Gala week awaits students
By Cheryl Hentsch
By Cheryl Hentson Seven days crowded with KU Centennial activities, convocations, seminars, colloquia and student celebrations await KU students and faculty returning from spring vacation.
Beginning April 11, KU opens the celebration with the Inter-Century Seminar on Man and the Future. The four-day seminar, described as a world's fair of ideas," will explore the prospects of man and society in the next century.
More than 20 experts in the arts, sciences and professions will have major roles. The experts will give free rein to their imaginations in predicting the shape of man's destiny and the scope of the major issues which will confront mankind in the next hundred years.
"IN RECENT YEARS the art and science of prediction have become serious business," said William Conboy, chairman of the
Centennial program committee. "As our rush into the future accelerates, as the rate of change in our lives becomes more rapid, the need for perceptive prophecy becomes more urgent."
The four-day event will open and close with colorful processions in full academic regalia for convocations in Hoch Auditorium.
Classes will be dismissed for the two regularly scheduled convocations at 9 a.m., April 11, and 10:15 a.m. April 14. Faculty members are urged to dismiss classes which meet at the hours of seminar presentations so that students and faculty may be free to participate in the Centennial events.
Two former KU chancellors will give the seminar a Kansas flavor as they address the convocations. Former Chancellor Deane W. Malott, president emeritus of Cornell University and KU chancellor from 1939 to 1951, will open the seminar with an
address on "Sturdy Folk—Our Founding Fathers." Former Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, now chancellor of UCLA and KU chancellor from 1951 to 1960, closes the seminar on April 14 with an address on "The Changed and Changing State University."
"MUCH OF the excitement of the seminar may come in the give-and-take of these dialogues," said Conboy.
Loren Eisley, noted anthropologist and four-time winner of literary awards for writings in history and philosophy of science, presents the first seminar discussion with "Man, Time and Contemplation," at 2 p.m. Monday in Hoch Auditorium. Eisley, a former KU faculty member, is Curator of Early Man at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and holds that school's first distinguished professorship.
At 8 p.m. Monday in Hoch Auditorium, the editor of Science magazine, Philip H. Abelson, describes "The Continuing
Scientific Revolution." Dr. Abelson is a scientist of such broad research interests that he has been described as a paleogeobiophysical chemist. A former member of the Atomic Energy Commission General Advisory Committee, he also directs research studies at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
ON TUESDAY, seminar activities begin at 9 a.m. in Hoch Auditorium. Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles Whittaker offers "An Appeal to Reason." A commentator on the role of law in human society, Justice Whittaker was the first native Kansan (Troy, Doniphan Co.) appointed to the Supreme Court where he served from 1957 until his retirement in 1962.
Inventor-builder R. Buckminster Fuller and former Eisenhower assistant Arthur Lawson also will present seminar topics on April 12.
Arthur Larson, former director
of the United States Information Agency and special assistant to former President Eisenhower, discusses "Man and the World Community in the Century Ahead" at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union. Dr. Larson now heads the Rule of Laws Research Center at Duke University and is consultant to the State Department on U.N. matters.
"HAS THE THEATRE a Future?" is the question posed by drama critic Harold Clurman in the 10:30 a.m. Hoch Auditorium lecture which begins the third day of the Inter-Century Seminar. Stage director, motion picture producer-director and drama critic, Clurman has been active in theater arts since his position as founding director of the Group Theatre (1939-41).
Dr. Karl Menninger, co-founder and chief of staff of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, addresses the Hoch Auditorium
See FESTIVE WEEK p. 13
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No. 111
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Details on Page 4
WEATHER: MILD
Thursday, March 31, 1966
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
DECISIONS, DECISIONS. STUDENTS DUTIFULLY RECORDED THEIRS TODAY Student election polls in Strong, Murphy, and the Union handled a steady flow of voters all day.
Car pools deliver voters; heavy turnout in forecast
A check of the polls at 11 a.m. today indicated a light turnout. Only 623 had voted today, bringing the two-day total to less than 3,000.
Strong again had the heaviest vote with 405. One hundred fifty voted in Union and 118 in Murphy.
Lighter side of elections See page 4
"I think vote will end up about the same as last year, maybe one or two hundred shorter." Kay Orth, El Dorado junior and cochairman of the elections committee, said.
SHE SAID all three polls opened on time today and will remain open until 6 p.m. this evening. If voters are in line at 6, polls will remain open until all have voted.
Getting students to vote was the primary objective of Vox Populi today, according to Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore and Vox student body presidential candidate.
With the majority of the campaign over, Rader said he planned to "play what's left by ear." He planned to spend most of today campaigning informally around campus.
Approximately 50 cars delivered students to and from the polls and class.
When asked if he had any predictions about the outcome of the
vote, Rader admitted he had no knowledge of how yesterday's voting went. But he jokingly said, "I interpret the vote as a strong support for Rader and Darville."
For University Party candidates Al Martin, Shawnee Mission sophomore, and Janet Anderson, Prairie Village sophomore, the campaign is nearly done. Now they must wait.
When asked about student turn-out for the vote, Tom Shuimar, Russell senior and UP president, said, "We will, of course, talk to people. But you can't drag them out. I think the total turnout will be good."
Miss Anderson added, "I should think the issues and the campaign have been strong enough to get people out and voting."
Light slated at 15th, Iowa
By Emery Goad
The much talked-about intersection at 15th and Iowa Streets may have a traffic control by this fall, according to Ray Wells, Lawrence city manager.
The problem intersection, first discussed in the March 17 issue of the Daily Kansan, has been termed the biggest problem corner in the city by Mayor Ernest Pulliam.
According to Lawrence Police Department figures the corner, since the first of the year, rates second on the list of intersections with the most injury accidents. The property damage accidents are almost too numerous to mention.
THE PLANS outlined by Wells are to make traffic counts of all surrounding areas and then support these with visual observations.
Formerly this research work was done by the State Highway Commission, who makes final approval for any type of control which will be installed at the intersection.
"The traffic at this corner has gradually built-up and the wheels of progress turn slowly and perhaps this is why the city has not recognized the problem before," Wells said.
One major consideration in placing a control at 15th and Iowa Streets is the interruption of the traffic flow on Iowa Street which is also U.S. Highway 59.
THE LAWRENCE CITY budget will be made up in the next six weeks and the city commissioners expressed interest that the corner could be included.
"I am anxious to see something done with the intersection as soon as possible," Commissioner James Schubert said. "I would also like to see something done sooner—in time for Centennial activities."
"I am very pleased to see a target date set," said Pulliam. "Perhaps I am even more interested in this intersection than the students."
If the intersection appropriation is listed in the budget and it is passed in July, this would give enough time to install the recommended controls if the State gives its approval.
UDK EXTRA SET FRIDAY
Results of the spring elections will be featured in a special, one-page edition of the Daily Kansan to be distributed about 9 a.m. Friday.
Following a long-standing custom, no regular editions of the
Daily Kansan will be published tomorrow or Monday, April 11
On Tuesday, April 12, the Daily Kansan will publish a 56-page KU Centennial issue which will include several full color pictures and advertisements.