Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 103
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Thursday, March 14, 1963
Architect Says Biology Affects Today's Design
The architect must give his foremost attention to biological aspects in today's changing world, a prominent international architect and designer said here last night.
Richard Neutra, speaking before about 750 persons in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union, said the architect must work for a solution for the survival of mankind.
"Survival is a certain, measurable vitality which perhaps is better than a vitality of once upon a time," he said.
THE ARCHITECTS and the planners are the ones who will have to solve the problems of survival. This is the rage.
Blake Hall
"I think the architects of the future are the ones who will be catering to a very large population. They will need to deliver the goods."
Neutra's appearance was sponsored by the KU Department of Architecture as part of its 50th anniversary celebration.
NEUTRA SAID he presently is investigating the possibilites of underground housing to solve the problems caused by an increasing population.
"We shall have, all of a sudden, escaped from all these changes on our revolving world." Neutra said of the underground project.
Neutra repeatedly referred to a project of several KU professors of architecture who work with administrators at Topeka State Hospital to determine an effective use of architecture for mental health purposes.
Asked after the lecture how he chooses materials for his projects, Neutra said he talks to his clients and uses them for inspiration.
"I THINK IT'S unique," Neutra said of the project. "It's something I have predicted for years. Such projects will occupy the minds of architects of the future.
"The most precious material which has come under my hands has been these human beings." Neutra said.
"Once architecture did not include this. In the future it will do this and more. As long as you can convince the 'assemblem' or Senate on the hill (statehouse in Topeka) of the need for support of such efforts, the results will be fantastic."
"THESE PROGRESSES are so big today that a man like Leonardo da Vinci would have enjoyed it. He was a humanist. Every painter, artist and writer was interested in things we are not interested in, and we have so much more," Neutra said.
Neutra spoke on "Architecture Once and Now." He gave his theory on a geometrical pattern of progress and criticized architects for not being more interested in human aspects.
He called the U.S. government's and the United Nations' construction work abroad a "big flop" because of a lack of concern with human aspects.
Weather
Neutra presented slides of his international work, repeatedly stressing the role of the architect to society.
The temperature will be fair and warmer this afternoon. tonight and tomorrow, becoming partly cloudy to cloudy in the west portions by afternoon. There will be increasing southerly winds Friday. The low tonight will be in the mid-20's. The high Friday will be in the 60's.
Demolition Work Begins on Blake
Workmen are razing Blake Hall, making room for a new, $750,000 classroom and office building to be constructed on the same site.
Razing is expected to be completed in mid-May, and construction on the Blake Hall replacement should start this summer. The new building is expected to be ready for use in September, 1964.
THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE sound laboratories behind Blake will remain open during most of the razing, said Keith Lawton, vice-
HOPE Nominations Must Be in April 1
A $100 award will be given to a full-time faculty member who has made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the students and the prestige of the University during the year. The award was established by the Class of 1359.
Nominations for professors to receive the HOPE award — Honors for Outstanding Progressive Educators— are due April 1.
Mary Ann Warburton, Coffeyville, chairman; Opal Elizabeth Barnes, Prairie Village, correspondence; Gerald Buttron, Lancaster, engineering; James Douglass, Overland Park, publicity; Gail Eberhardt, Wichita, college; Dennis Farney, Wilson, journalism; Ruth Ann James, Kansas City, Mo., publicity; Warren Richard Keller, Lawrence, business; Mary McGuire, Prairie Village, correspondence; Larry Milne, Lawrence, pharmacy; Melanie Poor, Seneca, Mo., education; and Bea Gordon, Wichita, fine arts.
Members of the selection committee. all seniors, include:
NOMINATIONS SHOULD be taken to the Alumni office, 127 Strong Hall, or given to any member of the HOPE award committee.
chancellor for operations.
But the language laboratories will be closed from March 25 till the end of spring vacation, he said. Workmen will be removing the roof tile on the south side of the building then.
Workmen now are removing tile from the front and sides of the roof. Other workmen are tearing out interior partitions.
BLAKE HALL HAS been standing dormant since it was replaced by Malot Hall in 1952. The Kansas Legislature appropriated $350,000 for the renovation of Blake in 1957, but the lowest bid was more than $550,000, and the renovation project was dropped.
The large clock in the front tower of Blake will be removed and put up for sale, an employee of Champney Wrecking Co., Topeka said.
THE STONE FROM the building has not been sold. If no purchasers are found, it will be thrown away.
Lime mortar was used in the building, the employee said. Being a weak mortar, it will probably turn to powder when the building is knocked down. He said a ball and chain will be used when a crane arrives.
The University Review of March, 1895,the year Blake was completed, said:
"The sandstone front of the Physics building looks like a speckled chicken. The iron in the stone shows more plainly than the stone itself. If there be no lotion that will remove these blemishes, let a screen be put before the building.
"THE REGENTS SHOULD think twice before accepting unconditionally the sorry looking structure with its chubby, freckled face, its one eye with a cross above it, and its monstrous hat."
In sixty days the writers of the Review can relax. Blake Hall will be gone.
UP Candidate Hits Committees
The University Party candidate for student body vice-president last night criticized the committee system of the All Student Council (ASC).
"Vox Populi has presented a platform this spring that is deep set in its tradition of 'when in doubt, form a committee.'" said Doug Hall, Raytown, Mo., sophomore. "Vox Populi has proposed the creation of four new committees to add to the already 'over-committeeed,' overburdened, ineffective committee system of the ASC." he said.
Hall's attack came at a UP meet-
Hall's attack came at a UP meeting at which the party's platform and the candidates for the ASC were presented.
HE CALLED the Vox platform "a collection of stolen or usurped trivialities which circumvent in every possible way any attempt to give student government any clear and easily accomplished direction."
Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior and Vox candidate for student body president said certain services are wanted and needed by students, and the Vox committees were proposed to fulfill them after study and research.
"We need to have committees," he said.
"You can't direct one or two individuals to do a job. You need a group of interested persons, and that's a committee."
McCORNACK SAID UP should prove the ASC committee system is ineffective. He said the committees were all organized for a purpose and have been doing their jobs.
George Hahm, Scotch Plains, N.J. senior and student body vice-president said the committee system had not failed. He said the committee chairmen from both Vox and UP had done good jobs this year.
Hall cited a Vox plank calling for installment payment of fees. "This was stolen directly from the registrar's office," he said.
WERE NOT saying it's our brainchild," said McCornack. "It was suggested by students and is being done on other campuses. Student government is obligated to act on the student's wants and needs. Whether the idea is new or not is irrelevant."
A PLANK in the UP platform asks, "Whatever happened to the Current Events Committee of the ASC?"
Hahm, who has been working closely with that committee explained that it had been functioning. Jerry Dickson, Newton senior, and student body president, agreed.
But the committee is limited by a lack of funds Hahm said.
UP advocates, in another plank, the formation of a Midwest Student Government Association, since the
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Seventeen KU seniors have been awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowships for graduate study in 1963-64.
KU Tops Big 8 InWilsonGrants
The 17 winners placed KU first among Big Eight schools in number of awards, and ranked KU 12th among colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
All of the 11 schools which had more scholarship winners than KU exercise a selective admissions policy. KU accepts all graduates of Kansas high schools. The first 11 schools are Harvard, Princeton, Yale, California, Michigan, Toronto, Cornell, Swarthmore, Columbia, Chicago and Stanford.
THE WOODROW WILSON National Fellowship Foundation, supported by the Ford Foundation. made 1,475 awards and added 1,154 honorable mentions after screening 9,767 seniors nominated by the faculty at 907 schools.
The program encourages students in the arts and sciences to prepare for careers in college teaching. Each award provides a full year's tuition and fees at a graduate school of the student's choice, plus a stipend of $1,500. Some also receive dependency allowances.
The KU seniors accounted for 17 of the 26 Fellowships given at Kansas schools (65%), 17 of the 47 earned at Big Eight conference schools (36%), and 17 of the 82 appointments (21%) in the 5-state region of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri and Oklahoma.
Six KU seniors who won honorable mention were among 15 in Kansas and 63 in the 5-state region.
In 1958, eight KU seniors were appointed Wilson Fellows, and in the following years 11, 13, 20 and 17. The new list brings the KU total since 1945 to 95.
THE 17 WILSON Fellowship winners from KU, the area of study, institution of first choice;
William H. Breckenridge Jr.
Louisburg, chemistry, Yale; William
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MOSCOW — (UPI) — A shouting mob of 1,000 Russians and Arab students hurled snowballs and ink bottles at the Iraqi embassy today in protest of the execution of communists in Iraq.
Arabs Storm Embassy
"Shame to the killers," the demonstrators shouted.
The demonstration started quietly, with chanting, placard-waving and speeches; but an hour later it erupted into violence.
THE INITIAL group of about 200 student demonstrators — many of whom apparently came from Arab countries — was joined by additional hundreds who jostled passably and then loosed a rain of snowballs, ice and ink bottles on the embassy
The barrage of ink bottles smashed embassy windows and left dripping
blobs of red, green and black running down the stone and brick walls.
About 150 Soviet soldiers stood in readiness on one of the streets, near the embassy. None appeared to be carrying weapons, but some had small portable radio sending and receiving sets.
AN ESTIMATED 40 Soviet policemen formed a cordon to keep the demonstrators about 20 feet from the embassy on the edge of the sidewalk.
They kept the crowd back but made no effort to stop the pelting with snowballs and ink bottles. They even assisted demonstrators who came up to place their placards and banners on the iron grill gate surrounding the embassy building.
The demonstrators also carried placards with such slogans as "the criminals must answer."