Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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' •$ ' » PULSE Vol. 1, Number One December, 1984 125 S. Second Arkansas City, KS 67005

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MAILING ADDRESS: RENN MEMORIAL LIBRARY 12S SOUTH SECOND ST. ARKANSAS CITY, KS. 67005 CONTENTS 11 21 26 30 Art on the wall. An unusual teaching technique teaches students to learn by reproducing famous art pieces. Non-traditional student return to campus to find a bit of themselves in the classes. Students and faculty enjoy the fun of Arkalalah. Decorating dorm rooms can give students all the comfort of home when they ' re away from home. Dirty laundry is a problem for everyone. Some Cowley students have found unique solutions to get- ting the job done. Volleyball standouts highlight a tough year for a young Tiger squad. Easy sun tans are a fad Cowley students are soaking up on. THE FRONT FALLING INTO PLACE. After a busy day of classes, Dennis Mclntire, Merrie-Pat Reynolds and Pam Newell take advantage of a nice day, by the Renn Memorial Library and the Nelson Student Center. (Photo by Don Shrubshell) This is the first issue of Pulse, a q uarterly magazine produced by the school publications class. It is the intent of the staff that the content reflect the lifeblood of the campus and that the magazine be an accurate reflectionof Cowley ' s heart beat. Why a magazine? Why not a yearbook? The decision to print a magazine instead of a yearbook was made, in part, to better serve the needs of the readers. Although the yearbook was an award-winning publication- the 1984 volume was rated an All- American by the Associated Collegiate Press-only about 270 copies were ordered last year by the more than 1200 students who attended Cowley. One of my biggest concerns was the amount of faculty and student staff time and talent that went into this well done publication, that had such a limited readership, Dr. Gwen Nelson, College president said. Another consideration in deciding on a magazine is the experience given to journalism students. The student staff producing the magazine will get a more realistic work experience, Linda Puntney, adviser, said. Not many students leave Cowley and go to work putting together a yearbook. The magazine will be distributed free to students and will be mailed to about 750 alumni and friends of the College. This first issue is a launching pad for the publication and includes a smattering of campus events so far this year. The March issue will feature student portraits, winter sports as well as student activities and the May issue will highlight graduation, organizations and an overview of the year. So, here is Pulse. We ' d like to know what you think of it because your A feedback will help determine iuture content and success.

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The project was real in- teresting because you didn ' t know what it would be. -Kevin Clark, freshman It was an enlightening ex- perience. Interestingly, it taught me a little about myself. -Charlotte Neely, freshman It was kind of hard to get the enlarged square to look exactly like the small one that we had to reproduce. It was something new and different to try. -Debbie Call Offtfiewall art students learn by doing by- Joan Renek g his semester one of the most unusual projects of the Department of Art appears on the wall in the hallway of the lower level of Galle- Johnson Hall. Piece by piece it began to take shape, from ceiling to floor. Brilliant colors appeared next to muted shades. It slowly became a portrait of a woman and child. Doug Hunter, art instructor, ex- plained the media used. Some of the students used crayons, colored pencils, tempra and acrylic paints, he said. It is a reproduction of an old masterpiece, Renoir ' s ' On The Terrace. ' Renoir was an artisl of the French Impressionist period. He studied in Paris during the mid-1860s and pain- ted portraits and murals. He is well- known for his pastoral backgrounds and life-like portraiture. Renoir numbered among his acquaintances Monet, Degas, Pizzaro, and Monet, along with many other of the impressionistic painters. On the Terrace was painted in 1879. According to Elda Fezzi ' s book, Renoir, this was one of his series of society portraits ' which showed severe figure composition, though lightened by his use of wonderfully transparent color effects. It is 61 x 50 cm. in size and is part of the Lewis L. Coburn collection at the Chicago Art Institute. This (the reproduction) is a new project, done in conjunction with twol separate art appreciation classes, Hunter said. The original picture was cut into one inch squares. Each student was given a square to reproduce as he chose, Hunter ex- plained. The students didn ' t know what was going on until we began putting it together, he said. The scale used by the art classes was one square inch equals one square foot. The students didn ' t know what was going on until we began putting it up, he said. The size of the com- pleted art work is seven by nine square feet. The original copy of the painting is posted along side of the large reproduction done by the classes for comparison. The vivid colors of the painting have livened up the hallway andi provided an unusual learning ex-: perience for participating students. I figured it was part of a main pic- ture but didn ' t have any idea what it would be, said Mickey Holt. I mixed: tempra paints and used a large brush because my square didn ' t have much detail to it, he said. Everybody got a square, we didn ' t know what it was going to be, until we put it all together, said Debbie Call. I used crayons for my square. Mine looked like a part of a tree bran- ch or something, she said. This was an exercise in color theory. Both Connie Harper and I thought it would be an experience in putting together colors, and we had; just finished a unit on the color wheel, Hunter said. It ' s an ex- periment that could be used for all; ages of art students.