Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 10, 1964
Lawrence, Kansas
52nd Year, No.10
"ILL TAKE THIS ONE," says John Gurnett, a Latin teacher from Bellevue, Neb., attending a Latin workshop at KU. On the right is Lyle
Watson Bookstore Offers 1,200 Quality Paperbacks
Hampton, clerk in the bookstore in the basement of Watson Library. (Kansan photo by Dan Austin.)
Bv Christopher Gunn
After three months of existence, "the branch bookstore" in the base-ment of Watson Library appears to be thriving.
The store, which still has no official name (although "Bookeeller" and "Booklet" have been suggested), was opened March 26 to offer paperbacks to people using the library. (Watson Library proper has no paperbacks.)
The store, managed and run by Lyle Hampton, graduate student, carries mainly "quality" paperbacks, many of which come from university presses. However, the complete Modern Library hard-cover series, library duplications, literary quarterlies, and paper and writing supplies can also be found there.
A majority of the books stocked are "quality" paperbacks. These books are printed on better paper, in larger type, have more durable bindings, and are about the size of regular hard-cover editions. They range in price from under $1 to nearly $3.
FEW BOOKS of contemporary fiction are published in the "quality" paperback format, so several racks of standard paperbacks consisting of high-quality contemporary fiction, all of which comes from commercial publishing houses, are in the store. Certain reference works, such as Webster's New World Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, and the like also are available.
ALL OF THE 1500 or so titles are in a scholarly vein. However, no textbooks are sold. Consisting mainly of non-fictional works, the books sold can best be described as "recommended" reading rather than required reading for classes.
are available.
In addition to selling paperbacks, the bookstore also stocks the complete Modern Library, although certain titles may at times be sold out. The Modern Library is a series of about 350 low-cost, hard-backed books, both classics and contemporary books of merit. A Modern Library Giants series consists of larger volumes, anthologies, and collections.
ANOTHER INTERESTING feature of the bookstore is that it sells "library duplications." These are books
of which Watson Library has too many copies. Many unusual books can be found in this manner, in addition to common ones such as Beowulf, and Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. All of these books are sold at reduced prices.
Eight various literary quarterlies are available at the store, including one published at KU, the Midcontinent American Studies Journal.
Several racks of paper and writing supplies can be bought at the bookstore, although not too wide a selection is offered. In any event, this store is open when the Union Bookstore is not, and is closer to the center of the campus.
Another series is that of the University of Minnesota Press—criticisms of American authors. These books are rather small and cost only 65 cents. Spectrum Books puts out a similar series of collections of critical essays about famous authors, which retails at $1.95.
BOOKS FROM YALE, Cambridge,
Notre Dame, Minnesota University,
California University, and Chicago
University can be found. Nearly all
of the university press books would
be classified as "quality" paperbacks.
In addition to the Modern Library series, several other series are also carried: The College Outline Series is one of the several factual outline series sold, containing the basic facts on the many subjects its volumes are published about.
THE COOL, QUIET, fluorescent-lighted bookstore room is located just inside the basement door under the main entrance, on the same level as the Undergraduate Library. At present it is impossible to reach the bookstore from the Undergraduate Library, as several large magazine racks block the passage.
The hours of the Watson bookstore are 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.-10 p.m. Monday through Friday, during the summer session. During the regular school year the store also is open Sunday.
Purchases from the bookstore qualify for percentage refunds, as do those from the Union Bookstore.
Weiss to Advise Foreign Students
A specialist to evaluate credits brought by foreign students entering KU has been named assistant dean in the Graduate School and assistant director of admissions on a part-time basis.
Arnold H. Weiss, associate professor of romance languages, will devote approximately half time to this work and to advising foreign students in academic matters while they are here.
He will continue to teach courses in Spanish language and literatures.
KU's foreign student attendance has risen rapidly—from 301 representing 61 nations in 1961 to 423 from 73 nations last year. The difficulties of evaluating credits from so many diverse educational systems posed one set of problems. Other problems arose in the guiding of foreign students academically in the various KU curricula which would be most useful later in their homelands.
Foreign Students Orientation Begins
By Jolan Csukas
More than 55 foreign students, representing 24 different countries are taking part in the Foreign Student Orientation held on the campus until Sept. 2 in order to improve their English proficiency before entering a university this fall. The program began Tuesday.
Three Films Tonight
Three films will be shown at 8 p.m. today on the lawn east of Robinson Gymnasium. They are "America's Natural Wonders," "Spain, Land of Tradition and Promise," and "Come Camping in Alaska."
4 Scientists Go to London
Four biological scientists from KU are attending the 12th International Congress for Entomology in London, where they are giving papers on their research.
The professors giving papers are Charles A. Leone, zoology; George W. Byers and Frank Sonleitner, entomology, and Robert R. Sokal, statistical biology.
LEONE IS discussing uses of molecular taxonomy in his paper, "Systematic Serology of Insects." He is emphasizing classification according to immunological reactions, a technique he has developed.
Byers is describing his progress in classifying the Mecoptera, a group of insects that includes scorpion flies. His comparative research among all living groups has revealed that some of these insects have not been classified properly in the past.
Soneitner's paper, "Application and Comparisons of Mark-Recapture Models," deals with his computer tests of formulas used to determine the population of organisms. He collected data for the project while studying the fruit fly in Australia as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow.
THE CLASSIFICATION of organisms by computer is described in Sokal's paper on numerical taxonomy. Sokal, who was on leave last year to lecture on ecology and biometry at Tel-Aviv and Hebrew universities in Israel, was a developer of the method, which has aroused controversy among scientists.
Sokal and Sonleitner also are presenting a joint report on their work on the Tribolium, the red flour beetle. Their studies deal with the natural selection and genetics of mutants.
The Foreign Student Orientation, which is in its 14th year at the University, is the longest continuing center of its kind in the United States. The students are sponsored either by the United States State Department or the Institute of International Education.
ALTHOUGH NO university credit is given to them, these students are enrolled in this program so that they may become better acquainted with the English language and the customs of the American people.
A minimum of five hours' English instruction each day is required in addition to the lectures on American civilization, politics, and social problems given each day.
Instruction is mainly by KU professors and political figures. Included in the list of guest speakers for the group are Rep. Robert Ellsworth and Sam Jackson from the NAACP in Topeka. Dr. J. A. Burzle, professor of German, has been directing the activities of the group since the beginning of the Foreign Student Orientation program 14 years ago.
SEVERAL FIELD trips have been planned for the students, including home stays in Abilene and Kansas City. Throughout this eight-week period, they will be taken to see several industrial plants and museums in the area.
The weekend of July 31-Aug. 2, the group will be taken to Abilene to visit the Eisenhower Museum and live with an American family during that time. Accommodations for them are being made by the Women's Chamber of Commerce in Abilene. A similar trip will be taken to Kansas City on the weekend of Aug. 21-23.
During the instruction period, the students are being housed in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall and are taking their meals at the Union. Classes have been set up for them in Watson Library.
Kamper Kansan Today
Inserted in this issue of the Summer Session Kansan is the second edition of the Kamper Kansan. It is published bi-weekly during the six-week session of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp by the journalism division.
KU Awards 9 Building Contracts
By Emery Goad
Summertime, with its good weather, affords the best time for the University to award contracts for needed work on campus and clean-up work on larger construction jobs.
According to Keith Lawton, vice chancellor for operations, three contracts have been awarded for work on Watson Library during the summer. Under contract, new shelving and book stacks in the study rooms and new facilities for the special collections in the basement will be provided.
UNDER ANOTHER, the deteriorated stone doorway at the front of the library, which has stood the "wear and tear" of students and weather for the last 40 years, will be replaced. Another library contract will provide for the filling-in of a hole in the stone work in the left tower aton the library building.
Along with the new lighting being installed in the building a new high
speed book lift will be added. It will connect the main call desk with the main central stack in the basement.
THE WATER MAIN now serving the campus has reached its capacity and will be replaced later this month. The new line will be laid between the power plant and the Lawrence city main at Sunflower Road and Sunnyside Avenue.
The asphalt and gravel sidewalks in Marvin Grove, beyond Strong Hall, soon will be replaced by cement walkways joining the steps behind Strong Hall to the steps in the rear of the Student Union. A connecting walk to the parking lot also will be paved, and new low level lighting will be placed along the new walks through the grove.
A contract has been awarded to re-do the east section of the first floor of Summerfield Hall. The area will be expanded to house a new computer center and new IBM equipment which the University has purchased.
The statistical service from Bailey Hall will be moved into the new facility. The new office and equipment will enable the accounting department, which handles the University payroll and other duties, to provide more adequate service.
NEW ALUMINUM and glass doors soon will be installed in the design wing on the third floor of Strong Hall. The new doors and glass dividers will provide more area for displays of the art department.
Plans and specifications for a new service drive from the parking lot at the north of the field house to Ellsworth and Lewis Halls are being studied by the state architect.
The new drive and sidewalks will be placed approximately where the gravel walkways now used by Daisy Hill residents are located. Lawton said it is hoped that the new drive will alleviate some of the traffic problems on Engel Road.