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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Jan. 12, 1956.
Music Room Is Fine For Studying
By JANE PECINOVSKY
(Daily Kansan Society Editor)
First of series of features on
rooms in Student Unit.)
Informality keynotes the relaxed atmosphere of the music and browsing room in the Student Union where students may read the latest magazines and local newspapers while listening to classical and semi-classical music.
But the room is not only for browsing—its 62 leather fabric and upholstered easy chairs and benches are filled from the time it opens until it closes each day with students who are studying.
Music from the unique phonograph, a 45 rpm high fidelity record player which holds 100 records, is piped to all corners of the room through loud speakers. By doing the selecting himself, a student may listen to any recording. This is one joke box that plays classical music and is free!
The Student Union Activities organization plans cultural and informative programs which include talents from the University and English, and political science departments, and of well-known personalities.
Examples of these programs and speeches are the travel coffees held on Monday afternoons, the political
Indiana Professor Here
Dr. J. Edward Hedges, professor of insurance at the University of Indiana, visited the KU campus Wednesday. Dr. Hedges visited with Dean Leonard Axe of the School of Business, and with other members of the faculty, on official business for his institution. A native of Baldwin, he received his bachelor's degree from Baker University in 1928, his master's from the University in 1932, and his doctor's from Johns Hopkins in 1935.
On the book shelves which are built into the wood paneled walls and on the low modernistic tables are 40 books, including fiction and non-fiction, 40 current periodicals, and daily papers from this area.
coffees on Wednesday afternoons, the poetry hour on Thursday, and occasionally a guest speaker, such as a visiting Humanities lecturer.
the windows, the room's carpeting is of beige and brown squares.
The soundproof ceiling made of acoustical the tiles about three feet down the side of the wall, and because it prevents the sound from bouncing, makes the room an excellent place for speakers to present talks.
Free Music
Today the music and browsms room is just what it was planned to be—a place where students may go for informality and relaxation in studying or browsing.
The present music and browsing room was opened Feb. 27, 1953, after the Student Union enlarging and redecorating program was completed. A mirrored post surrounded by an artificial tree in the center of the room soon became the most talked-about decorative piece.
Opened In 1953
In 1926 the Carnegie Foundation gave the University a record player and $2,500 for records. These were placed in the east room, the first Student Union music room, and although it is impossible to play them, many of those first records are still in the Student Union record library.
Also a retreat for meditation, the room is decorated in soft colors which are harmonious and pleasing. With dark green-brown drapes at
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