Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year, No. 2
Monday, Sept. 21, 1964
$500,000 Bequest Revealed
Regents Inspect KU New Additions Hailed
The Kansas Board of Regents inspected the largest college-operated computer in Kansas and one of the largest in the state Saturday at KU.
They also inspected new Blake Hall, a 6-story classroom building for the social sciences which opens for classes today. The building, erected at a cost of $750,000, contains classrooms and faculty offices for the departments of political science, sociology, human relations, and social work, and the Governmental Research Center. The building replaces an earlier Blake Hall erected on the same site in 1895 and dismantled last year.
The new computer, an IBM 7040-1401, promises to increase the University's capacity for scientific and industrial research service to the state.
As the Regents and KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe looked on, the computer raced through various kinds of statistics. Right now, it's busiest with fall semester enrollment statistics concerning the University's more than 13,000 students.
If the right kind of data is fed into it, the computer can predict Kansas population growth, school enrollments, or even stock exchange transactions.
KU researchers in many fields hail the computer's arrival. They
K.U.Hits13,000 Frosh Up 25%
Pushed by a 25 percent increase in new freshmen, KU is headed toward fall semester enrollment of more than 13,054, well beyond previous records.
James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, reported 13,054 students as classwork began this morning for a gain of nearly 10 percent over the 11,971 year ago.
He predicted 500 late enrollments before Oct. 3 when the official fall figures are prepared.
The student body on the main campus at Lawrence is 12,054 and it is here where most of the late enrollments will be made. The KU Medical Center in Kansas City had a preliminary figure of 900. However, the enrollments of about 100 graduate students at the Medical Center were this fall administratively changed to Lawrence, so there are a thousand students in Kansas City, for an increase of 50.
There are 4,006 new students on the Lawrence campus, including 2,502 new freshmen, for a gain of 508 over 1963. The new student test is about 300 above the old mark set in 1946 when World War II veterans flooded the campus.
The 8.148 former students on the Lawrence campus again represent 74 percent of the previous fall's enrollment, indicating a greater persistence factor among students.
There are 7,753 men at Lawrence and 4,401 women, for a ratio of 1.76 to 1. Among the new students, women provide an even greater proportion, the ratio being 1.47 to 1.
Weather
The weather bureau predicts mostly cloudy weather with intermittent light rain and not much change in temperature through tomorrow for the Lawrence area. The low tonight is expected to be near 60.
have lots of work waiting for it. The new computer replaces smaller equipment in the KU Computation Center, which has been expanded twice in two years to serve the University's research needs. Computation by the KU Statistical Service, which maintains University records, and the Computation Center, which concentrates on research, have been combined on the new machine to prevent needless duplication.
The National Science Foundation has given KU a $200,000, three-year grant for support of Computation Center activities, and the U.S. Public Health Service has just awarded a 3-year, $116,668 grant for computer support of health-related research at the University. A variety of investigations are planned at the Lawrence and Kansas City Medical Center campuses of the University.
A massive computer mapping of the deep-buried substructure of Kansas has been started by the State Geological Survey at the University, and the departments of geography, geology, and several departments of the School of Engineering and Architecture. It has been proposed that nationwide geological statistical surveys be centered at KU.
A NATIONAL AERONAUTICS and Space Administration research project investigating radar mapping of the earth and other planets will be coordinated by Professor R. K. Moore of the KU Center for Research, Inc. One of the largest research projects of its kind ever undertaken at KU, the project will rely on the new computer's ability to handle large bodies of statistics.
More will be known about the Kansas lawyer's education, financial status, and the legal fees he charges when a statistical survey is completed by Professor Dan Hopson under sponsorship of the Kansas Bar Association. The computer survey will enable the Association to know more about their membership and to plan, with educators, the best law studies for future lawyers.
Most of the computer's time will be used on University-related research, but KU hopes to expand modestly its research relationships with area industry. An early example is Waddell and Reed, Kansas City investment firm, which will rent time on the computer until its own machine can be installed in about two years.
AS PART OF THE Public Health research project, Professor Robert E. Nunley will do computer studies of population geography. Professor Floyd W. Preston will study ground-water pumping and the rain recharge of soil moisture. Professor Charles F. Weinauw will develop a numerical model of the human blood system, and will cooperate in the ground-water study with Professor Preston.
Earl Farley, KU library systems specialist, will develop the "Kansas Slavic Index" on the computer. The index is an alphabetical listing of key words-in-context of published material on social sciences and the humanities.
Other possibilities for the computer's use are almost endless. Musicians could use the computer to analyze musical scores, for music is at least partially a mathematical discipline.
Linguistic authorities at the University have proposed studies of word frequency in various languages and in the writings of individual authors.
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HOLD 'EM—Cheerleaders and the traditional Jayhawk yell "hold em' as the Horned Frogs neared the goal line late in the football game Saturday afternoon. A fumble recovered by Richard Pratt gave the Jayhawks a 7-3 victory over TCU in the last seconds of the game.
Attitudes Blasted
VOX Opens Political Wars With Charges Against UP
Vox Populi (VOX) leveled a blast at University Party (UP) in its first fall meeting by accusing UP of trying to defeat VOX rather than legislate for good student government.
Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash. 1st year law student, called for an enthusiastic campaign this fall. "Nobody is a nobody in VOX," Turner former vice chairman of the All Student Council (ASC), said. "Every living district, especially the freshman districts, play an important part in the outcome of the election," he said.
Rock Chalk Plans Meeting
An open meeting for all persons interested in Rock Chalk Revue is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. At this meeting, suggestions, criticisms and ideas for the revue will be aired.
Hoite Caston, Independence senior and producer of the show scheduled for March 5 and 6 in Hoch Auditorium, said the meeting is open to all persons who wish to participate in the program, as well as to all interested in the content of the show.
"Fractured Flickers," using motion pictures as the vehicle to carry the "message," will be the theme of the revue this year. Interviews for prospective staff members will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 23-24 in the Union. To be eligible for an interview, persons should submit a personal letter of qualifications and previous experience by 5 p.m. Tuesday in the KU-Y office in the Union or at the meeting that evening in the Pine Room.
All staff members will attend a banquet at 6 p.m., Sept. 25 in the Kansas Union.
Referring to literature handed out by UP at the Activities Carnival, Jim Frazier, Topeka 5th year pharmacy student and VOX president, criticized UP for raising out-of-date issues and challenged them to debate on current and relevant issues.
Thirteen executive council members who had been serving temporary appointive terms during the summer months were formally elected. Jim Frazier, who was elected president last spring, is the remaining member of the council.
Elected were: Jon Alexiou, Mission senior, vice president; Priscilla Osborne, Stockton senior, secretary; Brian Biles, Hutchinson junior, treasurer; Bob Miner, Great Bend sophomore, large men's residence halls chairman; John McArtor, large women's residence halls chairman; Steve Curtis, Kansas City, Mo. junior, small residence halls chairman; Mike Grady, Leawood sophomore, fraternity district chairman; Carol Jo Weber, Raytown, Mo., junior, sorority district chairman; Bonnie Buss, Udall junior, Dee Gerstenberger, Park Park, Ill. senior, Barbara Hoffman, Shawnee junior, and Mike Williams, Wichita senior, members at large.
Wescoe Says Fund Largest In History
By Roy Miller (Managing Editor)
KU has been designated to receive a bequest of more than $500,000—the largest single contribution for scholarships in the University's history, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced this morning.
Speaking at the opening convocation in Hoch Auditorium, Dr. Wescoe said the Endowment Association will receive the money from the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Berger of Dallas, Tex. Mr. Berger was a KU alumnus.
"A portion of the income from this substantial fund will be used to provide the Berger Scholarships for undergraduate students," Wescoe said as KU began its 96th year.
"THESE WILL STAND with the Watkins and Summerfield scholarships and will be administered by the University's Committee on Scholarships.
"Additionally, a portion of the income will be used to sustain the Emily V. Berger Graduate Fellowships in Chemistry," he said.
Miss Berger, a KU alumna of 1914,
earned a master's degree in chem-
istry in 1920 and was killed tragically
just before she was to begin work
toward a Ph.D.
Announcement of the bequest was made as the chancellor spoke on changes and developments affecting the University.
"A UNIVERSITY SUCH as ours is an ambivalent creature," he said, "at once proud of the past and steeped in its traditions, yet constantly searching for opportunities to innovate."
Among the changes, opening exercises were piped into the main lounge and cafeteria of the Kansas Union. Last year, Dr. Wescoe said he "suggested that we probably should not deprive those students who had gravitated to the Union of their opportunity to hear these proceedings."
He noted that classrooms in Blake Hall were occupied for the first time today. The building houses the departments of political science, sociology, social work and human relations as well as the Bureau of Governmental Research.
Dr. Wescoe said work on Watson Library is nearly completed and he mentioned Sudler Hall, new outpatient building on the campus of the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
"THE FORTHCOMING YEAR will bring physical changes of just as significant nature," he said. "In the next twelve-month period, construction to the value of seven million dollars will be started or completed on this campus."
Fitting this category were the following projects listed by Dr. Wescoe:
A new Robinson Gymnasium, a new Fraser Hall, a 976-man residence hall beside Ellsworth Hall, a minor addition to Malot Hall and "a substantial" science building to be built between Summerfield and Malot halls.
"Lastly," he said, "preliminary planning will begin on the massive Humanities Building scheduled for construction immediately beside this auditorium."
AMONG OTHER NEW developments, the chancellor spoke of the Intensive English Center and the University's new IBM 7040-1401 computer system.