Campus Briefs
Drug grant awarded
Dr. Richard S. Givens, assistant professor of chemistry, has been awarded $14,032 by the Institute of General Medical Sciences of the U.S. Public Health Service for the first year of a three-year study of bicyclic ketones.
Enrollment at the University of Kansas is at its highest point ever for a spring semester, but it still is smaller than that of last fall.
The research will center around photochemistry of ketones, organic carbonate compounds, developing understanding of mechanisms involved in reactions, and determining synthetic usefulness.
Spring enrollment up
Sister Rose Heidrick, Nazaretn Motherhouse, Concordia, Kan., and Ph.D. candidate in chemistry, will be working with Dr. Givens.
Registrar William L. Kelly reported that 16,662 students had enrolled by Friday afternoon. This figure is smaller than the 17,607 enrolled last fall.
Kelly said late enrollments were continuing through yesterday and he expected about 350 more students to enroll, pushing the total over 17,000.
There are 15,319 students enrolled on the Lawrence campus and another 1,343 enrolled at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
Chem grant awarded
Dr. Robert A. Wiley, professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Kansas, has been awarded a grant of $13,232 by the U.S. Public Health Service for research on the makeup of two related drugs, and $7,600 from the National Science Foundation for a summer institute for undergraduates on research techniques.
The purpose of the research is to determine why the two similar drugs produce such different effects. Miss Karen Ely, Ph.D., The purpose of the research is to determine why the two similar drugs produce such different effects.
The two types of drugs, tranquilizers and psychic energizers or stimulants, are used with depressed mental patients.
Indian consul to talk
Kayatyani Shankar Bajpai will speak on the major issues of India's foreign policy at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Baipai, the consul general of India stationed in San Francisco, entered the Foreign Service in April 1952, and has had postings in Switzerland, West Germany, Turkey and Pakistan. He also served several years at Foreign Service Headquarters in New Delhi until his present assignment to San Francisco.
The speech is sponsored by the KU Indian Club and the World University Service.
German professors to visit KU next year
Robert P. Cobb, acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, announced today there will be two Max Kade visiting professors in German at the University of Kansas.
Prof. Friedrich Beisser, University of Tubingen, Germany, will be the Max Kade visiting professor in German in the spring semester of 1970. Prof. R. Conrady, University of Kiel, Germany, will hold the chair in the spring semester of 1971.
Underground press rolls soon
The Reconstruction Press, a newly-founded "underground" press originally scheduled to begin publication in January, 1969, is now scheduled to go to press Monday, according to John Naramore, Wichita senior and the Press business manager.
An outgrowth of the KU People's Voice movement, the publication will be a bi-weekly tabloid paper, similar in content and layout to the Los Angeles Free Press and the Berkeley Barb. Correspondent organizations have been established in Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City, and others are being organized in Wichita, Manhattan and Emporia.
"The idea for a newspaper started last fall when the People's Voice leaders resigned," Naramore reported. "A few people stayed after that meeting and talked over the idea, and Wayne Sailor of Lawrence began the organization."
Sailor has continued to organize the paper although a leader has been designated.
The dual function of the paper will be to deal with facts and ideas considered too controversial to be handled by the established news media, and to strengthen the liberal-radical student and black communities by publishing information relevant to their needs.
"We have about 50 subscriptions so far, and a great many business firms have expressed an interest in buying advertising space," said Naramore. "We have arranged to sell the Press in campus living groups, a few shops and even in the Union."
"We're not exactly anti-UDK, we just want to express our opinions of things as we see them," he said. "For instance, our first issue has an interview with the fellow who was kicked
out of K-state after the fire over there and the incident with the Marine recruiter. This is his view rather than the sheriff's or the university official's."
Naramore also said the difference between this "underground" paper and other radical newspapers is the extensive organization behind the Reconstruction Press. This, he feels, will determine the success of the paper.
PARIS (UPI) — A Versailles mailman who said he was too tired to make all of his daily round and threw his sack of mall into a nearby woods was sentenced to eight months in prison. The charge:
"Suppression of correspondence and abuse of confidence."
Scholarships increase
There were more scholarship hall applications processed for the Spring 1969, semester than ever before, Robert G. Billings, of the office of Student Financial Aid, said yesterday. The 21 applications for men's scholarship halls was relatively large, compared to the 12 to 15 he considered normal.
Billings refuted the rumor that the number of applications had greatly decreased this semester. He said he had no idea of the origin of the rumor, nor could he predict the number of applications for next fall, but he said that his office had processed more applications than previous spring semesters.
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The reasons for this increase
were unavailable, but Billings considered this spring's number remarkable because the applicants fill spaces left by students that have left school. The number of these spaces left at the end of last semester, and the figures for women's scholarship halls were also unavailable.
LONDON (UPI) Police said Gordon Holloway, 26, who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing rings from a jeweler's shop, was caught when the shopkeeper became suspicious and pushed the alarm bell because Holloway's disguise, a false beard, kept slipping off.
Feb. 4
1969
Experimental Theatre Murphy Hall