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Wednesday. Jan. 15, 1958
JUST MADE IT!—Mary H. McFerson, Wichita freshman, and Penny Jones, Lawrence sophomore, reach the steps of Fraser Hall with a minute to get to class, after a quick trip across the campus between classes. The 10-minute break between classes was enough for them, but just barely. (Daily Kansan photo)
Is Time Too Short Between Classes?
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
If you invariably come puffing into class three minutes late because you've got too far to go between classes, then take comfort in the fact that University administrators have also been worrying about the problem.
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"We still have to make agreements with the contractors about the type of light fixtures and windows to be used before we can let the contracts," Mr. Lawton said.
New Business School Bids Total $1,039,610
Apparent low bids for the construction of the new Business School building total $1,039,610. The bids were opened Tuesday afternoon in Topeka.
The apparent low bidders are Martin K Ebv Construction Co. Wichita, $799,400 for general construction; Yoe and Trubey Electrical Co., Manhattan, $56,372 for electrical work, and Brune Plumbing, Heating and Electric Co. Lawrence, $183,838 for plumbing heating and ventilating.
Keith Lawton, administrative assistant for operations, said additional work will cause the bids to be raised slightly before the contracts are granted.
"There are two or three small alternates in the plumbing work, also."
"A landscaping job will be included in the general construction work, which will raise that bid, and the type of light fixtures we want was not included in the electrical bid, so it will also be increased," he said.
"It would appear that the bids are within the money we have available for the building, and I see no reason that contracts cannot be let and work started within four to six weeks," he said.
"The possibility of it becoming necessary to lengthen the time between classes has been constantly in the minds of the planners." said Keith Lawton, administrative assistant for operations.
What Nation's Budget Means
It Would Finance KU For About 7,400 Years
By DOUG PARKER
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Low this morning 27. Precipitation at 8 a.m. during the last 24 hours was .02 inch. Low Tuesday 35. high 46.
Generally fair tonight and Thursday. Continued cold tonight. Warmer east Thursday. Low tonight 15 northwest to 20s east and south. High Thursday 40s.
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President Eisenhower's budget of nearly 74 billion dollars could finance the University budget for about 7,400 years.
KU Budget Set At $9,590,126
The most common trouble-causing situation is having classes in Lindley and Fraser Halls in two consecutive class periods. When buildings are built farther away from the center of the campus, it will probably be necessary to give the students more time between classes, he said.
This points up the fact that the largest peacetime budget of the United States is a great deal of money to the man holding the one-dollar bill.
Gov. George Docking, in his budget message to the Legislature Tuesday, recommended a total of $9,590,126 for the University. This compares with the $10,122,623 figure asked by school officials. The figure for 1958 was $9,219,670.
A total of $6,571,836 was recommended for the University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., compared to $6,415,621 in 1958.
Here are the recommended operating expenditures for the various schools, compared to 1958:
(An editorial, "Taxpayer Feeling Pinch." Page 2.)
Fort Hays State College, $1,732,014 and $1,547,312; Kansas State College, $8,370,204 and $8,011,556; Emporia State Teachers College, $2,286,507 and $2,191,110; Pittsburgh State Teachers College, $2,437,113 and $2,178,753.
May Raze Fraser Hall The engineering building will not be built until at least after 1960. Mr. Lawton said. There is a possibility that Fraser Hall will be torn down, thus easing the problem of dashing between classes.
Changing Period Adequate Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, said the distance between out-lying buildings on the campus is about at the limit for which the 10-minute class changing period is adequate.
The new building to house the School of Business and department of economics, which will be built south of Malott Hall, will not be as far away as some of the present buildings, but a proposed engineering building west of Naismith Drive and north of Allen Field House may be the building that brings about the change.
May Raze Fraser Hall
Sociologist To Investigate Philippine Moros Society
Dr. Charles K. Warriner, assistant professor of sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright grant for research on inter-society leadership in the Philippines. He and his family will leave Lawrence in August to live for nine months among an island tribe of Moslems who were once notorious bandits and pirates.
Dr. Warriner said he has no fears about taking his wife and three children to the land of the Moros who years ago "introduced the law of the Colt .45 to the West."
A long time interest in the processes of society leadership was stimulated for Dr. Warriner last year when he was master thesis adviser for Mamitua Saber, a Moro student from Mindanao island. The thesis on "marginal leadership" prompted Dr. Warriner to apply for a grant to study and observe the role of leadership in a changing society.
The sociologist feels that leadership relations between the minority tribe and the dominant Filipinos are starting to "bridge the cultural gap" and destroy the marginal, segregated society of turmoil.
The Warriners will arrive in the Philippines at Sillman University in Dumaguette on Negros Island. Dr. Warriner will be identified with the University, but will not teach. He feels that his research will be more successful if he has access to both societies through a "neutral institution" which will free him from any possible suspicion.
The United States educational exchange fellowship, granted under terms of the Fulbright act,
Although there will be many problems involved in the preparations, he said, "The whole family is looking forward to living in the islands." The Warrinners' three children Douglas, 10, David, 7, and Ruth, 3, and Mrs. Marian Warriner are already concentrating on mov-
will pay transportation cost for Dr. Warriner and maintenance costs for him and his family.
The work that Dr. Warriner will do is in part "a continuation and extension" of the help he gave Mr. Saber on his thesis at KU. Mr. Saber, a district director of the Fillipino Red Cross, will collaborate with Dr. Warriner on some of the research.
Mr. Saber has had first hand acquaintance with these problems because he was born and reared on Mindanao and has been educated and employed in the dominant Filipino society."
CHARLES WARRINER
The only way that he could get into trouble, he said, would be through the violation of Moro customs. He is familiar with some of their tabos, but will ask for a more thorough briefing from Mr. Saber.
Major research will be done on the position of the Moro representative in the Filipino legislature. Dr Warriner will observe the Moro attitudes and actions toward their own representative and also the degree and type of position that he holds among Filipinos.
ing problems.
For instance, figuring that the new Music and Dramatics Arts Building cost 2.5 million,the government could construct 29,600 such buildings,enough of them to build 616 in each state and some money left over for a smaller building in Hawaii.
And if you were to count out the budget in one-dollar bills at a bill a second, it would take you about 2,340 years, counting night and day and no time out for lunch.
And to top it off, plus buying about 18 million Cadillaes, with the budget you could wrap a band of one-dollar bills end to end around the world about 280 times.
Don't Let Figures Scare You
However, don't let the figures scare you. As Charles E. Staley, assistant professor of economics, pointed out in an interview Tuesday, in relation to the country's production we're not in bad shape. Prof. Staley said that by comparing the ratio between the highest budget the United States has had and Mr. Eisenhower's budget, one can see the economic position we're in.
He said that in 1945 there was a 100-billion dollar budget with a gross national production of 213 billion, while this year the 74 billion dollar budget has behind it a gross national production of 436 billion.
With a budget one-fourth less than the one in 1945 and a production of goods and services twice as much as in 1945 the government isn't in bad shape, Prof. Staley said,
"In addition to the larger gross national production," he said, "the government will be purchasing gadgets for missiles and will have more people employed, thus injecting purchasing power into the economy."
"More People Employed"
Would it ever be possible to lower the national debt considerably? Prof. Staley said it's possible but unlikely.
(Related story, "Ike Prefers Debt to Taxes," Page 3, an editorial on Page 2.)
"What reducing the debt means is a calculation whether it's worse to increase taxes to lower the debt or staying with the same taxes and keeping the debt the same," Prof. Staley said. "And the public doesn't want this."
Bank Hatches Dividend
EVANSTON, ILL. — (UP) — Officials at the State Bank and Trust Co., received an extra dividend Tuesday. Two fantail doves, part of the bank's Christmas display, hatched a young dove from a pink egg that was laid about Christmas.
New Folklore Courses Added
Stith Thompson, retired professor of English and former dean of the graduate school at Indiana University, will teach two courses in folklore at KU during the spring semester.
William P. Albrecht, professor of English, and Dr. Thompson will teach "Introduction to Folklore" for
juniors and seniors and a seminar in the "Folk tale and Allied Forms" for graduate students.
Dr. Thompson is a former United States delegate to the International Folklore Congress in Paris and was named distinguished service professor of English and folklore in 1953.