Wednesday, September 27, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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—Photo by Mike Harris
GOODBY OLD ROBINSON
Serving as a home for the Jayhawk basketball team and a classroom, Old Robinson, built for
$100,000, is being torn down to make room for a new humanities building.
Old Robinson being razed
Ivy gives way to progress
By Tim Jones Kansan Staff Reporter
Ivy-covered walls, tradition and just plain campus environment don't seem to count much when it comes to progress.
Just as old Fraser went, now old Robinson goes as KU continues the construction of a city within a university.
Though it served little purpose last year save providing classrooms for classes who could find no other place to meet, it did provide a portion of that warm atmosphere found only on college campuses.
Robinson was named for the first governor of Kansas, Charles Robinson.
Built from a $100,000 legislative appropriation in 1904, it was dedicated in fine fashion in 1908 when the Jayhawks basketball team ran up 31 points before the Ottawa University Indians scored once.
The final score was 66-22 as the Jayhawks played before a capacity crowd of 3,500.
In 1819 Forrest C. (Phog) Allen was named coach and he led the team to eight conference championships.
Kansas won five more championships in Old Robinson under the coaching of W. O. Hamilton.
Many nationally known athletes played there, including Teel O'Leary, Dutch Lonborg, Gale Gordon and Tommy Johnson.
Blindness is topic
Problems in dealing with the visually handicapped will be discussed by staff members of the Kansas Service for the Blind, a division of the Kansas Social Welfare Department, Friday in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
The quarterly staff meeting follows similar sessions held Wednesday and Thursday in Topeka.
Featured luncheon speaker at the Friday meeting will be Beatrice Wright, KU associate professor of psychology. Her specialty is the problem of mental adjustment to physical handicaps.
The gym served as home court for the Jayhawks for 20 seasons. In the final game at the end of the 1927 season Kansas defeated K-State, 29-24. The Gym was declared a fire hazard and games moved into new Hoch Auditorium.
Robinson was still used for practice by the Jayhawks until 1955 when the team moved to Allen Field House, named for Phog Allen.
The gym served as practice court for the 1952 Olympic basketball champions, including
Clyde Lovellette, Charlie Hoag,
Bill Lienhard, Bill Hougland,
John Keller, Dean Kelley and
Bob Kenney.
In all, Old Robinson served the University of Kansas for 60 years, not only as a gymnasium but as the scene of proms, dances, commencements and many other student functions.
Now it's being torn down by a Topeka company headed by George Champney who submitted a low bid of $14,740. Room must be made for the new humanities building.
Money pinch forces new library policy
By Ted Bell Kansan Staff Reporter
Don't try to check a book out of Watson Library after 5 p.m.
Fridays—nbody's going to be at the desk.
The new cheeking hours went into effect this fall for, according to administrators, good reasons.
The first deals with increased enrollment and a stationary budget. Director of Libraries Tom Buckman said it all adds up to a situation where the department just can't afford to hire the 197 students they had at the end of last semester.
He termed last year's budget which is in effect this year as "inadequate."
Budget "inadequate"
"A budget shortage such as this leads to something where, if you don't have money for service, you can't offer it," he added.
A federal minimum wage law that went into effect last February has forced the University to pay more money to student employees for less work-hours. The minimum wage as it stands is $1
"Experience has shown rather little activity on Friday night. True, there is some, but when compared to the other times, it is very little. We had to reduce hours to stay within the budget, and it seemed sensible to chose that time."
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"We are investigating some changes in the building's construction to provide access to it for a longer period of time," he said. "These are still being talked about however."
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"There was a shortage of people before the system was put into effect," Buckman said, "but it does enable the people we have to do a better job. This way we can at least keep our head above water."
The Friday night cutoff point was chosen merely because it is probably the least active time of the week. Buckman said.
"Little activity"
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The new computer system installed this year doesn't seem to do much for Buckman's problem.
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per hour, and it may soon be increased to $1.15.