University Daily Kansan, April 23, 1981
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Activities planned for commencement
By MARC HERZFELD Staff Reporter
Commencement Day ceremonies mean both a beginning and an end to most graduating seniors at the University of Kansas: the beginning of new careers or schooling and the end of four long undergraduate years.
On May 18, the 109th KU Commencement Day, more than 4,000 graduating seniors will join KU's 165,000 alumni. For Alumni Association events, the student commencement day ceremonies are the culmination of months of planning.
Wintermorte asked grading seniors to take a brief time-out from studying.
"The activities have gotten so unwieldy and the time schedules are so hectic that the biggest problem is being accommodated everyone," Wintermute said.
THE DEADLINE for ordering caps and gowns, a necessity on Commencement Day, is April 30, one week from today.
Donna Miller, who takes cap and gown orders at the Business Office of the Kansas Union, advised students to order as soon as possible.
here are going to be long lines here next Thursday," she said.
Graduate students and faculty must have need to order the ceremonial robes.
The rental fees are $10 for a bachelor's cap, gown and tassel and $10 for master's regalia, plus $10 for the optional master's hood. The complete doctoral outfit rents for $24, and there is a $10 fee for late orders.
Wintermorte said that the class of '81 was, reviving the traditional senior
breakfast on Commencement Day for graduating seniors and their guests.
SENIORS MUST BUY tickets, $4.50 in advance, for the breakfast, which starts at 8 a.m. in the Union Ballroom. Until 1968, seniors smoked cornbrops to symbolize peace among the different schools, Wintermute said, but that KU tradition is not being revived this year.
After the breakfast, seniors, their families, and guests may attend the chancellor's reception at 1532 Lilac Lane.
Hooding ceremonies for the schools of Law and Medicine start at 1:30 p.m.
and other graduate degrees will be given later in the afternoon.
At 7 that evening, all the graduates start the march down Mt. Oread, and commence exercises begin.
Because local hotels will be fill,
Wintermate said that rooms in the
Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall
would be available May 16-18, Meals
will cost $18, or $4 a person. Meals
and transportation meals will be
available.
THE KU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION plans many events to honor graduating seniors before Commencement Day. The event will be held on August 27. The Wheel in Lawrence will have 25 cent
draws for seniors, and on April 30, the alumni will sponsor KU Night at Westport, with 90 cent drinks at the Happy Buzz in Kansas City, Mo.
On May 15, three days before commencement, the Senior Class graduation party will be at Gammons in Lawrence.
Finally, the night before commencement, the alumni will sponsor the all-University commencement supper, which includes Acting Chancellor Del Shanker's "State of the University" address. Tickets for the supper are $7.50, and admission is open to all alumni and friends.
4 alumni to receive service award
Four KU alumni will be honored with the Distinguished Service Citation award, the highest honor bestowed by the University commencement activities May 16-18.
Max Allen, Overland Park; John Margreave, Houston; John McLendon, Downers Grove, Ill.; and Phil Phillips, Bartlesville, Okla.; will receive the award that recognizes life careers of achievement and service to mankind.
The award, established in 1941, honors former students and outstanding graduates. This year's recipients join a group of 251 past recipients, 13 of whom are honorary alumni. In 1969 the University began recognizing non-alumni and granting honorary alumni status.
The men will receive their awards during the all-University commencement dinner May 17 in the Kansas Union.
Allen, an E.H. Hashinger
Distinguished Professor of Gerontology, was named Alumnus of the Year at Center Alumni Association 1966 and Center Alumni Association Chancellor's Teaching Award in 1976.
Margrave is a professor of chemistry at Rice University, Houston, and has served as vice president of KU's research foundation. Margrave's research emphasizes chemistry under extreme conditions. He is the author of four books and numerous articles for professional journals and has been honored several times by the American Chemical Society.
McLendon is a former coach of the Denver Rockets, now the Denver Nuggets. He was the first black to receive a bachelor's degree in physical education at KU and to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. He was named Central College Coach of the Decade between 1946 and
1955 and was honored with the 1977 Distinguished American Award by the North Carolina University Alumni Association. McLendon is a promotional representative for Connie Holder, a sports equipment company.
Phillips is the son of L.E. Phillips, one of the founders of Phillips Petroleum. His civic activities include work with the YMCA, United Community Fund, Jane Phillips Memorial Hospital, the Girl Scouts and the Bay Scouts. He graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and served for a time as a member of the Kansas University Endowment Association's Council for Progress.
Poles back Solidarity revolt. KU prof says
Revolt against Soviet restrictions is predominant in Poland, and backed by the power of Solidarity, it will continue, a KU political science professor recently in Poland said yesterday.
The professor, James Drury, who participated in a faculty exchange program at the University of Warsaw last fall, spoke at the weekly luncheon forum at the weekly Christian Ministries Center.
He said that there had been a form of Russian intervention in Poland for a long time and that the revolution was not the intervention was growing stronger.
"Usually, people think of tanks and marching when they think of intervention." Drury said. "There are two major Russian army camps in Poland now, and they have been there a long time."
BUT DRURY SAID intervention also took the form of Soviet control of Poland's internal affairs.
"We are seeing challenges to the way the Soviet states have been organized behind the Iron Curtain," he said.
The organization of Solidarity, the 10 million-member labor organization, also has brought about many changes, Drury said.
Since the statute drawing up Solidarity didn't demand that it be subservient to the Communist Party, it works under the Polish government as a result, the other unions were represented when Solidarity was organized.
"You see me wearing my Solidarity pin. Why should I?!" he asked. "They got me two pay raises in money. We need Solidarity here."
Moscow has not invaded Poland yet for several reasons, Drury said. He divided them into external reasons, which include involvement in Afghanistan and Western Europe, and internal reasons.
DRURY EXPRESSED pleasure at all Solidarity had accomplished.
Although the outcome of the events in Poland cannot be certain, Drury said some future actions could be predicted.
"The Russians have to prepare the way to take over in an aggressive way," he said. "They've got to allow the situation to come to an impasse. Right now, the Poles are revolting, not working."
In order to move into Poland, Russia would have to designate new leaders, which could only be done if the president could prove intolerable, Drury said.
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