Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 31, 1964
52nd Year, No.16
Lawrence, Kansas
"OOH! THAT WATER'S COLD!"—Studying for their finals at the south edge of Potter Lake are Marian Allen, sophomore; Susan Campbell, freshman; Jill Perry, freshman, and Debbie
Allen, sophomore. All the girls are from Lawrence and much to their chagrin, they soon found that mosquitoes, Socrates and economics just don't mix.
University Prepares For Program in Fall
By Linda Ellis
Summer School ends today, but the fall semester will open in a few short weeks bringing with it, as usual, a new crop of properly confused and lost freshmen.
Orientation week, when new students, freshmen and otherwise, are introduced to KU for the first time is a time for finding buildings, taking tests, getting blisters and planning a whole new life as a student.
The week of Sept. 13-21 has been chosen as orientation week this year. Classes begin Sept. 21.
Fall semester 1964 will be no different from any of the periods of the past. The orientation program for new students lists in detail the things students should do and where they should be the first week on campus.
New students arrive on campus Saturday, Sept. 12.
EACH STUDENT is sent an official orientation booklet that outlines the steps to take in enrolling, buying books and finding housing for the year.
On Monday, Sept. 14, placement examinations will be given—tests consisting of psychological, aptitude and achievement measurements. They are used not for determining entrance into or elimination from the University but for better counseling of students with reference to careers and courses of study.
All students in the University are required to take two sets of tests. These tests may also be taken during the summer-long KU Preview sessions.
AFTER PLACEMENT tests are taken new students are assigned advisers with whom they meet to discuss their course of study for the coming semester. Placement test scores are given to the adviser in order better to plan the first semester.
Although specific advisers are assigned to new students during enrollment week there often are times when deans and academic advisers
are not available except to their specific advises.
During this period selected upperclassmen, under the auspices of the All Student Council, will be available from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. for consultation on Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Hoch Auditorium and on Wednesday through Friday, Sept. 16-18, in both Hoch Auditorium and the Kansas Union.
EACH NEW STUDENT is required to send or bring to the Student Health Service prior to registration a medical record and a report of a physical examination done by his own physician. Students are to report to Watkins Memorial Hospital for evaluation of this report and completion of additional tests.
With the influx of new students and their families Sunday, Sept. 13, the food service facilities of Lawrence will be crowded. Meals are not served in the residence halls until Monday, Sept. 14.
THE KANSAS UNION therefore will provide the following services: Cafeteria, two serving lines 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Prairie Room, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4:30 to 9 p.m. and Hawk's Nest, continuous service from 11 a.m.
Registration will be in Hoch Auditorium. Beginning at 8 a.m. Sept. 15 new students may call for their registration packet at any time before enrollment. This packet must be presented at the Kansas Union for checking at the time of enrollment.
One event for new students this fall will be the traditional New Student Convocation at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 12 in Memorial Stadium.
Classes for all students will begin Monday, Sept. 21. The All-University Convocation at 9:30 a.m. will formally open the school year for all students. It is the only occasion scheduled at which the Chancellor addresses all students and faculty.
August Brings Early Rush For Fraternities
Sorority-fraternity rush, that frantic time of socializing,impressing and entertaining prospective members will open this fall with a new twist.
By Linda Ellis
An innovation in the fraternity rushing system will permit pledging of a limited number of men in August. Each fraternity may pledge up to 75 per cent of the house's quota of pledges.
During open rush, Aug. 1-31, each man whose application for admission to KU has been approved and who has registered for rush will be able to sign, upon invitation, an official pledge card from the fraternity of his choice.
THE NEW SYSTEM for rushing is expected to ease the tight housing situation for many rushees, according to Donald K. Alderson, dean of men. Prospective pledges do not obtain residence hall contracts, and by the end of rush week, there usually are no vacancies in residence halls.
August pledging will take place in the rushee's home town, since there will be no parties in KU fraternity houses in Lawrence.
Fall rush for fraternities will begin Sept. 8 and end Sept. 11. Men who did not sign a pledge card in August may participate in fall rush. Rushees will live in Templin Hall during the rush period.
Sororities will open fall rush Sept. 7 with a dinner meeting of house presidents and rush chairmen at the home of Emily Taylor, dean of women. 847 Avalon Road.
All sorority houses will open Sept. 8. Rushees will meet at KU residence balls Sept. 9, and parties are scheduled for Sept. 10-13. About 100 women, mostly transfer students, are expected to participate in fall rush.
KU to Be Center In Radar Study
The University of Kansas will coordinate a $1,800,000 research project at eight university and government laboratories to perfect radar techniques for one of the first orbiting research laboratory satellites, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced.
Work will begin immediately at several locations in the U.S. and Canada.
The project, one of the largest of its kind ever undertaken at the University, is expected to span three years. It wil be directed by Prof. Richard K. Moore of the KU Center for Research, Inc., assisted by Robert Ellermeier, instructor of electrical engineering.
The KU-directed research will test many kinds of radar and radiometry equipment, and will make recommendations about how various types could be used aboard a satellite.
RADAR AND RADIOMETRY devices may ride the first manned, orbiting spacecraft around the moon, which may be launched sometime in 1969. The radar can map the surface of the moon before Americans land there, perhaps in 1970.
A main reason for the research, Moore said, is that little is known about how well radar performs at such high altitudes in surveying vast land areas. Only in relatively recent earth satellite flights has radar been taken to altitudes approximating that of the moon probe.
Moore is an authority on highaltitude radar and has served as a consultant to U.S. government agencies in interpreting radar data from earth satellites.
FOUR SENIOR geographers and geologists from KU and at least four geology and geography graduate students will have major roles in the research. David Simonett, associate professor of geography, will be their group leader.
Others include Joe Eagleman, assistant professor of geography, Louis Dellwig, professor of geology, and M. E. Bickford, associate professor of geology.
Of the first year's allocation of almost $600,000 from NASA, more than $230,000 will go for work at the Center for Research on the Lawrence campus of the University.
Other research will be at the Ai Force Wright Air Development Center, Dayton, Ohio; Acadia University, Nova Scotia; Ohio State University; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology; the Naval Research Laboratory; the U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Miss, and the Geodesy Intelligence and Mapping Research and Development Agency, Ft. Belvoir, Va.
PART OF THE INVESTIGATION will involve flying "radar laboratory" airplanes from the Wright Air Development Center and Naval Research Laboratory over selected sites in the continental United States and Hawaii to test capabilities of electronic sensing devices. It will be determined from the flights how well various kinds of equipment detect ground moisture, soil and rock types, vegetation, and ground features, such as geological faults and coastline detail.
A second part of the research will be done at KU, where radar, geography, and geology specialists will attempt to match radar theory with performance, and show how an orbiting radar-radiometer laboratory can increase knowledge of the earth's surface and its daily changing moisture, vegetation, and snow cover.
ture, vegetation, and snow cover. The geographers and geologists will interpret what the radar "sees" as it scans simulated, miniature planetary surfaces in KU laboratories. They also will advise how to set up radar experiments over areas of the United States.
ONE TECHNIQUE will be the use of radar color mapping. The geoscientists hope to translate radar signals into colors to represent varying surface features. An article in the July 24 issue of Time magazine explained the success NASA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers already have had with related radar procedures.
Other radar data will be fed into KU's new IBM 7040 computer, which is to be installed this fall at the University Computation Center. The computer will provide statistical information from radar signals bounced off of rough surfaces.
Richard K. Moore
Pole Describes Nation's Theater
A story published in the July 28 Summer Session Kansan may have improperly reflected certain facts because of differences in languages.
The interview was with two Polish theatrical figures now on campus, Jan Wilkowski and Adam Kilian.
Kilian said there is a strong movement in the Polish students' theater, which is the only amateur theater in Poland, and one which has both help and support of the government.
He said the government supports theaters because they reflect the thoughts and feelings of a segment of the Polish culture.
The student theater does not produce the same plays produced by the professional theater, he said. The student theater finds its own means and has the courage to present in new forms comments on the social scene, he added.
Some are satirical and others political, but all are experimental in nature, he said. They are like laboratories and are used frequently as such by some professional theaters, be commented.
Students are from academic universities in Poland, but student theaters are not connected with the universities themselves, Kilian said. Some professional theater schools train students for the professional theater, but these are not connected with the amateur student theaters at universities, he observed.
Last Summer Kansan
Today's edition of the Summer Session Kansan will be the last of the summer. Regular publication of the University Daily Kansan will resume Sept. 17.