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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 17, 1960
KU Undergoes Growth Under Murphy
THE DIPLOMAT—Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, during his nine years of service for KU and Kansas, was instrumental in developing KU as a cosmopolitan center where people from all the world could meet and study. Here he greets a KU foreign student.
During the nine years that Franklin D. Murphy has been Chancellor of the University of Kansas, KU has undergone one of the most intensive periods of growth in its history.
Grows Financially
Since 1951, when Chancellor Murphy took over, the University has increased its enrollment 45 per cent. To accommodate the influx of students, 10 major buildings were constructed. In addition, two buildings were completely remodeled and five new residence halls, two scholarship halls and 20 apartment buildings for married students were constructed. Chancellor Murphy was instrumental in every phase of the building program.
The University has grown financially, too. Now operating on a $29½ million budget, KU receives more than $2 million in annual gifts, not including government and foundation grants for research and teaching. This is an increase of more than 300 per cent since the Chancellor took office.
Endowment Association assets have increased from $3.8 million to $7.7 million, with additional millions of dollars worth of land and completed buildings being turned over to the University.
An annual giving program started in 1954 draws contributions from more than 6,000 alumni and friends of KU.
Library Grows
The holdings of the KU library have jumped from 446,000 volumes in 1951 to about 850,000 volumes today. Many of these books are parts of valuable research collections.
During Dr. Murphy's tenure, the University has become one of the nation's leading centers for the study of foreign languages and cultures. This program will be intensified this year with the establishment of three language-culture centers covering the Far East, Latin America and Russia.
The Chancellor arranged a student-faculty exchange with the University of Costa Rica last year. The program began this semester.
With several major gifts, the Chancellor has established a system of distinguished professorships which recognize KU's outstanding
faculty with substantial salary increases. Of the six professorships already granted, three have been filled by KU faculty members.
Academic Honors Grow
Many academic honors have come to KU's students and faculty in the past nine years. The gifted student program has served as a prototype for similar programs in state universities across the nation. When national scholarships and fellowships are awarded, KU students and faculty usually receive well above the average of the national total.
For the past three years, KU students have been awarded one-third or more of all Woodrow Wilson fellowships and National Science Foundation fellowships awarded to students attending Big Eight schools.
At 35, Chancellor Murphy was the youngest man ever to hold the office of Chancellor at KU. He was appointed on July 2, 1951, after having
All-White Jury Slated NAACPCallsforBoycott
The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, in a memo issued by Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, asked its 1,000 local and state units to use the boycott in "racial self defense." It was to go into effect immediately.
WILKINS SAID THE MAJOR CHAINS have refused to lower racial barriers in their southern branches, and the federal government "is steadfastly refusing to legislate adequate relief."
"The policy is to withhold retail patronage from all units of the chain variety stores in all sections of the country which maintain a policy in their southern stores of refusing to serve Negro customers at lunch counters on the same basis as other customers," the memo said.
Selection of an all-white jury for trial of 400 Negroes began today at Orangeburg, S. C., and Negro leaders called for a nation-wide boycott of chain variety stores to back up seven weeks of demonstrations in the south.
Choosing of a six-man jury begins to try the first 15 of 400 Negro college students arrested Tuesday at Orangeburg for staging a series of anti-segregation parades through the town.
By United Press International
At Petersburg, Va., more than 600 Negroes formed the "Petersburg improvement Assn." last night to "rid Petersburg of every vestige of segregation by non-violent means."
If you would soar with the eagles in the morning,you cannot hoot with the owls at night.-Unknown
Officers using tear gas and fire hoses broke up the parades and charged the students with breach of the peace.
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting—Ben Johnson
Civil Judge E. A. Wright of Atlanta ordered 18 of 77 Negro students arrested in a series of cafeteria sitdown demonstrations held for criminal trials and said they had placed their future "in jeopardy to the detriment of the Negro race."
Advisory Commission to the State Department on Educational Exchange and is a member of the board of trustees of the Kress Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Menninger Foundation, the Eisenhower Exchange Program and the Ford Foundation Committee on University and World Affairs.
THIRTY NEGROES FROM TEXAS Southern University picked a Houston supermarket where they were denied service at a lunch counter, and the president of the Houston NAACP called a mass meeting for tonight.
Georgia Gov. Ernest Vandiver criticized the action of some stores in San Antonio, Tex., for what he called "abject surrender" in dropping lunch counter segregation policies.
While at the Medical School, Dr. Murphy set up the Kansas Rural Health Plan, which resulted in an increase of doctors staying in Kansas to administer to the needs of small communities.
served as Dean of the KU Medical School since 1948.
Dr. Murphy has spent the last nine years in national as well as state service. He is chairman of the U.S.
Also Serves Nation
Dr. Murphy has served as president of the State Universities Association and as chairman of the American Council on Education. He now serves as chairman of the executive committee of the Commission of Higher Education in the American Republics.
KODL ANSWER
Bring in your buggy. Let us rejuvenate her till she purrs like a kitten and looks like a million
KOOL KROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. The sack
2. The woman you left behind
3. Part of a lake
4. Yours and mine
5. Yours and mine and all the rest
6. Old college___
7. Winnings at tennis?
8. Short change
9. Girl in ___ "Lilac Time"
10. Era's cousin
11. Soak flax
12. Kind of active
13. Give in
14. Freeso's first name
15. Bug-in-a-rug-like
16. Soreness
17. Polly's last name
18. No cigarette ___ like a Kool
19. Ever loving
20. Valedictorian condition
21. Changes start-ing in Nevada
22. New (prefix)
23. Arranged an evening's entertainment (3 words)
24. Blank space
25. Hollywood VIF
26. Sparkle
27. French conjunctions
DOWN
DOWN
1. Boring part of a brother
2. London, Paris, Rome, etc.
3. Tree sickness
4. The Magic of a Kool
5. Ex-governor's nickname
6. Was introduced to
7. Air Raid Precautions (abbr.)
8. Nothing's as __as Kool
9. When your heart's ___
10. Ready for Shakespeare's dance
11. It's good for the heir
12. Short year
13. Neck
14. Earthly cleavage
15. Hivy leagues
16. A Friday diet
17. African country, you goose
18. When it's time for a ___ change to Kools
19. In this place
20. Calls a halt legally
21. Maria's last name
22. Dodge
23. Infant's first position
24. German city
25. Man on his mark
26. Seventh Greek letter
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