Daily Hansan
Monday, May 12, 1958
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
55th Year, No.144
Humor Still Kicking, Editor Tells Journalists
Bill Vaughan. Starbeams editor of the Kansas City Star, told 220 guests at the annual Kansan Board dinner Saturday that humor in newspapers is not dead, despite some claims to the contrary.
There is still a place for original humor on newspapers, and it could become a leading factor in increasing readership of a newspaper, Mr. Vaughan said.
Larry Boston, Salina senior, won a lion's share of the news-editorial awards at the dinner. Boston received a special $10 prize, an award for the best editorial of the year; was named outstanding senior man in the news-editorial sequence along with Dick Brown, St. Marys senior, and outstanding senior man by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity.
Jimmy Bedford, instructor of journalism, announced during presentation of awards that he was leaving KU this spring for a trip around the world, to be financed by freelance photography and reporting.
The Schott Memorial prize for the 1958-59 school year went to Harry Humphrey, Larkinburg junior majoring in radio-TV.
William Feitz, Olathe junior,
received a $100 award from the
Potts - Woodbury Advertising
Agency of Kansas City, Mo. as
the outstanding junior in advertising.
Altogether, 6 students received awards and scholarships at the dinner. Scholarships went to Pat Swanron, Newton junior (the $250 Mabel McLaughlin Beck scholarship), Jack Powell, Topeka sophomore, ($225 Stauffer scholarship), and Nancy Whalen, student at Hutchinson Junior College ($500 John P. Harris scholarship).
Awards for outstanding seniors went to Jere Glover, Salina, and Harry Turner, Topeka, in advertising; Nancy Harmon, Wichita, Boston and Brown, in news-editorial; Ardeth Nieman, Independence, and Ward Weldon, Warensburg, Mo., in radio-TV.
Ron Miller, Kansas City, Mo. junior, received $25 from Kappa Alpha Mu, national honorary photo-journalism fraternity, as photographer of the year.
Steve Schmidt, Salina senior, was awarded an honor key as the most outstanding senior man in advertising from Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising fraternity.
Alpha Delta Sigma also gave letters of recognition to Ted Winkler, Spring Hill, and Turner, both seniors. Emil L. Telfel, who died earlier this year, was given a key posthumously by the fraternity for professional work.
Daily Kansan awards:
Promotion ads—Carol Ann Huston, Kansas City, Mo. senior; first; William Celtz, Olathe junior, second, and William R. Irvine, Lawrence junior, third
Institutional ads—James G. Hohn
Hohnville senior, first; Fits, second;
Irvine junior.
News Stories -George Anthan, Kansas City, Kan. senior, first; Douglas Parker, Nebr. junior, second, and Brown and Robert Hartley, Winfield senior, third
Editorials—Boston, first; Hartley, second, and Brown, third.
Feature stories — Alan Jones, Lawrence
influence; junior, second, and Anthur, third
Feature photographs — H o h n, first:
James Linenberger, Hays sophomore,
second, and Rex D. Parsons, Fredonia
junior, third.
News photographs—Ronald K. Miller, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, first, John Lang, Arkansas City junior, second, and Linenberg, third.
GOING UP!—Construction workers pour concrete forms for the rapidly forming business school building under construction east of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. Completion date is set for the fall of 1960. (Daily Kansan photo)
Public Seen Fickle Toward Basic Research
The American public is fickle when it comes to supporting basic research, said Dr. Gene M. Nordby, a representative of the National Science Foundation, in an interview while visiting here. He said Friday that the American interest in fundamental research has rapidly cooled off since its peak during the first month of Sputnik.
"Basic research investments are among the most important investments this country can make," he stated.
"Through basic research we can create new markets." Dr. Nordby said. "For example, physicists sought for years to reach absolute zero. The discoveries they made mushroomed into hundreds of new industrial products, including dry ice, quick frozen foods, and liquid air.
"Most major discoveries were not sought." he said. "They were by-products of a search for fundamental knowledge which was then channeled into applied research and development." (Basic research is for fundamental knowledge, applied research is for product development.)
It is never known where basic research may lead, Dr. Nordhy said.
Basic research in the composition of human speech may soon make possible electronic devices which will enable the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.
"Scientists, who were curious as to how people talk and are able to differentiate between similar words such as 'billow' and 'below,' have analyzed speech.
"Their analysis led to the development of whole rooms full of equipment which can take human speech apart and put it together again electronically."
Campus Due For New Look
10 Projects Now Underway; All To Be Finished By 1960
Final Humanities Lecture Tuesday
A three-way "open conversation" about Dostoyevski's novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," to be held at 4 p.m. today by Dr. Vsevolod Setschkarev, Humanities lecturer from Harvard, will be the first feature of the final Humanities lecture this year.
DR. VSEVOLOD SETSCHKAREFF
The KU campus, continuing to expand, will show some extensive face lifting by next fall with 10 projects now in operation with completion dates ranging from this month on into 1960.
Jayhawk Boulevard A Plaza?
The Humanities Series lecture on "Dostoyevski and Christianity" at 8 o.n. Tuesday will be given in Bailey Auditorium because the room is air-conditioned. Dr. Setschkareff is the fifth foreign scholar presented in the series this year.
The informal conversation will be held in the Music and Browsing Room of the Student Union.
Both the novel and the motion picture will be discussed by Dr. Setsenareff, Dr. George Ivask, assistant professor of German, and Sam Anderson, instructor in German.
Dr. Setschkareff was born in Karkov, Russia, and taught at Bonn University and at Hamburg University.
Solution Seen For Traffic
The best way to end the traffic problem on Jayhawk Boulevard is simply to end the traffic.
This solution is the answer to an assigned case problem on the difficulties of pedestrian and automobile traffic by students in the department of architecture's class, Site and Landscape Planning.
to form a plaza.
To solve the problem, the students would close the boulevard from 14th Street to the Chi Omega fountain and redevelop parallel roads for service behind Strong Hall and Hoch Auditorium. Then the boulevard would be redesigned
"The problem could be looked at in two ways," he said. "One is that there is a traffic problem on the boulevard. The other is that there is no traffic problem, but instead, a pedestrian problem."
James R. Owen Jr., instructor in architecture and the class instructor, said Sunday his students were given the problem two weeks ago to be completed by the end of the semester.
"The students found that it is impossible to solve problems of vehicular circulation without solving other related ones, such as parking and emergency and service vehicles," he said.
"The class agreed that there is a traffic problem," he added, "and it is easier to get rid of cars than pedestrians."
Mr. Owen said that the solution to keep traffic off of the main part of the campus was the result of a lot of study and consultation with informed persons.
"Some students took traffic counts. Others talked to the campus police chief, the city fire chief, one of the chancellor's assistants, and several students." he said.
The students' solution is purely academic, Mr. Owen said. No recommendations are being made, but a model of their solution is being made by class members.
Perhaps the most impressive changes will be the new business school building and completion of the Joseph R. Pearson dormitory. The million-dollar business school, scheduled for completion in the fall of 1960, will be well above ground by September.
The dormitory, which will house 416 men students, has been under construction since last spring. It is supposed to be ready for occupancy by the second semester of the next school year. The dormitory will cost $1,380,000.
The second group of 120 units at Stouffer Place is under construction and should be finished by around the first of the year. The first group of apartments was opened last fall.
Many Smaller Projects
Contractors are at work on two more men's dormitories on the daisy field west of Allen Field House, Lewis and Templin halls. The two dormitories, to cost $3,265,000, will house 430 men students each,
A smaller project in the final stages of completion is the cobalt storage locker in the Lindley parking lot, which will be finished this spring.
The locker, to house radioactive cobalt for research by the geology department, will be activated later. The container must be shipped to the Atomic Energy Commission's breeder reactor in Arco, Idaho, for activation.
Bids have been taken for the mammalian genetics laboratory, to be built as an addition to Snow Hall, but all bids were over the money allotted.
Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said action on the bids was still being considered.
The campus weather station has been moved to its new location, with the new station bearing a memorial plaque to the late Prof. C. J. Posey. The new station between Marvin and Lindley halls, will be known as the Posey weather station.
Art Museum To Change
The retaining wall for the Art Museum's proposed fountain court has been finished. The wall will be faced with stone and the court will be finished over the summer. Centerpiece of the court will be the Weaver Memorial Fountain.
Another project at the Art Museum is refurbishing of the walls. The sandstone walls will be cleaned, repaired, and water-proofed over the summer.
The last of the landscaping for the Music and Dramatic Arts Building was finished last week with surfacing of the black-top drive past the building. The wooden frames in the library windows were replaced by steel ones.
Weather
Tonight partly cloudy east, scattered showers and thunderstorms west and central portions. Tuesday scattered showers and thunderstorms. Cooler extreme west tonight and west portion Tuesday. Low tonight 45 to 50 extreme west to 60s east. High Tuesday 60s west to 80 extreme east.