Students suggest residence hall options
By CLANCEY MALONEY Kansan staff writer
At a brainstorming session last night in Lewis Hall, 100 selected students and faculty advisers involved in the Association of University Residence Halls suggested about 200 ideas to improve the University of Kansas residence halls by next fall.
"We wanted positive suggestions for viable options for stu-
Explorer searches for Columbus' ship
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI)—It was an August morning three years ago that Fred Dickson climbed aboard a small plane piloted by the overseer of a Haitian sisal plantation to take a look at "this thing that keeps me awake at night."
Today, Dickson, an ex-Yale swimming star, student of Spanish literature and former mail-order house Sears junior executive, is outfitting an expedition to return to the reef where he believes Christopher Columbus' ship, Santa Maria, went to the bottom 478 years ago.
He has an agreement with "Papa Doc" Duvalier's regime in Haiti and encouragement from some of the top marine archeologists in the United States. He has formed the "Santa Maria Foundation," with some respected scientists on its board of directors.
As the light plane winged its way free of Haiti's northern coast that morning in 1967, pilot Donald Lundquist dipped a wing and swung out over Caracol Bay.
At a point about six miles east of Cape Hatien he put the nose down and pointed to a ship-shaped mass of coral, perfectly visible under about 12 feet of gin-clear water.
"I knew we had found what we were looking for," said Dickson, who had planned to comb a broad expanse in the "sphere of probability" where the Santa Maria may have been lost. "We didn't even bother to finish the search pattern."
In the weeks that followed, Dickson, an expert scuba diver, probed the coral formation for clues to its history. He dug holes and made test borings. He found bits of worm-riddled wood,
It seemed almost too easy.
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chards of pottery, a copper bolt about 10 inches long, and nails containing 60 per cent silver, indicating they may have been made from Spanish armor, as historians say Columbus did.
The artifacts were sent to the University of Pennsylvania, where thermo-illuminescence tests were conducted by the Department of Marine Archeology.
"The tests showed that the pottery dated from about 1475 A.D. plus or minus a hundred years," said Dickson. "But, admittedly, these types of tests are of little value on materials less than 1,000 years old."
"Every single authority I have talked with says we have sufficient evidence to warrant further exploration." Dickson said.
With assurances of protection assistance from the Haitian government, Dickson, in turn, will stock a museum to be built at Cape Hatien with shipwreck reliics. Some of the artifacts will also go to a museum in Port au Prince. "A reasonable amount" will become the property of the Santa Maria Foundation, a non-profit corporation.
The explorers will use two 19-foot outboards powered with 105-horsepower engines to commute from Cape Hatien to the reef six miles away. A 100-foot barge will serve as a work platform.
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dents living in University residence halls next year," said Mrs. Donna Shavilik, assistant to the dean of women. "We want to preference ideas so that we can send out the new options to entering freshmen as soon as possible."
- that the freshman women's program be done away with and freshman women be integrated into the upperclass dormitories.
- coeducational floors and one semester contracts instead of the nine-month, two-semester contracts which will be instituted in the fall.
- language floors or wings.
- itemized statements of the dorm budgets for each student.
- 24-hour visitation privileges,
dependent on floor approval.
of the ideas, she said, had been suggested before, but only within the smaller groups involved in AURH.
Bill Robinson, assistant to the dean of men, said that the students should throw out as many suggestions as possible within the time allotted to them. He said they should not limit their suggestions to one hall or program.
Mrs. Shavlik said the best ideas would probably be instituted for the 1970-71 school year. The brainstorming session, she said, was only to collect ideas, not decide anything definite.
After the brainstorming session, each group chose one topic to discuss. After discussing their topics for about an hour, each group gave a general summary of their discussion.
Mrs. Shavlik said that the ideas would be reviewed early next week and the most useful and easily instituted ones would be used in the residence hall program next year.
She said that the brainstorming session had been called to bring individual suggestions to the attention of the entire group. Most
Among the possible revisions were that staff members in each hall be trained in first aid and drug treatments. In the service area, the groups suggested such services as a dormitory wake-up service and test file. About 25 suggestions were given concerning food service in the dorms, including less breaded meat, seconds on all meals and student approval or control of the menus
Among the various options suggested for residence hall living arrangements were:
"We're only looking for some guidelines from the students living in the residence halls," she said.
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