Daily hansan
IVD
62nd Year, No.9
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1964
Homecoming Theme Chosen; Harry Belafonte to Perform
"The Greatest Show on Earth" has been chosen as the theme for the KU homecoming weekend Nov. 6-7, which will feature a performance by entertainer Harry Belafonte.
Belafonte and company will appear at 8 p.m. Saturday at Allen Field House for a performance in the round.
Tickets for the show will go on sale Oct. 19 at Bell's Music Store, the Information Booth, and the Kansas Union ticket center.
BLOCK ORDERS MUST be made by Oct. 14. This year no blind drawings for blocks will be held. The blocks will be reserved according to the percentage of tickets sold in each house.
A hundred per cent of the house will be twice the number of men as registered in the dean of men's office. Each living group will be limited to three times the number of men registered.
Richard Wintermote, alumni secretary and general chairman of the homecoming committee, said committee chairmen and student associate chairmen had selected the
theme because it should provide residence halls and houses with a broad, stimulating motif for their traditional decorations, which can include elements of the circus, carnival, or midway.
This year's theme is a reverse of ion, and Robert N. Enberg, McHe 1963 homecoming theme, "High-Pherson senior, union activities. er Education—the Road to the Future."
"LAST YEAR WAS a departure because the theme had always been of a light, airy nature." Wintermote said. "I think it is fairly well known that some students were unhappy with the theme because they were limited in the type of decorations they could have."
"Even the half-time ceremony and
Weather
The weather forecast is for generally fair and mild temperatures through Thursday. The weather bureau said the low temperature tonight will be 50 degrees.
crowning of the queen will be new and fresh," Wintermote said, "and it will carry out the greatest show theme. Many new ideas are coming out of the Homecoming committees and many more are to come. I think students, faculty, and alumni will be pleased with the happy blend of innovation and tradition being brought to this occasion."
The homecoming weekend will include a variety of entertainment in addition to the Belfonte performance and the KU-Nebraska football game Saturday.
A FRESHMAN-VARSITY basketball game will be played Friday evening. Nov. 6, followed by a first night performance of the University Theatre production, "West Side Story."
Student LDs will not be honored at the Friday performance of "West Side Story." There will be no Saturday performance because of the Belafonte concert.
Also scheduled for Friday evening is a concert by the Japan Philharmonic Symphony in Hoch Auditorium.
Housing Construction to Continue As Enrollment Growth Anticipated
Bv Glen Phillips
Construction of new University residence halls to accommodate the tremendous influx of students at KU will be in full swing for the next few years.
The latest addition to the University family of living units is the new 976-man, T-shaped residence hall being erected next to Ellsworth Hall. Construction has already reached the seventh floor of the ten-floor building.
THE FIRST UNIVERSITY effort to provide housing for students was the construction of the building now known as North Corbin Hall. This unit was begun in 1923 and put into service in 1925.
Construction of Corbin was also the last University housing project until just before World War II.
J. J. Wilson, dormitory director, said the next student housing units built for the University were the scholarship halls. These buildings were not financed by University or state funds of any kind. Benefactors of the University paid in full for these houses. They were built, furnished, and equipped and then turned over to KU officials for use as rentree units for scholarship students.
The first hall in this series was Watkins Hall built in the late thirties It was followed by Miller, Battenfeld, Foster, Jolliffe, Stephenson, Pearson, Sellards and Douthart. The last four scholarship halls were built after World War II. Foster and Jolliffe were purchased used and turned over to the University.
IN 1951 the University again ventured into the construction of student housing. They erected a building immediately adjacent to Corbin Hall and called it North College Hall. Sometimes later these two units were consolidated and became known as Corbin.
The next housing units, put into service in 1855, were Gertrude Sellards Pearson, and Carruth and CLeary.
In the spring and fall of 1954 respectively, Joseph R. Pearson and Olin Templin Halls were opened. In 1960 Luther N. Lewis Hall began operation and it was followed in 1962 by Margaret Hashinger Hall. Fred Ellsworth Hall was opened by the University in 1963.
The newest structure on campus - the T-shaped residence hall now being built - is scheduled to begin operation in the fall term of 1965. It will have a capacity of almost 1,000 students.
THE TOTAL AUTHORIZED cost for the structure is $3,800,000 which includes all fixtures and equipment.
Wilson said the University will be building to meet its needs from year to year. The building program for KU is geared to keep up with the student increase and not to exceed it.
Plans have already been approved by the Board of Regents for construction of two new residence halls with construction slated to begin in
1966 and 1967. These new units will be located on the tract of land south of Allen Field House near the intersection of 19th Street and Naism Road.
Plans for these units provide for housing about 650 students. On this tract of land there is presently enough space for the two approved structures and perhaps for a third unit, plans for which have not yet been approved by the Board of Regents. Present University policy does not call for building any residence halls west of Iowa Street.
Plans now call for Oread Hall, the Barracks-type structure west of the stadium to be closed and torn down next spring.
NEW RESIDENCE HALL—Construction on the new ten-floor residence hall next to Ellsworth Hall has reached the seventh floor. When completed, the T-shaped hall will house 976 students. It is scheduled to begin operations in the fall term of 1965. (Photo by Steve Williams.)
Stewart Criticizes ASC Expenses
Criticizing the deficit spending which has left the All Student Council heavily in debt, Bob Stewart, student body president, said last night he would "stop student government when the money alloted it is gone."
In the annual State of the University address to the ASC, Stewart, Vancouver, British Columbia, senior, strongly urged fiscal responsibility from the council. "I will not tolerate laxness on this matter," he said.
"Student government will not be as effective this year as it was in the past because we must bear the burden of others' irresponsibility," he said. He proposed that the $500 to $700 deficit be apportioned equally among each of the groups which receive money from the ASC; and recommended that the ASC office phone be taken out of it continues to be used for anonymous long distance phone calls.
STEWART SPEAKS - Student Body President Bob Stewart emphasizes a point at his State of the University address last night. (Photo by Steve Williams.)
Other legislation suggested by Stewart included establishing an official Student Travel Advisory Board to co-ordinate the travel programs of the ASC, SUA, and P-to-P; separating the Blood Bank from the Student Health Committee; holding a retreat after fall elections to acquaint new ASC members with the council and their responsibilities; and appointing a chaplain for the ASC.
THE REPRESENTATIVES
THE REPRESENTATIVES on the ASC have a moral responsibility to the students in their districts to keep them informed of the issues before the ASC," Stewart said. He urged a program be set up whereby ASC members would visit the living groups weekly, presenting a 5-minute discussion of the two main issues currently before the council and the facts behind them.
Stewart recommended sending a delegation to the newly organized Association of Student Governments of the United States of America to observe proceedings and consider affiliation for KU.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill., junior and chairman of the ASC Athletic Board, said even seniors can complain about sitting near the goal line this year. The senior section begins at the north 40 yard line and extends almost to the 10 yard line and extends almost to the 10 yard line, nearly filling five sections.
Of the 6,000 advance reserved seat tickets sold to students last spring, 3,780 were assigned section for seniors, graduate students, law students, students at the Medical Center, and their spouses. The band is allotted 188 seats and the pep clubs 300 seats in the section, too. It is estimated that 750 spouse tickets were sold.
The junior section extends from the 10 yard line to approximately 5 yards behind the goal; the sophomore section from there
to 10 yards behind the end zone, and the freshman section nearly to the center of the horseshoe.
THE SEATS WERE NOT chosen on a first come first serve basis this year, Cline reported. They were placed in a box according to their classification and drawn out. Both block seats and individual seats were assigned at the same time, he said.
To attempt to solve the problem of students sitting in seats other than those reserved for them, the ushers are now uniformed and have been instructed to actually usher students to their seats.
The practice of selling or giving away student tickets to non-ticket holders is another problem. "It isn't known how much money is lost by the University every year through this practice" Cline said. "Since a part of each student's fees go to sup-
ASC LISTENS = Two ASC members listen pensively as Bob Stewart delivers his address. (Photo by Steve Williams)
of each student's fees go to help port the program, the students are indirectly cheating themselves."
CLINE SAID CHANCELLOR Wescoe, who is a member of the University Athletic Seating Board, has expressed concern over the problem of drinking at football games.
The concession stands are another problem. Hugh Taylor, Stoke-on-Trent, England, graduate student, said. "They undoubtedly serve the weakest cokes in the world. Perhaps this is responsible for the drinking problem," he said.
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