Tuesday, December 5, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Ceramics sale to build scholarship fund
Meghan Bainum
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University of Kansas ceramics and sculpture students are going to try to make a little money off their homework and do a good deed for fellow ceramics students at the KU ceramics department's holiday sale.
The sale will be from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday on the third floor of the Art and Design building. Part of the money raised will go toward setting up a ceramics scholarship for ceramics majors.
Joe Zeller, professor of design, said the scholarship, which will include $500 in endowment money, may be up to $1.500.The money will go toward giving ceramics students the opportunity to take extra classes and to have more opportunities for study in their field. The scholarship will be awarded for the first time this spring.
"A real goal here is to create an opportunity for students to do something that would literally change their life." Zeller said.
Sarah Hoppe, Louisberg senior,
said another thing the scholarship would do was make scholarship recipients' work better and give them more time for their art.
"From the outside it seems very easy, but it's actually extremely time consuming," Hoppe said. "People lose a large percent of work in firing and before it even reaches kiln. Therefore, it's really important to spend a lot of time in studio, and having that extra money helps you have extra time."
Hoppe also said even though she was a senior and would not reap the benefits of the ceramics scholarship, she thought having an award would give students extra incentive to aim for excellence in their work.
"I'm fully willing to have one third of the work I sell go to the department because I think that the people coming up need something to work towards," she said. "It helps the department to pursue excellence with the work they are doing."
Zeller said pieces that had accumulated during the semester would be on sale. Pieces can be purchased for as little as $5 and up to as much as a couple of hundred dollars. But most pieces will be from $10 to $30, and Zeller said students could find something for everyone there.
"The work ranges from routine cups and bowls to much more esoteric stuff like sculptures, studies of sculptures and vases," Zeller said. "Students are among our better customers. It's a chance for them to get something made by KU classmates or peers."
Past sales have raised about $10,000 for the scholarship fund and $20,000 for students.
Zeller said the sale, which is in its fourth year, also was a way for ceramics students interested in earning a living as ceramic artists or sculptors to see what the next step of selling their work would be like.
A group of about seven art students stayed late Friday to take the next step in finishing some of the hundreds of pieces that will be up for sale Thursday. The students were joining in, not only to earn money and get real-life experience, but to do their part and contribute to the scholarship.
Zeller stayed late overseeing the process as well.
"It's a real sense of community here," he said. "Everybody is doing their part."
- Edited by Casey Franklin
Ceramics III student Marcus Skala, Derby junior, places his previous week's assignment on a table as Joe Zeller, professor of design, critiques his work. Photo by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Where there's no smoke there could be a Prairifire
By Matt Merkel-Hess
A new restaurant focusing on American cuisine and wine in a smoke-free environment opened two weeks ago in downtown Lawrence.
Prairiefire, 724 Massachusetts St., opened after three and a half years of planning and an eight-month renovation to the building, said owner Steve Wilson. He said the menu focused on fresh, seasonal food and that almost everything — from sauces, breads and smoked meats — was on the staff of 25
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"We are a scratch kitchen," Wilson said. "We oversee most of the processes involved with making our food."
Wilson said the restaurant had seen a full house every night since opening, and the 140-selection wine list, which starts at about $15 a bottle, had been popular, even with college students.
"Wine is a big focus of the restaurant, and our wine list is aggressively priced." Wilson said. "There are a lot of college-aged wine enthusiasts."
Stephanie Rogers, Overland Park senior, went to Prairiefire this past weekend for drinks. She said she normally didn't go out to restaurants such as Prairiefire, but it was a good alternative for special occasions.
"I think the price is reasonable when students want to go someplace nicer," she said. "It opens up your options."
Main dish prices range from approximately $15 to $30, and pasta dishes start at about $7.
Prairiefire is a smoke-free dining establishment. Wilson said there was a large demand for a smoke-free environment.
"We went smoke-free first for the benefit of our employees, second for the benefit of our customers and third to enjoy the wine," he said.
Wilson said the American-cuisine menu, which offers items from different regions around the county, includes soups, salads, pasta and main courses of salmon, catfish, chicken, steak and vegetarian options. The menu will change with the season and availability of fresh ingredients, he said.
Now, the bar and the bistro, or street-level dining, are open. The upstairs will open in about two weeks. Wilson said the restaurant would begin serving lunch after the first of the year. There also will be a private wine cellar dining room for groups of 20 to 25, and people can eat at the bar.
"It's designed to appeal to a wide variety of people," Wilson said. "There's really no occasion where it wouldn't be appropriate to come in here."
According to the University Web site, "E-mail use that violates the rights of others, law, or University policy or regulation, is a serious abuse. Such actions may subject an individual to termination of account privileges and/or appropriate disciplinary and/or legal action."
Prairiefire is open Tuesday through Sunday, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. for dinner service, and 5 p.m. to 12 p.m. for the bar. For questions or reservations, call the restaurant at 842-8889.
Forwards also can be dangerous. Some may contain computer viruses, hoaxes or involve scams.
Chain, spam e-mails violate Internet policy
By Katie Teske Special to the Kansan
Spam is defined as unsolicited and usually commercial e-mail sent to a large number of addresses. Sending spam and chain e-mail is against University policy, said Wes Hubert, associate director of Academic Computing.
Spam e-mail can be frustrating to deal with,but it's also illegal for University of Kansas Internet users to send.
Edited by Amy Randolph
To help prevent groups from getting your personal information, Paul said to fill out the minimum requirements when registering a purchased item and to not give your real address when posting to a news group.
Craig Paul, technical support programmer/analyst and postmaster for the University, said each day he received about 1,400 e-mails in the postmaster account that had been sent to invalid addresses. They often contained spam, even some that originated in China. But Paul said only one or two people each day complained of spam. Most people just delete it, he said.
John Senn, St. Louis sophomore, said he sometimes received an excessive number of forwards, but he generally thought they were funny. He said he didn't usually send them on because he thought most people on his list had already seen them.
He also advised being cautious with e-mails containing phrases such as "Make money fast" and triple X sites such as "Hot Sex Site."
Hubert said anything asking for mail to be distributed, whether it offered compensation or not, was questionable.
The pyramid scheme is one common scam type. The basic premise is that the "victim" gives those running the scheme a set sum of money or an object and is promised a huge financial return. Those at the top of the pyramid never invest anything; they just collect on what other people invest. They have nothing to lose if the flow of money or objects is broken, but the people at the bottom of the pyramid do. This scheme has been around for a long time in U.S. mail.
"E-mail is just another medium for pyramid schemes," Hubert said.
Some e-mails may simply contain false information, such as one that warms of a drug called Progesterex that is used with the date-rape drug, Rohypol, to render victims sterile as well as helpless.
Some Web sites list common e-mails and inform users whether they are hoaxes. David Emery on About.com, a general information Web site, provides Internet users with an alphabetical list of popular e-mails and rates them as a hoax, urban legend, real rumor or junk.
While this site provides some useful information, Hubert said to realize just because something is not on the list does not mean it is a valid e-mail.
Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Department of Music and Dance presents
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