SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1930
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Work Is Started on Improvements in Memorial Union
False Ballroom Ceiling and Service Elevator Are Being Installed
PRIVATE ROOMS READY
Great beams and rafters and rough, unsightly red brick walls need no help. Many students who dance in the Memorial Union ballroom, for yesterday work was started upon the new false ceiling and wall panels. In the room a more pleasant place for the dances and banquets held there each year by the student body and student leaders.
Private dining rooms, committee rooms, offices, a service elevator, and a more complete cafeteria service are improvements already made, or now be improved. The ballroom improvements. A full cafeteria schedule will be resumed on Tuesday and the first of the dances at the ballroom. The mittee rooms and the private dining rooms are already prepared for use this year. The service elevator is yet to be finished but will be ready for the Dad's day banquet in November.
A sky-blue ceiling will cover not only the great arched roof of the ballroom but also the ceilings of the three alcoves. The walls are to be covered with natural color burlap which is oak-colored to move the horticolo disliked brick.
Fittings Only Temporary
Fittings Only Temporary A temporary wall cell and ceiling was suggested by the example of the city office, where it were cared for well, though a quality infer-
toy to the material being used here. When sufficient funds are available in the Memorial Union fund, the building can be furnished in a fashion which those who have viewed the architect's drawings say is one of any room of its kind in this vicinity.
Work on the ceiling and walls is being instated and handled by the Union operating committee, the variety of staff, including the class dance managers. Money which has been spent on false ceilings for each master dance will be applied to the cost of a new set that the expenditure, Manager Morris reports, will prove a saving in the long run. The job will be completed by the end of the fall false ceilings may be used hereafter.
Though the sound-proof doors were installed last spring, the private dining rooms were not used because it was so near the closing of school. This year it is expected that there will be more rooms available to be arranged to sent from 20 to 80 persons at one time by the merging of the rooms.
Expect Greater Use
In the basement the W.S.G.A. book exchange and Jayhawk officer have secured locations. There are also about 150 students who open to student groups this year. The work on all except the W.S.G.A. book exchange was completed at the close of school, the exchange having been organized in the distributing of the annual.
Efforts to complete the service elec-
tor and have it in operation by the
military force are not so great
sufficient. It will be finished shortly
afterwards, however, and is expected to
be completed by the end of the
period of illumination and banquets served in
the banquet room of the Memorial
McLaughlin Appointed
Drew McLaughlin, editor of the Miami County Republican and a member of the board of revents, has been appointed to represent the reverts on the board of the Miami County announcement made late yesterday. His appointment completes the committee with the exception of the two representatives from the freshman class.
Faculty members on the committee
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are Elizabeth Megurin, professor of home economics, R. G. Smith, instructor in mathematics, and Henry Werner, men's student advice. Alumni represent the College of Engineering and the secretary of the Alumni association, Joseph Murray, of the Journal-World, and Ray Wright, Fern Snyder, c21, Myla Little, c22, Katherine Ashlee, c23, Kenneth Wilson, c24, Dennis McCoy, c23, c22, and Harry Rush, c23 are the student representatives.
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union financing and it was expected that complete plans would be announced to the students by the first of next week.
During the summer the committee has been working on a new system of
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