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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 18, 1990
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KU interviews begin for dean candidates
Five librarians will visit in hopes of gaining position
By Pam Solliner Kansan staff writer
Dana Rooks, the first of five candidates for the dean of libraries, ended her visit to KU yesterday.
Ron Francisco, search committee chairman, said the committee would interview the remaining four candidates during two-day visits scheduled in the next two weeks. The candidates will meet with administrators and various library organizations and staff.
Rooks, assistant director for administrative services at the University of Houston, spoke to about 70 people at Spencer Research Library about the changes academic research libraries must undergo in a new era of information access.
She said librarians would evolve from cataloguers to information brokers.
"We, as librarians, must learn to listen and provide for the needs of our clientele," she said.
Barton Clark, director of departmental services at the University $^{a}$
Illinois, will visit KU on Monday and Tuesday.
William Crowe, assistant director for administrative and technical
— Dana Rooks
'We, as librarians, must learn to listen and provide for the needs of our clientele.'
assistant director for administrative services at the University of Hou
ston
services at Ohio State University libraries, will visit the campus April 28-27.
Francisco would not release the names of the candidates who will visit the following week.
visit the following of the
After interviewing the candidates,
the committee will recommend three
finalists to Del Brinkman, vice
cancellor for academic affairs, by
mid-May.
The five candidates were chosen from 36 applicants. Candidates must
have a master's degree in library science from a university accredited by the American Library Association or its equivalent. They also must have a minimum of five years of senior administrative experience in an academic research library.
In her 15-minute speech, Rooks said the financial burden that research libraries faced would need to be solved with innovative fundraising ideas.
Fanning said he will resign July 1 as dean of libraries, said $365,000 would be needed this year to maintain the libraries' present level of acquisitions.
Book and periodical prices have risen 10 percent annually for the past 10 years, he said. But library financing from the Kansas Legislature has continually decreased.
Since fiscal 1985, the libraries' book purchasing power has declined 16 percent, or the equivalent of 7,600 fewer books each year. Purchasing power for periodicals has declined 9 percent, resulting in the cancellation of 1,500 periodicals.
E. Joseph Zurga/KANSAN
Fifty-fifty chance
Jane Huesemann and Scott Pohlenz, both of the New Blood coalition, watch as a coin is tossed by William Sanders, Student Senate executive committee chairman. The toss decided the winner of the Architecture and Urban Design Senate seat. Pohlenz won the toss. According to Senate rules, the toss of a coin decides Senate seats in the event of a tie. Huesemann and Pohlenz each had 69 votes. This was the last of three tosses used to break ties that occurred during last week's Senate election.
Racism postpones KU divestment plan
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
A plan for University divestment from companies doing business in South Africa has taken a back seat to racism on campus, a Students Against Apartheid spokesman said yesterday.
"We can't rightfully help others when we can't help ourselves," said Ardra Tippett, the group's founder.
Although Students Against Apartheid still has not presented its plan, Tippett said student interest about the issue remained high.
about the issue renamed to Tippett, who announced the plan in February, said the recent protests concerning the incident at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and dwindling Black enrollment had taken precedent over the issue.
She said the group wanted to lobby for the support of several other campus groups before submitting the divestment plan, but members have had not time to actively gather support.
"we haven't gotten the feedback mainly because we haven't been calling everyone," Tippett said. "But I've heard that a lot of Greek houses are behind us, for example."
Carol Krekeler, Panhellenic Association president, said that the representatives of each sorority had met about the plan but that Panhellenic thought members of the individual houses should decide on endorsement.
"We didn't feel that it was up to us to decide," Krekeler said. "We encouraged them to go talk to their national chapters and to their houses, but that's as far as we felt we could go."
Tippett said the group would be collecting endorsements and presenting the plan to the Board of Regents and the Kansas University Endowment Association before the end of the semester. The group also will be sponsoring a film and trying to heighten student interest.
She said that the group definitely would continue activities next year but that she might not be the head of the organization.
"More and more people are approaching me," Tippet said. "We had 20 people at our last meeting, and I heard from many others that were sorry they could not come.
"People are telling me that this is an important issue. I have been telling people to get with me."
Guerrilla Girls combat discrimination in art world
Kansan staff writer
By Bryce J. Tache
Things were pretty hairy last night at the Spencer Museum of Art.
Wearing rubber gorilla masks, Rosie and Frieda, two New York artists, to a packed audience of nearly 400 in the museum's auditorium. Four bunches of half-ripe bananas sat on the table before them.
The two artists are members of the Guerilla Girls, an organization that bills itself as the conscience of the art world.
"Our main goal is to open the doors of creative, genius, regardless of artists' color, gender or sexual preference." Frieda said.
the guerilla Girls were organized in 1985 to combat sexism and racism in the art world. They continue to fight artistic discrimination of all kinds by appearing at universities and art museums across the country.
Richard Quinn/KANSAN
Their identities are unknown to everyone outside the group.
Rosie said there was a reason for the masks.
Two Guerrilla Girls speak to a crowd at the Spencer Museum of Art.
"We have remained anonymous to draw attention to issues rather than personalities," she said. "We are able to tell the truth while others might be afraid to do so."
"My dealer would drop me immediately if he knew I was a Guerrilla Girl." Frieda said. "He is not too happy with us. He would be surprised that I had the balls to do this, but he'd still fire me."
The Guerrilla Girls are determined to make people aware that discrimination is prevalent in the New York art community, they said.
Last year, there was only one female one-person exhibition at New York City's four major art museums. They said female artists not only got fewer shows but less respect and money.
nine percent of the artists in the modern art sections at the Metropolitan Museum are women, but 85 percent of the nudes there are female." Frieda said.
The Guerrilla Girls said it was equally pathetic that there were almost no works from Black, Hispanic and Asian artists in New York museums.
"If we didn't think this issue was so important, we wouldn't be sitting here with rubber masks on," Rosie said.
Sarah Stauffer, Kansas City, Mo.
freshman, said the extent of discrimination frightened her.
"I'm in the fine arts school and I hope to enter the School of Architecture," she said. "One of my greatest fears is that no one is going to take me seriously because I am a woman."
Carla Knutsen, Lawrence sophomore, said she did not realize the extent of discrimination in the art world.
"I thought it was very eye-opening," she said. "It was enlightening. I wasn't aware of just how prevalent the prejudice was."
Picket line halts construction of Dole Center
By Eric Gorski
The picketer was a construction laborer who was unhappy with his unsettled contract, said Wendell Geiger, project manager of the center for Dahlstrom and Ferrell Construction Co. Inc. of Topeka.
Kansan staff writer
One picketer halted construction of the nearly completed Dole Human Development Center yesterday when about 30 of his coworkers did not cross the picket line.
The other workers, including plumbers, carpenters and electricians, honored the picket line and did not work. Geiger said.
Completion of the $12 million center, scheduled for May 1, may hit a snag if a settlement is not reached within a few days, said John Eye, University of Kansas facilities planning architect. Interior finishing and some site work need to be completed.
Geiger said he doubted that the strike would last long.
"We think he'll come back," Geiger said. "It seems kind of silly. I don't know if it's right or not."
Geiger said an extra entrance gate would be set up today at the construction site. Workers who do not want to cross a picket line can pass through the gate not being picked.
He said that contract disagreements were a common cause of strikes and that contracts would continue to be negotiated.
Eye said that he expected the project to be completed a few weeks later than May 1 but that he
'When it becomes obvious that (the strike) is a real problem, then the University can take some steps. Hopefully, it will resolve itself.'
- John Eye
KU facilities planning architect
Dahlstrom and Ferrell submitted a request for an extension, and the request is being reviewed by the University, Eye said.
did not blame the strike for the delay. The completion date probably will be extended to mid-May because inclement weather slowed construction.
If the strike causes a delay in the center's completion, the University can charge the company on a per-day basis until the work is finished, Eye said.
Eye said the threat of a late charge could force the contractor to hire replacement workers to complete the center.
"When it becomes obvious that (the strike) is a real problem, then the University can take some steps," he said. "Hopefully, it will resolve itself."
The Dole Center will house the Bureau of Child Research, the department of Human Development and Family Life, the department of Special Education and the radio-television sequence of the School of Journalism.
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