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SABERI SAID he had studied intensive English at Donnelley College, a small college in Kansas City, Kan. After that semester, Saberi said, he took five semesters of courses at Penn Valley Community College and KU, making all A's and B's.
Students can learn English on their own, said Saberi, who has taken courses in psychology, history and economics in addition to engineering.
Henderson said that the IEC operates entirely on funds it receives from tuition, which are out-of-state fees. It receives assistance from the University only in the way of space for offices and classroom space, he said.
The IEC BUDGET has grown from 21,300 in 1985 to $168,676 for fiscal 1976. It employs four staff members, 35 assistant instructors and eight conversation leaders
Charles Sauer, coordinating director of the center, said IEC could increase its teaching staff simply by allowing more students into the center.
"What we need for the students are more classrooms," he said.
This semester there are 255 students enrolled in IEC courses, so no percent increment is needed.
IEC STUDENTS receive KU ID's and registrations but aren't considered to be KU students until they have passed their proficiency exam, Henderson said.
KU's center is one of the largest intensive English centers in the midwest, be said. The centers closest to KU are in St. Louis and Colorado.
Henderson said that most of the IEC students attend other universities after studying at KU's center. The percentage of foreign students staying at KU after graduation is higher, because more programs are being sponsored at KU by foreign governments.
HENDERSON SAID requirements for IEC assistant instructors are that they be native English speakers, that they be graduate students and that they have taken a course in teaching English as a foreign language.
However, he said, many instructors are selected according to the best experience available at the time of selection. Consequently, he said, "I'll teach classes, are classes, are 'interested students,' he said.
Sauer said that frustration arose in students from the Middle East because they were self-confident about their English when they came to the United States.
Events ...
TONIGHT: THE KU YOUNG DEMOCRATS will meet at 7:30 in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. State Rep. MIKE GLOVER, D-Lawrence, will speak. The FRIENDS OF THE UNITED FARMWORKERS will meet at 7 in the International Room of the Union.
TODAY: THE WOMEN'S SOFTBALL team will meet at 2:30 p.m. in 124 Robinson Gymnasium. Tryouts will be 2:30-50 p.m. tomorrow through Friday. The WOMEN'S GOLF team will meet at 4 p.m. in the film room of the Allen Field House annex.
THE SOFIA SOLOISTS will close the Chamber Music series at 8 in Swarthout Hall. The 13-piece group has been together since 1962 and is conducted by Yasushi
W. STITT ROBINSON, professor of history, will discuss "The American Humanities Lecture Series" at 8 a.m. in the Woodford Auditorium on the Prairie.
Grants and Awards . . .
Capt. Glen M. Harden, KU graduate student in clinical psychology, has been appointed to serve as a mentor for his work in race relations with his Army Reserve unit in Kansas City, Kan.
Budget ...
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requested $100,374 for the library development program.
Bennett's recommendation of $184,747 for utilities is $16,055 less than the average.
NITCHER SAID the University's request included $240,000 for fuel oil that the University would have had to purchase had there been a natural gas shortage. When it came to fuel oil, the university gas shortage, nonresidential users such as KU are forced to use oil for heating.
"That still leaves about a $200,000 and there's no way to get along without that."
Nitcher said the University would have to take the utilities funds from some other place in the budget if the University wasn't appropriated the money it requested.
"We might have to keep positions vacant, not buy more scientific or teaching equipment or postpone other kinds of expenses for supplies," he said.
OTHER PROGRAMS not recommended by Bennett for funding are Accelerated Water Resources Program, Bureau of Child Research, equipment maintenance and replacement, improvement of instruction, physical plant improvement, Project Women's Intercollegiate Athletics and television production laboratory.
All requests for capital improvements except the roof repair for Strong Hall were supported by the Governor. Bennett recommended $1,785,990 for the Law Center Building; $1,803,200 for the Visual Arts Center; $240,600 for the Computation Center; $4,600,000 for the Maltol Hall addition and $270,000 for the Robinson Gymnasium addition.
The University also has requested $85,583 to cover costs incurred as a result of increases in the number of credit hours taught during the summer session. Bennett didn't recommend this request to the legislature.
NITCHER SAID that, in the budget hearings, University administrators would try to convince the legislature to approve funds for Strong Hall. He said leaks in Strong's roof were causing further deterioration of the walls and ceiling.
Bennett also recommended $1,750,000 for premium and construction of the radiation station.
THESE STUDENTS can speak English better than they can read and write, he R.
This request, Nitcher said, will also be appealed in the legislative budget hearings.
"Many of them feel even when they come here that they can take University courses," Sauer said. "They are over confident and confident, they really can't read very well."
Oner IEC personal defended the center. Greg Mathis, conversation leader in IEC, said that some foreign students became upset when they were placed there for a job, and although they could speak English as well as their professors or advisers.
"they (the foreign students) can take a math course and understand what the teacher in saying because they've had a background in mathematics." Mathis said. "But they can't actually read the math book."
KATRHYN HODGES, IEC assistant instructor, said that many foreign students couldn't use simple sentence structures. They couldn't omit many verbs from a sentence, she said.
Students are taught simple, often over simple sentence structures, she said, which discourage many students who have seen the sentence structure before.
"We start with sentences like, 'It’s a pen,' or 'It’s a book,'" Hodges says. "Often we proceed in childlike steps, which are below the students' intellectual level."
Learning a language is more than just knowing the vocabulary, she said, because basic sentence patterns also must be learned.
"We want them to speak automatically," she said, "so they don't have to stop and read."
"Some know quite a bit of English, and some know next to nothing." he said.
GOFFREYE GATHERCOLE, IEC
assistant instructor, said there was a wide
range of skills.
There are two reasons, other than ability, Gathercole said, that students don't score well on the IEC placement test given at the start of each semester.
Some students know English well, but haven't studied it for awhile, he said. As a result, their test scores are low, but they learn language quickly in the IEC classes, he said.
BECAUSE STUDENTS must be placed in classes at the start of each semester, Gathercole said, some students must take the exam while not being fully recovered from jetlag. This is a situation that can't be avoided sometimes. he said.
Foreign students must have a complete grasp of English if they want to do well at American schools, said Gathercole, who is this country from England three years ago.
"People don't listen to foreign students who can't express themselves clearly," he said.
Gathercole said the average student could get through the IEC courses in two semesters. If it takes a student longer to learn English, it's because of the student's lack of ability, and not because the curriculum is bad, he said.
"If a slow student is in IEC for
"if a more semesters, he won't get
more semesters."
ministered grades arbitrarily, that students were being held in the center by low grades to support the center through their tuitions, that testing requirements were too high, that students didn't need all that the center had to teach them to be successful University students.
DURING ERAZMU'S administration,
students charged that the center lacked
the necessary equipment.
The center's problems, with students culminated in a demonstration against and with the use of the word "hate."
Committees were assigned to study the center's operation. Some changes were agreed upon, including the lowering of the passing grade on the proficiency exam from minimum to maximum. Professional teaching staffs were promoted and Foster Hall would be torn down.
HENDERSON SAID an innovation that he had made since being appointed was the separation of the student's proficiency grade from his class grade. He said that many students didn't understand why their class grades and efforts weren't counted toward determining whether they could pass the proficiency requirement.
On arriving in the United States, students attending American universities are required to take laws on proficiency exam. Headers state that the standardized English test used was the Michigan Test of English Language developed at the University of Michigan.
Some of the failures of students in the IEC stem from the kind of grading system it uses, he said. Although a student's IEC grades aren't figured into his KU GPA, Sauer said, students' parents put pressure on students; another concern of the学生, he said, was that they did not want to their embassies, which often provided their scholarships.
Students are placed into the levels of classes according to a placement test at the beginning of the semester taught are English Structure, Speaking, Understanding English, Writing and Reading. These courses are divided into elementary, intermediate and advance classes.
SAUER SAID that students taking the proficiency test for the first time usually scored in the 50 per cent range on the test. Students who have received the proficiency tests reach the 60 to 70 per cent range.
Students must get a C minus to pass the proficiency test, Henderson said, but the exam will be lower passing score take some IEC classes. He said the student's adviser worked out how many hours of IEC classes were required of KU classes the student could take.
Classes outside the IEC are determined in part by the number of hours that a foreign student must attend immigration laws. A fulltime load of classes, 12 hours, is necessary for compliance with the law. A student pays his tuition in a classroom and takes in IEC at and KU, Henderson waits.
Henderson said he was taking measures to improve the IEC, such as the purchase of about 82,000 worth of text books to be in school, and providing students to learn how to use a library.
Another change he said he was preparing to help IEC students, was an IEC-alumni feedback system to determine the effectiveness of IEC's programs.
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Psalm 2 and Acts 4:25
The first article appearing in this column almost 14 years ago made this statement: "Our trouble, the world's trouble is that we have a corrupt form of Christianity! A Christianity that has been shaved off its base, its foundation: THE LAW OF GOD! The first recorded words of Christ in the biblical word: Man shall not live by bread and blood by EVERY PROCEDURE out of the mouth of God."—Mat. and Luke 4:4.
“If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged”—I. Cor. 11:31. In the same article the writer judged himself, saying that he was a professed Christian and member of an Evangelical Protestant Church, but he did not believe in Jesus Christ, or did not now believe as he did when they were taken; if science and modern knowledge and research with their wonderful accomplishments had so influenced him that he could no longer believe and accept the greatness of God, then he had been called Supreme Authority and infallibility of the Scriptures of The Old and New Testaments for faith and practice, then it was his duty and obligation to resign and get out of The Church. To deliberately remain in such unbelief and false pretenses was to join the devil and his hosts in their effort to undermine God’s power and to miserable wretches who have ever disgraced God Almighty’s earth, and it would be better to have a millstone hanged about his neck and drowned in the sea, as it would be likely that he is in the class of that man of whom he has been called the “firstborn of God” born.” For the bearer from meddling with God,”—I. Cor. 25:21.
A CORRUPT FORM OF CHRISTIANITY THAT HAS BEEN SHOVED
OF ITS BASE, OF ITS FOUNDATION: THE LAW OF GOD!
The devil got into the Garden of Eden and corrupted the faith of Adam and Eve! "Ye, haath God said," the serpent asked, casting doubt on the Commandment of God? The result of their corrupted faith was death and Eve! "And you have accepted this, I have that liberty and privilege, but I don't have the moral right to remain in a truly Christian Church. To do so indicates my integrity has got 'cancer,' and in the end it will do for my soul what an angel did for his son." The result of his corrupted God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupted; for all flesh had corrupted His way upon the earth. "The results of its corruption of God's day, or God's Commandments, was the flood of destruction in Neah's day!" But Neah found grace in the eyes of the Lord." This meant that he should have been corrupted by God. Neah found, being warned of God of things not seen as, yet moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house. "... He believed what God said, accepted the plans and specifications for the Ark, went to the terrible destruction and built the Ark along the terrible destruction and desolation!
In that day Noah was the only man who "found grace in the eyes of The Lord." But listen to what God now says to men and women of our day:
"FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGETH SALVATION HATH APPEARED TO ALL MEN, TEACHING US THAT, DENYING UNGOOLINESS, AND WORLDLY LUSTS, WE SHOULD LIVE SOBELYR, RIGHTEOUSLY, AND GODLY. IN THIS PRESENT WORLD: OOKING INTO MY BLESSED LOVE OF THE GREAT GOD AND our SAVIORS JESUS CHRIST; WHO GAVE HIM FOR US, that HE MIGHT RODEEMUS FROM ALL INIQUITY, AND PURIFY UNTO HIMSELF A PECUIARI PEOPLE, ZEALOUS OF GODWORKS!" Titil 2:11-14.
To you and me, the grace of God appearing to us, means that God has told us another flood is on us a way, of a fire of fire, to consume the world and its wickedness. It also means that He has given us plans and specifications for our survival in the fire with the Son of God—Daniel 3rd chapter. It is put might plainly above: "teaching us that," etc. Consider carefully and prayerfully everything the grace of God makes known to us concerning the future floods that will happen if we shove off the "firm foundation" of God's Commandments, even resisting and bucking the power of the greatest King of that day.
"For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him," and Chron. 14.9. We suggest that we may have "a perfect heart that knows through our feeble and weak efforts miss the perfect mark a long ways."
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