Tuesday, December 12, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Annual Christmas program
Vespers set for Sunday
Christmas is made of traditions. At KU the traditions created and sustained one of the season's highlights, the annual Christmas Vespers with tableaux.
Though the music changes every year, the basic program of traditional Christmas music is retained. The processional is always "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful" and the recessional is always "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." They are sung by the blue-and-red robed choir members as they march, holding candles, through the dimmed Hoch Auditorium. Tableaux represent the traditional Christmas story, on the center of the stage, while a choir in the balcony sings carols.
Series started in 1923
The late Donald M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, started the series in 1923. It began as a series of four vespers each year. So popular were the Christmas Vespers, first offered in 1925, they often overflowed old Fraser
Auditorium. The three fall and spring vespers were dropped in the mid-1950's, but the Christmas program's popularity continues.
More than 6,000 people will come this Sunday to experience the religious service in music.
The program at 3:30 and 7:30
num. will include a brass choir,
        or
the University choirs, and the University symphony.
The brass choir precedes both performances with a concert on the front balcony of the auditorium. Surrounded with ropes of greemery and lights, their music will greet visitors as they file into the auditorium.
Frosh enrollment up by 3,002 since first
The first student body had no one ready for college work, hence there were no freshmen. This fall, 3,002 new freshmen enrolled at KU. To figure that gain over zero is something to frustrate the "figure filberts."
The percentage increase in the KU freshman class is incalculable.
Committee to recommend delinquency innovations
Recommendations made at the Sixth Annual Seminar on Juvenile Delinquency, Prevention and Control will be formalized at a meeting Friday and later presented to the Governor's Planning Committee on Criminal Administration.
James S. Kline, of the Governmental Research Center at KU, said topics to be considered are the establishment of a State Youth Authority, Community Youth Service Bureaus and the need for Juvenile Probation Services.
At the seminar, held Wednesday and Thursday at the Kansas Union, workshops were formed "to discuss the broad needs of juvenile affairs in Kansas," Kline said. From these workshops, an ad hoc Interdisciplinary Committee was formed to submit the workshop reports to the governor's committee, he said.
Kline said he felt the advice of such people who attended the seminar (law enforcement officers, juvenile judges, social workers, educators and county attorneys) would be helpful to the committee.
Kline thought the recommendations would probably be submitted sometime next week.
Committee members
Those on the committee are Ben Farney, Judge of the Johnson County Juvenile Court, Olathe; Wanda Baird, Franklin County Welfare Department, Ottawa; Jerry Barnes, juvenile officer with the Olathe Police Department; Mary Lou Hayes, probation officer with the Lyon County Juvenile Court, Emoria; Paul Parsons, principal of Royster Junior High School, Chanute; Jack Pulliman, superintendent of Boys' Industrial School, Topeka; and Bill Schul, a Meninger Foundation consultant, Topeka.
But the 1967 freshmen are 308 more than last year and are 8 per cent above the previous high set in 1965.
Another peak was set in 1946 when returning veterans pushed the new freshman figure to 1,967. That year those with freshman classification academically had a ratio of 1 to 2 with the other parts of the student body.
Today shows a radical shift in the other direction. Despite their record numbers, freshmen are only 1 to 4 on Mt. Oread.
This was a big shift from the old "normal" as represented by 1937 when 825 new freshmen were 1 to 3 on the campus.
High quality
Historical data is lacking but it's probable that today's KU freshmen have never been bettered significantly in quality.
This year 28 per cent of them graduated in the top tenth of their high school classes; 47 per cent are from the top fifth, 65 per cent from the upper third. Only 17 per cent ranked below the 50th percentile. Most of them came from nearby high schools that are among the state's largest in numbers and in sending their students on to college.
The number of freshmen does present a problem.
It's a budget-planner's headache. In a university the most economical teaching is at the freshman level. It is several times as expensive at the professional and graduate levels where most of KU's student body is concentrated.
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German Culture is lecture topic
The culture of Germany will be discussed in a lecture by Ludwig Zehetner, a Fulbright travel grantee from Freisling, Germany, at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
The lecture, given entirely in German, is first in the Student Union Activities' Foreign Culture series. The purpose of the series is to "expose KU students to anything dealing with a foreign culture and give foreign students on campus a chance to feel close to their homelands," said Lynne Birney, Miami, Fla., sophomore and chairwoman of the series.
Miss Birney said the lecture would be "a unique opportunity for language students" in German.
Slides of Germany will accompany Zehetner's lecture and a question and answer period will follow.
Miss Birney said the series' next presentation would feature James A. Clifton, assistant professor of anthropology, speaking on "Chile from an Anthropologist's Point of View."
The Clifton lecture will be presented "sometime after Christmas," Miss Birney said.
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