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Emeritus faculty exhibition on display
BY MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
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The bronze sculpture "Maria," by Elden Tefft,
stands on display at the Art and Design Building
on Sunday afternoon.
Two guests of the exhibition look at "Shimomura Crossing the Delaware" by Roger Shimomura, an acrylic on canvas.
Roger Shimomura leads his Japanese shipmates across the cerulean waves that froth with white foam on the Delaware River. Nearby, a gray-blue airplane soars above multicolored shapes and a skeleton. Welcome to a few pieces of the Emeritus Faculty Exhibition.
The University's Visual Art Department presented the works of 10 different artists/emeritus faculty last Sunday afternoon at the Art and Design Building.
The gallery, which will be open to the public until Feb. 18, features several different mediums, including blown glass, enamel, bronze, gouache and acrylic on canvas.
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Viewers of varying ages graced the reception to observe the art and enjoy light snacks and coffee.
With such different sets of eyes on his photographs, Dwight Burnham acknowledged the possibilities of an on-campus gallery.
"They may see something entirely different that I had in mind," he said.
Burnham taught in the
University's art department and painted for more than 40 years. Since his retirement, he began taking photographs for his artistic interests and to counter his wife's Alzheimer's disease.
He said that with painting, one fiddles with color, composition and lengthy procedures.
"Without having been a painter, I couldn't have done this," Burnham said of his photographs.
The careful production sees from the three digital images of
rural Utah. Light filters through the still scenes of hills, rocks, dirt paths and clouds. With these images, Burnham is "trying to capture the spirit of the place."
Also presented were two blown-glass pieces by Vernon Brencha.
Brejcha, who wore a patriotic patch-frenzied vest and spoke of his process like a chemist, said that the majority of his works are based on Kansas themes. One of the pieces, "Prairie Post", is approximately 80 lbs. of purple, yellow and clear
glass and a black stripe littered with rainbow speckles.
"I've had people watch me do pieces," Brejcha said, "and then say, 'What just happened?'
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Hate Out Week highlights different types of oppression
CAMPUS
Week aims to raise campus awareness
BY KATASHA KUMAR kkumar@kansan.com
The Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center, adjacent to the Kansas Union, is holding an awareness event this week called "Hate Out Week". Every day this week, there are events going on to express the oppression groups face. The Tunnel of Oppression was the first of the events scheduled which started yesterday and will continue on today. Tours of the tunnel will be offered today from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.at the resource center.
Trevor Loney, assistant director of the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center, said the tunnel "is an opportunity to see the different issues that are
going on in the world."
The purpose of the event is to bring awareness of the different types of oppression groups face and the main focus is on how the campus and community are affected, Loney said. The tunnel also shows students what it is like to be racially different in the world. Included in the tour are skits put on by actors acting out circumstances where oppression is evident.
"What the tunnel really tries to do, is educate people that some of these issues are still around and they are still effecting people," said Loney.
The tour of the Tunnel of Oppression is a 20-minute tour offered every half hour.
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Jordan Ashley, a sophomore from Olathe, volunteers at the Tunnel of Opression at the Sabatini Multi-cultural Resource Center Monday afternoon. "I wanted to see what it was like and I just wanted to help out. It's really cool to take a chance and talk about this stuff that you really don't get to talk about." Ashley said.
HATE OUT WEEK EVENTS
WHAT: Tunnel of Oppression
WHEN: Tues. Feb. 7 at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: SMRC
WHAT: Tim Wise, featured speaker and prominent anti-racist writer
WHEN: Tues. Feb. 7 at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
**WHAT:** "ullied: A Student, a School and a Case that Made History" documentary
**WHEN:** Wed. Feb. 8 at 4:30 p.m.
**WHERE:** SMC
WHAT: Speak Up! A Call to Fighting Injustice
WHEN: Thurs. Feb. 10 at 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: SMRC
Check out the Tunnel of Oppression at kansan.com
**WHAT:** Brown Bag Discussion: The State of Diversity in Higher Education
**WHEN:** Fri. Feb. 11 at 12 p.m.
**WHERE:** SMRC
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blizzard many workers showed up at 3 a.m., three and a half hours before their shifts officially started. Rawlings said many workers also stayed late to keep the sidewalks and roads clean.
During a snow event, FO sends out snowplows to clear primary roads and sidewalks first. These routes include Jayhawk Boulevard, Sunnyside Avenue, Sunflower Road. The first response also clears entrances to buildings and handicap-accessible areas.
"We have learned and observed it makes it hard if someone shows up and can't get in the building." Rawlines said.
After clearing the primary routes, Facilities Operations clears secondary sidewalks, stairs and parking lots. Employees also make sure all bus routes on campus are cleared.
Finally, after everything else is clear, FO clears the areas around student housing.
Though routes may be cleared, work for Facilities Operations is far from done. Sidewalks, roads and stairs must still be kept clear from melting snow and refreezing water. Excess snow in parking lots and along routes is loaded up and disposed of with dump trucks.
Rawlings said the best-case situation is when people are able to get around and there are few complaints.
ALL'S CLEAR - MAYBE
"Sometimes things go well and other times you miss some things," he said. "You just have to try to get all that you can and get ready for the next one."
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"If there were a portion of the population who didn't believe in heliocentrism [the theory that the earth revolves around the sun], there would be a petition about that." he said.
Blanford spent the earlier part of his career working as a field biologist, studying reptiles and amphibians both in the United States and Costa Rica. He now works in developing educational resources for the James Randi Educational Foundation, which is a not-for-
Blanford said that, in addition to the one-third of Americans who rejected evolution, there was another one-third that either weren't sure or didn't understand the theory very well. They, as well as science lovers, were part of the intended audience for his talk. He thought advocates for evolution science often weren't as vocal as the fundamentalist religious groups with whom they contend on education issues.
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"We need to be more evangelical about it," Blanford said. "If that makes sense."
ATHEIST AND HUMANIST ORGANIZATIONS:
On Campus:
Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics (SOMA)
www.soma.org
Meetings alternate Tuesdays (February 8, 22)
NATIONAL:
American Atheists http:// www.atheists.org/
American Humanist Association http://www.americanhumanist.org/
Secular Student Alliance http://www.secularstudents. org/
Atheist Alliance International http://www.atheistalliance.org/
International Humanist and Ethical Union http://www. iheu.org/
INTERNATIONAL:
Adrian Melott, professor of physics and astronomy at the University, said he hopes to attend the event and thinks it is a good idea. He has written several works on evolution theory, creationism and science standards in public schools, and had some personal experience with evolution's uncertain place in society.
Melott said he had had concerns about his own child's experience
profit organization whose stated purpose is to promote critical thinking and to educate the public about supernatural claims.
EVOLUTION IN SCHOOL
with evolution science in a Lawrence public junior high school. He said he discovered that two chapters in his child's science textbook - one dealing with the mechanisms of evolution itself and another with the history of life on earth - had been skipped over in class. Melott said the teacher explained that evolution had been dealt with elsewhere in the course, but he remained unsure that his child had been properly instructed in the theory.
The teaching of evolution in Kansas public schools has a contentious history, but Melot says
"They don't want to stir up controversy," he said.
the problem isn't necessarily in the debate. He said the biggest problem is that many teachers don't address evolution theory in their science curriculum, either because they don't support it themselves or because they're afraid to.
As for Darwin Day, SOMA's vice president emphasized that the event was not strictly for the non-religious.
"It's for everybody," Hudson said.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CHANCELLOR'S STUDENT AWARDS COMMITTEE is accepting applications for the following graduating senior awards:
The Class of 1913 Award
The Donald K. Alderson Memorial Award
The Alexis F. Dillard Student Involvement Award
The Caryl K. Smith Student Leader Award
*The Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award
*The Leffel Award is not limited to graduating seniors
The Agnes Wright Strickland Award
Nomination and Application forms are online at: http://www.vpss.ku.edu/awards Nominations must be received by Friday, February 11, 2011 at 5 p.m. Applications must be received by Friday, February 18, 2011, at 5 p.m.
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