KU Enrollment May Double by 1968
Nearly twice as many students may be crossing Jayhawk Boulevard, falling asleep in classes and cramming for final examinations in 1968 as this year.
A study of KU's possible future enrollment just completed by Dean Kenneth Anderson of the School of Education, shows nearly 16,700 students will be attending the University 10 years from now.
In another 17 years, the enrollment may climb to 22,750 students
This year 8,538 students are enrolled on the Lawrence campus and 703 students are attending classes at the Medical Center in Kansas City. The study completed by Dean Anderson does not include students on the Kansas City campus.
George Smith, dean of the University, said plans are being made to meet the expected enrollment increase.
"When the enrollment reaches the high figure, the University will be prepared to meet the students' needs." he said.
At a press conference yesterday Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy quoted a similar enrollment survey made in 1951.
"Enrollment since then has been running four years ahead of the predictions," he said.
"By 1955 the enrollment total reached the figure predicted for 1959." he added.
Dean Anderson's survey predicts next year's enrollment will be 8,801 An increase of about 800 students is forecast for each successive year.
He lists several factors, however that may limit enrollment;
1. High tuition charges
2. Selective admission policies
3. Economic conditions
4. World Conference
5. Failure to maintain the present enrollment ratio in competition with other universities and colleges
4. World conflict
6. Decrease in out-of-state enrollments
7. Availability of adequate teaching personnel
8. Opportunities for employment
opportunities for employment
Dave Smith said the incipient but that it is impossible to say such an increase will not take place.
The University is required by statute to admit every Kansas high school graduate.
"It is doubtful this statute would ever be repealed," Dean Smith said. Chancellor Murphy referred to restricted enrollment as an "immoral point of view."
"Those who would make such a restriction are the same people who
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Brigitte Visits KU She's for the Dogs
Dr. Wakefield Dort, professor of geology, watched a female visitor named Brigitte wiggle her way into his 10 a.m. geology class today.
But it wasn't the famous Bardot. Instead a small dog, wearing a set of Christmas bells, walked through the rear door of Lindley auditorium and musically strolled down through the class, holding up a lecture until she reached the front of the room.
After a vain attempt to lure the unwanted female from the room, Dr. Dort picked her up and escorted Brigitte from the room, amid a flurry of dog-growls and barks from the class.
Pentagon Announces New Satellite Program
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Pentagon announced today that a program of earth satellite launches that may put a five-ton man-made moon in orbit will begin on the west coast in about 30 days.
The first satellite vehicle will be launched late this month or early in January from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It will weigh 1,300 pounds. Present American satellites do not weigh more than 32 pounds.
Roy W. Johnson, director of the Pentagon's Space Agency, said satellite launchings from Vandenberg may be expected at a rate of about once a month in 1959.
He said the program has been
designated "Project Discoverer," and its main purpose is to develop "useful information" for putting a manned vehicle into orbit around the earth.
Johnson said the program will include putting animals into orbit and returning them safely to earth.
Weather
Turning much colder Thursday with strong northerly winds and snow flurries northeast portion. Falling temperatures Thursday with highs 30s north to 50s south. Clear to partly cloudy and mild tonight. Low tonight 30 to 40.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 55
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1958
Chancellor Murphy Warns—
Budget Cut Means 'Second-Rate School'
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy warned that unless the Legislature approves the University's 1959- 60 budget request, the University of Kansas could become a second-rate institution.
The University has received a letter from the budget department at Topeka indicating the budget presented by the Board of Regents will be cut. The budget director has requested that University officials attend a budget hearing in Topeka on Dec.19.
Chancellor Murphy said it was his responsibility to ask for what is needed and to do any less would be to fail in his job.
At a press conference yesterday the chancellor indicated the position the University will take at the hearing in defending its request.
The Board of Regents approved the budget unanimously. In the board's opinion, the $9,150,367 requested by KU along with the budgets of the other state schools is the minimum needed.
"The University, in preparing the budget for the 1959-60 fiscal year, requested from the Board of Regents the money it felt the University needed to provide a first rate institution," Chancellor Murphy said.
"I don't believe the people of this state will ever be satisfied with a second rate University. I believe the people will, one way or another, provide the money that is needed," the chancellor said.
Gov. Docking will prepare his budget message to the Legislature after the hearings with various state agencies. Last week the governor said he would advocate a "hold the line" policy in regard to spending during the next fiscal year.
The Legislature will have hearings of its own before it prepares an appropriation bill for the state schools. The Legislature has appropriated more money the past two years for the state schools than Gov.Docking has recommended in his budget message.
Chancellor Murphy, who was in Russia this past summer and saw the total commitment the Russians are making to higher education, said:
"What the American people do about the higher education system as to quality, quantity and research during the next five to ten years will be so crucial. It could very well decide whether this country will be a first rate or second rate power by the end of the century."
Sophie Sings, Signs for Charity
By Eileen Charbo
After her show appearance at a plush Kansas City club, singer Sophie Tucker told a Daily Kansan reporter she has donated three million dollars to favored charities during her 55-year singing career.
Wrapped in a blue sweater and wearing heavy makeup, she offered departing diners autographed copies of her record album and autobiography at five dollars each. An open cigar box fills with bills as the stack of records and books dwindles. Neither article can be bought elsewhere.
This is the money she donates to charity.
Her blue, blinking eyes disappear in folds of fat when her big smile spreads.
"I'm bigger and better than ever."
Report Draws Council Fire
1. Extend priority for Stouffer Place apartments to Sunnyside residents due for eviction June 30. (This already has been done.)
A resolution asking that special services be extended to the Sunnyside residents who are to be evicted June 30 was recommended for adoption by the All Student Council by the housing committee at last night's Council meeting.
Council members criticized the motion as being "contradictory" to the significance already attached to the committee's work.
Members then passed a motion requiring that the resolution be reviewed and approved by Student Body President John Downing, Kansas City, Mo., junior, before further action.
"After all the publicity about the committee's work, it seems contradictory to me that the report doesn't mention any of the controversial subjects, such as the search for Sunnside financial records," Brooks Becker, Emporia graduate student, said.
The housing committee resolution recommends the following to the dormitory office:
2. Provide furniture storage for evicted Sunnyside residents moving to Stouffer Place. (All Stouffer Place apartments are furnished.)
3. Allow a reduction in rent paid by Sunnyside evictees who move to Stouffer Place in accordance to the length of their residence in Sunnyside, since their Sunnyside rent helped to pay for Stouffer place.
"Why has the committee changed its attitude about the Sunnyside rent being used to build Stouffer Place?" Chester Vanatta, Bartlesville, Okla., senior, asked.
The report states the fact that using Sunnyside rent money to help build Stouffer Place is permissible under Kansas law. The controversy that arose over this use of the money was a result of a breakdown in communications between the administration and the housing committee, states the report.
4. The resolution also stated that the state legislature should appropriate funds for married student housing at KU.
"I know it's legal, but to me it certainly doesn't seem ethical," he said.
Rosann Liberman, Caney sophomore and the housing committee member who read the report to the council, said that the committee does not approve of the so-called "sinking fund" in which all married student housing rent money is pooled.
"The fact is that it is legal, and there is nothing the housing committee can do about it," she said.
"As for the search for Sunnyside financial records, that issue has not been resolved," she continued. "Chancellor Murphy told us over six weeks ago he would ask Attorney General John Anderson's opinion on the right of the housing committee to see Sunnyside financial records.
"So far we haven't heard anything about it, and it's still an open point with us. This is why no mention is made of it in the report."
Becker then introduced the motion calling for the resolution to be approved by the student body president before its release to the administration.
"We howl about our committees not doing anything, and then when they do, we tie their hands," Bob Macy, Hutchinson senior, protested
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she said, "and I'll be back here next year."
She describes herself as "a little something left over from the war before last." Her sincerity and booming songs have made her one of the best loved performers of all time.
She reversed her usual order last night by making diners who packed the club sing "Some of These Days." She titled her autobiography after this blues song which she has sung more than a thousand times for kings, queens, prime ministers, army troops, crippled children and many paving audiences.
A maid helped Miss Tucker make a quick change from a silver and white fox-trimmed gown to a Calypso suit with a glittering gold fringe that trembled on this "Last of the Red Hot Mammas" who tips the beam somewhere near 200 pounds.
Asked if she has any present day counterpart, Miss Tucker said, "No. I'm way past training any protege."
She was born in Russia during her mother's flight to join her father who had come to America on the "borrowed" papers of a dead Italian soldier.
A deep family loyalty and affection offset the poverty of a childhood spent as a combination dishwasher—vegetable peeler and singing waitress in her parents New York restaurant.
SCABBARD AND BLADE—Cadet Maj. Duane Morris of the Air Force ROTC inspects the sabre of Cadet S/Sgt. Gary A. Gibson, El Dorado junior, in Scabbard and Blade pledge week ceremonies yesterday in front of Flint Hall. Morris is a Salina junior. Scabbard and Blade is a national honorary military society.