SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
47th Year, No.14
Tuesday, July 28, 1959
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
GETTING ACQUAINTED - Foreign students attending the Orientation Center at KU "socialize" at a party Friday evening. Pictured are (from left) Pay-juan Lin, China; Irene Lai Ho,
China; Christos Constantinides, Manchester, England, graduate student and president of the KU International Club; Aristidis Papadopoulos, Greece, and Jose Nieto, Mexico.
1960 Budget Request 6.1% Over 1959 Figure
A KU budget request of $12,868.105 for the fiscal year of 1961, starting July 1, 1960, has been termed operational but minimal by Ray Nichols, executive secretary of KU.
The budget the Kansas Board of Regents is seeking shows an increase of $738,009 over the current year's figure of $12,130,096, or about a 6.1 per cent boost.
In calling this increase minimal Nichols explained:
"The 5 per cent increase proposed for faculty salaries does not close the competitive gap with other schools with which we have to compete for our faculty members.
"If granted, the 5 per cent increase will bring us to a scale we had requested a year ago, but because other colleges have received substantial increases this year, the differential between ours and their pay scales is about the same as it was."
Salaries constitute $9,686,459 of the proposed budget—a 5 per cent increase over the current year's $9,110,721. The figure also includes salaries for four new faculty teaching positions and three new janitorial jobs.
"Our budget requests would provide only for restoration of the four faculty positions we sought last year, but which the legislature cut out.
"We usually hope to add one new faculty member for every 15 to 20 new students, but this will not be possible, since we anticipate an increase in enrollment this fall of 300 students." Mr. Nichols explained
Based on a formula set by the Regents, the University was allowed to seek increases in only three categories—the 5 per cent pay boosts; in the operating funds to take care of the new buildings, and restoration of cuts made from the current year's budget.
The KU requests include nonsalary items totaling $3,376.875, to be used for supplies and operating expenses.
Other requests made by KU, mostly for restoration of 1959 figures, are for:
$30,000 in seasonal help, primarily during the growing season, for Buildings and Grounds.
$25,000 more in student help, particularly in operation of the physical plant.
An increase of $100,000 over the present $300,000 general research funds.
$30,000 in utilities for the Snow Hall Addition, the Nuclear Reactor Building and the Kansas Union addition.
$60,000 for a start in the Language Culture Centers for Russian and East Asian studies. Nichols pointed out that this would be only seed money to start the centers, but would make it possible for KU to receive outside money in the form of grants and from federal sources.
The Summer Session Kansan will issue its final paper Thursday instead of Friday, Publication of The Daily Kansan will resume Sept. 17, the first day of enrollment, with a two-section paper.
Final Paper Will Be Issued on Thursday
Gulf Area Towns Clean Up Debris
HOUSTON — (UPI)— Residents of a dozen towns and cities from Freeport to Houston are still cleaning up the destruction left by Hurricane Debra.
Damage from the hurricane which moved in at dusk Friday was estimated at 4 to 5 million dollars.
But no loss of life or even a serious injury was reported from the storm which lashed the coast with winds up to 105 miles an hour.
Camp Awards Made at Concert
Heaviest damage was at Freeport, Galveston, Texas City, La Marque, La Porte, Seabrook and Kemah.
Outstanding students of the 22nd annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp were announced at the band concert Sunday evening.
The honorees, selected by the vote of instructors of the camp, received recognition certificates.
The outstanding boy in the music division was John Fuerst. Cicero, Ill., and the girl was Anne Kepler, Tulsa, Okla. The runners-up were Ron Roberts, Tulsa, and Linda Galliart. Larned.
Recient of the "Chancellor's Award" was Richard Maximoff, Dallas. Don Magdanz, Omaha, Neb., received the award for the "student most interested in electronics."
The speech and debate award was made to Courtner King, Lawrence. Patricia Young, Alexander, and Hoite Caston, Independence, were named the outstanding students in the theater division.
Gizella Denes, Omaha, was named the most outstanding girl in the ballet division, and Jeff Angwin, Pittsburg, the most outstanding bow Runner-up was Sharon Haggard. McAlister, Okla.
The outstanding boy in the art division was Robert Comings, San Francisco, and the outstanding girl was Charolotte Shoemaker, Darian, Conn.
Fire Behind Marvin Causes No Damage
A small trash fire behind Marvin Hall at 1:30 p.m. yesterday brought two pump trucks and an aerial ladder truck from the Lawrence Fire Department to the campus after receiving an alarm from an unidentified person.
The fire, located near a trash receptacle near the southwest corner of Marvin Hall, was extinguished minutes after the fire department arrived on the scene.
The origin of the fire was not determined but was thought to have started from a cigarette. Damage was confined to several empty boxes and assorted trash.
Music Camp Ends With Small 'Bang'
They have folded their clothes, packed their suitcases and not too silently have crept away to their respective homes.
The 675 high school students attending the 22nd annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp have ended their summer instruction at KU and have removed easels, flutes, violins, leotards, slide rules, and sheet music from the campus. The camp finished Sunday with a "bang"—fireworks during the "1812 Overture" which concluded the weekly band, orchestra, and chorus concerts.
Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and director of the camp, said the groups have improved many times over.
"They show more maturity and finesse than they did six weeks ago," Prof. Wiley said. He said that this camp was the largest and the finest in its history.
Prof. Wiley said there were no plans to make departmental additions to the program next year.
"We do have elaborate planning in process now, which will expand the camp further next year within the six departments now included in our program." Prof. Wiley said.
He said the camp undoubtedly will be larger next summer.
"We will continue to increase the program and the enrollment until we reach the peak our facilities can handle." Prof. Wiley said.
More than 25 KU instructors comprised the camp faculty. The campers heard recitals and received instruction from 28 guest clinicians and conductors who were here to attend the first annual Midwestern Music Clinic which met in cooperation with the Camp July 9-13.
Another part of the music program was a $150,000 display of every phase of the music industry exhibited by representatives of national music companies.
The art section of the camp was directed by Marjorie Whitney, professor of design, and Arvid Jacobson, associate professor of design.
Robert Bell of the Robert Bell School of Dance in Oklahoma City, Okla., conducted the ballet classes.
Under the direction of Jack Brooking, assistant professor of speech and drama, students participated in three of the University's summer plays.
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TOUGH TO TANGLE WITH—Recruits at the Highway Patrol Training School learn the techniques of judo. Harley Kruse, Geneseo, throws Charles Hanna, Dodge City, to the ground in an easy hip throw.