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Thursday, Oct. 1, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Plasterer Looks Back on 25 Years at KU
Otto Garber did not want his picture in the paper. In fact, the idea of an interview embarrassed him.
"The fellows will razz me to death." he said.
Garber, "Ott" to almost everyone who knows him well.
Otto Garber
. . . "I'm going to miss it."
has been a plasterer for the University of Kansas Buildings and Grounds department for nearly 25 years. He will retire in less than two months.
He said that once when he was working in Dyke Auditorium a scaffold collapsed while the foreman was standing on it.
"I've had a lot of good times working here," he said. "I'm going to miss it."
"Luckily, there was another scaffold underneath him," Garber said. "I don't know how it
happened but he lit right on his feet on the second scaffold without so much as a scratch."
Garber said he had done quite a bit of work in the chancellor's house over the years.
"I remember when Mr. Mallot was the chancellor, his wife called me to plaster the bathroom ceiling. I picked up my bucket of plaster and hightailed it over there quick," he said. "Unfortunately, someone had put some lime in the plaster. Well, I plastered it up all right, but I sure heard about it for a while."
The next day some of the other workers teased him about the job he had done. He thought they
were joking. They were not. The lime in the bucket caused the plaster to shrivel up and peel off the ceiling.
"Of course, I went up there right away and fixed it but I was really embarrassed," he said.
Garber, a volunteer policeman for 15 years, said he had seen many changes on the campus. Old Fraser and Haworth have both been replaced by newer buildings. The old gymnasium was torn down and Robinson took its place. Summerfield, Larned, Murphy and Haworth are just a few of the buildings constructed during the past 25 years.
'My daughter, Nettiellen.
"I'm really going to miss working for Buildings and Grounds," he said. "Those fellows down there are just great."
In an interview, Wilson said he started writing poetry about five
that he will still do some part time work around the community.
graduated from here in '58," Garber said. "Students sure dressed better then. The kids today look kind of sloppy. Looks like they would have more pride in the way they look."
"Ott" he will have more time to fish when he retires but
Poet from San Francisco To Give Reading Today
David Wilson, a former KU student and a poet from San Francisco, will read his poems during Student Union Activities' Second poetry hour at 4:30 p.m. today in the music room of the Kansas Union.
Wilson attended KU in 1968. He is now living in Lawrence waiting to find out whether his book entitled "Were We Us" will be published. Wilson will read poems from this book today.
years ago.
"I had to spend several weeks at home recovering from a wreck I had," he said. "One day I was sitting in front of a bookcase and as I looked at the books, each book seemed to give me a different image and sound."
Wilson said he was more concerned with the sounds of words than with their meanings.
"I was on welfare, out in California, when I wrote most of my poems," he said, "not out in the insanity of the street with cars and people."
Student Senate Meets Oct.7
The Student Senate by laws stipulate that a Senate meeting will be held every two weeks, according to Suzie White, Hutchinson senior and Student Senate secretary.
Bill Ebert, Topeka Senior and student body president is responsible for calling Senate meetings. Ebert said that the criteria he used for calling meetings was whether or not there was any business to transact.
Ebert said that if they were held any more often than this, there would be a problem with getting a quorum at the meetings.
As far as the application of the by laws is concerned, Ebert said that he felt they were out of date, and was in the process of rewriting them to make them more useful to the operation of the Senate.
"We want to have at least one every month and more if we need them," said Ebert.
The Senate Code, which supersedes the by laws, specifies that the Senate shall meet at least three times an academic year.
The next Senate meeting is scheduled for Oct. 7.
Wilson said, "A poem may be something that catches your ear; with all that noise in the world, you sometimes hear something that sounds different."
"You don't think when you write a poem—it is more like a compassion," said Wilson.
Philippine tourism
MANILA (UPI) - A total of 66,019 tourists visited the Philippines in the first six months of 1970, according to the Board of Tourist and Travel Industry. Officials said the total represented a 13.37 per cent increase over the first half of 1969.
Instructor Of Meditation Leaves KU
Casey Coleman, a student of the Mahesh Maharishi, an Indian philosopher, left the University of Kansas today after spending a week teaching a course in transcendental meditation.
Coleman has been an instructor of transcendental meditation for a year and a half. He taught the course at KU last November, the first time it was offered.
The course in transcendental meditation was sponsored by the students' International Meditation Society.
Coleman conducted classes for four nights, teaching his students the basic ideas and introductory methods of transcendental meditation. After the four days of instruction the students meet weekly with local instructors to discuss and to learn more about meditation. Coleman said this instruction is to go on five years before the student completely understands the art of meditation.
Coleman said that the objective of the course was to learn to use the human mind to its fullest capacity.
"It only makes sense that we need to use 100 per cent of our minds to be normal," Coleman said. He said that transcendental meditation was a technique of expanding the conscious capacity of the mind.
Coleman will instruct courses at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and Columbia and in St. Louis during the next month.
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