Special Collections a busy department
By MARY AGUIAR
BY MARY AGUILAR
Summer Kansan Reporter
Alexandra Mason, Head of the Special Collections Department of the Spencer Library, knelt on the floor of her office and unpacked cartons and packages from Europe. "I bet you thought librarians just sat behind a desk and stamped cards," she said.
I admitted that I had, but after 30 minutes of sitting in Miss Mason's office, my ideas were drastically changed. In the short time I was there, Miss Mason did everything—even advising a Latin Camper on library work. "It is
a continuous educational process. It never ends. That's the fun of it," from explaining the proper way of cleaning the glass casing of the collections to a janitress, to showing me around the Department and explaining and describing the Collections.
"Special Collections is a place where we accumulate the research and primary source matter in humanities, history and the history of science," said Miss Mason. The specialties of this department include a collection of the european renaissance, the political, economic, and social
Miss Mason said most of the readers who use the Special Collections are interested in history.
history of England in the eighteenth century, voyages and travels, the History of ornithology, and medical botany.
Throughout this department, there are various isolated rooms. No book may leave the building. As a result, there are special manuscript reading rooms, general reference reading rooms, and small classrooms where whole classes may use the available materials. Also, there are rooms for individual study for people who
are working on huge, long term projects.
The department and building is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. to all people who have need of the material housed in it Miss Mason said readers at Spencer range from the occasional 10-year-old
school child to visiting professors.
At 4 p.m. a guide is on tour duty at Special Collections. If anyone is in the building at that time he may go on an informal guided tour. It is designed so that each person may browse and observe at his own pace.
KU Journalism graduates fare well in job placement
KU Medical Center receives a $30 million budget annually
Although the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City has an annual budget of $30 million, only $7 million comes from state tax revenue funds, according to Provost George A. Wolf, Jr.
About two-thirds of the budget is for salaries to employees, thus returning to the state a certain amount in taxes and generally adding to the total economy of the state. Equipment and supplies purchased for the Medical Center are mostly bought in Kansas, according to Dr. Wolf, who also is dean of the School of Medicine.
Eleven million dollars of the budget come from charges to patients and represents the costs of these services. Another $8 million comes from grants, mostly from the federal government for research activities.
The hospital cares for nearly
Only a small portion of income is derived from fees charged to students.
550 inpatients daily and a quarter of a million outpatients annually. It takes 2,300 employees, not including the medical faculty and students to take care of the patients, physical facilities, supplies and accounts.
At one time each day, there are approximately 5,000 people in the Medical Center, including staff, faculty, patients and students, and not including visitors to patients, according to Dean Wolf.
The advertising and news-editorial sequences claimed the majority of degrees conferred by the William Allen White School of Journalism in 1969.
With an average weekly salary of $142, many former KU students have been placed in various jobs throughout the advertising field. Some of the more interesting jobs include those held by William J. Myers who is project co-ordinator and a advertising manager for Bill Strong and Associates in Kansas City, and Richard Whitson, who is working in the ad sales department of the Kansas City branch of the Packer Publishing Company.
Working as an international correspondent with Time-Life
or being a reporter for the UPI are just a couple of the more interesting jobs for students with an interest in news or editorial writing. The average weekly salary for jobs in these areas is $135.
$110 is the average weekly salary for those graduates finding jobs in the magazine field. Many students went to work for nationally known magazines such as Time, Life and Look.
The average monthly salary for graduates who specialize in radio, television and films is $575.
Of the 29 students who were not placed,16 were going into various branches of the armed forces and four were planning to attend graduate school.
Anthropology professor boasts of department's fine equipment
By DEBBIE WALDEN Summer Kansan Reporter
William M. Bass, professor of anthropology, refers to the anthropology department at the University of Kansas as "the best equipped in the United States."
Bass modestly claims that he has refused several higher paying positions because the facilities were not comparable. After an hour of discussion, it became obvious that the personnel of the department had everything they could want.
Next fall, plans to remodel a portion of Fraser Hall's basement are in effect to substitute the makeshift storage area to a more sophisticated work area. At this time the one large room holds hundreds of bones; ranging from human frames to bird skeletons. Although there has been quite a bit of organizing, the room can be made more convenient for the students who must work there.
Every year more skeletons are added to the collection. Excavations usually reveal 300 to 400 burials.
However, excavations in South Dakota and Mexico this summer are estimated to bring only 50 to 60 burials to light. Funds are provided either by the National Geographic Society or the National Science Foundation.
Instead of having cardboard containers for the skeletons the department is having metal boxes installed on all four walls. Several more tables will be provided for the cleaning and studying of the bones. A partition will be installed to utilize and organize the space more effectively.
Sex education to be studied
TOPEKA (UPI) — A five member committee to study sex education in the state has been named by the Kansas Association of School Boards.
Appointed to the committee were Mrs. Evalyn Whitecomb, Wichita; Dr. Arnold Baum, Dodge City; the Rev. S. E. Hopkins, Ottawa; Dr. Robert Hughes, Marysville, and Mrs. Connie Meninger, Topeka.
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Prof William M. Bass
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