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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday. June 28, 1969
Sociologist Says Slums Good
NEW YORK--(UPI)—The city slum with its dirty vacant lots probably was a better place to raise children than modern suburbs and institutional playgrounds, a New York University sociologist claims.
Attacking the most sacred beliefs of city planners and modern
Great Bend Girl Wins Hulme Award
Linda Alllyne Treece, a 1960 graduate of Great Bend High School, has been awarded the Charles and Helen Hulme scholarship to attend the University this fall.
The scholarship carries a stipend of $500 and is awarded annually to a graduate of Great Bend High School. Funds for the award are provided from a gift to the University of Kansas Endowment Association by Mr. and Mrs. Hulme, Great Bend residents
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architects and sociologists, Professor Ernest van den Hagg wrote in a recent issue of American Scholar that our cities are becoming unfit for human living because of these ideas.
He said this is creating a dangerous crisis for North America because the whole world is rapidly becoming urbanized.
Modern architects and city planers deliberately destroy the traditions, a soul, the color and vitality of the cities, Professor van den Hagg said, because of a mistaken belief in the importance of functionalism.
"To raise slums and rebuild in such a way as to house fewer people is pointless," he said, "the slum is displaced but not eliminated . . . there is more life, and perhaps more communal feeling, in a slum than in many a suburb . . . I am not even convinced that an empty lot is not a better place for children to play than an institutional playground. It surely fosters independence, imagination and spontaneity far more than most playgrounds."
Professor van den Hagg said slums don't breed crime any more than hospitals breed death and to imagine you can reduce crime by slum clearance is as silly as to believe you could end sickness by closing the hospitals.
The new city housing developments that replace slums only increase loneliness, monotony and diminish the color, variety and vitality of city life, he wrote.
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Tidwell Surpasses Santee
In Winning NCAA Crowns
Charlie Tidwell's sprint slam at Berkeley made him the most prolific NCAA track champion in Kansas history with four titles. He won the 220-yard low hurdles as a sophomore and the 160-yard dash last year.
He thus surpassed Wes Santee's former high of three, including the 5000 meters in 1952, the mile in 1953 and cross country in 1953.
Second Summer Show Scheduled
Tickets for the second University Theatre summer production, "Morning's at Seven," may be obtained by presenting I.D. cards at the ticket desk in the Kansas Union or at the Theatre box office in Murphy Hall.
The show will be presented at 7:30 Thursday and Friday nights in Murphy Hall. Reserved seats for non-students are $1.50.
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NOW SHOWING!
Gregory Peck in "The Big Country" and Bob Hope in "Alias Jesse James"
COMING THURSDAY
Fabian in "Hound Dog Man"
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"The Toughest Gun in Tombstone"
NOW SHOWING!
Jeff Hunter in "SERGEANT RUTLEDGE"
plus THE PATTERSON-JOHANNSON fight pictures
NOW SHOWING!
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Barbarians"
and "The Sign of the Gladiator"
STARTS WEDNESDAY Rock Hudson, Doris Day in "Pillow Talk"
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