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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 28, 1967
KU starts special education center
KU is one of 14 schools in the nation receiving grants from the United States Office of Education to establish a Special Education Instructional Materials Center.
Most special education teachers have neither the time nor the money to keep informed about the latest methods and materials for helping the handicapped. The Center will serve as a library which sends out information about these materials and also allow teachers to check out these materials without cost, according to Robert Ridgway, co-director of the Center.
Using a computer to catalogue information will shorten the time it takes for new research and ideas to reach the public from months to days.
Send a "Browsing Book"
The Center also will send out a "Browsing Book" to schools in the six-state area of Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa. It contains lists of all special educational materials available and short abstracts about these materials.
Itinerary set for KU skiers
KU ski club members are brushing up on their skiing skills in preparation for Christmas in Colorado and spring break in New Mexico.
Also, members of the KU Ski Club will get acquainted through parties and informal meetings this year.
At the membership meeting Tuesday night, Charlie Olson, president, said that some of the other changes in the club will be no dues and more extensive trips.
The ski club, formerly affiliated with the KU-Y, now is under the Student Union Activities.
At Christmas, the club plans to go to Aspen, Colo., then Vail, Colo., for semester break.
More than 100 students have joined the club this year.
From the "Browsing Room," educators can order the materials most helpful to their specific problems with blind, mentally retarded or otherwise handicapped people.
Close communication with the other centers across the U.S. will enable a teacher to use almost any educational materials in existence today. Rideway said.
Students and instructors can benefit from this program. Any material in the center will be available, if they apply for a card similar to a library card.
The center's research program involves sending out new materials to teachers in the field for practical application. The results of the teachers findings will be analyzed and then sent to the other centers of the national network.
New film society born here?
KU's first film society was possibly born last night in the Kansas Union Cottonwood Room.
"We hope for a society of people who not only want to watch films, but to discuss them critically," said Sam Gill, Sterling senior, and chairman of the Student Union Activities' (SUA) Classical Film Series.
Gill also spoke of a new 600-seat auditorium to house the film series. The auditorium will be an extension of the proposed new Union on the southwest part of the campus.
At the informal meeting, which followed the Series' first film, "La Strada," the possibility of an auxiliary film society was discussed.
"Growing interest shown"
"Due to the growing interest
"It's nothing new, but the scope certainly has broadened," he said.
Because of increased work loads caused by the "College-Within-a-College" (CWC) program, five graduate students have been hired to work part-time in the dean of men's office this year, said Fred McElhenie, assistant dean of men.
The dean of men's office has been employing student assistants for as long as he could remember, McEhlenie said.
Dean of men hires five
The addition of the five graduate students will increase the office staff to ten employes.
The newcomers are as follows:
- Doug Witt, Boulder, Colo., assistant director of North College.
- Bill Robinson, Great Bend, assistant in the residence halls program.
- Ken Ivers, Tonganoxie, a counselor for selective service.
to run a series of one director's films."
- Jim Brooks, Wichita, assistant director of Pearson College.
- Larry Nokes, Garnett, associated with the scholarship halls.
To enhance the idea of a film society, Gill would like to schedule more than the present 26 films a year.
The five graduate students were needed to make sure there would be some way the dean of men's office could keep track of new ideas and developments on the Hill, McElhenie said.
Mr. Spock, Elizabeth Montgomey, Johnny Carson and other television stars will soon be familiar faces at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Four black and white television sets, gifts of the junior class, will arrive within the week at Watkins Hospital, according to Dave Keesling, junior class president.
"By showing more films," Gill said, "it would be possible for us
"All we are waiting for are antennas so the televisions can operate in any room," Keesling said.
shown in films over the past few years, we believe an active society of this kind could work."
Hospital to receive 4 TV's
The gift was voted on in the sophomore congress last year before school was out, Keesling said.
Richard D. McCann, instructor in radio-television-film, said, "In order to make the concept of a film society successful, we need the support of the students for the SUA and the classical film series."
The sets cost $300 but will be available to the patients free of charge, Keesling said.
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