KU
ITHE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
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77th Year. No.2
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, September 20, 1966
DORM POSTPONED?
Investors ponder
KU's family of privately-owned residence halls may not grow as fast as had been originally proposed.
A reliable University source said yesterday that Jayhawk Investments Inc., a group of private investors, has postponed their project of four dormitories, swimming pool, and parking area at the corner of 15th Street and Engel Road.
E. R. Zook, business agent for Jayhawk Investments, denied last night the project has been "postponed" but said the bids received one week ago were still being considered.
Zook said that the drop in enrollment, the apparent unsuccessful first year of privately-owned Naismith Hall, and rising building costs were factors in their considerations.
HE EXPECTED TO MAKE public a decision on the project this week.
Stanley Learned, head of the Council for Progress and member of Jayhawk Investments, said last week, "There may be no justification for building these dorms. It all depends on KU enrollment."
He admitted that investment credit was skyrocketing and could possibly delay the project a year.
The five-acre site, across Engel Road from Templin Hall, was cleared this summer so that construction could begin and the original target of September 1968 for opening could be met.
The dorms were designed to be six stories high and include a double level auto parking facility as well as a food services building and pool.
MOST OF THE SITES, including approximately 10 homes, were purchased last October by the company.
Like Naismith Hall, researchers had at their disposal only projected figures from two years ago which overestimated enrollment at KU this fall by nearly 800 students.
Officials said University predictions were reconsidered as they were adjusted.
James R. Surface, provost, said this morning he was not familiar with recent decisions concerning the project.
Stanley Learned could not be reached for further comment yesterday at his home in Bardlesville, Okla.
Planned finances open KU's second century
By Cheryl Hentsch
With more than $4 million in its pockets, KU officially began its second century Monday.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe described KU's $18.6 million Program for Progress to students at the 101st annual opening exercises. Dr. Wescoe said the program, a three-year venture, is the largest privately supported drive ever attempted here. It is spearheaded by the KU Council for Progress, a University committee of interested alumni, friends and faculty.
HE ANNOUNCED THAT more than $4 million have already been collected since the program's conception in 1964. During one five-month period the University collected $1 million.
The object and purpose of this fund drive is the educational development of the student, Dr. Wescoe emphasized. "In this period of rising costs and greater opportunity, it becomes more important than ever for us to assure that none be denied the benefits of KU for lack of financial resources."
Greater opportunities will come with new programs:
- professional theater curriculum
- independent College study for senior students
- freshman Centennial College program
- high school student summer repertory theater
- increased resources for student aid and graduate fellowships
- faculty development and enrichment
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WEATHER
The U. S. Weather Bureau predicts warming temperatures through Wednesday. Low tonight in the mid 50s. Chances of precipitation are small.
THE TOTAL COUNCIL FOR Progress goal for student aid—scholarships, fellowships and loans is $4,100,000. More than $5 million has been pledged by the Council for faculty development.
"Goals like these are made possible and are established with enthusiasm because we have demonstrated their value through achievement," said Dr. Wescoe. The Botany Research Center, Memorial Stadium addition and Oliver Hall were completed during the summer. Fraser Hall, Kenneth Spencer Research Library and D laboratory building on the Medical Center campus (the first in the nation to be completed under the Federal program for educational facilities in medicine) will be completed soon.
Buildings for Experimental Biology and Human Development and one for the Humanities are in planning. Projected physical facilities also include a new building for the School of Law, an outdoor theater, a building for child research and a new Museum of Art.
Chancellor Wescoe also highlighted KU academic accolades and awards recently received by various schools and faculty members. During the convocation, Dennis Quinn, associate professor of English, received the H. Bernerd Fink Award for distinguished classroom teaching.
'From all sources, alumni, friends, faculty, corporations, business concerns and foundations have come already the beginning flow that will quicken in the next three years. Special forces are at work within the University—a dissatisfaction with mere adequacy and a determination to provide the best in higher education for Kansas and the region—are coupled with the desires of its alumni and friends that it achieve eminence.
Some dorms may face problems
By Emery Goad
Most obvious is the KU population in newly-opened Naismith Hall which has reached just over 250 students. With a capacity of 505, Naismith is still holding open the door for applications.
This fall has shown that predicting enrollments and guessing where students will live at Kansas's largest university is no easy task.
The first privately owned and operated residence hall at KU, Naismith Hall is a project of Northwestern Life Insurance Co. Research for feasibility of the project was conducted during the past several years and was based on a projected enrollment figure of 15.500 students-700 more than showed up yesterday.
"We are a little softer than the last three or four years," Wilson said.
J. J. WILSON, director of dormitories, reports that university halls, ten in number, are near 95 or 96 per cent capacity.
He stated this would not put a financial burden on the housing department since this number of residents would still enable it to meet the bond payments as usual.
But if the usual drop in residents at the end of first semester occurs as it has in the past, it could conceivably cause a financial strain.
ACTUALLY, THERE SEEMS to be no percentage drop in the number of students living in residence halls, only a drop in totals.
Officials reported that students are in an "apartment phase," as far as living goes.
Wilson said that past figures concerning living areas of KU students are still nearly the same. They are: private housing, 37 per cent of the student body; residence halls, 35 per cent; fraternities, 13 per cent; sororities, 7 per cent; and commuters, 8 per cent.
Enrollment figure falls short of goal
Bu Joan McCabe
The draft, higher tuition and the growth of junior colleges are the primary reasons for the lower-than-predicted enrollment at KU this semester, according to Kenneth Anderson, dean of the school of education.
KU enrollment stood at a record high of 14,538 today, 762 students below the anticipated number.
Women's enrollment has seen a greater increase this fall than that of men in the 101st academic year.
Anderson had earlier predicted an enrollment of 15,300 students for this fall. Last spring he revised this figure to 14,881—only 343 over the present enrollment figure.
THE FIGURE FOR this fall represents only a 10 per cent increase over the comparable figure for 1965 of 13,226.
What's inside
SPORTS — Bob Douglass, repacing the injured Bobby Skahan at quarterback this Saturday at Arizona, talks about how he feels about his new responsibility. Page 6.
FORCED LIVING—Dormitory head at KU sees no forced campus housing for upperclassmen here this year. Page 4.
CYCLES—Cycles and scooter riders to get special parking areas for their vehicles. Page 13.
King to build 'Model City'
GRENADA, Miss. — (UPI)— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., vowing to make "a model city" here, said he would lead Negro students today to integrated schools where white mobs beat Negro children last week.
The two schools in question were tightly guarded by state troopers who said "nobody but students and parents" would be allowed on the grounds.
About 130 Negroes attended the schools without incident Monday.
King arrived here Monday and held a rally of 1,000 Negroes Monday night saying the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) would remain "until Grenada comes to terms with its conscience.
"We plan to go all out to make Grenada a model city," he said.
King said at the rally they were "superior" to the whites who beat children and newsmen at the opening of school Sept. 12, when at least 33 persons were injured.
Folk singer Joan Baez, who accompanied Negro children to school Monday, was barred from entering the school grounds. She later participated in a silent march through town with about 40 Negroes. They virtually were ignored.
Miss Baez and about 650 Negroes marched Monday night to the town square without incident.
The decrease in actual enrollment over projected enrollment at KU seems to be typical of the trend at all Kansas schools. Current enrollments at other schools and projected enrollments are: Kansas State University, 11,300 and 11,600; Wichita State University, 11,00 and 12,500; Pittsburg State College, 5,600 and 5,900; Fort Hays State College, 5,000 and 5,200.
A RECORD HIGH of 9.956 former students have returned to the KU campus this fall.
These enrollment figures were listed by the various divisions of the University, compared with last year's figures: journalism 175 and 131; engineering and architecture, 1,430 and 1,390; fine arts, 820 and 721; law 319 and 278, and business, 550 and 512. Pharmacy enrollment is incomplete and preliminary figures were not available for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences or the Graduate School.
Fees for students this semester are: undergraduate and graduate residents of Kansas, $146; law residents of Kansas, $196; Non-resident undergraduates, $346; non-resident law, $396; non-resident graduates, $191.
The Kansas Board of Regents has approved the following fee increases which will go into effect next fall: resident student fees will be raised $20 per semester; non-resident undergraduate student fees will be raised $50 per semester; fees for non-resident graduate students will go up $205 per semester.
Senate ends one battle, starts anew
WASHINGTON —(UFI)—The Senate, finally finished with the ill-starred civil rights bill, was knee-deep in a new controversy today—this time over the Supreme Court's ruling on prayer in public schools.
The key man in the prayer controversy, as in the civil rights impasse, was Senate Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen. He acted to precipitate the new battle Monday as soon as the civil rights bill was shelved for this session.
Dirksen offered his constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer as a substitute for a routine bill. In a speech at times reminiscent of a revival meeting, he said the "moral future of America" was involved in the drive to "clarify" the high court's prayer ruling.
Ridiculing some of the local edicts that have resulted from the ruling, Dirksen said one suburban school district in Illinois was told it could use a Nativity Scene in a Christmas presentation if it were done in a "cultural vein."
"How in God's name can you present the Manger in 'a cultural vein' and make it have any meaning?" he asked.