Friday, May 17. 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Flurry for commencement
The 96th annual University of Kansas commencement activities June 1-3 include a variety of events.
An all-university commencement supper featuring Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's "State of the University" address will start at 4:30 p.m. June 2 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Graduating seniors and their parents, faculty and alumni are invited.
Baccalaureate services will be held at 7:30 p.m. June 2 in Memorial Stadium or Allen Field House in case of rain. James E. Doty, president of Baker University, will be the guest speaker.
The senior breakfast and program will begin at 8 a.m. June 3 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Commencement exercises start at 7:30 p.m. June 3 in the stadium or field house. Speaking at the
exercises will be Gov. Robert B. Docking, Cancellor Wescoe and Eldon Sloan, a member of the Kansas Board of Regents from Topeka.
Students may reserve rooms at Gertrude Sellars Pearson and McColm Halls for their relatives and friends through the alumni office. A continuous shuttle-bus service will operate between these halls via the Kansas Union and Jayhawk Boulevard.
Continuous sightseeing bus tours of the KU campus will leave from the Kansas Union each hour and half hour between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Special reunions are planned by members of the Gold Medal Club, alumni who graduated in 1917 or earlier, and by the classes of 1918, 1928, and 1943. Members of F.C. "Phog" Allen's basketball
team of 1923 are also planning a special group reunion. The Law School class of 1928 will have its anniversary reunion dinner June 1 at the Virginia Inn.
Other events scheduled during commencement week-end start Saturday, June 1, at 10 a.m. with registration for all alumni at the Kansas Union. At 11:30 a.m. the annual reception of Mortar Board will be held in the Kansas Union Watkins Room followed by a luncheon at 12:15 p.m. At 6:30 p.m. there will be a welcoming dinner for alumni, parents and other guests in the Kansas Union Kansan Room.
Registration of alumni reopens at 9 a.m. Sunday, June 2. KU-Y will have a reception from 2-4 p.m. in the School of Religion building. At 3:45 p.m. the com-
mentence Band Concert will be held on the lawn of Dveche Hall.
Alumni registration continues from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, June 3, at the Union. The Army, Air Force and Navy commissioning ceremonies will be held at 11 a.m. in Murphy Hall with a reception for military graduates and their guests afterwards in the Kansas Union Kansas Room. A buffet luncheon for parents and graduating seniors at 12 p.m. in Oliver Hall features Chancellor Wescow as the main speaker.
At 2 p.m. the same day the School of Law is sponsoring a special program for its graduates and the School of Pharmacy is holding a reception for graduates and their parents at 3 p.m. A second KU commencement Band Concert is scheduled at 3:30 p.m. on Dyche Hall lawn.
Union construction 'right on schedule'
Construction of the $1,000,000 addition to the Kansas Union—proposed completion late Spring 1969—is right on schedule, according to Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union.
Contractors have the major portion of the excavation, drilling and pouring of concrete for the supporting columns completed, Burge said. The addition will extend beyond and above Baumgartner Drive, which is temporarily closed due to construction.
Included in the addition are a 670-seat, sloped-floor auditorium, which will be used for student meetings, films and musical programs, several meeting rooms for student organizations holding from 40 to 90 persons each, an addition to the present bookstore where paperbacks will be arranged in a browsing atmosphere, and a well-lighted pedestrian tunnel extending under Mississippi
Street and opening in the corner of the Zone X parking lot.
Burge said there have been 11.700 student organization meetings during the school year. He has been concerned about improvement of parking conditions for these groups.
"I think the new pedestrian tunnel will significantly improve and extend the accessibility between the Kansas Union and the parking lot." Burge said.
The Kansas Union—a self-supporting, non-profit enterprise has an anticipated gross income of $3,137,000 for the 1967-68 school year.
Expenses for the year are $800,-
000 for wages and labor, $400,000
for general expenses, $137,000 in
refunds, commissions and student
benefits such as the Student Union
Activities, dormitory vending
machines and athletic concessions
and $1,800,000 for the year's cost
of products, according to Burge.
AURH listens to student voice
By Jane Abildgaard Kansan Staff Reporter
Students do have a voice on some University committees— even if it is barely above a whisper.
One such committee is the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) housing board which consists of students who advise the administration on student opinion and reaction. The board conducts surveys of student opinion about campus and residence hall facilities.
The board, along with the IFC expansion committee, is gathering information on KU students' criteria for choosing where they live.
The board's current project is an environmental study of the residence halls. The study has re-
Alumni Place parking area is under study and will be expanded and improved when money becomes available. There are 30 more cars owned by scholarship hall residents than there are parking spaces, Porter said.
clology and sociology classes, architecture student and its administrative advisers - Donna Shavlik, assistant dean of women, and Bill Robinson, assistant dean of men.
Before making recommendations, the board is advised by psy-
The board also hopes to persuade the University to correct such small things as lowering the high vanity mirrors, Porter said.
vealed that the major source of noise is from the hallways. The board has recommended installing carpet to reduce the noise.
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