DEAN RETURNS—Burton W. Marvin, left, dean of the School of Journalism, shows a paper he brought back from his Iranian visit to Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism. Prof. Pickett was acting dean during Dean Marvin's absence.
Marvin Reports
Exciting Year for Dean
"It all certainly made enough excitement for the year," Burton W. Marvin, dean of the School of Journalism, says in recounting the experiences of a year in the strategically important Middle East.
Dean Marvin recently returned from a year's leave of absence which took him to Iran on a Fulbright grant. He spent most of the nine months teaching at Tehran University in the Iranian capital city.
It was a year of student strikes, teacher's strikes, royal births and visits.
Dean Marvin, his wife and three children lived just a few blocks from the Iranian Parliament, which was the scene of a demonstration which toppled one cabinet of the shaky Iranian government and forced the installation of another.
The demonstration was part of an elementary and high school teachers' strike in May. "Several thousand of them (the teachers) assembled in the square outside of Parliament," Dean Marvin said. "Firemen sprayed the crowd in an effort to disperse them. The crowd became more unruly, the police shot into it, and a man was killed.
"This started a series of events which caused one cabinet to tumble and forced the appointment of another premier."
A students' strike last winter caused two classes Dean Marvin was teaching to be suspended for about a month.
Dean Marvin reported that excitement also reached a high point last fall at the birth of a male heir to the Iranian throne. The Shah of Iran has married four times, seeking a male heir.
The visit of Queen Elizabeth II in March also was cause for much excitement and celebration in Tehran.
There has been much political turbulence in Iran in the past several years.
"There has been a rather rapid development in literacy in Iran," Dean Marvin said. He reported that since the end of World War II the rate of literacy has risen from 5 to 15 per cent.
"There are a great number of children in school, which means that in a few years the percentage will rise even more.
"When these people become literate they are going to become aware of the world around them and the wretched conditions in which they live. This could mean considerable political danger for the present government if it does not change social and economic conditions."
Dean Marvin said the basic problem that faces Iran is the proper utilization of its resources. "Compared with other nations in the Middle East, Iran is quite wealthy."
Iran is a country of about 20 million people living within an area of about the size of the United States east of the Mississippi River. Its topography and climate are similar to the Southwestern states of Arizona and New Mexico.
Iranians generally were very friendly, Dean Marvin said. "We never saw anything that would indicate animosity toward Americans."
He said Iranians look up to the United States. "The Cuban incident definitely tarnished the image of the United States. These people do not expect this kind of thing from us."
"During the year we got eight or ten free taxi rides because we were Americans," Dean Marvin said.
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
49th Year, No. 9
Moe to Conduct Chorus Sunday
The band also is performing several contemporary works. When the first number on its program, taken from Coates "London Suite," was premiered in 1933, its immediate success made it one of the most frequently played marches in England and elsewhere.
Daniel Moe, formerly of the University of Denver, will conduct the chorus in the music camp's concerts Sunday.
The first orchestra number is the overture to one of Weber's most important operas which was based on a fairy tale taken from a book of German ghost stories. This opera laid the foundation for German romantic opera.
Mr. Moe studied at Concordia College, University of Washington, where he received his master's degree, at the State University of Iowa, where he did his doctoral work in composition, and in Germany. Next year he will be director of choral activities at Iowa.
Thomas Gorton will direct the orchestra in Hanson's Symphony No. II, romantic.
All of the choral numbers this Sunday, except the Mozart, will be contemporary. Bender, a German recently migrated to this country and is now at Concordia College at Nebraska. "That's the Idea of Freedom" is from Copland's opera "The Second Hurricane." "Love Somebody" is an American folk song. La Montaine is an up and coming American composer who has recently received several important awards.
Both the band and orchestra will be conducted by Donald Johanos, resident conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Johanos, a graduate of Eastman, studied with Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia for a year, then received a three-year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study abroad under the major conductors in Europe including Szell, Klemperer, and von Beisum.
Moussorgsky's tone poem, "A Night on Bald Mountain," is an old favorite.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The other contemporary composers on the orchestra program are Wallingford Riegger and Howard Hanson, both Americans.
Friday, July 14, 1961
University Officials See No Shortage In Housing from Enrollment in Fall
The expected increase in enrollment this fall won't cause any severe housing shortage, according to University officials.
KU will probably have approximately 10,000 students on its Lawrence campus and 10,700 total. Housing of freshman women appears to be the only problem this fall. The coeds will live in existing University dormitories, which means that some two-girl rooms will be converted into three-girl rooms.
KU has purchased 372 new beds but J. J. Wilson, dormitories director, said he does not know how many coeds will have to triple-up. A 2 million dollar dorm now under construction will be ready by September 1962, and will accommodate the additional students.
A photograph by a KU student has been selected as the cover picture of this year's "The National Photo Journalism," official publication of Kappa Alpha Mu Honorary Photo Journalism fraternity.
Perry C. Riddle, Minneapolis senior, took the picture of an Army rifleman in action at an Army reserve training camp last year. It won two first place awards and was rated best print at this year's 16th annual college photo competition sponsored by Kappa Alpha Mu, the National Press Photographers Assn., and the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, in addition to being the cover picture.
Wilson also said Lawrence residents will continue to house the majority of the student body. He added, "There are no plans for the University to become self-sufficient in housing."
KU Student's Pix Gets Top Award
Ice Cream Social Tonight
The Wesleyan-Lutheran student group is having an ice cream social at 7:00 this evening at the Wesleyan Student Center.
At 5:30 p.m. Sunday E. E. Bayles, professor of education, will speak to the group on "pragmatism and the nature of man."
Four more dormitories will be built on the campus during the next four years in the Iowa Street area. These dorms will provide housing
for hundreds of additional students, according to Wilson, but the percentage now provided for by the University will not change greatly. KU's 1970 enrollment is forecast to hit 17,000.
KU will not construct additional housing for married students after the final five buildings are completed
at Stouffer Place. These are slated to be ready by September 1962. Local builders will handle further units, Wilson said.
In general, Wilson added, KU hopes to keep the percentage between University, Greek, and community housing the same as it is today, during the next 10 years.
WHAT'S NEW—Benjamin Morris of Quinter and Sarah Walker of New Smyra Beach, Fla., students in the KU "Junior Year in Costa Rica" program, catch up on the latest local political news. The two have been attending the Institute for Political Education to supplement their work
at the University of Costa Rica. Behind them is a bulletin board listing names of former Institute students. The organization trains young people for leadership in liberal anti-communist parties in Latin America. (Related story on page 5.)