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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1964
KU's Melting Pot Meets In Versatile Hawk's Nest
By Leta Cathcart
"Why don't you bid two spades? We could've won if you had When did you learn to plav bridge anyway? Yesterday?"
"But that assignment can't be due tomorrow. I have two others that I haven't even started for tomorrow. When did all this happen, anyway?"
Such conversations are sandwiched in and shouted over "Long Tall Texan" and "A Hundred Miles" at the Hawk's Nest—a place where students go when they have nothing else to do or so much to do they don't know where to start.
IT'S PROBABLY the first place freshmen become acquainted with after arriving at KU.
People-watchers find a gold mine in the Hawk's Nest. Every type of student goes there at one time or another. If the peoplewatcher is persistent enough, eventually he will observe a cross-section of the intellectual, the playboy, the man-hunter, the farm boy and the eternal bridge player.
The art student can be seen with sketch pad under one arm and tackle box clutched in the other hand, wandering through a maze of people as he contemplates the murals of the Big Eight mascots which line the walls.
THE PSYCHOLOGY major studies the group (or mob, whichever way he looks at it) of students who gather in the Hawk's Nest.
The journalism major looks for a possible news story.
The drama student might try to analyze the emotions and attitudes of the bridge players.
A few of the more industrious students try studying in one of the booths. Incredible powers of concentration are needed to shut out the demands for "hamburger and fries" shouted over the intercom, the blaring music and the cacophony of talking students.
A depressed student can sit in one of the relatively quiet corners smoke a cigarette and ponder the fly on the table top.
YET THE Hawk's Nest is one of the few places on campus where a student can relax between classes.
Some of the more liberal professors even hold class there.
A professor, coffee cup in one hand, the other illustrating a point, teaches in the smoke-filled haze. His students, some intent, others not so intent, drink coffee and discuss ideas to change the world.
The Hawk's Nest is a place for fun, a place for discussion, a place for thought and even perhaps, a place for learning.
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Heinrich Stammler, professor and chairman of the Slavic languages and literatures department, has received a Ford Foundation grant to complete his study of the Russian writer, V.V. Rozanoz. His research will be done in Munich and Vienna, as well as at KU.
Next Month Say "FILL'ER UP"!
Two KU professors who specialize in Slavic and Soviet area studies have received grants to conduct research abroad in the second semester.
Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics, will study "managerial incentives and enterprise in East European countries," as Radio Free Europe's first visiting research professor. His work will be based in Munich.
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Two Professors Receive Grants Study Abroad
Both Stammler and Shaffer have been granted leaves of absence.
Stammler, who joined the KU faculty in 1960 as associate professor of Russian, has been working for five years on a critical study of the Russian writer, who lived from 1856-1919.
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In 1963 a book by Stammler on Rozanov was printed in Germany. He hopes to use his research grant this year to round out his studies of the writer.
Shaffer, a KU faculty member since 1956, began his East European study this summer. His research work was conducted under a KU grant at Stanford University's Hoover Library.
Shaffer is the author of an earlier study on managerial incentives in the Soviet Union. Titled "What Price Economic Reforms: Ills and Remedies," it was published by the United States Information Agency in its May-June (1963) issue of Problems of Communism.
FOUR NEW YORK METS PITCHERS lost to every other team in the National League in 1963.
They are: Humayun Ali Mirza, Khairabad, India, junior, president; Dhulipala M. Rao, Secunderabad, India, graduate, vice-president; Mrs. Sathyanarayan Rao, Hyderabad, India, sophomore, secretary; and Azizullah Qureshi, Hyderabad, India, sophomore, treasurer.
Officers of India Club for the spring semester were elected January 31.
India Club Elects Officers for Spring
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