SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
50th Year, No.11
Tuesday, July 17, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Traffic Booths Will Not Open Until Fall Term
KU students get their first and probably their last respite from the new traffic control stations now under construction at five points on the campus.
It was hoped that the booths would be completed in time to try them out the last two weeks of summer school.
WITH THE BOOTHS not completed, their opening will be delayed until the start of the fall term. Keith Lawton, vice chancellor of operations, reports.
"There is no delay in the construction of the booths." Lawton said. He said that the idea to put them into operation the last two weeks was merely a "hope" and not a definite plan.
The booths should be finished in August, according to Lawton. The completion of the structures awaits the delivery of certain materials expected early in August.
the locations of the five stations are:
- On Jayhawk Boulevard, just south of the intersection of Oread Ave. and 13th St. in front of the Kansas Union and Myers Hall
- On 14th St. west of the Louisiana St. intersection
- On Sunflower Road, just north of the Sunnyside Ave. intersection
- On Sunflower Road, just south of the Memorial Drive intersection
- On Jayhawk Boulevard, just east of the Chi Omega fountain.
Faculty to Present Recital Tonight
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts will present a faculty recital tonight at 8:00 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The program is open to the public without charge.
WORK, WORK—Construction has begun on the new addition to Watson Library. Here a bulldozer prepares the ground so that the structure may be started.
Campus Activities
Today
8 p.m.—Faculty recital. Swarthout Recital Hall.
7:30 p.m.—Swimming. Robinson Gymnasium. Co-educational.
Wednesday
7:30 p.m.—Midwestern Music Camp Student recital. Swarthout Recital Hall.
7:30 p.m.—Swimming, Robinson Gymnasium. Co-educational.
8 p.m.—Hour dance, Kansas Union. Informal. Band.
Thursday
5:15 p.m.—Intramurals. Lindley Oilers vs. Firebirds. Haworth vs. Pharm. Chemicals.
7:30 p.m.—Swimming. Robinson Gymnasium. Co-educational.
6:30 p.m.-Bus trip to "Mexican Holiday." Starlight Theatre Reservations. Call Henry Shenk, KU 460.
Liberian Here To Observe KU
The president of the University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia, is visiting the KU campus on a tour across the United States to observe American colleges and universities.
Rocheforte L. Weeks arrived here Sunday evening and will leave tomorrow morning.
HE HAS BEEN president of the Liberian university since April 1959. Previous to that he was Assistant Attorney General of Liberia.
He has traveled quite extensively visiting the United States several times between 1949 and 1960 for study and for official business of the Liberian Government. He has also visited the United Kingdom and other European countries and in Africa on official business.
Weeks received his B.A. degree in liberal arts from Liberia College in 1944. He received an LL.B. degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1952 and a LL.M. degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, N. Y. in 1954.
The University of Liberia, formerly Liberia College, was incorporated in 1851 by act of the Liberian legislature. Its early support came from an American Board of Trustees for Donations, but since 1893 the Liberian government has endeavored to carry the bulk of the current expenses.
THE UNIVERSITY is controlled in large part by the Liberian Department of Public Instruction. The Board of Trustees for Donations controls the application of certain special funds.
Its enrollment is 450 students of whom a majority are studying in the high school and elementary school departments. A minority study in the liberal arts college. Its admission requirements are a secondary school certificate and an entrance examination.
Its campus is situated on 20 acres on Cape Murado in Monrovia. The buildings were constructed in 1861 at a cost of $18,000. In 1946 a $30,000 building program was started and now is completed.
Management Institute Here
The 13th Midwest Management institute at the University of Kansas began Sunday with an enrollment of 125 credit bureau personnel from a 10-state area.
Each credit bureau representative will enroll in one of four possible courses of study. At the end of the institute on July 20,12 to 14 persons who have attended previous institutes are expected to be graduated from the program, in recognition of completing the four courses.
The 12 credit bureau members and KU educators who will instruct the courses are:
Elmer Beth, professor of journalism; E. C. Buehler, professor of speech and drama; Becky Cameron, Credit and Collection Bureau, Pueblo, Colo.; William Conboy, professor of speech and drama; Frank E. X. Dance, assistant professor of speech and drama;
Joseph Garber, Credit Bureau of Cincinnati, Ohio; Kim Giffin, professor of speech and drama; Bert Hodge, Retailers Credit Association, Sacramento, Calif.; Tom Hutsell, Western Auto Supply Co., Kansas City, Mo.; Carl Roewe, Associated Credit Bureau of America, St. Louis, Mo.;
Carl Seashore, the University of Kansas Extension, Kansas City, and J. V. White, Credit Bureau, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Kansas University Rich in Traditions
(Editor's Note — KU is rich in its traditions. Here are some of the emblems and traditions that have made KU known throughout the country. We thank the KU Alumni Association for this information.)
The Jayhawk
The Jayhawk is a myth of unknown origin. It has a background of adventure. The term 'to Jayhawk' and the name "Jayhawkers" appeared in the 1850s all the way from Illinois to Texas. The sobriquet was attached to foragers, guerrillas, even to a fighting regiment, "Jennison's Jayhawkers."
The earliest use of the word which has been traced definitely, occurred in 1848. A wagon train which had formed at Galesburg, Ill., was starting for the California gold fields without much equipment or provisions. When asked how they expected to get across the desolate plains and mountains one member said, "We are going to Jayhawk' our way." The party became known as the "Jayhawkers." Most of them made it across, after terrible suffering. Their trek was a harrowing episode of that westward surge.
GRADUALLY IN the pre-Civil War skirmishes in which Lawrence, Kans., was a chief target, the term "Jayhawkers" came to be applied more and more to Kansans. That the word "Jayhawk" continued to live in peoples' memories is shown by the fact that when the original version of the now famous "Rock Chalk"
chant of the University of Kansas was created in 1886, the word "Jay-hawk" was part of it—even before "Rock Chalk" was added. It was only natural that the name "Jay- Hawkers" should be applied to the State University's football team when it took the field in 1890.
Refined and idealized through the years, the term "Javahawkers" as applied to people, or KU teams, has come to have a proud meaning. The Javahawk is thought of as the bird who returns from his flight with the report "Mission accomplished." He may, or may not, be equipped with all the modern gadgets. He may come back disheveled and with some feathers missing; but he weathers the storm.
Few other colleges and universities have such a meaningful symbol, one so deeply associated with the struggles of the people who founded them.
STRANGELY, only occasional and indiscriminate efforts to draw the bird were made before 1910 when Henry Maloy entered KU. He began drawing his conception of a Jayhawk in the student paper and in other publications. He put shoes on his Jayhawk so it could kick the Missouri Hound Dog around after the sentiment of a song then popular. Some few years later, a more somber, motionless bird perched on a KU monogram came into use. In 1823, Jimmy O'Bryon and George Hollingberg designed a quaint ducklike Jayhawk which had wide acceptance.
In 1923, the alumni club of Kansas City adopted the name "Jayhawk Club" and employed an artist to produce a bird which actually represents the austere, fighting spirit of the Jayhawk about as well as any. Later Dr. Gene "Yogi" Williams created his Jayhawk showing a perky contemptuous attitude which might
become tough if bothered. Countless other representations of a Jayhawk have been drawn.
Actually, the Jayhawker tradition is much akin to the Latin motto of Kansas, "Ad Astra Per Aspera," meaning "To The Stars Through Difficulties." Jayhawkers have fierce pride in their Alma Mater, its teams, its friendiness and the great record of its alumni in medicine, journalism, business, education, science, law, and the arts. The Jayhawkers of Kansas are still "Jayhawking" in ever finer ways.
Rock Chalk
The world-famous chant "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU" was originated to give vent to the exuberance of the student-faculty science club in its meetings. In the mid 1880s, Professor E. H. S. Bailey, head of the chemistry department, and some of his associates were returning to Lawrence from a scientific conference in Wichita.
At first, their version was simply, "Rah, Rah! Jayhawk, KU" repeated three times. Later an English professor suggested substitution of "Rock Chalk" which was a transposition of chalk rock, a lime-stone formation cropping out on Mt. Oread, the campus of the University. The yell has such appealing cadence and dignity that Theodore Roosevelt pronounced it the greatest collegechant he had ever heard.
As they traveled, they talked of the need for a yell. The click-clack of the train wheels passing over the joints of the rails suggested a rhythm and cadence to them.
It has been used by fighting troops from Kansas in the Philippines during 1899, in the Boxer Revolution, in France in World War I and all over the world in World War II. At the Olympic games in 1920, the King of Belgium asked for a typical American college yell. The assembled athletes agreed on KU's Rock Chalk at the best and joined together to render it for His Majesty.
"Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU" is not just an association of words. It is
symbolic of Kansas, its soil, its pioneer struggles and its spirit of victory.
KU
Rock Chalk Chant
R-o-c-k C-h-a-l-k J-a-y H-a-w-k,
KU
R-o-c-k C-h-a-l-k, J-a-y H-a-w-k,
Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, KU
Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, KU
Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, KU.
Colors
Surprisingly, the University of Kansas colors, crimson and blue, used since the early 1890s, are not the colors adopted by the University Board of Regents in the '60s. The regents who had used the University of Michigan charter as a model for the University of Kansas also decided to adopt the Michigan colors which are maize and sky blue.
These colors were used at oratorical meets and the like, and they may have been used when Kansas competed in rowing with its team that practiced on the Kaw River in the middle '80s. However, when football came upon the scene in 1890, the student backers wanted to use Harvard crimson as the athletic color in honor of Col. John J. McCook, a Harvard man, who had given money for an athletic field for KU. Some Yale men were on the faculty and they demanded that Yale blue be included. The rooters sallied forth to follow crimson and the blue on their teams.
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