Tuesday, June 13, 1961 Summer Session Kansan
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Wescoe Cites Future Needs
The sharp increase in freshman class enrollment last fall dramatized more than anything else KU's urgent need to prepare for the future according to a commencement week address given by Chancellor Wescow.
Wescoe made this statement in his first "State of the University" address at the all-university supper June 4. "Like the prophet whose prophecies have come to pass," he said, "we were somewhat shocked and more than somewhat surprised when our enrollment of new freshmen shot upward by 35 per cent. In the immediate future we can see an increase in KU enrollment this fall. How big an increase it will be depends upon the size of our incoming freshman class. If it should remain the same as last year's, freshman enrollment will increase by 400-500 this fall." He added that this could easily push the total enrollment on the Lawrence campus past the 10,000 mark.
That a residence hall for 444 women will have been completed by September 1962 and that the university hopes that others will be started in the near future.
The Chancellor said that classrooms have become the first priority in the KU physical plant and through the addition of more noon classes, the school will be using classrooms approximately 40 hours a week this fall. He added that by 1963 it may become necessary to start the daily schedule at 7:30 a.m. instead of 8 a.m.
In other remarks, Wescoe declared:
That there should be no restrictions on the opportunity of students to voice their opinions freely and to hear the opinions of those with whom they may disagree.
That KU received $3½ million from the legislature for construction of an engineering hall and additions to Dyche Hall and the library.
That the dollar-value of sponsored research at KU will rise by 21 percent this year, bringing the total annual amount to approximately $5 million.
That through the Endowment As-
sociation KU has provided 867
scholarships worth more than $450,
-000 and 3,500 loans totaling nearly
$850,000.
That the alumni association now has nearly 15,000 dues paying members, more than twice as many as a decade ago.
He quoted portions of a recent editorial in the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press which stated: "You do not have to be a resident of the state of Kansas to be proud of the University of Kansas. Without disparaging other fine state universities in our middle west, we must be fair. The KU fellowship awards are strikingly monumental and the envy of all schools, public or private."
Wescoe ended on a hopeful note: "As long as we have far-sighted legislators, as long as we have generous alumni and friends committed to the advancement of their university, as long as we have well-prepared and motivated students, as long as we have skillful teachers and able scientists dedicated to their high calling, we can face the future without fear. We cannot fear because the future is our home. The future is opportunity. It can be greatness."
The editorial writer had pointed out KU's outstanding record in winning Woodrow Wilson and Danforth Fellowships, and Rhodes Scholarships.
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Twin-Engined Plane to Be AKU Lab in the Sky'
The University has added a "laboratory in the sky" to its educational and research facilities
A blue-and-white, twin-engined C-45 Beechcraft (D-18B) recently acquired by the K.U. aeronautical engineering department, is being used for research in the aerospace sciences and for flight testing in the aero curriculum.
The craft, known as "Nectar 9410 Zulu," already is scheduled for use in research on the Great Plains thunderstorm. It will be used as a "platform" from which F. C. Bates,
assistant professor of aeronautical engineering, will photograph these storms in his studies under a National Science Foundation grant.
The pilot is Norman W. Hoecker, laboratory director at the K.U. Hangar. Hoecker became known throughout the area for his operations in "The Stork" during the flood of 1951.
Nectar 9410 Zulu, a seven-place craft, also is being used by James B. Tiedemann, associate professor of aeronautical engineering, and his flight-test students in a project to
measure pilot control reaction to turbulent accelerations. The project centers around a "rigged" copilot's seat that records automatically both acceleration forces, such as those encountered during storms, and the pilot's responses.
The airplane is a "veteran" of the U.S. Air Force and was purchased as surplus. Beech Aircraft Corporation installed a fuel tank in the nose and did other work necessary to certify the plane. The corporation also donated kits and parts for further improvements, and outfitted
the cabin interior with new seats and material for relining.
A modern steel and sheet-metal hanger for the plane has been built east of the old aeronautical engineering department hangar at the airport.
Besides the plane's improvements and new hangar she carries a full array of communications and navigation equipment.
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.—Publius Syrus