Friday, September 22.1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
3
Year less for degree is British procedure
"I didn't pay a penny for my education."
Such a situation, voiced by Philip Shaw, Ashton-upon-Lyne, England, graduate student, is not at all unique for university students in Great Britain.
Five British graduate students are attending the University of Kansas this year while some KU students attend their universities in England and Scotland.
All five received their bachelors' degrees while almost entirely financed through grants from the British government.
No state colleges
The widespread administration of grants is necessary because Britain has no state-run universities.
A state-run university is an alien concept, said Stephen Dunnett, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. "Europeans and Canadians shudder at the idea of a state university."
Instead there are many private universities, technical colleges and teacher's colleges.
Unlike the university level, elementary and secondary schools are organized quite similarly to those in the United States. Scotland, for example, said Gordon Dorward, Aberdeen, Scotland, is now converting to a system of "comprehensive schools" which are similar to unified school districts in the U.S. A notable exception in school organization is the lack of a junior high school level.
Students must complete thirteen years of elementary and secondary education. This, said Dorward, is equal to about fourteen years in the U.S. High school graduates have an education almost equal to that of an American college sophomore.
Three years for bachelors
For this reason, explained Bruce Clamp, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, a bachelor's degree only takes three years of study. Generally they only take two or three courses a year, and sometimes only one.
Rather than attend school by semesters or quarters, British students enroll for a thirty week "year." Academic pressure in the students is considerably lower than that felt by American students, said Darrow.
Minimal attendance requirements, fewer courses per year, their wider scope, and the greater amount of time devoted to them gives the student the freedom to pace himself somewhat leisurely through the year.
Quite often, students will take it easy for the first twenty weeks and then cram heavily for the last ten.
Occasional examinations given during the year are generally not
Mid-terms unimportant
considered very important. However, Doward explained, at the end of the year a "degree exam" must be taken for each course which is graded on a pass or fail basis.
Nearly 70% of the students eventually pass the degree examination, although not all succeed on the first try. Many must make a second or third attempt.
It takes three years to get an "ordinary" bachelor's degree, Dorward said. Exceptional students may do a fourth year to obtain an honors degree.
"The first three years are pretty relaxed," said Dorward, "but in the fourth year you really work. The honors year is a strain for everyone."
The British students were pleasantly surprised with what they found in Kansas. "KU wasn't in the middle of the desert as I had been warned," laughed Sheila Crick, Reading, England.
"At first I was suspicious of the friendliness of the American people," Bruce Clamp said, but he soon found it catching. "It really seems genuine," echoed Dunnett
The first state park in the United States designed and operated primarily for the handicapped is Harkness Memorial State Park, Waterford, Conn., according to the Goodyear Guide.
Yell leaders go with team to California
Two yell leaders accompanied KU's football team today when it left for Palo Alto, Calif., where the Jayhawks face the Stanford University Indians Saturday in the first game of the season.
Bowen White, Shawnee Mission senior and head yell leader, and Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior, will fly with the KU team and 10 to 12 people from the KU administrative body, including Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor of finance, to California.
White and Craig plan to rally the spirit of some 600 West Coast KU alums who are expected to attend the game and that of the team also, Craig said.
The pair talked with Pepper Rodgers, KU's head football coach, and together they decided that some support was needed at the game.
Craig says he feels "it will be a good lift for the team to see some visible support from the student body."
Official Bulletin
TODAY
High School Journalism Day. All Day. Union.
Services for the Blind Conference. All Day. Union.
Muslim Society, 2.30 p.m. Union.
Popular Film, "The Increase File."
Popular Fiction "The Ipress File."
7 & 9:30 pm. Jimmyeditorium.
SATURDAY
$12.95
French Ph.D. Reading Exam, 9:30
411 Smithfield
a.m. 411 Summerfield.
Football. Stanford. Palo Alto. 1:30 P.M.
679 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor.
Popular Film. "The Iperess File." 7 & 9:30 p.m. Dyche Auditorium. International Club. 8:00 p.m. Union. Open meeting—public invited.
p.m.
Popular Film. "The Ipcress File."
**"Popular Film."** The Ipcress File.
SUNDAY
Carillon Recital. 3:00 p.m. Albert Gerken.
Jordan, Stanford. Palo Alto, 1:50
p-m.
Popular Film. "The Eagle Film."
KU Cricket Club Practice. 5:30 p.m.
East of New Robinson Gym.
Lutheran Students Association. 5:30 p.m. Alcove C, Union. Program: "What Bugs Me About the Church?" Popular Film. "The Inpress File."
Popular Film. The Ipress File.
7 & 9:30 p.m. Dyche Auditorium.
EBERHARD FABER'S NOBLOT DESK SET with your college emblem
Two famous NOBLOT Ball-Point Pens—one black, one red—set in modern chrome holders on deep-lustre black base.
Handsome, handy, perfect for your desk.
$298
(with emblem)
at college bookstore only
Pick up an Eberhard Faber TR 35® writer, too. With Perma-moist™ tip.
Writes with a thin, strong line every time! Black, blue, red, green. 49¢.
TM REG  U.S.  PAT  OFF.  AND OTHER COUNTRIES
PATRONIZE KANSAN ADVERTISERS
NOW IS THE TIME TO GIVE UP RELIGION!
At least the kind that is all talk, or the kind that parents pass out to kids who wear it loose without really making it their own, or the kind that is stupid and unexamined.
But what if there is a God who communicates, a central source of meaning and value, help for everyday problems, a way that brings peace and joy? Give up the former and check out the latter at
FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH Corner 19th and Naismith Clint Dunagan, Pastor