Photography classes to get new lab
A contract is being drawn up to award the bid for remodeling the west end of the Flint Hall basement for a photography lab, said William Seymour, photojournalism instructor yesterday.
Seymour said the Vice-Chancellor Keith Lawton informed him that the University has accepted the B. A. Green Construction Company's low bid of $33,400. The Green Construction Co. is a Lawrence firm.
"The contract has not been officially signed, but approval has been given the state pruching agent for signing." Seymour said.
Daicoff named to project study
Darwin Daicoff, professor of economics is one of nine economists named to a project study assisting a University of Colorado research project, said Ronald R. Olsen, professor of economics.
The project, funded by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, will study the impact of reduced military expenditures on the domestic economy.
Daicoff previously has made studies on readjustments by communities in which military bases have been closed.
KU alumni receive four film awards
Four films produced by a KU alumni received five domestic and foreign awards recently from the Council on International Nontheatrical Events, said Richard P. Trubey, manager of special projects for the Upjohn Co.
Trubey, a 1942 graduate of the KU School of Pharmacy, conceived and produced the Upioneer "Vanguard of Medicine" series.
The Cine Golden Eagle award was given to two of Trubey's films, "Locomotion in Cancer Cells" and "Cold-Light Endoscopy."
Receiving international awards were "The Obsolete Menopause" and "Myocardial Revascularization." These films previously had earned Golden Eagle awards.
Reading course enrollment to open
Enrollment in rapid reading and study skills courses will be open March 18 to 21 in 102 Bailey, said Ted Garten of the KU Reading and Study Skills Clinic yesterday.
The courses which Garten said are always full are free and without academic credit. The two courses will be offered each in six sections. The study skills course will be offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the rapid reading course on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday sequence.
KU sends five to history conference
The KU History Department has five representatives attending the 12th Missouri Valley History Conference, said W. Stitt Robinson, history department chairman.
Robinson said Ambrose Saricks, professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School, will serve as chairman for one of the sessions of the conference.
Edward E. Daub, professor of history; Richard E. Meyer, Lawrence graduate student; Terry H. Harmon, Newton graduate student; and Miss Melanie Veenboer, Lawrence graduate student, will read papers during the three-day conference which begins today.
Black studies programs warned; KU courses are not in danger
By KEN PETERSON
Kansan Staff Writer
KU, for the moment at least, apparently can relax with its present program of black courses, because the courses are not under an official Black Studies Department.
Black studies are the subject of a memorandum issued last week by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW).
The memorandum, addressed to all universities participating in federal assistance programs, warned the university administration "against violating the civil rights law when establishing black studies programs."
Francis Heller, dean of faculties, said yesterday he knew of no problems with either segregation or the black courses at KU.
Accompanying the memorandum was a statement by Mrs. Ruby G. Martin, director of the Office for Civil Rights, who said the office would support the recruitment and enrollment of "high risk" students, minority or otherwise.
Mrs. Martin's statement said that any minority group served by special programs, like black studies, would be under the ruling of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which provides that:
- No separate housing based on race will be allowed.
- No separate social activity space will be allowed.
- Every service and benefit of the institution will be for all students.
The HEW warning was aimed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. HEW threatened a cut-off federal funds if the college failed to desegregate its Black Studies Institute and an all-black residence hall.
Calamities curse play's production
By JUDY JARRELL Kansan Staff Writer
Does "The Imaginary Invalid" really have a curse upon it?
Will the KU production escape further calamity?
The answer is yet to come because Moliere's last play is scheduled for March 19 to 22 in the University Theatre.
Lecturing before a class recently, Thomas Long, visiting associate professor of speech and drama and original director of the show, was suddenly stricken with appendicitis.
Playing the lead, in spite of illness when the play was first produced in 1673, the playwright collapsed during the fourth performance and died that night at the age of 51.
Robert Findlay, professor of speech and drama, took over the position of director and the opening of the play was postponed.
The director describes the play as "basically farcical, with no particular deep, dark meaning."
If no more affictions arise, a contemporary commentary will accompany the 17th century satire via slides projected above the main stage arch.
Findlay prepared the slides as a means of updating the play. But, the classical flavor prevails with elaborate Louis XIV costumes by Chez Haehl, costumer for the KU theater, and appropriate sets by James Hawes, assistant professor of speech and drama.
"I kept the elements most relevant to us today," Findlay said. For example, a concluding section originally was performed completely in Latin, but the contemporized version minimizes Latin words and phrases.
The comedy tells the story of a well-to-do hypochondriac who wants his daughter to marry a doctor she doesn't love.
Tickets for the production are on sale in the University Theatre box office. Curtain time is 8:20 p.m.
HEW has asked Antioch to "either substantiate its claim that its Afro-American Studies Institute is exempt from the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or submit desegregation plans for its all-black institute and a black dormitory."
White interest
Speaking on the black courses at KU, Heller said whites seemed to be as interested in the courses as blacks.
Instead of a black studies program, KU offers various black courses in different departments, a spokesman for American Studies said.
The spokesman said he had not heard of the initiation of any separate black studies at KU, although he felt this was unfortunate. He said the black contribution to society is left out of the usual college curriculum.
Clarence Reynolds, president of the Black Student Union, declined comment on the possibility of a black studies program at KU.
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