Phi Psi'500'set Expanding and remodeling of Flint library underway
KU women study, attend classes, go TGIFing and do many other things.
KU Centennial covered in Time
The KU centennial celebration has been given a full-page spread in this week's issue of Time Magazine.
Time not only covered "the sampling of intellectuals" that helped the University celebrate its birthday, it discussed the organization of the University and its scholastic accomplishments.
"Over the past eight years, KU has harvested six Rhodes scholarships, almost as many as Princeton or Yale, and 106 Woodrow Wilson scholarships for postgraduate study in the past six years," according to Time.
"Man and the Future," the Inter-Century Seminar, has been in the news forefront on the Hill during centennial week especially.
Coverage of this celebration has also been given wide coverage in various cities in Kansas, such as Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita.
But it is very rare that they get the chance to race tricycles. Yet this opportunity is being presented to four women from every dorm and sorority on the hill this weekend.
The Phi Psi "500" is a tricycle race. It has been scheduled for this Saturday at 10:30 a.m. after the Relays Parade. The course of this race includes such "messy hazards" as a mud pool and an egg swing.
Each of the women's dorms and sororities will enter a team of four girls in the race plus a queen candidate. The four girls on each team will have one tricycle between them. Each girl will race the bike over a portion of the course and then pass the vehicle on to a teammate.
The team with the fastest time will receive a silver traveling trophy which they will keep for a year. The "500" queen will be chosen by Phi Psi alumni at the Queen's dinner Thursday.
"What greater gift could be offered to the students in observance of National Library Week than the tripling in the size of the Flint Hall reading room?," asked Dean Warren K. Agee, School of Journalism.
This he remarked when Jean McKnight, journalism librarian, commented that she and her assistant were "about ready to fold up" in the face of present conditions.
Miss McKnight was referring to the stacks of boards, disarranged furniture, unshelved
books, carpenters running about with hammers banging away. However, as she said, "You will have to suffer just six weeks in order to have something real nice next Fall."
GREETING STUDENTS next Fall when they return to school will be a Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame Seminar Room and a greatly renovated reading room tripled in size.
Builds and Grounds men started remodeling yesterday with
materials provided through a $5,000 fund from the William Allen White Foundation. Work will actually begin in earnest Monday, Dean Agee explained.
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Thursday, April 21, 1966
Pictures of Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame members that were in the reading room will be framed with biographical data placed under the picture. These pictures will be hung on the walls of the seminar room which will soon be under construction. The panellied room will be used for seminar classes and employment interviews.