Library needs more employes
More student help is needed at Watson Library, Terrence Williams, acting assistant director, said today.
The need for more help came yesterday when Francis Heller, acting KU provost, announced the library will be returning to the 11 p.m. closing hours it used last year.
Funds required to extend the hours and pay additional employees will be taken from additional student fees collected as a result of an increase in enrollment in excess of the figure on which the budget was based.
Williams said there are no definite qualifications that students must have to fill the available jobs. Minimum beginning salary is $1 per hour. The minimum wage will rise to $1.15 in February. Students who are employed now are eligible to keep their jobs during the second semester.
Williams said that the library employs more than 100 students during the term paper rush periods. Students work in the reserve department, stacks, Xerox department, reference-documents department, periodical room, and sort and deliver library mail and operate data processing machines in the circulation department.
The assistant director said he doesn't know how many additional students will be hired. This will depend on how many of the present employees are willing to take on more hours.
Students who apply for the openings now, could be working by Monday morning, Williams said. Positions are open in the circulation department, general reading room, periodical department, and reference-documents department.
Convention begins Sunday
The 4th annual convention of the fraternity will be hosted by the Kansas Psi chapter, the first Big Eight school to do so.
Pi Tau Sigma, national honorary mechanical engineering fraternity, will hold its national convention Oct. 22-24 at KU.
The convention will be attended by 100 or more delegates representing 75-82 chapter across the nation, will be highlighted by a luncheon Monday noon and a dinner Monday night.
The luncheon will be at the Kansas Union, convention headquarters, after business meetings, which will be held Monday morning.
The dinner will be at the Holiday Inn with Richard P. Fenske acting as master of ceremonies. The featured speaker will be Richard B. Holloway of the Boeing Co., in Wichita. His topic is "The Boeing 747."
Local officers of Pi Tau Sigma, all seniors, who will be helping organize the convention, are: Carl Hoffman, Lawrence, president; Richard E. Barton, Colby, vice president; Donald S. Strycker, Ottawa, corresponding secretary; James R. Peterson, New Orleans, recording secretary; Douglas C. Isely, Minneapolis, Minn., treasurer; and Thomas E. Weast, Kansas City, Mo., historian.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 78 of its 102 Years
Prain size increased "Men began to see the validity of 'united we stand, divided we fall,'" Bigelow said.
Human beings who failed to cooperate were slaughtered by foreign forces or driven into the deserts to die, he said.
"We have not become less vicious despite our technological advances. Reaching the level of unthinkable war and technological developments are the products of cooperation," he said.
Clark Coan, KU dean, appraises West Berlin's post war progress. Page 3.
John Zook, Jayhawk defensive specialist, receives NCAA lineman of the week citation. Page 4.
--man's brain and his participation in group cooperation, Eigelow said today inter-group cooperation has reached the semi-global level
Group cooperation began when man banned together against the threat of an outside force. Bigelow said, "Men with the most effective brains learned of group cooperation, and were the ones who survived in the greatest numbers."
More people can live peacefully in the 20th Century than ever before, said a leading anthropologist in a lecture Wednesday in Strong Hall auditorium.
Man is the most cooperative animal in the world and also the most savage, Bigelow said.
The ASC library committee is discussed in leading editorial. Page 2.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Thursday. October 19. 1967
The tables are long, plianc style, with bench seats. At one end of the room is a piano player and Devol strumming his banjo.
French theater critic points out important advances in the history of drama. Page 10.
At first the singing can't be heard above the voices of the crowd. A few beers later, by 9.30, the crowd's singing gets louder and less coherent.
He said ragtime music must be played fast, with a chord for each note. "Sometimes I play so fast you can't see my wrist move," he said.
In pizza parlor
Ragtime finds a home
By S. Allen Winchester Kansan Staff Reporter
Found: one ragtime, four-string banjo player. Problem: what or who is a four-string banjo player?
By Rea Wilson Kansan Staff Reporter
Skip Devol, Freemont, Neb,
sophomore is. Devol is the music
manager at a local pizza parlor
and plays ragtime music four
nights a week.
"One or two more steps and maybe we could reach the global level," he said. "However, global cooperation can only be imagined, not achieved."
Pizza and beer customers sing along to such ragtime "favorites" as "Bye-Bye Blackbird," "Baby Face" and "Five-Foot-Two." The lyrics, are projected on a wall.
"Ragtime music," Devol said,
"has evolved from the Jazz Era.
It's happy music."
The crowd seems to agree. People begin arriving in the "Gay Nineties" atmosphere about 7:30 or 8 p.m.
WHAT'S INSIDE
"Last call for beer," yell the bartenders at 11:55. They are dressed in red and black vests, black bow ties and derbies. Most people buy, while others stand to sing "America the Beautiful," the last song in a group of melodies by Devol.
Warfare has attributed to the three-fold increase in the size of man's brain, Bigelow said.
Men could live in peace
"We should realize this and value our civilization," Robert S. Bigelow, reader in anthropology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, continued in his lecture entitled "War and Evolution."
Correlating the evolution of
--body is considered "Mr. Banjo"
and is one of the best ragtime
players he has seen.
Man still savage
"The most powerful and intelligent men were the victors of war. They were in the best position to spread their genes," he said.
Bigelow, whose appearance was sponsored by the KU anthropology and entomology departments, defined group cooperation as men acting together for the benefit of the society as a whole.
Power is based on cooperation which requires brains, Eigelow said.
By midnight the place is filled with people laughing, shouting, singing and drinking their last beer.
Devol became interested in banjo playing three years ago while listening to a Flatt and Scruggs blue grass record. "Blue grass music is similar to country and western or folk music," he said. "Foll on Muddy River Roll On" is a blue grass tune.
Blue grass music is played on a five string banjo;ragime music requires a four-string. Three finger picks are used to pick out notes on a five-string, while a single pick is used for the four-string banjo.
Devol learned to play both blue grass and ragtime music by listening to records.
He uses a gold-plated four-string banjo. It is a mate to Eddie Peabody. Devol said Peabody is considered "Mr. Banjo"
and is one of the best ragtime
players he has seen.
Devol's "car for music" seems to be a family trait. He said his father learned to play the trumpet by ear and played in a Dixie-land band in the Thrities. His mother learned to play the organ by ear.
Devol, a music education major, eventually wants to teach music. His major school instrument is the trombone.
During the summer he worked at Bill Bailey's "Banjo Bar" in Omaha, Neb. The set up there included three banjo players, a tuba and piano player who played in a "Roaring Twenties" atmosphere.
Next summer he hopes to play in Texas or possibly at "Your Father's Mustache," a ragtime bar in New Orleans.
Students bringing ideas for the free university to an organizational meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Union Jayhawk Room "will be heard," coordinators promise.
Free University meet scheduled for tonight
"The idea of the university is to let kids know that whatever they want, we'll teach," said Hamilton J. Salsich, assistant instructor in English and one of the planners who will explain and discuss their "experiment."
Subject matter, teaching methods, and meeting places will be determined for ten scheduled "inter-disciplinary" courses.
Volunteers from various KU departments will lead groups in studying issues outside KU curricula and for no accreditation. Some classes may be led by two or three teachers or by a group of students.
"The Nature of Power"; "The Revolution in the Third World"; "Critique of Pluralism"; "Revolutionary Change"; "The New Morality"; "Music and Truth"; "History of Jazz"; and "The Writing of Poetry" are also to be offered.
"The Place of the University in the American Social System" and "Mass Communication in a Mass Society" are recent additions to the original list of possible topics, and "Welfare, Ghetto Life and Rats" has been excluded.
"Depending on the response we get, we may add a few more classes," Salsich said. "I've been amazed at the response we've been getting—so there is interest."
Salsich is planning a party for free university participants Oct. 28, "just to make sure people stay together."
Read-in waits for Regents
A proposed Read-in scheduled for Wednesday night in Watson Library was cancelled because of the announcement that library hours will return to last year's standards.
Lyle "Buzz" Fisher, Bird City junior and one of the originators of the Students for a Democratic Society petition asking for longer library hours, said that, since the administration has shown an interest in lengthening library hours, the group decided to hold off its demonstration.
"The administration proved it is willing to take constructive action by extending Watson Library's hours beginning Monday." Fisher said.
It was due to this action that the Read-in was cancelled, Fisher said.
Fisher said "the Committee of
Interested Students—a front for the SDS—will give the University administration a chance to prove today at the Kansas Board of Regents meeting whether it is honest and sincere in wanting to keep the library open."
He said if the Board of Regents does not consider and satisfy their requests—that the library remain open until midnight with full book service—another read-in will be planned for Monday night at the library from 9 to 12.
Signs, announcing last night's proposed read-in, were distributed on campus. After the announcement of extended library hours, however, the signs were marked "cancelled." Several hundred students had been expected to stay in the Library beyond the 10 p.m. closing hour until midnight, and then leave.
"We weren't afraid of being arrested with such a large number participating," Fisher said.
"After all, the Lawrence jail can only hold a hundred persons. However, we would have left, if evicted俘吏 from the library."
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WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy skies and cool temperatures for tonight. The low is expected to be in the 40-degree range. Friday should be cooler with rain possibilities less than five per cent.
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