KU singers take two top prizes
Two of the five prizes awarded in the regional competition of the Metropolitan Opera auditions last weekend in Kansas City went to KU singers.
KU singers. David Holloway, a baritone and KU voice instructor, said he was judged the leading male singer in the auditions and received a $200 award as second best in the over-all competition.
Mrs. Jean Vigil, Osage City senior and Holloway's student, won one of the three $75 Metropolitan Opera Studio awards.
Holloway, Mrs. Vigil and Mrs. Judith Hughes, Skokie, Ill., senior, were chosen in earlier area auditions in Kansas City to compete in the regionals.
Holloway said he received indications he may later be auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera Studio program.
GSP winner of Heart Fund campaign
Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall has been named winner of the freshman residence hall Heart Fund campaign, Frances Ricks, assistant to the dean of women, announced today, Ellsworth Hall was the runner up.
The amount collected by the four residence halls was $5,851.02.
The breakdown by halls is: GSP, $1,952.25; Ellsworth, $1,576.22;
Oliver Hall, $1,426.44, and Corbin Hall, $896.11.
The winning hall was determined by the amount collected per capita, Mrs. Ricks said. Campaign tactics included free dining room line passes and breakfast in bed for the floor which collected the most money.
The winning hall and runner up will be presented a trophy by the president of the Kansas Heart Association at a noon dinner March 2 in GSP.
KU accreditation to be reviewed
An eight-member team from the North Central Association will visit KU, March 3 to 6 to review the University's accreditation, a University spokesman said today.
The review is scheduled every 10 years and encompasses all aspects of the University's activities.
KU is a charter member of the North Central Association, which includes institutions in a 19 state area.
Shipwreck evacuation is lecture topic
Michael Katzev will discuss "The Excavation of a Greek Shipwreck-Kyrenia, Cyprus," at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Pine Room. The lecture is sponsored by the Kansas Society of the Archeological Institute of America.
Katzev is assistant professor of art history and archaeology at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
KU gets unrestricted $10,000 gift
An unrestricted gift of $10,000 has been given to KU by the Cities Service Foundation on behalf of several Cities Service subsidiaries.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said the grant made possible Douglas Moore's opera "Carry Nation" for the KU's Centennial, in 1967 the grant provided support for KU's graduate student exchange program and last year it went to KU's summer foreign language institutes.
Cultural boom developing
America is in the midst of a culture boom, said Peter Selz, professor of art history and museum director from the University of California at Berkeley.
More people are going to museums, plays and concerts than ever before, he told more than 50 students and faculty Monday night in Dyche Auditorium.
In his lecture "Art and Academia," sponsored by the KU Art Museum, Selz discussed relationships between art and the university.
"Art has become more popular than sports, especially among the young." He attributed the increased interest to television, but said major credit is due to the universities which provide fertile centers for art to flourish. Because students are hungry for art, they help its present growth, he explained.
He said university students are
Scholarship hall heating system 'unsatisfactory'
The steam system that heats University scholarship halls on Alumni Place "is in need of replacement," said R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor of operations.
Lawton said the prefabricated steam system was installed in 1951 "with the understanding that it was a temporary measure.
"It was not made to last forever," he said. "Its lifetime is up."
Although permanent systems are usually equipped with walk-in tunnels, this one was placed underground by a method we call "direct burial," Lawton said. "It makes repair work extremely difficult and impractical."
Lawton said although the condition of the steam system is not yet an emergency, it is gradually worsening.
various campuses to illustrate how universities are becoming more aware of art.
He explained that the University has been asking the Kansas Legislature for three or four sessions for appropriations to replace the system. "The legislature has not found it possible. Our latest request, which was forwarded by the University to the Kansas Board of Regents, was deleted there before the budget went on to Topeka," Lawton said.
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Selz concluded his lecture with slides of major art works on
The university should provide an atmosphere conducive to change; it should be a stimulus to society, he said.
Research has been undertaken by British Pharmaceutical Co. on safe birth control pills for dogs, cats and other pets. A pill for dogs has been developed and will be offered to the public next month.
Seiz praised students around the world who participate in campus revolts for legitimate reasons. "A good university should not be a service station for the establishment."
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