Tuesday 10
Monday, October 9, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Directors term-
Continued from page 1 "blocks" in English and other freshmen College courses at their college headquarters before going to the Kansas Union.
"Another advantage of summer pre-enrollment." Mrs. Stroup said, "is it gives them a chance to think about what they will be taking and commit themselves to the courses."
Other directors said pre-enrollment was the reason for a very low number of students changing classes after school started, although it has not been officially determined whether this number was lower than usual for the freshmen. Also, since the changes were distributed over five offices instead of one, the number may seem smaller.
Most pre-enrolled
Seventy-five per cent of the freshmen enrolled during Previews.
Upperclass enrollment problems blamed on the colleges were over emphasized, the directors said. They said unexpected enrollment was to blame and said, "upperclassmen had no business taking freshman courses when they needed to fill in a few hours on their schedules."
'Didn't stymie enrollment'
"Many problems not connected with the colleges were laid at our doorstep because this is a new process and there were some misunderstandings," Lewis said.
Daniel's stymie enrollment "The colleges did not stymie enrollment. The same classes would have been filled by Friday afternoon anyway. The only difference was students shut out were all upperclassmen and usually some freshmen would have been in this group." Balfour said.
The freshmen were enrolled by colleges instead of alphabetically, and were finished by Friday noon
Balfour said it was arranged so students enrolling at their college headquarters didn't completely fill any of the sections except freshman English.
Expanded needed sections
needed sections "Actually more sections would have been closed but since freshmen pre-enrolled in the summer we knew which sections needed expanding," Balfour said.
The colleges' students will preenroll for second semester and in all future semesters. This will gradually put KU on a total preenrollment program.
The directors said they can't tell if the students feel "attached to a group" but all speculate the students are pleased with what they term "increased overlap" of students they see in classes and in their living group. This is often pointed out to be the main advantage of the "Colleges-Withinthe-College" program.
'Classroom is sterile'
"Too often when a student lives with one group of people and then goes to classes with five groups of complete strangers, the classroom becomes sterile," Mrs. Stroup said. "Also, by increasing the overlap we are hoping something will go on outside of class," she said.
the students who compose a "block" are in the same English class, have the same advisor who is usually one of their instructors. In this year's program these 20 students come from at least five different living areas. Last year in Centennial College, all the women in a block lived on the same floor of Oliver Hall and all the men on the same floor of
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 an upperclassman has 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.
"Students feel they're being treated 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, the club wants a part of him—here we're interested in the whole individual and we've got all his records right here."
Testing new courses
Each of the colleges is testing new courses.
Corbin College honors students may take Western Civilization.
"Most of the sections are taught at night in the instructors' homes," Myers said. "Corbin is also offering a series of seminars with American Universities Field Services personnel as speakers," he said.
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 the Corbin College headquarters in Corbin Hall during the afternoon and possibly the 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 the regular class size is meeting in the Pearson College conference room.
Engineers, too
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 per cent of the freshmen 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 underclassmen." 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.
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.
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.
Lewis said more interdisciplinary seminar courses are being planned for second semester, in several of the colleges.
But the trends the colleges will take will be according to student needs, the directors emphasize.
Separate "personalities"?
No social activities are planned for the students.
suffer of thing. Myers said.
Balfour said some Pearson College students have had hour dances.
ball sort of thing." Myers said.
Volleyball anyone?
Voleyball anyone?
"There's nothing worse than a bunch of administrators deciding what everybody wants to do for fun—an everybody out for volley-
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.
"Residential" colleges?
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 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 get up.
Some directors said it would interfere with the student's choice of housing because some students "come to a big university to drop-out" 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 big university.
All the directors agreed it will eventually depend upon what the students want.
Artist Laite here 11-15
Gordon Laite, a design artist, will be on campus during Baha'i Proclamation Week. Oct. 11-15
Laite will speak Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room. His subject will be "Time to Paint the World a New Color—Baha i."
Laite, said Vera Varner, Atlanta, Ga., sophomore, has done illustrations for children's books and Collier's Encyclopedia. His art exhibits, she said, have won several awards.
A CBS film, "And His Name Shall Be One," will be shown Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union Pine Room.
Forum chairman outlines goals, this year's program
"A simplistic outlook toward problems is one of the basic faults of the KU student body," said Bill Hansen, Mission senior and chairman of the Minority Opinions Forum.
Illustrating these simple views, Hansen said a student gave him this solution to the Viet Nam war: The U.S. should set up a savings and loan in Viet Nam to give the Vietnamese people a sense of responsibility.
"We want to show that simplistic views will not get the country through these trying times," Hansen said. "We don't offer all the answers, but we want to expose the shades of gray in what may appear to be a black and white picture."
Speakers invited by the Forum include: Jim Garrison, New Orleans district attorney investigating the Kennedy assassination; former Governor George Wallace of Alabama; Erick Fromm, sociologist; Paul Krassner, editor of Realist magazine; and Saul Alinsky, civil rights organizer from Kansas City.
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