THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
AND SCIENCES

LAWRENCE
February 10, 1942

OFFICE OF THE DEAN

_Dr, Forrest C, Allen
/ Department of Physical Education

My dear Dr, Allen:

I have been intending for some time to take up with you and your
department the question of the auditing of the courses in physical
activity by College students.

Your department has been allowing students to audit these courses,
Two groups of students have bad this privilege: first, those

who did not wish to attend regularly; and second, those who

were taking a maximum program in their regular enrollment and who,
therefore, were not ellowed to enroll resularily for physical
education,

I have been feeling for some time that this practice ought to be
-looked into, In the first place, the catelogue on page 27 of
Section I, under the peragraph “Auditing Fee," states: "Permis—

sion to audit conveys only the privilege of hearing and observ—

ing." This means thet students are not to do any of the work

of the course which they may be auditing, Students allowed to

do the work of the course as auditors are being permitted to
‘violate the University regulation, and the department is allow-

ing such violation, In the second place, students ought not to

be allowed to “beat the devil about the bush" by enrolling in a

maximum program and then actually taking gym besides, even though

they are listed as auditors in that work,

I am, therefore, proposing that we issue no more auditor's cards
for these activity courses, since to audit a course in physical
activity (if auditor's privileges only are extroised) is a per-
fectly anomalous thing. On the other hand, if for some reason

the student does not want to take the course for credit, we would
be perfectly willing to enroll him in the course for no credit,
provided the work is counted in the maximum number of hours the
student may take during that semester. This would keep the matter
olear, for students enrolled in the course either for or without
credit would be expected to do all the work of the course.

If you or any of the members of your staff feel that we should
not follow the procedure indicated above, I shall be glad to
talk the matter over with you. :

Sincerely yours,

Paul B, Lawson, Dean
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