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Artist uses novel approach to architecture in his books
Award-winning author and illustrator speaks on campus
By LAURA BOSTROM
Staff writer
In 1989, an Arab sheik purchases New York City's Empire State Building, planning to tear down the building's 102 stories and reconstruct it in Saudi Arabia.
This plot allowed author and illustrator David Macauley to show the Empire State Building from a different angle. He took the building apart piece by piece in his book, "Unbuilding."
Macaulay, the creator of numerous award-winning children's books about architecture, spoke to about 250 people last night in the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
Macaulay's books explore architecture and show the buildings and their construction in simple terms. The books often are listed for children but appeal to readers of all ages. A KU medieval art history class currently uses some Macaulay books as part of its required study.
"I don't write for children, I write for myself," Macaulay said. "If you produce something that touches a child or an adult, that's tremend
Many publications, such as the New York Times and Newsweek magazine, have praised his work. Macaulay's books have won awards such as the Caldecott Medal for children's book illustrations and the New York Times Outstanding Children's Book of the Year.
Edwyna Gilbert, professor of English who teaches a children's literature class, said Macauay was a leading figure in the children's litera-
"He does wonderful children's books on architecture that are intricately illustrated," she said.
Macaulay's training reaches beyond literature. Tom Allen, Hallmark professor in the department of design, said Macaulay's earlier education in architecture helped him conceive and draw his books.
Macaulay showed slides to illustrate his methods for creating a book and some slides from his past, including a high school photograph of him painting a picture of George Washington at the River. He was paid $50 for his first commercial graphic work, which was hung in a neighbor's living room.
Macaulay often made references to his architecture training while showing slides of his drawings as they progressed from thumbnail sketches to full-size drawings.
Macaulay now teaches part time at the Rhode Island School of Design, in addition to writing approximately one book a year.
In "unbuilding," he experimented with numerous perspectives while trying to fit one of the world's largest buildings onto a 9- by 11-inch page.
In "Great Moments in Architecture." Macaulay satirizes architectural excesses, such as large cathedrals. He describes an inflatable cathedral that appearance-conscious neighborhoods can use to beautify a vacant lot.
His books explore and create, pushing the reader's imagination. In "The Amazing Brain," he drew the brain as a museum, complete with bathrooms, an auditorium and a restaurant in the different brain parts.
The art for his latest book, "Chicken." was finished three weeks ago.
"Why the chicken crossed the road,
on one foot for all answered."
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Elections Committee to release official Senate election results
The Student Senate Elections Committee will release later tonight official results from last week's elections, including the number of people who voted, the committee co-chairman said yesterday.
By a Kansan reporter
The committee's initial election vote totals for presidential and vice presidential races, released early Friday morning, were 63 votes fewer than the estimated number of voters.
votes. Since write-in candidates were not considered, those votes were not counted, he said.
Moore said the committee also had difficulty obtaining an exact number of voters, because some voters had been checked by a census worker who checked the voters' identification.
Also, poll workers gave all students who voted as many ballads as they were eligible to vote for them. Most voters knew they knew or skipped certain races. Moore said.
Both the Bottom Line and Synchronicity coalitions have requested
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recounts of individual schools, but the results of the recounts won't be announced until the April 22 Senate meeting. Moore said.
Brian Kramer, First Class coalition vice presidential candidate, said that coalition members did not request any recounts because they thought that the margins were too large.
"It would just be ridiculous to ask for a recount of the presidential and vice presidential race." Kramer said. "They're not going to find 400 more votes somewhere."
Graduate Student Council holds official meeting after long layoff
By TIM HAMILTON
Low turnout attributed to apathy or approval of policies
Staff writer
Thirteen graduate students, including five members of the Graduate Student Council Executive Committee, last night attended the first meeting of the Graduate Student Council in several years.
Graduate students at the meeting cited various reasons for the low turnout, which they said could be due to a lack of training approval of GradeEx's actions.
Sam 'Appalsamy, Durban, South Africa, graduate student, said that both rainy weather and student attendance significantly affected attendance.
"It's tragic really considering there are hundreds of graduate students, and we only had 13," said Appalsaheim, also a graduate student
senator. "But everyone's priorities are different."
All graduate students automaticall members of the Graduate Student
Mike Anderson, GradEx member and graduate student student, said the low turnout was a signal that he lacked content with GradEx's performance.
"We didn't expect a huge turnout."
Anderson said she hasn't been a shy speaker since spring.
At the meeting, GradEx members gave presentations on various issues, such as proposed revisions of the council's constitution, taxation of graduate teaching assistant's fee waivers and the council's budget.
Michael Foubert, GradEx co-coordinator and graduate student senator, briefly outlined the proposed
revisions to the constitution, which would create a graduate representative assembly to facilitate communi- tion between graduate students and GradEx.
"I would like to see wider dissemination of the proposed constitution than we have now," Foubert said. Copies of the proposed revisions now are available at the graduate school office in the Burge Union.
Foubert said the revisions would address the relationship between GradEx and its executive coordinator.
"It more specifically spells out what the coordinator can or cannot do," he said.
IRS braces for deadline
The Associated Press
"We're on target and our inventories (of unprocessed returns) are especially low," IHS spokesman Larry Gould says. Deadline is midnight tomorrow.
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service, heading down the homestretch of a successful tax filing season, is bracing for a flood of last-minute returns and reminding procrastinators that they'll have to wait a bit longer for their refunds.
Although the agency had been processing returns at a pace that produced refunds in four or five weeks, the big end-of-season push means a wait of six to 10 weeks. Batdorf said.
Through April 3, the last date figures were available, the IRS had received 58.1 million returns. The agency is forecasting 105.5 million returns for this year, although many of them will be delayed in filing by several months. From last Friday through the deadline, the IRS was expecting 23 million returns.
From all accounts, there has been no recurrence of the computer problems of two years ago in the 10 service centers where returns are processed. Those breakdowns were responsible for the worst filing season in IRS history and required millions of people to wait 10 weeks or longer for their refunds.
"This is not an unusual crunch and we expect no problems in dealing with the last-minute filers." Batdorf said.
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