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University Daily Kansan Thursday. October 19. 1961
Lewisians Tell of Space Necessity
A group of coeds living at Lewis Hall is following construction of the new women's dormitory next door with more than passing interest.
They are the women who were selected this fall to live three in a room. The situation was made necessary by an overload in the number of women wanting rooms in the dormitories.
WHEN ASKED if they were crowded, many of the residents answered with a laugh, followed by "you don't know the half of it."
"Unless you could see our room, you wouldn't know just how crowded we are," laughed Gretchen Van Dyne, Prairie Village junior. "It's unbelievable."
She explained the University converted the rooms to three-resident status by providing bunk beds, a chest of drawers, and a large steel closet. A third desk, originally placed in the room, was removed to the lounge on the seventh floor, which was made into a studv area.
In addition, Miss Van Dyne said, one of her roommates brought a record player which also takes up floor space.
"OUR FLOOR space is almost void," she said.
Ann Stoner, Oskaloosa sophomore, said the biggest disadvantage is lack of storage space.
"My two roommates are from out of state, and they brought all their winter clothes with them this fall," she said. "We had to take a lot of the clothes to my parents' home."
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Several residents said the mirror caused trouble.
"THEERE'S JUST one mirror — and a small one at that—high up on the wall," one woman said. "You can imagine what it's like on Friday night with three of us trying to get in front of it."
Another resident mentioned the confusion caused by the extra roommate.
"It's just like Grand Central Station," she said. "There always seems to be someone in to see one of us."
MOST OF the residents seem to be taking their crowded conditions without complaints, a student assistant said.
"There were a few complaints at first, but lately they've been taking it in stride," said Lin Shultz, St. Louis, Mo., junior. "Most of them realize they're lucky to have a room here at all."
She said the most frequent complaint she has heard is lack of storage space.
J. J. Wilson, dormitory director, recently said the shortage of rooms would be almost eliminated when the new women's dormitory opens next fall.
KU may become a training ground for Peace Corps delegates to Costa Rica if plans now under construction by faculty members materialize.
KU May Train Peace Corps Troops
While the plans are "simply in the exploratory stage" now, the University should know within two weeks if it has the go-ahead from Peace Corps officials, said John P. Augell, chairman of the Latin American area studies program.
Experience gained in the KU Junior Year in Costa Rica program would be utilized in the Peace Corps training program, he added.
It is hoped that KU would be selected for a training ground if Costa Rica requests Peace Corps delegates from the United States, he said.
Adkins to Present Paper
A KU professor is among the speakers scheduled to present featured papers at the 37th annual convention of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters which meets in Washington, D.C. next week.
Gale R. Adkins, assistant professor of speech and journalism, will report on a research study of the literature relating to radio-television-film. Prof. Adkins has collected faculty evaluations of the literature of broadcasting from 57 colleges and universities. A report of the study results has been accepted for publication in a national journal later this year.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.—Albert Einstein
Three bacteriologists at the University of Kansas are conducting research that may help to answer poignant questions concerning antibiotics.
Antibiotic Study Launched
Dr. Delbert M. Shankel, assistant professor, is the principal investigator in a study on rickettsial genetics which has received a new National Science Foundation grant of $12,200 for a two-year period. Co-investigators are Prof. David Paretsky, department chairman, and Prof. Cora M. Downs.
His group will inoculate eggs and tissue cultures with rickettsiae and then with antibiotics, in an effort
The three hope to get some indication of the pattern of antibiotic resistance in rickettsie. "Rickettisial diseases treated with antibiotics eventually become resistant," Dr. Shankel said. "We want to know what the mechanism is that causes this."
to get "marked strains" or mutations showing resistance to antibiotics and virulence properties.
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