Finishing touches
Fraser move nears end
By RUE CHAGOLL
Finishing touches -- that's all new Fraser Hall needs before its opening, March 6.
The move started last week when buildings and grounds workers carried equipment from the sciology, anthropology and psychology departments to the seven-story building.
Leo Ousdahl, assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds, said the moving required 20 to 25 men.
"WE HAVE A REGULAR moving crew, but we needed to take men from two other operations to do this job." Ousdahl said.
Not everything is moved, but Ousdahl said, "Everybody will be moved by Wednesday, I'm sure, but it will still be awhile before they get straightened out."
According to Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor in charge of operations, the sociology department hasn't completely moved because of "some trouble with an elevator in Blake last week, which caused a delay in the schedule."
Lawton said there are "some furnishings yet to come" before new Fraser is completely ready for occupancy.
ROBERT J. SQUIER, chairman
of the anthropology department, said his department has been moved but "not yet straightened out. There's boxes everywhere."
Squier said the anthropology department will continue to hold its larger lectures, Anthropology I and II, in Hoch and Dyche halls, respectively.
Anthony J. Smith, chairman of the psychology department, said, "the buildings and grounds workers did a remarkable job in moving us to Fraser."
Squier said his department is "already squeezed for space in new Fraser."
KU students may have a chance to see professional stage productions regularly if plans discussed last week in the speech and drama department are approved.
He said the only inconvenience encountered was that the psychological clinic operations were temporarily suspended. Research will not resume until March 6 when students will be permitted to enter the new building.
Two representatives of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (IASTA) were on campus Thursday through Saturday to "explore the possibility" of KU affiliation with the organization.
If the affiliation is approved, the University Theatre will present several touring IASTA productions each year and IASTA, in turn, will receive selected KU students and faculty as participants in the organization's international programs.
THE REPRESENTATIVES, John D. Mitchell, president and treasurer, and Mary John, managing director, visited University Theatre facilities and attended the Experimental Theater production, "Oh, What a Lovely War," in addition to discussing
"The fact that this did not come about may have been the cause for others to feel pinched," Smith said.
the possible merger with speech and drama faculty.
"We were very impressed with the KU campus and especially with the University Theatre," Mrs. John said. "We feel certain that both KU and IASTA will gain through the affiliation." No final plans are expected to be made until both KU and IASTA have discussed the affiliation separately, but professional stage productions may be playing on campus in less than a year if approval is made soon.
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Originally Fraser was planned to have eight instead of seven floors, but lack of funds forced abandonment of this idea.
Based in New York City, IASTA was formed in 1958 with a charter from the University of the State of New York. Since then, it has sponsored more than 25 plays, produced, directed and acted in by recognized theater experts from around the world.
SMITH PREDICTED that addition of new staff members in the coming years will cause a shortage of space in the new phychology department facilities. Expanded research facilities are bound to cause a greater demand for the space, eventually resulting in a shortage there too.
Charles Warriner, chairman of the sociology department, previously explained that the expansion of the anthropology department in the past few years has also been a factor in the increased need for space in new Fraser.
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