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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949
MONDAY
Allen Seeks Field House That Would Seat 14,000
The University's inadequate facilities for varsity basketball, indoor track, physical education, and indoor intramurals will be brought up to the standard of the nation's leading schools if hopes for a field house are realized.
As yet no money has been made available for the construction of a
field house, but a request for $700.000 as a starter for the building has been approved by the Board of Regents. It is one of eight building requests which has been submitted to the legislature for the biennium beginning July 1.
A field house has long been the dream of venerable Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, Kansas's 63-year-old dean of American basketball coaches. Dr. Allen doesn't mince any words when he says that the University's indoor sports facilities are not quite up to the standards of some of the more progressive schools in the country. K.U. has the poorest playing facilities of any school in the country with a comparable all-time record for winning championships," he declared.
Indoor track athletes, hampered by a short track and cramped quarters in their allotted space under Memorial stadium, are forced to schedule all their indoor meets away from home.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, pointed out that this is only a fraction of the total amount of money needed for the field house and that additional funds would have to be raised through bond issues and more appropriations by the legislature.
Hoeh auditorium, where basketball games have been played for the past two decades, will seat only about a third of the student body. Because concerts, lectures and orch., extra rehearsals frequently are held in Hoeh. it is available to the varsity basketball squad for practice only part of the time.
Kansas has won or tied more conference championships than any school in the country. Few teams can even approach the Jayhawkers' all-time record of 622 wins and 268 losses.
Dr. Allen, who has done just about everything in the game but put the bounce in the ball, has guided the Jayhawkers to 20 of their 25 championships in his 31 years as head coach. Kansas' total of 12 titles in the Big Six conference, which was organized in 1928, is more than all the rest of the schools combined.
The capacity of the field house should be at least 14,000. Dr. Allen said. Basketball would easily draw that many for every game because the student body has increased and there are a million people within a 100-mile radius of the University, he pointed out.
He said that it is "high time the state recognized the future of basketball here as Oklahoma, Iowa, and others have done." He added that the present $700,000 request would "build little more than a good hay barn."
No structural plans for the field house have been drawn up Mr. Nichols said. Kansas State college already has $1,000,000 for a field house, and has been working on plans for the past four years.
"Who can say," he asked. "what the enrollment of the University or the population of this area will be five or ten years from now?"
If KU. plans are essentially the same, the University will use Kansas State's blue prints for the fundamental structure. Mr. Nichols said, pointing out that this move would save much time and money.
Whether the capacity should be 14,000,10,000,or just 8.000 is a question yet to be decided, he added.
Kansas State plans call for a seating capacity of 11,000, with half of that number being seated in a four-sided balcony, and the remainder in removable seats covering the track.
Mr. Nichols was not altogether in accord with Dr. Allen as to what the seating capacity should be.
Among sites being considered are the baseball field, the women's hockey field, the area now used for intramural football fields, and the area south of the stadium.
They All Agree About 'Shack'
Journalism students are impatiently waiting for the move of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information to its new quarters in Fowler shops, still to be remodeled at an estimated cost of $300,000.
Most of the students agreed that there just isn't enough room in the "Shack." as the present building is called. Here's what is said:
Gerald V. Fetterow, journalism senior: "There would be more class room and laboratory space available in Fowler."
Gerald E. Edgar, senior: "I think our greatest need is for more class room space.
Lee W. Dyer, junior: "The present building is overcrowded. Two class rooms just aren't enough for a school this large."
Leonard J. Snyder, senior; "When I came to the University I expected to see some sort of reorganization soon, but the only change that's been made since the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information was established has been in the name, and the fact that you now get a B.S. diploma. The school needs more space to live up to its promises."
Lloyd T. Holbeck, sophomore: "The quality of the University Daily Kansas could be improved in better quarters, because less time would be wasted."
Doris E. Greenbank, sophomore: "People coming into the building wouldn't be compelled to walk through the University Daily Kansas newsroom. There would be less confusion."
Carol M. Buhler, junior: "The heating arrangement here is an antique, and we don't have enough class rooms."
Anne M. Murphy, senior and editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansan, was so overcome by the question that she merely threw her hands in the air and said, "We have to do something."
KU Buildings
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No sizable increase in the number of permanent classrooms has been made since Frank Strong ball was completed in 1923. The five buildings provided by state appropriations in the succeeding 25 years have added little classroom space.
Lindley hall (1943) is primarily a laboratory building for the state service of the geological survey and related teaching departments. The Military Science building (1943), financed in small part by a state appropriation but mainly by gifts, provides minimum quarters for the various military units. A small space vacated by the R.O.T.C. provides room for part of the engineering laboratories.
Watson library (1924) and Hoch auditorium (1927) added none. Snow hall (1930), replacement for the old condemned Snow hall, is a laboratory for the biological sciences.
The Chancellor said that the emergency buildings provided by the federal government have added about 15 per cent to total classroom and laboratory space.
Buildings now in use, or being built, have adequate classrooms for fewer than 6,000 students in normal times.
Leaders Tell Of Study Needs In Fraternities
"These buildings are temporary, expensive to operate, and at best will last but a few more years," Chancellor Malott commented.
A stern Warning to improve scholarship, sponsor constructive and charitable projects, and seek better relations with the public was given at the seventh annual Interfraternity Council Central Regional conference held here Friday and Saturday.
In a welcoming address Friday morning Chancellor Deane W. Malott told the delegates that fraternities should strike to strive a balance between social life and scholarship.
"Too often the prowess of a fraternity is measured by social or athletic successes, and too little by scholastic ability. I would like to see social fraternities become less social and more studious," he said.
Commenting on pertinent fraternity problems, Colonel Wilson said that bad publicity about fraternities could not be balanced with rebuttals and actual facts because most publications will not publish the material as reader interest does not warrant it.
"Of 1,842 fraternity chapters in the United States, 690 have scholarship equal to or above the average of all their institutions," he said.
Colonel Ralph W. Wilson, Lexington, Ky., Sigma Chi National Interfraternity council scholarship chairman, told the group that fraternity scholarship as a whole must be improved.
Emmett J. Junge, Lineinn, Neb., president of the general council of Phi Delta Theta, said he believed that enough thought has not been given to citizenship on campus and in fraternities of this country in the past.
"We are privileged to attend good universities and we should have in our chapters fine training ground for good citizens," he said.
Mr. Junge said that a grave problem fraternities face today is drinking.
"Drinking is becoming more and more a part of our social system. It makes it difficult to know when and where to draw the line," he explained.
"I say that your university must make the rules on the campus, and it is up to the fraternities to abide by them."
Mr. Junge deplored the practice of physical hazing during pledge training. He also stressed the importance of keeping in close contact with alumni.
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of men, advised interfraternity councils to wipe out their petty grievances and to work together for the good of the fraternities as a whole.
Dr. Allen C. Whipple, clinical director of Memorial hospital in New York City and professor of surgery at Columbia university, will give the sixteenth annual Porter lectureship at the University of Kansas school of medicine, Monday and Tuesday, March 14 and 15.
The conference in 1950 will be held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.
Whipple To Give Medical Lectures
Dr. Whipple will speak at the K.U. Medical center in Kansas City on "Indications and Results in Surgery of Cancer of the Pancreas and Ampullary Region." The next morning he will discuss "Problems in Portal Hypertension" at the University. Then he will return to the Medical center to speak on "Indications and Results of Present-Day Radical Surgery in Cancer."
The conference passed a resolution to incorporate the suggestions made by these leaders.
The "fire trap" buildings at K.U. must be replaced by fireproof structures.
The lectureship is the result of a bequest by the late Dr. J. L. Porter of Paola. The lectures are open to the public.
Enrollment Goes From 895 To10,891 In 53 Years
When Blake hall, which houses the physics department, was constructed at the University of Kansas in 1895, the student enrollment was 895.
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Five years later a structure named Bailey laboratories was completed. The enrollment then had climbed to 1,154 students. Bailey, described by chemistry professors and students as a "fire trap," still is used for instruction and research in chemistry— despite that enrollment for the 1947- 48 school year had increased to 10,891.
C. C. Singleton, regional structural engineer for the Portland Cement association, Philadelphia, will speak on re-inforced concrete construction to students in architecture and civil engineering at 4 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union.
Cement Official To Speak Today
He will discuss developments in re-inforced concrete design and construction of multi-story buildings, long span roofs, precast walls, precast structural frames, and prestressed concrete.
Slides will be used to illustrate the developments discussed.
Only 50 students were in the physics department, which had a staff of two men, when Blake was built, Professor Stranathan said. The department now serves 1,100 students and has a staff of 27.
Eighteen of the instructors share one office. This doesn't affect the student much because most personal consultations are held in the laboratories. It does hamper the instructors in their study. Mr. Stranathan said
Advancements in modern physics and increased numbers of students have exceeded the facilities of Blake hall, J. D. Stranathan, professor of physics, believes.
Blake, built in 1895, is still usable, but there isn't enough room for the teaching and research being done in the department, he said.
"We are so crowded in our laboratories that we have to run the general physies laboratories from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, right through the noon hour," he added. "Classrooms are entirely inadequate from the standpoint of size and such facilities as blackboards and other equipment."
Old Blake Hall Much Too Small
Research is another activity that feels the pinch, Mr. Stranathan explained. There were no physics majors when Blake was built. Now there are 70 undergraduate and 35 graduate physics majors. Besides the 35 graduate majors, who are doing or will do research, nine men are doing outside research projects, the physics professor said.
"Research facilities are not adequate to undertake a number of research problems that outside agencies would like to have us work on," he declared.
"Our available space won't allow proper use of the apparatus we now have in the department," he added, emphasizing that the primary need of the department is not equipment but a place to put it.
Professor Stranathan approves of the plan to put the physics, mathematics, and chemistry departments in one building, although he believes that some minor problems might be involved.
"I think the departments naturally go together because they constitute the three basic physical sciences and research in the fields overlap to such an extent," he said.
The young men and women of Kansas need better buildings in which to get their training at K.U.
Students can not get the full value out of their University training in creaky, crowded, smelly chemistry laboratories.
KU. needs more streamlined buildings in an era when Model T Ford educational methods are no longer productive.
University enrollment from 1865 to 1930 is shown for every fifth year in the table below. Yearly enrollment (including summer sessions) is shown from 1930 through the 1947-48 school year.
| Year | Men | Women | Total |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1866-67 | 29 | 26 | 55 |
| 1870-71 | 103 | 124 | 227 |
| 1875-76 | 117 | 120 | 237 |
| 1880-81 | 276 | 190 | 466 |
| 1885-86 | 258 | 161 | 419 |
| 1890-91 | 316 | 158 | 474 |
| 1895-96 | 369 | 326 | 895 |
| 1900-01 | 738 | 416 | 1,154 |
| 1905-06 | 1,124 | 582 | 1,656 |
| 1910-11 | 1,506 | 892 | 2,396 |
| 1915-11 | 1,813 | 1,146 | 2,959 |
| 1920-21 | 2,574 | 1,652 | 4,226 |
| 1925-26 | 3,210 | 2,323 | 5,536 |
| 1930-31 | 3,412 | 2,484 | 5,896 |
| 1931-32 | 3,344 | 2,314 | 5,658 |
| 1932-33 | 2,940 | 1,911 | 4,851 |
| 1933-34 | 2,878 | 1,671 | 4,549 |
| 1934-35 | 3,165 | 1,737 | 4,902 |
| 1934-36 | 3,395 | 1,824 | 5,219 |
| 1936-37 | 3,605 | 1,984 | 5,589 |
| 1937-38 | 3,618 | 1,918 | 5,536 |
| 1938-39 | 3,582 | 1,906 | 5,488 |
| 1939-40 | 3,573 | 1,912 | 5,488 |
| 1940-41 | 3,460 | 1,839 | 5,298 |
| 1941-42 | 3,017 | 1,739 | 4,756 |
| 1942-43 | 2,696 | 1,714 | 4,410 |
| 1942-44 | 3,299 | 1,746 | 5,045 |
| 1944-45 | 1,790 | 1,974 | 3,764 |
| 1945-46 | 3,929 | 2,366 | 6,293 |
| 1946-47 | 7,774 | 2,665 | 10,439 |
| 1947-48 | 8,165 | 2,726 | 10,891 |
A quilt made by the wife of Francis Scott Key, a collection of 12 old Bibles each in a different language, and a set of cups and saucers which have passed through six generations since the 1770's are among the more unique possessions to be shown. China, colored ad patterned glass, old silver, jewelry, dolls, laces, coverlets, baby clothes, pewter, and buttons are other items to be displayed.
Club members with articles to lend for the display are requested to call Mrs. Fred Ellsworth, chairman, by tomorrow so that space may be planned and arranged in advance. Contributions are to be brought with identification cards to Myers hall between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m., or 12 and 2 p.m. Thursday. Owners will unpack and arrange their articles.
Antiques and heirlooms will be displayed by members of the University Women's club at 3 pm Thursday in Myers hall. The club's program for its March meeting presents an opportunity for enjoyment of one another's treasures.
Committees for the tea include general chairman, Mrs. Leonard Axe, tea tables, Mrs. E. E. Bayles and Mrs. Arvid Jacobson; hostesses, mesdames Henry Shenk, W. H. Horr, R. W. Lamberton, Paul McCollum, Burton W. Marvin, F. P. O'Brien, F. A. Russell, W. Keith Wellner, George Kreye, James R. Barron, and Howard Baumgartel; refreshments, mesdames James Sranathan, J. Chalmers Herman, Henry P. Smith, Harold G. Barr, Carroll D. Clark, J. D. Morgan, and Miss Wealthy Babcock.
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Interviews scheduled for the next three weeks are: Armstrong Cork company; Continental Oil company; General Motors corporation. Detroit Proctor and Gamble, Kansas City Mo.; and Wilson Meat Packing company, Kansas City, Kan.
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