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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 18, 1968
Balfour likes job, students, orchids
By Robert Burdick Kansan Staff Reporter
The dean of student affairs says he hates to stifle students with regulations.
"An education should serve to broaden the student. After all we're always telling them to take new courses and do different things," said William Balfour, who took over as dean this semester.
He said the concept of his office has changed since it was formed under Laurence Woodruff, professor of biology and entomology and former dean of students. "It now includes all non-academic affairs and is closer to the student groups than in the past," Balfour said.
As dean of student affairs, Balfour is a member of the board of directors of Watkins Hospital and serves as chairman of the Kansas Union Operating Board. He also coordinates the offices of the deans of men and women, foreign students, guidance and counseling, and admissions and financial aid.
Balfour said he tends to be liberal and was surprised to find the deans of men and women share his views on many student problems.
"The women in the residence halls set their own regulations for the most part and Dean Taylor is more liberal toward these regulations than I expected," he said.
Students should take more responsibility, Balfour said.
"I realize at 19 some students
Balfour said the problem of deciding freshman residence hall closing hours arises when a student is told she can stay out two hours past the time her parents would normally have her come in.
"The biggest complaint of students is that they would like to make the decision themselves and I think this is fair," he said.
On other matters, such as drugs. Balfour is more strict.
"No one should be injuring themselves by taking drugs when in college," he said.
have been ready to accept responsibility since they were 14, but others won't be ready until they are 25," he said.
Balfour was director of Pearson College last semester and thinks the Colleges-within-the-College enables the students to help their peers.
"We're interested in doing all we can to make the student's life more meaningful," he said, "We would like to promote a 24-hour a day learning situation," he added.
"We have the problem of bridging the gap between the student and the administration every year as new students arrive," he said.
Balfour wants his department to help the student make the change to college life as easy as possible.
Balfour thinks much of the problem centers in students not remembering what they read about University policy and regulations.
Balfour also serves on the Deans' Advisory Committee and
the Council on Student Affairs (COSA).
COSA was originally set up to handle civil rights questions but broadened after handling those problems successfully, he said.
COSA has been studying residence hall open houses and the use of drugs on campus, and an AWS recommendation to abolish sophomore closing hours has been approved.
Balfour said many of the questions which have been brought to his office have been on Watkins Hospital, off campus housing, and parking.
"The parking situation here is confined and will get worse," he said. "Personally I don't understand why many people don't walk."
He said he walks every day from his home on University Drive.
"Of course I don't know if you'd call that a walk, but this business of one guy loading up his car with friends and driving two blocks to a guard station is ridiculous," he said.
When not working at the University, Balfour grows orchids in a greenhouse at his home. He got interested in growing them from his father, who had a greenhouse at their home in Rochester, Minn., when he was a boy.
He graduated from the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine before coming to KU in 1957.
Balfour is a professor of comparative biochemistry and physiology.
Big jazz beat to hit KC April 27
In its fifth year, Kansas City Jazz Week is establishing a solid reputation as one of the great jazz festivals in the country. On April 27 and 28, the big beat will invade the city and climax with an all-day jazzathon April 28 in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium.
"Spring for Jazz," the theme for the 1968 festival, will provide a showcase for Kansas City's own
extraordinary talent, as well as big name imports.
"Kansas City's festival is different from any other in the country, because it isn't a traveling circus," observed Stan Kenton, when he participated in the 1967 program. He admired the fact that Kansas City showcases its own talent along with imported musicians.
Photo by Bruce Patterson
Part of the philosophy behind this spring jazz festival is to keep
alive the spirit which started just before the twenties in Kansas City and ran through the forties, when the town figured so prominently in the birth of the jazz in America.
But the purpose of Jazz Week is not only to revive this unforgettable period of music history, but also to remind people that Kansas City is still the mecca for the live performance of jazz on a continuing basis.
WILLIAM BALFOUR
Spring Sing will open annual Spring Fling
However, the first fun begins with the Spring Sing on April 21 which opens the Fling instead of closing the annual event as in years past. The Inter-Residence Council (IRC) plans to hold the Sing in Murphy Hall's outdoor theater, if weather permits.
Spring Fling, the annual organized independents' celebration of spring, opens officially April 22.
A highlight of the Spring Fling parade down Jayhawk Boulevard, scheduled for April 25, will be a duck-costumed student throwing candy. Hall floats, the Gaslight Gang dixieland band, and live ducks which will later be entered in the Potter Lake duck race will also be in the parade.
The names of the three queen finalists will be announced April 21. The men's living groups voted for the queen who will be crowned at a dance April 28.
A gymkana, car derby, picnic, and Fling games are planned for April 27. Tickets for the picnic will be available April 22 in the residence halls.
Included in the game plans are a bod race, an egg toss, a pyramid-building contest, a relay race, a tug of war and, of course, the annual duck race.
The Association of University Residence Halls (AURH), sponsor of Spring Fling, will recognize outstanding workers in AURH and Spring Fling at a recognition banquet April 28 in Lewis Hall.
Construction master plan apparently on schedule
By Ron Yates
By Ron Yates Kansan Staff Reporter
KU's master plan for campus construction is apparently on schedule with the completion of three buildings this year and two more buildings still under construction.
The buildings which have been completed, those currently under construction and those in the planning stages are valued at about $20 million. This figure does not include the $4 million apartment complex currently under construction by Jayhawker Investments Inc. of Bartlesville, Okla.
As new buildings are planned and constructed at KU, it is apparent the campus is moving west across Iowa Street. Many buildings in the planning stages and those already constructed have sites west of Iowa Street.
Buildings completed this year were the Kansas School of Religion, a $500,000 building across the street from the Kansas Union; a $160,000 pharmaceutical chemistry laboratory west of Iowa and 19th street which was financed by KU's Endowment Association; the KU Printing Service building, a $350,000 structure authorized by the Kansas Legislature which is west of Iowa Street on 15th Street, and a $241,000 office building which is occupied by U.S. Geological Survey staff members and which was financed by the KU Endowment Association.
Still under construction, but rapidly nearing completion, is the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, a $2 million building which is a gift from the Kenneth A. Spencer and Helen F. Spencer Foundation. It is located directly behind Strong Hall, KU's administration building.
Scheduled for completion in the fall of 1968 is the Experimental Biology and Human Development building. The structure which
will cost an estimated $3 million is located east of Summerfield Hall.
Ground was broken April 1 for the $2.3 million Space Technology building west of Iowa Street. KU received a $1.8 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to help finance the building's construction.
KU buildings still in the planning stages are a two-story, 38-000-square foot satellite to the Kansas Union which will be built west of Allen Field House and an addition to the present Kansas Union building. The estimated costs of these buildings is $2.2 million.
Also in the planning stage is
NEARING COMPLETION
Located east of Summerfield Hall is the Experimental Biology and Human Development building scheduled for completion in the fall of 1986. It will cost an estimated $3 million.
KU's 15-story Humanities building which will be built across from Strong Hall on the site of still standing Haworth Hall and the recently razed old Robinson Gymnasium. The building will cost an estimated $5.8 million.
Other buildings and construction projects planned for the near future at KU are:
A new art museum which apparently will be located west of the Kansas Union near the X zone parking lot.
An outdoor theater which will be located at Potter Lake with funds for construction to come from KU's Program for Progress.
A new law center which will receive construction funds from the KU Program for Progress fund drive. The current law school is located in Green Hall which will be used for classrooms after construction of the new law building.
A new physical sciences building which will be built east of Malott Hall.
An addition to Watkins Hospital which will be three stories high and will contain clinic rooms.
The costs of these structures have not yet been made official.
Tentative construction plans at KU during the next 10 years call for a maintenance complex on West 15th Street; a new University Extension building to be built near the Kansas Union; an addition to Lindley Hall; a building for graphic and creative arts, to be located near Learned Hall; and renovation of Green and Marvin Halls.