KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.142
Commencement Edition
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, May 24, 1966
Photo by Max Greif
MAY FLOWERS
Pat Garner, Lawrence sophomore, twirls a daisy in the pond, taking a "spring break."
'Final Week Clutch' takes hold on Oread
When late spring comes to KU certain strange phenomena are observed among students.
All these phenomena can be grouped under one heading— Final Week Clutch.
The Clutch has almost as many manifestations as there are panicked students. Each has his favorite temporary escape mechanism.
WARM WEATHER SEEMS TO expand the number of available diversions. Many of those used regularly all year can be placed in a different setting—a sun porch, Lone Star Lake, the sand-bar, the hill below the Campanile.
How does one spot victims of the Clutch? One species can frequently be found around a bridge table. They are characterized by distraught expressions and the piles of books on the floor around the table. "I really was going to study," they say. "Really I was." Nervous laughter is popular at the Clutch bridge table, but is often muffled in a huge pall of cigarette smoke.
Clutch victims often resort to sun worshipping. Some stick close to home, using the backyard or the sun porch, while others are usually spotted from the rear as they dash out the door explaining earnestly to no one in particular. "We're going out to the sand bar to study."
WHEREVER FOUND, at home or around local bodies of water, they, too, are characterized by massive piles of books, usually unopened. Occasionally one or
Sexes don't part ways in KU, KSU new dorms
Next fall two Kansas colleges will begin "a new concept in dormitory living." Both KU and Kansas State University students will be able to live in coeducational housing—but here the similarity ends.
KU students have been familiar since last year with the coeducational plans for Naismith Hall, the private residence hall being constructed by Allen Bros. & O'Hara. Built to house 504 students, the dormitory offers some of the most luxurious living in campus approved housing.
Wall-to-wall carpeting and air-conditioning as well as maid service add to the comforts. Each floor has 14 suites with two students sharing a room. According to the brochure distributed by the contractors, the hall design "allows for a maximum of study, living and recreational space—combined with the greatest amount of individual privacy."
MEN AND WOMEN will live on separate, controlled floors with completely independent stairways and elevators to service their particular areas. Main floor areas, including the lobby, recreation room and dining hall will
be used by both men and women. The floors above the ground level are divided. The men's living quarters are on the top floors.
University approved resident counseling staff is provided by the private operators to assure that the same rules and standards that apply throughout KU are maintained. Student government will handle hall operations.
"AS MANY AS TEN or 15 students come in to fill out forms together," said Mrs. Jackson. "Graduate students particularly find advantages to living in Naimith. A group of graduates can
Mrs. S. M. Jackson, resident manager, said the building inspector recently indicated that the hall would be finished ahead of schedule. Originally planned for completion sometime this summer, workmen will probably be finished in June. A model suite is now open to interested students. Any undergraduate or graduate student, except freshman women, may fill out an application. Students have roommate, floor and suite color scheme preference. They can even choose their next-door neighbors will be.
smith. A group of graduates can
Similar dormitories have been built by the private firm on other campuses at Chapel Hill, N.C., Memphis, Tenn., and other hal's are planned for Wichita State University and Kansas State University.
live on the same floor and create the quiet study atmosphere they want."
There is no predetermined resident ratio between men and women. "I won't know the exact division of men and women until all the contracts are in," said Mrs. Jackson. The rent is $547.50 a semester plus a $10 parking lot fee.
Meanwhile half way across the state, the students at Manhattan recently began filling out resident contracts for the first state-owned coeducational dormitory, Waltheim Hall. The facilities and purpose of their coeducational arrangement differs considerably from those at KU.
two victims may be seen with open book firmly stationed in front of glazed, unseeing eyes.
THE PROJECT AT KANSAS State University is possibly the first of its kind in the nation according to Thomas Frith, assistant dean of students. The purpose
Outdoor sports are popular among Clutch victims, because they claim, although you may get too tired to study, at least while you're playing you don't think about next week too much. They particularly enjoy tennis, sandlot baseball, and swimming because of their power to induce that final escape—exhausted sleep. This method, however, has certain drawbacks. Such sleep may be plagued by nightmares which often feature screaming professors, huge menacing books, and parasitic examination papers.
See SEXES DON'T on page 5
Clutch victims often find their powers of concentration and study mysteriously transferred to some hitherto unnoticed and insignificant object—for example, the ceiling over the victim's bed.
He suddenly discovers that it is vital that he know how many holes there are in one square of sound-proof ceiling tile. This same attention is sometimes drawn to cracks in the wall, clouds, and small unconcerned
WHEN THE VICTIM HAS NO other recourse than to go to his books he often discovers an obsession with food. Somehow the comfort of munching on something makes the difficult experience of studying easier. Eleven potato chips per paragraph of text is about the average rate for the moderately frantic student. When his own food supplies run out, the victim's nose for popcorn or pizza down the hall becomes uncannily acute.
insects that happen to pass through the victim's field of vision.
There are three ever-present Clutch fetishes—cigarettes, coffee, and pills. The Clutch victim keeps a lighted cigarette always at hand, consumes gallons of bad coffee, and periodically downs those wonderful little stay-awake pills, which come in assorted color, shapes, sizes, and effectiveness.
Soon he may find, however that the combined effects of the three leave him a frayed and painfully exposed mass of jan-
See FINAL on page 5
Staff photo by Bill Stephens
EYE ON THE BALL This sharp-shooting tennis player aims for a score and some relaxation in the pre-commencement tension.