KU
kansan
A student newspaper serving KU
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Tuesday, February 6, 1968
Kansas Union addition approved by Regents
Construction above and below ground level was authorized by the Kansas Board of Regents at their last meeting.
A three-story addition to the Kansas Union, to be built on pillars above Baumgartner Drive, and a 145-foot pedestrian tunnel under Mississippi Street will be financed by the issuance of $1 million in revenue bonds.
The Union addition will contain about 20,000 square feet of usable space. Room will be provided for Union bookstore expansion, and offices for the KU Alumni Association, which will be moved from Strong Hall to the Union.
A meeting room level for student organizations will contain a 670-seat auditorium as well as smaller rooms.
The Union tunnel, which will be sixteen feet wide, lighted and heated, is expected to cost $100,000. It will connect the Union and a Zone X parking lot addition.
University officials anticipate completion of the Union addition and tunnel by late fall of 1968.
A two-story satellite Union, to cost about $1.4 million, also is included in the Union expansion. Construction of the building, which
--will contain a small auditorium, a bookstore and snack bar area, is expected to begin in about a year.
WHAT'S INSIDE
The KU Jayhawks keep their Big Eight conference title hopes alive by defeating the Oklahoma State Cowboys 52-50. Rodger Bohnenstichl sank the winning basket with only seconds left. Page 6.
The University Theatre will present "Blithe Spirit" by Noel Coward. The play opens Wednesday night and runs through Saturday. Page 11.
The satellite Union will be built near Allen Field House.
The plan for Union expansion was first approved by the regents June 23, 1966, when the board indicated the 40-year bond program would be paid by increased student fees. The portion of student fees supporting the Union jumped from the 1965-66 $12 a semester to the present $17 a semester. Total in-state fees are $169 a semester.
A dormitory project also approved by the Board of Regents will consolidate food services for Corbin and Gertrude Sellards Pearson Halls. A two-story, 4,000-square-foot addition to Gertrude Sellards Pearson will provide extra space for kitchen and serving line areas. A 100-foot lighted and heated corridor, partly underground, will connect the two residence halls. This project, also hoped to be completed by fall of 1968, will cost approximately $175,000, and will come from residence hall reserve balances.
Early enrollment reduces problems
Other KU construction projects authorized recently by the Board of Regents include plans for an addition to the west wing of Malott Hall to contain laboratories, offices, and research facilities for the Departments of Chemistry and Physics.
The Board also approved the remodeling of Watkins Hospital to provide for installation of X-ray equipment.
The Regents decided to discontinue degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Metallurgical Engineering upon graduation of students now enrolled. Efforts will be made to provide for students to receive training at schools in other states under reciprocal agreements. A July 1 merger of the KU Departments of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering was also approved.
Students have always dreaded the hassle of enrolling for classes. Standing for hours in long lines, finding class sections closed and being pushed and shoved around in a crowded Kansas Union is an exhausting and frustrating process.
This semester was different.
All freshmen in the college-within-the-college program, sophomores in Centennial College and all seniors, a total of 4,258 students, were eligible to enroll early. While the rest of the students were enrolling at the Kansas Union last week, these early enrollees were registering at Allen Field house.
Although administration members can't yet determine exact results of enrollment, one advantage of pre-enrolling was readily apparent; there were no long lines or crowds.
Students working at registration tables were amazed. "It takes only 15 minutes for early enrollees to register," said one student worker. "There hasn't been more than seven or eight people waiting in line."
Pre-enrollees did not have to go from table to table, picking up class cards. All they did was fill out registration cards and pick up fee statements. Several tables provided "more than adequate" space to write, said one student.
"There was merely a trickle of students registering," said Lorilea Jaderborg, Lindsburg senior who worked at table one. "There was not enough traffic for three days—two days would have been enough."
Most students apparently enrolled Wednesday morning, according to members of the administration. Thursday was relatively quiet, and the last-minute rush predicted for Friday never happened.
The scene at the Union was equally quiet, according to students who enrolled last week. Students working at enrollment tables passed the time playing cards, reading and talking.
Besides the usual computer errors in class schedules—one student discovered he was enrolled in four economics discussion groups—only one main problem resulted from pre-enrollment: several class sections were filled with pre-enrollees before regular enrollment began.
But pre-enrollment allowed administrators to plan ahead for additional sections of popular classes, said Doug Witt, assistant director of North College.
Kandee—good will ambassador
TOPEKA—Kandee Kae Klein, Miss Kansas of 1968, was declared the "good will ambassador" of the Kansas House of Representatives and the state.
Miss Klein is a sophomore at KU from Tribune.
The resolution was introduced by Rep. Jeff Taylor, T-Ribune, in the House, just after Miss Klein had appeared before the legislative body.
Korean student tells of assassination plot
By Pat Crawford Kansan Staff Reporter
There are 19 army divisions along the front line of the DMZ between North and South Korea. The North Koreans infiltrated through U.S.2nd Army Division. The Imjiin River, which runs through the DMZ, was frozen at the time of the infiltration. Because of this the 31 infiltrators came through with no difficulty. They crossed the river in small groups, met at a previously picked spot, and proceeded south with no interception.
Before Jong Chul Lee, a Korean political science graduate student from Seoul, arrived here Jan. 25 he was a member of the South Korean Army. He has several first-hand impressions of the recent North Korean assassination attempt on President Chung Hee Park of South Korea.
Lee was released from the army in late December. While in the service, he served on the front line through which the North Koreans infiltrated and studied Communist espionage tactics.
The infiltrators, according to Lee, were divided into six groups, each with a specific mission. The first group was to kill the security guard at the president's residence. The second and third groups were to destroy the first and second floors of the home. The fourth group was to occupy the parking area and a transportation unit. The objectives of the fifth and sixth groups were unknown.
Six groups of infiltrators
The infiltrators wore Korean army fatigues, brown overcoats and black sports shoes. Each man was equipped with a pistol, a sub-machine gun with 200 bullets, eight grenades and one anti-tank mine. Some carried bombs to blow up the president's home.
See Korean, page 3
CONJURING UP SPIRITS
In a scene from the University Theatre's production of "Blithe Spirit," to be presented Feb. 7-11, cast members wait expectantly as the medium asks the spirits to conjure up Charles' wife.
Cast members, from left to right, are Martha
Rhea, assistant instructor of speech and drama; James Hawes, assistant professor of speech and drama; Julia Callahan, Lawrence resident; Jo Anne Schneider, Lawrence resident; and Glen Rhea, also of Lawrence.
See related story, page 10.