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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 8, 1962
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Vatican Prepares For World Council
ROME—(UPI)—Delegates to the historical Ecumencial Council opening in St. Peter's Basilica Thursday flocked into the city by plane, train and auto today, from the United States and all over the world.
AT THE SAME time, the preparation of the huge St. Peters Basilica for the meeting was almost completed, although finishing touches would be going on until the night before the council. The building of the bleacher-like stands that will seat the close to 3,000 delegates began May 24.
Although the 2,850 religious leaders expected to attend the council have been arriving for some two weeks,the flow increased to a new peak today as hundreds of bishops, archbishops, and other prelates arrived.
THE COUNCIL, opening at 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the splendor of the Basilica, has been called by Pope John XXIII to bring the church, as he put it "into step with modern times" and try to narrow the gap between Roman Catholicism and other Christian religions.
Rome Fiucimino International Airport, normally one of the busiest airports in Europe, set up special facilities to handle the arriving delegates.
For the second time in nearly two weeks the Basilica will be briefly opened—this time for newsmen and photographers covering the council. The Basilica, the largest church in Christiandom, was closed to the public Sept. 27 because of two bombing attempts and to allow the workmen to continue preparations without interference from the thousands of visitors that daily flock to the Basilica.
A Vatican "VIP" lounge was set up at the airport with monsignori from the secretariat of state on hand to greet all arrivals and escort them to limousines bearing the special red-and-white license plates of tiny Vatican State.
Bass to Talk to African Group
The African Study Group, recently organized to acquaint KU students with all aspects of Africa, will hold its first meeting tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
William M. Bass, professor of anthropology, will speak on the anthropological background of the African people.
The group, sponsored by the KU-Y, will first study the background of the continent and eventually cover the political aspects. It is the first time that any study group such as this has been attempted on the campus in the area of African studies.
Susan Sandberg, co-chairman of the African Study Group, believes much can be done with the new organization. Miss Sandberg, a junior from Sheppard AFB, Texas, said a number of professors and African students will aid the group. Charles K. Warriner, professor of sociology, will act as faculty adviser.
Miss Sandberg said the group has been organized "to acquaint us with the continent of Africa, which is becoming more important than most Americans realize."
Since the study group is a new one, co-chairman Sandberg and Dave Kirkman, Oklahoma City, Okla., senior, said they would appreciate all information and suggestions offered.
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The businessman has fared poorly in American fiction, says William R. Reardon, associate professor of speech and drama, in an article for the current "Kansas Business Review," monthly publication of the KU Center for Research in Business.
He says three problems help explain the businessman's unhappy fictional position:
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Just as the businessman patronizes the artist for his lack of common sense, so the businessman is viewed by the writer as basically uninteresting, preoccupied with the making of money, and almost totally lacking in aesthetic qualities. He is presented in fiction in a caustic stereotype or in a comic vein.
Machines for reading instruction were demonstrated to teachers here Saturday at the sixth annual Conference on Reading. Approximately 60 students in the University of Kansas School of Education and 400 instructors from Kansas and western Missouri attended the sessions.
New Reading Machines Shown at Conference
"The machines don't perform magic," Robert W. Ridgway, professor of education, said, "They just help the reader to use his talents and skills more effectively.
"MOST PEOPLE can at least double their reading speed," said Prof. Ridgway, who demonstrated the machines.
He explained three types: (1) a machine which flashes words on a screen for 1/100th of a second, teaching the student to concentrate more effectively; (2) another in which words are covered after they appear on the screen, forcing the student to go ahead; and (3) one in which a light flashes across the
"ALL THESE devices force the student to read more rapidly." Prof. Ridgway said. "They help him to increase his recognition span."
reading matter on a screen, enabling a student to read only the lighted material.
Most of the teachers attending this session were junior and senior high school teachers interested in helping college-bound students read faster.
These same machines are part of the equipment used in the reading and study skills lab, which at least 1,000 students at KU use annually. The non-credit course is offered twice each semester. Approximately 350 are enrolled now. Enrollment is somewhat less during the 2nd and 4th quarters.
The conference was sponsored by the Kansas Council of the International Reading Association, the American Childhood Reading Association, the KU School of Education, and University Extension.
Perry Reservoir to Furnish Student Recreation Facilities
A new $30 million reservoir project will be competing with Lone Star Lake soon for recreation-minded KU students.
The mammoth Perry Reservoir will be 18 miles northwest of Lawrence and may feature the most modern and complete recreational facilities anywhere. Lone Star Lake is 12 miles from Lawrence.
EMIL HECK, Kaw Basin Water Management Association head and Lawrence resident, said last night that although the plans are not yet complete, he believed the recreational facilities would be unparalleled.
Heck said that the boating, camping, and other facilities are receiving close attention. "Our first consideration was flood control. Now, however, water conservation and recreation seem to be the most important things and I don't know but what recreation isn't first."
A $750,000 allocation for planning and construction of the Perry project is included in a current joint House-Senate report to Congress and there is indication of prompt approval, according to U.S. Representative Robert F. Ellsworth.
Under present plans, the pool for the reservoir would be 12,200 surface acres of water as compared with Tuttle Creek's 15,800.
Heck, long concerned about Kansas water problems, emphasized the flood control advantages the Perry Reservoir would bring.
"I DON'T KNOW just how much camping ground there will be." Heck said, "but it will be sizable."
He said that Perry, along with Tuttle Creek and Milford would virtually end the difficulties of flood control.
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