University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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now known as the Daisy Field. Addition of another unit to house freshmen women also is under con- sideration. It will be built, along with dormitories housing upperclass women, on North College hill. Although designs are not complete for the music and fine arts building, the site selected for it lies west of the Military Science building and south of Lindley Hall. The building will straddle the old road leading to the Military Science build- ing. Among many conveniences featured in the building will be air-conditioned practice rooms especially designed for both instrumental and vocal music. For dramatic productions the building will include a theater at least as large as the one in Fraser Hall. There also are hopes for providing an outdoor theater. Chances are that this year ' s freshman class will be the first to see a basketball game in the new fieldhouse. However, according to the Chancellor, construction on the fieldhouse is farther along than would appear to the eye. About 35% of the total construction is completed in the finished under- ground work, but until more steel is released, work cannot begin on the superstructure. When completed the fieldhouse will hold about 5,000 more spectators than the municipal auditorium in Kansas City and about 3,000 more than K-State ' s fieldhouse. ROTC classes will use it for drill and both physical education and ath- letic programs will use its movable basketball floor, indoor track, lockers, showers, and storage space. The Science building, dedicated to the advance- ment of all physical sciences, rises on the south slope of Mt. Oread below Robinson gymnasium. IJUt 25

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Many parts of the new tripled-in-size Memorial Union Building opened this fall and the entire building is expected to be ready early in 1953. together and must go forward at the same time. About six million dollars will be available to the University from the state educational building fund at the beginning of the 1953 legislature. Chancellor Murphy plans to ask the legislature to approve at least a third of the proposed ten million dollars at the present time. The money will go toward: 1. Construction of a l o to 2 million dollar music and fine arts building. 2. Remodeling of Bailey Chemical Labora- tories into facilities for the School of Education, amounting to $500,000. 3. Purchase of $500,000 - $750,000 worth of equipment to be installed in the science build- ing which is now under construction. The remainder of the program, which will not come before the legislature until 1955, includes plans for the construction of a $740,000 annex on the northeast corner of Snow Hall and the addition of a third story on Haworth Hall annex costing $150,000. Housing for students is one of the most press- ing needs at the University. In repeated statements Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has cited the neces- sity for expanding the dormitory system as well as classroom facilities. Plans being made to alleviate the housing sit- uation include construction of dormitories to ac- commodate 600 male students in the area west of Lindley Hall. The proposed location for the build- ings is about a mile west of the campus in what is 24

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Nearly doubled in size, the Union building with its million and a half dollar addition will be ready for operation early in the year. The book store moved into its new quarters in the middle of November. Included in the addition are student offices, a bowling alley, an enlarged cafeteria, and a ballroom twice the size of the original one. SINCE THE Chancellor laid the cornerstone in ceremony early this fall, construction on the 2 million dollar science building has proceeded rapidly. Last spring a severe windstorm set work back when a portion of the superstructure was blown over. Now its walls of native Kansas stone are almost complete. The building will house the School of Pharmacy, the basic sciences, and physics and chemistry departments. The center wing has six floors. The School of Pharmacy will occupy floors three, four, and five. The science library will be housed on the sixth floor. The building is a roadmark in the realiza- tion of the dream to provide adequate teaching and research facilities for the physical sciences, Chan- cellor Murphy said at the cornerstone laying. Those participating in the cornerstone laying were Chancellor Murphy, J. Earl Schaefer, Wich- ita, Vice President and General Manager of the Boeing Aircraft Company, and Chairman of the University Research Foundation board; Sen. Wil- frid Cavaness, Chairman of the Ways and Means committee; Drew McLaughlin, Paola, Chairman of the state board of regents; Hubert Brighten, To- peka, Secretary of the board of regents; Dr. Ray- mond Q. Brewster, Chairman of the chemistry de- partment; J. Allen Reese, Dean of the School of Pharmacy; J. D. Stranathan, Chairman of the de- partment of astronomy and physics. Another proposed unit is a business building, which would be a general classroom building. Its site has not yet been selected. Plans also include k I ' - massive fieldhouse, comple- tion date still uncertain, will be one of the largest enclosed athletic arenas in the nation. In the lower picture, beautiful Sellards Hall is a step in the administration ' s plan for more adequate housing.