THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85—No.29 Friday, October 4,1974
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Donors get private club at stadium
For $500 or more a contributor may gain admittance to one of the most exclusive clubs on campus, located in Memorial Stadium.
The Jayhawk Victory Club opens its doors
on Saturday, at 10 a.m., made
theatre by the University of
Kansas athletic programs. The private
club is on the third level in the southwest
John Novotny, assistant athletic director,
said members of the club assembled there before home football games to socialize. He said that he had never been a soft drinks was also available to members
The consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited in Memorial Stadium because it is on state property. Novotny said that liquor wasn't served in the club and that the consumption of liquor wouldn't be consistent with the spirit of the club.
"Athletics is a clean, wholesome thing." Novotny said. "And it seems like some people want to cut it in two. But athletics does have its problems. I don't dervet that."
Bulletin
Ann R. Willner, professor of political science, has charged that the department of political science violated the University's guidelines regarding sexual discrimination.
Wilmer told the Kansan late last night that she sent Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, a 12-page list of allegations of discrimination Sept. 30.
Included in the list, Willner said, were specific charges that the political silence exasperated members to its faculty in the last three years and that "no women, although many were qualified, had been brought to the office," about 50 men have been interviewed.
Willer said she was shed yesterday that administration couldn't yet "move" on administration.
An earlier idea
If the 1944队 of architect George Kessler had been followed, KU would have a mall instead of Jiahyw Boulevard and a modified Taj Mahal for a campaise. In the lower right-hand corner of the bottom drawing, the main entrance to the campus is situated where Memorial Stadium now stands.
Senate urges Ford to make tapes public
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate pushed toward a final vote Thursday on a bill to give the public and courts full access to M. Nixon's White House tapes and papers.
By voice vote senators adopted a resolution urging President Gerald R. Ford to try to make public all the facts about the Watergate scandal, including any relevant documents from Nixon's five and one-half years in office.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., was prompted by a provision in the Nixon-Ford agreement that would allow the former president to destroy the papers after three years and the tapes after five. The president's tapes would be destroyed immediately.
But the big battle was over the bill giving it the right to inspect and measure of the tapes and papers, a measure designed to overturn an arrangement Nixon won out with the Ford administration before he was elected.
"Destruction of these materials would conceal forever the truth about the Watergate scandals," Nelson said. "Our generation and future generations would then be unable to learn exactly what happened and why."
Sen. Roman L. Hruska, R-Neb., led the fight against the bill, calling it unconstitutional on grounds it would violate the concept of executive privilege and infringe on Nixon's freedom of speech and right to privacy.
After Hruska ended a two-hour attack on
the Hruska, action was delayed until Friday.
"If the President's papers can be seized and disclosed to the world, then surely the congressman or perhaps a corporation president, union leader or other well known person could be seized and disclosed to all lawful plaintiffs and to the curious," said Ihrsku.
Design hodge-podge marks KU
Editor's note: This story is the product of research in the archives of Spencer Library.
By JOHN BROOKS
Reporter
Just think what you could do if you had the opportunity to build a state university.
Instead of an ordinary campanile, you would design a miniature Tat Mahal that would design a miniature Tat Mahal.
Memorial Stadium. The central mall would have ascended the hill from this point and opened up into a grand court area on the top of the hill.
At the end of the top portion of the mall would have been a large structure surrounded by gardens and walkways. Beyond this structure would have been a huge courtyard with gardens, pools and fountains. This grand court would have
The University of Kansas campus is a hodge-podge of architectural designs and structures. It is a museum of the trends, styles and fads in architecture during the past 108 years. However, many proposed buildings were never built.
SINCE THE FOUNDING of the University in 1866 many master building plans have been proposed and later discarded. Ideas from some of them were often used in other buildings that are consistent idea in building plans was to provide more office and classroom space.
and stately courtyards and it would be situated neatly in the middle of the carvus
IF YOU WERE ambitious, you could design a main academic building with a large rostrula that would resemble the one on the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
halls instead of sorority and fraternity housing.
IN 1804, George Kessler, a landscape architect from Kansas City, Mo., was contracted by the University Regents to develop plans for a new law building at the University of Kansas. He was further than this—he proposed a complete master plan for campus development.
been located on the present site of Strong Hall and Jayhawk Boulevard.
The Kessler plan adapted University buildings to develop in a landscape with terrains, curains and strived enhance the beauty of the campus and to provide architectural symmetry among the
Or if you have futuristic tendencies, you could design a main academic building that would be the tallest structure in the state, and you would want it to speed up that would speed students to class on time.
The variety of architectural designs that are found on the campus are good indications that no one master plan for a building structure was followed throughout the years.
All this may seem to be rather funny, or even vaughn. But don't laugh, this could be one of the greatest moments.
The University is a hedge-podge of architectural designs and structures. It is a museum of the trends, styles and fads in architecture for the last 108 years.
On either side of the mall leading to the main campus would have been large park areas. In the west hollow, the present site of Ozzone parking lot, would have be a small building surrounded by trees, the present site of Potter Lake, would have been another wooded park area.
The Kessler Plan included the building of a huge central mall leading from the bottom of the north side of Mt. Oread to the present site of Strong Hill. The main entrance to the campus and to the mall area would have been situated on the present site of the KU
BEYOND THE COURTYARD would have been the "main college hall" comparable in size and shape to Strong Hall, but with a large rotunda in the center of the building. We have been located on the present sites of Hoch Auditorium and Wescock Hall.
The primary concept of Kessler's long-range plan was to establish a centerpoint for university expansion and to build a campus where there would have been both attractive and feasible.
The main entrance to the mall area would have been flanked on the west side by a football stadium, and on the east side by a large combination gymnasium and
Another building plan that initially was accepted by the University but later discarded was the plan that involved the building of Spooner Library. According to the architectural master thesis written by a graduate student, KU, Spooner Library was to have a twin building constructed on its north side. These two buildings were to be connected by a large reading room. However, this plan was abandoned because the library was not naturally located and because there would have been problems with heating a building of such size.
KESSLER'S PLAN was not accepted, probably because of financial problems, although certain ideas were kept and used in the expansion and development of the University.
THE CAMPUSWOULD extend westward
Plans for the construction of many buildings at the University arose out of a variety of different needs. Reasons for building at the University include classroom space and new buildings to house the expanding laboratory and research facilities. However the University needed a hospital for quite another reason: students had no place to go for treatment.
IN HIS HISTORY of KU. "The years on
Mount Ouread." Robert Taft related the
following sequence of events that eventually culminate in the construction of Wakima
There were needs for specific buildings. In the spring of 1905 a KU student got smallpox. There was no University hospital; the city hospital would not admit students. He was placed on an island in the Kaw, and friends brought food.
and northward from the proposed main academic building. This would have given the campus a horseshoe shape with the west side of campus above the Northeast side of campus would have remained the same with Spooner Library, Green Hall and Dyche Hall occupying their positions. The expansion of the campus on the west side of campus trained academic buildings and residence
Sen. Robert Griffin, R-Mich., attempted to require that the official papers of all future presidents and members of Congress be submitted. His amendment was killed 47 to 32.
In the spring of 1965 a student at the University got smallpox. At that time there was no University hospital, and the city hospital wouldn't admit the student for infection. So they isolated the sickness isolated to keep the sickness from infecting other students and to avert an epidemic
In 1906 the University was hit by an epidemic of typhoid fever and diphtheria. But it wasn't until 1908 that the Regents approved plans for the renting of a private home to serve as the University's hospital facility.
Hruska said he would try to block final consideration by sending it to the Board for more study.
From 1908 to 1932 a number of private residents were converted into hospital beds.
Because the student was not seriously ill and the weather was relatively mild, the question of isolation was settled by placing the student in a small cabin on an island in the Bering Sea. The student's food to the sick student every day and left it on a tree stump near the shore of the island.
THE STUDENT EVENTUALLY recovered, but the incident brought sharp criticism from the local press. Unsurprisingly, it was evident that the construction of a health facility.
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"What did we have to do with What we need to do with Walt Disney, in arguing against the Griffin proposal," he said.
Nelson, Percy and others argue that any president's papers are actually government property, even though former chief advisors additionally have claimed them as their own.
Griffin amendment but withdrew it for fear it would damage charges of the bill's
Sen. Charles Percy, R-ill, a sponsor of the Nelson bill, originally proposed the
The bill doesn't touch on the question of ownership of the Nixon tapes and papers. It deals only with possession but would allow Nikon to be paid if a court rules that the bill results in the taking of property without compensation.
Record 103 groups slated for Band Day
By BILL GRAY
Reporter
Saturday will be the biggest Band Day in University of Kansas history, with 103 bands and thousands of high school band members to arrive in more than 300 buses.
The continued success of KU Band Day, now in its 28th year, contrasts with that of other schools of its size, said Robert Foster, director of bands.
Oklahoma and Nebraska won't have band days this year. James Barnes, KU band
Foster and Barnes lack of money in athletic programs was the major reason for termination of band days at other universities. Such schools contend they need the money they would lose by giving free seats to high school band students.
Foster said he didn't foresee KU's band day being eliminated in the near future. KU would have to have a national championship game before the program would be endangered.
The large number of bands posed some logistical problems for Foster when he planned the halftime show. Bands will be placed on each end zone and the sidelines, he said.
"This is the largest number of bands we will ever have." Foster said.
Barnes will meet the bands as they arrive at South Park, just west of Massachusetts street, and help organize them for the park. Barnes said the street about every minute. Barnes said.
Bruce Brooks, Lawrence senior and a member of the KU Band, said a University band member was selected to meet each of the festival's goals. He is scheduled for the parade and halftime ceremony.
Band Day begins officially at 9 a.m. with a parade down Massachusetts Street. This is the largest parade of the year for a community popular with the community, Foster said.
Lee Mendyk, KU's new assistant director of bands, will direct the next number, Across the Wall Missouri'. The number will be a former KU student, Claude T. Smith.
At halftime the bands will move out the field to form the letters "USA" on a giant shield, Foster said. The Lawrence High School band will form the point of the shield and the KU drum section will form a crossbar on the shield.
The bands will open by playing "I'm a Jayhawk," arranged by Barnes and Jewett.
Foster will direct the next piece, "Boogie on Down." He said the number was a departure from traditional Band Day music.
George Boberg, associate professor of wind and percussion, will then direct "One Tin Soldier," a song from the movie "Billy Jack."
Foster will direct the traditional closing song, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
The large number of people over a large area makes it difficult to keep the bands together when they play the songs, Foster said. To help keep the beat, the KU drum section will be the only drum section playing; he said.
Brooks, a member of the KU drum section, said there was a problem seeing the director give the beat last year, but he said anyone managed to play together anyway.
Brooks said he couldn't remember ever hearing a serious mistake made by the massed bands since he had been in the event. He said he had been involved in KU Band Day since 1968, when he was in the Lawrence High School band.
"The band is as well organized here as any I know about," Barnes said.
Barnes said the reason KU Band day was so as to have a place for all of the 'Band is an air well organized here as'
He said the bands got excellent cooperation from the Highway Patrol and the Lawrence police, who direct the many buses to their proper destinations.
"The only thing that messes us up is rain." be said.
Rain could force cancellation of the parade, but the halftime program would
"We just get wet," Foster said.
AP deskman prizes KU degree
By CHRIS STEVENS
David Finch walked up to Associated Press general manager Wes Gallagher at KU's Editor's Day seven years ago and asked him for a job. Gallagher gave him a phone call. Such a KU graduate studies at the time, soon was working for the AP in London.
Finch, editor in residence Thursday at the U.S. Air Force Academy on the AP's New York foreign desk
"I entered journalism because it was a better idea than working." Finch said TITCH.
Finch edits stories from AP foreign correspondents. He edits foreign news, rewrites stories and sends domestic news overseas.
A 1967 alumnus of KU's William Allen White School of Journalism, Finch said aspiring journalists with journalism educations have the jump on those who don't. He has found his training useful, he said.
"My advice to the graduate is to go to a smaller paper, for more scope and more say in the policy," he said. "There's a lot more advice for the reporter in a small operation."
drawn from the foreign desk, Finch said. Many veteran reporters are retiring and employees in their late 20's and early 30's are taking positions in overseas bureaus.
The AP's New York bureau is a 24-hour operation. Three people work on the foreign desk each shift. Many started in regional offices and had little newspaper experience.
David Finch
AP's foreign correspondents often are
Finch was born in London and was graduated in 1965 from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, with a political science degree. He went to KU on an exchange student scholarship.
Finch said the AP sometimes employed foreign nationals but this wasn't usually practiced in countries where nationals were subject to governmental pressure.
Finch said there was no indication that the AP or the UPI news services were dying. He doesn't foresee a merger for the two organizations.
Diallinsonised with his work for the AP after 15 months. Fitch went to work for the AP because he worked where "no enough scope for promotion." The hours and salary are the source of much dissatisfaction and result in large turnover. He worked for the AP again in February.
However, he said, "Most countries can't support more than one agency."
Self-improvement is a must for a journalist, as according to Finch, and part of the job of an editor.
"English is a living language," be said.
"We help to decide whether the public learns it."
The mechanical aspect of journalism is improving. The AP bureaus are equipped with cathode ray tube editing machines to automate the creation of news and to produce cleaner copy.
Despite the AP's editing process, wire stories can always be edited further. Finch's blog is often a valuable resource.
"I am critical," Finch said. "It is bad to be complacent and say I work for a great organization and therefore nothing goes wrong. There's a lot wrong with the AP and not wrong with the world. But one of the word things to do is to cover up mistakes."