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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 3, 1967
Jordan Crittenden, writer, tells 'em how . . .
By Linda Sleffel Special to the Kansan
"Getting published is not sufficient motivation for a writer. Writing has to be something you want to do."
This is how Jordan Crittenden, a 1958 KU graduate who is currently writer-in-residence here, described free-lance fiction writing to a feature and magazine writing class in the School of Journalism the other day.
"What an editor chooses to print is so erratic you can't figure it out. That's why you shouldn't get so concerned about it."
Crittenden has been writing short stories and novels for several years and accumulated "50 to 60" rejection slips
before he sold his first story to the New Yorker magazine in 1930. During this time he took other jobs, including one with an insurance company, but he found it "all very depressing."
"You just have this eight-hour lump of a day to get through before you can do what you want to," he said. "After I trained myself not to watch the clock all day I discovered I could tell time just as well by the shadow of the next building, so I quit the job."
Finally he went to work for an advertising agency in California where he works and saves money until he can take a few months off to write.
"I've always been afraid of stopping my other work and really writing for
money," he said. "You'd erd up writing things you're not really interested in, and that would be worse than working in an insurance company."
Crittenden's concern in many of his stories is with the extremes of contemporary life, which he feels is moving too fast and lacks direction. His early stories were more autobiographical and nostalgic, he said, "and then I realized I wasn't writing about things the way I see them. I changed to things that concern me more."
He feels his style has also changed greatly. "At first everything I wrote sounded like what I'd read the week before. You just have to keep writing until your own style develops."
Crittenden likes to plan the opening situation and the ending of his stories before he starts writing, but he feels that a detailed outline "makes you lose all the spontaneity."
He also says that he becomes greatly involved with whatever he is writing, but he doesn't like to talk about it before it is finished. "You find yourself expressing it all when you talk about it and there's nothing left to write down," he said.
"I don't think writing is something you can talk about much," he told the students. "It's something you should just do. Talking about it is a poor substitute."
"I don't think writing is something you can talk about . . ."
Law School awards scholarships
Twenty-three students in KU School of Law have been awarded scholarships for the 1957-63 year.
The awards vary in amount, but most cover the fees of $219 a semester for law students. Some of the named awards are endowed or maintained by annual gifts from a foundation.
The most prevalent award is the Law School Scholarship, covering fees, given to first- and second-year students on the basis of scholarship and need, and supported by annual gifts from alumni and friends of the school.
The scholarship list includes:
David R. Culp, second year student.
Shawnee Mission. The Schowalter World Peace Through Law Award.
Arden J. Bradshaw, second year
sculpture. The Arthur M. Jack-
ishin Schultz.
John Ivan Wassberg, second year
teacher. The "Nona E"
Sexner Scholarship.
Michael J. Grady, first year student; k.
Kathleen W. Willard, Benton
Manuals; s.bachelor
Alan Wesley Rodr. second year
stud iii. Ovland Pagl. Judge Willem
Wolters.
M. S. Patricia B. Ridmour, first year
peabody, Law School Scholarship
James William Kann, second year
Joseph, Mosh. Lm Law School
Scholarship
Douglas F. Mock, first year stu-
dent, Bellville, Law School Scholar-
ship
Charles L. Frikeye, second year
student at the Walter A.
Higgins Sporadial School
Michael L. Sullivan, first year student, Phillipsburg, The Richard A. Barger, Scholarship.
Money lenders-
Next school term, students making first applications for aid must include a parent's confidential statement to help officials determine which students are most needy.
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National Defense Student Loan checks were late this semester, Stevens said, because state officials were awaiting notification that federal funds had been deposited although the money was known to have been allocated to KU. Students were given short-term loans out of a KU fund of donations and other private sources.
"We have limited funds and the money must go to the students most qualified and deserving." Stevens said.
Governmental red tape and technicalities sometimes delay delivery of funds.
Also, many students panicked this semester after banks told them there was no money to cover their United Student Aid Fund (USAF) loans. Stevens said.
John W. Sims, second year student,
John B. the Charles B. Randall
Scholarship.
State officials hadn't notified his office that USAF funds were exhausted, he said, causing the office to continue to arrange loans through local banks. Again, students were given short-term loans.
Wallace W. Underhill, first year
staff member. The C. E. Chall-
dant Schularich.
But when students are accepted to receive financial aid, the office's job isn't always as easy as passing the money out.
Mrs. Barbara A. Heekman, second year student, Towanda, N.Y. The Judge J. C. Rumphenthal Scholarship and the William L. Burkick Pizza.
Even with its difficulties, the office provides assistance to one of every three students at KU.
Ralph Lucker, first Year student,
Brian M. The Salon W. Smith
Scholarship.
George W. Frick, second year study
director, The Class of 1.63
Scholarship.
Ralph D Wentz, first year std nt,
Dennis T. The J Barrett Wilson
Scholarship.
Lawrence H  Thompson, Jr., first wife of Pamela Villages. Law school. Scholarship
John D. Conderman, second year
scholar at Iola. The Laveri Morin
Scholarship.
Eric A. Peterson, first year student,
Mitt. Mell. Law School Scholarship
Larry Don Ward, second year student in Warren City. Law school Scholastics.
Clifton A. Lake, second year stud-
mented, Waich. Law School
Scholarship.
Gerald D. Hang second year student
scholarship. The Frank A. Luiz
Scholarship.
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