, is awarded annually to 32 U.S. students and pays full tuition, fees, travel expenses and an allowance for two years of study at Oxford University in England.
Student wins prize for illustration
A University of Kansas senior in the School of Fine Arts has been selected as a national award winner in the Society of Illustrators 1987 Student Scholarship Competition.
Stephen T. Johnson will receive a $1,000 Kirchoff/Wohlberg Award at the society's awards ceremony May 1 in New York City. Johnson's winning piece, a charcoal drawing, will be exhibited at the society's annual show in New York City. The society received 4,000 entries from the 110 college-level arts schools. A panel of 16 judges selected 34 winners to receive grants totaling $25,000.
Seminar to discuss legal drug testing
Hallmark Cards Inc. will match the awards with grants given to the illustration departments of the winner's schools.
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and two area drug abuse treatment centers will sponsor a seminar on the legal aspects of employee drug testing.
"Drug Testing in Industry;
Issues and Answers" will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 15 at the Eldridge Hotel, Seventh and Massachusetts streets.
For reservations, which cost $50 a person, call the Douglas County Citizen Committee on Alcoholism at 841-4138. The fee includes lunch at the hotel. Deadline for reservations is May 13.
Making presentations at the seminar will be David Schien, an attorney for Tenneco Oil Company, Houston; Nina Rogers, general manager of Daman Labs, Dallas; and Jack Gress, employee assistance program director at AT&T.
Center to dedicate pipe organ Sundav
The newly installed pipe organ at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center will be dedicated at a recital at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Campus and Area
James Higdon, associate professor of music, will perform at the center, 15th Street and Engel Road.
From staff and wire reports
New I.D.s to fight cafeteria abuses
By JOSEPH REBELLO
The days of sneaking into residence hall cafeterias with borrowed or fake 1.D.s may become a thing of the past after this summer.
Staff writer
Monday, hall residents will be informed that when they return this fall, they will not be able to eat in the cafeterias unless they have a new KUID equipped with a magnetic strip.
Dine cafeteries will have the Valli-
Dine computer system, and cafeteria
employees will use the computer to
determine whether they paid to eat.
The system, designed by Griffin Technology Inc. of New York City, will be installed July 14.
To help residents make the change to the new system, about 1,500 I.D.s.
will be prepared for students who have signed hall contracts for next year, said April Retherford, administrative assistant for the office of educational services.
Those residents will not be charged for the new I.D.s, but all new students must pay $5 for the I.D.s after this summer. Retherford said.
Also, hall residents will not be able to bully cafeterias' student checkers into letting them in. Checkers will now be full-time food service employees, she said.
Members of the office, which has supervised the design of the new LD.s, and about 11 student volunteers will visit each of the residence halls between 4:30 and 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday for the next two weeks, to photograph residents for the LD.s.
The only difficulty that students might face in adjusting to the new system would be that they must be careful not to lose or damage their I.D.s, said Peggy Smith, assistant
director of food services
The combination of technology and toughness in enforcing cafeteria policy will save students money in the long run, Smith said.
"Students sneak in to eat at the cafeteria all the time. And the student is jumping for the meal plan is the one that is organizing all those free meals," she said
Smith said students would no longer have to obtain meal transfer tickets to eat at another hall cafeteria. The new I.D.s will permit them to eat at any hall.
But the best feature of the system is that it will enable the housing
office to make accurate studies of residents' eating habits and to plan programs that would more effectively serve them, she said.
The Vali-Dine program has been designed to compile information every three days on how many students miss their meals, how many order sick trays and which residence hall each diner lives in.
Smith also said the system will guide the University in adjusting meal hours at various halls so as to keep students satisfied. He opened to students any three of the day.
"We could have one hall that opens for breakfast at 10 a.m., another hall that serves lunch until 2 p.m and another that serves dinner until 7 p.m. so that food will be available to students all day," Smith said.
Hermes, Apollo will grace new museum
By JOSEPH REBELLO Staff writer
"Nude Youth" and other plaster casts of famous Greek and Roman sculptures stand in a storage garage in east Lawrence. The casts will be moved to Lippincott Hall on May 4 to become part of a permanent exhibit there.
In a damp and musty warehouse on Bullene Avenue in east Lawrence, a likeness of Demosthenes, the great Greek orator, stares lifelessly into the darkness. Nearby, stand statues of the Greek god Hermes, Diskoboles the disc thrower, and Apollo Belvedere.
Staff writer
For 21 years, these plaster statues, part of the University of Kansas' Wilcox Collection, have been prisoners of neglect, said Paul Rehak, assistant professor of classes and acting curator of the collection.
But after years of being shifted from one damp warehouse to another and facing years of decay, 29 of the works will become part of the newly created Mary Grant Museum in Lippincott Hall.
On May 4, the statues, recently restored at a cost of $7,000, will be moved to Lippincott. They will be on display starting in August.
"We feel we're rescuing something that was in danger of being lost forever," Rebak said.
"This cast collection is unique," he said. "Seeing a cast collection brings you one step closer to the original. For most of us, seeing the original would mean having to travel halfway around the world."
Once, the statues were part of a 114-piece collection put together in 1888 by A.M. Wilcox, a professor of Greek at the University. The collection included reproductions of some of the greatest pieces of Greek art, and until 1965, it remained on exhibit at Old Ferman Hall.
When Fraser was closed that year, the statues were moved to a warehouse on West Campus. Since then, the classics department, which manages the collection, has been trying to find a place where it can be exhibited.
"Their real deterioration occurred when they went into storage in 1965. Unfortunately, when they were put into storage, the University simply picked the most convenient location." Rehak said.
He said that plaster was especially prone to decay under conditions where heat and humidity could not be controlled. When the statues first
Wesco Hall originally was intended to be, Rehak said.
went into storage, rain leaked through the roof of the warehouse and damaged several of them, he said.
Until the early 1970s, the department had hoped that the collection would soon be taken out of storage and put on exhibit. University officials had promised space for the collection in the 29-story building that
"But when the plans for the building changed, the fate of the collection was pretty much up for grabs," he said. "The art museum didn't want them because they were not originals. The collection simply became an unwanted stepchild."
Project gets grant to assist AIDS fight
By JENNIFER WYRICK Staff writer
See related story p. 8.
The National AIDS Network has awarded a grant of $1,000 to the Topeka AIDS Project, a non-profit organization that educates people about the disease and helps those who have it.
The money will be used to provide emergency housing, food and medications to people with AIDS in the Topea area, said David O'Brien, TAP treasurer.
O'Brien added, however, that $1,000 would last the organization on a month for those types of services and revenue always are needed, he said.
"But the grant indicates to us that a national organization thinks that we're doing a good job in serving clients." O'Brien said.
TAP has helped 20 patients with AIDS-related diseases, but only seven still are living.
Coburn said that his organization had awarded 18 grants of $1,000 each to AIDS service organizations across in direct services to AIDS patients.
The national network raised the grant money through a program called "Stamp Out AIDS." The network sold stamps for envelopes bearing that message. The drive is expected to bring in about $25,000 for distribution at a future date.
TAP is a support network that trains "buddies" to deal one-on-one with people with AIDS and AIDS related complex, or ARC, said Judy Miller, a team supervisor for TAP.
Buddies undergo an intense three-day training program where they learn about AIDS, the Red Cross home health care system, legal aspects of AIDS and how to deal with death and dying. Miller said.
The main thrust of TAP is to teach buddies to be a friend to people with AIDS and ARC and to help if their client needs transportation or medicine, Miller said. TAP also tries to keep patients out of the hospital unless it is necessary.
Students, faculty will sign quiet variety show
Staff writer
By JENNIFER FORKER
An "Evening of Song, Sign and Mime" will be one of the quietest variety shows on campus this semester.
KU students and faculty will perform a one-hour variety show in sign language at 7 tonight in 303 Bailey Hall. The students are performing to complete requirements for a class, Conversational Sign Language, offered through the department of music education and music therapy.
This is the second year that the show, which includes songs, poem recitals and mime acts will be performed. Most of the songs will not be sung.
Alice-Ann Darrow, instructor for the course, said that the show initially was designed for hearing-impaired people in Lawrence. But it attracted the attention of others, and this year, people from the Topeka deaf community were invited. The show is free and open to the public.
Darrow said the mime acts were important parts of the show because mime and body language were necessary for learning how to sign.
"It ites them to sign bigger if they can act it out," she said.
Darrow said that performers used various techniques in signing a song
David Brown. Kansas City, Mo.
senior, who is deaf and participating
in the show, said that people's body
language helped him read their lines.
"By doing the show, other people can see how you can communicate without talking," Brown said.
"Anything that has language is signed so nobody has to watch an interpreter." Darrow said.
so that hearing impaired people in the audience didn't become confused.
She said that performers would use body language and costumes to help explain songs. For example, people signing country tunes at the show will wear western clothes.
The country twang in the song also will be described through body language.
"Most of the style of a song is auditory. So what you have to do is listen to it. It's really hard."
Song interludes, when words stop but instruments continue to play, must be explained to deaf people so that they understand why performers have stopped signing. The
instruments must be mimed.
Brown said that when two or more people signed a song, he could see
"You can see the harmony even though you can't hear it." he said.
Brown, who has read lips since he became deaf at the age of 5, began learning sign language last semester in Darrow's American sign language class.
He said that it had been difficult to read lips in classes because it took so much concentration. If he had to do his college years over, he would ask for an interpreter.
Darrow said that Brown's presence in class helped her remember to constantly sign and not to avert her face away from him.
Sign language was brought to the United States in 1816 by the founders of the American School for the Deaf, Darrow said. The roots of American Sign Language come from French, not English.
"It makes me aware of what a
ASL employs a minimum of finger spelling, omits helping verbs and does not follow English word order, she said.
hearing-impaired person needs in class," she said. "It's a beautiful language and many people, when they see it, want to learn it."
"It is a separate language. It is not English," said Lisa Stover, a graduate assistant at the speech, language and hearing clinic and a participant in the show. "There are even regional differences."
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