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Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
Thursday, Sept. 15, 1955
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
23rd Year, No. 2
LEWIN GOFF
'Picnic' Opens Theatre Season
"Picnic," by William Inge. KU's playwright alumnus, is to open the Fraser Theatre series of the KU University Theatre. The announcement was made by Dr. Lewin Goff, new director of the Theatre, last night at an open house held for all persons interested in theater.
The play, which has been made into a movie following its successful Broadway run, will be given October 26 through 29. Mr. Inge's original script will be followed for the production. The writer is also expected to visit the campus at the time of presentation.
TEYOUTS BEGIN TODAY
The Studio Theater will open its series with three one-act plays, "Finiculi, Finicula," "Lord Byron's Love Letter," and "Summer Comes to the Diamond O."
Open tryouts for "Picnic" and the one-acts will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today and tomorrow in Green Theater. Final readings will be held at 7 p.m. Monday Sept. 18 in Fraser Theater.
The remaining plays in the Fraser Theater Series are "Gammer Gurton's Needle," an Elizabethan farce. It will be presented December 7 through 10; "Carousel," a Rodgers and Hammerstein operetta, which will be done in connection with the KU Light Opera Guild February 6 through 10; "Pygmalion," to be given in honor of G. G. Shaw's 100th birthday. March 7 through 19 and "Cosi Fan Tutte."
the observance of the Mozart Festival, April 30, May 1 and 2.
Season tickets for both series will be available October 1 at the University Theater office, 202 Fraser Hall. There will be reduced rates for faculty and staff. Students will be admitted on their ID cards.
Traditions Convocation Set For 7 p.m.
MANHATTAN (UP) — Kansas State College students will be able to smoke in offices and designated areas in campus buildings for the first time this year, President James A. McCain said today.
K-State Lifts Ban On Campus Smoking
Symbols and history of the University of Kansas will be presented in the traditions convocation at 7:30 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium. Following the convocation, the 30th annual new student induction ceremonies will be held in Memorial Stadium.
Dr. McCain said he had accepted a recommendation of the faculty Senate that a college-wide ban against smoking except in residence balls, the Student Union and cafeteria be lifted.
Enrollment Up At K-State
The origin of the Jayhawker, Alma Mater, and Rock Chalk yell will be explained in the convocation Anderson, Salina senior, will narrate.
James Remsburg, Iola senior, is chairman of the convocation presentation, and Constance Cloyse Dorado junior, is assistant chairman.
SIMILAR TO PAST ONES
After Chancellor Murphy administers the oath of allegiance and interprets the obligations to the University, new students will join in the Alma Mater and Rock Chalk vell.
A torch race, symbolic of the life and work which has been passed down in universities for years, will be enacted by members of Sachem, senior men's honorary society, who will carry the lighted torch from school to the hill to Richard Wintermort, alumni secretary. He will pass the torch to a freshman representative who will light the altar fire.
ALL CLASSES REPRESENTED
Class representatives in the induction will be Thomas E. Ryther and Nan Noyes, graduates; Al Frame and Marjorie Pennington, Benjamin Lee, juniors; Lancell, juniors; Jim Trombold and Shirley Ward, sophomores, and Joe Hanna and Patsy Straub, freshmen.
SIMILAR TO FAST CUES
In Memorial stadium, induction ceremonies will begin with introductory remarks by All-Student Council president, George Sheldon, Salina senior. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will read the scripture, taken from Exodus 3:1-5.
The University Daily Kansan has a new news adviser, Emil L Telfel, associate professor of journalism, and moderator M. Pickett, assistant professor.
New Adviser Named For Daily Kansan
Mr. Telfel was adviser from 1947 to 1949, and again in 1950-51, during the illness and after the death in an automobile accident of Walter E Ewert, former assistant professor of journalism.
terias, be careful Dr. McCain said a prohibition against the use of tobacco in classrooms will remain.
Other students taking part in the ceremonies will include members of Mortar Board, senior women's honorary society, and Ku Kus and Jay Janes, student pep organizations.
Gene Bratton, journalism instructor, will continue as business adviser.
University Aims for Life In 'Atom Age,' Murphy Says
So far, 5,838 students have enrolled, according to Mr. Gerritz. That is an increase of 622 over the number registered at the same time last year. With 169 late enrollees, the final count last year was 5,385. A similar late surge would push the final total over the 6,000 mark.
OFFICIAL OPENING—Some of the 3,000 students and faculty members listening to Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's address at the 90th annual opening convocation this morning.
> Manhattan—(U.P.)—Kansas State College enrollment is running two years ahead of the expected en-
milion ordered to Ellsworth M. Gerritz, registrar
Mr. Gerritz said substantial increases in the number of students at upper levels, due to larger than anticipated numbers of transfer students and returning veterans, is accounting for much of the increase. The number of freshman students also is on the rise.
Organizations:
This Is For You
—Kansan photo by Dee Richards
Names of organizations and their presidents will be published in the Student Directory from records in the office of the dean of students.
The deadline for new listings is Saturday. Organization representatives must bring a typed list containing the organization's president, address, and telephone number to 217 Strong Hall.
Ise's Son Found In Plane Wreck
The private plane the four took off in Sunday has been the object of intensive air and ground search of the heavily wooded area. A Forestry Service ground search party found the wreckage shortly after 10:45 a.m.
The body of Charles Ise, 28, a University graduate and son of Dr John Ise, retired economics professor, was found today in the wreckage of a light plane along with the bodies of three other persons near Lake Pillsbury, Calif.
As a youth he attended schools in the Lawrence system. During undergraduate days, at the University of Alabama as a member of Alpha, Tau Omega fraternity.
Aboard the plane when it made a "touch-and-go" landing at the Lake Pillsbury strip late Sunday evening were Beverly Case, 22, recent University of California student from New York Calif. San Francisco, Calif. Hore, 22, San Rafael, Calif, and Mr. Ise, who is from Pittsburg, Calif.
Mr. Ise was graduated from the University in 1945. He served with the United States Army in Korea in 1960 and in Vietnam, then with the Siegel Oil Company in Texas.
He had been co-owner of a Dogg automobile agency in Pittsburgh.
Besides his parents, the only other immediate survivor is a brother, John Ise Jr., a physicist at Berkeley, Calif., who had helped in the search for the plane.
As KU began its 90th year this morning, 7,788 students had enrolled, James K. Hitt, director of admissions reported. The final figure is expected to go well beyond 8,000, he said.
7,788 Students Enrolled So Far
The increase of 628 over the comparable figure in 1954 was double that expected. The final and official figure of 7,063 for 1954 has already been topped, and late enrollments up to 300 are expected.
The new student total of 2,412,
consisting of 1,598 men and 814
women, is up 238 over the 1954
figure. Former students enrolled
number 4,689 on the Lawrence
campus an increase of 351. The
Medical Center reported 37 more
enrolled.
Registration on the Lawrence campus is 7,101 and 687 are at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City Kan.
There are 5,045 men on the Lawrence campus and 2,056 women
Detailed figures by schools and classes are not yet available.
4 States Seek New Highway
Topeka —(U.P.)— Four states— Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and New Mexico—today requested creation of U.S. 55 as the most direct diagonal route from Independence, Mo., to Springer, N.M.
Portions of three trafficways in Kansas which now have other designations would be included in the new federal highway.
The Kansas Highway Commission requested that the segment of U.S. 50N between Garden City and Larned be redesigned U.S. 155.
The decision will be up to the highway numbering committee of the American Association of State Highway Officials and the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads.
The Kansas action was in agreement with highway commissions of the other three states.
The goal of the University is to help the student understand new dimensions of knowledge for life in an "atomic age," Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said today as he listed improvements in and plans for the future of the University.
He spoke before about 3,000 students and the 90th annual opening convocation in Hoch Auditorium this morning.
Dr. Murphy announced that the State Legislature has appropriated money for a new building for the School of Business and the economic development, to be constructed south of the Military Science Building.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
Among other improvements during the past few months and future plans listed by the chancellor were
The housing program, including the dormitories opened this year, plans for a new men's dormitory to house 400, and preliminary planning for housing for married students and faculty members.
The remodeling of Bailey Hall for the School of Education.
Contracts for the new fine arts building.
Automation, through IBM equipment, business office and the Register's office.
Expansion in radio and television training and new courses in the history of the philosophy of science.
The chancellor also mentioned new buildings now being constructed at the medical center in Kansas City, a grant from the Ford Foundation for the study of the Kansas River basin, the first full time use, this fall, of Malott Hall and Allen Flood Hall, which will pay money from the State Legislature for a new engineering building and a major addition to the library.
GIVES REASONS
Dr. Murphy gave the reasons behind the University improvements after asking, "But why this complex plant, this select and competent faculty and the thousands of eager and interested students?"
"We are dealing basically with dimensions, or more properly, change in dimensions," Chancellor Murphy said.
"Needs of this age require the ability to move on to a new dimension of thought. To have this capacity requires knowledge of personal virtues, but above everything else requires imagination."
CAN GRASP ROLE
"Through the aid of the teacher, the student, citizen of a country which is no more than a few hours away from any part of the world, can grasp the role he must play in the new dimension."
"Let there be no mistake about it," the chancellor told the students and faculty, "we are not dealing with minor modification of our society—on the contrary we are engaged in a period in which the requirements are imagined and understand the extraordinary effort which is involved in moving from one to still another dimension."
The University Band played the processional and recessional. Dean Harold G. Barr of the School of Religion led the responsive reading and the Lord's Prayer. Roy Johnson, assistant professor of piano, played a piano solo.
Bulagain Reported ill
Moscow —(U.P.)— Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin is ill, it was reported today. The information came from sources close to the Finnish delegation to Moscow. Bulganin had to cancel a courtesy call today from Finnish Premier Urho Kekkonen.