CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 8, 1995
3A
Matt Flickner / KANSAN
A couch bearing the words "I miss my bed" sits near the architecture studios in Marvin Hall. The couch is part of a display designed to inspire architecture students.
Architects build on inspiration
Students' gallery shows rudiments of creativity
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
When five fifth-year architecture students got together Friday in the work space between their studios, their goal was to create a gallery of inspiration.
Not a detailed, precise display of their projects, nor a collection of finely-lettered designs of buildings, the gallery is a sharp contrast to usual displays of architecture students' work. It doesn't include uniform, three-dimensional scale models of final class projects presented in glass display cases. The focus is on the creative process that inspires them.
"We didn't want to show off what we had done," said Joshua Best, Kansas City, Mo., senior. "We just wanted to put together a non-traditional display to spark discussion."
The display included a photograph of a rock emerging from the ocean, an excerpt from "Nausea" by French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and a couch spray-painted with the message "I miss my bed."
"Josh asked what inspired me besides
architecture, beyond buildings and architects," said Edson Pereira, Miami senior, who was involved in setting up the gallery. "It's really an amazing question."
It is nearly an alluring question.
Recurrent hieroglyphics, suspended pieces
Peruvian hieroglyphics, of a broken telephone, a quote on the blackboard reading, "It 5:05 p.m.: 11-7; why am I here? I want to be an architect."
But too many students are content to observe and accept without asking questions, he said.
"I'm very disappointed in the fact that there is no dialogue between students, no interest in what others are doing." Pereira said. "I'm included in that group."
"It's not about cool, it's not about fashion," Pereira said. "It's about really trying to understanding why we do the things we do."
Trudy Faulkner, Fort Scott senior, said the gallery was important for the observers and
A hand-made copper necklace, an oversized drawing of a concrete highway support. a flotation device from an airplane.
"I'm very disappointed in the fact that there is no dialogue between students."
Pereira said those who started the gallery weren't trying to make a statement or be rebellious, but they were trying to draw attention to their inspirations.
those with inspiration on display.
Edson Peroira Miami senior
"It gives people a different outlook on what makes up architecture," she said. "It also lets us see that there's life other than sitting at the drafting table."
Best said he hoped others students in architecture would set up similar displays.
"We would love for people to feel like they could come in and browse through the school," Best said. "With the gallery, we are more
free now, and we do things that are a little unconventional, more free flowing."
Any student may present things in the gallery, if they're willing to discuss the piece and hear what others have to say.
The gallery is located on the third floor of Marvin Hall at the east end of the hall.
Trial scheduled for battery of Sig Ep members
Lawrence police say say Emporia man used rope, dumbbell
By Scott Worthington Kansan staff writer
A judge found sufficient evidence yesterday to schedule a trial date for a man arrested in connection with an incident in which one KU student was hit in the head with a dumbbell and another was whipped with rope.
In a preliminary hearing, Judge Paula Martin of Douglas County District Court decided Daniel Soetaart, Emporia resident, will go to trial at 9 a.m. on Dec. 8.
In testimony yesterday, Troester identified Soetaert as the man who whipped him with a rope. Troester later identified Soetaert as the man who struck Tietgen with a dumbbell. Tietgen, who was knocked out for about four minutes, said he could not remember the incident.
"They were pushing back and forth, and I saw him swing a dumbbell and hit Jeremy, and he was just out." Troester said.
Soetaert was arrested in the early morning of Oct. 26 on charges of battery, aggravated battery and escaping from custody. He and some friends allegedly fought with pledges and members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, 1645 Tennessee St.
The charges allege that Soetaart whipped Chad Troester, Lincoln, Neb., freshman with a rope on Edgehill Road, sparking a confrontation that ended when Soetaart allegedly struck Jeremy Tietgen, Overland Park freshman, with a dumbbell in Troester's friend's apartment at 18th and Ohio Streets.
According to testimonies from Tietgen and Troester, the incident began when Troester was walking up Edgehill Road behind the Sigma Phi Epsilon house, and noticed three men vandalizing a car that belonged to a member of the fraternity. Troester confronted the men and asked them which fraternity they belonged to. The men then
asked him the same question. When Troester responded "Sig Ep," Soetaart allegedly began whipping him with a rope. Troester ran back to the fraternity house and told others about the incident.
"I told some of the guys that people had just beat me up, and they went looking for them," Troester said.
They found Soetaa and three other men at an apartment complex at 18th and Ohio Streets. A confrontation erupted outside the apartment's door, and Tietgen was struck with a dumbbell allegedly by Soetaa.
Troester said Tietgen was struck just outside the door to the apartment, then pulled inside the apartment.
During cross examination, defense attorney Kevin Lund argued that the members of the fraternity went to the apartment with intent of harming Soetaart and his friends.
Two friends of Sootaar who live in the apartment at 18th and Ohio Streets said the fraternity members broke into the apartment.
"The guy (Tietgen) got hit one time and fell down," said Billy O'Connor, Emporia freshman, who lives in the apartment. "They said we grabbed him and pulled him in, but he was trying to get in the apartment."
O'Connor said the fraternity members had misidentified Sooaelt and his two friends as the people vandalizing the car.
Tietgen said he had a black eye, a swollen lip and swelling on left side of his face. He was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital that night. Troester said he received several welts on his body.
Based on the incident at the car, members of the fraternity alleged that the men had a particular grudge against the fraternity.
"We have nothing against the Sig Eps," said Shane Owens, Emporia freshman. "We feel sorry that someone had to go to the hospital. But when someone crosses that line of breaking into the apartment, that's what happens. I have no regrets."
Max Miller of the Lawrence police testified that after arresting Soetaert he broke from his grasp and fled. Soetaert turned himself in later that night.
Consultant hired to look at 23rd Street intersection
Lawrence residents and city commis-
isioners discussed ways to improve the intersection at 23rd and Massachusetts streets, despite property concerns and confidential accident reports.
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
The intersection at 23rd and Massachusetts Streets may be closer to being improved for safety reasons.
The Lawrence City Commission voted to approve Evans, Bierly, Hutchinson/George Butler Associates, 1910 Haskell St., as consultants for improvements to the intersection at 23rd and Massachusetts Streets.
The issue was taken off of the consent agenda by Pam Houston, director of KU undergraduate administration, who lives at the southwest corner of 23rd and New Hampshire Streets.
She said accident report information at the intersection, which is confidential because 23rd Street is a state highway and receives
federal funds, should be made public to all the involved parties so that they could actively participate in meetings concerning the improvements.
"I understand the issue of confidentiality," she said. "The only way we can address the issue is to have this information."
Gerald Cooley, city attorney, said that city officials had conferred with the Kansas Department of Transportation about revealing the information, but said it would be a violation of federal law and could damage city relations with KDOT.
"It's not because we don't wish to share the information," he said.
Other Lawrence residents also voiced their opinions about possible improvements.
"I've gotten up at all hours," said Phil Merritt, Lawrence resident who lives at the southeast corner of 23rd and Massachusetts Streets.
He said that he had observed numerous accidents at the intersection and had called the police many times from his home. The accident are caused by driv
The accidents are caused by drivers' neglect and stupidity, Merritt said.
Dave Fugett, Lawrence resident, said that he drives through the intersection often and felt that the problem was speeding drivers.
"It's a very difficult intersection to see through," he said.
Fugett said that widening the streets and taking away people's property would not solve the problem. He suggested that the city install
a flashing light ahead of the intersection to warn drivers of the intersection.
City commissioner John Nalbandian said he was cynical about what was in the public's interest because people have said that they wanted improvements but were not willing to give up their property to make them.
Commissioner Allen Levine said he was inclined to look at other solutions besides widening 23rd Street, which is an option.
In other business, the commission:
Approved a tax abatement for Oread Clinical Supplies, Inc.
Directed city staff to proceed with step two of a possible municipal golf course near Clinton Lake.
Approved an exterior lighting plan along East 10th Street and 1001-1009 New Hampshire St.
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