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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER WARMER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
77th Year, No.123
See Weather—page 12
Thursday, April 27, 1967
37 ailing admitted to hospital
An onslaught of measles, mono-
nucleosis, colds and fractures has
filled Watkins hospital.
"You name it and we have had it." Dr. Raymond Schwegler, hospital director, said.
SCHWEGLER SAID 37 people were admitted yesterday and "we have had to utilize all our available space."
Schwegler named Spring Break as a possible reason for the outbreak of contagious diseases. Students contract diseases at home and bring them back to school, he said.
The measles, believed by Schwegler to be German measles, generally last from three to five days. He did not think a massive epidemic would develop because most students have already had the disease before they get to college.
Schwegler said mononucleosis tends to be most common in spring and fall. He pointed to the unseasonably cold weather as a factor in the rash of colds.
-UDK Photo by Tom Collins
LINES GROW LONGER . . .
This is the scene from Watkins Hospital yesterday, as students wait in long lines to see doctors. An outbreak of colds, measles, and mononucleosis has filled the hospital to its capacity.
Seniors choose to donate alumni conference room
An alumni conference room, to be built in an upcoming addition to the Kansas Union, will be the gift of the class of 87 to KU.
Students attending the Senior Coffee yesterday morning voted to donate the room to adjoin the new Alumni Association offices in the Union. It will extend on stilts
over the driveway on the Union's west side.
PLANS FOR THE Senior Class Party were also announced at the office.
Kirk Flury, Kansas City senior and co-chairman of the Senior Party, said the first half of the annual bash will be a TGIF from
3 to 6 p.m. May 12, at the Stables,
followed by a dance at the National
Guard Armory at 7:30 p.m.
A $1 ticket for non-senior dates
will be good for both events,
Flury said.
Other proposals suggested by the senior class gift committee included:
Rain no obstacle
Games go on
Regardless of cold or rainy weather, there are no plans to cancel any of the Spring Fling or Greek Week activities.
"We're just hoping it will warm up and clear off quickly," said Sharon Mahood, Springfield, Mo., senior and general co-chairman of Greek Week.
"We're setting up a carnival now by Potter Lake," said Scott
Hootenanny set
if it rains on Saturday, the picnic lunch will be in Templin Hall but the games will be outside, Blackard said.
Blackard, Riverside, Calif., junior and chairman of Spring Fling, "and we're planning to have the Whatchamacallit dance right next to it Friday on the tennis court south of the stadium."
Where have all the flowers gone?
Probably to the Spring Fling Hootenanny at Lewis Hall tonight from 7 to 8:30.
"The purpose will be for everyone to have a good time, both the audience and the singers," said Sher Singh, Sonoma, Calif., graduate, and one of the organizers of this Spring Fling event.
KU students will perform in the main lounge of Lewis Hall, and everyone is invited.
The Greek Week committee has made no effort to move Friday and Saturday's sports events indoors.
Greek Week events which could be affected by inclement weather include the East Hill vs. West Hill all-star football game in Memorial Stadium and the subsequent tug-of-war contests at Potter Lake. The game will begin at 3:30 p.m., Friday.
Saturday's outdoor events for Greeks are the Chariot races, scheduled for 12:30 p.m., which will precede the relays. Women's events have been added to the standard men's dashes, sprints, and field events. The girls will compete in a sack race and a three-legged relay.
- AN ART COLLECTION for Spooner Art Museum, to be increased each year from interest on a bank account of approximately $4,000 given by the class.
- Financial help in completing the Centennial or Fraser Room now being constructed on the east balcony of the Union Ballroom.
ONE WAS FOR A FOUNTAIN at 15th and Iowa, he said, and another called for a gateway to the University to be built at the same intersection.
David Hall, Coffeyville senior, said several "unworkable" suggestions also had been submitted for the senior class.
A third suggestion was for a large mosaic on the outside of Fraser Hall, "presumably in an attempt to cover it up," Hall said.
Women's week begins Monday
Honors Night, a panel discussion, freshman-sophomore dessert, junior-senior brunch, and a week-long art exhibit outline this year's All Women's Week, May 1 through 7.
Flexibility and change will be stressed in this year's theme, "Women's Week '67-A New Beginning."
Honors Night will begin the activities, Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium. This year Honors Night features poetry readings, dancing and flute and guitar playing as a prelude to each women's area.
"THE IDEA BEHIND the theme is that a woman's education is just a beginning to whatever she decides to do in life," said Linda Kleinschmidt, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore and chairman of All Women's Week.
Concert is moved to Hoch
The April 29 Student Union Activities (SUA) Spring Concert, originally scheduled for Allen Field House, has been moved to Hoch Auditorium.
Mrs. Katherine Giele, SUA activities director, said approximately 3,000 tickets for the concert have been sold. Hoch's 3,700 seat capacity will provide a better concert atmosphere for that number than the field house, which can seat about 15,000, she said.
MRS. GIELE emphasized that all $2.50 ticketholders will be seated on Hoch's main floor, with the best blocks near the stage, as they would have been in the field house. All $1.75 seats will be in the balcony, she said.
Although seat numbers will not correspond exactly to the tickets, Mrs. Giele said that "we feel an obligation to the ticketholders and every effort will be made to be fair in the switch."
The SUA office is telephoning buyers of the larger blocks today to insure that they know of the change.
Some concert tickets are still available and may be purchased in the Kansas Union or at the door, Mrs. Giele said.
Yell leaders chosen
KU's yell leaders for next year were selected last night in the final trout held in Allen Field House.
Selected as the regular yell leaders are Bowen White, Shawnee Mission junior; Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., sophomore; Jim Davis, Leawood junior; Bob Hartman, Shawnee Mission freshman; Rick Meier, Bonner Springs sophomore; and Paul Clendening. Shawnee Mission junior.
ALL EXCEPT Hartman were on the squad last year.
Alternates are Rusty Wells, Portland sophomore; Tom Rhoades, Arlington, Va., junior; Paul Rocereto, Topeka sophomore, and John Geissal, Prairie Village freshman.
Cwens, Mortar Board, freshman counselors for next fall, outstanding woman from each living group and in music and art, and senior assistants will be announced during Honors Night. Scholarship awards will also be announced.
IN ADDITION, THE AWS Council and Forum will be introduced, and the Phi Beta Kappa and Woodrow Wilson winners will be recognized.
On Sunday, Mrs. Robert Docking will speak at the junior-senior brunch at 9 a.m. in Lewis Hall. The theme of the bruch is "Fresh as a Daisy" and will include a fashion show. Tickets are 50 cents and may be purchased from any AWS Forum member, starting Thursday.
A panel discussion will be held at 7:30 Tuesday in the Kansas Union. Speakers will be Mrs. Allan Holder, psychiatric social worker at Watkins Hospital; Dr. Mary Hatfield of Watkins Hospital; Mrs. Edward Smissman, a lawyer; and Marilyn Stokstad, director of the Art Museum and professor of art history.
A freshman-sophomore dessert, which invites all sophomore women back to their freshman hall, will be held Wednesday. Sophomores will have the opportunity to visit their old floors and meet the new freshman. Transfer students will be invited to scholarship halls.
Art work done by the outstanding women in art will be exhibited throughout the week in the Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Children at Stouffer Place have no place to play. See page 3.
If the whistle toots short blasts—take cover. See page 4.
Cars pile up on K-10
Nineteen vehicles were involved in pile-ups today on the fog-bound K-10 "flats" between Lawrence and Eudora, the Douglas County Sheriff's office reported.
No KU students were involved.
No KU students were involved.
Five Highway Patrol troopers
and three units from the sheriff's
office were sent to the scene.
Apparently only one man was injured in the crashes. He was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where attendants said he suffered only cuts and bruises.