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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, July 16, 1968
Last four months in quick review
Editor's Note: The significant events of the past four months at the University of Kansas are itemized in the following summary prepared by James E. Gunn, assistant to the Chancellor for university relations.
"The Fifth National Sculpture Conference, held at the University of Kansas in Lawrence last month, was a chastening reminder that if the island of Manhattan should join the island of Atlantis tomorrow, creative art on this continent would boom along without serious interruption."
John Canaday,
The New York Times
Record-breaking summer session enrollment (up 12 percent over last year) reached 5,481—not including an all-time high of 2,000-plus high school students enrolled in the 10 divisions of the 6-week Midwestern Music and Art Camp and non-credit enrollments of more than 5,000 attending University Extension short courses. Credit enrollments are expected to reach 7,500 by Aug. 31.
A $7,430 grant from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Economic Development Administration makes KU part of a 9-state project aimed at determining how state and local governments obtain advice and reach decisions involving scientific and technical matters.
Awards for outstanding teaching went this spring to Lawrence Sherrr, business administration, the H. Bernerd Fink award; Eldon Fields, political science; Fred S. Van Vleck, mathematics; and W. Keith Weltner, business administration, the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) Foundation; Harry E. Talley, electrical engineering, the Henry E. Gould award.
The first Kane Professor of Law was announced in the Chancellor's State of the University message June 2. He is Paul E. Wilson, widely known for pioneering the use of law students to counsel prison inmates.
Two new University Professors were appointed in June: E. Thayer Gaston, music education, a faculty member since 1937 and "father of music therapy"; and James P. Quirk, economics, a faculty member since 1966, receiving two National Science Foundation grants since then.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, Republican presidential hopeful of New York, spoke in Allen Field House May 9 at an all-University convocation.
Low energy nuclear physics research at KU will get a boost with an additional $30,250 on its Atomic Energy Commission contract for a modification increasing its Van de Graaff accelerator energy from 3 to 4.5 million electron volts.
The Adams Campus, a 340-acre recreational and seminar area for the University, is scheduled for future development near the planned Clinton Reservoir southwest of Lawrence. Purchase of land for the future was made possible through a $100,000 gift two years ago from Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Learned of Bartlesville, Okla., in honor of Kenneth S. "Boots" Adams, also of Bartlesville.
Twenty education writers from the Midwest and other parts of the nation visited KU on a 6-day tour of six state universities in late April.
Current problems of persuasion and the ethics of controversy were considered in a symposium June 27-28 organized by the University department of speech and drama.
Twenty - four scientists from
Mexico and Brazil came to KU in early June to learn about the use of radar in studying the earth's resources from aircraft.
Writers - in - residence in the English Department this summer and next year will be George P. Elliott ("Among the Dangs"), William H, Gass ("In the Heart of the Country and Other Stories"), poet Galway Kinnell of Colorado State University, and novelist Robie Macauley, affiliated with "Playboy."
Fifty-two KU journalism students are gaining practical experience this summer as interns in newsrooms, advertising offices, corporations and radio-television studios in a dozen states and Paris, France.
Four members of the National Assembly of Vietnam visited KU May 16 after spending four days in Washington.
Seventy business executives from over the nation spent a month on the University campus this summer learning ways to become better administrators.
Shakespearean Scholar Paul Kendall, distinguished professor at Ohio State University, will be the Rose Morgan visiting professor next spring. Besides giving public lectures, he will teach the Shakespearean seminar and rapid reading course for undergraduates, which covers a play a week.
A total of $1,659,296 in grants and contracts for research and associated graduate training on the Lawrence campus and in its Center for Research in Engineering Science was received between January and March.
Three faculty members who specialize in the affairs of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union received grants to travel in those areas during the coming academic year: J a r o s l a w Piekalkiewicz, studying comparative local East European governments; E. J. Czerwinski, studying comparative Slavic drama; William Kuhlke, studying Soviet theatre directors of the 1930s, the great innovators of Russian theatre.
A record 3.723 students were awarded degrees at Commencement.
The Kansas Regional Medical Program observed its first anniversary June 8 with an address from Steven J. Ackerman, associate director for planning and evaluation, Regional Medical Programs, Washington, D.C. An open house and luncheon were held in the state headquarters adjacent to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
David W. Heron, formerly director of libraries at the University of Nevada at Reno, will be the new director of the 1,300.-000-volume University of Kansas libraries, including the soon-to-be-completed Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
Bids for the 15-story, $5.8-million Humanities Building will be received Aug. 8.
Pulitzer Prize Winner Norman Dello Joio was the featured guest composer for the Tenth Annual Symposium of Contemporary Music May 5-7.
Seven KU teachers at Lawrence, all younger than 45, have received U.S. Public Health Service Research Career Development Awards, and another six faculty members have such awards at the Medical Center in Kansas City. Three other Research Career Awards are held by University faculty.
Solons restrict transplants
Nineteen Woodrow Wilson Designates and a Danforth Fellowship were won by KU seniors this spring for graduate study next fall at the university of their choice.
By JUDY BENNETT Journalism Camp Reporter
The Kansas Legislature recently passed a bill governing the conditions in which the transplant of human organs can take place. Where did the legislators get their information on this scientifically detailed matter? This is the type of question that William H. Cape hopes to answer.
Cape, associate director of the Governmental Research Center and professor of political science, is participating in a project to determine how state and local governments gather advice and reach decisions on scientific and technical problems. He has received a joint grant of $7,430 from the National Science Foundation and the Economic Development Administration for this purpose.
Studies of this kind are also being made in California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, and North Carolina. Cape has already met with the representatives of these eight states in Washington, D.C., and he said that he will remain in close correspondence with all the representatives during the project.
Cape explained that the states were chosen because each has a different type of organization for scientific development within their government framework. In 1963, the Research Foundation of Kansas was established to encourage scientific inquiry and to assist in publishing scientific news for use by the public.
At the end of one year, the representatives from the nine states will meet again to discuss their findings. They hope to answer three basic questions.
What type of scientific organizations do we have now? How can these organizations help government officials? What can be the national significance of this work?
The representatives will then publish a report with suggestions
for improving or developing state scientific structures."
In order to gather information, Cape said that he would interview state and local officials, scientists and engineers, in addition to sending out questionnaires and reading the literature published by various scientific organizations. He is also working with the Kansas Academy of Science and the Research Foundation of Kansas.
SOUND WORDS
ST. LOUIS — (UPI)— St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Steve Carlton says he'll always remember the words of teammate Roger Maris in rounding bases. In a game against the New York Mets, Carlton failed to touch third base and, although he reached home plate, was declared out. After the game, Maris greeted Carlton in the clubhouse with:
"Thou must touch four before thou canst score."
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