Driday. Nov. 11. 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Students view the campus under the watchful eve of the Jayhawk.
Atmosphere of Kansas Union Relaxes Waiting Students
We parked our car across from the familiar red-brick building, and anxious to meet our former classmates, crossed the street to the canopy overhanging the main entrance to the Kansas Union.
The double glass doors were still as difficult to open as they had been with stacks of textbooks.
Ey Kelly Smith and Carrie Merryfield
Noticeably absent in the lobby was the bronze Jayhawk, but otherwise the main lobby entrance-way seemed quite the same.
"Cold day, game, homecoming same old Union—nothing changes does it?"
"Certainly football and enthusiasm have not changed, but the Union has a new addition. Let's go find Margie and Jan, then look around at what our money helped build."
WE MET the girls in the TV lotune and decided to start our private tour in the sub-sub-basement. We went down to the sub-basement, then finding we had to change elevators, decided to walk down the last flight.
The wide steps pass a large picture window on the landing, then descend into a spacious cement hallway. Sounds of bowling pins and billiard cues told us we had found the right place, and the glass wall surrounding the room gave us a full view of the large carpeted recreational area before we even entered the door.
CURIOUS TO KNOW more about the area we talked to one of the attendants. He told us that the automatic pinsetters and telescorers are new and helpful to both league and open bowling. Potted plants add to the simple beauty of the new Jay-Bowl and also decorate the billiard room in which are centered six tables.
The bowling lanes are bright and sparkling; the change is a welcome one from the old Jay-Bowl.
We discovered the advance publicity given the new dining room was far from disappointing. Soft music and vari-colored light fixtures enhanced the decor.
"Let's go to the Prairie Room for lunch. I have been told it is extremely attractive and the waiters wear yellow and black striped vests. Besides that, the shish kebabs and charcoal steaks are terrific!"
THE PLEASANTNESS of the surroundings were conducive to whiling away the hours.
Back to one of the two new elevators, and we started up to the third floor. As we passed the main and second floors, we were reminded of the extra, meeting rooms, office space and added banquet facilities located on the second floor.
"Sure would have been nice to
have had those rooms a couple of years ago. We had to stagger all our meetings for lack of space."
BELOW US traffic was slowly weaving snake-like into the parking lots. The bronze Jayhawk we had missed in the lobby was arching his back proudly from his lookout point on the driveway.
The elevator opened into a brick lobby on third where sunlight is utilized by a wall of glass along the corridor leading to the open terrace which is furnished with wrought iron tables and chairs.
Looking out across the splendor of the campus itself, the Campanile remains the focal point of one's gaze. Its stately presence and familiar chimes symbolically bring back many memoris associated with the alma mater. How peaceful it all seems.
Crimson and blue banners framed Memorial Stadium as thousands of people weaved in and out as in a ritual dance.
We walked across the terrace out into the crisp breeze to the panoramic view of Mount Oread.
The Museum of Art received an American floral still-life and a fifteenth century Italian painting recently.
But back to the present and the activities of today. Kick-off time approaches and as in days of old, we still have to scramble for our seats.
Art Museum Gets Two Acquisitions
AUSTIN, Tex. —(UPI)— Armadillos are moving out of west Texas and nobody seems to know why.
Hutchinson alumni donated the "Floral Still-Life" in honor of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Burt through the Endowment Asn. Thomas Hill Jr. noted American artist of the Hudson River School, painted the picture.
Small herds of the sharp-clawed, cat-sized, shell-encased throwbacks to prehistoric times are slowly heading into east Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Biologists said it might be because of a drought in west Texas, or because of a gradual disappearance of their normal food supply—ants and grubworms.
The work closes the chronological gap in the Museum's collection of the development of the major periods of American art.
The painting, "Four Prophets," given to the Museum through the Swannie - Smith - Zink Endowment Assn. fund, depicts Zacharias, Jeremiah, Jonah and Elijah in an informal grouping. Cola dell Amatrice characterizes each figure with a symbolic artifact.
Clank, Clank, Clank! 'Dillos Movin' On
No man can lose what he never had. -Izaak Walton
Prof. Dort and Daniel Merriam Describe KU's Geologic History
By Carol Heller
The women, dressed in sleek red and blue bikinis, flutter-kicked down Jayhawk Boulevard with their long hair rippling out in waves behind them. The men, equipped with frog fins and goggles, either swam to classes or motored in boats.
Small reptiles romped about the campus lawn of seawed and ferns and seashells, and great fish and sharks swam in and out of coral castles. Instead of law students lurking before Green Hall, there stood clumps of sea lilies eager to reach out and nip the women fluttering by. (Sea lilies are little fish-animal growing at the top of long stems rooted in the ocean floor.)
THE GEOLOGIC HISTORY of KU was described by Wakefield Dort Jr., professor of geology, and Daniel Merriam, Kansas Geological Survey geologist with offices in Lindley Hall. The Survey is a subdivision of the University.
That is what KU would have been like 500 million years ago during the Cambrian ocean age.
Prof. Dort and Mr. Merriam explained that Mt. Oread is a Kansas "mountain" and told how it was formed. The Mt. Oread area has been submerged Beneath the ocean and washed by waves, uplifted again and eroded by rivers and wind and scraped by glaciers.
The gallant little hill has withstood it all and promises to be here for thousands of homecomings in the future, but it slowly is moving westward.
"SOMEDAY Mt. Oread will be a small hill on the present site of Topeka and KU will be on top of it," predicted Mr. Merriam.
"Mt. Oread is supported by a basement complex of igneous and metamorphic rocks 3 to 4 billion years old," said Mr. Merriam. "After that
came the Cambrian ocean period about 500 million years ago."
He showed some pictures of the Cambrian period drawn by Raymond C. Moore, professor of geology.
"These were drawn on the spot by our artist . . . " he joked.
"ABOUT HALF of the record is missing between the Cambrian period and the Pennsylvanian period," Prof. Dort joined in. "We think this is because the rocks deposited during this time interval were later removed by crosion on dry land."
He explained that the Pennsylvanian period, 215 million years ago, represented the first land deposits of Mt. Oread. The Cambrian deposits took place while the Kansas area was under ocean. Then the land was uplifted and further deposition took place above the water. During parts of the Pennsylvanian period, Kansas was covered with coal swamps. The land was lifted up and then submerged in repeating cycles, resulting in the alternating layers of marine and land deposits which are now exposed as solidified rock on Mt. Oread's surface.
"After that came the time of the dinosaurs, although there may not have been many of them in eastern Kansas," continued Prof. Dort.
"There are many fossils embedded in Mt. Oread, such as seashells, corals and sponges . . . in fact, we found some of them when workers were excavating for the new Kansas Union addition . . . but the dinosaur fossils rarely are found here.
"SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS ago the Great Ice Age began," he said. "The glaciers rolled over northeastern Kansas and stopped about 10 miles south of Lawrence at Pleasant Grove. It was just like the tundra, with reindeer, muskoxen and woolly mammoths.
"Then life evolved to the present, with man and mammals and grass and flowers."
Students Do Summer Stock With Colorado Company
Lisa and Clay embrace on the island. Everyone knew the time for their parting was near, almost upon the couple.
"Only one more desire do I have before all ends." Lisa whispered
Only one more desire do I have before all ends," Lisa whispered. "One more night on the island with Clay," boomed a drunken voice from the audience.
The playhouse theater swelled with laughter led by the same drunken voice. Lisa and Clay on stage temporarily surrendered to laughing. The serious tone of Richard Hildreth's "The White Slave" vanished.
The cast of the play production had to act its way to and through the last line. So, Jeanne Rustemeyer, Leavenworth senior, and her hero, from Bishops Players Co., struggled through their lines to avoid more smiling in their sorrowful parting scene.
Miss Rustemeyer chuckled recently as she recalled this experience last summer with the Imperial Players of Cripple Creek, Colo.
She was one of 11 college students and professional dramatists to participate in 157 performances of Hildreth's play.
She, John Welz, Webster Greves, Mo., junior, and Steve Buser, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student. represented KU.
There were over 4.000 applications last spring from college students for the summer stage work. Some 25 students were asked to try out at Cripple Creek last June.
Miss Rustemever said:
"John. Steve and I beat the rush at tryouts when we dashed to Colorado during Easter vacation to read scripts. Luckily we picked up contracts then."
Not all audience participation at Cripple Creek was limited to "smart aleck" remarks from the often inebriated vacationers in the house.
One evening the villain in "The White Slave" was about to catch Miss Rustemeyer, the object of a long chase. Several happy watchers threw drinks at the villain. During another performance an enthusiastic drinker heaved his ash tray at the badman.
Apparently the main reason for the unruly audience in the house (250 a seating) came in the form of highballs, whiskey-sours, Tom Collins' and beer served at the theater during intermissions.
Welz said these drinks attracted the play-viewers as well as providing them with a means to participate off-stage. However, groups of 20 or more, including civic and benefit groups, tended to get too enthusiastic over the drinks, he said.
Such was life at Cripple Creek for the Imperial Players and their villain. The summer reportedly was so much fun as a whole that the KU players would gladly do the same stagework and hear the same comments again if they had it to do over.
Prof. Dort and Mr. Merriam agreed that Mt. Oread's composition of shale and limestone sometimes causes the University difficulty.
"The buildings are heavy and tend to sink and slowly slide down the hill," said Mr. Merriam. "We've about lost Hoch Auditorium several times it probably has cost as much to build new foundations for Hoch as it cost to build it in the first place."
MR. MERRIAM explained how Mt. Oread is part of a long ridge extending for many miles in a north-south direction. Its surface is high and exposed to the east, and dips and goes underground to the west. The steep face of the eastern slope gradually is being washed away.
"You see, the University is already preparing for it," he joshed. "They are building all the new buildings to the west to replace the old buildings when they topple off as the eastern side erodes away."
Prof. Dort and Mr. Merriam agree that the Lawrence area will be uplifted and become as mountainous at Colorado.
Just think, some day KU students may ski to classes, winding through pine trees alongside frozen mountain streams.
Members of the KU Little Symphony Orchestra have been anounced by Thomas Gorton, director and dean of the School of Fine Arts.
Little Symphony Players Chosen
Members of the group include these faculty members of the School of Fine Arts, students and Lawrence residents:
The group plays several concerts during the year, dividing its programs between classical music for small orchestras and works by contemporary composers.
PLAYING VIOLIN are Raymond Cerf, professor of violin; 'Theodore Johnson, instructor of organ and theory; Larry Brown, Overland Park; Irving Carlson, Wayne, Neb.; Judith Gorton, Lawrence, seniors; Beatrice Gordon, Wichita; Carol Moore, Independence, Mo., sophomores; Marnie Hall, Clay Center; Shirley Braming, Oak Park, Ill.; Alice Mackish, Kansas City, Mo., and Marilyn Miller, Larned, freshmen and Marian Scheid, Lawrence resident.
On viola are Karel Blaas, assistant professor of music theory and viola; Cora Jeanne Hart, Kansas City, Mo.; senior; Esther Shriver and Eleanor Allen, Lawrence residents.
CELLISTS ARE: Evan Tonsing,
Topeka, junior; Carl B. Clinesmith,
Ft. Scott, Donna Moore, Independence,
Mo., freshmen, and Donald Beene,
Lawrence resident.
At bass will be Bonnie Eaton, Wichita, and Stanley Ricker, Chicago, Ill., juniors.
Marcus Hahn, assistant professor of music education and Harriet Kagay, Larned, junior, will play the flute.
At obe are John Walker, Miami, Okla., senior, and Judy Crist, Brewster junior.
ON CLARINET will be Donald Scheid, instructor of wind and percussion instruments, and Gary Foster, Leavenworth junior.
Austin Ledwid, assistant professor of organ theory and wind instruments, and Jan Lundgren, Lawrence senior, will play bassoons.
On the French horn are David Graves, Kansas City graduate student, and Shelley Moore, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
PLAYING TRUMPET are Kenneth Bloomquist, instructor of music, and Robert Isle, Lawrence junior.
John Hill, instructor of music education, will play the trombone.
At the timpani will be George Frock, graduate student and assistant instructor in percussion.