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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1965
Around the Campus
KU Grants Are Higher
KU and its Center for Research in Engineering Science received $995,738 in grants and contracts for research and associated graduate training projects during October, November, and December of 1964. Dr. William J. Argersinger Jr., associate dean of faculties for research, announced.
The total compares with $841,107 for the same quarter of 1963 and keeps the 1964-65 fiscal year, with a total of $2,663,508, well ahead of the first six months of 1963, during which the University received $1,665,957.
The second-quarter grants and contracts will support research and training projects in botany, chemical engineering, child research, civil engineering, comparative biochemistry and physiology, entomology, geography, geological survey, geology, mathematics, microbiology, occupational therapy, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacy, physics, psychology, and zoology.
Largest single grants during the quarter were $273,388 from the U.S. Public Health Service for a continuing program of research into the communication disorders of mentally retarded children, $140,000 from the Atomic Energy Commission for a study in the physics department of the excited states of medium light elements, and $90,400 from the National Science Foundation for a summer institute in the earth sciences for junior and senior high school teachers.
New Loan Fund Created
The women of the Salina County Medical Auxiliary have created a student loan fund in the School of Medicine in a unique manner.
Profits on the Auxiliary's 1964 Home Tour have been forwarded to the KU Endowment Association for the loan fund for medical students by Mrs. Richard Dreher of Salina, the project chairman.
The fund, with an initial principal of $1,422.32, gives first preference to students from Salina and Ottawa counties; second, to residents of Cloud, Dickinson, Lincoln, Mitchell, Republic and Jewell counties; and third, to other Kansans in the School of Medicine.
Two Officers Re-elected
An alumnus and a professor from KU have been re-elected to national offices in Scarab, a professional fraternity in architecture.
Richard E. Kummer, now of the faculty at Pennsylvania State University, is beginning his second term as president. He earned the bachelor's degree from KU in 1952 and the master of architecture degree in 1962.
Verner F. Smith, associate professor of architecture, again will serve as secretary-treasurer.
Danforth Fellows Screened
Twenty-five KU seniors have been interviewed this week by a screening committee for the national Woodrow Wilson fellowship competition in Kansas City.
Winners receive a fellowship for a year of full-time graduate study at the university of their choice. Those who wish to continue for the doctorate degree and become career teachers usually receive additional assistance.
Last year 17 KU seniors received the coveted Wilson fellowships, making the fourth consecutive year that that many or more had received the award. This record of consistency has been bettered by only eight universities, and only one of them publicly supported.
Institute Is Offered
Thirty college teachers of mathematics will be admitted to an 8-week summer institute at KU financed by a grant of $38,110 from the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Russell N. Bradt, associate professor of mathematics, will be director of the institute, which will coincide with the summer session. June 14-August 7.
Institute members will receive the standard NSF stipends of $600, $120 for a dependent, and a one-way travel allowance.
The objective is to introduce the teachers to the newest concepts in college mathematics and to assist them in improving their professional competency.
Prof. Writes on Virginia
A KU professor of history is one of 11 contributors to "The Old Dominion," a collection of historical essays published by the University of Virginia Press.
He is W. Stitt Robinson, director of graduate studies and professor in history. His chapter covers Virginia Indian policy from Governor Spottswood to Governor Dinwiddie.
Each of the 11 authors is a former student of emeritus Professor Thomas Perkins Abernethy of Virginia. The book, dealing with more than two centuries of early Virginia history, is a tribute to Prof. Abernethy.
Prof. Robinson earned two degrees at Virginia. He has been a KU teacher since 1950.
Fire Traps Do Not Exist In Buildings
If the recent auditorium fire at KState causes you to wonder about the safety of Hoch Auditorium and other buildings here, you can relax.
Hoch is under the constant watch of campus officials and the Lawrence Fire Department, according to the KU Buildings and Grounds Department, and is doubly guarded during productions of any kind.
"No one is allowed to smoke." Harry M. Buchholz, superintendent of the KU Physical Plant, said, "on back, of or near the stage in Hoch during any kind of play or program. About the only thing that could start a fire there would be carelessness," he said.
"AS A MATTER of fact, I don't think we have any real fire hazards on the campus," Buchholz said. "Some of our buildings are quite old, it's true. But as long as everybody keeps awake and practices safety habits, we're safe." he said.
F. C. Sanders, Chief of the Lawrence Fire Department, said he believes Hoch Auditorium to be as safe as a building its size could be, and that exits are placed so that a crowd could escape easily in case of a fire.
"I hope," Sanders said, "that the stage curtains are not as hazardous as those in most auditoriums. The curtains in Hoch were fire-proofed a while back, but they should never be overlooked as a danger." he said.
Buchholz said that carelessness with cigarettes in campus buildings is a constant hazard that students should be more careful of.
"STUDENTS HAVE nearly ruined the floors of one of the newer campus buildings by throwing lit cigarette down or grinding them out with their heels." Buchholz said. "It's very discouraging to see how little some students here care about school property," he said.
Sanders said that even 93 year-old Fraser Hall is relatively safe from fire, but added that occupants of the building must not overload the electrical wiring in Fraser.
"With the air-conditioning installed in Fraser," he said, "it would be easy to overload the wiring and create a tremendous hazard," he said.
ALL MEMBERS of the Buildings and Grounds Department, Buchholz said, are well-versed concerning what to do in the event of a campus fire.
"After I am notified," he said, "every man knows the number he is supposed to call. There's really an intricate system, whereby we could get our men there immediately. Of course, the Lawrence Fire Department comes before anything else."
Sanders said that although no sprinkler systems exist in campus buildings, the State Fire Inspector goes through the buildings periodically with Sanders to make sure fire extinguishers and heating are in good working order.
Rush Begins on Feb.2
KU women participating in formal spring rush will get little in the way of a semester break.
Rush week begins Tuesday, Feb. 2. with open houses for all rushees. Open house will continue on Wednesday at the 12 sororities, with invitational parties Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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