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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER
77th Year, No. 37
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts cooler temperatures today and tonight with northeasterly winds at 10 to 15 miles per hour. Light rain or snow is likely tonight and tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 8, 1966
—UDK Photo by Jay Cooper
ENGINEERS PONDER QUESTION
How to get a 38-inch brain through a 34-inch doorway?
Computer puts up fight
By JAY COOPER
Solution: One phillips-head screwdriver and patience.
Problem: How to get a 38-inch-while Random Access Disc Storage Unit (RANDY) through a 34-inch doorway.
At 2:30 yesterday afternoon, the new computer for the KU Computation Center was unloaded from a truck. The 2500-pound unit, capable of storing over 20 million characters, is a member of the General Electric 625 family.
IT TOOK ABOUT a half hour to move the unit into Summerfield Hall. Progress abruptly came to a halt, however, when RANDY was found to be too wide to fit through the doorway of Room 109, already filled with memory banks and assorted computer accessories.
Comments floated through the air;
"It won't fit."
"You're kidding me."
"You're kidding me."
"Aurgh!"
A RAPID DECISION was reached by the three G-E field
engineers who were overseeing the move of the 625 unit from Ihoenix, Ariz., to KU.
"We'll have to take it apart," said Al Vence, who will stay at KU to service the machine.
A crowd gathered, tools appeared and the work began. John Donaghue, G-E engineer lit a cigarette and went back to work.
AFTER ABOUT 20 minutes the job was done and RANDY stood without side panels or doors. Back to room 109, and still the unit would not fit.
A suggestion was offered, "Why not take off the door to the room?"
The engineers agreed and room 109 was soon ready to receive RANDY.
Amid groans and creaks from the protesting white tile floor, RANDY, one hour and ten minutes after arrival, was eased into its berth in the room.
Vence explained that this was the first time it had been necessary to take a unit of this type apart in order to get it through a door. He said, "Usually these rooms have double doors."
Gary Martin, G-E engineer who also is assigned to duty at KU, said the job was not a major one.
ELECTION SPECIAL
Voters judge ballot issues
But in some areas of the nation, bad weather cut into the expected turnout of voters for an off-year election that will determine whether President Johnson maintains a working majority in Congress for his "Great Society" legislative program.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)Hard-fought races for governor and senator brought a large percentage of the electorate to the polls today in New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland Michigan and other populous states.
The University Daily Kansan will publish an Election Special tomorrow morning with complete results on the local, state and national races. The staff will be in Topeka, Lawrence, and Kansas City covering the local and state headquarters of most of the candidates. The UDK will also have all the latest results from the United Press International wires. During the evening the UDK offices will be open, and anyone wanting the latest results may call UN 4-3198 or listen to KUOK Radio, which will be conducting broadcasts from the Kansan newsroom. The paper will be on the streets at 7 a.m.
The nationwide balloting also will show how far the Republican Party has come back from its 1964 debacle and spotlight potential GOP standard-bearers for the 1968 presidential race.
The GOP will measure the success of its effort in terms of gains rather than over-all victory. The party is starting from too far behind to break the Democratic grip on Congress or a majority of the nation's state houses.
ORACLES IN both parties foresaw at least modest Republican gains—25 to 40 seats in the House and two to five governorships. The Senate looked as if it would result in close to an even break, with neither party gaining more than one or two seats.
Favorable weather was forecast for most of the country, but scattered snow or rain was expected in the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Plains to the Great Lakes.
On the basis of past turnouts, the vote today was expected to be near 54 million, a record for an off-year election.
SIXTY-FIVE OF the 100 senators and 15 of the 50 governors are not facing the voters because their terms do not expire this year. The major prizes are these:
- Thirty-five Senate seats, 20 now held by Democrats and 15 by Republicans.
- All 435 House seats, now split between 294 Democrats and 139 Republicans with one vacancy for each party.
- The House is the real battlefield this year because a Republican pickup of 20 to 30 seats would encourage establishment of the old conservative coalition which dominated the chamber for so many years after World War II.
- Thirty-five governorships, 20 now held by Democrats and 15 by Republicans.
New building to rise
Begin razing Myers Hall
Demolition of Myers Hall, home of the Kansas School of Religion and a KU landmark since 1886, started yesterday, clearing the way for a $380,000 construction program.
By GARY MURRELL
Ground breaking ceremonies for the new religion building will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the site, 1300 Oread.
The Rev, Reinhold Schmidt, assistant dean of the school, said bids for the projects were given to the Constant Construction Co., Lawrence, for building; Norris Brothers, Lawrence, for technical work, and Coffman and Sons, Lawrence, for demolition.
"Razing of the structure will continue until the end of this month," Rev. Schmidt said, "Construction should begin Monday."
THE NEW BUILDING is needed to replace an out-dated, crowded unit, which in the words of Rev. Schmidt, "has been showing signs of deterioration for several years."
Plans call for a T-shaped building, containing four classrooms and three offices. The classrooms will be ultra-modern with improved lighting and emphasis on a well-integrated situation more
conducive to good instruction than before.
A new library wing is also included in specifications for the structure. Presently a 12,000-volume library is available to students.
SINCE 1964, total enrollment in the school has increased markedly. Rev. Schmidt said. He said that in 1964 the school had only 300 students registered.
This figure has been bolstered to more than 800 students in the undergraduate program of the
school. Schmidt predicts 1,200 students will be enrolled by 1970 if the growth pattern continues.
To be built of finished brick and stone, the new building will be graced with a private court-yard, enclosed by a stone wall.
A statue of Moses will be placed in the courtyard, Rev. Schmidt said.
THE PROJECT MARKS the first major building improvement in the Religion School since a wing was added in 1913. Records
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NEW MYERS HALL
Construction of new Myers Hall, shown here in an artist's drawing, is to begin shortly. Demolition of old Myers Hall was begun yesterday.