University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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UNIVERSITY science students may look ward to classes in the new science building beginning with September, 1954. A 7-floor addition to the law library (left) was opened to law students early this fall. 16,000 seats The fieldhouse will seat 16,000 per- sons almost four times as many as Hoch auditorium—so all students will have an opportunity to see all games. It will have a basketball floor which can be moved aside for indoor track events, football, and baseball practice. The building will have a track one- eighth mile long and 30 feet wide. The 1949 legislature appropriated $750,000 for the structure. In 1951 the board of regents asked the legisla- ture to appropriate an additional $1,- 100,000 for its construction. It is esti- mated the total of $1,850,000 will in- clude the necessary equipment. Last year work was delayed on the fieldhouse due to a lack of 2,700 tons of steel necessary for its completion. The material could not be acquired be- cause of an embargo on steel in 1951 and a steel strike in 1952. However, construction will soon be underway so that this year ' s freshmen and sopho- mores should see it finished within their college careers. The newest addition to the building agenda is a proposed million music and dramatic arts building, which will probably be located south- 28 west of Lindley hall and almost di- rectly west of the Military Science building. Architects and members of the Uni- v ersity staff visited other schools this summer to observe similar buildings. Plans are expected to be finished be- fore the end of 1954. Bids on the structure will be taken by January, 1955, so the exact amount of money needed may be asked of the legislature. Preliminary design work is being financed from a 1953 legisla- ture appropriation of $700,000. more living units Applicants for women ' s scholarship halls will stand better chances of ob- taining residence scholarships next year. A fourth residence hall to ac- commodate 48 women will be ready for use in the fall of 1954, if con- struction goes according to schedule. The hall will be erected on the lot at the corner of 14th and Louisiana streets on the former site of Carruth hall. The building, to be called Dou- thart hall, will be constructed with funds left to the University by the late Miss Lela Douthart, ' 99; her sister, the late Mrs. Ava Douthart Chronister, ' 01, and Bert Chronister. The hall will be similar in design to Sellards, Pearson, and Stephenson scholarship halls, which were com- pleted last year.

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The Univers4y Bre by SHIRLEY PIATT t all began with the dents. They needed and were going to need more room, and as far as the University administration was cerned, they were going to get it. Reacting to the cries of overcrowded classrooms in educational systems all over the country, University officials last year set up a ten year building plan involving more than 12 and a half million dollars. The extensive gram includes classrooms and living units for University students expected to enroll en masse within t he next decade. The anticipated increase in ment could not be overlooked since estimates show a future student lation of between ten and twelve sand. A look at crowded conditions in Kansas elementary schools will assure any doubting Kansas citizen of these facts. Last year the new Student Union and three scholarship halls were pleted. Projects also begun were the stack addition to the law library, the science building, and the fieldhouse. lawyers ' books Law students this f all began using the $200,000 stack addition to the law library behind Green hall. The tion consists of seven floors and its windowed posterior provides the pus ' best view of the University. And students will move into the new science building, located on the south slope of Mount Oread below Robinson gymnasium, next September. When the building is about March of this school year ap- proximately $500,000-$750,000 worth of equipment will be installed. The million structure was hampered in early stages when a severe wind storm toppled a portion of the superstructure. It will house the School of Pharmacy, the basic sciences, and physics and chemistry departments. Within two years, student sport spectators can bid goodbye to Hoch auditorium. Thereafter they will be able to spectate in the comfort of the new fieldhouse. The structure, which will be one of the nation ' s largest, will be situated southwest of the Military Science building in the southwest portion of the campus. The long axis will run north-south on the extreme western intramural field, and the vacant area to the north will straddle an imaginary projection of 16th street. THIS MODERN men ' s dorm to be erected soon on West campus drive will solve in part the housing problem predicted for future years. 27 a

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Another part of the University hous- ing problem was solved when the state board of regents authorized $800,000 in bonds to erect a new men ' s dormi- tory. Bids on the bonds will be taken this fall after building contractors have submitted estimates on construction costs. The dormitory will be built on West Campus drive. odds and ends The old reserve room of Watson library put on a new face this fall as remodeling was finished to make it a completely modern undergraduate read- ing room. The ground floor area was enlarged and organized as an open stack library. The lighting system was revamped and consists now of over a half mile of fluorescent tubes. Light finished nat- ural-birch furniture replaced the old oak pieces, and wall shelving and floor stacks were made of matching birch. A number of smaller construction and alteration jobs recently have been finished, also. During the summer months the buildings and grounds de- partment remodeled several offices in Strong hall. The women ' s lounge and the dean of women ' s offices were al- tered to house the housing office and the Endowment association. The office of the dean of men was arranged to accommodate his enlarged staff. The history office was divided into separate offices for the instructors of that department. Room 116 Strong was remodeled to provide storage space and to house the veterans ' office which was moved from Strong annex. Parts of Strong annex were divided into classrooms for the mathematics department, and acous- tical ceilings were installed in the of- fices and classrooms of the speech cor- rection clinic in Strong annex. The drill hall of the Military Science building is being converted into class- rooms. A part of the second floor of the Journalism building was remod- eled to accommodate KDGU, wired wireless laboratory radio station. The photographic bureau was remodeled. trail marker The Oregon trail marker north of Lindley hall was completed. The marker bears a plaque reading: Beginning in 1849, there plodded up the southern slope of Mount Oread a vast emigration bound for the golden land of California. One branch of the great California and Oregon Trail thus passed over the very ground now part of the University campus and many a camp fire gleamed on summer nights from the crest where now throngs of students tread. The plaque was given to the Uni- versity by Dr. Howard R. Driggs, president of the American Pioneer Trails association. The setting was provided by the class of 1916. Numerous other building and re- modeling projects are still in the plan- ning stage. This program of expan- sion has been helped greatly by private gifts and bequests to the KU Endow- ment Association. They have augment- ed appropriations of the state legisla- ture for regular operating expenses and have provided additional services to students which could not have been obtained in any other way. The University of Kansas is keeping an eye on the future: through constant examination of enrollment trends and critical analysis of building and space needs, this institution promises to grow . . . and grow . . . and grow. - raor..1,1w,It IllifilimilarZtvAir.7114:143 a ' : ' •44x...111Z?h4 ' THE FIELDHOUSE, one of the na- tion ' s largest, will seat 16,000 per- sons. Douthart women ' s residence hall will be ready in the fall of ' 54. 29