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Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.129
WEATHER: COOLER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Thursday, May 5, 1966
New Spencer plans arouse new concerns
By Emery Goad
Recent student concern has been raised over the planned design of the new $2 million Spencer Library soon to be constructed behind Strong Hall.
The library, a gift of Mrs. Helen F. Spencer in memory of her husband who died in 1960, is a research and study library equaled both in utility and existence by few places in the United States.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of new Fraser Hall, now under construction, met with wide disapproval last spring concerning the design. Members of the student body and the All Student Council (ASC) have also expressed concern about the Spencer Library project.
To date, the student body on campus has not been consulted or informed as previously on Fraser Hall. Last spring students and faculty picked on campus in disapproval of the Fraser design.
"WE DON'T want to see another Fraser," Jerry Bean, Abilene sophomore (Vox—Men's Large), said. Bean drafted a bill to create a student-faculty committee to study opinion on campus building construction, presently that of Spencer Library. He plans to introduce this bill at the next ASC meeting.
The bill reads in part: "To establish a committee to function in two areas of new building construction. The first is to focus the opinions of students and faculty on new designs while they
are still in the planning stages. The second is to channel criticisms that might otherwise result in demonstrations and picketing."
"We are very pleased with the appearance and arrangement as well as with the architecture," said Thomas Buckman, director of Libraries.
LIBRARY officials explained that the library, as designated by Mrs. Spencer, was planned from the inside to the outside, which matches the design of Strong Hall.
The library, expected to be occupied by 1968, has a unique entrance. Visitors will enter through a "hanging" terrace which connects the "second or main floor of the library with the main rotunda of Strong Hall. There will still be the existing road which runs around Strong under the terrace.
"This is a working library," Alexandra Mason, director of special collections, said.
THE BUILDING will have four levels with 350 seats in the seminar rooms used for classes, study rooms, staff rooms, and research studies.
THE SPACE, which will include capacity for 850,000 volumes, is designed for the public books, study areas and staff research and work.
The building was designed by Robert Jenks of Tanner & Linscott & Associates of Kansas City, Mo. The building consultant is Dr. Stephen A. McCarthy, director of libraries at Cornell University.
Eight Protestant faiths start uniting
DALLAS — (UPI)— Leaders of eight big Protestant denominations today registered overwhelming approval of a 15,000 word document outlining basic principles to be followed in establishing a united church with 24 million members.
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—Photo by Mary Dunlap
The section on doctrine approved Wednesday night without a dissenting vote affirms the "unique authority" of the Bible as an inspired record of God's revelation. It also accepts the Apostles and Nicene creeds as summaries of Christian beliefs.
Another section provides for a diversity of worship practices so wide that any congregation would be free to continue conducting its services just as it does now.
It expresses a consensus—so broad as to surprise the delegates themselves—on the doctrine, worship, sacraments and ministry of the united church, which would be the largest Protestant body in the world.
The document approved today will be distributed to thousands of churches in the eight demonstrations "for study and comment" with the understanding that it will form the basis for later negotiations of a detailed plan of union.
STUDENTS TO MARCH
The display of harmony came at the final public sessions of a four-day meeting which previously had produced sharp backstage battles.
Adoption of the statement of principles by an overwhelming margin was clearly foreshadowed by a series of preliminary votes Wednesday night.
Participating in the meeting—formally styled the Consulation on Church Union—were official delegations from the Methodist Church, Episcopal Church, United Presbyterian Church, United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Southern Presbyterian Church and the Evangelical United Brethren.
A small group of students plan to demonstrate tomorrow in front of Strong Hall to protest two University policies.
The demonstration, organized by the Student Rights Co-ordinating Committee (a front organization of Students for a Democratic Society), will be from 10:30 to noon.
Jim Masters, Mission graduate student, said the demonstration is protesting the current policy on secret dossiers and whether or not the administration has jurisdiction over students' non-academic conduct.
RETIREES ENJOY DINNER Thirteen faculty members honored by University
entomology, 42; Edwin R. Elbel, professor of physical education, 38; Fritz Heiter, professor of psychology, 19; J. M. Jewett, associate professor of geology and State Geological Survey, 34; Eva Morrison, library, 36; Clifford P. Osborne, professor of philosophy, 29; James Barclay Smith, professor of law, 31; and Esther Twente, professor of social work, 29.
Four hundred and forty-seven years of service to the university. This is the amount of time contributed by the 13 retiring faculty members honored last night at the annual University retirement dinner.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wesco presented the retiring faculty members with certificates of appreciation from the university. They were also presented with life-time memberships in the faculty club.
Those honored were; Laurel E. Anderson, professor of organ and music theory, 39 years of service; Margaret Anderson, associate professor of speech and drama, 42; Wealthy Babcock, associate professor of mathematics, 46; Raymond Cerf, professor of violin, 17; Arthur W. Davidson, professor of chemistry, 45; Kathleen Doering, associate professor of
MAKING THE GRADE-IV
Cheating comes in many forms
(Editor's Note: This is one of a series of articles about grades and grading systems at KU and the problems they create.)
By Eric Morgenthaler
Cheating techniques are as varied as the number of students who cheat.
The most common techniques are the simplest ones: copying from another student's paper, carrying full page notes or smaller "cheat sheets" to class and concealing them under the exam, referring to an open textbook on the floor.
Bolder students will send another person to take an exam for them or will take another student's exam and sign their own names to it.
THE BLUE BOOK is a popular vehicle for smuggling notes into class. Some students set their notes inside the back cover; some write them on the back pages and then tear those out after the exam; and some take two blue books to the exam—one for the test and one full of notes.
One woman wrote her notes on her legs above her skirt line; another wrote on her fingernails; a third concealed her notes on the bottom of her tennis shoes.
A man rigged his watch so that his "crib sheet" would unwind on the watch's face as he wound the watch; another had a similar device set in his mechanical pencil; another, who had a cast on
his arm, penciled his notes on the cast.
DESPITE THE openness with which some students approach cheating, faculty members often fail to detect it. Students who do see it are often hesitant about reporting it.
L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, described a student's attitude toward reporting another student's cheating as being a "repulsive notion" to many.
Said a junior man, "I don't cheat, and I seldom see other people cheating. Eut when I do see cheating, I don't feel that it's my place to report it."
WHEN A CASE of cheating is discovered, the instructor usually
disciplines the student himself. Although there is recourse to the University Disciplinary Committee, fewer than five cases of cheating have been turned over to it this year.
A question exists in the mind of many students as to what constitutes cheating. Are test files a form of cheating? Does cheating extend beyond the classroom—to the area of enrollment, for example? Is it cheating to get help on writing a theme or to get the answers to a math problem?
Definite answers in these areas are hard to find; they are matters of opinion, not fact. A frequently heard answer is that the line be-
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