Tuesday, September 19, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Steel and cement-KU's stuffing
Steel and cement continue to be the stuff from which this University is made.
KU's "Greater University Master Plan" will enter its sixth year with six building projects underway or completed and eight other campus edifices on the drawing boards.
Valued at more than $20 million, the projects are largely backed by the KU Council for Progress, a privately supported but University organized fund raising group. The council seeks a goal of $18,617,000. This sum is to be solicited during the next three years.
The largest of the structures
now being built is the $3-million Experimental Biology and Human Development building. The site is located south of old Robinson Gymnasium. Plans call for an eight-story unit made of stone and brick.
Complete by Fall, '68
Officials expect completion by fall 1968. The structure will provide offices and research facilities for the departments of microbiology, biochemistry, anatomy, physiology and family life.
Included in construction plans is a two-story Center for Research on Mental Retardation and Human Development.
The Kenneth Spencer Research Library, to cost an estimated $2 million, is expected to be completed by late March, 1968. Located behind Strong Hall, the building is being financed through the Helen F. Spencer Foundation, Kansas City.
The T-shaped structure is made of buff limestone. The main entrance will be on the first floor level across a terrace built from the north balcony.
The building will connect with the first floor of Strong Hall. The building will have about 95,000 square feet and a 670,000 volume book capacity.
Perhaps the newest addition to the building program is the $2.3
NASA gives a million Last spring, KU received a $1.8 million grant from the National Space and Aeronautics Administration (NASA) to finance construction of the facility. Site is near the intersection of 15th and Iowa.
million Space Technology building. Architectural plans are now being drawn.
SUA to recruit Wednesday
The KU Printing Service building, located in the 15th Street area, will be constructed with the support of a legislative allocation of approximately $350,000.
NASA gives $1 million
Student Union Activities (SUA) will hold a membership meeting 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
SUA will take applications at the meeting for committee chairmanships and committee positions.
"If you come to the fall meeting, we'll have your name, and, even if we can't use you right
SUA members speak
at the moment we can contact you later," said Tom Swale, SUA secretary.
At the meeting, SUA board members will give short speeches explaining the programs SUA will sponsor this year.
After the speeches, the meeting will break into small groups for discussions with SUA Board
Positions are available on the following SUA committees:
members. There will be time for questions and answers about committee openings.
Across from the Kansas Union on Oread Street stands the new Kansas School of Religion, a $500,000 project begun last January.
Art Forums, Picture Lending Library, Display and Exhibit, Special Films, Popular Films, SUA Carnival, Carnival Publicity, Carnival Tickets, Carnival Personnel, Carnival Booths and Skits, Carnival Properties, Decorations and Finale.
It replaces the old Myers Hall, built in 1913, which was dismantled prior to the beginning of construction.
State funds not available
Since state funds weren't available for the new religion school, a private financing campaign had to be launched. Last week, William Moore, dean of the school, called the fund drive "successful."
Poetry Hour, Minority Opinions, Current Events, Humanities, Last Lecture, Faculty Speakers, Science Forum, Religion Forum, Mayors and Careers Forum, Kiddie Movies, After-Game Reception, Festival of the Arts, Concerts, Concert Tickets, Billiards, Bridge Club, Bowling League, Travel, Flight to Europe.
Plan English conference
Included on the list of speakers are Richard Corbin, past president of the National Council of Teachers of English and Gerhard H. W. Zuther, professor of English at KU. Other Kansas educators will lead panel discussions.
An office building for the staff members of the U.S. Geological Survey has begun. The new edifice will cost about $250,000 and is being financed by the KU Endowment Association. The two-story building is being constructed on a site southeast of the Center for Research in the Engineering Sciences.
The 15th annual conference on composition and literature for high school and college teachers will be held at KU on Oct. 20. Speakers and panels will discuss the conference theme of old and new rhetoric.
sity of Wisconsin. He has joined the faculty this fall as a Regents professor. The building already has been completed.
The $160,000 pharmaceutical chemistry laboratory, located at Iowa and 19th, will house the office of Takeru Higuchi, a former professor at the Univer-
The Council for Progress also has several buildings in the planning stages. Of that group the most significant is a 26-story classroom and office building. Plans for it are indefinite.
However, seven major buildings are in the offing for the next five years. And KU officials have expressed the hope that construction will begin in that period.
New 26 story building
A two-story, 38,000-squarefoot satellite Union to be built between Allen Field House and the new dormitory complex planned by the Jayhawk Investment, Inc., will cost an estimated $2.2 million.
Addition to Kansas Union
Also planned is a two-story addition to the northwest corner of the Kansas Union on Oread. The 10-story dormitory west of Oliver Hall near 19th and Naismith Drive will be the second in a series of three KU residence halls in that area. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved $2.7 million in funds for construction of the building.
The massive Humanities building, expected to cost $6 million, will include an office section with 14 stories, plus a classroom section with five stories in the first phase.
The second phase of the project will involve construction of additional office and classroom facilities in similar patterns and within a short interval.
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
Orientation & Membership
UNION ACTIVITIES Wednesday, Sept. 20 - 7:30 p.m. Union Ballroom
MEETING
ASSISTANT TREASURER
ARTS & EXHIBITS
Nelson Gallery Trips & Art Forums Chairman & Committee Picture Lending Library Comm. Display & Exhibit Comm. Photographic Contest Chr. & Comm. Dark Room Chairman Noon Movies Chr. & Comm. Newsletter Publicity Chr. & Distribution Chr.
ENTERTAINMENT
SUA Carnival Committees:
Publicity
Tickets
Booths & Skits
Personnel
Properties
Decorations
Concessions
Special Film Chr. & Comm.
Popular Films:
Publicity Chr.
Personnel Chr.
Committee
FORUMS
Poetry Hour Comm.
Minority Opinion Chr. & Comm.
Current Events Comm.
Featured Speakers Comm.
Humanities Comm.
Personality Comm.
Last Lecture Chr. & Comm.
Religion Comm.
Majors & Careers Chr. & Comm.
Science Comm.
Foreign Culture Comm.
Personality Forum Comm.
HOSPITALITY
After-Game Reception Comm.
Kiddle Movies Comm.
MUSIC & DRAMA
Classical Film Committee Festival of the Arts:
Secretary
Arrangements—Sub.-Chr. &
Comm.
Tickets—Chr. & Comm.
Publicity Chr. & Comm.
Brochure Chr. & Comm.
Forums Chr.
Records
RECREATION
Quarterback Club Comm.
Billiards Chr. & Comm.
Table Tennis Chr. & Comm.
Bridge Club Chr. & Comm.
Bowling Leagues Comm.
Varsity Bowling Publicity Comm.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Concerts:
Chairman
Secretary
Tickets Chr. & Comm.
Arrangements Chr. & Comm.
Publicity Chr. & Comm.
TRAVEL
Flights to Europe Secretary.
Publicity Chr.
Flights to Europe Comm.
Flight to Nassau Chr. & Comm.
Trip to New Orleans Chr. & Comm.
Travel Forum & Films Comm.
Away Games Bus Trip Comm.
The Ski Club will have a membership meeting for people interested in working on the committees and for those interested in the Ski Trips on Tuesday, September 26, 7:00 p.m., Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Chairmen for the following committees were chosen last spring. Interviews will also be held in the spring of 1968 for events that must be planned before fall semester.
Summer Board
Exhibits
Picture Lending
Library
Orientation Week
Union Open House
Film Series
SUA Carnival
Poetry Hour
Current Events
Featured Speakers
Receptions
Jazz Forum
Music Forum
Drama Forum
Festival of the Arts
Quarterback Club
Homecoming Concert
Group Flights
Away Game Bus Trip
Ski Club Officers