University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 21, 1989
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Senate's finances don't fit requests
by Stan Diel Kansan staff writer
Requests for Student Senate funding far exceed revenue, and Senate will have to deny about $800,000 in requests or raise student activity fees to make up the difference, the Senate treasurer said yesterday.
Senate has $2.1 million in funding requests and less than $1.3 million to spend. The largest requests come from groups that want capital improvements, said Chris Shirling, Senate treasurer.
One of the largest requests came from Recreation Services, which needs the money to fund capital improvements and maintain programs, said Rick Cameron, assistant director of Recreation Services.
"Capital improvements are hard for us to fund," he said. "They all know they're not going to get everything."
"For the last four years, we haven't received an increase." Cameron said. "We've received a 3 percent decrease."
Recreation Services requested
This year, requests for Student Senate funding far exceed Senate revenue by $800,000. Student activity fees may have to be raised to make up the
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More requests, less money
$179,097 for 1990 and the same amount for 1991, about $80,000 more than this year's budget.
All but $1,000 of the budget is used for salaries, so most activities have to be financed by registration fees, Cameron said. The lack of money means that most programs barely get by.
"We ran a volleyball program on four volleyballs last year," he said.
Faced with an $800,000 budget gap,
Senate has two choices: It can cut requests or raise student activity fees, Shirling said. Student activity fees, which are paid with tuition, are $28.
Although some cuts are sure to be made, across-the-board cuts are not an option; they tend to be unfair to those who want them. Why much need they of much need, Shirling said.
Tahitian art on display at museum
by Christine Winner
Kenese staff writer
Kansan staff writer
the 1900 block of Stewart Avenue,
Lawrence police reported.
■ A windshead, valued at $150, was broken out of a truck Sunday in the 3000 block of W. Sixth Street,
Lawrence police reported.
The top of the volcano shimmers. It is barely visible through the mist. The warm, tropical water laps at a stretch of glittering sand. Near the edge of the lush tropical rain forest, a sarowing-skirted native lounges on the porch of a bamboo hut.
"The Lure of Tahiti: Gauguin, His Predecessors and Followers" opened Sunday at the Nelson-Alkins Museum in Chicago. Mo., and will run through April 9.
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And it all fits on a wall.
More than 100 paintings, drawings,
prints, photographs and carvings are
featured by artists, including post-
Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin,
who worked in Tahiti in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
"It's interesting to compare the different time periods of the artists. I think you can see the change in the island and people over time," said Mary Jenkins, Independence, Mo., resident, who was at the opening.
Constance Gordon Cumming's paintings of 1877 are the earliest works in the exhibition. The tropical landscape in her paintings serve as a backdrop to the activities of the European settlers who lived in Tabtii.
Charles Spitz, a sailor turned photographer, arrived a year later and documented the gradual westernization of the natives until 1894.
This painting by Charles-Alfred Le Moine of France, titled "The Washerwoman," and many others are on display through April 9 for an exhibit called "The Lure of Tahiti: Gauguin, His Predecessors and Followers" at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Spitz's photographs were displayed in Paris in 1889. Gauguin used some of them as models when he was in Tahiti. American artists John La Farge and John Hopkins arrived in 1891, also may have used the photographs as models for their
paintings, according to a catalog about the collection. La Farge focused on the interior mountains of Mount Rushmore, and Adams painted the seascue.
A transmission, valued at $300, was damaged in a car Sunday in the 1900 block of W. 31st Street, Lawrence police reported.
Gauguin is famous for his use of color to capture the beauty and mood of Tahiti, but only one watercolor painting is in the exhibition. Several wooden spoons with carved handles and six woodcuts, which are pieces of wood with engraved designs for printing, also are featured.
"I came to see the Gauguin (work) and was a bit disappointed," said Ellen Dukes, Kansas City, Mo., resident.
Men's clothing, valued together at $300, was taken Sunday from a car in
But she said she enjoyed the rest of the exhibition.
The exhibition also includes the works of the French painters Jacques Boulaire and Charles-Alfred Le Moine, the Dutch painter François Lafontaine and the century photographer Roger Park, the English artist William Alister
MacDonald, and the American artists George Biddle and George Overbury "Pop" Hart.
"The Lure of Tahiti" was organized by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerl Art Museum at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in cooperation with the Musee Gauguin in Tahiti.
The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $3 for adults, $1 for students.
KU to play host to regional American College Theatre Festival
by Christine Winner Kansan staff writer
Get ready to dim the lights and raise the curtain. Some of the best theatrical talent in the Midwest will be present at the University of Kansas this week.
KU is playing host to the Region V- South American College Theatre Festival tomorrow through Sunday. Kathy Pryor, festival organizer and
assistant to the director of University Theatre, said that, including KU students, more than 500 participants from Iowa and Nebraska were expected.
Pryor's first organizational meeting for the festival was in January 1988.
will be theater productions and critiques;
will be design, design and critics competitions;
will be workshops; and discussion sessions
in preparation for a national celebration
sherer in the United States.
"We're very excited," she said.
"The festival is shaping up nicely."
Included in the five-day festival
Almost every event will be conducted in Murphy Hall.
Four plays have been selected for performance from more than 60 entered.
"We're trying to keep as much as we can in Murphy," Pryor said. "We want to stimulate a feeling of energy and a festive atmosphere."
day. All productions will be at 8 p.m. in Crafton-Preyer Theatre at Murphy Hall.
The productions are "Catch My Brother's Eye," by Ken Prestinzian, an original script from the University of Iowa, on Thursday; "Terra Nova" by Ted Talley, of state University on Friday; and "Tartuffe" by Moliere, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha on Satur-
five to seven shows for performance at the national ACTF, conducted in April at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
"Wait 'Til Morning' by Stacy M Smith also will be presented Friday by the Ebony Company from Kansas to attend the ACTF original one-act play category.
Tomorrow night in Cratton-Preyer Theatre, "The Finalists" will feature the final round of auditions for the Irene Ryan Scholarship Competition.
A national judging team views participating productions at all 12 regional festivals before selecting
"LIMITLESS"
WOMEN'S WEEK 1989
Calendar of Events:
TUESDAY, FEB. 21
Women in Art An exhibit by renowned artists as well as that of GSP-Corbin residents 2:30-4:30 GSP Lobby
Wednesday, Feb. 22
"Disqualified by Gender Panel discussion on non-traditional careers of men and women 8:00 p.m. GSP Lobby
Thursday, Feb. 23
Women's Health Issues Dr. Buck, Chief of Gynecology, Watkins Hospital will host a question and answer session 7:00 p.m. GSP Lobby
Hall Social in Cafeteria
Ice Cream and treats will be served following Dr. Bucks presentation
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