Wednesday, Mar. 2. 1960 University Daily Kansan
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WHAT'S IN THERE?—This KU woman has just discovered the opening behind Flint Hall to one of the many underground tunnels which run under the University of Kansas campus.
Underground passageways often have an air of mystery and intrigue about them.
Underground Tunnels At KU Are Purposeful
The tunnels under the KU campus. however, are far from mysterious and hold little in the way of intrigue.
The tunnel has two functions. It carries steam for heating to most of the buildings on campus. It also transports steam for cooking and hot water under high pressure.
Beauty Enhanced
The beauty of the campus is indirectly enhanced by the underground passageways. Unsightly telephone poles and lines are eliminated by running the wires from building to building through the tunnel.
The first tunnel under the campus was built in the 1890's. It was made of all kinds of available stone and brick. As new buildings were built and added to the campus additional tunnels made of concrete were added to the system.
Today more than two miles of underground passageways are used to carry steam to buildings on the campus. They extend from the Military Science building as far east as the Kansas Union.
Tunnels Complex
The main tunnel runs in almost a straight line from Lindley to Fraser Hall. Tributaries shoot out from this main tunnel to connect and serve all campus buildings except Joseph R. Pearson, Corbin North, Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Templin dormitories.
The size of the tunneis vary. At the largest point they are 7 feet high and 6 feet wide. They are buried from 3 to 25 feet below the ground surface.
The tunnel is large enough to hold as many as 600 cars and, in case of an emergency, has room for the entire faculty and student body.
Recreational Program to Aid City's Handicapped Children
Handicapped children of Lawrence will have the opportunity to participate in a recreational program as a result of the efforts of 13 KU students.
The program is being sponsored by the KU-Y as a joint function between the "Y" and the Lawrence Recreational Committee. At present it is still in the survey stage to determine the needs of the community and the public opinion toward the project.
The purpose of the recreational program is to provide activities such as arts and crafts, picnics, cook outs, nature trips and other functions that would enable the handedicaped children to participate in activities with other children
Recreational services will be offered free of charge and will take place in the Lawrence Community Center. Equipment will also be supplied by the Center.
The students working on this project are interested in working with these children for the satisfaction and enjoyment.
It is hoped that the program will attract more students from fine arts, education, and other fields who have skills to offer.
The program is expected to be financed by donations from people
Participating in the program are: Carolyn Coe, McPherson senior; Thomas Eaton, Wichita sophomore; Carolyn Onijes, Hutchinson sophomore; Emery Bontrager, Scott City senior; Allen Weinstein, Long Beach, N. Y.; senior; Barbara Eklund, Summit, N. J.; senior; Frederick Snyer, Leavenworth sophomore; Richard Hartley, Baxter Springs freshman; Jimmy Mokalu, Djakarta, Indonesia graduate student; Judith Davies, Dodge City junior; Roy Cozad, Lawrence junior; Sally Suderman, Newton junior; and Jane Dunlap, Lawrence sophomore.
and business firms in town who will take an interest in the organization.
The Schlumberger Foundation of Houston, Tex., has renewed its $1,000 grant to the University of Kansas for a $500 scholarship and a matching $500 for the University.
Exchange Forms Due By Saturday
Around the Campus
The scholarship is awarded annually to an outstanding engineering student. The recipient must be a full-time student and have earned 12 hours of credit in electrical engineering courses.
Texas Foundation Renews KU Grant
The deadline for applications for a KU exchange scholarship has been extended to Saturday.
Graduate students and seniors graduating in June or August are eligible for the direct exchange programs with foreign universities.
Information and application blanks may be obtained in 306 Fraser Hall
Universities included in the exchange program are: the universities of Aberdeen, Birmingham, Exeter, Reading and Southampton in England; the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France; the universities of Hamburg, Keil, Mainz and Tuebingen in Germany and the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
The KU foreign exchange program offers the exchange scholarships which cover full tuition and maintenance.
Recipients of the scholarships are also eligible for travel grants offered by the ASC, Marx Kade Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation.
Engineering School Receives Loan Fund
A student loan fund honoring the late Earl S. Rush, a 1913 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Engineering and Architecture, has been established by his widow, Mrs. Nathalie Rush of Joliet, Ill.
Preference for loans from the memorial fund, will be given to students in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
A son, Elton Rush of Bartlesville, Okla., is a 1939 engineering graduate of KU.
Byers Given Travel Grant
George W. Byers, curator of the University of Kansas Entomological Museum, has received a travel grant from the Entomological Society of America.
The grant will enable Mr. Byers to attend the International Congress of Entomologists in Vienna next August. Mr. Byer's grant is one of 25 such grants made by the society.
The grant assures that the University of Kansas will have at Vienna probably the largest delegation from any American educational institution.
The other KU representatives will be Charles D. Michener, chairman of the entomology department and the Watkins distinguished professor; Robert R. Sokal, associate professor, who is already in Europe this year filling a research fellowship and Robert L. Sullivan and Ryuichi Matsuda, research associates.
KU Student to Direct Play
William Bushnell, Winnetka, Ill. graduate student, will direct the play "The Silver Whistle" in El Dorado in early April.
El Dorado joins Colby and Ottawa by becoming the third city where community theaters have become more active with the Kansas Community Theatre Plan, an organization to aid theater groups previously organized.
The American high school is an adolescent babysitting service. James Nant.
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Professor Gets Grant for Study
Dunne G. Wenzel, professor of pharmacology, has received a $9,000 grant from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund for a two-year study of the role of nicotine in the production of atherosclerosis.
Prof. Wenzel has been invited to speak at a conference organized by the New York Academy of Sciences, March 24-26, in New York City.
Whining children practice their art for parents who welcome the display.—Ilga Spisell
He will present a paper co-authored with Dr. James A. Turner of the Veterans' Administration Hospital and Jasbir Singh Kamal, Amritsar, India, graduate student. The paper deals with "The Chronic Effects of Orally-Administered Nicotine in Cholesterol-Fed Rabbits."
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