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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 21, 1964
MASS HABITATION—Residence halls are criticized and corrected in these models by architecture design students. The models represent basic living units, each housing four students, as an attempt to avoid an institutional character.
Architects Replan KU
By Hal Cordry
As more and more students move into University residence halls, criticisms of these mass-habitation complexes are also on the rise.
For example, many believe that it is impossible for a student to retain his personal identity in our huge residence halls. At the same time, the environment is not thought to be conducive to study.
In an effort to determine possible solutions to these problems, Robert F. Asbury, associate professor of architecture, and Robert N. Allsopp, instructor of architecture, initiated a project in their design classes in which "greater consideration to human habitation and environment in a mass society" would be given.
THE PROJECT called for the grouping of a thousand students into basic living units, each housing four students. Every four of these basic units share common lounges
and recreational space. Only eating facilities and larger group activity areas are centralized.
The site for the project, the block north of the Kansas Union, was chosen for its adjacency to the hub of campus activity.
"The architectural students' designs," said Allsopp, "indicate attempts to avoid the institutional character of the present housing and to provide a greater opportunity for personal identification with the physical and social environment while still retaining a sense of the larger student community.
In some of the designs, each student is provided with a small but private study and sleeping area. In others, more attention has been given to small-group living where a few students share a common studio and bedroom. Most of the designs provide for private outdoor study and sitting areas on balconies, roof terraces, and patios or gardens.
Free Press Offers Reward for 'Bogus'
The Kansas Free Press is offering a $25 reward for information leading to the persons responsible for the "bogus" March 16 issue of the publication.
Laird M. Wilcox, Lawrence freshman and editor of the student liberal newsletter, said they were hoping for legal investigation even though the Kansas Bureau of Investigation had dropped the case.
The KBI office in Topeka said they did not think there was a case of criminal libel in regard to an article appearing in the "bogus"
issue which attempts to reconcile Christianity with communism.
The article is purported to be written by Steve Long, Mission senior.
Long and Wilcox have said the views and articles in the limited circulation "bogus" issue are not their own.
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