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Muslim Club Takes 'Tour' Of Mosques
By Rose Ellen Osborne
James Seaver, professor of history and director of the Western Civilization program, illustrated with slides his remarks on "Early Muslim Architecture."
A KU professor took Muslim Club members on a pictorial tour of Islamic mosques last night.
THE SPEECH COVERED a span of more than 500 years, from about 650 A.D. to 1200 A.D. Prof. Seaver actually, later pointed out to this reporter, Muslims measure time in terms of B. H. and A. H.—before Hegira and after Hegira, the flight of Mohammed to Medina from persecution in Mecca.
Club members saw the Dome of the Rockmosque in Jerusalem which Prof. Seaver described as "the first great monument of Muslim architecture that has been left to us."
"The mosque was supposedly built on the rock on which Mohammed stood when he made his journey to heaven," he said. "It is one of the most beautiful shrines in the world."
"THE FIRST MOSQUES WERE tents or divided churches where the Muslims worshipped in one half and the Christians used the other half of the church," he said.
He said the mosque was built about 696 A. H. Prior to this period the Muslims had little architectural ambitions.
Prof. Seaver spoke of the mihrab, a niche-like doorway, but without a door, which was recessed in the wall. It was built for Mohammed to stand in during prayer after someone tried to assassinate him.
He told of the center where the Muslim worshipper washes his hands to cleanse before prayer and he showed pictures of the zujadah, the outside court or visiting place in the Muslim mosque.
Then with the aid of the slides, Prof. Seaver whisked his audience from the Great Mosque of Cordova in Spain—where a Gothic chapel was inserted in the mosque by monks in the 15th century—to Iran and the Shrine of Fatima, dedicated to Mohammed's daughter.
PROF. SEAVER ACQUIRED his extensive collection of slides in 1953-54 when he took a leave of absence to study in Rome on a Fulbright scholarship. At this time he visited North Africa, Egypt, Persia and other nearby areas.
Prof. Seaver said he welcomed the opportunity to speak to the club. "The Muslim Club is representative of one of the world's greatest religions. It is something we have needed for a long time," he said.
Ski Club Plans Colorado Trip
Perhaps due to Kansas' recent balmy weather, winter enthusiasts are planning a ski trip—in Colorado
The KU Ski Club has made arrangements for four days of skiing during semester vacation in the Loveland area west of Denver.
THIS SKI TRIP is the first of two the ski club plans for the year, the next trip scheduled for spring vacation.
Mike Cory, Wichita senior and chairman of the Ski Club, says that the trip is open to anyone who either skis or who wants to learn The club provides the services of ski instructors on the slopes.
The skiers will leave here after the last final on Saturday and will arrive at the slopes Sunday. They will return Wednesday evening and arrive back on campus Thursday.
Cory estimated the minimum cost of the trip to students will be $65.
Literary Critic To Talk Here
Author and literary critic Glenway Wescott will lecture on impressions and influences of recent novelists at 4:30 Wednesday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Wescott's talk, "Memories of the Twenties," will include remembrances of Ford Madox Ford, Cunningham Graham, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, and some thoughts on fiction writing.
Wescott's works include "Images of Truth." "The Apple of the Eye," "The Grandmothers," "Goodbye Wisconsin," "The Babes Bed," "Fear and Trembling," "A Calander of Saints for Unbelievers," "The Pilgrim Hawk," "Apartment in Athens," and a book of poems entitled "Natives of the Rock."
He is past president and chairman of the department of literature of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and he has served on its council and its grants committee for literature.
A past member of the Author's Guild Council, and a member of the Author's League of America, Wescott has lived on a farm in Rosemont, N.J., for the past few years.
This includes transportation, food and lodging, insurance, tow tickets, ski instructors and rental of ski equipment.
THE STUDENT MUST pay $57 of this amount before the end of the semester, Cory said. A $10 deposit is due before Christmas vacation and the balance is due soon after.
The ski club will meet at 7 p.m.
Thursday for people to sign up for the trip. Students may pay the $10 deposit then or later in the KU-Y office in the Kansas Union.
The skiers will stay at the Arapahoe Lodge in the Arapahoe Basin ski area for three ahone. On Wednesday the group will ski at the Loveland Basin.
The KU Concert Choir will present the first of its two annual concerts at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre. The University String Quartet will present a program of chamber music at 8 pm. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
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the seniors will tour the campus, attend a 5:15 p.m. banquet Saturday where Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will speak, watch the KU basketball team in action, and return to the halls for what will likely be long bull sessions.
The idea behind the weekend is to acquaint some of the top high school seniors in the state with the KU scholarship hall system, the only one of its kind in the nation.
The Concerti Choir's program will range from the classics of Vittoria and Bach to the contemporary Francis Poulenc. The String Quartet will play the Beethoven Quartet, Op. 16 No. 6, the Barber Quartet, Op. 11, and the Dvorak Quartet, Op. 96.
Sunday will feature dinner at the halls, with faculty members and University officials as special guests. Discussions will again follow the dinner. High school men were invited to visit the KU scholarship halls for the first time last year.
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After visiting the halls, the seniors may apply for scholarship hall awards next year. Winners of the awards will be announced next summer.
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CHICAGO — (UPI) — Three out five traffic fatalities occur at night, although only 30 per cent of driving is done during darkness, according to the Chicago Motor Club.
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U.S. Might Ringed Cuba During Crisis
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Spearheaded by a six-division invasion force, a massive military buildup of 200,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen was deployed in a ring around Cuba during the crisis over the Russian missiles, the Pentagon has disclosed.
The Air Force's Strategic Air Command had ordered a "massive airborne alert" for its B52 intercontinental bombers and kept its remaining force on a 15-minute ground alert. A 20,000-man combat crew manned the bombers, backed by 126,000 support personnel.
The Marines had the equivalent of another division—part of it hastily moved into the Guantanamo naval base, the rest afloat in the seas off Cuba.
The Army and the Air Force set up advance headquarters at Homestead Air Force base near Miami, the Pentagon said. A "peninsula base command" was established at Opa-Locka Air Force Base, Fla., to support all army troops in the area.
Operating in the Atlantic-Caribbean waters was a huge naval fleet 183 ships and 85,000 men, including eight aircraft carriers with more than 25,000 men aboard.
STANDING OFF Guantanamo to support the Marines if needed was the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise and the super carrier Independence, each with 100 planes aboard.
Raising the curtain on one of the most secret military mobilizations in history, the Pentagon told how the southeastern United States and the sea around Cuba was turned into an armed camp.
THE ARMY, is was disclosed, had a force of more than 100,000 men and was prepared to call up reserve units if an invasion of Cuba was ordered.
The swift, massive military buildup began soon after two SAC U2 reconnaissance planes collected conclusive proof of the existence of Soviet missile bases. This was on Oct.14, eight days before President Kennedy told the nation of the mobilization and ordered the quarantine of Cuba.
ONCE THE RUSSIAN missiles were discovered, the Pentagon said American missiles from as far away as the Pacific Northwest were rushed to the southeastern United States.
Navy planes alone flew more than 30 sorties over Cuba, the Pentagon said, and the Air Force Tactical Air Command deployed a force of 1,000 planes and about 5,000 men in the southeastern United States.
The Air Force said it flew more than 2,000 fighter sorties while keeping a 24-hour alert off the Florida coast.
Film Title Dilemma
HOLLYWOOD — (UFI) — “Three Way Match” is the new title for Universal's comedy previously titled "Three on a Match."
Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor and Gig Young are starred in the color film being produced by Robert Arthur and directed by Michael Gordon.
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