OREAD HALL, KU'S NEWEST OFFICE BUILDING World War barracks to ease space squeeze
Oread to re-open in fall after razing of annexes
By Emery Goad
Oread Hall, closed twice already, will be reopened next fall to help absorb the exodus of classroom and office space from the Strong Hall Annexes, being razed immediately after June 1.
A RECENT UNEXPECTED gift by the Helen and Kenneth A. Spencer Foundation, a research library will be placed on the controversial site behind Strong Hall and south of the Campanile.
Formerly a hospital at Parsons Ordnance Plant during World War II, and located near Memorial Stadium, Oread will be a major "safety valve," to house some of the 15 departments currently in the annexes.
Just as with the annexes, Oread was built 25 years ago, to last only five years. In 1946 it was closed and torn down in Parsons and brought to KU. It was used by the dormitory department here until last fall, when it was closed for the second time.
THE REASON FOR the opening of the building again next fall is the tremendous use now made of the annexes, a space totaling 27,000 square feet and including 17 classrooms and 79 offices.
Elements of the departments of Oriental languages and literature, Slavic languages and literature, Eastern Civilization, Western Civilization, studios of drawing and painting, industrial design, speech clinic, psychology, mathematics, linguistics, history, philosophy, business education, speech and hearing, and design, will be scattered in any available space on the campus until Fraser Hall and the new humanities building are opened and the west half of Flint Hall is vacated.
Even though the 177 desks in the annexes would match perfectly with the 180 office spaces in Oread, the major load of offices will be in old Robinson Gym. Plans call for partitions to be hung from the ceiling of the basketball court to make 12 Western Civilization discussion rooms. The basement of the old gym will be boarded and an entrance will be used from the outside for those few classes meeting there.
"OCCUPATION OF these temporary rooms will probably only be for one or two semesters," said George R. Smith, vice chancellor in charge of institutional planning. Many of the classes and offices will be moved to Fraser when it is completed late next fall or during semester break.
CLOSING COMMENTS
Student opinion varies
By Elizabeth Rhodes
By Elizabeth Knobbs
Opinion was abundant, but mixed yesterday, following Saturday's Associated Women Students Regulations Convention.
The convention suggested no closing for seniors, junior, and second-semester sophomores.
ALTHOUGH THE DELEGATE passed a number of other proposals, the closing hours issue has garnered the most student controversy.
Students questioned about the new hours proposals were generally divided into two camps—those who favored the rule and those who did not.
Some had no opinion.
Linda Adamson, Lawrence sophomore, was generally in favor of closing. "Students are here to get an education, and hours can only help you," she said. "Most girls don't know how to regulate their lives. That's why there are so many illegitimate births. You
LEE DOSIER, KANSAS CITY senior, expressed a view given by many men, when he said, "If a girl's parents trust her to go to college, she should be trusted to set her own standards, just like a man. Once a girl is a junior or senior, she knows how much effort she has to put out to stay here. She knows she can't stay out every night, and still stay in school. This is a rough place."
have to think of your parents, too." At the present time, Miss Adamson lives at home.
HELEN BUSH, LYONS SENIOR and chairman of the Delta Gamma delegation, thought the convention expressed the opinion of the majority of KU women. "This has been coming for a long time, and anyone who didn't think so has been closing their eyes," she said.
Mrs. Kala Stroup, assistant dean of women, declined to give her opinion concerning all convention business. "It would be unfair to the students and delegates to say anything before the convention is finished," she said. "What I might say could be influential."
Sara Paretsky, Eudora junior and Sellards Hall delegate, also felt the results exemplified the
feeing of most women. "There is a real feeling among the majority of women that they need more freedom," she said.
MRS. DORIS SINDT, residence director of Ellsworth Hall, also declined to make any statement about the convention until it finishes AWS business.
Generally fair and mild tonight and tomorrow, the U.S. Weather Bureau predicts. Southerly winds will prevail, and a low tonight is expected from 38 to 42.
WEATHER
Surface, SDS argue policy
By Eric Morgenthaler
Provost James R. Surface today met with opposition when he recommended that students having questions regarding University policy should refer them to the newly-created Council on Student Affairs.
Meeting with 12 students and faculty members to discuss a list of 18 questions submitted to him Friday, Provost Surface said the 11-member council is the group to which proposed rules changes should be submitted. The visitors represented the Students for a Democratic Society, the KU Civil Rights Council or themselves.
"WE HAVE MADE this council to represent students, faculty, and the administration," he said. "Because of its representative nature, we feel it is prepared to handle inquiries."
Don Olson, La Mesa, Calif,
sophomore, asked, "Why must we go through this channel? Why can't we submit our questions directly to the chancellor?
"We don't want to talk to those people if they don't have any authority to act. All they can do is modify our views. Why must we go through them?"
Another student charged that the council is merely creating another layer of separation between students and the administration.
Provost Surface said, "What you may not realize is that this type of body is used by any chancellor whether he formalizes it or not."
"But we want to deal with the chancellor directly," Olson said.
"SO DO 15,000 other students," Provost Surface replied.
"Our function is to present our recommendations to the chancellor." Olson said, "When we formalize our suggestions, we'll make enough copies so that everybody will hear about them—don't worry," Jim Masters, Mission graduate student, added.
At the conclusion of the hour and-a-half meeting, Provost Surface again suggested that the group formalize its suggestions and present them to the council.
Discussion at the meeting, the fourth the group has held with Provost Surface this semester, revolved around different aspects of the "in loco parentis" question.
"What the students are trying to say is that you are trying to be a benevolent authority, and that is not democratic," said Howard Kahane, assistant professor of philosophy.
"We do not expect to find this kind of treatment in America," he added. "In Russia, perhaps. The
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"The Answer" calms students' frustrations
By Judith Faust
What is it?
"IT'S THE ANSWER to the question, 'How obnoxious can a car be?'" said Perkins.
"The Answer" is a 1950 Nash that belongs to Mike Perkins, Prairie Village sophomore, and R. L. Mullins, Leawood sophomore.
It's two shades of blue, has a wide white stripe down its middle, and on occasion it makes very loud noises.
"The Answer."
Buying a car like "The Answer" is a yearly custom for these students. Every spring they buy a car to take their frustrations out on, run it until it quits, and then junk it.
"Everybody just gets a big chuckle out of it," Perkins said.
The white racing stripe runs across both windshields as well as the hood and trunk. "We thought that under the circumstances that was rather appropriate," they said.
PERKINS AND Mullins paid $50 for "The Answer." When they bought it, "it was in a sort of running condition."
"Actually it runs pretty well," Perkins said. "It just backfires a lot."
They hope it will last a couple of months, but they noted that it gets pretty beat up "when you hit trees and things."
OWNERS R. L. MULLINS (LEFT) AND MIKE PERKINS "The Answer" is their answer.