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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
76th Year, No. 130
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
WEATHER WARMER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Friday, May 6, 1966
Artist reveals library style: a little Strong
An artist's sketch of the $2 million Research Library, a gift of the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation, was released today.
The library, similar in design to Strong Hall, will be placed directly north of Strong on the site now occupied by the World War II surplus classroom annexes.
Construction of the "T" shaped building will start in late fall and the completion date has been set for 1968.
THE BASE OF the "T" will be connected by a "hanging terrace" to the main rotunda of Strong Hall. The existing drive now behind Strong will remain as it is now.
The library, primarily designed with maximum utility in mind, consists of four levels with the top floor level with the top of Strong Hall. The exterior will be of Indiana limestone.
The Spencer gift will house the university library's special collections, rare book and manuscript collections, the university archives, and elements of the Kansas and regional history cartography materials.
A Spencer memorial room will be a featured part of the library and will be located adjacent to the visitors desk and main lobby and can be seen through the "hanging terrace" from Strong rotunda.
THE 95,000 SQUARE feet will have reader spaces for 350 persons and a book capacity of nearly 800,000 volumes. Since the library was designed for maximum use by the public, students, and staff members there are extensive study and research areas for individual, group and even class use.
The site of the building is just across memorial drive from the
Campanile and will overlook Potter Lake.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said, when the gift was announced, "The library will provide facilities urgently needed for scholarly research by faculty and students. It will be an attraction for visiting scholars, it will enhance the University's ability to obtain and keep outstanding faculty members.
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Comments on library
It is very conservative. Is it a prison? It looks just like Strong Hall!
Student opinion varied as pictures were released today of the new $2 million Spencer Library.
"THE SITE HAS tremendous potential, it is questionable if it was fully recognized." Brent Porter, Bolivar, Mo., senior in architecture, said.
A number of students agreed that the library did at least match the design of the building, Strong Hall, to which it is directly adiacent.
Speaking to a Spanish class, Miss Marilyn Stokstad, associate professor of art history, said she felt there was conflicting design in the building. She explained that a main front window was bisected by an interior wall, something which had been done only in Granada, Spain.
Jerry Bean, Abilene sophomore and ASC member, said. "Faculty and student opinion should be consulted because today's students are tomorrow's alumni."
"I FEEL THAT THE LIBRARY should have been more modern," one student said.
Protest dossiers
Unhappy with student dossiers and the university's jurisdiction over disciplinary matters, a small group of students gathered this morning at 10:30 outside Strong Hall to display placards and distribute literature concerning their grievances.
About six demonstrators were present. Don Olson, La Mesa, Calif., sophomore, said they represented the Student Rights Coordinating Committee.
Some of the placards carried by the demonstrators read, "In Loco Police," "Support your local Police," "Dossiers for Deans" and "Focus your Police Cameras here." On the focus placard, the proper setting for cameras was given along with the invitation to borrow one of their light meters.
The paper handed out by the demonstrators said, "We feel that the administration practice of maintaining closed dossiers that contain information about the student's non-academic lives is inconsistent with the principles of a democratic society."
Dossiers reportedly contain such information as placement exam scores, records of disciplinary action, admittance applications, reports of dorm counselors and all correspondence concerning the student.
-Staff photo by Tom Rosenbaum
STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE TO SHOW GRIEVANCES Picketers plan to visit Dean Donald Alderson.
STANFORD SPEAKS
Rhythm stirs emotions
By Jack Harrington
The emotional power of the Beatles to send crowds and audiences into frenzied hysteria was attributed to mass rhythm and the element of audience participation by Bedell Stanford, a professor at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Stanford was speaking at a coffee-forum yesterday sponsored by Student Union Activities (SUA).
Stanford was the guest speaker for the Humanities Series lecture last night, and is also addressing
ARCHITECT'S DRAWING OF SPENCER LIBRARY
Plans for the $2 million library to be built behind Strong Hall by 1968 were released today.
several groups and classes during his two-day stay.
He told the SUA group that people have built-in rhythm systems of heartbeat and body operation, and that a constant, loud beat has the power to stir up this rhythm.
"EVEN THE ANCIENT Greeks had a theory on this," said Stanford, who holds degrees in several classical areas. "They said that sound is made up of movements in the air, and the personality is made up of movements in the body and the rhythm of the blood, and these interact with each other."
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Stanford classified this power of emotionalism, or "meseric power," in five different areas: the power of rhythm; the rise and fall of the pitch or loudness of music; certain emotional reactions to different musical instruments; the gift of audience participation; and finally, crowd psychology.
He said the theater today does not excite emotionalism because it is not geared to these elements, especially audience participation.
"WHEN WE'RE WATCHING a play, it's like looking at a huge picture in a frame." Stanford said. "The audience is completely skillful inflamation of the German people.
"A football team is much like a precise ballet troupe, and could be called a certain type of ritual
apart from the players, and the players are pretending that the audience is not there.
"With the Beatles or other pop singers, the whole audience becomes, for a while, a single unit in ectasy en masse."
He said that this phenomenon also shows up in the dances which have become popular in the last 50 years. "Before 1910, most dancing was of European style, based on the music of Bach and Beethoven," he said. "Now we have undergone an African invasion, with the dances like tribal rituals. The dancers have ceased to be units of two, and have become groups of single dancers, each expressing himself in his own dance."
STANFORD POINTED out that all of these elements were found in ancient drama, especially Greek drama. He said that they are found today in football and basketball, bullfights, and in world situations such as Hitler's dance," he said. "Hitler used marching, a form of dancing, plus his high-pitched emotional appeal to stir up perhaps 100,000 people at a time.
"This power is not necessarily good or bad, but it could be used either way. Greek drama was originally Dionysiac dancing, and these plays are examples of the power of pop singers today."
Stanford predicted future drama will be based upon this "pop singer" type of emotive power, and will achieve this mainly through bringing the audience closer to being part of the performance.