KU
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
47th Year, No.15
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, July 30, 1959
Office Shuffling Is Prospect For Strong Hall
A lot of reshuffling is due to take place soon in Strong Hall.
The moving of the University of Kansas School of Business to the newly completed Summerfield Hall will mean that various offices and departments will be remodeled and changed around in Strong.
According to George B. Smith, dean of the University, the office of the Graduate School will be moved into the old location of the School of Business in the west wing of the building.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will shift its offices to the south part of that wing on the second floor. Graduate School offices will be shared by Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, and a seminar-conference room to be used by the Board of Regents when it meets here.
The present College office will be occupied by the Public Relations staff and by James Gunn, assistant director of public relations.
In the basement, rooms of the School of Business will be taken over by the history department, and the philosophy department will move into the old quarters of the history department in the west wing of the first floor. Vacancies created by the moving of the philosophy department will be used by visiting professors from time to time.
The department of mathematics will move into remodeled seminar rooms in the east wing on the second floor. Maurice Barker, director of the Greater University Fund, will move into the office vacated by Public Relations.
In Strong Hall Annex D, space being vacated by the secretarial training department will be used by graduate teaching assistants in mathematics and English.
Annex A, formerly used by Business Research, will be divided, with half of the area going to the psychology department and half to the offices of Herman B. Chubb, professor emeritus of political science, and W. E. Sandelius, professor of political science, both of whom have been in the west wing of Strong Hall.
Freighter, Steamer Collide off Cape Cod
Dean Smith said he hopes the entire moving can be completed by next summer, but that the College and Graduate School offices probably will be moved by fall semester.
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass.—(UPI)—A Norwegian freighter and the steamer Luckenbach collided in fog off Cape Cod Tuesday night, the Coast Guard reported Wednesday.
The Luckenbach, with a crew of 48 or 49, suffered moderate damage to its bow, the Coast Guard said. The freighter Francisville reported it was "holed and flooded in the engine room."
Room 8 in Strong, formerly the computation center of the School of Business, will provide added classroom space.
Work is being carried out by Buildings and Grounds. The State Legislature has appropriated about $40,000 to be used for the location of offices vacated by the School of Business. Since July 1, all such improvement work exceeding $10,000 must be approved by the Legislature.
History offices in Annex F will be replaced by offices for junior staff members.
No loss of life was reported.
The Luckenbach had just passed through the Cape Cod canal en route from Boston to West Coast ports with general cargo when the collision occurred near Hens and Chickens Buoy in Buzzards Bay.
Summer Session Nears End; August Has Busy Schedule
CRAM TIME—Students take advantage of the cool Hawk's Nest to do last minute final studying. Pictured are Barbara Boley, Kansas City, Mo., Sara Anderson, Kirkwood, Mo., and Fran Schryver, Kansas City, Mo. All are seniors.
Ike Gives Qualified OK To Labor Reform Bill
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—President Eisenhower Wednesday gave his qualified blessing to a substitute labor reform bill unveiled in the House this week.
He told a news conference that the measure, sponsored by Reps. Phil A. Landrum (D-Ga) and Robert F. Griffin (R-Mich), came much closer to his ideas for dealing with union corruption than the Senate Bill and one approved by the House Labor Committee.
He does not think that Russian missile superiority gives the Soviet Union an advantage at Geneva. He noted the United States fired an intercontinental missile Tuesday night and that this nation also has other means and methods which fully counter-balance Soviet
The President said he thought the new legislation went far toward correcting the evils exposed by the Senate rackets investigation. He said he had not studied all of the bill but had been advised it would come a long way closer to carrying out his recommendations than other measures.
On other topics which came up at his news conference, the President said:
The Landrum-Griffin bill carries stricter curbs on secondary boycotts and organizational picketing in line with administration recommendations.
He would not comment on whether the record-breaking profit reported by the United States Steel Corp. Tuesday for the first half of 1959 should permit a wage increase without a price increase. He said he repeatedly had answered such questions by saying he would not discuss such subjects during negotiations lest he appear to be favoring one side or the other.
strength during the transition from conventional weapons to long-range missiles.
The House-approved reduction in the foreign aid appropriation, cutting more than 700 million dollars from his original program, would seriously damage the U.S. position in the world. But he said he was hopeful that the Senate would restore much of the money chopped out by the House.
—He has not yet decided whether to veto the TVA self-financing bill, but he wishes the measure had been passed by Congress without a provision freeing TVA from budget control by the administration.
—He is gratified that some of the winners in the Hawaiian election are of Asian extraction and believes the result is a very fine example of democracy at work.
With the departure of the Band Campers and the advent of finals, the KU campus took on a topsy-turvy aspect during this last week of school.
Vice President Praised by Ike
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Eisenhower said yesterday Vice President Richard M. Nixon has acquitted himself splendidly on his tour of the Soviet Union but that only time will tell whether tensions will be reduced as a result of the visit.
Eisenhower said Nixon was not authorized to invite Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to visit this country. He ducked a question as to whether a Khrushchev visit could result from Nixon's trip.
Reporters accompanying Nixon on the trip have written that they considered it almost certain the Vice President would suggest a visit to the United States by Khrushchev when Nixon returns to Washington. There has been no official announcement of this, however.
On other aspects of Soviet-American affairs, the President said he is not ready to say that the Geneva conference of foreign ministers should end because of a stalemate between the East and West. But he volunteered that there still has been no progress that would justify a summit conference.
Eisenhower made it clear he believes the Geneva conference should be recessed, if necessary, to permit Secretary of State Christian A. Herter to attend a meeting beginning Aug. 12 in Santiago, Chile, of the foreign ministers of this hemisphere.
The President said he believes all could agree that Nixon has acquitted himself splendidly on the Soviet trip. He said this is what you would expect from a man in such a high office of government.
Crowd Greets Nixon in Urals
SVERDLOVSK, U.S.S.R.—(UPI)—Vice President Richard M. Nixon flew into this industrial city of the Urals Wednesday after another of his rough and tumble debates with Russian hecklers.
His greeting here was warm and friendly, as it was on arrival and departure from the western Siberian city of Novosibirsk. But the warmth ran somewhat cold when Nixon was subjected to some tough give-and-take by three men in Novosibirsk before he left there Wednesday morning.
The three men identified themselves as workers, but their technique and questions reflected the well-indoctrinated Communist Party adherent.
The first and most vigorous exchange came when Nixon visited the dam on the Ob river. There, he took on a fanatical 30-year-old man named Grigori Fedorovitch Belausov, who identified himself as an electrician at the Novosibirsk hydroelectric station.
Belausov challenged American foreign policy, demanded to know why the United States had military bases in many countries outside its borders, at times shouted directly into Nixon's face, repeatedly interrupted the vice president, and spoke with such vigor that some of his colleagues had to calm him down.
The normally bustling morning crowds of college students, campers and various conference attenders disappeared. Faces on the once busy sidewalks are few and far between.
Instead, the once half-deserted afternoons became the scene of rushing students who braved the afternoon heat in search of knowledge in preparation for the final exams which end tomorrow.
By Monday morning the campus will be deserted by the 3,262 students who participated in the Summer Session academic pursuits. As the students leave, many offices over the campus will close until the start of fall semester.
However, in what seems to have become the newest tradition at KU, building projects on the ever-widening campus will continue.
Newest of the projects is an extensive remodeling and relocation project in Strong Hall. Final touches to rooms in the west wing and various other sections of Strong Hall will supply the climax to the recent move of the School of Business to Summerfield Hall.
While the campus will see the end of the 1958-59 school year for the regular student body, a cosmopolitan group of students will just be getting studies under way.
A group of 60 students from over the world will be attending the Foreign Student Orientation Center under the direction of Dr. J. A. Burzle, professor of German.
The students are here to get a look at the American way of life before going to other colleges and universities throughout the nation. The program will continue until Sept. 3.
Also on the schedule for August are an English workshop, Credit Union League, Advanced Drivers Education, Advanced Cosmetologist's Conference, Water and Sewage program and an Acacia fraternity conference.
The Highway Patrol school, which will continue through Sept. 3; the Employment Counseling program which will conclude Aug. 21; the Jewelry and Silversmithing workshop which will end Aug. 7.
Other activities going on during the "deserted" month of August are:
Orientation begins Sept. 14 as entering freshmen come to the campus three days early to take placement exams, physical checkups, and to acquaint themselves with faculty advisers and the campus in general.
The campus will come "back" to life with September's fraternity and sorority rushing programs, followed by the orientation program for the fall semester.
The campus will be back into full swing by Sept. 17 as an estimated record number of students start standing in lines for the seemingly endless process of registration and enrollment, which will conclude Sept. 19.
On Sept. 21 the circle will come full and a new school year will get underway with all its associated complexities, but minus the summer heat.
Cool Front in West; Rain Likely in State
TOPEKA —(UPI)— A cool front moved into the northwest part of the state Wednesday, forcing temperatures down in that area.
The U.S. Weather Bureau said the clash of warm air with cool air would make conditions favorable for thunderstorms.
Temperatures in the east were not expected to plunge.