Tuesday, July 26, 1966 Summer Session Kansan
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AURH tests hall living practicality
By Margaret Ogilvie
"Buildings must serve people," says Brent Porter, Bolivar, Mo, senior and head of the Association of University Residence Halls Housing Board. "But what if a building such as the residence hall does not enhance the day-to-day lives of its inhabitants and what if some needed elements are totally missing?"
The board sought answers to Porter's question when they surveyed 50 per cent of all hall residents in May. Four-page questionnaires returned by one-half of those polled will be compiled to determine what changes in their environment residents would like to see made.
Porter, who is president-elect of the Student American Institute of Architecture, predicts that "people will listen" when results are presented to administrators, the Union Operating Board, and the All Student Council this fall. "Housing needs will be implemented," he said.
Britons head for geology camp in west
Fifteen English students of geology from the University of Leicester, England, passed through Lawrence this weekend en route for three weeks' study at the KU Geology Field Camp near Canon City, Colo.
Heading the British group, all of whom are paying their own way for the educational experience, is Dr. P. C. Sylvester-Bradley, who was the Rose Morgan visiting professor at KU about 10 years ago.
The visit by the English students, who correspond to juniors and seniors here, was planned a year ago when Daniel F. Merriam of the State Geological Survey at KU held a Fulbright fellowship to the University of Leicester, where he collaborated with Prof. Sylvester-Bradley.
IT IS HOPED that a group of KU geology students can be organized for field work in Britain next summer, Merriam said, with the exchanges continuing in alternate years.
The English students will be paired with KU students already at the KU "Canon City campus." The eight-week field study is a requirement for the bachelor's degree.
Merriam and Frank C. Foley, professor and director of the State Geological Survey, accompanied the British group to Colorado.
Architects, AIA make awards to 3 students
The American Institute of Architects and the AIA Foundation Scholarship Program have made three awards for 1966-67 to KU students.
Donald Craig Morris, senior from Parkville, Mo., will hold the $400 Desco International Association scholarship and a $100 Waid Education Fund award.
Roger Vonder Brueggue, senior from St. Louis, will hold the $300 Blumcraft of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Mitchell A. Brown, Lawrence junior, will receive $750 from the Waid Education Fund.
Morris has been the ranking student of his class for three years.
Critical of post office
FORT SCOTT —(UPI) — Rep.
Robert Ellsworth, R-Kan., yester-
day called the U.S. postal service
"a national scandal."
Ellsworth said mail delays were the "fault of the red tape jungle that exists in the bureaucracy in Washington, D.C."
Working with Porter on the project are Cindy Culbert, Larned senior; Wayne Smith, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Frank Uranac, Kansas City sophomore; Diane Monroe; Jay Jackson; Don Weiner, Cincinnati, Ohio, senior; Mark Lord, Overland Park sophomore, and Janet Whalen, Wichita senior.
THE BOARD WILL apply for a grant to finance improvements when the final report is made which will include similar studies of the past two years. Findings of the 1000 questionnaires will be printed next spring in a program brochure.
The first two pages of the questionnaires on "the immediate hall environment" were directed to students in large halls as well as scholarship halls. The third page, concerning over-all problems of the residence hall community, emphasized the issue of extending Kansas Union services. A fourth page was attached for scholarship hall residents to determine their satisfaction with facilities.
Tabulation of the questionnaires has presented a problem which the board hopes to solve with computer services or through a behavioral science grant. Information from the American Institute of Architects library, Washington, D.C., will be used.
The largest tabulation problem is relating demands for improved lighting, room decor, or study space to personal data on the student queried: where he lives and has lived, his class, age, and sex, whether or not he has a car at KU, and is perhaps a hall officer, counselor or resident director.
A McCOLLUM RESIDENT, Porter pointed to Daisy Hill as representative of the situation itemized by the survey. He cited the need for a "stimulating" environment such as he said is provided at Wichita State University on a comparable site with "open handball courts, sheltered patios and grassy areas, and graceful walkways over streets and through parking lots."
Porter said that "while administrators tend to believe such construction is architecture," Daisy Hill's dorms are "great monolithic structures" which "overwhelm the individual who lives there."
"A more practical crux for student concern here at KU" he said is the fact that "some type of student center is needed . . . or a sundries store with coffeeshop and drug center incorporated in one of the dorms.
"Vending machines have their place in halls, but they are not the complete solution. Laundry service in individual halls often is inefficient. Restaurants, barber and beauty shops are far away. A vital part of the living environment is missing."
ONE PREVIOUS STUDY,
"Residence Hall Design from Theory to Reality," was the discussion topic at the 1964 National Conference of University Residence Halls in Denver. KU's representatives researched the topic with a survey they distributed to residents and administrators of 29 schools.
Subjects covered at the conference and in the survey included the functions of a residence hall, what facilities will be helpful in fulfilling the functions and how can students work to attain the desired facilities.
Ballets set by camp this week
The ballet division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp will appear in a program in the University Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30.
Five ballets will be staged during each performance. The original presentations are "Sur le Bois," "Glinka Suite," "Set for Ten," and "Melange." The fifth presentation is "Sleeping Beauty Prologue."
The guest artist will be Larry Long, the ballet master and choreographer of Ruth Page's International Ballet. Long will stage the second act of "Nutcracker" for the St. Louis Municipal Opera after his performances at KU. He will appear in St. Louis with his wife. ballerina Dolores Lipskiens.
About 25 high school teachers and college students are enrolled in a five-week Latin Institute now in session at KU.
Choreographers for the performances are Marguerite Reed, Marcia Weary, and Alexandra Zaharias. Mrs. Reed, a founder of the Tulsa Opera Ballet and co-director and co-founder of the civic ballet, Dance Showcase of Tulsa, and Miss Zaharias, president of the St. Louis Civic Ballet, are the directors of the camp's ballet division. Marcia Weary is also director of the Central Pennsylvania Ballet Guild.
Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education at KU, will direct the camp ballet orchestra for the performances. Scenery and lighting will be done by Glenn Bickle, a KU staff member. In charge of costumes is Chez Haehl, assistant professor of speech and drama.
Latin institute will end Friday
The institute, ending Friday, is supported by the Joseph Fels Foundation, a group interested in classical studies.
The participants are enrolled in two courses. One deals with medieval Latin and is taught by J. P. Heironimus, professor at the University of Wisconsin. The other course is new linguistics for Latin teachers. This course is taught by Gerda Seligson, professor at the University of Michigan, Ned Nabors, instructor of classics at KU, is the director of the institute.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—From 1966 through 1970, the nation's scheduled airlines are planning to buy at least 825 planes valued at $4.8 billion.
Plane purchases due
Thousands of American youngsters—including some of the most talented—got their first look at Kansas as participants in the Midwestern Music and Art Camp at KU.
Midwestern camp continues growth
Many of the out-of-staters who have flocked to the summer camp in its 29-year history returned to Mount Oread as KU students.
Enrollment in the camp is setting new records every year as word - of - mouth advertising spreads in high schools and junior highs across the nation. Here are some typical comments from '66 campers:
Fred Wiman, Snyder, Tex.— "This is my second year at the camp. I heard about it through the National Science Foundation. It can't be beaten."
RICHARD JONES, Hamilton, Ohio—"Last year one camper came here from Hamilton, and this year there are six of us at KU. We have nothing like this in Ohio."
Some 1,650 teen-agers from 45 states and Canada are attending the six-week camp this summer. It will close Sunday.
Actor Clift dies at 45 in New York
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Montgomery Clift, an actor who preferred New York and his boat to the spotlight of Hollywood, died Saturday as quietly as he had lived.
The enterprise shut down in the war years but reopened in 1945.
"I don't have a big urge to act," he once explained. "I can't play something I'm not interested in."
"THE CAMP REALLY caught fire in the summers of 1940-41," says Prof. Russell Wiley, founder and director.
The camp is self-supporting and taught almost entirely by KU faculty. The divisions are art, music, ballet, journalism, speech, science and German.
The 45-year-old bachelor died of a heart attack at his East Side townhouse.
The sensitive, often moody star of stage and screen was found near death in his bed by his personal secretary. A doctor was summoned but Clift was pronounced dead upon his arrival.
He was born Oct. 17, 1920 in Omaha. He first caught the public eye in the Broadway musical hit, "Jubilee." His other stage appearances included roles in "There Shall Be No Night," "The Skin of Our Teeth" and "You Touched Me."
He turned down several film contracts before appearing in "The Search" in 1948, in which he portrayed a lonely GI helping a Czech boy find his mother after World War II.
Other films included "Red River," "The Heiress," "A Place in the Sun," "Raintree County," "The Young Lions," "The Misfits," "Judgment at Nuremberg" and "Fred."
Initiated to provide an opportunity for advanced study by talented high school students, the camp has grown to seven divisions. In 1935, its first year, band was the only offering and the camp drew 17 students. The only similar enterprise in the nation at that time was Interlochen.
What the campers get from their experiences at Mount Oread could be summed up in this comment from Mark Ankeles, 1966 camper from Peabody, Mass.: "There is a wonderful attitude here toward work. We don't need to be concerned about competition for grades because campers don't work for academic position. Instead, campers receive training and experience and learn for the joy of learning."
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