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Summer Session Kansan Friday, July 22, 1966
Students working for the University Daily Kansan know the problems of getting out a paper every day, but their work is easy compared with the problems facing students on British university papers.
True, the British university papers come out just once a week, but this is the only factor on the credit side. On the other side there are these difficulties. There are no journalism courses in British universities. So all staff members are self-taught, from the editor down.
Second, and following from the first, because there are no journalism courses this work is completely voluntary. Students have to sacrifice some of their study time and leisure hours to gather and write material.
New botanical research center operating at KU
British papers: no easy go
By David Finch
Next, there is no compulsory contribution by students to the newspaper, which is sold on a single-issue basis. So staff members really have to sell their paper when it comes out. Here again, they have to give up an hour or two between classes to stand at a vantage point and persuade other students that they really need the paper.
THIRD.AND AGAIN.following from the first, advertising has to be solicited in spare time and by volunteers with no experience of advertising techniques.
Another point: the university papers rarely have their own presses and so have to get the proofs published by job printers. This results in a loss of time between sending off the proofs and getting the bundles of papers returned.
Material was gathered at odd intervals during the week, and on Sundays we crowded into this small room to write our stories. One girl worked on the make-up and the editor and sub-editors worked on their editorials either in the corridor or in another room they had managed to scrouenge. And their editorials were surprisingly good. They were usually on three topics—one international, one national or local, and one on university news.
BEFORE COMING to KU I worked for my university paper as a general reporter and feature writer. This was the Aberdeen University paper, Gaudie. The name is a contraction of the Latin gaudeamus, from "Gaudeamus igitur," the international student song.
FEW OF US COULD type, so three girls were there especially for this purpose. They took our handwritten stories and typed them up, occasionally rewriting.
The atmosphere was usually hectic but high-spirited. Coffee was there for everybody, and at 10:30 p.m. someone usually took orders for fish and chips, the staple diet of Aberdeen students.
Our premises were a small room rented to us at a nominal fee by the Student Representative Council, under whose jurisdiction we came. So there was no staff supervision.
Wednesday, the big day—we took it in turns to stand at strategic spots and sell papers to the students. There was always difficulty in getting enough people to man the spots at all hours, but somehow the job was done.
Our deadline was 1 a.m.
when the last train that night
left for Montrose, where our job printers had their office. We usually met this deadline without much trouble, but the main prblem was finding interesting university news. Because our paper was a weekly, we could not handle international or national news other than editorially or as features.
UNIVERSITY SPORTS took from one to two pages, and senatus, or student council, decisions were always big news (as, in Britain, student government has real power). And any Parliamentary decisions concerning university education were featured in a big way.
Tuesday evening, the bundles were returned and more volunteers (usually the same people as Sunday night) wrapped the papers that had to be mailed and took them to the post office.
Wednesday evening, the takings were counted. By including advertising revenue, we usually managed to just about break even.
We weren't a big paper, by any means, but our editorials were good, and our cartoon series, "McCool," was the finest I have seen in a college paper.
More than 40 clergymen from over Kansas will spend five days next week learning more about how the American economic system operates.
They are at KU this week for the Kansas Clergy Economic Education Workshop.
Economy is studied by clergymen
Following the keynote on "Economic Values in a Judeo-Christian Society" given by Jim Hennessey of the Clergy Economic Education Foundation, West Lafayette, Ind., the workshop will concentrate on factual economic analysis.
The topics include a review of the U.S. economy, the price and market system, money and banking, the impact of increased productivity and automation on the economy, business economics, the philosophy of labor-management relations, labor's stake in the economy, international trade and world markets, agricultural economics, family finance and money management, economic problems and labor, distribution of income and emerging nations, and economic problems and the clergy.
AND ALREADY material for the next edition was being gafaulted by professional standards.
Speakers will be Richard L. Kohls, agricultural economist,
Purdue University; Glenn Miller,
economist, Federal Reserve Bank,
Kansas City, Mo.; Dallas Jones,
professor of industrial relations,
University of Michigan; Ross Beach, president, Kansas Natural Gas, Inc., Hays; Richard L Morse,
Kansas State University, and John Blake, general counsel, Boilermakers International Union, Kansas City, Kan.
No doubt our writing could be faulted by professionla standards, but some of it was highly original, and all of it was enthusiastic. I may possibly go on to work for large metropolitan newspapers, but I will always remember the fun we had getting out our Gaudie.
University completes new botanical center
The University has completed construction and equipping of its $90,000 Botanical Research Center, and the center already has attracted private research grants totaling more than KU's investment in the facility.
Emphasizing the study of Great Plains plants, the structure was financed 50-50 by KU and the National Science Foundation. Two private, three-year grants totaling more than $50,000 were made recently for research to be conducted at the center.
The new building is located near the botany department's three-year-old greenhouse, laboratory and experimental plots in the growing complex of research facilities west of Highway 59 at the west edge of the campus.
The concrete block facility has nearly 6,000 square feet of work space in the form of 14 research rooms located around the perimeter of a central library-museum area.
THE LIBRARY-MUSEUM area houses KU'S 125,000-specimen collection of plants and fossil plants, largest in the Great Plains area.
"I don't know of any other university that has a center like this," says Ronald McGregor, professor and chairman of botany. "Visitors from other schools have been coming here to look at what we're doing."
The new center provides muchneeded research room for graduate students and faculty, freeing more expensive space atop Mount Oread for undergraduate classrooms.
McGREGOR SAID the added research space will help attract faculty members of high calibre as well as provide a place to work for post-dectorates who want to come to KU from other universities.
"The added research space also has advantages for other departments," McGregor said. "For instance, this fall, because of the facilities we have now, we are bringing in a Ph.D. from England who will teach and do research in both zoology end botany. Two other botanists are coming here under entomology grants that overlap botany."
The center enables the botany department to lift past restrictions on its graduate student enrollment. McGregor said that in the past there simply has not been enough research space to accommodate all the students who wanted to do graduate study.
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