A title on the door means rainwater on the floor
By RICHARD MURPHY
Kansan Staff Writer
Assistant instructors in practically every academic field are starving for departmental space to prepare for classes, counsel students and work for their own seminars.
Lindley Annex is the departmental office for 105 assistant instructors of English. The annex is approximately 100 by 70 feet. There is no air conditioning, only two phones and the floor is covered with an inch of water every time it rains.
Roy Gridley, associate professor of English, said only full professors are entitled to their own office but added that
some departments still can't provide individual offices for them.
Gridley mentioned that Wescoe Hall, the mythical 25-story building to be built across Jayhawk Boulevard from Strong Hall would probably be able to take care of the office shortage, "but, as you can see, not much progress thus far."
One assistant instructor commented that he never goes near Lindley Annex except to contact another instructor. "I really have no complaints," he said, "because I just don't know what it's like to have my own office."
English is not the only department starving for office
space. Assistant instructors of political science are crammed together on the fourth floor of Blake Hall-four or five in an office originally meant for one-making a private student-teacher discussion impossible.
Student-teacher discussions are also difficult in Carruth-O'Leary Hall which houses instructors and professors of English, Spanish, French, and German.
For assistant instructors of classical languages, Gridley said, there is no office space available. "Assistant instructors in the area," he said, "usually end up using another professor's office while he is teaching a class."
Private offices
Photo by Halina Pawl
Office spaces, such as the ones in Lindley Hall Annex for English assistant instructors which are shown above, are the bases of appeals made by many KU instructors.
Police' testimony is favorable for Harrison trial's defendants
WICHITA (UPI) Two prosecution rebuttal witnesses surprised a Sedgwick County district court yesterday by offering character witness testimony for several of nine Negroes charged with robbery and extortion.
10 KANSAN May 2 1969
Testimony in the model cities trial was in its 27th day.
Both witnesses, Lawrence Gray and Robert Watson, are Kansas City police officers attached to the Police Community Relations Division.
County Atty. Keith Sanborn had called the officers to Wichita in hopes of proving a link between one of the defendants, Fred Johnson, and racial
disturbance in Kansas City, Kan., last summer.
But, according to testimony today by both officers, Johnson was instrumental in averting potential riot situations on several occasions. Gray further testified that Johnson is well-known and respected in the Kansas City area for his efforts to bring black and white communities together.
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