Thursday, November 9, 1367
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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IMC educates teachers
By Rea Wilson
Kansan Staff Reporter
Special education teachers used to have a hard time knowing what material to use in their classes or where to find such material.
But then the Instructional Material Centers (IMC), such as the newly established one at KU, went into operation.
IMC at KU, which was established last June, and 13 other IMCs in the United States, serve as depositories for instructional
materials for special education teachers.
"The field of special education is still an embryo," said Thomas Chattin. KU field representative for PAC.
"Until the establishment of the first IMC at the University of Wisconsin, special education teachers had no way of knowing what different materials were available for use in their classes, or how to acquire these materials."
Leaves,pop bottles sweeper takes it all
By S. Allen Winchester Kansan Staff Reporter
The back part of it is shaped like a box and made of sheet metal trimmed with black metal braces.
In front, white cover shields a roller and a number of rubber "finger-like" sweeper brushes. It is pulled by a tractor and appears in various places on campus lawns each week in summer and fall.
In one hour it can do what it once took 10 men a day to do. It sweeps leaves, grass, pine cones, pop bottles and money without damage to any of its parts.
What is it? The "Rogers Sweeper"—a leaf and grass raker purchased last summer by Building and Grounds.
"The sweeper cost about $1,000," said Harold E. Blitch, supervisor of grounds and landscaping. He said any skilled tractor operator can run it.
Blitch said because of fire risk and general campus appearance, leaves must be raked from three to five times each fall.
Blitch said leaves are emptied from the metal hopper onto trucks and dumped near the fish pond west of Iowa street. They are allowed to decay for several years until they form a mulch used for flower and shrubbery plantings on campus, he said.
Felix Bermudez, landscaping foreman, said the only problem with the sweeper is that it is awkward to drive, especially when the grass is damp.
Special education teachers and students majoring in special education who are members of KU's IMC can check out material and evaluate its usefulness to their program, Chastain said.
IMC at KU serves a six-state area, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota.
The establishment of an IMC here was initiated by Robert W. Ridgway, associate dean of education, and E. Eugene Ensinger, coordinator for programed learning disabilities.
Set up in Hodder
After receiving a demonstration grant the Research and Demonstration branch of the U.S. Office of Education's Bureau for the Education of the Handicapped, the local IMC branch set up shop in Hodder Hall, 1115 Louisiana.
"A demonstration grant means we demonstrate to the six-state area the kinds of programs and instructional material available to special education teachers," Chastain said.
Although IMC is new at KU, it has acquired 1,050 members and 1,100 instructional material items available to these members.
Besides serving as a library for instructional materials, the center hopes to operate two other services for special education.
The first service will be the development of a computerized search and retrieval program which will provide a question and answer service to teachers.
Information at the center will be computerized in catalogue form. Short abstracts about the material will be included in the catalogue.
The second program will be the establishment of smaller associate centers in the six-state area.
Car buffs set 'TSD' rally school
You're driving along a nearly deserted highway. The person in the right-hand seat calls out, "Change to 42 at sign reading 'Ozawkie Brickworks.'"
You pass the Czawkie Brickworks sign and slightly increase your speed to 42 miles an hour. Your passenger notes the milage, checks a stopwatch, adds a few figures, and announces that you are running six seconds early.
This is some of the action from a time-speed-distance (TSD) car rally. Basically, a TSD rally is an exercise of negotiating an unknown route in a precise amount of time by maintaining an exact given speed.
The Jayhawk Sports Car Club will hold a TSD drivers' school and rally at 7 p.m. Friday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. A short TSD rally will follow the school, said Roger Williams, a staff member of the geology department.
The school, open to everyone,
will cover rally terminology,
mathematical formulae, use of
tables and simple rally aids, and
methods of timing and scoring.
JSCC members, Williams said,
will have no advantage over non-
members because few JSCC people
are familiar with TSDs.
While driving the rally participants will be given an average
'Only one bus'
Rusty Wells, Portland, Ore., junior, announced at the ASC meeting Tuesday that only one bus had been chartered to take KU students on a "migration" to Boulder, Colo., for Saturday's KU-Colorado football game.
speed to maintain. If they do maintain this speed, they should arrive at the several checkpoints on time. Penalties are assessed for being early or late. Since the cars are timed to a 1/100 of a second participants seldom arrive exactly on time. In fact, a zero error is so rare that special awards are given those who do "zero" a checkpoint.
Rallows check their time using a watch and figuring how far they should go in a given span of time or how long it should take them to travel a given distance when
maintaining a certain speed.
Participants should bring pencil and paper, clipboard, flashlight, tables, calculators or slide rules, and a watch. The tables or slide rules, although helpful, are not a necessity because the school will cover methods of easily calculating times and speeds. The watch, also, need not be a stopwatch—any wristwatch with a sweep second hand will suffice.
Rally winners will receive trophies to be awarded at the next JSCC meeting Nov.28.
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