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Friday, April 16, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Plans Near End For Wescoe Hall
By MELLIE DELANEY Kansan Staff Writer
An end is in sight for the preliminary planning and funding of KU's $8 million humanities building, Wesco Hall, and the excavation of the building site may begin in May, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University of Kansas, said last week.
The hall has been in the planning stage since 1963 when the old humanities buildings, old Fraser, was condemned and a need arose for more space to keep ahead of the increasing enrollment. When it became evident that new Fraser could not accommodate the needed humanities departments, University officials proposed a larger building to be located across from Strong Hall.
Nichols said the original plans for the hall called for a 28-story tower. When the proposed tower proved too expansive, the architects trimmed it to 20 stories, then 15 stories and finally to three five-story apartments. The building required five floors built on to the middle wing, when funds became available.
THROUGH AN error by the air-architect firm in charge, the bids of Wentche College were $13 million in excess of the available funds. Both firms had been underestimated.
Herst, Terrill and Karst Architects in Topeka were then hired but with the rising cost of construction, the proposed hall was necessarily smaller. Nichols said. The concrete structure will now be about 400 feet long and 150 feet wide. To compensate for the sloping building site, the north side of the hall will have two stories while the south side will have four stories.
Although there was some difficulty in finding an adequate design for Wesco Hall, the greatest obstacle was the lack of funds to finance
AS EARLY AS 1966 the Kansas Legislature appropriated $2.7 million for a humanities building at KU. By 1968, the legislature had appropriated a total sum of $3.9 million when, which added to a federal budget, it appropriated $2.5 million in revenue bonds to be paid by an increase in student fees.
Asking students to pay for the university building was a relatively new idea. On Feb. 11, 1970, the Student Senate approved a plan for students to pay an additional $7.50 each semester for the bonds that were needed to finance Wescoe Hall. Despite a student referendum which voted against the proposed levy, the Student Senate Executive committee approved the plan.
Robert McFetters of the State Architects office said that the contracts for the hall have finally been awarded. The general contract was given to Cason Construction of Topeka for $3,953,400. The plumbing, electrical and elevator contracts brought the total to $8,844,092.
McFetts said that the additional costs for the design and planning of Wescoe Hall still kept the price below the $7.50 projected mark. This would reduce the additional student fees from $7.50 to about $5.00.
MCFETTERS SAID that constriction could start on the hall after a preconstriction conference between the Department of Health, and the National Heart Association.
Wescoc Hall, when completed, will be the home of the humanities department and will house auditoriums, classrooms, a language laboratory, informal study areas, faculty offices, conference rooms and a post office.
There will be two 30-seat auditoriums, three 90-seat classrooms, ten 50-seat classrooms, five 127-classrooms, six 25-seat classrooms, two 22-seat classrooms, 21 seminar rooms and 12 electronic laboratories.
The two lower levels will be occupied by 304 faculty offices, 30 department offices, 12 conference rooms, a study court and a mail
Wescue Hall, which was named for W. Clarke Wescue, chancellor of Wescue 1860 to 1960, will be competed by the fall of 1972 if the成绩
By DEANNE WATTS Kangan Staff Writer
Stene, who has taught at KU for 37 years, last week that he thought the greatest change in the University during career at Stene was the faculty participation in the government of the university.
"WHEN WE WERE first here," he said, "we regularly took roll. We had to report absences. Now we pretty much leave it to the student. I’ve been more important whether the student gets the subject matter than how often he attends class."
He has noticed a pendulum swing in curriculum during his first year, and built their education around free elective courses, then they were required to follow a prescribed curriculum and now electives are encouraged.
Four. University of Kansas professors who will retire at the end of this semester look back on their careers and forward to their future. The retires are Clayton Crosser, associate professor of engineering; Mattei Crumrine, professor of medicine; Domingo Rígarrion, professor of Spanish and Portuguese; and professor of political science.
Ricart said that student attitudes showed the greatest change during his 22 years at KU. He had taught in European universities before he came to KU and was used to the "active interest and intervention" of European students. He said he had thought that students were not interested that was going on in the world.
"I CAN ONLY welcome the active concern of the American student who has learned that "I have the impression that the students are very smart and that they can contribute positively." He was "scared of professional students" who used their studies to disguise radical political agendas.
Crosier said that he thought there was probably as great a difference between individual students in any given year as in any other school, and the average student when he first taught her 27 years ago.
MISS CRUMRINE agreed that basically students had not changed over the years but said that she did not know the students in her class, so it was much bigger than when she started teaching here in 1924.
Stone has noticed a recent trend toward student interest in the subject matter of their courses, and he good grades. He said he thought that it was a good change. Also, he said, students are more individualist in their relationships to the faculty than in the past. But the he has modified his teaching methods and lecture to classroom discussion.
"They actually remember and
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Four Retiring KU Profs View Careers
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Each of the fifteen rooms of the Castle is finished in a different type of wood, the many rooms currently in use are elegantly finished in birch, cherry, oak, walnut, sycamore and pine. The wood carving was done by hand by Sidney Endacott of England, a brother of Frank Sutcliffe, a master sculptor and artist and some at his work is in the drawing room of the Lord Holtstaff home.
The Castle was built in 1894 as a home for J. N. Roberts, a retired Civil War general. He was a man of great wealth with an income from patents on wooden containers carved in the wood.
The tower, which gives the old castle appearance, has a stairway leading to the third floor. Above the tower room is a root garden which, in bygone days, was shaded with wainslings and used during the summer months. The ballroom with spacious window seats on the third floor is available for private parties.
There are five beautiful fireplaces in the house, each a unique design with various colored marble and brick. The original dining room is very ornate with an unusual built-in sideboard and china closet. A recess cluster of mirrors and stained glass window above the fireplace gives the effect of an altar in a chapel.
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apply their ideas longer if they've developed them in discussion," he said. "They develop a better understanding of problems."
MISS CRUMRINE said that it was "nice to have students come back when you know that they've been taught how to teach her that she first started teaching because it was the quickest way to learn. Then she discovered that it liked it. She said that she enjoyed teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses."
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The two things he said that he liked most were to teach and to study and then publish. He said it was hard for him to administer having used up "all my energy". He hopes that he will be able to three books as soon as he retires.
said, she would "certainly expect to be interested in HILL activities" and to go to the library to do some "scholastic projects."
The four will be honored at a dinner to be held at 5:30 p.m. April 22, in the Kansas Union.
Two other members of the KU staff who are entering retirement will be honored at the dinner, also. They are John Blocker, who was born in New York and semester from his position as professor of accounting in the School of Business, and E. A. McFarland, who will retire from the Continuing Education division of the University.
STENE SAID that he planned to "keep on working and just retire from the classroom." He believed that research in public administration but wound "probably go fishing a bit, than he had before retirement."
Crosier said that he hoped he would have enough time to do all the things he needed to do. He plans to write reports on several projects that he has been involved in, including commercial testing of concrete and to work more around his house and grounds.
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