Research Center Has Close Ties
The separation between KU's new Research Center for Engineering Science and the university will be physical and not academic, John McNown, dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, emphasized at the Faculty Forum yesterday.
The research center will be a division of the KU Endowment Association in order to keep its operation separate from the University and the state.
"But the program will not be a success unless we can attract productive scholars who are also interested in education.
"In this way we will be able to achieve an advanced research program unhampered by state procedures." Dean McNown said.
"To attract such men, our program will offer space and facilities for engineering research, interested students to work with, high salaries, a good graduate program and a minimum of outside responsibilities to leave plenty of time free for research."
Researcher Will Teach
Dean McNown explained that each researcher would probably teach one graduate course and one undergraduate course, plus conducting one graduate seminar.
"We consider this a minimum of outside responsibility, and anyone who is not interested in this amount of teaching belongs instead in an industrial position," he said.
Financing Described Dean McNown's talk was supplemented by a description of the program's financing method by Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Association.
KUOK Off 'till 60
Today is the last day of broadcasting for the campus radio station KUOK. KUOK will resume its normal broadcasting schedule Monday Jan. 4,1960.
Nichols Named Rhodes Finalist
Ray L. Nichols, Lawrence senior, and a Wichita University student were chosen as Rhodes scholarship regional finalists yesterday in Hutchinson.
The Rhodes scholarships are for two or three years study at Oxford University, Oxford, England. Students study under the tutorial system and are assigned subjects on which to write papers.
The examinations yesterday consisted of series of 20-minute interviews. Five KU students and seven students from other colleges in Kansas participated.
Other KU students taking the examinations were Edward Collisier, Lawrence; Ronnie R. Broun, Phillipsburg; Fred Morrison, Colby, and John Hodge, Kansas City. All are juniors.
Weather
Fair southeast, fair northwest,
and cloudy to partly cloudy else-
where this afternoon and tonight.
Tomorrow fair west, partly cloudy
east. Colder east and south tonight
and southeast portion tomorrow.
Low tonight 20 northwest to upper
30s southeast. High tomorrow 40s.
The research center building is now under construction southwest of the campus near Pioneer Cemetery.
The land was acquired by funds donated by the late Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, who in 1941 willed thousands of acres of land to the Endowment Association. The income from the land can be used by the association unrestrictedly for the University.
Mr. Youngberg said that money for construction of the building came from the Summerfield Foundation in New York.
The foundation was established by funds willed by the late Solon Summerfield, who originated the Summerfield scholarships.
KU has received about $55,000 a year from the foundation since 1955. From this amount, $50,000 is set aside for special building purposes. These are the funds for construction of the research center building.
Mr. Youngberg estimated that the building will be ready for use late next summer.
Dailu hansan
57th Year. No. 61
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Dec. 17, 1959
Board Says Engineering School 'In Grave Danger'
"We are confident that were the citizens of this state and their duly elected representatives aware of the gravity of the current situation, they would call for immediate action."
The board said the school could not continue to maintain a high standard so long as its students "are crammed into outmoded buildings to serve one-fourth of the number now
By Ray Miller
The Advisory Board to the School of Engineering and Architecture headed by Deane Ackers, head of Kansas Power and Light, said:
A board of twelve executives representing some of the largest firms in the midwest issued a statement today that the KU School of Engineering and Architecture is in grave condition because of inadequate facilities.
taking advantage of this training."
taking advantage of this training. The board stressed that engineering training is vital to the nation as it strives to maintain world leadership in industry, research development and scientific advance.
it is important to the State of Kansas in attracting new business, encouraging existing business and furthering the sound use of our natural resources," the board said.
The board urged that people interested in the welfare of the state view the facilities being used.
In citing existing examples, three departments were named.
"We believe if you will do this, you will support our position," the Board said.
"In a state whose aircraft industry is the second largest in the nation, the state's leading aeronautical
engineering department is housed in a makeshift quonset hut and is using an old wooden wind tunnel under the university's football stadium.
"Students of architecture and electrical engineering must conduct their studies in a frame shed and in an attic. Capable and even distinguished teachers have their offices in closets, garrets, and hallways," the board charged.
University officials said the board's comments were made independently.
The board exists to increase understanding between the engineering professions and the school, to increase the effectiveness of the educational and research programs of the school and to provide an informed, authoritative group capable of both interpreting the needs of the school and the needs of the engineering profession.
Budget Still Short Foreign Language Program Should Be Bolstered
(Editor's note: These are the final two articles on the effects of the proposed decreases in the KU budget.)
By Priscilla Burton
The future position of the United States in world affairs clearly requires that more of our young people must be trained in competence in the languages of Russia and Central Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Sixty thousand dollars for language-culture centers in fields of East Asia, Latin America and East Europe and Russia was requested in the KU budget this fall. The governor's budget hearing committee did not recommend this request for the fiscal year of 1961.
Raymond F. Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said the $60,000 would have been spent—$20,000 for study in the Russian and Central European area; $20,000 for study in the Latin American and Asian area; $15,644 for salaries for one full time staff member and three graduate assistants, and 04,356 for supplies and books.
Fund Would Be Matched
Mr. Nichols said that the federal government and other interested foundations will match state money to help such programs if the state sets up an amount of money to be used for this purpose.
A University statement reads that in view of the fact that the University already has a program underway, and will participate in a new federal program of cooperation with South American universities, the
He especially warned students to exercise caution while leaving the campus.
"Many parents expecting their sons and daughters home for a joyous Christmas have had a tragic experience due to traffic accidents in past years," Chief Skillman said.
Skillman Warns Students To Drive Home With Care
He warned drivers to check their cars, get plenty of sleep, watch the weather conditions and obey traffic regulations while preparing for and making the journey home.
The University also proposes that course work in a specific language (perhaps Chinese) be started and offerings in related areas be expanded. In the Asian field, the University has offered courses only in the cultural areas (history, political sciences, etc.), and none in the language itself.
Joe Skillman, chief of campus police, issued a plea for safe driving today to the more than eight thousand KU students who will leave for Christmas vacation tomorrow.
modest program should be expanded and strengthened.
Obey Regulations
Soviets Teach Languages
Approximately 10 million Soviet students are studying English, while a publication from the U. S. State Department in 1957 indicates that only 165 of the 1,800 colleges in the United States are teaching Russian to a total of 4,000 American students.
At the official opening of the Language Sound Rooms of the University of Kansas on November 23, 1957. Chancellor Murphy stated:
"We cannot hope to play an effective role in the world unless we can communicate with people whom we propose to influence, and communicate with them not only by way of our language but by way of their languages as well."
A report on higher education in the Soviet Union states:
"On Friday evening extra law enforcement officers will be troubled with traffic moving both toward and away from the campus because of the basketball doubleheader," he said.
"Every Soviet student at the university and technical institute level is required to take three to four years of a foreign language. There is every reason to expect that as a result of this, the next generation of Soviet citizens will have a large number of persons with fluency in English, French, German, or Chinese. In addition, it is extremely important to recognize that there will be a substantial number of people who will be able to speak a variety of Middle or Far Eastern languages which are regarded as so extremely specialized in the U. S. that only a handful of students are aware of them."
During vacation Chief Skillman said that all zones and areas will be open for parking (Dec. 21 to 8 a.m. Jan. 4), with the following exceptions:
Parking zone H and J, the Kansas Union guest parking lot. Zone X. Jayhawk Boulevard, yellow curbs and loading zones. Regulations for these zones and areas will be enforced as usual.
Restricted Zones
Language Is Needed
In a New York Times Magazine article, Jacob Ornstein said:
"A language is greatly needed as only about one out of thirty of our thousands of representatives abroad can even carry on a passable conversation in the language of the host country."
Many of our diplomats have to depend on natives of the country to translate newspaper editorials and many other important statements, Mr. Ornstein said.
"Having the means and desire to travel, the American still often fails to be a goodwill ambassador and offends sensibilities through language ignorance," he said.
of Funds Money Needed For Research
The University will not fulfill its obligations next year to the national government if $95,159 more is not granted by the state to expand the general research program.
This is what Ravmond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said today after Gov. George Docking's Budget Hearing Committee did not recommend the Board of Regents' request for $95,159 more to expand this research program for which the committee suggested $304,841. He said:
"Since the Soviets sent up their Sputnik, our national government has been attempting to increase programs in basic research. Governmental encouragement has mostly come in the form of words rather than money because President Eisenhower disapproves of federal aid to universities.
"Still KU has some obligation to the federal government to increase its research program."
From KU's general research fund faculty members may receive grants for some graduate students to assist them in their research in social science, biology or physical science.
Enthusiasm. But Small Fund
The enthusiasm is there, but a sufficient amount of funds for the applicants is not available. Mr. Nichols said:
"Faculty members have already applied for $400,000 in grants for next year. This means that if KU is to promote its research program and fulfill its obligations $95,159 must be obtained in addition to the $304,841 already approved by Gov. Docking's committee.
If this amount is not obtained, KU will be hurting its program simply because all requests to aid research will not be granted fully.
More Request $ _{2} $ Than Funds
More Reqle
He said some $146,000, or one-third of the money KU professors have asked for general research grants for this year, was denied them because the state had not allotted enough funds to meet all the requests for aid.
"Faculty member applied for $450,000 for general research grants for this year. But since the state had granted only $304,000, the special University committee distributing the grants had to cut $146,000 from the whole program."
Mr. Nichols said when some professors asked for $6,000 in grants, they ended up with only $5,000 or $4,500. A few of the faculty members
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Last Kansan Today; Begins Again Jan. 4
Today's Daily Kansan is the last issue to be published until after Christmas vacation. Publication will resume Jan. 4. The Kansan staff wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Touhy Slayers Called Amateurs
CHICAGO — (UPI) A Chicago police official said today "amateur" gunmen murdered pint-sized Roger Touhy, former prohibition era beer baron, but a U.S. attorney said the ambush shooting was the work of the Mafia, international crime ring.
Chicago chief of detectives John Ascher said he believed the shotgun killing was the work of unskilled gunmen. They downed Touhy and a bodyguard on the steps of a west side home. Touhy died at a hospital.
Ascher also said he believed John (Jake the Barber) Factor, for whose kidnapping Touhy served 25 years in prison, had nothing to do with the slaying.
U. S. Attorney Robert Tieken issued a statement implying that old gangland rivalries were responsible
U. S. Attorney Robert Hessen sued a statement implying that old gangland rivalries were responsible. Touhy was a foe of the Al Capone gang during prohibition days—and said the slaying "fits into the Mafia pattern of making members keep their lips sealed." Traditionally, Mafia killers are regarded as skilled workmen.
"Touhy must have spoken at one time." Tieken said. "They killed him to impress other members that no matter how long it takes, they will seal your lips forever."
Factor, 63, the man whose testimony sent Touhy to jail for 25 years, voluntarily signed a two-page statement detailing his activities at the time of last night's slaying.
Senior Named to Grid Honor Roll
Charles Lukinac, Muncie senior is one of 113 college and university students named to the 1959 AllChemical, All America Football Honor Roll.
Editors of Chemical and Engineering News, the American Chemical Society's publication, selected him for the honor roll, which includes only football players who are students of chemistry and chemical engineering maintaining a high scholarship standard.