Flower blooms initiate spring season on Oread
Forsythia, dogwood, magnolia, crocus and snowdrops are flowers that bloom in the spring. KU students can look forward to seeing them bloom on the campus within the next several weeks.
The largest garden area on campus is located between Marvin and Lindley halls. The original plantings for this area were given by the graduating class of 1947. In this area are pines, pear trees, peonies, iris, chrysanthemums, tulips, crocus and narcissus.
"This area is designed to give continual change of bloom," said Harold E. Blitch, grounds supervisor.
THE RAISED GARDEN i front of Hoch Auditorium is traditionally planted with red tulips, and later in the spring with plumbago, a blue plant, and red geraniums.
"The red geraniums are planted and blooming around commencement time, and are called the 'KU geraniums,'" Blitch said.
A picket fence protects the Spooner-Thayer garden from traffic going through that area. It is planted with jonquils and narcissus.
Other major garden areas on campus are the Baumgartner gardens west of the Kansas Union building, the Greisa plantings at
the west end of Memorial Drive, the Potter Lake area, the Chi Omega Fountain, the Malott flowering crab trees in the Daisy Hill area and the grove between the Kansas Union and the Campanille.
THE FLOWERING crab trees, numbering 1281, were given to the University as a gift last year by former Chancellor Deane Malott and his wife.
"They represent the largest recent gift of plantings to the University," Alton C. Thomas, lands architect said.
CRC defines purposes of group at meeting
A heated debate took place on the floor of the Civil Rights Committee (CRC) meeting Wednesday night over the question of the actual purpose of the organization.
A resolution was passed which asked that CRC concentrate its activities in the areas of (a) civil rights in the sense of Negro or racial civil rights from the local to the national level, and (b) student rights at KU.
The reason for the debate was that part of the members said that this would restrict the activities of the organization, and the rest held that CRC needed some specific direction to follow so as not to become involved in too many areas at one time.
NATE SIMS, Pasadena, Calif, senior and past president of CRC, said that the main interest of the organization has been Negro civil rights, and that other civil rights problems have been dealt with by individuals.
"Our need now is to get new members, and to work for civil
rights as the group was established," Sims said. "With this in mind, I think we ought to channel our interests in one direction in order to accomplish one goal at a time."
An amendment to the resolution was proposed, striking the "KU student rights" section from the text. Supporters of this amendment warned the members against the organization being "spread too thin."
OPPOSITION TO the amendment and the resolution was on the grounds that if CRC wanted to take a stand on other issues, such as the war in Viet Nam or "in loco parentis," it would be restricted by this resolution.
Eileen Wilcox, Lawrence senior and secretary of CRC, opposed the resolution because she said it would hinder a membership drive.
The discussion moved to a vote, and the amendment was passed by a majority of nine to six. The resolution as amended passed by a vote of twelve to three.
"We try hard to introduce variety of color in the blooming season around the campus," said Thomas. "There is no effort to arrange certain types around particular buildings, however."
FRIDAY FLICKS
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Terror
Peter Lorre Vincent Price
Because of SPRING FLING, the movie will only be shown at 7:00 and 9:30 FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. No Sunday night showing, this week only! Buy your ADVANCE TICKETS at the Kansas Union Information Desk.
Dyche Auditorium 35$ \phi $
FRIDAY FLICKS
Of particular consideration in arranging plantings on the campus is the design of the building involved, said Blitch. "The plantings must complement the building."
The KU campus contains over 100 varieties of trees, and about 50 varieties of flowers and shrubs, said Blitch.
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