Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 12, 1966
Lawrence, Kansas
76th Year, No. 8
Photo by Glen Phillips
KU'S BUDDHA ON A BIKE
KU'S BUDDHA ON A BIKE Lewis Wood, Lawrence graduate student in, would you believe, philosophy, strikes a meditative pose while waiting for a friend in front of McCollum Hall.
Pool to open on trial basis
Henry A. Shenk, chairman of the department of physical education and recreation at KU, has announced that the swimming pool in the New Robinson Gym will open tomorrow, on a trial basis.
Everyone is expected to take a soap shower before entering the pool, Prof. Shenk said. Everyone also must furnish his own suit and towel, and all women should wear swim caps.
NO ONE WILL BE permitted on the pool deck unless he is in a swim suit. Also no food or drinks will be allowed on the pool deck. Prof. Shenk stated, "We are very proud of this pool and we want to keep it clean for the faculty and students of the university."
Foreign center opens tomorrow
The KU Orientation Center for foreign students entering American schools in the fall—the oldest such center in existence—will begin its 17th year Wednesday.
About 55 students from nearly 25 nations will participate in the 8-week program which will end Sept. 6 in time for them to enroll in American colleges and universities
THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT supports the program which orients foreign students in the English language, the American educational system, and in American civilization and culture.
Prof. Shenk also emphasized the necessity that one must have a quarter to lock his locker while going out to swim. The lockers are designed to use a quarter for locking them and after they are opened again the quarter will be refunded.
A person will be admitted to the pool only by a pool privilege card which may be obtained at the Robinson Gym Physical Education Office.
Prof. Shenk said that the pool is mainly deep water and it is no place for anyone who can't swim.
College within College to receive Carnegie aid
The University will have the assistance of a 3-year grant of $288,000 from the Carnegie Corp. of New York in pioneering its "college within the College" project of 450-student living and study units within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The "college within the College" was one of the objectives for private support approved by the
blue-ribbon Council for Progress which met on the campus in April. The $288,000 will go toward meeting the $18.6 million, three-year campaign goal the council adopted. The Program for Progress objective also calls for gifts to build classroom and office structures near the residence halls to enhance the effectiveness of the new colleges.
Students enjoy co-ed dorm life
By Connie Myers
McCollum Hall is the result of three previous summers' experiments with co-ed living. The hall has one wing reserved for women and two for men. Men and women students use separate elevators, and the living wings are strictly segregated. However, all of the lounge area and the cafeteria are open to both men and women.
"There's a tremendous difference in atmosphere," stated Bill Andrews, Brunswick, Mo., senior and McCollum counselor. "There's a much lighter feeling about the place. Everyone seems to be more settled. Co-ed living is a good thing, especially for the summer. Everyone is here for a purpose. They are mostly serious students and responsible people which makes co-ed living very practical."
ROBERT PUFFER, Howard sophomore, noted, "I think that co-ed living is great simply for variety's sake. I lived in Templin with 500 guys last year, and after that you learn to appreciate seeing a girl sometimes. Girls brighten up the place immensely. They definitely make dormitory living more fun."
Carolyn Power, resident director at McCollum, comments, "From a girl's point of view, the atmosphere is definitely different. I mean most of the girls make a special effort to look nice and act appropriately.
This type of living has an atmosphere of a conscientious nature. People are learning to adjust themselves to living in such a situation.
"IN A NON CO-ED DORM, people feel as though they are secluded. Members of the opposite sex represent the outside to them. Here everyone is included . . . there is no outside.
"It's nice to see a boy in the lobby and know he's not waiting for a date or simply standing around. He has a right to be there." concluded Miss Power.
"Im in favor of co-ed living too," stated Karen Kreider, Chanute senior and McCollum counselor. "Since there are less activities on campus, this type of living offers a better chance for people to get to know each other. Seems like there are always people in the lobby playing the piano and singing, playing cards, or just talking. It's a very relaxing atmosphere."
THE RESIDENTS of McCollum have organized activities to widen hall friendships during the summer. There have been several all hall mixers. Last week the hall residents presented a bootenanny which will be continued this week due to the interest shown. During the second week of school, a clean-up crew was organized to help the tornado victims in Topeka.
The people in McColllum like their way of living. "I wish McColllum was co-ed all year round," said Dave Young, Denver senior. "I think it's great."
The first of these units, to be organized in September using available residence hall accommodations, will be called "Centennial College" in honor of the University's 100th year to be completed Sept. 12.
THE STUDENT BODY for Centennial College will be picked at random from among the new freshmen living in University residence halls who will be enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences this fall; 225 men will be assigned to three floors of Ellsworth Hall and 225 women to three floors of new Oliver Hall.
Office headquarters for Centennial College, which will combine representatives from the offices of the College, the dean of men, the dean of women, and the registrar, will be in Oliver Hall.
"The grant from the Carnegie Corp. of New York," Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said, "has made it possible for us to consider Centennial College not just an experimental project but a pilot project in a full-scale program to obtain for freshmen and sophomores in the large public university the advantages of the small academic community and, at the same time, to preserve for the student access to the extraordinary richness of resources of the multiversity.
"The COLLEGE within the College is the most exciting development for undergraduate here in recent years. If there is a danger of anonymity among students at large institutions of higher education, the kind of reorganization we begin this fall will go a long way toward eliminating it."
"The problem of the large university," Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe agreed, "is not numbers but organization. In recent years the Carnegie Corp. of New York has assisted the University of Kansas in a number of its experiments aimed at providing individual opportunities of high quality in the midst of programs offered to all who can take advantage of them—the early, much-imitated honors program for freshmen and sophomores, the
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HOW TO WATER YOUR LAWN IN ONE EASY STEP
Building and Grounds handy-dandy lawn sprinkler makes the job look easy. So big it is wheeled in on its own trailer, the rainmaker makes short work of vast expanses of lawn. Here it was watering about one-fourth of the large green in front of the Engineering Building with a single revolution.