Summer Session Kansan
53rd Year, No.10
Tuesday, July 20, 1965
Lawrence, Kansas
No Time to Just Rest In Summer on Oread
For many, summer is a time of rest and recuperation, but KU continues to function throughout June, July, and August.
Summer enrollment is up about 18 per cent to 5,250—approximately 40 per cent of the previous fall's enrollment of 12,344. An additional 5-206 persons are attending 51 workshops, clinics, and conferences for no academic credit—teachers, bankers, steelworkers, clergy, legal secretaries, peace officers, school bus drivers, and hospital administrators to name only a few. They meet on campus for periods ranging from a day to a week to three months.
SUMMER INSTITUTES and workshops supported by federal grants totaling $257,368 are being conducted for high school and college mathematics teachers, radiation biologists, history and geography teachers, and outstanding student scientists.
Summer also is the camp season, and the University's Music and Art Camp is providing six weeks of intensive training for about 1.400 junior and senior high school youths, talented in the sciences, ballet, journalism, speech, theater, music, and
KU Orientation Center Begins
The oldest foreign student orientation center in the United States opened Saturday at the University of Kansas for 57 students from 19 lands.
The 8-week program is financed by a $39,000 contract from the U.S. State Department. The visitors will study the English language, the U.S. educational system and American civilization to prepare for a year or more of study at some U.S. college or university.
J. A. Burzle, chairman of KU's department of German, is center director, as he has been since the program was placed here in 1950.
Thirteen students from Japan, 12 from Okinawa and seven from Egypt are on the roster. Other lands represented are Honduras, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Haiti, Congo, Somali, Paraguay, Ecuador, Chile, Yemen, Colombia, Nepal, Cameroon, Thailand, Turkey and Viet Nam.
Other eight-week orientation centers this year are at Bucknell University and the University of Arizona. Shorter sessions are scheduled at Texas, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota and Yale universities.
Assisting Burzle is a staff of 12, all from the University of Kansas except Gordon Bennett of Gustavus Adolphus College and Miss Catherine Zeliff of the University of Wisconsin, a KU graduate from Baldwin.
MU Boys' State Chief Has KU Scholarship
The 1964 governor of Missouri Boys' State and delegate to Boys' Nation has been awarded an Ed T. Hackney scholarship to KU for 1965-66.
He is Joseph Cornelison, Maryville. Mo.
TERRAL, Okla. — (UPI)— Linda Gunter, 18, was pleased as punch yesterday with her new title as queen of the Terral Watermelon Festival, except for one thing. She is allergic to watermelons.
The $200 award is income from a $5,000 endowment created by the late Mrs. Mabel C. Hackney of Wellington, Kan., in memory of her husband, a KU alumnus. Mrs. Charles R. Bell of Maryville, Mo., is a daughter of the Hackneys.
Problem for a Queen
art. Sunday afternoon and evening concerts are a popular campus attraction for parents and visitors.
Four theater productions, led off by "The Music Man," are being well attended.
THE YOUNGER SET have their activities, too — an evening playground open each week night east of Robinson Gymnasium. Thirty to 50 youngsters are attracted nightly to the play opportunities, which serve as laboratory training for University students taking a school recreation course.
Another 3,000 of the more than 4,000 new undergraduate students who will be enrolling at the University next fall are attending KU Previews this summer to take placement examinations and discuss their programs with advisers and administrators.
Summer also is a time for visiting, and KU gets its share of persons dropping by to see the campus and to browse through the popular museum exhibits.
THE TRAFFIC office reports that 3,211 drivers obtained visitor's passes at the five traffic control stations during June, about 1,000 more than the average during the regular school year.
The Museum of Art entertains about 500 visitors a week during the summer, and the Museum of Natural History has about 250 guests each weekday and between 700 and 1,000 on Sundays.
A major summer activity is constructing new and remodeled facilities for future influxes of students. Work is progressing on a $1.45 million physical education building and matatorium, a small addition to the Kansas Union and a 680-student residence hall. McCollum Hall, a new 976-student facility, is being readied for occupancy by students returning in September.
BIDS HAVENT been received yet, but work is expected to start later this summer on a new $90,000 botany research building and a major remodeling of chemical engineering facilities in Lindley Hall. Laboratory and technical equipment plus classroom and office space for the family life department will be installed in Carruth-O'Leary Hall. And bids for razing old Fraser Hall were received July 13 to make way for the new $1.65 million Fraser.
Faculty offices are being renovated, and new roads and sidewalks are under construction. Everything is being rushed toward readiness for an enrollment surge to nearly 14,000 students at Lawrence.
Summer is a busy time, but the fall promises to be even busier.
Kansas Peace Officers Will Come to KU School
Lawton Says Stall-Permit Plan Is Fair
By Shelley Bray
Students who lament the lack of parking spaces have no cause for complaint, according to Vice Chancellor Keith Lawton.
According to figures released by the Traffic and Security Office, there were 4,930 parking permits issued this year, and 4,590 parking spaces on the campus. However, Lawton stated, this is as it should be.
LAWTON SAID the car owners are never in the same place at the same time, and thus more parking permits can be issued to accommodate a greater number of parkers.
"We don't sell space, just access to a lot," Lawton continued. "If a lot is full, and the car owner must park elsewhere, he is not penalized. If he is given a parking ticket in such a case, he may take it to the Traffic Office and it will be remitted."
According to the Traffic and Security Office, parking permits are issued because space around buildings is limited, and the state will not finance parking areas. To establish lots, maintain them, and maintain traffic control stations, it is necessary to charge for the use of the lots.
SALE OF PARKING permits and revenue from parking tickets provides funds for the maintenance of traffic facilities. Sale of parking permits pays the salaries of clerical help in the Traffic and Security Office, maintains the traffic control booths, and buys such supplies as flashlights, files, forms, and permit stickers. In the 1964-65 fiscal year, $48,932 was obtained from sale of parking permits for these uses.
Revenue from parking tickets provides the maintenance of parking lots and control booths. Sometimes this money is used to construct new parking facilities. Last year $32,777.75 was collected from parking tickets.
Coup d'Etat at KUOK
Members of the journalism division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp will take over KU's radio station, KUOK, Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 8:30. The camp broadcast will be heard in Lewis and Templehalls only. Darrel Holt, assistant professor of speech and drama, will supervise the youngsters.
Dan Partner Sr.
Dan Partner Sr., news editor and space military affairs writer for the Denver Post, will address the Journalism Camp Thursday.
Denver Editor To Give Talk
Partner will arrive early in the morning to speak to the 20 journalism students. Partner's son, Dan Partner Jr., is attending the camp.
Partner is a graduate of El Dorado High School and Kansas State University. In college Partner was a varsity letterman in football. Following his graduation from K-State, Partner worked for the Manhattan Mercury-Chronicle in Manhattan, Kansas.
In 1938, Partner went to work for the Kansas City Star as sports editor. He served in the Navy as an officer during three of his years with the Star.
Partner has worked with the Denver Post since 1946. He started as a sports writer and was sports editor, general assignment man, rewrite man, picture editor, assistant news editor, news editor, and has held his present post since 1960.
Apology to Museum
The Folger Coffee Co. collection of antique English silver coffee pots will be shown Aug. 6.Sept.26 at the KU Museum of Art, and is not now on display, as was reported in the Friday, July 16, Summer Session Kansan. In connection with the showing a reception will be held at the museum from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19.
A week of school begins July 26 for about 150 peace officers at the University of Kansas.
It is the 19th annual Kansas Peace Officers Training School for law enforcement and correctional officers sponsored by the Governmental Research Center and University Extension and the Kansas Peace Officers Association.
The program, which will draw its participants from Kansas and surrounding states, is divided into three sections: Applied Police Science I, Applied Police Science II, and the Correctional Officers Seminar.
APPLIED POLICE Science I will be offered to law enforcement officers with less than four years' experience and no equivalent training. It is broad in scope and covers subjects important to new officers, including accident investigation, arrest procedures, and preservation of the crime scene.
Applied Police Science II is an intermediate course for officers with several years of experience or previous training. It includes forgery investigation, supervision methods, and interrogation of suspects.
The keynote address for the police sessions will be given by Chief Clarence K. Kelley of the Kansas City, Mo., police department, who will speak on police ethics.
OTHER SPEAKERS will include Atty. Gen. Robert Londerholm of Topeka; Dr. Karl Neudorfer, Wichita pathologist; Lt. Col. Allen Rush of the Kansas Highway Patrol in Topeka; Carl White of the National! Automobile Theft Bureau in Chicago, and Frederick Knoblich, supervising inspector of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Kansas City.
Speakers will include Dr. Harold J. Mandl, a clinical psychologist from Topeka; Hubert H. Raney, a federal jail inspector in El Reno, Okla.; Glenn C. Peterson, director of supervisory training for the Bendix Corp. in Kansas City, Mo., and Clifford Lobel, director of nursing services, Division of Institutional Management in Topeka.
The Correctional Officers Seminar for prison and jail personnel will cover such subjects as transportation of prisoners, supervision problems, and managing disturbed persons. The case study approach will be combined with small group discussions.
The seminar will be held for the first three days of the school and will be conducted in cooperation with the Director of Penal Institutions.
HRC exists,but Its Rights Role Is Still Evolving
Bv Kit Gunn
Civil rights activity almost invariably attracts publicity. This is certainly true for KU; recent demonstrations have thrust to prominence such groups as CORE, the NAACP, the CRC and the official University UHRC.
But at least one organization has failed to rise in influence during the long, hot summers and discontented winters: the Committee on Human Rights of the All Student Council.
The HRC, as it is abbreviated, was formed as a permanent committee of the ASC by Bill No. 19, passed March 7, 1961. The bill was signed by Lynn Anderson, then president of the ASC; Jan Wise, then secretary of the organization; and W. Clarke Wescoe, chancellor.
THE BILL STATES that "the purpose of this Committee shall be to work alone or in cooperation with such organizations in the City of Lawrence as are appropriate to study the various and complex problems involving personal liberty and Human Rights." Whether the HRC has indeed done this is difficult to ascertain, as records of the organization are scanty.
Apparently the major recent work of the HRC was a comprehensive survey of student attitudes on matters including racial problems. Titled "An Experimental Attitude Survey," the project was conducted in 1963. The last remaining copy of the report on this survey disappeared last year. Leo Schrey, Leavenworth junior and president of the ASC, has attempted to locate this copy but has not as yet succeeded.
WHILE THE MAIN projects of the past are missing, the routine records of the HRC seem to be nonexistent. The HRC bill specifies that the organization shall publish a report at the end of each operating year stating the committee's findings. This report, to be published by the publications committee of the ASC, was to be kept in "Watson Library, the
ASC Office, and the Dean of Student's Office."
Copies of a mid-year report of either 1962 or 1963 and a few other documents of the HRC are in the ASC files. None of these publications nor any other publication of the HRC can be found in either the Dean of Students' office or Watson Library; neither staff was aware that anything was ever published.
DEFINITELY NO report was published for the 1964-65 operating year, said Schrey. The reason for this, Schrey stated, was that virtually no business was conducted these last two semesters.
Irving's concept of the HRC is as a mediator rather than an organizer.
But the future may not be as dismal as the past, according to Jeff Irving, Lionia, N.J., graduate student and chairman of the HRC for 1965-66. While he admits that the HRC has "stayed behind" in the civil rights field, he is optimistic about the prospects for development.
The committee should be the place for the first hearing on cases of discrimination, acting as a "clearing ground" for complaints, he said. Then its function will be to "study and suggest" to the ASC and the administration's UHRC.
"OUR COMMITTEE will have to work more closely with the UHRC." Irving stated. He said that relations with the administration had been "good but not frequent enough." He explained that the first task before the organization was to become better coordinated with the UHRC, and to be represented on it. The HRC has no seat on the UHRC.
Irving is the only ASC member on the committee. The other members, appointed from the student body, are Charles Turpen, Omaha senior; Mary Halloran, Topeka junior; Penny Prill, St. Louis junior; Jerry Bean, Abilene sophomore; Dan Austin, Salina sophomore, and Charles Joseph, Potwin sophomore.