Temporary buildings to alleviate crowding
Temporary pre - fabricated buildings will ease overcrowded conditions at the University of Kansas until the state legislature approves fund resuests for permanent buildings.
Five of the portable buildings will be purchased, at a cost of about $90,000, from funds provided by the KU Endowment Association at the request of Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
Originally, the buildings were to have been purchased from Educational Building Funds (EBF), but the legislature denied that request, presumably because EEF funds are earmarked for permanent structures.
Only one of the 24-by-60 ft. buildings will be used for classroom space. The remaining four will house offices for several college departments, including the department of visual arts, faculty offices and administrative offices of the student health service, presently located in cramped Watkins Hospital.
Placement of the buildings is expected to begin about August 1 for use by the start of the fall semester Aug.24.
Appointments given 7
Seven students in American studies have received appointments that will advance their academic and professional careers this summer and in 1970-71.
Michael Collins, Garden City, will be the University of Kansas direct exchange scholar to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.
1970-71; and Eric Chaet, Chicago,
a graduate honors fellowship.
Receiving awards from the University of Kansas Graduate School are Duane Watson, Lawrence, a summer dissertation fellowship; Wayne Leboe, Sunflower, a dissertation fellowship for
Arthur Townsend, Lawrence,
has been awarded a fellowship to
the Winterther Museum in Washington,
D.C.
Two graduating seniors received American studies departmental awards. Donna Schafer, Wichita, is doing summer study under a Research Participation Award. Mary Jane Harmon, Lawrence, has been appointed a graduate editorial assistant on the Midcontinent American Studies Journal starting this fall.
KU professor claims sight of atomic nuclei quarks
A University of Kansas professor is one of a team of four researchers from three U.S. universities who claim to have observed evidence of quarks, the particles which some physicists theorize are components of the atomic nuclei.
Nowhan Kwak, associate professor of physics, and three associates, William T. Chu and Young S. Kim, both of Ohio State University, and W. J. Beam of Rose Polytechnic Institute, observed a bubble track, which they feel might be interpreted as a quark, while examining 10,000 pictures of cosmic ray tracks exposed in a heavy-liquid bubble chamber at Northwestern University.
Kwak explained that M. Gell-Mann of the California Institute of Technology formulated the theory that quarks, which are thought to be fractionally-charged particles, make up both protons and neutrons within atomic nuclei. So far no defini.e evidence has been found to prove the theory.
A Lawrence man arrested after stabbing his father and discharging a shotgun in a tavern has been arraigned in Douglas County court.
Walker was asked to leave Lloyd's Place, a local tavern, Friday evening after creating a disturbance. He returned later with a single-shot, 12 gauge shotgun, which he pointed at the tavern operator, Lloyd Miller, with the words, "Hi, Lloyd, I'm going to kill you."
Bond for Marvin Larry Walker, 22, was set at $15,000 each for two counts of felonious assault.
Man stabs father after gun incident in local tavern
As Miller pushed the gun away, it discharged, hitting a door casing and wall. Walker then fled the tavern. He was arrested at the home of his father, Marion Walker, 49, after his father called police to report a stabbing.
The elder Walker suffered a cut in the abdomen, but was released after hospital treatment.
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Although many experiments to find evidence of quarks have been undertaken, only two have achieved even possible success.