Board functions include physical needs
The University Planning Board was established in the early fall of 1969, replacing the University Planning Council and the Program Development Council, said Francis Heller, dean of faculties and co-chairman of the Board yesterday.
Heller said the planning council was primarily a physical program established in the 1950's. Its main achievement was a ten-year plan which was initiated in 1960 and will receive its final goal when Wescoe Hall is built. The devel-
Professors get grant for census of mammals
By year's end two museum curators will be "experts" on the population of small mammals in the northern great plains grasslands area.
The year of the great "people" census, 1970, is also the year of the "animal" census for the KU Museum of Natural History.
J. Knox Jones, Jr. and Robert S. Hoffman, professors of systematics and ecology and curators of mammals for the Museum of Natural History, have been granted $18,090 from the National Science Foundation to make a census
of small mammals in the grasslands area.
The census is part of a larger study of "man and his environment" being organized by the National Science Foundation, Hoffman said.
The School of Architecture and Urban Design will sponsor three lectures Monday, Wednesday and Feb. 19.
The animal census conducted here will be combined with other area census findings to provide data for area from Canada to Mexico.
Heller said the board operates on the basis of priorities in two categories, physical and academic. "There are no clear cut academic priorities at present, but there are four main priorities in the physical category. They are: the School of Law, which needs a new structure; Malott Hall, which can no longer hold all three departments of chemistry, physics, and pharmacy; the visual arts, which is spread all over the campus and the computation center, which is undergrowing rapid growth, Heller said.
Heller, in charge of academic affairs on the Board, said in reference to present general policies. "Our needs are three fold—money, people and facilities."
Architects to give talks
KU's part in the study will be completed over the summer when field crews will operate on the Kansas-Oklahoma border, in South Dakota and in Montana, setting traps and collecting data on the small mammals caught in them.
Norman Carver, author of books on Japanese architecture and ancient civilization will speak Feb. 10; Dr. N. S. Lamba, an Indian town planner, Feb. 13, and Dr. Walter A. Netsch, a member of the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill will speak Feb. 19.
"The Board's job is a continuing process," Heller said. Their work deals largely with corresponding needs of students, faculty, and administrative personnel. Expectations are sent by the University to the Board of Regents and the Kansas Legislature based on formulated relationships.
are to count present resources, project what we will be doing in the future, and estimate resources needed," Heller said.
opment council was established in 1966 but was too short lived to establish any major accomplishments, Heller said.
The three lectures are slated for 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
and might house new language facilities to replace our present 'shop worn' ones. Wescoe Hall would be the center of most of the Humanities Departments," he said.
Concerning Wescoe Hall, Heller said it would "reliieve crowding
"Our job is to construct a model university based on numerical relationships. The physical aspects
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