Wednesday, April 24, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Around Campus Cervantes Day Planned
Cervantes Day, an educational holiday for students of Spanish in area schools, will be held here Saturday.
The program will include lectures, sound equipment demonstrations, films and the awarding of prizes for high school language competition.
The Kansas chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese will also hold their annual meeting under the direction of Arnold Weiss, associate professor of romance languages and chapter president.
Sanchez Escribano of the University of Colorado will lecture in Spanish on "Lope de Vega, valor humano y estético" at 10 a.m. in Fraser Theater. "Rio Escondido," a Mexican film with English subtitles, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday in 303 Bailey.
The film is the story of Mexico's struggle against illiteracy.
Domingo Ricart, associate professor of Romance languages, will honor the late Prof. José Osma, founder of Cervantes Day, at the luncheon in the Kansas Union.
A variety program will be held at 2 p.m. in which the play "Yerma" will be presented by several KU students. Winners of the annual AATSP high school language contest will be announced. The Kansas winner will be eligible for a national award.
In addition to KU, the participating schools are: Lawrence, Washburn Rural (Topeka), Bonner Springs Rural, and Onaga Rural high schools, St. Mary College of Xavier, Mount St. Scholastica College of Atchison, and Olathe Junior High School.
'Elijah' to be Presented
Three hundred voices of the University Chorus backed by the University Symphony will present the "Elijah" by Felix Mendelssohn at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
Soloists will be Marva Lou Powell, soprano and Topeka graduate student; Sharon Tebbenkamp Sooter, mezzo-soprano and Lawrence senior; Edward Sooter, tenor and Lawrence special student; and James Ralston, baritone and instructor of music education and choral music.
Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education and choral music, will conduct.
The program is open to the public without charge.
One-Act Plays Scheduled
An international cast of American, Austrian, English, and German students will present three one-act plays in German at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the University Experimental Theatre.
The first play, "The Matron of Ephesus," by Lessing, is a classic comedy. It deals with a widow in Ephesus who mourns her husband's death by sitting in his tomb, crying and starving herself.
She meets a military captain, falls in love with him, and eventually plans to marry him.
The second play is "Christmas Shopping" by Schnitzler. This is the scene of two old lovers meeting and the conversation which takes place during that time.
The third play, by Gunter Grass, is entitled "Ten Minutes to Buffalo," and deals with two men who are running away from their ship. They try to reach the city of Buffalo, which symbolizes freedom and happiness, and are prevented from doing so by the captain of their ship.
The plays are under the supervision of Henriette Mandl, assistant instructor of speech and drama. She said, "We hope the plays meet with an excellent response so that the program can be enlarged in the coming year."
German Library Received
A 140-volume German library has been given to the KU German department by the Goethe-Institut in Munich as a teaching aid.
The library, entitled "Model Library for a German Teacher," includes the latest works on German literature, methodology of teaching, German civilization, and about 10 long playing recordings on German pronunciation, conversation and other teaching aids.
The library is now being cataloged and will possibly be in use before the end of the semester.
J. A. Burzle, chairman of the German department, said he hoped to tell all teachers of German in Kansas of the new acquisition. Although the library will remain at KU, any teacher of German may use it or write to KU for information from it.
Sociologists Attend Meeting
Four KU sociologists have returned from a three-day meeting of the Mid-West Sociological Society in Milwaukee, Wis.
Charles K. Warriner, chairman of the KU department of sociology, discussed a paper presented by another sociologist on children's consciousness of race, and C. Dale Johnson, instructor of sociology presented a paper on "Colleague Relationship Among the Clergy."
Awards for the best student papers submitted in a society competition were presented by Marston McCluggage, professor of sociology, and chairman of the society's publication committee. E. Jackson Baur, professor of sociology, chaired a section on international relations.
Wescoe Says KU Expansion Hinges on More Financial Aid
By Roy Miller
Emphasizing a need for receiving more financial aid, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said last night that KU and Lawrence could and should become one of the nation's major research-based industrial centers.
Chancellor Wescoe, speaking before more than 200 persons at a Lawrence Chamber of Commerce dinner in the Kansas Union Ballroom, said:
Dr. Wescoe said that tremendous amounts of money are available to research-based industrial centers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Department and other federal bureaus.
"IN THE UNIVERSITY. Lawrence has the secret ingredient that made Boston the electronics capital of the world, which made the Palo Alto area of California one of the most dynamic regions in the nation, which is bringing research-based industry to strange-sounding places like Lafayette (Ind.), Ann Arbor (Mich.) and Norman (Okla.), and half a dozen other cities and towns across this nation which are much like Lawrence."
"The problem for Kansas is how to build capability," Chancellor Wescoe said.
HE SUGGESTED the following as possible solutions to the problem: $ \bullet $ "Existing cooperation between industry and higher education could be enhanced."
- "A concerted effort could be made to exploit present unused
resources of all kinds to bring industry to the state, including the imaginations, the capabilities and the contacts of higher education..."
"But these will not be enough unless the foundation for industrial growth has been laid: a well-supported system of higher education in Kansas," Chancellor Wescoe said.
He said such a foundation would necessitate increased support for all public institutions of higher education in the state, particularly for KU and Kansas State University.
CHANCELLOR WESCOE SAID one important step to obtain industrial centers would be to increase teachers' salaries.
"An excessive concern about costs did not build such great universities as the University of Michigan or the University of California at Berkeley." Chancellor Wescoe said, "These two state universities are great because they have received more state support for salaries and operations and research than any other state university."
He said the salary paid KU faculty members is 20 per cent below the average paid faculty members of other universities the size of KU. He also said a recent survey of members of the Association of American Universities showed that KU ranked 29th on a list of 30 in average salaries paid to professors
Dr. Wescoe said if the University of Michigan were moved from Ann Arbor to Lawrence, the present KU
We've Got 'Em In Your Size!
"Appalling?" Dr. Wescoe asked of his hypothetical shift of universities. "Perhaps, but it would buy a great university, and only $38 million of those annual expenses would come from state appropriations. From federal grants would come $28.5 million; for gifts and contracts, more than $8 million.
"THIS IS ONLY part of the story: for with this great university would come a host of industries based upon research; it would bring to Kansas a burst of vitality and a long-lasting prosperity beside which the public investment would seem like only the turning of the key which unlocked the dynamo."
The Chancellor said the industries around Boston's Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Cambridge's Harvard University reportedly employ 100,000 persons.
student population of 10,000 would become 30,000, the KU faculty of less than 700 would become 2,000 and operating expenses would be $113 million instead of the existing less than $30 million.
Chancellor Wescoe said "risk capital" should be made available in Kansas to establish research-based industries.
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"In this area we have talked too long in terms of inducing established industries to move to Kansas," he said. "We can, if we have courage, develop our own, just as the great modern research industries on either coast. . . ."
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