Federal funding affected by problems
Departments plagued by overcrowding
By JOHN GOODRICK Kansan Staff Writer
The East Asian studies program, physical education department, Health Science Advancement Award committee (HSAA) and radio, television and film presented their space needs to the University Planning Board Saturday morning.
"We are competing with pigeons on the roof of our building," said one representative of the East Asian program to the planning board to explain the program's space needs.
Grant Goodman, chairman and professor of East Asian studies, said their present housing at 1332 Louisiana was condemned and would be demolished as soon as the neighboring land to the building could be bought by the Endowment Association to build a new scholarship hall.
Goodman asked the board to consider moving the East Asian studies program into the proposed humanities building, Wescoe Hall. He said it would be beneficial to house Slavic and East European, Latin American and East Asian programs in close proximity to each other to combine the "several thrusts of these programs."
The necessary physical requirements for the next 10 years include a quadrupling of present classroom space, Goodman said. He predicted a tripling of the graduate enrollment, a doubling of the upper division undergraduate enrollment and a probable tripling of the Eastern Civilization enrollment within the decade.
Richard Spear, associate professor of Oriental languages and literature, said if his department moved into the humanities building now they would need 2,000 square feet and in ten years they would need 6,000 square feet for an estimated 27 staff members.
Robert Burton, director of Eastern Civilization, said his department had an enrollment of 230 this spring semester. The Eastern Civilization department is housed under the Oriental languages and literature department and Burton said his department was crowding them for sape. Goodman said that Eastern Civ had "no assigned classrooms" and there was a "shuffle for space" every semester.
Felix Mose, chairman of the East Asian Center and professor of East Asian studies, said there were "minimal requirements" that the University needed to meet before the East Asian program got federal funds, and that after the initial support by the government the University was supposed to take over.
The HSAA committee said they could hire faculty between June 1, 1970 and June 1, 1971 and get federally funded for these for the next three years but they needed space to hire anyone.
Edward Smissman, professor of pharmacy, suggested a new building be built since there was no sapce in Malott or Haworth Hall.
He also said one building should house the HSAA for "maximum interaction" and to prevent "duplication of facilities." This building should be adjacent to the pharmaceutical laboratories, he said, and a library reading room is a necessity.
Fifty-three doctoral and post
doctoral students are presently using the HSAA's space. Fifty students are in 150 square foot space and three in another 250 square feet of space.
W. J. Argersinger Jr., professor of chemistry and associate Dean of Faculties, said, "We can't afford to wait much longer."
Smissman said he wanted to know when a letter of recommendation would be given to the Chancellor or he said the HSAA would talk to the Chancellor directly.
"We can't wait six months," he said.
Max Lucas, co-chairman of the planning board, told Smissman it would be best for him to write a letter to Francis Heller, chairman of the planning board, for the board to discuss in their next meeting the HSAA's pressing needs.
Professor Bruce Linton, radio, TV and film director, said, "KUOK is a dangerous place for students to be."
He said there was one entrance and exit in the basement of Hoch Auditorium, where the station is located, and it was a fire tran.
There are 9,500 square feet in five locations now for radio, TV and film, he said, and by 1980 24,000 square feet will be needed.
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Linton said the growth of the department was stopped only by space needs and added that the enrollment was stopped at 208 students which is the capacity of Dyche Auditorium. He predicted that if his department got the equipment by 1980 it would have 250 undergraduate students and 60 to 75 graduate students.
He said there was "not one square foot of storage space," and one seven-by-nine room with two small desks housed eight graduate assistants.
A "Communications Complex" was suggested by Linton for several schools and departments including graphic arts, radio, TV and film, the School of Journalism and the speech department. He said these closely related fields should be more allied.
Henry Shenk, professor of physical education, said the expansion of Robinson gymnastium to the second phase had to undertaken "as soon as possible." The second phase is an additional wing on the south side of the gym.
Two University of Kansas mathematics majors who were part of last year's fifth ranking three-man KU team have again earned honorable mention in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
The Putnam competition is conducted by the Mathematical Association of America and involves a day-long examination.
Math majors win honors
Douglas A. Hensley, Wichita senior and Walter R. Stromquist, Charleston, Ill. senior, tied for 34th place among 1,051 undergraduate students from the United States and Canada.
Last year Hensley and Stromquist were members of the team which came in fifth in the competition, the highest rank ever won by a KU team. The third member of that team was William D. Homer who graduated last spring.
The third member of the KU team was Michael Wells, Winfield sophomore, who placed 25th in the competition.
He said the critical space needs of his department were for intramurals and "drop-in" space for those students wanting to stop in to play a game of basketball, handball or volleyball.
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Shenk said there were more tennis courts in 1951 for 5,000 students than there were now for 17,000. He said the University had lost six or eight courts in the last two or three years and there were only 11 courts in good shape.
He said the University had acquired some land by 23rd and Iowa which was being made into several touch football fields and added that some tennis courts could be developed there.
Joie Stapleton, professor of education and physical education, said, "There is no space or staff for existing programs." She said there was a space need for "drop-in" sports and a room similar to the men's weight room as a type of "slim-down" room for women.
She said there were no handball or squash courts for women and there were about 40 intramural women's teams this year. She said practices for interschool swimming were minimal and held only at night.
Robert Lockwood, gymnastics coach and men's intramural chairman, said that approximately 25 per cent of all men students signed up for basketball intramurals. He said because of this they had to limit organizations to one A team, one B team and three C teams.
He said that between 1,200 and 1,500 people signed up for volleyball and so they had to switch volleyball to a fall sport so as not to compete with softball.
Shenk said, "I don't know of a school in the conference that has worse indoor facilities." He said that such classes as fencing, dance, and lifesaving were limited by facilities and staff.
EARL CLARK and JERRY HOOD
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