Friday, April 16, 1965 University Daily Kansan
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Desire, Dedication Began KU Relays
KU's Spring Homecoming—the KU Relays—has established itself through a 40-year span as one of the major track and field events in the country.
KUS LOCATION as a geographical center of the United States and climate conditions favorable to track sports made Kansas a natural site for the relays. The lack of adequate facilities for staging such a show held KU back for many years, but with the construction of a stadium and one of the fastest tracks, the relays were made possible.
The first KU Relays was held April 21, 1923, with 790 athletes from 77 universities, colleges and high schools participating, KU won the University Relays with a score of 15 points.
The relays were an outgrowth of a great need. It had been known for some time that a relays event was needed for the West and Southwest, and that the Pennsylvania and Drake Relays could not include these sections of the country.
Beginning this athletic event was due almost entirely to the dream and work of Dr. John Outland of Kansas City, Dr. Outland was a former KU student and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He also was an outstanding All-American football player, and had
THE ATHLETIC BOARD announced that the relay games would be held in the spring of 1923, but little was done until Karl Schlademan, head track coach, started selling the idea. Supported by a track team which he had developed into one of the best, Schlademan worked to make the debut of the relays a memorable event.
won honors both as a tackle and a fullback.
RAIN OR SHINE the relays have been held every year since 1923 with the exception of a three-year cancellation during World War II. The classic was resumed in 1946. One of the coldest and wettest events on record was 1947. The high school meet lasted 10
Because he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania when the Penn Relays were developed into one of the biggest athletic events in the country, Dr. Outland had plenty of first-hand information. When he returned to Kansas, Dr. Outland insisted that Kansas should have games similar to the Pennsylvania events, but the lack of facilities hindered his plans.
It was only when KU students and alumni built Memorial Stadium that the relays became a realization.
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—Photo by Harry Krause
FAMILIAR BEACON — The memorial campanile marks KU at night.
Medical Center Serves. Teaches
By Jane Larson
To many students the KU Medical Center is a vague cluster of buildings into which medical students and student nurses annually disappear, enjoying only brief respites from the rigorous schedule.
Few people realize that the medical center is not only a training ground for those interested in the field of medicine but a major center for many types of medical and health research and an extensive service center.
For example, who knows of the classroom for slow-learning children or the child who is orthopedically handicapped; or the program provided for those at home who are served by a staff member, a medical student, and a student nurse?
How many realize the intense research on hospital, economic and employee relations by the nutrition department or the physical treatment available for nervous conditions?
THE MEDICAL CENTER serves a triplicate purpose—education, research. and service.
The Children's Rehabilitation Unit deals with the emotional and
learning problems of children. The children helped are orthopedically handicapped, emotionally disturbed or afflicted with learning disabilities.
Directed by Dr. Herbert C. Miller, professor of pediatrics, the unit provides classrooms for the handicapped children, size depending upon the severity of the disability. Usually the classes range from 3 to 11 children.
"ITS OFTEN DIFFICULT to separate the problems of emotional disturbances and brain damage as one is often the cause of the other." Harry Chaffin, research staff and administrative assistant, said.
The classes are divided according to the nature of the disability. Usually the unit tries to distinguish between the children with emotional disturbances and those with brain damage, which is not easy.
These classrooms provide an excellent training ground for students going into almost any area of medicine. Involved in these classroom service-studies are a physical therapist, a nurse, a doctor, a psychiatrist and a medical student.
"We demonstrate to the greater
CENTER FOR SERVICE—The hospital building of the KU Medical Center symbolizes the wide variety of facilities available to those who need care or want to study in the medical field. The hospital is the center for in- and out-patient care and on-the-job training for medical students.
Kansas City area the kind of services appropriate for the handicapped youngsters and hope that the school systems can eventually provide the same thing,” Chaffin continued.
THE KU MEDICAL center is one of 33 locations chosen by the federal government for a Home Care Unit.
This unit, directed by Dr. Charles Lewis, consists of groups of discipline teams which visit patients in their homes. These patients were once medical center patients or referred to the center by another agency.
The discipline team consists of a staff member, accompanied by a medical student and a student nurse, who may be in various phases of training. The students may be preparing for careers as doctors, nurses, dieticians, social workers, physical therapists or occupational therapists.
"I THINK IT'S a tremendous program in community health," Junia Oakleaf, senior student nurse, said. "Before we had worked only with patients in the hospital. Now we can follow up their care at home."
Outside of serving the patient, the program is first educationally based to provide experience for the student nurse and medical student.
"It gives us a chance to see the patient's home life," she continued. "We go out once a week with the doctor and then three to four times in our spare time. You can actually see your patient improving. I think it means a lot to the patient, too," she said.
ALTHOUGH A NOMINAL fee is charged the patients, the payment is not pressed.
Jennipher Graves, senior student nurse, said, "We get valuable experience in being able to view the patient differently. The program also provides better patient care."
"Payment on time is not important," Alice Rowland, secretarial research assistant, said. "We're primarily concerned with teaching the first year medical students and acquainting them with patients."
Research work, supported by a federal grant from the Public Health Service, is required of all staff members.
COMMENTS BY PATIENTS or staff concerning the food served at the medical center should be taken to the Nutrition and Diet Department. This department plans meals not only for the staff and patients but also for therapeutic cases.
Those working in the nutrition department have already obtained
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Oread Landmarks Note KU History
Mount Oread was chosen by the founding fathers of the university in part because it was one of the prettiest places in Kansas. In the 99 years since the university was founded, the site is the only part of KU which has remained unchanged. It has retained its natural beauty while the landmarks on it have been erected, renovated and torn down to make way for others.
Playing an important role in this change have been the buildings on the Hill. From Old North College Hall, built in 1866, the year KU was founded, to new Blake Hall, the structures have helped make it one of the most picturesque campuses in the nation.
Change has indeed affected buildings on Mount Oread. Of the eight buildings erected in the 19th century, only three remain.
One of these, Fraser Hall, will be dismantled later this year. The other two are Spooner-Thayer Art Museum and Flint Hall, formerly Fowler Shops.
GONE ARE OLD North College Hall, now the site of Corbin and Gertrude Sellards Pearson residence halls and Chemistry Hall. Chemistry Hall was built in 1883 and torn down in 1963.
Old Blake Halt, often described as a "speckled chicken" was built in 1895. It was dismantled in 1963 to make way for New Blake Hall, a modernistic six-story structure.
The Spooner-Thayer Art Museum, or Spooner Library, as it was called in 1894, was highly praised as one of the best architecturally designed college buildings in the nation then.
It gained national acclaim in the press: Harpers Weekly said, "The architects ignored the old idea that a library is only a storage room for books, and erected
a building simple in construction, convenient, adequate in its detail and thoroughly modern in design...”
HARPERS CONTINUED, "In troubled Kansas has grown up an education center where can be found culture and learning of the broadest type." The magazine was referring to the Populist movement which was ravaging the state at the time.
The library was given as a gift to KU by William B. Spooner of Boston, an uncle of Chancellor Francis H. Snow.
Not all of the landmarks which mean KU to alumni and students are buildings, however. Perhaps the most impressive landmark is the Campanile, erected as a memorial to veterans of World War II. The 53 bells in the carillon tower have become a familiar sound to KU students. The bells sound the hours, ring out in carillon concerts and occasionally toll in sadness, as when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
The Campanile is also the starting point for the impressive procession of graduating seniors who walk down the hill above Memorial Stadium each June.
POTTER LAKE IS a popular area in every season. In winter the hardy venture out for skating parties and it is the scene of many summer picnics or evening strolls.
The Prairie Acre remains the last bit of undisturbed sod on the KU campus. It has never been cultivated, and today the native plants which grow there provide visual study for botany majors.
Two statues on the campus are famous. The Pioneer, standing just east of Fraser Hall, is perpetually frozen in the motion of throwing a shovel of sod over his shoulder.
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"Harvard on the Kaw," as KU is often called by proud students and alumni, is probably a more accurate description for the university than many students realize.
KU Claims High Rank
In fact, KU's record for various fellowship awards granted to its graduates is second to none in the Midwest, and one of the best in the U.S.
Figures obtained from Robert P. Cobb, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, show that KU claims more Woodrow Wilson Fellowship students than any other school in the Midwest. Although the KU record does not compare with that of Harvard, it does have an outstanding one as far as public-supported schools are concerned.
The 1965-66 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship grants show that KU, with 15, ranks fifth among U.S. public schools. Only the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin had more fellowship grants than KU.
THE 15 FELLOWSHIP grants placed KU first among Big Eight schools which received a total of 44 fellowships. KU also had nine of the 28 honorable mentions awarded in the Big Eight.
The figures obtained from Dean Cobb show that KU ranks 13 among all collegiate institutions in the total number of Woodrow Wilson Fellowships received since the first one was granted in 1945. The first KU students to receive grants were in 1954, and since that time. 130 KU students have been honored with the award.
Schools ranking ahead of KU on the all time list include Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Michigan, Toronto, Columbia, California (Berkeley), Oberlin, Chicago, Stanford and Swarthmore. Of these, only Michigan and California are state supported schools.
KU ALSO HAS a high rank among Rhodes Scholarship recipients. According to James Gunn, KU publicity director, KU students have received five Rhodes Scholarships in the last seven years. These figures are surpassed only by Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the U.S. Military Academy and the Air Force Academy.
Gunn said that the small number of Rhodes Scholarships is due to the fact that only 32 are presented annually.
Gunn added that KU is one of 42 institutions that make up the Association of American Universities, whose membership in all represents the outstanding institutions of higher learning and whose members award 80 per cent of the doctorates awarded in this country.
A STUDY OF THE current Who's Who in America showed a total of 246 living persons who obtained their first degree from KU. This, according to Gunn, ranked KU among the top five state universities.