Friday, November 3, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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'Colleges didn't stymie enrollment'
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men lived on the same floor of Ellsworth Hall.
The complaint, made at first by students who thought they would see the same people everyday in class, hasn't developed, all the directors said.
Several directors said "any attachment the student may have to his college could be compared to the attachment of an upperclassmen to his department."
All the directors agreed the student at least knows he can come to his college office "for everything except to pay fees" because the office has a representative from the dean of men, dean of women and the registrar's office.
Treated Like Human Beings
Students differ in their opinions of the availability of their college office. The students living in the residence hall of their college office use its services much more often than students living in another residence hall, scholarship hall or fraternities.
"Students feel they're being treated more like human beings. They don't have to go over to Strong and go to two or three windows before they know what's going on." Balfour said.
Myers said, "The student often gets the feeling different offices are in competition for him, the College office wants a part of him, the registrar's office wants a part of him—here we're interested in the whole individual and we've got all his records right here."
Each of the colleges is testing new courses.
"In Corbin College honors students who take Western Civilization meet at night in their instructors' homes," Myers said. Corbin is also offering a series of seminars with American University Field Service personnel as speakers," he said.
Corbin Experiment Site
Corbin College will be the site of a major experiment in the "Colleges - within - the-College" program. Starting second semester, professional guidance counselors from KU's Guidance Bureau will hold office hours in Corbin Hall during the afternoon and possibly evening hours.
"This is really getting to the beauty of the program," Myers
said. He said the service would be available to all students in the Corbin Hall area.
A new section of political science which is about half the regular size is meeting in the Pearson conference room.
Randy Andrews, Wichita honors student was pleased with the way, "they go out of their way to help the honors student."
Pearson College has among its members a group of 40 freshmen in the School of Engineering and Architecture who would not normally be involved with the College. They represent about 10 percent of the freshmen enrolled in engineering and architecture.
A Spanish I class is being taught in the Oliver College conference room. Also taught there is a course in comparative religion, called Religion in American Society. Mrs. Stroup said it is "something very interesting to freshmen which is usually not taught to underclasmen." Oliver College students enrolled in a certain section of psychology meet twice a week on the Hill and once a week at Oliver for an evening discussion.
Condensed Western Civ
Some Centennial College students are taking a condensed Western Civilization course which meets twice a week for one semester. They read 2/3 of the regular reading and get two hours credit for class discussion and two hours based on the exam.
Lewis said more interdisciplinary seminar courses are being planned for second semester, in several of the colleges.
The "Colleges-within-the-College" program does not rule out the possibility that, over a period of years, certain colleges might attain separate personalities and emphases, through utilization of different requirements and programs.
But the trends the colleges will take will be according to student needs, the directors emphasize.
No social activities are planned for the students.
"There's nothing worse than a bunch of administrators deciding what everybody wants to do for fun—and everybody out for volleyball sort of thing," Myers said.
Although the students are free to elect officers and plan social activities, most of the directors feel it is inconvenient because each college is made up of students from two dorms, several fraternity pledge classes and scholarship halls. Loyalty to a chosen living group and its activities is something the program doesn't enter into as it is now set up.
The Future Trend?
Whether or not the trend in future years will be toward residential colleges, that is, each college housed in a separate co-ed residence hall, is a question the directors don't agree on.
Some directors said it would interfere with the student's choice of housing because some students "come to a big university to dropout" and others don't like co-ed living.
Other directors think many more programs could be tried and the program would be operating at its fullest value in a residential college.
The question is just how far should the program go in creating
a small campus atmosphere while retaining the advantages of the large university.
All the directors agreed it will eventually depend upon what the students want.
The idea of a residential college sounds "interesting" to some students who live in residence halls but fraternity pledge class members said they wouldn't like the idea of "being told where to live," although one said the program would "probably be able to work more fully" in residential colleges.
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Fine Arts top singers to perform
Six students in the School of Fine Arts will be presented in the fall semester Honors Recital at 8 p.m., Nov. 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Each was chosen to appear by vote of the faculty for outstanding performances in the student recitals of the spring semester.
Miss Hitt and Charles Rader will perform the duet for flute and bassoon by Villa Lobos, "Bachi-anas Brasiliers No. 6."
Jean Barnes, soprano. Osage City, junior; Nancy Hitt, flutist, Lawrence, junior; Kelsey Gronkowski, musicologist, Muskegue, Okla., senior; Charles Rader, bassoonist, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Stuart Strunk, soprano, Abilene, junior; Nance Kershaw, pianist, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
Those chosen are:
Miss Barnes will sing works by Rossini.
Charles Lawson will play the "Fantasy Pieces" by Schumann.
Miss Strunk will be in works by Korngold and Mozart.
Miss Watson wil play the "Ballad, Op. 47" by Chopin.
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