TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Relief for Crowded Geologists
Lack of Space In Haworth Is Research Stymie
Haworth hall, the stone building between Robinson gym and Hoch auditorium, was built in 1908. On the outside it is an ordinary building, similar to others on the campus, but from the inside it is a puzzle, a paradox, and crowded from basement to attic.
Housed in Haworth are the departments of geology, mining and metallurgical engineering, petroleum engineering, and the Kansas Geological Survey.
A directory is a necessity to find the rooms of this building. Near the front door and upstairs, are the rooms for the geology department; downstairs, the offices, classrooms and laboratories of the mining and petroleum engineering departments; toward the rear are the machinery labs of the mining engineers, a store room, and the assaying labs all in one big room. Under this room, in a cone-like space are the offices of the mining department. Along the ceiling of the big room is suspended a cat-walk, the only way to the offices of the Survey. Under the Survey offices and back in a lean-to which originally was built for a garage, are the clay laboratories of the department of design and the clay laboratories of the Survey. Then continued in the basement of Hoch auditorium, wound in and out among machinery and store rooms, are the offices of the Survey staff, geology department, and graduate students, classrooms, invertebrate fossil museum, and a preparation room for fossils.
In addition to the maze already described the chemical engineering department is located in the Bailey Chemical laboratories, and the department of ground-water supplies was wedged in the balcony of the mechanical engineering building.
These are a few of the conditions which are the basis for the campaign for a new Mineral Industries building for the University.
Thus Haworth is used not only for the instruction of students but also as the only place on the campus available to carry on research of the mineral industries of Kansas and the development of the mineral resources of the state. Although Kansas is generally though of as an agricultural state, which is true, it also is a mineral-producing state. In 1939, Kansas ranked seventh among the states of the Union in minerals.
In addition to performing statewide work, the various departments in Haworth are now working in cooperation with the nation-wide research of industries in connection with the national defense program.
All these activities are headquartered in Haworth hall. The new Mineral Industries building, if and when built, would be the new headquarters of these departments and their many activities.
HOD BURGER comes to the University of Kansas from Seaman high school in Topeka. He is 17 years old, weighs 155 pounds, and stands five feet, eleven. Burger played halfback at which position he lettered three years.
Above is the architects' sketch of the proposed Mineral Industries building which will be built directly west of the Observatory if
Speech Tryouts To Be Nov.4
Tryouts for the sixteenth annual Campus Problems speaking contest will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov.4, in the Little Theater of Green hall, for the purpose of choosing eight finalists to compete for a silver loving cup.
This contest is held annually to provide students an opportunity for speaking experience. Any University student is eligible to enter with a four-minute speech on any campus problem. Those chosen for the finals will compete Nov. 12 for the silver cup.
Miss Margaret Anderson, of the department of speech and dramatic art, is in charge of the contest entries. Any student may enter by submitting his name to Miss Anderson before Monday noon, Nov. 4.
To Set Dates Scon For Cage Playoffs
Dates for the Western National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball playoffs and the national finals the following week will be set soon according to Dr. F. C. Allen, representative of the fifth district for the Missouri Valley states of the N.C.A.A.
the legislature gives its O.K. to the plan. Industrial research in the production of Kansas minerals
The final date on the Jayhawker schedule is March 11 when the Oklahoma Aggies appear in Hoch auditorium. If possible, the district playoffs will be held that weekend, March 13, 14, and 15.
Allen has written various coaches of the nation endeavoring to find otu when their basketball season closes and their replies will determine the playoff dates. In a letter received from Sam Barry, basketball coach at the University of Southern California, it was stated that the Pacific Coast season ends March 1 and district playoffs will probably come March 13, 14, and 15.
Unofficially, this would place the Western playoff dates at March 20, 21, and 22 with the national finals being played March 29. Both the Western division playoffs and the National finals will again be held in the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Dr. Allen said.
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McPherson Injured In Lab Explosion
will be carried on, and Kansas students will be trained in the development of these resources.
William F. McPherson, senior from Tonganoxie, suffered an eye injury caused by a piece of glass following an explosion in the chemistry laboratory last Thursday. He is reproted improving.
Engage Visiting Field Hockey
The hockey game between the Kansas team and the all-American players of the United States field hockey touring team was being held this afternoon in the field below the
Robinson gymnasium.
The starting Kansas University lineup was composed of Gladys Bitter, left wing; Alta Bingham, left inner; Virginia Bell, center forward; Lura Smith, right inner; Shirley Irwin, right wing; Wanda Horosko, left half; Marjorie Rader, right half; Evelyn Herriman, left fullback; Mary Lee Chapple, right fullback; and Evelyn Kinney, goalkeeper. Substitutes on the Kansas team are: Mildred Wells, Jean Quinn, Berneed green, Katherine Schacke, Betty Harmon, Marian Lacey, Betty Walron, Martha Hayes and Betty Lawrence.
The guest team will be honored with a dinner tonight by University women under the sponsorship of the women's athletic department.
New Building Would Benefit State Industry
The new Mineral Industries research building, which has been proposed for the K.U. campus, would give the various departments now located in Haworth hall, plenty of room to stretch.
The building, as proposed, will be of native stone. The style of architecture will conform in style with the other buildings of the campus.
The proposed site for the building is at the west end of the campus across the road and immediately west of the Observatory. The estimated cost for the building and equipment is $398,500, according to the architect's estimation.
The south wing is two stories high and will house the department of chemical engineering. The central wing will house on the first floor the department of mining and metallurgical engineering; second floor, the department of petroleum engineering; third floor, a library and lecture rooms; and fourth floor, lecture rooms and an auditorium with a seating capacity of 240.
The north wing, which will extend to the west, is designed to be four stories high. The first two stories will house the offices and laboratories of the geological sur-
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