Record Enrollment May Reach 10,500
Figures Not Definite
A record enrollment of 10,500 is predicted for the University of Kansas by Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of KU.
In an interview, Mr. Nichols said a definite enrollment was hard to figure, but he personally felt that the above estimate would come close.
"WE USUALLY figure on about a 5 per cent increase," he said, "and on this basis the Board of Regents has budgeted us for an enrollment increase of 400 students."
A 400 student increase would put the enrollment up to 9,725 on the Lawrence campus, Mr. Nichols said. There are about 700 students at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
In drawing an enrollment prediction, several factors must be considered, Mr. Nichols said. "We expect a certain percentage of the high school graduates each year," he said. "A greater percentage increase in the number of high school graduates can throw our figures off.
"ALSO THE MILITARY call-up might have some impact on our enrollment," he said.
A good crop year was another factor in enrollment, Mr. Nichols said. "Good crops such as we had this year might increase our enrollment over an average year," he said.
A greater increase in transfer students and freshmen each year affects our enrollment estimates, he said.
"Also over the years we have had a percentage increase in women students over men students."
...Happy Days Are Here Again
Registration: Grind?
"Oh, my gosh," said the coed. "What a mob."
The mob she was talking about was in Strong Hall, which has been jammed with students picking up their registration materials for the last three days. Registration ends today.
THE ONLY creatures undisturbed by the rush and din were a few canines which lay in drowsy indifference and watched the lines move around them.
And they talked about all kinds of things:
The students, once they had found their correct places in the maze of crooked, overlapping lines, spent their time shouting at each other and emptying the vending machines. By afternoon many of the vending machines were empty, but the students remained as noisy.
"If this rain keeps up, they'll have to come out with plastic clothes," said one coed.
"DON'T FORGET to smile when they take your picture," said one veteran of the registration lines. "These ID photos always look terrible."
"What's holding up this line," students asked. "Are they asleep up there?"
ONE STUDENT, after standing in line for 45 minutes in front of the table marked "U-Z," was disgruntled as the pert young clerk handed him a pink parking fine.
"You must pay this at the business office," she said. "They have your cards."
"It wouldn't be so bad," said the student, "but I forgot my checkbook."
Foreign Student Housing Short
By Karl Koch
An estimated foreign student enrollment of 320 this fall will present KU with complex problems in housing them and acclimating them to American life in general.
Clark Coan, assistant dean of men and foreign student adviser, made this point in an interview on foreign students. He stressed that the foreign student's life was often considerably different in his own country.
THE MOST IMMEDIATE problem facing the University is finding these foreign students suitable housing.
"Our housing plan," Dean Coan said in an interview, "is aimed at getting foreign students to know Americans. We don't like the students withdrawing into groups."
Throughout the year, the University tries to introduce the foreign student to America. "We try to present, not necessarily a favorable picture, but an honest picture of American life," he said.
THE IMPORTANCE of exposing the foreign student to the American way of life rests partially in the fact that many of the students are the intellectually elite of their own countries, Dean Coan said. "Their opinions of America, expressed in their home countries, can have a considerable effect on the United States relations with other countries.
"However, the importance of promoting international relations through foreign students is often overplayed," he said. The home students also benefit.
"THE FOREIGN STUDENTS make a great contribution here by giving the campus a cosmopolitan atmosphere. Students from 60 different countries give the campus an awareness of what foreign students stand for," Dean Coan said.
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Judy Discovers KU ... page 5
Church directory ... page 4
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B Section ... Sports
Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 1 SECTION A LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Birchers Planning New KU Chapter
By Fred Zimmerman
A staff member of the John Birch Society says he probably will come to Lawrence this fall to organize a Birch chapter among KU students.
Kent Steffgen, the society's co-ordinator for Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, made the statement last month while in Kansas City establishing three or four Birch units.
"We don't have any chapters now in Lawrence." Steffgen said. "But we have the nucleus for a chapter there at KU.
"ILL PROBABLY GO OVER THIS FALL and see what I can do." He said he had the names of fourteen persons at KU who are interested in forming a Birch chapter.
Steffgen, who lives in Southern California, is a paid staff member whose main task is the organization of society chapters.
The Birch Society is a rightist organization concerned about Communist subversion in America. Robert Welch, its founder, has said that several leading Americans, including former President Eisenhower, are Communist agents or sympathizers.
STEFFGEN SAID HE PLANS to organize in Lawrence, instead of on the campus.
"I have been hearing from students there that it's a real explosive situation on the campus," he said.
"The liberals and the socialist-minded are too heavily concentrated in the administration and faculty. The administration and teaching staff are just too darn infiltrated with this type of thinking."
Steffgen indicated he was generally aware of the situation at KU regarding the Birch Society.
He apparently was referring to William F. Gibbs, Wichita sophomore, who caused a flurry here in March by announcing that he and several students were organizing an anti-communist group patterned after the Birch Society.
"I HEARD ABOUT ONE STUDENT over there who didn't use discretion, and brought the roof down on himself," Steffgen said.
The plan apparently died out, however, after several students wrote letters to the Kansan attacking Gibbs and his friends, and after the Birch Society became widely-publicized.
"You've got to remember that the other side (Communist subversives) has been working fifty years—they've got educational institutions in the palm of their hand." Steffen said.
The Birch Society's method is to find ten or fifteen persons interested in forming a local chapter. A.meeting is arranged with
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Thursday, Sept. 14, 1961
UDK's First Edition
This is the first issue of the University Daily Kansan for the 1961-62 School year. The Daily Kansan is printed five times a week by students enrolled in the School of Journalism.
You may obtain your copy of the Daily Kansan at the following locations Monday through Friday at 3 p.m.:
Union Building, main entrance; Jayhawk Blvd. and 14th Street; in front of Watson Library; at the information booth; all three entrances to Strong Hall; Bailey Hall; Snow Hall; in front of Marvin Hall; rear entrance to Summerfield Hall; Murphy Hall; Malott Hall; Flint Hall.
Rain Will Continue Five More Days
The steady rain Lawrence has been receiving for the last three days will continue for the next five days, according to the U.S. Weather Bureau in Topeka. Average precipitation of 14 inches a day is expected
The temperature will be in the middle 70s.
The Kansas River is expected to crest at bankfull, with no danger of flooding except in a few scattered lowlying areas.
. . . the order of the day
Pool Backers Voice Dismay
A backer of the municipal swimming pool bond issue blames the business leaders of the community for its defeat Tuesday by Lawrence voters.
The measure was rejected, 3,533 to 2,299.
Stuart Forth, associate director of libraries, said:
"THE DEFEAT was largely the fault of business leaders in the community. They didn't lift a hand to back the campaign.
"Their lack of support was conspicuous. If the service clubs had wanted to serve anyone but themselves, we would have done better.
"Lawrence has flubbed its last chance to get a municipal swimming pool." Mr. Forth stated.
HE ADDED that the swimming pool issue has no chance of succeeding now because of the growth of private clubs and private residential pools.
Much of the leadership in the campaigned for the pool came from the university community and the clergy.
The co-chairman of the Pool Committee, the Rev. Paul Davis, pastor of the Congregational Church, said he is deeply disappointed at the outcome of the election.
"I FEEL that Lawrence has missed an opportunity which would have been a great step forward for the community." Rev. Davis said.
There is no public swimming pool in Lawrence. The Jayhawk Plunge was reorganized as a private club a year ago this summer rather than admit Negroes who were picketing for service.
Mrs. W. J. Argersinger, the other co-chairman and the wife of W. J. Argersinger, professor of chemistry and associate dean of the graduate school, said:
"I WAS QUITE disappointed in the outcome and feel that Lawrence has lost a chance to have an adequate recreation program, which must include swimming."
Howard Baumgartel, associate professor of psychology and human relations, said it was a tragedy that the issue had failed. He said it would seem that the tax increase and the sentiment against an integrated swimming pool may have been a deciding factor in the issue.