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Friday, Feb. 26, 1965
Dormitory Building Program Uses Private. Public Funds
Rapidly rising student enrollments which put KU into the housing business more than 40 years ago, now have put it into the world of high finance.
On March 18, the State Board of Regents will open bids on more than $7 million worth of housing system revenue bonds. The bonds, which were approved for sale by the Re-gents, will finance construction of a 10-story residence hall for 976 men now being completed, and will refinance money borrowed earlier to build other student residence halls and apartments.
ALREADY the University is paying off one bond issue on Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall in ten years - 30 years ahead of schedule - because of a gift of stock and efficient operation. "G.S.P.," as it is called, will become part of the systems financing program and will make the other bonds a more secure, and more attractive, purchase.
KU enrollments have been increasing about 1,000 a year—the enrollment last fall was 12,344 at Lawrence, with another 1,131 students at the Medical Center in Kansas City—and are expected to increase at the rate of 1,500 a year in the near future. Twenty thousand students are expected by 1972.
That a state institution is going into the commercial money market for some of its funds demonstrates that education today has many sources of support. It also shows that a university must keep building to keep ahead of the rising student tide.
PRIVATEY operated housing is expanding in Lawrence to meet part of this need. But in a city of 35,000 providing housing for this many
students must be a cooperative enterprise between private housing and the private capital, state support, and federal funds that have combined at KU to make possible university-operated housing construction.
Private money has helped build a surprising number of buildings on the University of Kansas campus, including the first one, old North College Hall. The old building was torn down in 1918 to make way for the first university-operated women's dormitory in the state, Corbin Hall. Corbin, too, was built with a combination of private gifts and state money.
PRIVATE GIFTS built the KU student hospital, the student union, the stadium, the nurses' home, and the World War II memorial campanile.
A $100,000 bond issue subscribed by the City of Lawrence helped pay for Fraser Hall, the famed old twin-towered classroom structure which still stands.
But it is in student housing that the University has had some of its greatest successes in combining private support with government funds.
THE FEDERAL government has made a bid for the bonds because of its interest in stimulating more educational housing construction. Any private firm can be named the winning bidder, however, by equaling the government's or by bidding lower.
If it hadn't been for private gifts, the row of scholarship halls on the east brow of the campus hill. Mt. Oread, couldn't have been built. Four of these house 200 women; five more house 250 men.
GIFTS from the late Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Battenfeld, O. Jolliffe, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Stephenson, Lela Douthart, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Chronister, Mr. and Mrs. Luther N. Lewis, and Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Pearson helped build the nine scholarship halls. Many other, smaller gifts also helped, particularly in the purchase of the first scholarship residence for men and the land on which many of them stand.
A BILL passed by the 1955 Kansas Legislature created the continuing quarter-mill dormitory building fund levy, which has supplied the "down payment" on three residence halls at KU housing nearly 1500 students and on new McCollum Hall for 976 students which will be ready next fall.
Multiple-story residence halls for men and women began going up in 1955. There are seven now, plus Corbin Hall, that first hall for women opened in 1923. Also constructed over the past ten years were 300 one and two-bedroom apartments for married students.
FRESHMAN WOMEN at KU are required to live in either freshman residence halls, university scholarship halls, or the homes of parents. Upperclass women live in residence halls, scholarship halls, sororities, or rooms in Lawrence approved by the Dean of Women.
Men students may choose residence halls, scholarship halls, fraternities, or in-town housing.
Approximately 37 per cent of all students live in private housing in Lawrence, another 20 per cent live in sororities and fraternities, and 8 per cent commute to the campus.
KU Virus Laboratory Combats Disease From Ticks, Wild Rabbits
Wild rabbits and ticks may be enemies of man but through research, the KU virus laboratory is attempting to combat diseases of these carriers.
PEOPLE GET THE DISEASE while they are dressing these rabbits," Prof. Downs said. "In order to protect themselves they should dress the rabbit with rubber gloves. The organisms the rabbit carries enter the body through cuts in the skin. The germs travel so fast that it would be useless to wash the hands afterwards and expect protection.
Under the direction of Cora M. Downs, Summerfield Distinguished Professor emeritus of microbiology, three graduate students and three technicians do research on how people recover from the infections known as tularemia and Q fever.
Tularemia is a disease in humans caused by the handling of rabbits. There are about 400 cases of tularemia reported every year in the US. The disease has decreased in prevalence in the last several years because people are more aware of the danger handling wild rabbits.
also found in Alaska but it is of the Russian type. The disease is believed to have been brought to Alaska by wild rabbits millions of years ago when a land bridge existed between Russia and Alaska. Western Europe is not commonly affected by the disease.
Tularemia is world wide in distribution. It is found mainly in the US, Russia and Japan. In Russia tularemia is a milder disease than in the US. The disease is
"There is no danger of contracting tularemia when handling domestic rabbits, Prof. Downs said. The only way they can be affected by the disease is artificially in the labs."
Q FEVER. is also studied in the virus laboratory. This disease was first discovered in Australia. After several years the organism known as rickettsia, was found in ticks in Montana. It later was found to be world wide like tularemia.
Other laboratories where tularemia is studied are Ft. Detrick, Frederick, Md., the University of Utah and the Naval Biological Laboratory in San Francisco.
The disease, mild in man, is confused with mild respiratory infections like flu. For this season, it is impossible to tell accurately just how many people have Q fever. This disease can be transmitted by ticks, by drinking milk from infected cows and by breathing dust from barnyards. Cattle, sheep and goats can easily contract Q fever.
Dean of Students, Laurence C. Woodruff, suggested that one approach to the problem would be for the various groups involved to discuss the matter with the unions. "They could find out what the problem is and how it can be best resolved."
The letter from the Local 512 gave a statement of their policy: "Members of the A. F. of M. will not render services in or for any edifice which permits non-union bands to enter and play. Nor will its members contract for musical services with an organization or individual which hires and pays non-union musicians."
"It is rarely and perhaps never transmitted from person to person," Prof. Downs said. Once someone gets the disease they are immune forever. It is rarely fatal in humans."
Ron Rardin, Leawood senior and president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said "It seemed that the concensus of the group was that they would cooperate with the union. I wrote the union a letter requesting them to meet with me and tell us which groups could be hired in our price range."
Studies are being carried on in this field by many top laboratories in the nation such as the Public Health Service Laboratory, labs in Washington, D.C., Hamilton, Mont., and at Ft. Detrick.
Local 512 of the American Federation of Musicians has protested the use of non-union bands and combs by living groups at KU.
All KU residence halls and fraternity and sorority houses received a letter dated Feb. 5, telling of a marked increase in the number of non-union bands hired to play at parties for the living groups.
Hardin said he had not yet received a reply.
The letter called for aid and assistance in enhancing the employment opportunities for members of the local union.
To living groups which did not reply to the first letter, another letter was sent postmarked Feb. 19, saying that if non-union musicians were hired, the group which hired them would be placed on the union's "unfair list."
"The unfair list means you will be unable to obtain the services of union musicians either from
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KU Alum Wins Freedom Award
Music Union Protests Independent Combos
James W. Scott, '50 KU journalism alumnus, has won the 1964 Freedom award from the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge.
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Scott, a member of the Kansas City Star editorial staff, won a George Washington Medal and $100 for his editorial, "A Declaration of 1776 Stands in 1964."
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Lawrence or out of town," the letter said.
The letter also said, "We (the local union) will take action if any non-union musicians perform for any of your functions after March 15.
The Henry Mancini concert at KU April 24 will not be affected by local's protest against the use of nonunion bands for residence hall parties and dances.
Mr. Newton E. Jerome, secretary of Local 512, said that Mancini was a member of the union, but he would still be able to play at KU. Jerome said he would rather not make additional comment without talking to the board of directors.
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