Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 26,1963
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 13
A FINAL LOOK—Science students put final touches to summer studies. The 25th Midwestern Music and Art Camp will close Sunday. More than 1,000 students attended the six week camp.
Vacation Troubles
Pupils, Parents Clash
Bv Linda Machin
Students' anxieties regarding courtship problems increase during vacation periods because of conflict with parents.
This is a conclusion drawn by Lawrence S. Bee, professor of sociology, anthropology and home economics, from his experiences with KU students.
PROF. BEE, also a fellow in the American Association of Marriage Counselors, ordinarily talks with several students each week during the regular school year about their courtship problems. The number of students coming in for consultation, he said, increases just before and after vacations.
"Semester breaks do not produce the number of problems that longer vacations such as Christmas and Summer do," he said. Before longer vacations, many couples are anticipating going home to spend their leisure time together, he said. The question seems to be: "Shall we go home and tell the folks?"
The largest simple problem confronting college couples today, said Prof. Bee, is parental disagreement with the young person's choice of a dating or marital partner. In most cases, the disagreement hinges on religious or social class differences, he added.
AFTER VACATIONS, problems center around the couple's inability to cope with the situation encountered at home. They may be faced with the decision whether or not to become engaged or married without the approval of their parents. Or, as is often asked Prof. Bee by KU students: "Shall we get married now, or wait until we finish our education?"
Conflicts between parents and young couples often involve the students' lack of maturity. One of the young persons may be unable to "break the psychological parental ties." he said.
On the other hand, the immaturity may be attributable to the parents. "Some parents try to keep their children in psychological knee- pants." Prof. Bee said.
He cited as an example, a widow trying to hold on to her son. "She
won't approve of anyone he dates,' he said.
A SECOND large group of problems commonly confronted by collegegains involves conflicting standards of behavior. The dating partners may be confused or in conflict about their physical (or sexual) relationship, about mutual friendships, or the type of entertainment.
They must decide whether to drink, to choose between a barn party, an apartment party, or a movie—or simply whether to go out alone or with other couples.
These decisions may sound simple, he said, but they cause much turmoil between college couples because of different standards of behavior.
"My point is: Couples need to stress creative experiences that reduce the need for excessive, spectacular emotional experience. Students should take greater part in the intellectual and aesthetic activities of the university such as lectures, plays and concerts."
During the last semester, the KU All Student Council questioned the desirability of large numbers of barn parties at the university. In reference to the matter, Prof. Bee said, "It's hard to say whether barn parties are conducive to so-called lower morals."
IN REGARD to selecting entertainment, he said:
"In general, students who are happy in school and doing well aren't going to get far out of line. It's the poor students and insecure ones who get into mischief."
"You have to think in terms of alternative activities," he continued. "Those alternatives might be getting off alone in parked cars, or being alone in private apartments."
"IN MY opinion, a couple's behavior at private apartment parties can be more undesirable than at barn parties." he said.
Prof. Bee, who developed a marriage counselor's training program on a graduate level at Utah State University before coming to the University of Kansas, said he does not give specific advice to students who come to him with problems.
Col.C.L.Jones Retires After Thirty Years
Col. Clyde L. Jones, Army professor of military science at KU for the past three years, is retiring July 31 after 30 years of service.
Col. Jones graduated from West Point in 1933. He was in the artillery in the Pacific during World War II, and also fought in the Korean War. After the Korean War, Col. Jones served on the Army General Staff in the Pentagon. He also has served in Panama, Germany, and Hawaii.
"A CAREER in the service offers a series of challenging and interesting positions," Col. Jones said. "If I had to pick one aspect of my career, I would say that working with other people has been the most rewarding."
When asked what particular job he enjoyed the most, he said, "Actually, I have never really had a bad assignment. I have enjoyed them all."
The University of Kansas was Col. Jones' first association with the ROTC program. He said that the ROTC program has been very important to the services.
"IF IT WERENT for the ROTC program, the Army would not have been able to be as effective as quickly in World War II. It still depends on the ROTC for the bulk of its commissioned officers. The Army needs 15,000 second lieutenants annually."
Col. Jones said that the universities should accept the responsibility of furnishing officers for the armed forces.
"The University of Kansas has done a very good job in this respect. The ROTC school here enjoys a very high reputation. During the past two years, all its commissioned officers have been in the upper 25% at their branch officers training course."
Col. Jones will be honored at a luncheon July 29 at the Kansas Union. Col. Jones will also receive the Army Commendation Ribbon Monday.
Books May Be Sold Aug. 1-2 at Union
Students may sell textbooks Thursday and Friday, Aug. 1 and 2 at the Kansas Union bookstore.
The buyers, who will be available on the lower level of the bookstore between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, will give cash in exchange for school books.
John C. Greene Joins Faculty
John C. Greene will join the faculty of the University of Kansas in September as professor of history and chairman of the committee on the history and philosophy of science.
Greene was visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley last year and has been a faculty member at Iowa State University since 1956. He previously taught at the University of Chicago for four years and at the University of Wisconsin for four years.
HE IS AUTHOR of more than 10 articles in professional journals and of two books: "The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought" and "Darwin and the Modern World View." Both have been reprinted by Mentor Books.
Greene has been secretary of the History of Science Society since 1960 and was president of the Midwest Junto of History of Science in 1961.
Greene had grants from the American Philosophical Society for summer research in 1959 and 1960 and from the National Science Foundation for the past three summers.
Former Students Call for Bella Itkin
Eight weeks ago Bella Itkin came to KU's summer theater from her regular position at Chicago's Goodman Theater and eight weeks from now she will begin directing rehearsals for an off-Broadway production in New York City.
For the past 18 years she has maintained a similar pace. The off-Broadway production, "Burn Me to Ashes," by Nikos Kazanzakis, has never been produced in the United States and is scheduled to open Sept. 23. It is her first experience with an off-Broadway show.
"A FORMER STUDENT of mine at Goodman's, who now is in New York, contacted me about directing the off-Broadway play," she said.
Her career has often been influenced by former students. Jack Brooking, acting director of KU University Theatre, who was a freshman in an acting class of Miss Itkin's at Goodman, offered her the position here at KU.
Shelly Berman, Geraldine Page,
Melinda Dillon, William Rittman,
and Karl Malden all studied under
her at Goodman's Theater.
DESPITE HER nearly two decades of experience in the theater, her work at KU marks her first encounter with an experimental theater.
"Actually, I would much prefer working with the experimental theater rather than the larger theater in Murphy," she continued. "The experimental theater provides a more intimate atmosphere, and I like it."
However, she noted that larger theaters, such as the one in Murphy, are better suited for "spectacles" such as "Romeo and Juliet" which opened last night. "Separate Tables"
which Miss Itkin directed was much better suited to the closeness of the experimental theater, she said.
MISS ITKIN'S work with the educational theater has not been limited to her work this summer at KU and the Goodman Theatre of Drama. In Chicago, she helped with a series of television shows for children with college-age students as directors.
In addition to working on her Ph.D. which she received from Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Itkin has spent past summers directing a summer stock company and giving private lessons in her own studios at Chicago.
As a career dramatist, Miss Itkin was introduced to the theater at an early age. Her father, an actor-teacher at the Moscow Art Theatre, once studied under author and dramatist Stanislavski, the originator of that theater.
In contrast to her work in Chicago, Miss Itkin said, "The only major change that might be called a problem, is the regional accent, but the students have all worked hard for me."
THIS SUMMER she has taught acting and directing to both students and teachers.
Speaking of the acting profession in general, she said, "The pay check is what determines whether one is an actor or not. And, like any other profession, there are both good actors and bad."
"There is room in the theater — whether it be educational, professional, or summer stock for anyone who really wants to work—for those who have both the ability and the will," she added, "but they must have both."
Anthropology Studies Boosted by Grants
William M. Bass, assistant professor of physical anthropology at the University of Kansas, has received three grants totaling $25,150 for research and facilities.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide $11,400 for an undergraduate science education during 1963-64 in the department of sociology and anthropology. The NSF funds will provide research stipends for 12 undergraduate students in the fall and spring semesters and six in the summer.
THE NATIONAL Science Foundation also is providing $11,700 for laboratory equipment in the physical anthropology laboratory. The university will match that sum.
The third grant is $2,050 from the National Park Service for research by Prof. Bass on a prehistoric Indian population in South Dakota.
The physical anthropology laboratory to be used by both undergraduate and graduate students is now located on the fifth floor of the new addition to Dyche Hall.
"THIS ENLARGED space and the new equipment will give KU one of the best laboratories of its kind in the United States." Dr. Bass said.
Prof. Bass both oversees and works on research in several areas: the variation in physical types of prehistoric inhabitants of North, Central and South America; anthropometric analyses of early Iranian populations; studies in human growth and development; and the identification of human skeletal material for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, and other state and local law enforcement agencies.
This is the second year for National Science Foundation support of undergraduate research in sociology and anthropology.
THE DISPLAY. in the main jobby of the library, was arranged by the Kansas collection staff. Mrs. William Jobe and Mr. Griffith Price set up the display.
Some of the printed accounts shown in the display are scarce. There is only one other copy of one of them. Mrs. Laura Neiswanger, Kansas Room librarian said, "Many of these items have been used in a book entitled 'Quantrill,' by W. E. Connelley, who was the secretary of the State Historical society.
One hundred years ago on Aug.
21, William Quantrill and his gang
ravaged Lawrence, burning 200
buildings and kiling 150 men.
As a centennial reminder of this unexpected massacre, Watson Library now displays letters, books, fire-arms and other articles connected with the infamous raiders.
Ouantrill's Raid Marked by Display
There are a number of other accounts written by Lawrence residents at the time of the raid such as the personal recollections written by Mrs. Sara T. D. Robinson. Harper's Weekly also had pictures of the raid at the time and afterward.
THE SON OF ONE editor whose newspaper is shown, died in the raid. All of his presses were destroyed and the paper had to be sent to Leavenworth to be printed.