Campus Population Rises; KU Plans Expansion
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The KU student of 1962 who returns to visit the campus in 1975 will see a vastly changed panorama.
By Jim Alsbrook
Ten new buildings, four large additions to present structures, two renovated buildings, two tunnels and five traffic control stations will have been constructed. To make way for them about a dozen outdated buildings will be razed.
This development will occur in addition to the scheduled dormitory building program.
This multi-million dollar plan has been devised and recommended by the eight-member KU Planning Council. Its purpose is to provide facilities for the education of an expected 1975 enrollment of 21,000 students.
ACCORDING TO estimates, the yearly growth in KU student population in the next 13 years will be:
1962----10,800
1962—10,500
1963—11,500
1964-12,900
1964-12,500
1965-14,600
1965-14,000
1966 16.100
1966—16,100
1935 15.500
1975—21.000
The plan, which must be approved by the Kansas State Board of Regents, includes the following items:
- A new Fraser Hall located just
- A large classroom building where Robinson and Haworth halls now stand.
- An addition to Watkins Hospital.
- A permanent building behind Strong Hall (where temporary units now stand) for classrooms and offices.
- Two biological classroom and laboratory buildings where Robinson Annex now stands.
- A one-story addition for physics on top of the west wing of Malott Hall.
- A new gymnasium east across Naismith Road from Allen Field House.
- A classroom and laboratory addition to Lindley Hall.
- A building for art and architecture on the site of the new engineering building at 15th and Naismith.
- A final addition to Watson Library (in addition to the 1.8 million extension beginning this spring
- A building to house University Extension services west across Mississippi Street from the Kansas Union.
- An engineering library and administrative building on the site of the new engineering structure.
- A building for physical plant services, west of Iowa Street and south of 15th, on property owned by the Endowment Association.
- Renovation of Green Hall, home of the Law School.
- Renovation of Marvin Hall, present home of the Engineering and Architecture School.
- Two under-the-street tunnels one connecting Lindley Hall with the new engineering complex and
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the other connecting the Kansas Union with the proposed Extension building.
The construction of five traffic-control stations, a separately planned project, will be financed with $30 thousand in parking fee money. The razing and replacement of Blake Hall has been provided for separately.
Buildings scheduled for demolition under the project are Fraser Hall, Robinson Gymnasium, Haworth Hall, structures supplementary to these buildings, and other temporary or barracks annexe throughout the campus.
FRASER, ROBINSON, and Haworth halls will be torn down, the Planning Council said, because they cannot be economically renovated and maintained and because they occupy prime campus sites which could be more advantageously used by modern structures.
The temporary annexes were erected in the late 1940s to provide classroom and office space demanded by the sudden swell of war veterans on the campus. They were expected to be abandoned after about five years, but the pressure of increased
The plan, 11 years in the making, is intended to solve a variety of present and anticipated problems.
enrollment each year has required their continual use.
The trend toward centrifugal expansion would be reversed. The presence of old and impractical buildings in choice campus sites has made necessary the building of new structures on the campus periphery. This requires long walking distances for many students, some of whom now hardly can get from one class to another in the ten minutes between classes.
Building key structures in the middle of the campus and leaving only special schools on the periphery would tend to cut down on time and distance for students. Basic courses all students take, such as English, mathematics, speech and social sciences, would be given in the middle of the campus, and other courses of high priority could be more tightly concentrated in the Jayhawk Boulevard area.
MULTI-PURPOSE rooms usable for teaching varieties of subjects are being planned. The idea is to provide for double the present number of
WRECKER'S TARGET—Robinson Gymnasium, shown above, is scheduled to be razed to make room for a new building. A new gymnasium will be built.
students without increasing the size of the campus, meanwhile minimizing cross-campus travel.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said the Planning Council recognizes that the plan will determine the appearance of the campus for 50 years, and that therefore much time and effort have been invested in it. The plan is flexible, the chancellor said, because no one can determine what new courses or classes will be required within the next 13 years, and KU
must keep pace with new developments in science and other branches of learning.
Among the other points mentioned by the Chancellor are:
- The campus will be less cluttered and more beautiful, for the best architecture and the best landscaping will be combined with the optimum use of space in the new buildings.
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Symposium to Present Original Plays
By Tom Winston
The third annual University of Kansas Drama Symposium will occur May 7-12. It will present three new plays by contemporary American playwrights.
Though less well known than KU's annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music, which is held each year in early April, the Drama Symposium was founded for the same purpose: to perform and to encourage the writing of new works by contemporary Americans, and thus to further the cause of the American arts. Each year the symposiums try to produce some irregular new works.
Fresh, new ideas frequently are "way out"—a few of them even in orbit—but likely as not they have deep roots in past tradition.
One example of these new dramas is "Olympus Farewell" by Jefferson Bayley, one of last year's plays. It had a sarcastic little character who descended from heaven in a basket.
While it is by no means a new idea—the Greeks used the deus ex machina liberally and the Romans also adopted the innovation some 2,000 years ago—it is not a common occurrence on the modern-day stage.
Another example of the unusual, though not new, was produced by the first Drama Symposium in 1960. It was called "The Rite of Spring" and was written by William Sollner, a former KU graduate. It had a crucifixion, but of a black Christ.
An example of an irregular new production was last year's "Thunder Over Scotland" by Father Ernest C. Ferlita, a Catholic priest from a nearby Kansas town.
The plot concerns the persecution and trial of a Catholic priest in Calvinist Scotland around 1600. Though the play probably did not deserve it, the production it received was very bad. But the director was ill all through the rehearsals. Both such occurrences, i.e., bad production and bad health, are not the general rule here. Most of the other five productions received a production much nearer their due.
ONE OF THE two plays which shared the prize at the first drama symposium in 1960 was called "While Penelope Spins." That work
staked its fragile life on one titilating thesis:
Was Penelope really a good girl all those 20 years her hus-
Ulysses was away at war, cavorting with sirens, or wander'
The other work which shared the prize also treated a speculation:
What must the local town's reaction have been over the virgin Mary's famous pregnancy? The title of the play was "Tiger Born."
The three plays for production each year are chosen by sponsors Gordon Beck and William L. Kuhlke, instructors of speech and drama, and a corps of KU graduate students. The plays are read and individually evaluated as they are received. A committee of faculty and students selects the three plays for performance. The selections for this year were made from a submitted total of 87 new scripts.
The main requirements for entry of a manuscript in the symposium are that the play be original and unpublished. Any American playwright, however well known or unknown, may submit his work.
SOME OF THE students who have read and evaluated scripts were asked their reactions to the scripts they read:
"The ones I've read are pretty bad," Phil Harris, Lawrence senior, said.
Ken Baker, Helmetta, N. J., graduate student, said: "That one in the back seat is a comedy. I haven't read it so far. Maybe I'll find a good one yet."
Diana Abruizzino, Huntington, W. Va., graduate student, said Mr.
Beck told her:
"Be honest. You may have to direct it."
"That did it." Diana laughed. "I was."
There is a winner every year, however. The number of scripts submitted this year is encouragingly large. Only about 20 were submitted to the first symposium. Last year's number was a little over 60. The scripts chosen for this year are:
The scripts chosen for this year are:
"The Acrobats," a comedy by Berry Fleming; "Double, Double," a comedy by Marston Tate, and "Here Comes Santa Claus," a drama by Joel Oliansky.
The plays will receive two performances each in the Experimental Theatre.
The Story of a Political Murder
By Alain Raymond and Paul Chwat United Press International
ALGIERS, ALGERIA — His name was Ahmed and we saw him die one sunny afternoon on a busy downtown Algiers street.
We heard the dry crack of the gunman's revolver. We watched as the bullet caught him in back of his neck. We saw him spin around three times with a look of pained surprise on his face, his hands still stuffed in his pockets, and a cigarette dangling from his lip. We saw him fall dead on the sidewalk as the blood oozed from the bullet hole.
That night the state-operated Aljiers radio announced: "The death toll from terrorist attacks today was 21."
There was no mention of Ahmed by name.
THE DEATH TOLL that day had been a little above the average even for bloodstained Algiers. Within the space of three hours and within a radius of 500 yards of the main post office in the city center the killers had chopped down their victims—nearly all of them Moslems—at the rate of one every 10 minutes.
Ahmed was just one of 21 victims and that night his body lay alongside a score of others in the overcrowded morgue of Algiers, Mustapha Hospital.
But Ahmed had been a man until death crept up on him that afternoon and left him just a number—a man with a home, a family, a job, hopes, fears and perhaps modest ambitions.
Ahmed was just a number.
We found Ahmed's home, where he lived with his father, his mother, two brothers and a sister. It was a modest, shabby little home in the Rue du Spinx—one of the hundreds of steep, winding, dark alleys that crisscross the labyrinth of the Casbah, the fabled slum quarter where 80,000 Moslems live in squalor.
The Casbah Moslemse do not invite strangers into their homes. So we stood on the doorstep chatting with Ahmed's brother, Amar. He was a slender, dark-faced man of 25 with black eyes, black close-cropped crinkly hair, dressed in blue jeans and a white woolen pullover.
"WHY DID THE secret army (OAS) gunman kill Ahmed?" we asked. "Was he involved in politics?"
"Politics? What does that mean?" Amar retorted. "They (he stressed the word contemptuously), they killed him the way they kill all the others, because he was a Moslem. Because they want to provoke us into hitting back so they can charge us later with breaking the cease-fire agreement."
By this time a crowd of Arabs
had gathered around us. They were not hostile and they nodded approval of Amar's words. It turned out that during the battle of Algiers, early in the Algerian War, Amar had acted as a "letter box" for a rebel National Liberation Front cell, had been arrested by "les paris"-the French paratroopers who "pacified" the Casbah- and had spent some time in a French camp.
IT WAS NOT SO easy to find out something about Ahmed, the man. Moslems do not talk readily about their dead and there was nothing in their dress or behavior to show they were in mourning.
Gradually we kept easing the
To find out these things you have to engage them in conversation, win their confidence, become almost accepted, as it were, into their circle of family and friends. You have to cease being, for them, a stranger.
Ahmed was 23 and a stevedore on the Algiers waterfront.
talk back to Ahmed and were able to form a picture of him as he lived.
For 10 years his world had been on the Algiers docks, with their cranes, warehouses, lines of trucks loaded with early fruit and vegetables for Europe, their stacks of timber, their rows of wine barrels, their lighters, tugboats and fishing vessels.
Down by the blue Mediterranean Ahmed felt happier than in the cramped quarters of the Casbah. He liked the sea air better than the stench of meat and vegetables that pervades the narrow "soukhs" of the Casbah.
AHMED WENT first to a French school in the Boulevard de Verdun which borders the Casbah on one side.
A few years older, Ahmed joined
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