1300 campers soon to arrive
Four hundred junior high students, participants in the junior high division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, will depart after their grand concert Friday afternoon. But the void will be filled quickly with the arrival Sunday of nearly 1,300 senior high campers.
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp, one of the most successful programs of its kind in the United States, brings senior high students from all fifty states to the KU campus for five weeks of study in nine different fields.
This year's camp will include divisions of music, art, science, journalism, speech and four foreign languages—Spanish, German, Latin and French.
camp enrollment shows decrease Russell L. Wiley, director of the camp, said the number of students who have enrolled in
the camp this year indicates a drop from the number of students enrolled last year.
He attributed the decrease to a number of factors, including parental concern over campus unrest, a general tightening of the economy, and the dropping of ballet, a division of the camp for 16 years, from the curriculum this year.
"Unrest on campus has cost us students," he said. He said parents were concerned for their children, especially their daughters, even though camp officials had assured them no trouble was anticipated.
Rising costs have forced a shortening of the camp from the usual six weeks to five weeks.
"We elected to shorten the camp rather than increase the cost of attending it," Wiley said. Limited scholarship aid is available to students to help meet the $450 fee, which includes all tuition, room, board and recreational activities.
Campers will live in residence halls
Campers will live in three University residence halls. Approximately 800 girls will be housed in McColum Hall, and Lewis and Templin Halls will house the estimated 500 boy campers.
Classes and rehearsals for campers start at 8 a.m. and last until 4 or 5 p.m. with a break for lunch. Evenings are free for study and recreational activities.
In addition to a full schedule of classes or rehearsals, campers are kept busy putting their skills into practice.
ing the final Sunday evening of the camp.
Music campers have a heavy schedule of concerts, beginning Friday of the first week and end-
Art exhibits in Murphy Hall, starting during the second week of camp, will display the work of art campers.
Campers in the journalism division produce the Kamper Kansan, a weekly insert to the Summer Session Kansan, as well as edit Tempo, the yearbook of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. College students counsel
Counselors for the camp are college students, who live in the residence halls with the campers. Most of the counselors are summer school students, many of them former campers. The camp also has 12 full-time supervisors.
Many campers return after their first summer of attending the camp. Wiley estimated that about 25-30 per cent of this year's
campers attended last year's camp.
"About 50 ar 75 of our students are actually high school graduates," he said. "They'll be entering college in the fall—some of them at KU."
One of the reasons the camp has been and remains popular is the high quality of instruction given to the campers by KU faculty members.
"There are about 200 faculty people connected with the camp," Wiley said. Their hard work and interest has contributed heavily to the success of the program, he said.
Even though the camp will be smaller, about 15 per cent smaller than last year, Wiley expressed optimism for its continued success.
"We have never worked so hard as we have this year," he said.
80th Year, No.4
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, June 19, 1970
Shultz reflects
Watson replies
Unemployment hits three key industries
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Skilled white workers in the aerospace, defense and automobile industries on the West Coast and in the Middle West have been hardest hit by the sharp rise in unemployment this year, according to the Labor Department.
"The jobless rate for Negroes who have never been employed in large numbers in some of the hardest hit industries has risen at a less rapid pace than the jobless rate for whites," the BLS said.
"The workers most affected initially have been those employed in relatively high skilled jobs rather than those at the bottom of the occupational ladder," the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said in analyzing the jobless rise from a low of 3.3
The report issued Sunday said that "cutbacks in the defense and aerospace fields, the impacts of which are also being felt in many other industries, have been primary factors in faulting the growth of factory employment since mid 1969."
per cent last year to five per cent of the labor force in May.
'Street carnival greets panelists
A group of KU students prepared a "street carnival" to greet state Sen. Reynolds Shultz (R-Lawrence) and other members of a panel who spoke in Dyche and Woodruff Auditoriums Wednesday evening.
But none of the panelists showed up for the party.
The panel of six members, sponsored by the KU Coordinating Committee (KUCC) consisted of four university faculty members, Lawrence City Manager Buford Watson and Shultz.
Before the panel discussion, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Dyche Auditorium, began, a group of about 50 students gathered in front of the building to pass out balloons and bubble gum.
"It's a carnival," said one girl. "Would you like some candy?"
George Kimball, candidate for Douglas County sheriff, sat on the platform before the discussion began, asking student representation on the panel.
Dyche Auditorium quickly filled to capacity, about 200 persons, and overflowed into the aisles. Later a combination of heat and overcrowding forced the panel and audience to retire to air-conditioned Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"This is a panel on campus unrest, and we think we ought to be represented," he said. "We're the ones who were supposed to have caused it all.
"How about it—do we get a hippie on the panel?"
A member of the audience asked why there were no women seated on the panel.
John Baker, KUCC chairman and moderator of the panel, apologized for the oversight and said future panels would include women.
Panelists were introduced as Shultz, Watson, Capt. Jeseph Marziluff, professor of naval ROTC; Lawrence Velvet, professor of law; Robert McColl, professor of East, Asian studies; and John Wright, professor of human development and family life.
Baker set forth the topics of the discussion as "Vietnam," "Cambodia." "Unrest in the United States" and the "University's Role in Society."
The two-hour discussion was punctuated frequently by heckling from the crowd, bursting balloons and flying popcorn. At one point, Baker threatened to stop the program if order was not restored.
Baker attempted to quiet an older man who demanded a young questioner stand up and identify himself, but was shouted down by the crowd, who seemed to adopt the man as a mascot.
Some of the questions put to the panelists included, "What do we do about Godless anarchy on campus?" "What was the reasoning behind the curfews of April?" and "Do you condone violence as a means of action?"
The man identified himself as Ed Warner and stood to ask questions and shout comments frequently throughout the debate. At the encouragement of the audience, he walked to the stage once to stand on the platform.
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The mark of gneep?
Construction men working on he new addition to Malott Hall seem unaware that the mark of Gneep is upon them. Who painted the sign or what it means has yet to be discovered. Only the Gneep knows.
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