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University Daily Kansan, October 11, 1962
Students find free activities in free time
By DONNA KELLER Staff Reporter
Attribute it to boredom, classroom battle fatigue, or the Kansas winds. this is the time of the year when KU players are buseless, bored, and a little short on education.
Searching for alternatives to sainting at the four walls of their dorm room or watching the moth flutter up on checkbooks. KU students have invented their own brands of no-expense good times to get them away from it all.
Ann Mitchell, Topea freshman, said that she and her friends created their own version of a dance floor by driving out to a country field.
"We parked the car, turned on the car stereo and danced until dawn," Mitchell said.
Shelly Holstrom, Wichita sophmore, said that she and her friends thrived on spur-of-the-moment activity.
"ONE TIME we started running around pretending to shoot people." Holstrum said, describing a modified cops and robbers game. "Another time we decided to bake cookies, but it ended up that we ate all the dough."
Some students mark the passing of another academic week by ritual.
Diane Merrick, Overland Park freshman, said she always knew when it was Friday in Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall
"Someone cramp up the stereo with Rick James' Superfreak, or Hall and Oats' 'Africa' and we start dancing to get fired up for the weekend." "We don't know, say. Is it Friday?' and then they'll bear Rick James, and say 'Oh, yeh.'
Listening to the radio often can provide students with more than just a way to break the silence.
SAM WALLACE, Topeka freshman,
said that he often listened to KJHK to
win a free pass to Off-the-Wall Hall.
"You get to hear a good band, and the water's free," Wallace said.
Yet there are those moments when a student is alone, and must do something other than generate motherhood, taught for a composition assignment.
Allison Baker, Lawrence senior said she liked to talk to herself.
Mary Cunnick, McPherson senior, said, "I throw the cats around the house."
Cunnick said she thought rolling around in a hay barn sounded like a good idea if students could find a
barn, which would not be difficult in this part of Kansas.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY is popular among students, for some because it is free, for others because it is fun. Many students take advantage of the equipment and services of Robinson Center, such as racquetball, basketball, table tennis, swimming and volleyball.
Greg Moore, Shawnee junior, and John Buchfink, Lenexa senior, regularly lift weights at Robinson.
Vanity, sanity and fun are their reasons for hefting the iron, they said.
People-watching is another popular activity among students, as evidenced by their numbers in front of Wescoe Hall.
Men watch women, women watch men, but it all boils down to people watching people worth watching.
Cunnick said, "I watch guys watch girls."
PLAYING HOST to a potluck breakfast or dinner, a fall picnic, an Octoberfest or a Halloween party for friends are other suggestions to while away those idle hours that probably should be spent in the library.
Football season always initiates another academic year, but scraping up pennies from under the bed to pay for a ticket can be frustrating.
Larry Navran, Overland Park senior, said sitting on the hill outside the stadium was the best bet for penny-pinchers.
Some students, such as Tad Krape,
Lawrence junior, and Joni Wagner,
Lewood freshman, prefer less active
activities and resort to of all
things, sleeping.
THE SPENCER MUSEUM of Art, the KU Museum of Natural History and the Fine Arts Gallery at the Kansas University beckon solitary students who hunger for a taste of culture.
Watkins Community Museum, 101 Massachusetts St., provides a wealth of local history and the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, features an art gallery and evening musical entertainment.
The Kellas Gallery, 7 E. Seventh St., and the Hand and I in the Casbah, 80 Massachusetts St., are among the work of local artists that display the work of local artists and
The KU Information office, as well as Student Union Activities, has dozens of entertainment ideas.
Watching the sunset at Wells
Overlook south of Lawrence, a
bureau by several students,
costs nothing more than the
means to get there.
Wilcox Collection lacks funds for move
Heavy pieces, expenses cause delay
By JEANNE FOY
Staff Reporter
Money is needed to complete the move of the Wilcox Collection from its shed on West Campus to a dry warehouse in southeast Lawrence, said Shannon Goff.
The collection, which is composed of plaster casts of classical statues and antiques, was stored in a tin shed after old Fraser Hall, where it had been on display from 1888 to 1965, was torn down in 1965.
Facilities operations employees began moving the collection Sept. 16 to a warehouse that will serve as a staging area for the collection, which eventually will be displayed in Lippincott Hall.
Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics and curator of the Wilcox Museum, said facilities operations had moved the collection for free, but then decided it could no longer spare time and effort on the move without charge.
ROBERT PORTER, associate director of physical plant maintenance for facilities operations, said, "We agreed to help them out, but someone else
would have to support it by funding the move.
"We supported them by providing a vehicle and a driver, but once it was apparent that much more was involved as far as moving the heavy pieces, we decided we did not have the time to do it."
Porter said some of the pieces probably weighed 700 pounds each. He said facilities operations had a moving cost of $7.59 per hour to cover labor costs.
Al Johnson, assistant to the vice chancellor of academic affairs, said the office of academic affairs had requested $2,500 from the University to help pay for the various costs of re-establishing the Wilcox Museum.
He said the office would know by the end of October whether the request was accepted.
"If we get the money, we'll move ahead quickly. If not, we'll pursue other avenues, although I don't know where. I never have the charge of money everywhere," he said.
in order to honor her withes, that money will not be used for moving costs.
THE CLASSICS department has money donated by Mary Grant, former curator of the Wilcox Museum, to pay for installation costs, Banks said, and
Banks said that while the collection was in the shed, it had been damaged by rain, wildlife that mingled to crawl and other items in and out of the shed.
SHF ESTIMATED that 30 percent of the collection had been destroyed — mostly old photographs of Greek and Roman architecture.
Some of the more important status had been damaged, she said, but she cannot determine whether they can be audited she examines them in more detail.
The two statues that people best remember from when the collection was displayed in old Fraser Hall are in poor shape, she said. The Laocoon, a giant giant princess being attacked by two giants, has been damaged by rain, she said.
And the body of the Prima Porta Augustus, a statue of the Roman emperor Augustus, is missing, she said.
"IT WAS absolutely one of the highlights of the collection," she said.
She said she had the head in her office, but the body is nowhere to be found.
She said it probably was stolen or misplaced during the move to the shed in 1965.
Banks said she hoped the display would be completed by the end of the spring semester.
She said the display would include a section of plaster casts of sculptures from the Parthenon, Athena's temple on the Acropolis in Greece; a literary section with busts of Sophocles, Homer and Virgil; and an architectural section with original fragments of Greek and Roman pottery, sculpture and marble.
Survey sent to residents
Residents of six Lawrence neighborhoods will have their chance to speak on on city and neighborhood issues, including the death of the author, the author of the survey said Friday.
Tom Seekins, the author and resident assistant in the KU department of human development and family life, who has worked on specialty group surveys, said the survey's questions were similar to those thought it was safe for their children to walk to school to whether they thought natural gas prices were fair.
"With this study we're trying to identify problems, find out why these things are problems, and see what we can do to solve the problems," he said.
SEEKINS SAID some people had questioned the reliability of the study because it was sent to every household, or to a random sample of residents.
The two-page, 32-question survey was sent to every household in the East, Far East, Old West, North, Pinckney and Plains, South, where the said, and must be returned by Oct. 18.
CONSUMERS AWARE!
"It's not a question of accurately reflecting the opinion of a neighborhood," he said. "We want the information we have, willing to come out and do something."
To compile possible neighborhood concerns, Seekins said, he went to neighborhood association meetings and asked people to pick from about 300 issues.
The Consumer Info Center is now open daily.
City Commissioner Donald Binns, a resident of the Far East neighborhood, was at the neighborhood meeting where the concerns were selected, and said he thought the survey technique was sound.
Binns said neighborhood groups often approached the City Commission with problems that concerned only a small percentage of residents. A survey sent out to all residents of neighborhoods, and not just members of organizations, removes the question of minority involvement, he said.
"AS LONG as it is put out to everybody and not just to members of our organizations, the information we get from it should be very valid," he said.
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CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will be at 12:30 p.m. in Danforth Chapel.
A PHYSICS AND ASTROLOGY Department Colloquium, "Photo-Processing of Semi-conductors," will be at 4:30 p.m. in 3092 Malott Hall.
A LECTURE. "Austria and the
Pine Forest." 7:30 p.m.
in the Pine Room of the Rockefeller
University.
EAST ASIAN LECTURE SERIES,
"The Political Dynamics of the Mongol
Expansion," will be at 7:30 p.m. in the
Jayhawk Room of the Union.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST will meet at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union.
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOW-
SHIP's labite study and fellowship will be held on Sunday, November 15.
A BIBLICAL SEMINAR, "The Gospel of Mark and the Nuclear Arms Institute at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave
A LINGUISTICS COLLOQUY, "Dialect Mapping by microcomputer," will be at 7:30 p.m. at 4063 Wesco Hall.
POETRY READING by Diane Hueter Warner and Jane Hoskinson will be at 8 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
THE PRE-MED CLUB will meet at 7 on the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
THE CAMPUS UNIT of the League of Women Voters will meet to discuss "Hazardous Waste Disposal" at noon in 305 Satellite Union.
PUBLIC RELATIONS Student Society of America will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
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