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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 30, 1965
Students Pack to Vacate. B and G Will "Move In"
By Jim Sullinger
With a great sigh of relief accompanied by "Thank heavens, its here," and "I think I'll cut my history lecture", a long awaited spring vacation will begin Saturday at noon.
Although most students will be trying their best to forget about classes and homework, university officials will be on the job preparing for the remainder of the semester or catching up on the first half.
Among the busiest departments will be Buildings and Grounds. Harry Buchholz, superintendent of the physical plant, said crews will start a big clean up operation over the break. "We'll get into areas we
can't normally get into while classes are going on," said Buchholz.
Projects he pointed to will be concerned with street markings, installation of new gate operators in X zone, and a lot of painting.
ANOTHER department undertaking a big clean-up campaign is the office of dormitories. When students return April 10 and 11, they should find the floor in their rooms cleaned and waxed and everything looking spotless.
"We have a week to do a lot of good cleaning," said Ernie Pulliam, housing manager of dormitories.
Keith L. Nithear, business office comptroller, said his office would be getting their accounts into good condition. He said state auditors
will be here March 31 to check university finances.
"Business will go on pretty much as usual," he said.
The university financial year will end March 31, according to Nitcher.
THE LIBRARY will be open during the spring vacation. However, their will be no extended night hours or Sunday opening.
"This will not be an idle period at all," said John Glinka, acting assistant director. "There will be a lot of students who stay on and use the library."
Critics Castigate-
Richard Wintermote, executive secretary of the alumni association, said. "We'll be busier than most."
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mention some of the other modern buildings on the hill make my whole architectural education superfluous. Architecture is the art of creating both functional and
Med. Center Doctor Wins $30,000 Grant
Dr. Harry H. White, a neurologist at the KU Medical Center (KUMC), has been named one of 25 scholars in the United States and Canada in academic medicine to receive grants totaling $30,000 for his teaching and research work.
The 31-year old physician will receive the grants from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation in New York at the rate of $6,000 a year. The appointment will become effective July 1.
Dean C. Arden Miller, director of KUMC, nominated Dr. White to participate in intensive interviewing sessions with 74 other nominees for the grants.
"Six committees of laymen held the three day interviews all over the country," Dr. White said. "There were 12 doctors in my group. All of us and the interviewers ate together, toured and went to meetings. We were not judged on our medical skills, but were selected primarily on our potential," he said.
Dr. White received his bachelor's degree from KU in 1955 and a doctor of medicine degree in 1958. He joined the faculty of KUMC last year as an instructor and will become an assistant professor July 1, 1965.
Dr. White's research deals with genetically determined diseases of the nervous system and errors in metabolism. He said he is trying to determine what enzymatic basis of inherited diseases are in the nervous system.
"I have a special project in this field," he said. "I am interested in 'PKU', which is a disease of the nervous system found in very young children, and those who are not treated early for it become mentally retarded. If they are placed on a special diet, they can grow up with a normal mentality. There is a cure for the disease."
The money Dr. White will receive from the award will be used in any way deemed necessary by him and the administration to continue his research. He will also continue to take care of patients and teach classes.
Markle Scholars were first selected in 1948 to relieve the faculty shortage in medical schools by giving support to young teachers and researchers early in their careers. The total number awarded in 85 medical schools is now 406. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, Dean Miller and many others have been Markle Scholars. Since 1953 six doctors from KUMC have been awarded this honor.
esthetic space for people and the new buildings do not even come close to creating meaningful spaces for learning."
He continued, "In the school of architecture we learn that proportion, scale, balance, unity and dominance are part of the grammar used in creating good buildings. New Fraser has none of these characteristics; it has little unity because the twin towers are not an integral part of the design, in fact, they look tacked on. The state architect's greatest achievement has been in making Blake Hall look beautiful relative to new Fraser.
He said that 70,000 copies of "KU Today", a university newsletter, would be mailed to all alumni and parents of students over vacation.
"WHY DO the administration and alumni refuse to use the KU school of architecture to either create or advise in the planning and building of this campus? Do they not trust the faculty and students of architecture and consider them competent?" Davidow asked.
"THIS WILL be no vacation for us," he said. "We have five class reunions that are taking an awful lot of work."
This is a time when faculty members can do research or read that book they've been promising themselves they would read.
From this point, they will begin thinking of commencement and final week.
Overtaken by Joy
Sneer if you must at the poet who found sudden joy in a field of daffodils . . . But don't miss reading what a psychologist has discovered about the reasons for such moments in normal, healthy individuals. You'll find it in the April issue of Reader's Digest, along with:
Italy's amazing space watchers
Read how they have radio tapes indicating that more than one Soviet astronaut has died a lonely death in space, victimized by faulty space technology.
Read and Use Kansan Classifieds
Both articles-plus more than 40 other features—are in April Reader's Digest now on sale.
JOHN EMICK
For City Commissioner
April 6th
LITTLE EARL AND THE FABULOUS CONTINENTALS
One Night Only, Thurs., April 1
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APRIL FOOL'S DANCE
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