Bartholomew Plan: Lawrence's Blueprint
By Glen Phillips
The city of Lawrence has a blueprint to guide its development for the next 25 years.
The blueprint is known as the Bartholomew Plan and it was submitted to the city in final form just last month. It is the culmination of several years' study by Harland Bartholomew and Associates of St. Louis, Mo., a professional planning firm.
The final copy is the result of efforts by the company, city officials, the city Planning Commission and committees of interested citizens.
TWENTY-FOUR months were required for the preparation of six preliminary reports which comprise the plan: economic base, population, and land use; major thoroughfares, traffic and transportation; public buildings and commercial centers; utilities and public services; schools, parks and recreation; and capital expenditure program.
Following presentation, each of these reports was studied by city officials and citizens' committees created for the purpose. Suggestions from these sources about the preliminary work were considered and incorporated into the plan. The six reports and the suggestions were combined and condensed into the final copy just submitted.
The Bartholomew planners and the city officials both recognize the importance of the University of Kansas in the comprehensive plan for the development of Lawrence.
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the University's policies on housing and on general development must be carefully related to and coordinated with the optimum development of the City of Lawrence.
"The Planning Commission should take the lead in bringing about this type of coordinated development. Frequent meetings between the commission and officials of the University should be held for reviews of trends in development and of common problems."
The University plays its most important role in the report through the first three sections to be considered-economic base, population, and land use.
EMPLOYMENT IS ONE of the major considerations in the plan's work on the economic base. The report notes that in figures from the 1960 census the University employed 1600 people which represented almost exactly one-tenth of the total working population of Lawrence.
The plan refers to the University as "a consistent major, and now rapidly growing, source of income."
The report also states that the low median income ranking of Lawrence is mitigated by the number of low-income student families.
ACCORDING TO THE PLAN, the technological revolution that emerged after World War II will have a direct bearing on the future of the city of Lawrence. The people of Lawrence should be single-mindedly devoted to the University's research program because of this revolution, the plan goes on to say.
62nd Year, No. 52
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Delegates meet for the first open assembly at 9 a.m. Friday in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union, Ray Edwards, Bethesda, Md., senior and president of the Big 8 governing association will preside at the conference.
Delegates will then form groups, to discuss such topics as the relationship of student publications to student government, the role of student governments on public issues, and a Big 8 cultural exchange.
LAURENCE C. Woodruff, Dean of Students and adviser to the ASC, and Stewart will speak to the conference.
The conference begins with registration from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Thursday at the Hotel Eldridge.
Three discussion groups will meet simultaneously from 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., and from 1:45 to 3 p.m. in parlors A, B, and C of the Kansas Union.
Big Eight Conference To Open Here Thursday
Monday. Dec. 7, 1964
At the business session delegates may present resolutions, bills and
THE CONFERENCE will convene for its first general business session from 3:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the Sunflower room.
By Judy Farrell
The Big Eight Student Government Conference will meet here Thursday through Saturday bringing campus leaders from the Midwest to KU to discuss problems and projects of university student governments.
The KU All Student Council is hosting the three-day conference. More than 25 council members will serve as hosts to more than 40 representatives from the Big 8 schools. Each participating school will send four voting delegates to the conference and an unspecified number of alternates.
VOTING DELEGATES from KU are Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president; Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman; Roy Miller, Topeka senior; and Ted Dickey, Louisville, Ky., junior.
amendments introducing new programs and policies for Big 8 schools. Nominations will also be made for officers of the association.
A banquet at 6:45 p.m. in the Kansas Union will highlight the evening's activities for the delegates.
FINAL ACTION on proposed legislation and voting on officers will take place at the business session at 9 a.m. Saturday.
KU is not nominating a candidate for officer, Stewart said last night. Edwards has been president of the
organization for the past year. Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill., senior is convention chairman.
Last year's conference met at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla., and the preceding year at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
The conference passed a resolution last year stating that student governments should express themselves on public issues. The association has also established a Big 8 travel bureau and published a program directory for Big 8 schools.
ROTC Queen Reigns But SPU Has Own Ball
Carol Jo Weber, Raytown, Mo.
junior, reigned over the 1964 Military Ball last Friday night, an event followed Saturday night by the Student Peace Union's un-Military Ball.
The five-foot nine-inch browneyed beauty was crowned during intermission at the Military Boll by Vice-Chancellor George B. Smith.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ruckel, Carol Jo is majoring in secondary English education. After graduation she plans to either teach or study for her Master's Degree in English.
"Of all the facets at the University," she said, "I think being representative of the military aspect is just wonderful."
Sponsored by the Scabbard and Blade, honorary military society, for the Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC, approximately 500 attended the dance.
SATURDAY EVENING the Student Peace Union (SPU) presented the Un-Military ball to publicize their opposition to the military programs of both the East and West.
At the Stables, the military ball antithesis provided for an evening
of dancing and discussion. The SPU handed out literature that stated SPU programs policy to members and interested persons.
Tim Miller, Wichita Junior and vice president of the SPU, said the organization was looking for non-military way to solve world problems.
Miller said the SPU doesn't specifically commit any member to one basic opinion of military programs.
"Our main theme is nuclear disarmament." Miller said, "but some members would like to see disarmment throughout the whole military."
The un-Military ball was attended by approximately 75 persons.
Miller said some of them were ROTC students, who had been to the Military Ball the night before.
"They came to find out our policies." Miller said, "and sometimes to argue with us."
This is the second year the Un-Military Ball has been given by the SPU. Miller said the organization hopes to continue it.
Will Move With Residents
By Susan Hartley
"Perhaps in the future a building will be named after him or a statue will be erected to him."
These words were written in the Kansas on Oct. 8, 1942, upon the death of George O. Foster, who had served the University of Kansas for 52 years, 44 of which he served as Registrar.
This prediction came true in 1943 when the University Endowment Association bought the former Pi Kappa Alpha house at 12th and Louisiana, and named it Foster Hall.
Since that time, a varied assortment of people have lived in Foster Hall, which was purchased with part of the $50,000 given to the Endowments Association by O. Jollife of Peabody. Jolliffe Hall was also purchased with these funds.
AFTER HOUSING men in the Signal Corps, women in similar training units, other military personnel, University women and University men, the organization of Foster Hall is due for another change.
It will now become a residence hall for the overflow men students with much the same status as Oread Hall has at the present. In other words, whether Foster Hall will be opened or not, depends on the number of men entering the University. It is no longer to be
operated as a permanent University residence hall.
The men of Foster will move into Grace Pearson Hall in the fall of 1965.
THIS NEWS IS regarded with a note of sadness by the men of Foster Scholarship Hall, Mrs. George Foster, the wife of the former Registrar, and with alumni of Foster Hall.
Sitting in the living room of the hall, beneath the portrait of George O. Foster, given to the Hall in 1949 by Mrs. Foster while it was a women's dormitory, residents of Foster told of their disappointment at the news of the change.
Mrs. Foster is 90 years old today. She celebrated her birthday yesterday by going to dinner at Foster Hall.
"We will be closer to campus and things like that. We'll be able to take a shower in the morning without freezing and things like that, But—," Verlyn Peterson, president of Foster Hall, said.
"ANYBODY WHO HAS ever spent one hour working on home-coming decorations, or driving a car for Vox Populi during campus elections, will have reservations about moving into Grace Pearson and leaving our name behind," Peterson said. "But we're confident our traditions will move with us."
Although admitting that the physical conditions at Foster weren't up to par with the rest of the scholarship hall community, Mical Renz, Independence, Mo., junior, said, "if we don't have hardship, we might tend to soften up our attitude and lose our spirit of independence."
"We've always been independent of scholarship hall activities," Peterson, Conway junior, said. "We've always done it on our own, we've been happy that way, and we've done more. For instance, every year we've attempted homecoming decorations, we've brought home a trophy."
"It GIVES US an edge to know that we're only dependent on ourselves," Peterson said. "We've been a part of the scholarship hall community in name only."
"If they're expecting a change in us when we move, they are going to be surprised," Mical Renz said. "If not, it will be to our dismay."
"We're going to move the whole Foster organization to Grace Pearl-
Weather
The weather bureau predicted slowly moderating temperatures tonight and tomorrow with southerly winds of 5-15 miles an hour. The low tonight will be 15 to 20.
son," Renz said. "We will feel we're the Foster Hall men living in Grace Pearson, but somebody else will also be claiming the title and all the fruits of our labor in the past years to give Foster Hall a good name."
TO A LOT OF people, we're going to have to start all over building a name for ourselves," Peterson said.
"The ideal thing would be to take our name with us," Peterson said. "We feel it is something which belongs to us, and now we won't have it anymore."
"We also feel that to leave the only memorial of a person who worked for KU for half a century to an overflow dorm is a crime," Renz said.
"I hate giving it up," she said. "But it has been hard trying to hold it together."
"ONE NIGHT LAST week I walked into Foster when the sun was shining and the house was warm, and saw the boys sitting before our fire," Mrs. Marietta Jackson, Foster Hall housemother, said. "I knew I'd miss it too."
"We had the worst physical plant and were at the end of appropriations for upkeep and new articles," Robert Yaple, Foster alumnus now teaching assistant of history at KU, said. "This just increased the feeling that if we
were going to get anywhere, we were going to have to get there on our own."
THE LOYALTY THE men of Foster have formed towards their Hall, has been formed in comparatively recent times, for the hall was not set up as a men's scholarship hall until December of 1955.
The men who moved in at this time had been residents of Sterling-Oliver Scholarship Hall, a two house affair which functioned together under the same internal organization. When they returned from Christmas vacation that year, they moved from their former quarters at 1129 Louisiana to Foster Hall.
Immediately prior to this, Foster had been a women's scholarship hall.
"We knew that women had lived there before." Yaple said. "Because we found all sorts of strange items pasted to the back of closet doors."
FIRST OF ALL. Foster was a dormitory which housed military personnel during World War II.
After the war, the hall was remodeled to house women students. The first year women moved in, the sewer plugged up one afternoon, causing two feet of water to stand in the boiler room.