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Crowner: For me it was. But I saw it as an experiment, you know, I just wanted to see what would happen. I didn't know you could paint canvas and then run it through a sewing machine. It was just sort of an experiment to see if that was possible.
Crowner: He did work at the same factory, and yes, I remember that installation. Pardo seems more concerned with social spaces and interior design. And what I'm talking about is painting. In my tile floor installations there is usually a recessed edge, and the floor is raised six inches on a platform. You notice the edge, and it makes you think that it's movable, temporary and portable, in the same way that the paintings are portable. It points to the possibility of the whole installation collapsing and being transported somewhere else.
Rail: Right, it's more provisional, contingent, perhaps. I think the thing that it also raises in relation to Pardo, it's, you know, I'm not making a correlation, but this whole idea where minimal hard-edge abstraction would be considered decor, you know, there's, there's one historical critique of hard-edged abstraction as merely decor. Pardo seems to intentionally play with that critique. In comparison, your installation at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery seems more a refutation of that whole idea of the simply decorative.
Crowner: I was also really interested in not only just the visual aspects of painting, but the way that a painting could feel. I wanted to hear what the tiles sound like when people walk over them in their high heels. Also, the feeling of the glassy hardness of the tiles, their slippery coldness, and how they interact with the very soft, velvety, absorbent feeling of the paintings in the room.
Crowner: I look at the catalogue for Tablet all the time in my studio, and all these post-it notes in between the pages can attest to that. One in particular I flagged is a reproduction of a crushed paper cup...
Rail: With regards to that recurring shape, the curve as in Weeds and then, you know, the curve being abruptly cut-off as it were I was thinking of the term, "a circumscribed arabesque." So, so that you have the movement, but then there's a foreshortening, which is also a kind of a conceptual abbreviation which it doesn't allow you to follow through on the arabesque. The boundaries of these limits are like a jetty into the ocean, you know, creates a wave resistance.
Rail: You know the thing about Matisse is, he's so simple and direct that it's ... there's so much, so go ahead and continue much work that could be directly you know, morphologically connected to Matisse, though not necessarily through a direct formal lineage. These large horizontal pieces of yours also have a lot of negative space in them, as opposed to some of the other paintings in the show, but you do tend to work with the literal cut-outs of your pattern and sewing process, correct?
This month we continue our review of the 2017 events that were linked in Case in Point: Lessons for the Proactive Manager. This month's evaluation focuses on the category we call Compliance/Regulatory & Legal Events --- our largest category by volume over the past few years. The regulatory burden does not appear to be lessening despite some speculation and discussions about ways this burden could be reduced.
Annually, the Compliance/Regulatory & Legal Events category is the most difficult to evaluate due to the diverse ways an institution can find themselves in legal conflict. There were seven general topics that appeared more than others. However, it is important to realize this list in no way encapsulates the legal and compliance risks that are out there for our industry today.
The Top 7 2017 Most Frequent Compliance/Regulatory & Legal Events:
- Title IX
- NCAA
- Speech Related Litigation
- Employment Law Litigation
- Hazing Litigation/Charges
- Discrimination
- Open Records Litigation
We again invite you to review the events occurring throughout higher education with a view towards proactive risk management. If you see areas of concern or risks you have influence over, take action before you become the crisis.
Apr 17, 2018: Former Iowa wrestler Trevor Graves appeared in federal court in Davenport on Monday and pleaded guilty to transmission of a command to damage a protected computer. Graves was arrested in Denver in October 2017 and appeared in an Iowa court the next month. Graves obtained professors' usernames and passwords via a key logger and used the information to change grades for him and five other students. The charge means Graves faces up to 10 years in prison. (link)
Apr 04, 2018: After months of legal wrangling, Edmonton's MacEwan University has recovered nearly all of the $11.8 million lost to an online phishing scam. The university said it was able to recover $10.92 million before concluding legal proceedings. The university was defrauded last summer when staff failed to verify as legitimate emails requesting a change in banking information for one of its vendors. Three payments were made to a fraudulent account: one on Aug. 10 for $1.9 million; another on Aug. 17 for $22,000 and a third on Aug. 19 for $9.9 million. MacEwan University discovered the fraud after the legitimate vendor, a construction company, called to ask why it hadn't been paid. (link)
Apr 04, 2018: On March 28th, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) signed into law the Alabama Data Breach Notification Act, Act No. 2018-396, making Alabama the final state to enact a data breach notification law. South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed into a law a similar statute one-week prior. The Alabama law will take effect May 1, 2018. Being the last state to enact a breach notification law, Alabama had the benefit of examining the approach in just about all of the other states and apparently drew provisions from many other state laws, including relatively detailed requirements for covered entities (as defined within the statute) and their third-party service providers to maintain reasonable requirements to protect "sensitive personally identifying information." (link)
Apr 26, 2018: A Lexington man accused of selling more than $500,000 in computer equipment stolen from the University of Kentucky has pleaded guilty in federal court. Toquoto Richardson, who worked as a data center operations engineer at UK, received more than $124,000 from 45 sales over a six-year period beginning in 2010, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Lexington. But an internal audit revealed Richardson had sold more than $500,000 in computer equipment for personal gain over 10 years, UK said Thursday. The audit determined that the equipment came from the Information Technology department, the university said. (link)
Apr 25, 2018: A Louisiana Tech University employee faces a felony theft charge after campus police were notified about missing money. Tracey Hoyle, 45, an administrative coordinator, was charged with theft of more than $5,000. According to a news release, Tech Police were notified on April 19 that money was missing from a School of Communication account. For several years, Hoyle performed bookkeeping duties for the department, which included handling funds and receipts. The investigation found that approximately $15,000 was taken over the course of a year and a half. (link)
Apr 19, 2018: As WKTV reported officially last week, fraudulent salespeople have been using the name of Hamilton College to approach local businesses and scam them out of money.The College's Campus Safety department has been handling this particular scam for over a year. The use of trusted school names as a scamming strategy has affected many colleges across the country, and this particular incident marked one of many fraudulent cases involving Hamilton College's name. (link)
Apr 13, 2018: Two employees are accused of stealing from Coastal Alabama Community College in Bay Minette and Thomasville. We're talking thousands of dollars worth of property, including ice machines, toilets, even used gym flooring. Campus officials aren't saying much about the investigation but did confirm it to FOX10 News in the following statement: "Dr. Gary Branch, president of Coastal Alabama Community College, confirmed that two college employees have been arrested concerning the misappropriation of college property. One of the involved parties is no longer employed at the college. The matter continues to be under review and investigation and no further comment will be made at this time." (link)
Apr 09, 2018: A Franklin County man is facing charges after pawning property owned by Duke University, according to a Wake County arrest warrant. Troy Daniel Mortenson, 28, of Youngsville, is facing two counts of felony obtain property by false pretense after authorities say he pawned computers belong to Duke University at two Raleigh pawn shops. The warrant does not say how he obtained the computers or if he's an employee of the university. (link)
Apr 04, 2018: The president of a Christian college in Springdale has pleaded guilty in what prosecutors called a kickback scheme involving his school. Oren Paris III had faced a trial Monday with former state Sen. Jon Woods and consultant Randell Shelton. Instead, the president of Ecclesia College pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Fayetteville. Prosecutors say Paris paid kickbacks to Woods and then-Rep. Micah Neal in return for $550,000 in state grants in 2013-14, using Shelton's consulting firm as a go-between. Neal pleaded guilty last year but has not been sentenced. (link)
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