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Tuesday, March 29.1977
University Daily Kansan
New museum's space welcome
By SUSAN HUME
Staff Reporter
Crowding is a problem nearly everywhere on college campuses, but in the art world at the University of Kansas, things are looking up.
The Museum of Art, now housed in Spooner Hall, will have four times its current space when it moves to the Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art this summer, Charles Eldredge, director of the museum, said yesterday.
ALTHOUGH MOVING is expected to begin this July, Eldridge said that "ribboning cutting day the month before" will occur until Jan. 15, 1978. The interim will be spent installing display equipment and lighting, in addition to designing and organizing the museum, he added.
Eldredge said that the new museum would have 29,000 square feet of gallery space, compared with 7,800 square feet in Snooner.
Museum staff members are preparing for the move by cataloging, and packing, materials in the library. Cleddge
SUA chooses board members
New SUA board members were selected Saturday. The new members, who officially became SUA board members, will be announced next month.
Steve Schmidt, Kansas City, Kansas,
junior, in charge of films; Howard
Collinson, Lawrence junior, in charge of
fine arts; Barney McCoy, Lawrence
sophomore, forums; Kelly Baker,
manhattan junior, Free University; Elaine
Grob, Lawrence freshman, indoor
recreation; Denise Moore, Great Bend
Brinkerhoff, Lawrence sophomore;
Brinkerhoff, Lawrence sophomore, public
business; Mark Woodman, Wichita state,
special events; and Mike Peterson,
Long Beach, Calif., sophomore, travel.
The new board will meet to work on the SUA budget for next fall and spring and present it to the University of Kansas Memorial Corporation April 23. The university will accept the corporation, runs the Kansas Union and controls Union and SUA activities.
The board also will be concerned with setting up activities and programs for the next school year. Coordinators, writers and curators have schedules that don't allow for advance planning, but films and other programs are scheduled early. Kim Heren, current program coordinator
Both the old and new boards will be responsible for events the remainder of this semester, while the new board receives training.
Events
TONIGHT; There will be a DRUG EFFECTS ON SEXUALITY SEMINAR at 7 in McColum Hall. STANLEY FISH, professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, will speak on "The Poetry of John Milton" at 8 in Woodruff Auditorium.
TOMORROW: The Museum of Natural History will sponsor an ANIMAL STORY HOUR for ages three to six at 10 a.m. Call the museum at 426-735-9811. CLUB will sponsor an E.T.A. Hoffmann film and a panel discussion on Junior Year Abroad at 3:30 p.m. in 4002 Wescott. The museum is also offering a program to show a film, "Rhesus Monkeys of Santiago Island," at 4 p.m. in 627 Fraser.
Announcements
Applications for Study Abroad in Germany are due in the Office of Study Abroad, Tel Aviv University.
ATTENTION
STUDENT
TRAPSHOOTERS
said. They also are planning to buy new gallery equipment and office furniture.
An attempt is being made to coordinate trapshooting teams to report their activities and shooting tournaments. The tournaments include the Corkhusker Invitation Trapshoot (April 22-23 at Corcochelite Trapshooting Championship) April 16-17 with the possibility of attending the 17th International Clay Pigeon Tournament this summer. Women interested should contact;
Kirk "Bo" Starks
XX 216 Weston Sq.
843-1013
THE INCREASED space in the new building will allow the museum to add to its collection and to display many things now in storage, he said.
"I would say that no more than 15 per cent of the market reaction is now on Eldridge. Eldridge paid."
He said that "the cream of the crop," some of the more valuable pieces of glass, silver, tapestry and Oriental art, weren't in Snooner now.
During April 1970, a time of student unrest and "insurance company paranoid," some of the museum's most valuable objects were removed from Spooner and stored elsewhere on campus—in such buildings as Spencer Research Library, Exhibition Hall, objects, some of which have never been shown, will be displayed in the new museum.
THE MUSEUM ALSO IS continuing to restore some of its art.
retubbiated and in better condition than they have been in for years," Eldredge said. He said museum officials also hoped to have "more ambitious exhibits and special programing" because of the increased space.
The opening of the new art museum will coincide with the 50th anniversary of an art museum at KU. Museum collections are also included in this exhibition. Other special exhibitions throughout the year.
"THEER HAS been a considerable increase of interest in the museum because of this new building," Eldridge said. "We are here to offer grants and endowments from people."
The art library and the department of art
museum are to be housed in the new
museum building.
Martha Keke, director of the art library,
said that the library would have 14,500
square feet of space in the new museum,
and the space it now has in
Wooden Library.
This will allow the library to carry out its 20-year plan of increasing its number of computers.
"IF ONLY because of the space, we would be very happy to go, but there will be many spaces."
The new art library will have two rooms designed specifically for art seminars, with a place to show slides, she said. The reading and stack areas may also be designed for easier access, and there will be a browsing area for new material.
"I know that we will be able to provide a better service to the collection," she said.
Chu-tsing Li, acting chairman of the department of art history, said that the move would help reduce crowding in the department.
"FOR THE first time in many years, we will have sufficient space for the offices."
The department of art history, now in Spooner, has no offices for assistant instructors, and many faculty members share offices, he said.
In addition to increased office space, the department also will have two classrooms, a seminar room and a larger room to store a television with 400 slides in the new building, Li said.
Debaters win first in Utah
Two KU debaters took first place last weekend at the Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha national tournament at the University of Utah. Robin Rowland and Frank Cross, Lawrence seniors, won the tournament for the second straight year.
They were 11-1 and defeated the University of Southern California in the final round. Rowland was first-place speaker and Cross was fifth-place speaker.
KU's three other teams at the tournament placed, making KU the only school with all four wins.
Jeff Brunton, Topea senior, and Steve Griffin, Lawrence sophomore, took fourth. The two went on to the State finals.
Margaret Michels, Des Moines, Iowa, sophomore, and Charles Fairchild, Leawood senior; and Kevin Fowler, Leavenson junior. Brock-Beck, Louis, McQ., sophomore.
Two teams placed at the National Novice Tournament at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Ill. Chris Folsom, Manhattan freshman, and Chris Simmons, Independence, Kan., freshman, took fifth among 117 teams.
Folsom was ten-thance speaker among the 234 bartenders. Eight place was awarded to Brian Nail, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, Kevin Wilson, Vaccay, Calville, Freshman.
The University Theatre production this weekend of "Uncle Vanya," Anton Chekhov's classic drama, will be highlighted by the guest appearance of Sean Griffin, a university of Kansas graduate from Oklahoma in several Broadway and television plays.
Play features grad
Griffith will portray Dr. Astrov, one of the leading roles in the play, which will be presented at 1 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at 2 p.m. Sunday, in the University Theatre.
IN MAY 1969, Griffin earned his M.A. in theater at KU. Since then, he has worked with several repertory and stock companies, three Broadway shows and three opera operas. His most recent appearance at the Metropolitan Theater was the premier production of "John Brown's Body."
Other television work during the past year has included roles in "Ah! Wilderness" and "Johnny, We Hardly Know Ye". Griffin's first film, "The Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover", starring Broderick Crawford, will be released later this year.
From KU, Griffin will return to New York City to film three more episodes for "'The Best of Families,' a television series that chronicles the life of Hall. He has already filmed four episodes."
JACK WRIGHT, director of "Uncle Vany" and professor of speech and drama, said recently that the play's story involved a student who was hypocritically professor, and Yelena, his young wife, who have returned to a provincial estate that once belonged to the professor's first wife, Sonia, the professor's second wife. The brother, now manage the estate. Also at the
estate are Vanya's mother, Sonia's old
murse and an邻 neighbor.
All abandon regular duties to attend to the professor's ill health. Family members, particularly Yelena and Vanya, become bored and dissatisfied with their lives. Astrov, a country doctor who Sonia has loved for six years, comes into the story. Astrov contrasts sharply with the others in his romantic ideals, and is further complicated as he and Vanya become increasingly infatuated with Yelena.
CHARACTERS are played by: Peter Garrison (Serebrikau), Linden, N.J., graduate student; Victoria Stevens (Yelena), Pacific Palisades, Calif.; senior; Rhonda Blair (Sonia), assistant instructor of speech and drama; George Welsan (Vanya), Lawrence graduate student; Lambryn Helen Hedge (Vanya's mother); Brooklyn, N.Y., graduate student; Beth Stokstad (Nina City), freshman; James Paul Weil (Teysgin), South Holland, III, senior; Keth Pickering (a workman), Bloomington, Min., senior. LaDene Morton, Lawrence senior, is assistant director.
Record trade deficit fueled by foreign oil
WASHINGTON (AP) — The imported oil that fired the nation's furnaces this winter helped push the U.S. trade balance into a new low. In recent months, the government said yesterday.
An administration economist said the severe deficits of recent months were exacerbated by a surge in interest rates.
When it's 6 weeks into the semester and 34 books have just arrived for a class of 35 ...it's no time to get filled up.
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