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'KU Architecture Hot and Not So Hot'
Bv Joanne Prim
Campus architecture — especially at KU — came up for review at last night's Humanities Forum.
The verdict on the local scene: Not so good as buildings go, but the landscaping is fine.
"The great coherence of landscaping makes all the conglomerate buildings at KU read as one university," said W. Eugene George professor of architecture.
"One gets the feeling that each tree was selected and placed with great care."
Elake Hall: "... needs French gardens."
With the aid of slides, Prof George, Curtis Besinger, associate professor of architecture, and Ted Seligson, Kansas City architect compared KU's architecture with that of other sites and campuses.
Prof. George found fault with some KU buildings and favor with others.
Discussing Blake Hall, he said, "KU has had her taste of France, but a French building needs French gardens."
Prof. George said a French style building such as Blake on a small plot of ground is like a "football player all dressed up to play ping pong."
"One feels rather incomplete without water," he said as he showed slides of lavish French gardens and expensive lakes and rivers.
He had this to say of the Gothic architecture of Hoch Auditorium:
"You can see the tower that guards the door," he said. "I have never been able to determine if the tower serves to keep the students in or to keep them out."
He said further that whatever the purpose, the tower would be a good vantage point from which "to send down hot lead or boiling water."
Prof. George had the following comments about other campus buildings:
- Green Hall was built in the Greek order, "appropriate to the backgrounds of law."
- The art museum is "one of the most delightful buildings on campus, including the landscape surrounding it."
- the museum of history, "for its time and function, was quite worthwhile and is doing a reasonably good job today."
- Fraser Hall is the "great symbol of KU" and the "best sited in terms of the hill."
- The campanile "does not occupy enough space or form a skyline sig-
Dyche Hall: " . . . reasonably good job. . . "
sificent enough to be the campus symbol."
"Mount Oread might be seen as a sort of Acropolis," Prof. George concluded. "The best possible use is not being made of Mount Oread, which is an excellent site."
One of architectural problems Prof. George mentioned was the variety in the types of building materials used on the campus.
Prof. Besinger showed slides of the University of Virginia, Mr. Seligson showed slides of numerous Eastern campuses, including Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
HRC To Conduct Poll on Civil Rights Situation
The Human Rights Committee of the ASC decided last night to draft an opinion poll on the civil rights situation at KU. Committee members will begin to write the survey questionnaire tomorrow night.
Frank Thompson Jr., Iola junior and HRC chairman, said "We do not know what the KU civil rights situation is. Our efforts this semester are concerned with ascertaining the state of civil rights here."
"From what we do know, it is possible to divide the problem into two categories—discrimination and prejudice. There is not much discrimination on campus except for the two fraternities which have clauses in their constitutions. The problems is more likely prejudice, something very hard to handle."
Thompson said less than a thousand students' names will be selected at random from the student directory to answer the questions.
The opinion poll, he said, will be written by the five HRC members and Richard Burke, assistant professor of human relations.
"In this way, we hope to get a more valid representation of student opinion on civil rights," he said.
He said the survey will be sent to both students and campus organizations.
Thompson said the questionnaire will be "wider in scope" than last year's HRC survey, which measured alleged fraternity discrimination on campus.
"If people would have realized the techniques of scientific sampling and the gravity of the situation, the last survey would have been more effective," Thompson said.
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60th Year, No. 54
Federal Rules On Housing Bias Have Tough Tone
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The government has adopted a comparatively tough set of rules for applying President Kennedy's anti-discrimination order to public housing and urban renewal projects.
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1962
The rules, announced yesterday, appear to ask closer application of the order where direct federal subsidy is involved than where government assistance takes the form of mortgage insurance.
WHEN A CITY sells land in an urban renewal project to a private developer, it must attach a perpetual covenant prohibiting future discrimination in sale, rental or use of the property.
For example:
- A public housing project, operated in violation of anti-discrimination clauses in the federal aid contract, can be seized and operated by the government. These projects normally owned by local housing authorities.
- Privately owned facilities in an urban renewal project, such as a lunch counter or barber shop, must be open to all project residents without discrimination.
This would apply also to public facilities, such as schools and parks, outside the project if their construction by the city were counted towards the community's one-third contribution to the project. Again, however, the non-discrimination requirement would apply only to project residents. The federal government pays two-thirds of the net cost to the city of an urban renewal venture.
AN EXCEPTION to this "facilities" rule would be granted, according to William L. Slayton, head of the Urban Renewal Administration, if the city showed that "the facility is either city-wide in character or not necessary to provide convenience goods and services" to project residents.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The executive order is binding only for projects on which final local-federal contracts were entered into after Nov. 20, the date Kennedy signed the executive order.
But Robert C. Weaver, the U.S. Housing Administrator, implied that pressure may be brought to end discrimination in older projects. He noted at a press conference that there is "an continuing relationship" between federal and local authorities. The implication appeared to be that discrimination in projects not covered by the order may influence federal approval for future projects.
Regulations were announced last week applying the order to private housing built or bought with government-insured or guaranteed mortgages. They specifically exempted owner-occupants selling their property from the executive order. But this exemption was narrowed by the covenant requirement for property in urban renewal projects, which limits the seller's freedom to pick and choose among prospective buyers.
SIMILARLY, possible seizure of a public housing project is a more drastic step than sanctions pertaining to privately owned housing. In all of the housing programs, the principle sanction is denial of future subsidy or loan underwriting to violators.
Weaver emphasized, however, that the federal authorities hope to rely on "conference, conciliation and persuasion" rather than punitive measures. He said his primary goal is eliminating discrimination, not slapping sanctions on local authorities, developers, builders or lenders.
Weather
Partly cloudy weather is forecast for this afternoon, with snow flurries likely in the extreme northeast. It will be colder this afternoon and tonight. The forecast for Thursday is sunny and a little warmer. The low tonight will be near 20, and the high to-morrow will be in the low 40's.
Ticket Gate Jam To Be Alleviated
Student complaints that punching of activity tickets at basketball games is too slow have brought a revision in Department policy.
Additional Pinkerton men will be stationed at Allen Field House's student entrances for the KU-Wyooming game. Dec. 10, in an effort to eliminate the ticket-taking delay incurred at the KU-Montana game last Saturday.
THE ATHLETIC Department's Special Promotions and Projects Committee, encouraged by the heavy turnout and enthusiastic support of students at last Saturday's game, reached this decision at an informal meeting this morning.
The Committee also decided to dispense with the usual sale of reserved seat tickets for the K-State-KU doubleheader with Arizona State and Cincinnati, Dec. 15.
Monte Johnson, director of public relations and a member of the Committee, said that the reserve seat plan for the doubleheader, which has been used in the past, is "inconvenient for the students."
He said that the ticket procedure at the doubleheader would be the same as any basketball game.
"WE DON'T WANT to delay the students under any conditions." Johnson said of the two revisions in student ticket policy.
"If 10,000 students show up for the doubleheader, we'll dispense altogether with punching the ID cards and just let them in through turnstiles.
Drape Stolen From Union
A modern French tapestry valued at $750 was missing about 9:30 Tuesday morning from its customary place in the Trophy Room on the first floor of the Kansas Union.
Katherine Giele, activities director of the Union, said the tapestry had been in Union "at least since 1951."
The tapestry, a gift to the University from the Elizabeth M. Watkins fund, was fastened to a board attached to the wall with small clips similar to those used to hang pictures.
Campus police said the tapestry was fastened securely enough to hold it in place, but the fastenings would be easy to pull loose.
Police said the theft had apparently taken place Monday night or early Tuesday morning, but there were no signs of forced entry into the Kansas Union.
The tapestry, a heavy wool weaving entitled Le Coq, is about 50 inches wide by 68 and one-half inches high, Mrs. Giele said. The tapestry is by Jean Lurcat.
The tapestry pictures a large cock on a bright blue background. The wings of the bird are orange-yellow.
maps of the bird are orange-yellow.
Several items were also stoller from the Ninth Annual Designer-Craftsman exhibit that ended last Friday. A seven-inch blue-gray ceramic pot, made by Jerry Campbell, Livonia, Mich., senior, and three mortar and pestle sets, made by Ruth Wells, a Manhattan resident, were taken. The mortar and pestle sets were white flecked with brown
Justices Deny Implied 'Fixing' Of Traffic Tickets
Two justices of the student court say they never have had traffic fines "fixed." as an article in last Thursday's UDK implied.
Wetzler offered the following three cases dated prior to his cases, as proof of court precedent.
Charles Wetzler, Lawrence third year law student, and Dan Dreiling, Junction City third year law student, were named in a UDK article as two of the justices who possibly had invoked an agreement last semester to free court justices of one fine per year.
Wetzler said both his cases which were judged nolle prosequi (no prosecution) had sufficient precedent to warrant that decision by the prosecuting attorney.
On May 1, Wetzler had a ticket which was judged nolle prosequi. On that same night the student court decided, with all seven court justices sitting, that an appeal identical to Wetzler's, that of Herlocker vs. the University of Kansas, should be granted.
Since Wetzler's case was identical to the Herlocker case, it was judged noble prosequi on the basis of the precedent.
A similar case on March 29,1960 was also decided in favor of the defendant, adding further precedent to support the nolle prosequi judgment on Wetzler's case.
Traffic regulations for that year stated that during this time period no traffic tickets would be given in that zone. A case identical to Wetzler's was tried and granted by the University Faculty Tribunal just prior to this. Wetzler's appeal was again judged nolle prosequi on the basis of precedent.
On June 26, Wetzler's ticket for parking in zone T between the end of the second semester and the beginning of summer school was judged nolle prosequi.
The University Faculty Tribunal is a body made up of Police Chief Joe Skillman and various other faculty members. It serves as the group to which faculty member's tickets can be appealed.
Dreiling said last night, "my cases would both have been unequivocally declared all right and my appeals would have been granted."
He said both his cases either had precedence or were of an equitable nature.
An equitable reason is one which shows good cause for an offense. Such is the case when a student's car goes dead and the car is parked longer than the limit.
Wetzler claimed the inference made in last Thursday's article that the judges were judging their own tickets was false and impossible.
David Mills, Lawrence third year law student and chief justice of the student court, said it was impossible for a justice to process his own ticket and that the only direct connection a judge has with the judging of a no乳 prosequi case is the signing of the appeal to make the decision official.
Mills explained that for a nolle prosequi decision at KU, the defense takes a case to the prosecuting attorney. If both defense and prosecuting attorney agree that the case should be judged nolle prosequi, they take it to one court justice who signs the appeal.
Mills said only the justice who signs the nolle prosequi appeal has anything to do with the decision or the processing of the ticket.
Thus, it is possible for a judge to sign his own appeal, thereby making the nolle prosegu decision final.
It was found that the March 3 case concerning J. Richard Smith was appealed and granted. The case was not judged nolle prosequi as was reported in last Thursday's article.