Gym Dandy Says Coach
Pool Features Extra Lanes Bleachers, Water Window
By Jerry Kern
Practice in the present pool in Robinson Gymnasium continues for the KU swimming team with the expectation of better results when the new pool is completed.
The new pool will be constructed in a wing addition south of Robinson building. The $423.- 860 cost of the T-shaped pool includes electrical, mechanical and plumbing equipment.
"The swimming pool is badly needed. Its use will probably be the difference between fifth and second place for our swimming team," Richard Reamon, swimming coach, said.
While construction of the main building is proceeding on schedule, the swimming area will not be completed until two or three months later, said Keith Lawton, vice chancellor in charge of University Operations.
Workers are currently putting in the interior partitions and a two-inch monolithic floor topping in the main building. Officials hope the building will be completed for the second semester.
The stem of the "T" shape of the pool will be used for diving. The arm of the "T," which runs east and west, is measured in yards for American meets. Running north and south, using the stem of the "T," the pool is measured in the metric system for Olympic-style meets.
A feature of the new pool will be the installation of bleachers for 600 to 700 spectators.
Reamon pointed out that some of the outstanding features of the new pool are an added five yards on the end of the swimming lanes, two and a half more lanes, and the separation of the diving area from the swimming area.
Some of the novel features of the new pool will include an underwater observation window making it possible for coaches and instructors to film the strokes of swimmers in helping the swimmers to perfect their style and efficiency.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.18
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Oct. 13. 1965
Toothpaste Cavity' at KU: ASC Seeks Sundries Shop
By Stephen Russell
KU students can't always brush after every meal — not because they don't have the time, but because they don't always have the toothpaste.
Representatives at the All Student Council meeting last night made this point while discussing a proposal that a sundries shop be opened in the Kansas Union.
CHARLES WHITMAN, Shawnee Mission second year law student and member of the Kansas Union Operating Board, said the Union might not be able to sell sundry items since it is allowed to sell only those items peculiar to students. If the ASC wants sundry goods sold in the Union, a letter will have to be written to the State's attorney general inquiring about
the legality of such sales, he said.
Whitman also said the Union Operating Board questioned the need of the shop in comparison with the amount of money and trouble it would take to set it up.
As far as he knows there has been no research done on the delivering facilities of local merchants to see if they are adequate, or of students themselves to see if they feel the need for the convenience of having the shop in the Union.
WHITMAN SUGGESTED THE ASC appoint a committee to research local merchants' facilities, student interest in the project, and the legal aspect, before requesting that the Union board consider setting up the shop.
Guest Scholar Says Dante Incomparable
A work of art with which we have nothing to compare.
Dante's Divine Comedy was so heralded by Joseph A. Mazzeo last night in Murphy Hall. The masterpiece by Dante, whose 700th birthday anniversary this year, was the topic chosen to initiate the 19th year of the Humanities lecture series.
Mazzeo followed the path of Dante in his dream walk through the eternal existences, Heaven and hell, and analyzed each.
HAVING LITTLE popular tradition to work with, Dante introduced some interesting concepts, he said. For instance, the poet pictured hell's occupants as virtuous men who went there not as punishment but by choice.
The Columbia University scholar remarked that the poem contains more "great scenes which indirectly reveal character" than other poems of comparable length.
He said this gave the literary work its "richness and complexity," as in the interplay between the reaction of the pilgrim (Dante) and his reflections.
MAZZEO, who has written two volumes on the 13th century poet and spent several years in his native Italy, referred to the discussions of the nature of love as the general theme.
The next lecture in the series, "Dramatic Characters: Denatured Spirits," will be given by Dr. Robert Champigny on Oct. 26.
ASC members, however, felt that students, especially those living in the residence halls, find it difficult in obtaining sundry goods because of the distance which they must travel to reach merchants.
John Pepper, Lenexa senior,
(Vox—Journalism), moved that
the Union Operating Board be
requested to write the state's
attorney general about the legality
of the sales and said that if
they should find out it would be
impossible to set up the shop,
there would be no need for any
information gathered by a committee.
AN IMMEDIATE VOTE was taken and the council passed Pepper's resolution.
Bob sears, Kansas City junior and coordinator of the State Internship Program, reported on the progress of the internship program since it was proposed last semester.
The program would place political science students in summer jobs in the state offices at Topeka. In addition a seminartype education program would be held to acquaint students with the area in which they will be working and with all the state offices in general.
SEARS SAID HE has already contacted members of the state offices and received favorable comments on the proposed program. Although no official control has been organized as yet, the program will be arranged through KU's political science department under the direction of a paid coordinator, he said.
"We must now ascertain if there is enough student interest in the program to make it a success," Sears said. Mailing will be sent to the various living groups on campus containing answer sheets for students' replies.
Sears said it may be possible to arrange for three hours credit from the political science department to be granted to the workers.
—Photo by Dan Austin
HIGH FLYING BOARD-While work progresses on new Robinson Gym at a steady rate, one workman was grazed Tuesday by a board dropped by another workman above.
K-State Asks Removal Of Cigarette Sale Ban
MANHATTAN — (Special) — Kansas State University's Student Senate approved a resolution Tuesday night asking the Kansas Board of Regents to rescind the policy banning the sale of cigarettes on state university and college campuses.
Jim O'Fallon, Marathun senior, in presenting the resolution, said the ban had failed to achieve its intended purpose of decreasing smoking among students and had also financially hurt the student union.
THE BAN, passed by the re-gents on March 16, 1964, not only stopped cigarette sales in the union but in vending machines owned and operated by KSU.
The union has suffered an approximate annual loss of $8,500 because of the ban. This represents 20 per cent of the total $42,500 received from union cigarette sales during 1963. During that year cigarette sales accounted for 70 per cent of all sales transaction across the union information desk.
O'Fallon suggested letters be sent to other state colleges and universities asking them to submit a similar request to the Board of Regents.
THE BOARD of Regents decision to ban cigarette sales provided that all machines were to be removed by April 15, 1964, the end of that year's spring vacation.
The Regents' decision was influenced partially by the findings of a KU Medical Center Committee. Cigarette sales had been banned on the Kansas City campus during the year prior to the Regents' move.
Dr. C. Frederick Kittle, associate professor of surgery at KUMC, was chairman of the committee, which was appointed by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
WHEN THE Regents' announcement was made, Kittle said he knew of no other non-medical university or college which had banned cigarette sales, nor did he know of any other state
which had taken this type of action.
Following the Regents' decision, a resolution was passed recommending that smoking be banned in all University classrooms, and that the Board of Regents be commended for their action.
Cigarette prices have soared since removal of the campus machines, and private dormitory "hawking" and gas station specials have taken up the slack caused by the ban.
KU student government officials could not be reached this morning for their comments on the K-State action or probable All-Student Council plans on the matter.
What's Inside
EDITORIAL—Life on Parris Island is hardly paradise . . .
see the editorial page.
FEATURE—Looking for a $50 clay pipe? Read how a Turkish students earns extra money on page 3.
SPORTS — Experience counts—especially on the f o o t b a l l field. See page 7 for an interview with Bill Gerhards, a third year varsity fullback.
POLITICS—A Democrat in the statehouse that's the goal of Kansas demos as expressed by Tom Corcoran, state chairman. See page 4.
Weather
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