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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER
77th Year, No.50
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts cold and cloudy weather for the next two days. Low tonight is expected to be between 15 and 20 degrees. Tomorrow's high is estimated between 30 and 35 degrees.
Friday, December 2.1966
Kansan photo by Monte Mace
ON STAGE FROM ATOP POTTER LAKE
If realized, the proposed Council for Progress amphitheater stage would face seats built into this slope on the west side of Potter Lake.
Music vs drama
Dondlinger & Sous Construction Co. of Wichita and B. A. Green Construction Co. of Lawrence were among those who placed the lowest bids. The Green Construction Co. is present in the final stages of constructing new Fraser Hall.
Bids revealed for Spencer
THE WINN-SENTER Construction Co. and the Coonrod, Walz and Vollmer Construction Co.
Representatives from the nine construction companies placing bids were in attendance. The bids ranged from a low of $1,839,088 to a high bid of $2,037,554.
Trichatkovsky has won out over Shakespeare in a minor episode of the KU building frenzy.
By DAN AUSTIN
Amphitheater proposed
But if the blast from the "1112 Cverture" has snuffed out its brief candle, no blood has been shed.
Sealed bids for construction of the $2 million Spencer Research Library were opened and announced at 2 p.m. yesterday in Allen Field House.
Confused? Well, here is the plot and how it thickened.
By RUTH ROHRER
In a brochure entitled "Program for Progress" published by the KU Council for Progress, there is a list of needed and hoped-for programs for KU. These programs include fund requests for items such as student aid and residence colleges.
SANDWICHED AMONG the $18 million worth of appeals to alumni are two paragraphs about an "Outdoor Theater"—with a price tag of $300,000.
These paragraphs tell of a proposed amphitheater located in the Potter Lake area to be used "for outdoor concerts . . . and provide an opportunity for dramatic performances."
That amphitheater, however, is not a spur-of-the-moment idea or a wealthy alum's fancy.
The colleague is Lewin Goff, professor of speech and drama and director of the University Theatre.
Instead, it is the 25-year-old hope of Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and director of KU's Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Goff is campaigning for a much smaller theater—preferably located on the southwest side of Murphy Hall instead of Potter Lake.
listed in the Council for Progress brochure, or any other KU pamphlet.
BUT WILEY'S amphitheater has some "competition" from a colleague two floors beneath him in Murphy Hall.
NOW THE TWO professors won't feuding—they've been friends for years—but both have expressed their opinions to Chancellor W. Clerk Wescoe and the KU Flaming Council.
However, Goff's theater is not
A stage, about 65 to 85 feet wide at the opening, would be horse-
Specifically, Wiley envisions an outdoor amphitheater on the west side of Potter Lake.
Other companies placing bids were: Constant Construction Co., Bob Eldridge Construction Co., Harmon Construction Co., Swenson Construction Co., and M. W. Watson, Inc.
After a bid has been accepted and the contract signed, the construction company has ten days to begin construction. The library is tentatively scheduled to be completed by April, 1968.
placed the only bids that exceeded $2 million.
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Selection of a bid will not be announced for some time, Keith Lawton, Vice Chancellor of University Operations, said yesterday.
BULLETIN
UNITED NATIONS—UPI
Secretary General Thant
announced today he would accept a second five year term.
Thant told the Security Council he was "deeply appreciative of the sympathetic understanding it has shown of the reason which impelled him to announce his intention not to offer himself for a second term."
THE NEW RESEARCH library, a gift of the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation, will be constructed immediately north of Strong Hall overlooking Potter Lake and Memorial Stadium. That area was previously occupied by World War II army barracks which for the last few years have housed the western civilization discussion classes. The army barracks were torn down this fall.
The construction of Spencer Library is part of the extensive building program KU is undertaking. The KU Council for Progress which is conducting a drive for $18.6 million to provide scholarships, fellowships, faculty development, opportunity funds and buildings, voted last year to promote KU's massive building program.
Greek Week, Fling to coincide
Pv BETSY WRIGHT
Greeks and independents will stage a historic truce on the KU campus next spring, as they hold their respective spring festivities at the same time.
The residence halls' Spring Fling and sorority and fraternity sponsored Greek Week will both take place during the week of April 24. All events have been scheduled without conflict and the respective committees are even negotiating for a possible event held in common.
Sharon Mahood, Springfield, Mo., senior and Greek Week co-chairman, said: "We're trying to find some activity to bring some unity to the two groups. We're considering several possible activities, but this is still in the planning stages."
"Tentatively" the Spring Fling celebrations will begin with exchange dinners and hour dances between residence hall floors and scholarship halls on Monday, April 24. The sororities and fraternities have also scheduled exchange dinners for that night.
ACTIVITIES OF both groups, in fact, are still in the planning stages. Each group has released a tentative schedule, but each is quick to label it "tentative."
The exchange activities will continue through Thursday for Spring Flingers, but the Greek will add other events to their schedule.
A SORORITY-FRATERNITY housemother's bridge party will be held Tuesday afternoon. That night, the annual Greek Week Banquet, with the crowning of the Greek Week Queen, will be held.
Activities for both groups will pick up again on Friday. On this day, Greeks will hold the annual all-star football game, pitting members of east campus fraternities against those at west campus. Another annual event, the Greek Week Sing, will be held that night. The independents have scheduled a dance or party for Friday night.
On Saturday, the Hill may see more weekend activity than it
has ever experienced in its 101 year existence, including football game days. While Greeks are racing up and down Jayhawk Boulevard in their yearly chariot races, the residence halls will be engaging in their annual Potter Lake games. After the chariot races, the fraternal organizations will adjourn to Memorial Stadium for relay competitions.
Although Greek Week activities will officially close on Saturday, the Spring Flingers will round their week out with a full Sunday schedule. On Sunday afternoon, the residence halls will hold their closing Spring Fling banquet. It will then be followed by the annual Inter-residence Hall Council Spring Sing.
CONCURRENT ACTIVITY dates will not be the only innovations in this year's Spring Fling and Greek Week activities, however. Each group is planning new events to add to its annual festivities.
Scott Blackard, Riverside, Calif., senior and Spring Fling general chairman, said: "About the only thing traditional about Spring Fling is that we have it every year."
The newest item on the Spring Fling agenda this year will be the election of a queen to reign over the week's activities. The group also plans to come up with new competitions and games for Saturday afternoon at Potter Lake.
The annual ducks, banned two years ago by KU administrators, will make their return, although in a different form.
"DUCKS SEEM to be kind of synonymous with Spring Fling," Blackard said. "The administration outlawed the ducks because duck stealing had become too violent. We will still have ducks, but the games will have organization and rules."
Greek Week will also have new activities this year, Miss Mahood said. The banquet will come earlier in the week this year, in an attempt to bring more spirit to all Greek Week activities.
Other Greek Week innovations will be a Saturday morning service project by sorority and fraternity members and a leadership seminar held for house officers. There will also be girls' events, for the first time, in this year's Greek Week Relays.