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Monday, April 12, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Watson gets women's history set
By JANE MACAULAY
A new set of microfilms, The History of Women, will make the Women's Studies collection in Watson Library one of the most extensive in the Midwest, according to Linda Parker, associate reference librarian.
The set, which will arrive in installments during the next few months, contains microfilms of books, periodicals and documents dealing with women's history from 1795.
Parker, who was responsible for ordering the $24,000 set, said librarians at a recent conference in Chicago had praised the size of importance of the University's collection.
She said its usefulness wasn't limited to specialists in women's studies.
"It's a resource for any serious scholar," she said, "for politicians, sociologists, historians or anyone interested in the history of science."
PARKER SAID the good thing about having the collection on microfilm was that students would have easy access to many publications other than books.
in a bookstore," she said. "That includes the underground literature of earlier days, pamphlets that were handed out in street markets and stores. You didn't possibly obtain in any other form."
'You get ephemera that you couldn't buy
She said another advantage was that students were able to go straight to an answer key.
"It's tremendously exciting to read a woman's diary from the time of the suffragette movement and realize that they were contending with the same obstacles at the beginning of the century as we're dealing with today," she said.
THE NEW set consists mainly of American works from nine different sources. Some famous collections are represented in it, including the Sophia Smith collection from Smith College, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger collection, and the same Adams Memorial collection from the University of Illinois.
Other works come from the Miriam Y. Holden collection, Boston and New York public libraries, Scripps College for students, Avery library and Yale University libraries.
Parker said the set had been bought with money from the women's studies book fund,
which allows the library to buy books of an interdisciplinary nature, works from small feminist presses, underground material and dealing with the women's movement.
SHE SAID the collection would be complete if another set offered by the Women's History Research Center could be bought. It would contain material on the feminist movement of the late 1960's and early '70s, the only areas not fully covered by the women’s movement. The departmental administration hasn't approved the $3,927 necessary to buy the set.
The women's studies collection has developed as an outgrowth of the KU women's studies program. The program offers classes in departments such as history and psychology, with a special emphasis on the women's movement.
The nucleus of KU's collection is the Gerrison collection, acquired by KU in the 1950s. This originally belonged to Aletta de Baldwin Dutch feminist of the late 18th century.
Parker said Jacobs had insisted on using her maiden name throughout her life but when the collection was bought by the John Smith family, it it was given her married name, Gerritton.
'Conpersonas' gets varied reviews
"Congersonas," winner in the best original play category of the American College Theatre Festival, received mixed reviews last week in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
The play, written by Paul Stephen Lim,
Philippines graduate student, and produced
by University of Kansas students and
playwrights, was adapted after the
play's first performance.
David Cook, director, said they had an excellent critiquing session, hearing the critics' opinions on the play's strengths and weaknesses.
"I thought they were fair and entitled to their opinions." he said. "I think the play played better here (KU) in its academic environment."
The group that rated best in the critique will receive $4,000 for its school's theater department. The results won't be known until May.
Funds for library addition under study by committee
The Library Facilities Planning Committee met Friday and began to work out figures to be used in requesting funds for a library building program.
The new library will house collections, such as science, math and music, that would be best served by a library west of campus. Watson Library is to be altered into a more efficient building for other collections.
The main problem with planning, Wieich said, is that statistics on student enrollment at the University of Kansas cover only the next 10 years and enrolment is expected to decline in that period.
Allen Wiechert, associate director of facilities planning, said construction would begin in 1880 and be completed in 1882. The committee decided to plan for facilities that would fulfill the library's needs to the year 2000.
Wind dampens sailing meet
The second annual regatta sponsored by the midwest College Sailing Association was limited by high winds to only two races Saturday.
A KU crew of Ray Munger, Overland Park parker, and Jeff Snyker, Arkansas City senior, finished second to the University of Georgia in Southwest Missouri State finished third.
Southwest Missouri State won the Division A ace, and the University of Iowa placed second. KU's crew of Ken Levy, Prairie Village junior, and George Abbott, Kansas City, Kan., junior, was unable to finish the race because of high winds.
The four other scheduled races have been postponed until early summer.
The Third Annual Miller Collegiate Cup Racoe, sponsored by the Miller Brewing Company, will be held on Wednesday, July 18.
A KU student was assaulted by an unidentified male exhibitionist Friday night as she was walking home from the Lawrence Public Library.
Male exhibitionist assaults KU student
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said that many factors, including a shift in population and the closing of small colleges, might affect enrollment after that.
The student told police that a man approached her on the sidewalk at 1230 Tennessee with his pants down to his knees and grabbed her by the arm as she passed him.
But, he said at least two-thirds of the space wouldn't be affected by enrollment.
The student said she immediately began screaming loudly. Residents of a nearby house heard her and let her in their house after she broke free from the man's grip.
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Police were unable to locate the assailant.
He was described by the student as being white, 20-25 years old, about 5 feet 10, and dark-baired.
Scot Siebels, Prairie Village junior, said this was because Watson "isn't a fun place to study." But he said he thought use would considerably once improvements were made.
The committee agreed that another problem was that the present facilities, especially Watson, weren't being used much by students.
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Ranz said different uses wouldn't cause serious problems because the new facility wouldn't have a fixed function. He said rooms could be converted into classrooms, offices or science laboratories after the library was built.
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Kala Strop, dean of women on leave, suggested that changing functions of the University might cause changes in library requirements.
The committee will meet once every two weeks to discuss these and other problems.
Cook said KU's chances of getting the money "just as good as anyone else."
Cook expressed a different feeling about the newspaper reviews.
He said that he recognized the difficulty in meeting deadlines, but that the reviews were rather shallow. He said they should be written on a deeper literary and theatrical level.
The audiences' reaction to the play's use of homosexuality and its treatment of a woman is varied.
The play bothered some of the audience because it was "over their heads," he said, although that reaction was the exception rather than the rule.
About 500 tickets for Nyro's KUcert had been sold when it was announced that the entire tour, the first since her album release in February, would be cancelled, Miller said. Few tickets had been sold for the other tour engagements, he said.
The Laura Nyre concert, scheduled for
the next week, will be along with the rest of her midwinter season.
"It went a bit fast for them," he said.
Mike Miller, SUA adviser, said yesterday that full ticket refunds could be obtained at the NYS Bureau.
"We really saw very little of each other," Cook said, but many watched the other ACTF productions and visited various theaters in Washington.
After the performances and critiques, cast members took advantage of their time in Washington, D.C. before returning to Lawrence yesterday morning.
Nyro concert tour canceled
It was decided that the expectedly poor attendance on the concert tour wouldn't be beneficial to Nyro's image or to her album sales, he said.
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The Gertison collection is in Spencer Research Library, but is being filmed on microfiche to make it more available to students.
THE EMPHASIS of the collection is European works, mostly from 1850 to 1920. Half of the 4,000 volumes are in nonEnglish languages.
Sherlene Hawkins, microforms librarian,
said microfilm film is printed on a flat card
Hawkins said the Gerritt microflesc and the History of Women microfilms would become available to students as soon as they entered the library.
It might take some time to catalog them, Hawkins said, but librarians on duty will be able to find a particular work if the student can name the book and the author.
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