University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 10, 1977
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Two appointed to IHP committee
Two faculty members have been appointed to the Integrated Humanities Program Advisory Committee, according to a list of members of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The faculty members, Frances Ingemann, professor of linguistics, and Harold Orel, professor of English, were invited to fill two vacancies on the committee.
A third vacancy will be announced by Colas in the next week or two, Theodore Wheeler.
officio representative to the committee, said yesterday.
Frances Horowitz, also associate dean of the College, said that the advisory committee was set up by the College Assembly to advise, supervise and review the Integrated Humanities Program as the committee deemed appropriate.
WILSON SAID THAT when College officials checked Assembly procedure to determine how to fill committee vacancies, they discovered the committee had a
Prairie Acre overgrown KU's wild frontier gone
By MARY HOENK
Staff Writer
A section of prairie grass on the University of Kansas campus that was preserved by a group of turn-of-the-century farmers now only symbolic of the once wild front.
Jim Mathes, assistant director for land-scapes and recreation, has been allowed to re-impact largely unmanaged lands.
Prairie Acre, a section of sod south of Blake Hall, may no longer be a sanctuary for original prairie grass, according to Ronald McGregor, professor of botany and director of the State of Kansas Biological Survey.
"I haven't looked at it recently," McGregor said Saturday, "but as prairie grass, it is virtually destroyed, it's really just a weed patch."
IT'S OVERGROWN now with weeds, but we're planning to get someone to work with it to get rid of the weeds man introduced, and turn it back into orairie," he said.
mandate to periodically review the Integrated Humanities Program.
McGregor said that it was possible to revegetate the acre but that the piece of land was too small to be of any biological significance.
Although Raymond Nichols, chancellor emeritus, was not directly involved in the planning of Prairie Acre, he said in his personal state that the land was attractive in its private state.
However, the committee had not reviewed the program for several years.
"It was an interesting spot, especially in the spring with the new grass," Nichols said.
Controversy has surrounded the Integrated Humanities Program, which is a two year freshman-sophomore program to study humanities. The program was approved by the Gollsen学院, AJET.
Nichols said that the last time he saw the
land it was in horrible condition and that it was a shame it had been infested with
Critics have questioned the methods of instruction and subject matter taught in the
NICHOLS ALSO SAID he remembered a bit of conflict when Praire Acres was burned off. Many people, he said, were opposed to it. Yet he was apparently calmly the prairie's caretakers decided to do it.
"The theory was that in addition to killing insects, the new grass would come up more
The original idea for the acre, according to Nichols, came from a group of graduates who, in 1932, became interested in the historical value of the ground.
A committee was formed, headed by Agnes Thompson, an 1894 graduate, and a bronze tablet set in limestone was erected on the site.
The inscription on the tablet, placed outside of the three-foot stone wall that surrounds the acre, was chosen from the book "Life at Laurel Town," by Kate Stephen, a well-known Kansas author and professor of the University. The inscription reads:
Whereon is set this block
Where can is set this block of Oread Limestone to Mark
of Oread Limestone to Mark and Preserve Natural Sweet
and I reserve Nature's sweet
Fashion of making her Garden
Perhaps the originators of Prairie Acre will, which is now no longer pure, will take consolation in the fact that the land never has been cultivated or disturbed by construction and remains the last untouched sod of the original 50-acre KU campus.
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Howitzt said it was standard procedure to set up an advisory committee for most interdisciplinary programs because the university under not the supervision of any deprived student.
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Lawrence police are making a homicide investigation in the death of an elderly Lawrence woman, whose body was found Tuesday in her house at 823 Kentucky St.
THE PROGRAM includes courses from several different departments within the university.
The committee has met only a few times recently because there have been many problems.
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The committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising of the College Assembly selects advisory committee members from names submitted by Integrated Humanities Program members and other faculty, she said.
Preliminary findings show that the woman, 44-year-old Vanera Smith, died Monday as a result of a skull fracture caused by a hard blow to the back of the head, Douglas County Coroner Lawrence Price said last night.
Homicide investigation being conducted
Smith was struck on the back of the head with a heavy, blunt weapon, Price said.
Smith's body was found by a neighbor Tuesday morning after the victim had failed to answer her phone. The neighbor checked on the victim daily.
Price placed the time of death at between 6 p.m. and midnight Monday.
"That may change a little when complete results of the autopsy are completed," he said.
Mike Malone, county attorney, said the investigation would cover several motives. He said that some evidence had been collected but that he could not comment on
Results are expected in a week.
Smith was found on the floor of her
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