KU Research Center Has Three-fold Function
Manned by a staff of eight, KU's Governmental Research Center serves a three-fold function. It performs research studies of state and local government; conducts in-service training programs; consults with public agencies; serves on committees and gives public speeches.
"Our in-service training programs are an active function of the research bureau." William Cape, associate director, said. "In effect, the programs are schools, clinics or conferences in areas such as peace officer training, burglary and larceny, county and city clerks duties or a seminar for school superintendents and city managers."
THE FIRST FALL SEMINAR will be conducted Oct. 27, 28. Its topic is "Juvenile Delinquency: Prevention and Control." This will be the fourth annual seminar on the subject.
"We try to obtain the assistance of those persons whom we feel are best qualified in the specific areas," Cape said. "For instance, in the upcoming seminar two of the leaders are Hon. Malcolm Copeland, judge of the Shawnee County Juvenile Court, Topeka, and Nelson A. Watson, Project Supervisor, Research and Development Section, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Washington, D.C."
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Kansas residents who are interested in any of the seminar studies and interested persons from other states may attend.
PARTICIPATING IN THE October seminar on juvenile delinquency will be law enforcement officers, juvenile judges, county attorneys, educators, social workers and other interested persons.
Last year KU was host to eleven schools and seminars. The length of the sessions varied from one day to one or two weeks.
ALTHOUGH KU sponsors the seminars and schools they are usually held in conjunction with associations concerned with the areas of concentration.
The research center also has regional service programs. "You might say that this is a traveling seminar program," Professor Cape explained.
On the fifteenth day of each month the research center publishes a bulletin entitled "Your Government." The articles are staff written and are sent to interested persons.
THE SEPT. 15 ISSUE of "Your Government" featured articles on "Aggregate Analysis of Kansas Voting Trends in the 1960's" and "The 1964 State Election in Kansas."
This is not the only type of
material published by the center. In addition to submitting articles to professional publications, staff members also write booklets.
The area of service as performed by the research center includes serving on committees of local and state government levels, serving on community committees, giving speeches at civic affairs and assisting with Girl's State, annually held at KU, and Hi-Y groups at Kansas high schools.
THE BUREAU OF GOVERNment Research is directed by Ethan P. Allen. He is also chairman of the Department of Political Science.
Cape, assistant director, is a professor of political science.
Other staff members include Ted Heim, who heads the inservice training schools; James Kline, coordinator of the Peace Officers Training programs; James T. Havel, research assistant; James T. McDonald, senior analyst specializing in finance; Harold Riehm, research associate and
assistant professor in the Political Science Department; and Mary Sullivan, research analyst.
Counselor to Staff
Roy L. Richardson recently joined the staff of the University's Guidance Bureau as supervisor of counseling and assistant professor of education.
In addition to his counseling responsibilities, Richardson will devote part of his time to teaching in the school of education.
Fair Lady's Director Sees Advantage in Live Production
"My Fair Lady," the University Theatre production scheduled to begin Oct. 22 has as its director, Harold Crain, professor of drama from San Jose, Calif. State College.
"I'm working with many people who are very fine artists in their own fields: the costume designer, the costume and set designers; the choreographer, the technical director, and the orchestra and cast members. My job is to coordinate their talents so that we
all come out heading in the same direction." Crain said.
Crain feels that the stage production of the musical will have advantages over the film production in that all the action is live. "We can give emphasis to the whole spectacle, whereas the movie had to resort to the close-up technique," Crain said. "On stage we can arrive at a sense of cohesion that the movie found hard to achieve."
"The main difference between
Shaw's play "Pygmalion" and the Lerner and Loewe musical," said Crain, "is that Shaw thought he was teaching a lesson by writing propaganda on the English way of speaking. Lerner and Loewe, however, changed the emphasis from speech to the relationship between two people," Crain said.
He will remain as guest professor at KU for the entire semester. He is teaching a course in western civilization theatre and also a seminar in play acting.