UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesdav, February 19.1997
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Professor's artwork restored
Watson Library shows paintings to honor Bloch
Nicole French
Special to the Kansan
The paintings, poems and correspondence of a late KU professor — the only American to be included in Germany's most important group of artists from this century — are on exhibit at Watson Library and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Albert Bloch, the first art history professor at the University, was a member of the group of German Expressionists who called themselves Der Blaue Reiter, or The Blue Rider.
The exhibit at Watson Library contains Bloch's lively caricatures, magazine covers he created for the St. Louis Mirror, his English translations of German poetry and a chronological history of his life. It is sponsored by the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies and the University of Kansas Libraries.
Contributed Art
Bloch: The American Blue Rider, displays approximately 80 of Bloch's paintings. Bloch's poems, drawings and correspondence are also on exhibit.
The Nelson-Atkins exhibit, Albert
The exhibition at Nelson-Atkins came about when Bloch's widow, Anna, began restoring her late husband's paintings. Art conservationists who were restoring the paintings suggested that the works be displayed.
Dawn Malone, a Lawrence homemaker, visited the Nelson-Atkins exhibit.
"It's interesting to see how a man's views change throughout his life," she said. "You can see his moods and beliefs in his work."
veranda, by Albert Bloch is part of an exhibition that is going on concurrently at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Mo., and at the Spencer Museum of Art, on the KU campus.
Bloch was born in St. Louis in 1882 and lived there until he moved to Munich to study art in 1908, where he became one of the Blue Rider artists.
He moved back to the United States in 1921. Instead of exhibiting his art in New York, Bloch lived in relative seclusion, teaching at KU.
"He was very happy in Lawrence," Anna Bloch said. "He had broken all ties with the art world. He did not prefer to advertise himself and his paintings in any way. The major work of his life was painting. The
rest was auxiliary."
Bloch lived in Lawrence from 1921 until his death in 1961. He was the head of the department of drawing and painting at KU from 1923 until his retirement in 1947.
Both exhibits run until March 16. The exhibits will then travel to museums in Munich. Admission for students is $2 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, located at 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Banquet serves up life
By Doug Weinstein
Kansan staff writer
Hunger and homelessness are hitting Lawrence.
City Hall estimates that Lawrence's population is almost 82,000. Almost two and a half percent of the population — about 2000 people — are homeless.
In order to raise people's awareness, The Center for Community Outreach will hold its annual Hunger Banquet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 12th and Oread, with aid from the Multicultural Resource Center, Concerned, Aware and Active Students, and the school of social welfare. The banquet is free.
"Hunger is everywhere," said Emily Heath, Ozawkie junior and co-director for the center. "The Hunger Banquet is an illustration of the worldwide distribution of food."
"Sixty percent of the people sit on
Participants will be given a new identity that consists of a name, background information, class and occupation. Depending on the information given, the person is then seated in the location which matches the identity.
the floor and eat rice, 30 percent sit on crates and eat beans and rice, and only 10 percent sit at a table and eat a gourmet meal because this is how food is distributed across the world," she said.
Heath said that the banquet serves an important purpose.
"We're trying to make people more aware," she said. "When people are forced to put themselves in someone else's shoes, it helps them appreciate what they have."
The goal of the banquet is clear, she said.
"We hope that it makes them want to change the current status and want to do something. Hopefully it will make them go out and volunteer," she said.
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The Center for Community Outreach will also sponsor other events for hunger and homelessness action month. Today and tomorrow, there will be information tables on the Fourth Floor of the Kansas Union where students will also be able to write to their legislators. Monday Feb. 24, Michael Stoops will address issues on the country's homelessness problem at 7 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium on the Fifth Floor of the Union.
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Langstons owner revamps club
By Paul Eakins Kansan staff writer
the commission listened as Thompson described the safety measures he had taken at his club. He said that patrons went past five bouncers at the front door, where they were patted down for weapons, and then checked with a metal detector.
Commissioner Bonnie Augustine said that police had been called 96 times to Langstons in 1996, but Thompson said this was an indication of his precautions.
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Dannie Thompson, owner of the club formerly known as Langstons, 806 W. 24th St., closed the club Saturday after the shooting of a bouncer in the Langstons parking lot on Friday night. This was the second shooting to occur there since a Topeka man was shot and killed on Aug. 15.
Donnie Scott, the bouncer who had been shot on Friday, said that the problems at Langstons were not caused by the music but were problems that any club might have to handle.
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Thompson wrote in a letter to the commission that if he reopened the club, he would change the name and the type of music played there to attract a different crowd.
Under the conditions of the license, if Thompson wants to reopen the club under another name, he will have to inform the commission first. Meanwhile, Thompson may rent out the club for private parties, weddings, greek events and other activities.
"We need to get a zero tolerance law," he said. "It happened to me and it could happen to anybody."
Ernie Batsell, St. Louis sophomore and vice-president of the Black Student Union, said that Langstons was enjoyed by many KU students. Closing it or changing the venue would drastically reduce the number of places that fans of R & B, Soul and Top 40 music could go.
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The complete text of "A Proposal for Improving Campus Safety, Access, Transportation and Parking" is available on KUfacts at http://www.ukans.edu/~traffic. Copies also are on reserve at Watson Library; Anschutz Science Library; Art and Architecture Library, Spencer Museum
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Comments may be e-mailed to traffic@raven cc.ukans.edu or sent in campus mail to the Office of University Relations. Deadline for comments is March 15.
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Women: Are You Interested in Campus Leadership?
Do you have what it takes to be an effective campus leader? Check your leadership abilities. Check your schedule and plan to attend.
KU Student Leaders to help lead discussions
Tuesday, February 25, 1997
Pine Room, Kansas Union
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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Sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
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Celebrate the Year of the Ox with the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA)
February 22,1997 at the Kansas Union Ballroom
7:30-9:30 P.M.
Enjoy skits, cultural dances, songs and more.
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