Daily Hansan
60th Year, No. 1 SECTION A
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Thursday, Sept. 13, 1962
KU Enrollment To Hit 11,000
A record number of students possibly more than 11,000 are flooding the KU campus.
Activity increased as long lines of students queued up at both Strong Hall and the Kansas Union for the fall enrollment grind.
The enrollment procedure, unchanged from recent years, will be familiar to old hands. Entering freshmen and others will have more than 150 student assistants to guide them along.
ENROLLMENT MACHINERY will have to function smoothly enough to process nearly 600 students an hour today and tomorrow, based on the number of students anticipated.
While University officials usually shy away from giving too precise an estimate on anticipated enrollment, it is generally conceded the figure will top 11,000 this year.
Last fall, enrollment on the Lawrence campus reached 10,059, with 732 more enrolled at the Medical Center in Kansas City. On campus enrollment last spring dropped to 9,234 — a normal pattern — with 736 at Kansas City.
Previously, the peak enrollment figure at KU was 9,750 in the fall of 1948. That was at the crest of the influx of World War II veterans. By 1952, the enrollment had dropped again to about 6,900.
ALONG WITH THE rapidly expanding campus population, resulting from the leading edge of the
post-war "baby boom," has come giant problems for the University administration and the state legislature.
With the worst of the "boom years" still ahead, annual enrollment increases are expected to jump from an average of 700 in recent years to more than 1,200 in two years.
The predicted KU enrollment figures for the next five years are:
1963-4 12,340
1964-5 13,760
1965-6 15,450
1966-7 16,960
1967-8 17,500
The projected enrollment figures are based on a study of birth rate and school attendance records.
University officials have proposed changes in three areas to meet the problems that the influx of new students will create.
students, the physical plant facilities of the University must be vastly increased.
EMBODIED IN AN extended program announced earlier this year are 10 new buildings, four additions to existing structures, and renovation of two present buildings.
The construction presently under way on the new engineering building across from Murphy Hall, and additions to the Natural History Museum, and Watson Library are parts of this program.
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Chancellor's Welcome
To the students who are beginning their KU careers, let me say once more, "Welcome." And to those students who are returning after an absence, short or long, let me say, "Welcome back."
The University of Kansas has a well-deserved reputation as a friendly place and a place of personal concern. We want to keep it that way: we want no anonymous students. The Office of the Chancellor, like the offices of the deans, always is open to you.
The University is, as well, a serious place where dedicated men and women meet upon the common ground of learning. This is your invitation to join them.
The academic year is beginning. Welcome to its treasures.
W. Clarke Wescoe Chancellor
Prison-Style Pictures Gone From ID Cards
KU students need no longer turn red to embarrassing titters from people who look at the pictures on their identification cards.
This semester, the University is beginning the use of plastic identification cards — without pictures. The cards, similar to gasoline credit cards, will list students' names, numbers and signatures.
THE OLD STYLE card exhibited a prison-type photograph complete with a number slapped across the student's chest. The photo was taken during registration with long lines of students waiting to face a battery of floodlights. The resulting 1 x $ \frac{1}{4} $ inch pictures usually could not be called flattering portraits.
The new LD's will be issued during fee payment. Sept. 25-29.
Issued with the embassed cards will be a receipt. The I.D.'s will be invalid without the receipts.
Pictures of students will still be made. Instead of annual photographs, only new students will have their photos taken. A permanent file of negatives will be maintained for University officials.
"PURPOSE OF THE NEW cards." James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, said, "is to get simple and positive identification with whom we are transacting business. The older cardboard I.D.'s with pictures, when carelessly handled, identified the wrong student or no student at all."
Another user of the new I.D. cards besides the business office and the registrar's office will be the KU library.
Thomas R. Buckman, director of libraries, said the I.D. cards, after the arrival of new equipment, will be put in a machine, thus transferring the information to the checkout slip.
Buckman expects the automated equipment to arrive in November or December. As in the past, the check-out procedure at Watson Library will involve filling out a form and showing the I.D. to the librarian on duty.
BUCKMAN TERMED USE of the new I.D.'s a "considerable improvement" in the library's book circulation methods. A saving of both time and effort is anticipated, he said.
QUIET TIME-A campus policeman in one of the five new traffic stations enjoys a lull in the usually busy day of listening to the pleas of students and staff members wanting to drive cars on the campus.
KU Traffic Limited During Day Hours
KU students returned this semester to find five motor car traffic control booths limiting access to the campus.
They are part of a plan which restricts the number of vehicles traveling on Jayhawk Blvd. where pedestrian traffic is heaviest.
The booths are manned from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., allowing on the campus only vehicles driven by visitors or students and faculty members having special permits.
Locations of the stations are at the following points:
- On Jayhawk Boulevard, just south of the intersection of Oread Avenue and 13th street in front of the Kansas Union and Myers Hall.
- On 14th Street, west of the Louisiana Street intersection.
- On Sunflower Road, just north of the Sunnyside Avenue intersection
- On Sunflower Road, just south of the Memorial Drive intersection,
Keith Lawton, vice chancellor for operations, said:
"We are giving the campus back to the pedestrian student. This step fills an obvious need for traffic control."
- On Jayhawk Boulevard, east of the Chi Omega Fountain.
Six categories have been designated to permit certain persons to drive on campus. They are:
WORK CONTINUES—The $1.8 million addition to Watson Memorial Library is expected to be completed in January 1964.
Enrollment Jump Spurs Big Building Program
A major face lifting program planned for the University during the next few years has begun. Tractors and construction crews are at four different spots on the campus preparing for the flood of students expected in the next seven years.
Under various stages of construction are the $840,000 addition to Dyche Hall (the museum of Natural History next to the Kansas Union), a $1.8 million addition to Watson Library, the $1.9 million engineering building located west of Murphy Hall and another new dormitory.
Hashinger Hall, the new home for 444 KU women, was completed this summer in time for occupancy this semester.
ALREADY completed are five traffic control stations located at each entrance to the campus.
The new wing on Dyche Hall will be used for ornithology (bird study) laboratories. Keith Lawton, vicechancellor in charge of operations, said the addition is now about fifty per cent completed and should be finished by next April.
THE WATSON LIBRARY addition, built on the site of the old Journalism building, will provide space for 800,000 more books when it is finished in January, 1964.
The new engineering building, now about 45 per cent completed, is due for occupancy the fall semester of 1963.
Marvin Hall, the present engineering building, is scheduled for remodeling when the new engineering building is completed. Marvin will then be used concurrently with the new structure.
ALSO PROPOSED TO SHARE the site of the new engineering building is another building for
- Vehicles bearing the red, permanent campus pass sticker.
"We have to get rid of the architectural annex," Vice Chancellor Lawton said.
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"When Marvin is remodeled and the new engineering building is ready, perhaps then we can satisfactorily house the department of architecture for the first time in many years," he said.
- Persons having official business with University (but not vehicles of persons on personal business calls to individuals).
- Vehicles of staff, students, and faculty in emergencies, operational necessity, or other rare cases.
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Yearbook Available In Jayhawker Office
Students may obtain copies of the 1962 Jayhawker in the yearbook office in the Kansas Union, Thomas Tatlock, Wichita junior and yearbook editor, said Wednesday.
The original date for distribution was set for May 20.
The yearbook staff mailed 2500 yearbook sections this summer to students who gave their addresses and ID cards to staff members.
Tatiock said that students may also pick up conies during enrollment Thursday and Friday, at a table in the Union near the car registration table.
Students interested in joining the 1963 yearbook staff should contact Tatlock in the Jayhawker office. Positions open are proof-readers, writers, artists and photographers.