Summer Session Kansan
76th Year, No. 2
Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, June 17, 1966
Karen Rolf heads Girls' State at KU
By Margaret Ogilvie
Karen Rolf, a high school cheerleader from a farm near Isabel, is the newly-elected governor of the 24th Sunflower Girls' State taking place at KU this week.
Described by a fellow Girls' Stater as "a very sincere and modest person" and "a born leader," "Kari" spoke briefly after last year's governor, Iris Bick-
KU loans likely to get tight
Students will find it more difficult to obtain scholarship money from the University next year. Loans, especially the National Defense loans, will be generally smaller and fewer in number next year. Part-time jobs, the mainstay of many students' budgets, will be more scarce when fall classes begin in September.
The total scholarship money available for next year will be from three to five per cent greater than this year, but, says Robert Billings, director of the Office of Aids and Awards, the fee increases and generally higher educational expenses will offset the small increase in available scholarship funds.
Billings cited that the number of qualified applicants for scholarship money has risen disproportionately to the available funds—a common occurrence in the Aids and Awards Office.
SCHOLARSHIP MONEY currently comes from approximately 500 sources, private, governmental, and organizational endowments accounting for many of the scholarships now available. Student loans, many of which are made available through the National Defense Student Loan Program, will be more difficult to obtain next year due to a $300,000 decrease in available funds.
The decrease from last year's $1.1 million is being evidenced in colleges and universities across the country, as President Johnson has ordered cutbacks in the NDSL program.
Some supplementary aid will be available to students now relying on National Defense loans. The supplement, existing as the United Student Aid Funds, works in conjunction with local banks and lending institutions through the University Office of Aids and Awards.
Outdoor films to be shown
Three outdoor and travel films will be shown Friday at 8 p.m. east of Old Robinson Gymnasium in Fowler Grove.
The films are "Atlantic Holiday," "Magic of Mexico," and "The Home of the White Stork." In case of rain, they will be shown in the Visual Aid Room in Bailey.
ford, announced her victory to an assembly of Staters Wednesday: "You're a wonderful group of girls. I wish all of you the best of luck with whatever you do anytime."
GOVERNOR WILLIAM Avery administered the oath of office to Karen and to 15 other state officials at the Inaugural Ball last night in the Union, which was attended by the girls' parents and families. Elected Lieutenant Governor was Kate Hartman, Arkansas City; Secretary of State, Carol Lyon, Greensburg; Attorney General, Mary Pat Kennedy, Frankfort; State Auditor, Janie Whittier, Kansas City; State Treasurer, Kandy Miller, Coldwater; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ann Moritz, Beloit; Commissioner of Insurance, Sheri Robertson, Ellis; State Printer, Sharon Rogers, Olathe; and Justices of the Supreme Court, Debbie Hayes (Chief Justice), Lawrence; Jan Luckeroth, Marysville; Karol Brecheisen, Garnett; Janet White Hair, Abilene; Leah Ann Sundberg, Lindsborg; Rita Hatch, McDonald; and Sara Steele, Ottawa.
Karen explains that she ran for governor because "I knew I'd
probably have more fun if I tried it. I'd be more active and then I'd get the most out of Girls' State." She has also been chairman of the "Nationalist Saline County party" and a city councilman. Most Staters serve in such appointive capacities in one of 12 cities if they are not elected to a county office, the Senate, or the House of Representatives. One participant observed that Staters "volunteer for everything."
Within each of the six counties, established on separate floors in Joseph R. Pearson Hall where the girls are living, there are three county commissioners, a county clerk, a county attorney, a probate judge, a county sheriff, a superintendent of public instruction, a county treasurer, a register of deeds, a clerk of the district court, a judge of the district court, five state senators, and nine representatives to the house.
KAREN WAS INFLUENCED to attend the American Legion-sponsored event by her older sister Leslie, who was a Girl's Stater in 1964 and is now attending Fort Hays State College.
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KAREN ROLF IS THE WINNER
The Nationalist candidate for Girls' State Governor jumps
for joy
(Photo by Glen Phillips) INNED
Now it's ID cards
Identification cards for junior and senior women have replaced the traditional senior key this summer at KU in McCollum Hall.
The ID card will be used by junior and senior women who wish to stay out past security hours, which are 11:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and midnight Sunday.
Enrollment is soaring
Summer school enrollment figures continue to rise, with a 3.2 per cent increase in this summer's enrolment over that of last summer.
On the first day of classes this summer, the Registrar's office reported that a total of 4.575 students were enrolled for credit,620 of which were enrolled on the Kansas City campus of the University.
Last summer at this time, 4,429 students were enrolled for credit with 594 enrolled of that total enrolled at Kansas City. The end of last year's summer session showed a total of 5530 enrollees, the increase due in part to the midsummer enrollment for the Western Civilization Comprehensive.
THE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION programs being conducted throughout the summer will increase this year's total enrollment by approximately 500, boosting the summer enrollment to nearly 5000. Including late and off-campus enrollees, the total summer enrollment for this year may reach approximately 5700, an estimate based on the percentage increase in this year's first day summer enrollment over last year's comparable figures.
During summer session the main door at McCollum Hall will remain open, but will be guarded. Therefore the key system is no longer practical. Instead each woman resident will show her junior-senior ID card at the front desk as she enters and leaves the hall after security hours.
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE program each junior and senior woman must pay one dollar, address an envelope to her parents, fill out an ID, and sign it upon its return to her.
Kathy Mize, chairman of the summer program, emphasized that this plan is an experiment and is a big responsibility for each participant to carry out her part.
Specific rules include:
1. Each time a junior or senior woman leaves to stay out after security hours, she must sign the security sign-out.
2. Upon returning to the hall after security hours, the participant must show her ID to the person at the desk and sign in.
3. Each woman will be expected to observe the rules of the hall regarding procedures after security hours, such as, for example, not entertaining in the lobby.
At Miller Hall, the senior key system is still in effect. Women may not leave after security hours due to security problems, according to the Dean of Women's office. The keys also require a written consent from the woman's parents if she is under 21.
To hold auditions
Auditions for four one-acct plays will be held Tuesday at 3:50 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Room 341 in Murphy Hall.
The plays will be directed by graduate students and auditions are open to all those interested.
1,300 are due in 1966 camp
An overflow enrollment of 1300 high school students from across the United States will move onto the KU campus Sunday as Midwestern Music and Art Camp gets underway.
Due to an unprecedented increase of 350, equal to the total enrollment of its two-week junior high school music division, the camp will extend beyond Templin Hall, which will house 535 boys, and Lewis Hall, packed with 630 of the girls.
RUSSELL L. WILEY, camp director, has been "house-hunting" for the past three weeks, finally securing Watkins Scholarship Hall, the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority house, and the Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity houses for the campers' use. Not since the first years of the camp have Greek houses been used, but the huge enrollment could not be foreseen when Lewis and Templin were leased last October.
Gerald M. Carney returns to the camp this year as Associate Director as does Mr. Richard Brummett as Camp Supervisor.
Administrative Assistant to the Director is Leroy Esau, and Boys' Dorm Director is Charles Lawson. Gary Watson will head the junior high division from July 3-16, assisted by Russell Brandon.
REGISTRATION FOR THE eight camp divisions will open at 1 p.m. Sunday in Templin, but the students will start unpacking at 9 a.m. Thirty-three women counselors and 27 men counselors will be helping them move in. There is still a need for women counselors as the outlying housing will be filled with girls. Seventy-two science and math campers will be in the Lambda Chi house, 35 in journalism at Watkins, and the last to enroll in all divisions will live in the Phi Psi and A O Pi houses, about 35 in each.
A host of housemothers will also begin their jobs Sunday. Mrs. Madge McElhinny returns to Lewis, to be aided by Mrs. Helen Allen in her first year there. Mrs. Elva Anderson will be in the AO Pi house, Mrs. Lilly Strand in Watkins, and Mrs. Gertrude Schenck in the Lambda Chi house. A housemother from Washburn University in Topeka will supervise the Phi Psi house. Mrs. Alice Hutchinson will be housemother in Corbin, while the junior high musicians are there in July.
The German language division replaces engineering this year with an enrollment of 160. There will be 503 in senior high music, 125 in science and math, 108 in ballet, 350 in art, 25 in speech, and 50 in journalism for the first three weeks because this division is initiating two three-week programs in conjunction with a six-week session.
ACTIVITIES WILL BEGIN at 7 p.m. Sunday when a camp meeting with supervisors is held in Murphy Hall's University Theatre. Another camp meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday when all are enrolled will meet in Murphy auditorium. Classes will begin Monday morning, as tryouts for music organizations continue all day with rehearsals in the afternoon.