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Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No.24
WEATHER WARMER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
See Weather—Page 3.
Thursday, October 20, 1966
Iowa gets light in 10 weeks
The specifications are approved for the proposed traffic signal at 15th and Iowa.
Ray Wells, Lawrence city manager, announced in city council meeting Tuesday that the state had sent specifications for the type and placement of signals.
Ernest Pulllam, Lawrence city commissioner and KU housing manager, made a motion to accept the state approval and move in the direction of completion of the installation. The motion was seconded by the other three commissioners, John H. Emick, Richard Raney jr. and Mike Getto.
WITH LITTLE discussion a unanimous decision was reached in favor of the motion.
The action Tuesday brought to an end the extended wait for various approvals, both city and state, to install a signal at 15th and Iowa.
THE DANGEROUS intersection along with the one at Harvard and Iowa is scheduled to be regulated within 10 weeks.
Immediate loan aid available
The Office of Student Financial Aid has announced availability of a limited amount of National Defense Student Loan funds and United Student Aid Fund Loan Funds for the current semester and for the spring semester.
Students who require financial assistance currently or who anticipate a need for the spring semester should visit the Office of Student Financial Aid, 26 Strong Hall, as soon as possible.
The limited funds will be atoicated on a first-come, first-served basis to those students who qualify academically and in terms of financial need.
George J. Williams, director of public works, said the signals, conforming with state specifications, would be of the traffic-actuated type. The standards will be made of aluminum rather than steel to enable rapid erection.
In the future are traffic signals at various other sites surrounding the university. Included are 19th and Iowa and 23rd and Iowa.
Laws limit state vote
Bu DAN AUSTIN
If you are under 21, insane, committed a felony or overthrown the government recently, you're not going to vote in the Nov. 8 general Kansas election.
If you are none of the above, your chances of casting a ballot improve. However, there are still several qualifications to meet.
TO EXERCISE your democratic franchise in Kansas you first must be a U.S. citizen and 21 years old before Nov. 8.
But that's not all.
You must also be a Kansas resident for at least six months and live in a Kansas ward or township 30 days prior to the election.
Most important, you must register with your county clerk before you can mark a ballot.
IF YOUR PERMANENT residence is not in Douglas County, you may request an absentee ballot from your home county clerk's office.
The Kansas ballot this year will list a national senate race, all elected state officer candidates, and state legislature hopefuls.
One KU student, Bill Hall,
Oakley graduate student, is running for a seat in the Kansas House. He is the Republican incumbent representing Logan, Trego and the southern half of Sheridan Counties.
CIB evaluates courses asks student criticisms
By RUTH ROHRER
The College Intermediary Board (CIB) is conducting an evaluation study of underclass courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Board members have been planning this study, the first of its kind at KU, for several weeks.
Miss Kay Patterson, Newtown Square, Pa., senior and chairman of CIB, said, "We have heard around campus comments that the freshman-sophomore courses lack stimulation, and we hope to come up with constructive suggestions for improving them."
Art authority to give talk on creativity
The role of chance in artistic creativity will be the next Humanities Series Lecture topic at 8 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24, given by H.W. Janson, chairman of fines arts at New York University. His lecture, illustrated by slides, will be in Lawrence High School auditorium, and lecturegoers may meet him afterward at a reception by the Faculty Club.
During his three-day visit to KU, Janson will speak to several classes, and will give two other lectures open to the public. At 11:30 a.m., Oct.24, in Swarthout Hall in Murphy Hall, he will give an illustrated lecture on Henry Fuseli's "Nightmare" and the beginning of romantic painting, and at 3:30 p.m., Oct.25, he will discuss the alienation of the artist from society at a coffeeforum in Kansas Union, sponsored jointly by Student Union Activities and the Philosophy Club.
This will be Janson's second visit to Kansas as a Humanities lecturer; on April 1, 1958, he spoke on "The Ancestry of Modern Art."
Keyed-up coffee crowd
Nights getting longer
By JOHN KIELY and JAY COOPER
At 12:15 a.m. the Holiday Inn coffee shop was full. Mike Griffith, Lawrence senior and restaurant night manager, was selling coffee.
"FUSINESS USED to be slow, said Griffith at 12:20 a.m. "Women got keys and now students are in at all times of the night. The guys used to go home at decent hours. Now they stay around with the chance that girls might come in."
By 3:40 a.m. the coffee shop was almost empty. Mike Griffith was still selling coffee. In spare moments, he talked.
"Ive had to rotate day and night," he said. "I get up about 8:30 at night and eat breakfast, I study a while and go to work at ten. I get off at six. I work 48 hours a week. Classes are in the morning."
Griffith finished selling coffee and walked back across the electric-lighted, smoke-filled restaurant.
Griffith went back to the cash register and sold more coffee.
He sold someone a salad and coffee and returned.
Political science and pre-law major Griffith carries 16 hours.
"You remember when we raised the coffee prices to 15 cents? Students would come in and sit all night and get free refills before that.
"I had one guy tell me he had twenty cups of coffee for a dime. Well, we finally got the price back to a dime, this time per cup. The students are happier. Most of our trade at night is students studying or carousing. Why not? It's a congenial atmosphere. This is a high-class coffee house at night."
Griffith left to sell a campus politician a sandwich.
"You meet many more interesting people at night," Griffith said.
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THE BOARD is accepting all kinds of written suggestions and criticism from students and will do so until Nov. 15.
Criticism should concern course content, instruction methods, class size, examinations, and include a general appraisal of underclass courses.
"Other colleges have made course evaluations, but they tended to be enrollment guides," Miss Patterson said. "This is not a course-by-course evaluation; rather, we plan to keep our criticism on a general level."
THE SUGGESTIONS received will be evaluated by CIB and a report of the findings will be submitted to the administration.
Miss Patterson said the suggestions and criticisms submitted by students would be kept confidential. She added that the board has not decided yet whether the report will be published for the student body.
The room holds the Kansas Designer-Craftsman Exhibit, sponsored by the KU department of design, Student Union Activities and Delta Phi Delta, art honorary.
The board plans to send letters to all living groups, explaining the study and asking for their cooperation in submitting suggestions and criticism, she said.
A step into a kind of twilight zone awaits KU students at the Kansas Union Browsing Room. It's hard to decide if it looks most like a Neanderthal cave or Buck Rogers' bedroom.
AMONG THE 217 pieces representing 104 exhibitors are a sculpture called "Found Clam," and another titled "Experiment in Negative Form #5."
The crafts are divided into six
—Photo by John Kiely
Design exhibit has twilight zone air
Members of CIB receiving suggestions are Miss Joyce Snapp, Wichita sophomore at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall in the area of social science; Paul Boch, Dodge City senior at Stephenson Hall, natural science; and John Hoppe, Ottawa junior, at the Delta Upson house, humanities.
"FACE POT #2"
Shades of a 20th Century sun god.
areas: ceramics, enamel, furniture, sculpture, silversmithing and miscellaneous. Selections were based on creative invention, a sense of craft, an understanding of material and process and an awareness of the demands of function.
A serious effort was made to go beyond present fads and fashions to discover the real value of the works selected in the show for awards.
Spectator Kay Wells, Lawrence junior, said, "Some of it is very
original, and some of it is nutty." Miss Wells said she especially liked the jewelry, which was very original and stark. She said "you could wear them with the new fashions."
Another student, Dave Stoesz, Hutchinson sophomore, said, "I'm surprised there are so many different forms, natures, and colors in technique."
Many of the works are for sale and may be purchased at the exhibit. Prices range from $4 for a small ceramic bowl to $350 for one of the larger sculptures. One of the $350 items, "Beep Beep No More," is an eerie piece of metal about the size of a small, high coffee table. From a surface somewhat like a cross between a moon crater and the aftermath of a forest fire, rise the ruins of a windmill and radio towers. One tower shoots out of a great, ragged hole torn in the surface metal.
The trend in sales so far favors the cheaper models. The exhibit will be on display through Nov. 13.
—Photo by John Kiely
"SEATED FIGURE"
Far cry from Michelangelo's Pieta.