Year Sees Completion Of Three New Dorms
By JOHN McMILLION
Three new University dormitories have been completed and construction has begun on another since the last Kansas Relays. Two of these dorms, Douthart and Grace Pearson, are now occupied by women students.
Recently completed was the new men's dormitory, Carruth R'O'Leary. In reality Carruth O'Leary is two dormitories sharing a central kitchen, office space, and reception hall. Located on the western side of the campus above the stadium, the $782,000 dorm offers what is perhaps the best view on the campus. A total of 200 men will be housed in the two dormitories when they are opened for occupancy next fall.
Currently under construction is a new women's dormitory, Gertrude Sellards Pearson. This dorm, which will house 443 women, mostly upperclassmen, will cost an estimated $1,375,060. Completion of this dorm is scheduled for next fall.
The Douthart and Grace Pearson women's dormitories are both similar in construction. Both are located on Louisiana street just off 14th. Douthart hall which cost $175,000 is a scholarship hall. It was occupied at the start of the fall semester this year.
Grace Pearson hall was not occupied until Dec. 1. As construction was not completed by the start of school. Prior to moving into the dorm, women who were scheduled to live in Grace Pearson lived at North College. Grace Pearson is a freshman dormitory and cost approximately $188,000.
Both Grace Pearson and Douthart are similar in construction. Both have the suite arrangement, with four girls living in each suite. Each suite has a central study room with two adjoining bedrooms. Both dormitories have recreation rooms located in the basement of the individual dorms.
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One of the major differences in the arrangements at the two women's dorms is that Grace Pearson has a kitchen staff while Douthart, being a scholarship dorm, has the resident split up into cooking shifts. The women do all their own cooking.
The new Carruth O'Leary men's dormitory offers the latest in modern conveniences. Two men are assigned to each room which contain ample drawer and wardrobe space. Each of the three floors of the two dorms is painted in an individual color scheme with the separate rooms and bathrooms corresponding to the hallways in color. The hallways are all sound-proofed to facilitate studying.
The bathrooms in Carruth O'Leary dormitory are made of tile which extends up the side of the walls and are of one solid color. One bathroom is located on each floor of both the Carruth wing and the O'Leary wing.
Completion of Douthart, Grace Pearson, and Carruth O'Leary dorms and the future completion of Gertrude Sellards Pearson will greatly alleviate the housing situation on the campus. According to J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, the "most pressing need at present is for men's housing." Mr. Wilson added, however, that the women aren't by any means taken care of.
Theater Group Has 2 Members
One of the smallest organized groups on the campus is the National Collegiate Players, a nationwide honorary organization for those who participate in theater work while in college. The KU chapter has two members, Marjorie Englund, education senior, president, and Sally Six, college senior.
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There are chapters at approximately 30 colleges in the United States. The national president is Howard C. Morgan of Capital university, Columbus, Ohio.
*Membership in the organization is not closed. Anyone can belong providing he can meet the point system required for membership.*
The basic requirement is 60 hours of college work. The rest of the points are based on actual
The University A Cappella choir, under the direction of Dr. Donald M. Swarthout, will open their spring concert road series May 10 in Topeka when they give a performance at a Topeka Hig school assembly program.
Topeka High To Hear Choir
Dr. Swarthout, organizer of the group, will be in charge of the program. Included in the choir's program will be early choral classics, Russian folk songs and liturgical selections, contemporary works, and Negro spirituals.
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Iowa State—May 6 and 7
Kansas State—May 13 and 14
Oklahoma—May 23 and 24
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theater work. Acting, stage and crew managing, designing and directing all have point values. Twenty points is the minimum for eligibility for membership. Four or five students will be eligible for membership at the end of the semester.
The organization also publishes the Players Magazine, which contains articles by persons in the theater the world over.
Speech Training Huge Program
One of the largest and most complete training programs at the University is in speech correction which extends speech clinic service to University students and persons in eastern Kansas.
"Our training program and clinic services are of the best in the Midwest," Dr. Richard Schiefelbusch, director of the training program and the speech clinic, says.
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The training program in speech correction begins at the junior level and extends through one year of graduate work. The speech clinic provides the training ground for students enrolled in the course.
The clinic, located in annex F. Strong hall, extends its service to all persons with speech difficulties. The majority of the work is with children, but services are offered to adults also.
The clinic works closely with the University of Kansas Medical center at Kansas City, and a similar clinic is set up for University students in Green hall. Four courses in the training sequence are taught by medical center faculty members.
The clinic also offers consultation to the State Division of Special Education at Topeka, the Kansas Crippled Children's commission, and the State Training school at Winfield, and several public schools throughout the state. Clinic personnel also participate in workshops at the medical center.
Medical center facility members teaching courses in the sequence here are June Miller, director of the hearing and speech department at the medical center; Dr. Niel Goetzinger, director of audiology, and Margaret Burn, assistant director of speech at the medical center.
Working with Dr. Schiefelbusch in the training program and the clinic are Bernard Stoll, superintendent of the clinic, and Margaret Anderson, associate professor and director of the service clinic for University students.
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KU's Compleat Anglers Have Haven In Ponds
By MARION McCOY
An unobtainable Utopia for fishermen, the University's fish ponds are now well under way to completion. A University project begun in the summer of 1953, the eight ponds have been used as an outdoor laboratory for students and for research work on fish and ponds throughout the state.
Frank Cross, assistant professor of zoology, is in charge of the ponds for the University. He said they are supplied with water from a reservoir which pipes water underground to each individual pond. Five ponds are now in use. Three of them contain channel catfish and the other two contain large mouth bass.
Dr. Cross said the research work was aimed at finding out means by which farm pond owners can get the best results from their ponds. He said one of the experiments they do in the laboratory is to feed the channel catfish to see if this would be justified economically.
For determining the age of catfish, the laboratory contains an electrical saw. With this saw sections of a fin-spine can be cut. Because fish grow only in the summer months. Dr. Cross said rings form in the bone of the fin-spine. When examined under a microscope the number of rings show how many winters the fish have been through.
Dr. Cross listed several instances where the laboratory has helped with pond problems throughout the state. In Lawrence, he said, a man recently came to him inquiring what he could feed channel catfish economically to raise them to larger size. This is a problem which
Dr. Cross is currently interested. By working together the pond owner and University research could be passed from fish raiser to fish raiser and help the entire community.
When the Fort Leavenworth personnel on the post decided their pond needed improvement, they came to Dr. Cross for suggestions. The fish were too small. They drained the pond and found mostly small blue gills and green sun fish. Dr. Cross gave them suggestions on how to stock their pond, when to fertilize, and when it should be opened again for fishing.
Another recent inquiry concerned a rearing pond at one of the county lakes. The county officials discovered that the channel catfish they had kept during the winter in the rearing pond had become diseased and were dying at a rapid rate. Dr. Cross recommended that the pond be drained, killing the spores of the parasites, and eventually re-filled.
Dr. Cross said all of the eight ponds will be filled within the next few years. The water in the reservoir is low at this time, but Dr. Cross said the University is continuing to take advantage of the laboratory facilities and research work, which will be advanced when all the ponds are eventually filled.
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