Photo by Ron Bishop
Phone company hurdles communication gap
Dormitories will have individual room telephone services next fall. Trenches for the installation of telephone lines will be dug along Jayhawk Boulevard, from Danforth Chapel and along Naismith Drive and 15th Street. Twelve new telephone ducts will be installed to take care of phone needs for the next 35 years.
Bell Telephone adds lines to dormitories
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. is laying new trunk lines across campus to provide telephone service to all KU dormitory rooms next fall.
Twelve new telephone ducts will be installed along Jayhawk Boulevard, starting at Danforth Chapel, Naismith Drive and 15th Street.
Southwestern Bell's business office manager, E. H. James, said the new telephone system should be completed by Aug. 9. He said
all costs for laying the new trunks would be assumed by Southwestern Bell.
The local student radio station, KUOK, provides students with an opportunity to learn the basics of radio broadcasting. It is not a professional station, but a thing of experience.
"Some accuse radio of being a juke box," he said. Just like television or a circus, radio is an entertainment medium."
He said the station has two basic problems: equipment which is old because there is not enough money to buy new materials and a lack of communication within the various staffs.
Sullinger said the station, which plays the top 40 regularly, has a big music special coming up on Crosby, Stills and Nash. KUOK hopes to put in a telephone call for an interview with the group.
KUOK has a staff of 110 students, Robert Sullinger, Overland Park junior, said, who run the station 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This staff is composed of people from speech 39, who are introduced to the basics of broadcasting, speech 79, who occupy staff positions, and journalism 80, who hold executive positions such as production director and general manager.
"We are more liberal in our selection of music than commercial stations," Sullinger said. "We appeal to the 18 to 24 age group, not bubble gummers. We try and hit music of the age group that listens in."
"Agnew says he wants better broadcasters," Sullinger said, "but
there is no way with this equipment. We need help from the outside, like from NBC and CBS. We have got to communicate effectively," he said.
TOY TRAIN TROUBLE
KUOK staff learns broadcasting basics
BEDFORD, England (UPI)
It wasn't engineer William Blake's
obsession with toy trains that
annoyed the General Post Office.
It was the 500 pounds ($1,200)
worth of post office equipment
he stole to build the toy complex.
Blake, pleading guilty, said he
hole telephones, cables and electrical goods over a five-year period.
Apr. 1
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Ichthyologists report that a shark does not like the taste of human flesh. He will take one bite and spit it out.
David Triggle, professor of biochemical pharmacology at the University of New York at Buffalo, will be the guest speaker for the Chemical Biology Seminar, announced the department of medicinal chemistry. Triggle will speak at 4 p.m. Tuesday in 122 Malott on Cholinergic and Adrenergic Legend-Receptor Interactions."
Chemical biology seminar planned