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kansan THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER FAIR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
See Weather—page 5
77th Year, No.5
Friday, September 23, 1966
Specifications late
Still no light at 15th, Iowa
By Jay Cooper
"Delay, after delay, after delay," said James Schubert, mayor of Lawrence, to explain the reason for the continued absence of a traffic light at 15th and Iowa streets.
George J. Williams, city engineer, attributes the latest delay to failure of the state to send the city the light specifications. "The specifications were due over a week ago and are necessary because the light will be on a federal highway," said Williams.
Williams reports that the light
Myers Hall building set for Nov.
Construction of the new Kansas School of Religion has been tentatively set to start Nov. 15. Reinhold Schmidt, assistant dean of the school, said yesterday.
Bids for new Myers Hail to replace the old one at 1300 Oread will be released Oct. 12, when final plans are announced, he said.
A price was not quoted but the facility will "be much larger than our present building so as to accommodate a growing enrollment," Schmidt said. He expects enrollment to exceed 600 students.
A faculty of seven full-time and six part-time will teach in the school. However, with the construction of the new building, expansion is predicted in several areas, he said.
Plans call for the new structure to be built where the present unit now stands. Demolition will start some time after the bids have been announced, he said.
should be in 30 days after bid letting, unless there is a problem with the poles and the arms for balancing.
TENTATIVE PLANS, according to Schubert, call for a light similar to the one on 6th and Maine streets, which is composed of standard four-way light placements, with two additional arms extending approximately 20 feet over 6th street. The red-light is somewhat larger and distinctly visible. "The light will be traffic actuated, meaning that there will possibly be a treadle to orate the signal," added Williams.
The controversial light which was approved by the Lawrence City Commission, is planned to alleviate the problems at the intersection, which for some time was rated among the highest in number of injury accidents in the city, including that of a Campus Traffic and Security officer last spring.
THE DELAYS include: city commission approval, state approval of the light, completion of 15th street, and the belated specifications for the light.
Williams related that the city plans to let only one bid, in an effort to standardize its traffic signals and to enable a stock of spare parts to be kept.
What's Inside?
SPORTS—Bill Schaake, newest assistant football coach, interviewed on page 6.
EDITORIAL—comments on the loyalty oath and what it means to KU, page 2.
HUMANITIES—lecture series explored on page 3.
Proposed signals at dangerous intersection will probably be the same as these signals at 6th and Maine.
15TH AND IOWA TRAFFIC SIGNAL
—Photo by John Kiely
Seniors have no hats
By Ruth Rohrer
Fall fashion for the senior class will be royal blue sweatshirts— without hats.
The decision to exclude hats was one of several changes made by the senior class this year. The words: "And we shall inherit the earth," emblazoned in white, will replace the artwork of the past.
Decisions concerning the senior attire were made by the Regalia Committee co-chairmaned by Chuck Warner, Wichita senior, and Linda Lou Voorhees, Kansas City senior.
"THE COMMITTEE decided not to have hats, as the expense for them last year was over $1,000.
"The members felt the money could be put to better use in another way," Harry Wiles, Topeka senior and class president, said last night.
The sweatshirts will be handed
New drama plan started
The pre-professional undergraduate curriculum is part of a three phase program begun two years ago by the establishment of a Resident Acting Company, and by this summer's search for young talent.
Lewin Goff, director of University Theatre, and Jack Brooking, assistant director, said the program's main emphasis is on the actor's "growth as a person as well as his growth as an artist."
KU's Theater Division of the Speech and Drama Department has launched a new training program for professional actors, the first of its kind in this country.
THEREE MAJOR areas of development in the course are general education, general theater
After five years of deliberation and three of intensive pre-professional acting training in the Honors Acting Program, the new system begins this year.
Professional training will be offered in three areas; program to be the first of its kind in this country
Fifteen outstanding high school seniors were auditioned last April and participated in the summer school program. For eight hours credit they joined KU drama students in 11-hour days of classwork and production preparation. Four plays were presented: "Stop the World—I Want to Get Off," "The Adding Machine," "She Stoops to Conquer," and "Romanoff and Juliet."
education, and specialized actor training.
AFTER FOUR years of special study, drama students will now receive a Bachelor of Science Degree in Theater.
Kip Niven, director of publicity and promotion, described the summer program as one "showing what we can do in a university environment to train on a professional basis."
out at the senior coffee, Oct. 12, at 9:30 a.m., in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Professional advisors, including Kristen Linklater, Diction Advisor; John Houseman, Acting Advisor; and Juana Delaban, Movement Advisor, assisted in conducting the program.
Another change will be the exclusion of senior cheerleaders at the Oklahoma game on Senior Day, Oct. 15. Wiles said that complaints made about senior cheerleaders in previous years were behind the change.
Senior Day to eliminate any conflict with the Activities Carnival the evening of Oct. 15.
A SENIOR PARTY is tentatively planned for the weekend after
The senior class will use a committee of one representative from each living group to help publicize and unify the class and its activities.
Because the number of seniors who paid class dues will not be released from the registrar's office until Oct. 5, plans are as yet indefinite, Wiles said.
Watkins planning on additional wing
Bv John Kielv
Watkins Memorial Hospital will soon have more space and is facing its first major rebuilding since opening in 1931.
Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of the student health service, plans to meet with Vice-Chancellor R. Keith Lawton next week to discuss plans for a new wing extending from the back of the building.
DR. SCHWEGLER estimated the cost at half a million dollars and said the Board of Regents has agreed to meet half of this. The legislature has not acted on the project yet. Dr. Schwegler believes the federal Hill-Burton fund will match the state's money.
The mental health clinic will soon move to the second floor of the Nurses' home, now officially called the Hospital Annex.
"If the telephone company could get the telephones in there," commented Dr. Schwegler, "we could move in today. Everything is fixed and ready to go, but we have to have telephones."
The new mental health clinic's entrance is the hospital's back door.
MOVING THE mental clinic to the annex liberated all of the third floor, Dr. Schwegler said.
"We'll use two rooms up there for doctor's offices. I don't have enough room at this moment to seat all of the doctors."
He hopes the potential 52 bed hospital which has 25-30 beds currently available, will be back somewhere near the 52 bed capacity after the mental clinic move.
DR. SCHWEGLER wants to try to build flexibility into the proposed expansion. He hopes for at least a two floor extension with the health clinic below the mental clinic.
He suggested a basement room, sparsely furnished, for typists during new student medical checks.
"This year," he said, "we had 2,077 in the first three days and they're still coming.
"We'll try to build this thing," he speculated, "to care for 20,000 plus students on this campus. Seventy-four thousand six hundred and some people came through the clinic this last year. That's up, very naturally, since last time. Right at 11,000 more."