Tuesday, June 28, 1966 Summer Session Kansan
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NEW FRASER HALL at KU is targeted for completion by Jan. 1. The 7-story, $208-million building will have 29 classrooms and house departments of human relations, psychology, anthropology, and sociology
Counties face $200,000 fund
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Fifty-two Kansas counties must come up with an estimated $200,000 for out-of-district junior college district tuition.
The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that the counties, which had balked at paying tuition for their residents attending junior colleges in other communities, were legally required to pay. The court also upheld the constitutionality of the junior college law.
THE RULING means an expenditure many counties had hoped they would not have to meet.
Ed Unger, Rawlins County commissioner and one of the defendants's in the junior college test case, said his county does not have the money to pay the $3,000 to $4,000 owed to junior college districts.
THE LAW ALLOWING junior colleges to bill counties for their students attending the colleges was passed by the 1965 Legislature.
Unger said Rawlins County probably would have to seek no-fund warrants. Several other counties are expected to have to do the same.
The bill passed after the counties had prepared their budgets. With no money earmarked for tuition, the counties decided to take their chances in a test case refusing to pay the tuition.
The court ruled that junior colleges were outside the framework of the common school system which provides free education.
"The ACT providing for the creation of community junior colleges, fills an important gap in the educational system of the state of Kansas. It is an endeavor to place at least two years of post high school education within commuting distance of all youths in the state," the court said.
Israel is hailed as world symbol
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(UPI)—Sen. Gale MeeG, D-Wyo., declared Sunday night that Israel has become a "symbol for all around the world who believe in freedom."
The senator spoke at a special State of Israel Bond Organization dinner at which the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award went to Harry L. Jacobs, a Kansas City, Mo., lawyer, active for
some time for betterment of Jews throughout the world.
"There is more to Israel," said McGee, "than being a home for the Jews or a place for refugees to get a new start." He said that while people have made many advances "they still have made little progress in the science of living together."
McGee said the only substitute thus far has been a "balance of power."
R. Keith Lawton, Vice-Chancellor for university operations, is a very busy man. He devotes nearly all his efforts to improving the existing facilities and providing new ones for the University.
Lawton is charged specifically with responsibility for the physical existence of the University.
Work of museum to be displayed
Lawton: a busy man as University grows
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Bret Waller, associate director of the KU Museum of Art and instructor in art history, said when the exhibit of barks from Arnhem Land is taken down in July, a contemporary exhibit of some of the museum's own graphics—prints and drawings—will be displayed.
The museum is open every day from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. except on Sunday, when it opens at 1:30 p.m.
The director of the museum,
Dr. Marilyn Stokstad, chairman of the department of art history,
is currently in Spain where she is doing research on the late Fifteenth century tympanum on display in the museum.
Haugh to judge English awards
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Oscar M. Haugh, professor of language arts education at KU, has been appointed an official judge of the 1966 Achievement Awards program of the National Council of Teachers of English.
The national competition is for high school seniors and will also provide recognition for the schools and staff members who shared in the training of the outstanding students.
He coordinates all building programs, from specifications interviews to dedication; is responsible for allotting building sites for the Dormitory Department; supervises the staffing of all KU academic buildings with adequate maintenance crews, and is actively concerned with the activities of the Buildings and Grounds Department, which he oversees.
Lawton is currently concerned with the construction of New Fraser, on which he says the progress is excellent. He is confident that, barring unusual complications, New Fraser will be ready for occupancy by the beginning of the spring semester next year.
Lawton's office also is preparing final details for the construction of the new Spencer Library. Construction of that building will begin this fall and is expected to be about a 12-month project.
Work on the new Biological and Life Sciences building is scheduled to begin next January. Once the building is completed, Haworth Hall will be razed and the second phase of the Humanities building will be built on the Haworth site.
In addition to New Fraser, Lawton is working on the preliminary plans for the new Humanities Building, a project expected to develop a total cost in excess of $5 million once completed.
Balloon launch again postponed
High winds and clouds actually forced the postponement before the rains fell.
ALMAGORDO. N.M.-(UDP)-wind, cloud cover and rain combined yesterday to force the fourth postponement of the launch of a giant balloon carrying a dummy voyager capsule from Holloman Air Force Base.