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Tuesday, June 8, 1976
University Dally Kansan
The summer prospectus
Good morning and welcome to summer school. You're Kansas. What's your excuse for being here?
We've got to admit it. This is an unlikely place to be during the summer. It's a first for me, and I find it more than strange to attend classes when I could be doing one of any number of enjoyable summer activities.
No. And that's where we hope to help you this summer. The Kansas will continue aggressive coverage of the University and its many departments, political arms and interesting people. We'll also cover the city of Lawrence and Douglas County.
That it's all a bit of a pain is magnified when you look at the summer social possibilities. Things just close down don't hev?
Keeping you informed of what can keep you busy will be another goal. Summer theaters on campus and around the Lawrence community abound; the SU has a group of summer films and other events of interest continue to present themselves.
Reviews, news analyses and feature stories will keep you up to date on all aspects of life in Lawrence throughout the summer.
Kelly Scott, Wilmette, Ill., graduate
student, will frequently add her passion,
sports writing, to her duties as managing
editor. The campus editor, Greg Bashaw,
Elmhurst, III., senior and the associate
campus editor, Becci Brenning, Basin,
Wyo., senior, manage a staff of almost 30
reporting students and assign a story to
each reporter every day. Yet Greg
managed to gather about 60 student
names at the Topeka tornado and
Becca plans to be a frequent contributor of
book reviews. Both Greg and Becci will
graduate at the end of summer school.
Our resident literary master, Ron Hartung, is a wizard with words. His comedic ability involves a lot of skill, so vital when juggling words for a headline in a tight spot.
Of course, the Kansan couldn't function without the purveyors of advertising space; so they were not available.
Carol Stallard, Omagna senior, spurs a staff of about 15 salesmen and business employees. That our first paper is larger than theirs is because the book edition bears witness to their prowess.
The Kanan has always had good looks. It's printed with care by people who are proud of their work. In each step, from make up to the camera to the press, it's handled by craftsmen. We appreciate their dedication.
Scientists begin search for Loch Ness monster
DRUMNADROCHIT, Scotland (AP)—An American-sponsored search for the elusive Loch Ness monster is in full swing, using aerial imagery to uncover the murky waters of Britain's largest lake.
The constant flashing, scientists hope, might nure "Nessie," the monster first reported in these waters 1,500 years ago.
Robert H. Rines, president of the Academy of Applied Sciences of Boston, called a news conference yesterday to announce that the hunt was under way. A time-lapse camera is taking an underwater flash picture every 15 seconds.
The team of 24 U.S. engineers and scientists has turned into a tourist attraction
Thousands of visitors swarmed here over the weekend to see the expedition lower masses of electronic equipment 20 to 40 feet deep about 100 yards offshore in Urquhart Bay, along the northwest coast of Loch Ness.
From the surface, the only visible evidence of the search is a pair of small boats moored to an orange buoy in the bay of a range of cables leading to a nearby cabin.
Inside, team members keep a 24-hour watch on a monitor screen. If anything should swim into view, they would activate a battery of lights and stereo cameras that they hope will provide the first three-dimensional pictures of the monster.
Last year a team led by Rires took hazy pictures of something in the lake that led to claims that it was the monster. Most scientists doubted that it was "Nessie," believed to be a long-necked creature with fins, possibly 40 feet long.
Rines is deed of the Franklin Pierce Law School at Concord, N.H.
It's hard to cover a semester in 8 weeks.
I'm Tieckel Casselman, Hiawata senator.
This summer, I think, promises to be busy.
Of course, there's the inevitable B—
celebration to look forward to, but also a
big challenge. I'm in the world.
I'll be sharing my views with you on all of
these topics and more.
Call 841-3708 after 6:00 p.m.
I must say I'm glad to be here, even though it's not exactly what I'd like to be doing. This summer I complete my college career, a bit reluctantly I must admit. But I can't think of a better way to spend the last six hours than immersed in the exciting job of editor. I hope that as you read the book, you learn about our job shows, and that as you are kept abreast of the times, you have a better eight weeks because of it.
Summer choice: think or swim
Something there is, Robert Frost almost said, that doesn't love a classroom. Yet for some students who have few sorts, throughout the fall, the winter, the spring. And now the summer.
By RON HARTUNG
Contributing Writer
Summer school: those words seem mutually exclusive if any words ever did. That lovely, musical word "summer" brings to mind so many things: melting fudgelsicles, the Fourth of July, baseball gloves, sweaty upper lips, sunburned feet, mosquito bites, summer replacement shows. All right, not all the associations are identical, but they're all associated with summer and summer alone. Summer and school simply were not meant for each other.
Yet here we are, the hapless offspring of that loveless marriage.
Attitudes toward summer, school and combinations thereof were formed, for most of us, quite early in our scholastic career. Where schoolwork was drudgery, as viewed through our young eyes, summer was the ultimate recess, a three-month break from school to work on the educational ladder. Summer's sunny hours were to be frittered away in swimming pools, baseball diamonds, Dairy Queens, anywhere but school.
But always those troubling rumors: that for some of our less fortunate brothers school was a year-round affair. Remedial math, remedial spelling, remedial
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higiene—those the stuff of summer school. What a horrifying thought for those of us who hung up our Crayolas in early June, who for three months would have raised our hands or opened a book for no one. Pity though we might some summer books that it summation pushes, we were still pleased that it was they and not we who had been nabbed.
But recess is over, and here we are in summer school. Of course we are sophisticated enough to know that university summer classes are not for children but for adults, however. Anxious parents are sometimes concerned when they learn their young
scholar won't be coming home in May. ("Failing behind in your studies, Sonny?"
Summer classes have their advantages, though. One can wear his sandals and Bermuda shorts to class; he can hope to catch a glimpse of the chancellor in his seersucker leisure suit and he can plead for tightenings as an excuse for late papers.
Undoubtedly, by the time September falls upon us, those "hazy, hazy, crazy days of summer" will seem in retrospect to have been far less lazy and far more crazy than they are now. The school has having attended summer school far more hazy, far more hazy indeed.
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