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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 7, 1952
Celebrities Boost Concert Course
By KEN COY
Great names in the entertainment world have appeared on the campus for 49 years through the auspices of the University Concert Course. ___
In these years the University has developed its own "Hall of Fame" in the corridor of Hoch auditorium. There are about 63 autographed photographs now on display there.
This collection was started by
D. M. SWARTHOUT
Air ROTC Band Grows With Unit
By CLARKE KEYS
With the rapid growth and development of the Air Force ROTC unit at the University has been the rapid growth and development of the unit's musical organization.
The history of this unit, today a 45-piece marching and concert band, has been short, but plentiful. The unit was first organized in the spring of 1950 as a drum and bugle corps with 10 buglers and 10 drummers. Their first appearance was in the Kansas Relays parade of that year. Since then the organization has had growing pains almost every moment.
In the fall of 1950 the unit was expanded somewhat and trumpets replaced the bugles and four trombones were added. The unit still resembled a drum and bugle corps, however.
Finally in 1951 the Air Force unit changed into a full fledged band of 35 members. Reorganization plans and troubles hampered the organization, but it still played for the Air Force fall review and the all-services review in the spring.
This year the band was expanded to 45 members for marching and 50 for concerts. Past the planning stage and with some experience behind it the band is setting out on an expanded performance program. Besides playing for reviews and parades, the band will perform in schools and before various groups this year.
The unit is under the direction of Cadet Maj. Bill McClelland for the second year. It has a cadet staff of its own and works directly under cadet wing headquarters.
The band members devote three extra hours to the unit besides their regular ROTC class and drill sessions. Two hours on Tuesday night are given to music practice while one hour Wednesday afternoon the group drills as a unit.
The band has already received several invitations to play away from the campus and is presently working for the Air Force review within the next month.
Few units in the country can boast of any musical units of any kind, while fewer still can support a full band. The band, while still in the growing stage, has taken a firm footing in the KU scene and is a source of pride not only to the unit, but to the whole school.
D. M. Swarthout, professor of piano, when Hoch auditorium was first opened to the public about 25 years ago.
Since then the collection has grown and the attractions have filled the auditorium time after time. The programs have offered a variety of entertainment.
There have been classical artists, ballet companies, opera companies, popular singers, bands, a trous of French marionettes, and even unclassified entertainment such as Smoke Jones.
These entertainers have represented many countries, races, and creeds. They have been from France, Germany, Holland, India, Japan, Austria, Russia, Hungary, and Spain, to mention only a few.
The programs have not always seemed immediately successful. For example, Lawrence Tibbett once kept 3,500 people waiting in the auditorium and didn't perform because of an attack of laryngitis.
However, always the good showman, he made the trip back the next year and thrilled a crowded house with his singing.
One of the favorites was Alec Templeton, the blind pianist, who presented a concert here in 1941. Mr. Templeton has memorized about 4,000 pieces of music to enable him to be one of America's best-leaved artists.
In 1932 Dusolina Giannini, a soprano, performed. As she walked on the stage and began her first number, a record-breaking sneeze from one qf the audience disrupted her song.
song.
Later in her dressing room a student apologized for sneezing and she said good-naturedly, "Never in my life have I heard a sneeze such as that!"
Other great names such as Paderewski, Heifetz, Rubinstein, John Philip Sousa, John Charles Thomas, Galli Curci, Turbi, Gladys Swarthout, and many more have performed here.
This year, the 50th season for the concert course, has an equal number of well-known artists. Among the features will be the Wagner opera company presenting "Carmen"; Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist; the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra; the Ballet theater, and Robert Rounseville, New York Opera company tenor.
Cars Give Police Grid Headache
Double Lawrence's car population and you have a traffic problem. But multiply it by two, put all of these cars on the streets at the same time, and head them all for the same place in the city, and you have some idea of the headache that confronts local law enforcement officers on a football Saturday afternoon.
Bv RICH CLARKSON
It takes no small degree of planning to get an estimated 10,000 cars into and out of this city for a big football game. And the local police officials have tried just about everything but a shoe horn to fit that mass of polished metal and moulded rubber valued at 30 times the original cost of the Memorial stadium into an area within a few blocks of the structure.
After several year's experience, the Lawrence police department, the University campus patrolmen, the Douglas county sheriff's office, and the Kansas Highway patrol, have all combined resources in a systematic approach to the problem.
The four organizations, working in cooperation, now put into effect each football Saturday a plan which helps funnel the auto-born crowds into the city and to the immediate stadium area with a minimum of congestion.
NEW SCIENCE BUILDING—This is how the new $24 million Science building will look when completed next fall. The structure is now about 60 per cent completed, according to Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor. The building will house facilities for the School of Pharmacy and the departments
Construction Progressing Rapidly On $21/2 Million Science Building
By JERRY KNUDSON
Work is progressing rapidly on the new $21/2 million Science building rising on the south slope of Mount Oread—one of the many improvements of the University's long-range building program.
The structure is now about 60 per cent completed, according to Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor. B. A. Green, contractor, said that it will be finished "sometime next fall."
The Science building will contain the most modern facilities and equipment for the departments of physics and chemistry and the School of Pharmacy.
Construction is approximately on schedule even after the delay caused last March 12 when a 75-mile-per-hour wind toppled five stories of steel girders erected over the center section.
Bailey chemistry laboratories will be remodeled to house the School of Education, Mr. Lawton said, and the future of Blake hall is now being decided in the University planning council.
Damage was estimated at between $30,000 and $40,000 at the time, but Mr. Green said it proved to be only around $18,000 because much of the 200-ton steel framework was salvageable.
The over-all dimensions of the structure are 259 by 167 feet. About
A total of 1,200 tons of facing stone, native Kansas limestone quarried near Junction City, will be needed.
9,900 yards of concrete, 550 tons of reinforcing steel, and 100 tons of structural steel will be used by the time it is finished.
The building rises about 90 feet above the slope, and the main entrance on the north side is two floors above the ground line of the south side.
The department of chemistry will be located in the six-story east wing and lower half of the center section, both of which will contain laboratories for graduate and undergraduate courses in organic, inorganic, analytic, and physical chemistry.
There is ample space for balance, apparatus, supply and record rooms in the chemistry sections. Large auditorium lecture rooms are on the first and second floors of the center section.
The School of Pharmacy will have more laboratory and lecture space in its new quarters in the
upper half of the center section.
The department of physics will occupy the five-story west wing, which will have excellent facilities, including 25 research rooms, for atomic physics, optics, electronics, and other fields.
In the basement of the west wing will be most of the heavy equipment for the department, including a badly-needed extensive machine shop A 3 million volt electro-static generator will furnish power, and electricity for the wing will be distributed from a 20-foot main switchboard containing about 1,000 outlets and circuit breakers.
In other parts of the basement floor of the entire building will be an inflammable solvents cave, a shop for glass blowing, four rooms at stable temperatures for research and supply, and a spectroscopy and dark room.
A nuclear physics laboratory will be completely underground at the front of the building and will be covered with a three-foot slab of concrete.
A huge science library on the sixth floor of the center section will be for use by all three departments. There will be two large reading rooms in addition to the space for stacks.
Half of Male Enrollment in ROTC
By CLARK KEYS
Just as the nation's military forces have grown in size in the last two years, so have the University's Reserve Officer Training Corps units. This year a record number of 1,869 men (nearly half of the male enrollment), are enrolled in the programs.
KU is one of the few Universities in the nation offering ROTC courses in all three branches of the service the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
The Army had things to itself until 1946 when the Navy program was started. The Air Force followed in 1949 after being made a separate branch of the service.
The Army ROTC unit was established in 1919 following the passage of the Morrell act, the land grant college law. The unit replaced the Student Army Training corps that had been there since 1928. School was a land grant school, participation in the ROTC program was, and is, voluntary.
The courses in each branch are normally four years in duration, although it is possible in some cases to complete the programs in three. Upon completion of the course and the receiving of a degree from the University, the student is commissioned either in the reserve or as a regular in his respective branch of service.
The Air Force unit, although the youngest, has grown to be the largest of the three units. It currently has 1,114 men enrolled. A staff of over 20 officers and enlisted men, headed by Col. Lynn R. Moore, professor of air science, instructs this group.
Nearly 800 of the Air Force candidates are in the freshman and sophomore years, or the basic course, while the remainder are in the advanced course. The only limitation on the number who may enroll in the freshman year is the number the staff can handle effectively.
Under a nationwide AFROTC plan, KU is to supply almost 200 commissioned officers each year. The great majority of these are given commissions in the reserve, but a few may be given regular commissions.
The Navy unit, commanded by Capt. William R. Terrel, professor of naval science, is limited to a much smaller number of students and thus is the smallest of the three units. This year there are 287 enrolled in the program.
The Air Force unit here is organized under a cadet wing with four groups and a band. The cadet officers in the Air Force are given a great deal of the responsibility for running the unit.
The Navy actually has two different programs. About 130 of the cadets are in the program on a
scholarship valued at $5,000. Their tuition is paid, their books are furnished and they draw certain other allotments. Upon graduation these students are commissioned in the regular Navy.
The remainder of the midshipman are in the program much as are the cadets in the Army or Air Force. These students pay their own way and receive a small subsistance check during the last two years of the program. They are commissioned in the reserve upon completing the program.
The Army has 468 cadets this year, an increase of about 150 per cent over last year. The great majority of these cadets are freshmen and sophomores. The Army is practically on the same basis as the Air Force with students receiving pay and uniforms the last two years of the course.
Most of the cadets draw reserve commissions at graduation, but distinguished military students are eligible to compete for regular commissions.
The Army is organized into two battalions this year. The commander of the unit is Col. Edward F. Kumpe, professor of military science.
The ROTC units of today are furnishing more and more of the ficers for today's armed forces are one of the most important parts of each branch's organization.