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Friday, April 15, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Landscaping
From page one
appointed, and plans were drawn up to show how the University should look in 160 years.
AMONG THE PROPOSALS made by Durell and his committee was removing all streets from the center of campus and replacing them with pedestrian walkways. The construction of Watson Library also was proposed.
Then the class of 45 gave 12,000 flowering crab trees to the University as their class gift, reportedly because the class was so crabbie. The same class later gave the plantings in front of the Kansas Union as its 25-year reunion gift.
In 1947, the graduating class followed suit and donated money to landscape Lindley and Marvin halls. By then, Chancellor Dudley was active in the beautification project.
She and Mrs Nelson personally supervised the planting of the crab trees. They enlisted the help of Mary in Grove, planting trees by themselves. Although some people laughed at the two women's efforts then, the crab trees still survived, flowering crab trees and redbuds on campus.
ALTON THOMAS, THE University's landscape architect and site planer, said that most of the planting on campus was done before he arrived at KU in 1947. He said he came with the idea to not only land-scape but also to plan the campus.
Iromas said his primary job now was site development. The number of buildings on the island was growing.
In the early '50s, the impetus in planting continued, Thomas said, and the Malotts gave a large gift of money to KU for crab trees.
"The the rate of planting crab trees
downed in Thomas's field at Limewood,
in 1804, after the early 1800s."
LANDSCAPING AND RELANDscaping still keep Thomas busy. He said he relandscaped the Chi Omega Fountain a few years ago and is now rejuvenating plants in front of Strong Hall.
New buildings, such as the School of Law, the Visual Arts Building and the Helen Foresman, Spencer Cohn, and Thomas, who is working with Spencer's architecture on plans for the new museum. Blitch said he hoped it would be partly landscaped in time for its opening.
Thomas said there was no real uniformity or consistency in the landscaping on the property.
--plant elm trees because of Dutch Elm disease
WHERE PLANTINGS WILL be permanent, Thomas said, he tries to stay away from high-maintenance, intensive plantings. He will try to get rid of steep slopes that can't be mowed.
"Now, in view of a potential lack of water," Thoms said, "we're trying to put in hardy material that can stand drought more easily."
Thomas said he also was trying to simplify maintenance problems by putting in water lines where there were large-scale plantings.
NOW, THE FLOWERING trees and shrubs on campus range from Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Malot's flowering crab trees and redbuds to various types of flowering fruit trees. Bilch said the flowing fruits included peach trees by Summerfield Hall, pear trees south of the Chi Omega Fountain, persimmon trees and plum trees.
There are tulip trees on campus, Bitch said, which shouldn't be confused with magnolias. He said there were also many daisy flowers, xylitsa, lilac and several types of spirea.
Exactly how many types of flowering trees, shrubs and just plain flowers are on earth? Let me count them.
"Inmumerable," he said. "I couldn't even tell you. There must be at least 20 varieties."
RUFUS THOMPSON, PROFESSOR of botany, said that most of the species on campus had been planted since the University began.
Thompson said the cottonwood trees on campus were natural, as were the hackberry, honey locust, hedge apple, dogwood and black willow.
Although both Thomas and Biltch said that most of KU's chancellors had been strong supporters of campus beautification, many students' plans have to be pushed aside for others.
For example, Watson Library has been constructed since it was proposed in 1940, but the University still has streets running through campus.
THOMAS SAID THE plans hadn't been scraped, but lack of funds and other problems made it impossible.
"One day, we day... maybe," he said. Another of Thomas's dreams is more sitting areas such as the one outside the library. "I like to plan more terraces, outdoor classrooms and even kiosks, which are open pavilions."
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faculty members and students voiced differing opinions on a more restrictive drop policy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in an informal Kansan survey taken this week. About 100 students and 20 teachers participated.
ACCORDING TO **Robert Friauf**, professor of physics and astronomy and the main backer of the new policy, the change was needed because the Assembly had gone too far two years ago when it accepted the present policy.
Jeff Thompson, Paola sophomore, said he didn't drop classes and he didn't see how the new policy would affect him.
two years ago and now we are changing some back," Friauf said.
The policy, developed last month by the College Assembly, would allow a student to drop a class until the seventh week of the semester. After that week, a petition would have to be submitted to a committee in the Assembly in order to drop a class.
The policy change is a result of a survey, taken one year ago, in which 300 faculty members in liberal arts and sciences responded that the change was needed in the drop policy.
Now, a student can drop a class until the semester. The new policy will go into effect.
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Opponents of the new policy thought that being able to take a mid-term test before the drop deadline was a plus to the current system.
J. J. HALL, Charlottesville, Va., senior, said the new policy was unfair to students in classes that had only mid-terms and finals because they would have to drop classes
"We haven't received any response this semester, but last semester we sent a questionnaire to the heads of all the departments in liberal arts and sciences and the response was five to one for the change," he said.
Jim Carson, Topeka junior, said, "I think I go along with it because it was decided by the Assembly. We elected them and we show some support for their policies."
STUDENTS THAT back the new drop policy agree that some change is needed. Dawn Harris, Wichita sophomore, said, "This might stop some of those students that enroll in a class simply to find out what it is like."
"I know if I had to decide to drop a class before the milder, kern. I would think twice before doing that."
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Shelley Coder, Lakin junior, agreed.
"I came to this University not knowing what profession I would like to go into when I graduated," she said. "If I can't drop a law degree, I need interest in, then I think the policy isn't fair."
"I'm paying the money to come to this school and I think I should have the choice of which classes I stay in and which classes I don't."
She said that appearing before a committee to get out of a class was不 fair.
ALTHOUGH MANY students voiced opinions either for or against the new policy, most were indifferent to the change.
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Although all of the students who were indifferent to the drop policy either didn't drop classes or weren't aware of the change, some thought the new policy wouldn't stop students from dropping classes.
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