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Kamper Kansan
Friday, July 10, 1964
Dyche Hall Is Setting For Courses In Anthropology
On the fifth floor of Dyche Hall a section of the Science and Math Camp is located. This is the anthropology department, for the study of the science of man. It embraces comparative sociology and the study of culture in time and space. Twenty-six campers are taking the course directed by Prof. Charles E. Snow, a visiting professor from Kentucky University.
During the course of the week two lectures are heard and two laboratories are held. Each Wednesday is set apart for films and discussions. There are ten hours of class work a week in which the students use the European text, "Anthropology, A to Z."
Prof. Charles E. Snow remarked that he is impressed with the amount of equipment that the laboratories contain. The laboratories are fully equipped with bone specimens, skulls, skeletons and measuremental instruments. He said that Dr. William Bass, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology, has done extremely well in outfitting the rooms.
The student above is shown viewing an exhibit of skulls which depicts the ancestry of modern man and are to be found on the second floor of the Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall.
in the laboratories the campers discuss the making of primitive tools, ecology of human beings (what sort of life they had to lead), primate skulls, fossil man, and the human skeleton in scientific description.
Short courses are held in physical anthropology, the nature of man, and prehistoric archaeology (a description of human life before history).
Cultural realms, human relation to environment and people, are also studied. This includes glottochronology, a study of languages, and anthropography, a branch of anthropology.
Films related to the subject show a wide variety in the field of anthropology. Recently a movie was shown explaining environmental setting between the land of plenty (the Northwest Pacific) and the poor Australian Aborgines in the deserts of Australia. This week, a film was shown on the Maya and Polynesian Indians.
The chapters of the textbook being studied deal with a concept of race, formation of races, history of races, cultural anthropology, constitution, taxonomy of the primates, demography, and paleoanthropology—a study of fossil hominids.
Your Reward-Pride
"Don't worry about it, Honey, you're not being graded. Listen, Sybil Baby, we're up here to have fun and do a little work on the sideline."
Maybe you have heard similar statements while around camp this summer. Letter grades or report cards may not be presented at camp, but this does not mean that one should not work to his capacity.
In the music division, a merit of advancement to the next chair may be obtained by the ones who work hardest for it. The science division holds 25 scholarships to an eight-week apprenticeship at camp next summer. Students showing the most talent and dependability in the different sections of the science division will receive the grants. Art exhibits displayed in Murphy Hall throughout each week reveal talent and hard work from the art division.
Special awards are given at the closing camp meeting to the students who have displayed their talents, accomplished the most and worked the hardest in their respective divisions. Even the prize of one ice cream bar is given to each person on the cleanest wing of his dorm each week.
Much recognition and many awards may be achieved at camp this summer, but there is one merit far more superior to any other. Work to achieve the reward of self-satisfaction.
Campers Use Union Book Store Facilities
The book store located in the sub-basement of the Kansas Union is a boon not only to University students, but to campers as well. This store contains just about every article that a student would need for classroom work, and many other articles besides.
Its main floor contains the usual school supplies such as paper, pens, stationary, and art supplies. It is also the headquarters for the official University of Kansas sweatshirts in just about every color from lavender to green.
GIFT ITEMS include KU mugs, jewelry, and stuffed animals. Midwestern Music and Art camp pins, and math-science division pins, both in sterling silver, are also available to campers.
Kamper Kansa
Published bi-weekly by first- year students of the journalism division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Staff
Editor-in-chief Margaret Ogilvie
News editor ... Charles Potter
Reporters ... John Sullivan
Laurie Lankin
Rose Marsha Resnick
Lynn Liles
Editorial and Feature editor ...
Pamela Peck
Reporters ... Janie Choice
Paula Myers
Dave Adams
Secondary News editor ... Sheryl
Dreifuss
Reporters ... Christopher Gunn
Nancy Trabon
Maxine Cohen
Linda Barham
Sports editor ... Dale Schroeder
Reporters ... Chip Rouse
Karen Haney
Photographer ... John Sullivan
An addition to the Union store is a branch shop located in Watson Library. The new store, opened officially March 26, carries many "scholarly" paperbacks which are published by university presses. The "Modern Library" series, a small stock of quality hardbacks, and a small inventory of school supplies may also be found in the branch store, which is open from 1:30-5 p.m., and 6:30-10 p.m. Monday through Friday during the summer session.
The store's lower level is composed solely of books, which are shelved according to subject. The many basic fields of study represented are categorized separately. Every type of reading material from light humor through the specialized sciences are on display. Orders for special books are taken and usually filled within two weeks.
Three issues of the "Kamper Kansan" will be published during the 1964 session of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. Last year there was only one "Kamper," an eight-page edition printed during the last week of camp.
New staff positions are assigned at two-week intervals, giving each of the first-year journalism students the experience of working in the different capacities of editing and reporting.
New Policy Adopted For Kamper Kansan
The counselors in the girls' dorm really have problems! When the counselors of one room returned their mattresses were hanging on a water pipe, records were scattered all over the room, the mirror was written on with lipstick, and all of their clothes were taken out of the closets and put under the beds.
As camp progresses, there are those students who break rules and regulations. They are sure to be punished in some way.
Discipline Prescribed
The most widely used punishment is the "campus," which means evening room confinement—no dates, movies, tennis, or swimming. Usually the broken rule drawing this punishment is arriving at the dorms a few minutes after closing. Sometimes early bed hours are the prescribed discipline.
it is rumored that several campers were given "campus" for carrying their counselor's bed into the restroom. When room inspection time rolls around and untidy rooms are found, two other penalties are used. Students can be seen on floor duty or yard duty. They pick up trash and sweep halls. It's easier sometimes to just keep one's room clean.
Camping on Campus
By Margaret Ogilvie
Life on the hill has become an isolated affair consisting of a scarcity of newspapers and all that sort of thing. Once in a while you (or more likely the counselor on room check) will run across a pile of dusty books over in the corner, if not a paperback under the bed. They're what has become of the volumes you had stored in one of the dusty corners of your room at home, plus a few irresistible juicy little tidbits and other expensive pieces of intellectual junk that they sell on college campuses to help you grow up. Or at least they should fill your "leisure hours" and fulfill the image you once had of your more literate self, i.e., all those books you put off reading until the "lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer" rolled around.
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Speaking of room checks, or leisure hours, or whatever we were discussing, some interesting observations come to mind. Lately in the mornings, while "coming lately" to classes, some things around the dorm that had been overlooked came to attention. One of these was the fact that the poor sleepy room-checkers, while scouring the premises for all visible signs of disarray, noticed a closet door ajar (much to their delight). But (much to ours) the patrol failed to notice the stuffings within which gave all but themselves away.
Now, we've hit the favorite topic. Speaking of stuffings, the food around here is too much. But I suppose we'll keep on taking advantage of that opportunity, and of all the other little opportunities that keep popping up. It's not too far to the nearest snack bar or to the nearest empty machine. If the situation ever gets really desperate, you could probably live off those care packages from home.
We are deviating again from the topic, which happens to be machines. You'd never know, by the debris that ornaments the edges of the Lewis Hall patio, that cigarettes are no longer sold on the KU campus. It looks as though the industry is still thriving. And that's a lot of precious pennies, and otherwise precious girls, up in smoke.
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Air-conditioning has a way of keeping things cooled off. Have you ever gone to bed with a head of wet hair, which has been thrown up into rollers in the dark, only to awaken the next morning even more in the dark about the whole mess? It usually does everything but refrigerate overnight, which is to say that it's in about the same shape as the musty towel you had hung up to dry the night before. Try getting up earlier(!) and using the hair dryer—burning up under one of them is better than freezing out.
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(They may have stumbled on an even more effective method for cure of wet scalp over at Templin, and that is bald scalp!)
But remember, air-conditioning is a luxury, and it does feel especially good after you've been outside awhile—or for a few hours—baking in the sun. You may think there's no place like the pool back home for relaxation, but all you really need is a swimsuit, a beach towel, and a radio. It's been as crowded on the lawn behind Lewis (where girls only congregate), as it's been in the laundry room on Saturdays.
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Because the book stacks would be too crowded if all students were allowed to browse through them, students copy the complete call number, author, and title on a half-slip of paper, and present it to the assistant at the desk, and, upon receiving it, complete a three-part form. Graduate students and some undergraduates may secure stack privileges.
Indexes Aid Selection
Besides book indexes containing more than three million cards, a periodical index is useful to many. After looking up his article in the "Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature" or "International Index," the student can find information in the
Half the books are shelved in Watson Library and the other half spread throughout the campus in various buildings and at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
"A million books!" This was the cry of the fifty professional librarians of Watson Library and the many branches across the campus as they added KU's millionth book to the shelves recently.
KU's Library System Houses a Million Books
bound magazines. For quick reference, he may use one of the many subject indexes found in the library. A revolving file on the desk tells what magazines and issues are in the library.
Contained in the reference rooms are encyclopedias and hundreds of reference books from other countries as well as the United States. Much biographical material can be found with many biographical dictionaries and reference books. A pamphlet file and many college catalogues may be of interest and use to the student. Cubicles for typing may be facilitated at no cost.
In the Microtext Room, microfilms of the London Times, New York Times, Kansas City Star, Topeka Daily Capital, Lawrence Journal-World, and Christian Scientist Daily Monitor are available for finding information.
The Undergraduate library can be found in the basement where students may browse and choose books, magazines, and newspapers as they please.
Artists Visit Swope, Nelson Gallery
Two-hundred forty art campers visited Swope Park Zoo and the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art Wednesday, June 8, on their annual field trip.
Accompanying the students on the chartered buses, which left Lewis Hall at 8 a.m. to return at about 5 p.m. were Prof. Arvid Jacobson, assistant director of the Art Camp, and fourteen other instructors.
This session's trip marks the thirteenth annual outing for the campers, during which they first sketched animals in the zoo, before stopping for a box lunch in the park. A conducted tour of the gallery, during which the artists made sketches of various exhibits, concluded the afternoon.
No Gravel Paths!
Next year's campers may walk to class on nice new cement sidewalks. The University is currently planning to add a service driveway and sidewalks to replace the gravel paths from Ellsworth and Lewis Halls to the parking lot at the north of the field house.
As many campers have probably noticed by the stakes and red flags, the future sidewalk is being surveyed and "staked-out."