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Wednesday, July 11. 1973
University Daily Kansan
New School Offers Innovation Teaching Couple Leaves KU for Better Pay
By CAROL GWINN
Kansan Staff Writer
Although not dissatisfied with the University of Kansas, Murray Wax, professor of sociology, and his wife Rosale, professor of anthropology, are leaving KU next week to take jobs at Washington University in St. Louis.
Wax, who was chairman of the sociology department, said that, except for some state laws that hampered it, KU was a good school.
"KU is awfully restricted by the state legislature," Wax said. "Field research is needed."
WAID SAID one person he knew told him in the only way to get an art fund at KU was to give
"An uncomfortable situation," said Wax.
"Not free.
"KU is forced to live with a state budget, not with a social research budget," Wax said. At KU, it is a matter of "how to cope with the state."
Wax said the salary level at KU was for a lower caler of people than KU bad.
"KU has a better faculty than it deserves," he said.
WAX SAID THAT as chairman of his department he found it difficult to attract the quality of people he desired. People came in asking for "fabulous salaries—the kind we're getting at Washington U." When prospective teachers hear of KU salaries, they say, "Why change?" and stay at their university instead of coming to KU, said
Wax also criticized the "hitage of meddling in other people's studies" at KU, and referred to an incident in the sociology department when the department was not allowed to determine the type of postgraduate exams it could give.
"People try to monitor each other's conduct in a way that is irrational and dangerous."
Wax also said he was not an advocate of the American Association of University Professors.
"the justification for tenure is academic freedom," Wax said, "but academic freedom is not a right."
WAX SAID THAT in European universities, tenure was given in a professor
Wax said Washington University offered
uni 'encouragement for innovation and the
prosperity of our community.'
reached 50 or 55, so that "life-long" tenure only lasted 20 years. Here a professor
"Washington University made us some quite outstanding offerings," he said.
He said his wife would be making 50 per cent more money at Washington University than she had made at KU. His own salary and also increase almost as much, he said.
"we're font of Lawrence," Wax said, but added that St. Louis was his home since he had been born in Bremen.
"There are important things to be done there," he said.
HE SAID THAT as a sociologist, he shouldn't shun the urban areas.
Wax said he and his wife had not been looking for a new job at another university, but that Washington University had approached them first, asking them to come to St. Louis to look around to see how they liked it.
He said that one of the reasons he and his wife had first come to KU nine years ago
THEY WERE BOTH teaching at the University of Chicago when they got married, and one of them would have been required to quit had they stayed there since she interfered antinaturalism rules. Washington University does not have each a rule, Wax said.
was that they had both been allowed to teach.
KU has serious, excellent students, Wax said, although he expects students at Washington University to be more educated since they tend to come from urban areas.
Wax said that KU students made up for the lack of sophistication with serious, hard work.
"I've thrown up my hands," Wax said.
Wax said he and his wife had not been able to really pursue their Indian studies
"I've thrown up my hands," Wax said. Most of the Indian studies at other universities already been established and the funding has already been distributed, he said.
Wax said that he and his wife would focus somewhat on Indian affairs, but that they would mainly concentrate on innovative programs at Washington University.
Mitchell Kept...
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Said Mitchell, "It wasn't a question of telling him the truth. It was a way of not involving him at all . . . I'm sure that knowing Richard Nixon, the president, as I do, that he would just lower the ball in all of this matter . . . and it would come back to hurt him in connection with this re-election."
THE WITNESS, the 21st in the hearings entering the sixth week, disputed major aspects of the testimony of ousted White House counsel John Dean III, saying "Dean has put a blinker over activities that were opening at that time and called it a cover-up."
He cited a June 28 meeting in Washington last year that Dean said Mitchell attended. Mitchell said he was in New York at the time.
Mitchell said he never saw the logs of wiredrapped conversations and never or rarely seen any of them.
He also said he had nothing to do with raising money for the Watergate defendants and their families and was not instrumental in their destruction. K尔巴琳 to perform the function.
MITCHELL WAS ASKED why he resigned as campaign director on July 1 last year. He had said at the time it was at the urging of his wife, Martha.
publicized resignation that took place in this country," Mitchell said. "I had some long-range and publicized threats that if I didn't get out of politics I was going to lose my marriage.
On July 1, Mitchell said, the President talked with Mrs. Mitchell for 23 minutes "trying to help her up, trying to tell her the world hadn't ended."
The former attorney general spent more than five hours as a witness, speaking soberly and in a monotone, rarely referring to notes or consulting with his attorney.
MITCHELL'S CONTINUED testimony Wednesday will be preceded by a closed session of the Senate committee to discuss the bill, as usual to appear or supply requested papers.
Mitchell, the country's top law enforcement official from January 1969 until he resigned March 1 of last year to direct the campaign, testified under subpoena from the Senate committee but not under immunity.
Some Students Can Skip Class by Correspondence
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date of his registration and if he has not completed more than five assignments, the course fee less $5 for registration and $3 for each corrected assignment will be refund.
STUDENTS MAY choose from 126 college courses in 24 departments. 12 courses are now in the process of production or revision.
A monthly report showed that 413 students had enrolled in 484 courses during May. Of the 413 students, 323 enrolled for student credit, and 90 enrolled for high school credit, non-credit, naturalization or reinstitution.
Departments whose May registration numbers more than 30 students include English (61), physical education (39), music (38), education (34) and psychology (32).
THE IMPETUS in audio-visual instructional materials began in 1969 with the modular course called The Anatomy of a Western. Clark said that the secondary language program had since been changed over to cassettes.
Over several years the independent study program at KU has been evolving from the traditional correspondence study format to include use of multimedia instruction, especially on the high school level, Clark said.
"In the old days, the kid who sent to us for a course would get a syllabus and it would say answer this and that by such and such. By instituting the cassette, he and the instructor can talk back and forth," Clark said.
THREE TYPES of programs are available to the high school student through the Center. Students may choose from a variety of academic courses equivalent to those offered in accredited Kansas high schools. Or they may select a modular curriculum in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, there are college courses open to high school students.
26 modules are now available for use by an entire class, by small groups within the classroom, by individuals or by teachers for resource material.
For four consecutive years, beginning in 1969, the Center has produced courses which were recognized as the "Outstanding In-Service Course" by the National University Extension Association.
AWARD-WINNING courses include a modular curriculum in high school English.
Black Protest Chinese Civilization The Epic Tradition
The Apple of Knowledge
an audio-visual biology program which has been incorporated into the curriculum at Independence Community College, a college history course on World War II and
a high school ecology course, Environmental Survival and Citizen Action
The center also provides special services for disabled civilians, armed forces personnel and teachers who are in need of securing or renewing teaching certificates.
Some courses may be taken either by correspondence or on campus under a professor who uses the same materials in an online course. A course in In-Residence Independent Study program.
"We develop very good materials in many cases. For a while many people weren't aware we existed and that we could sell these materials to professors who wanted to use them to supplement their courses. The next question is how well does Bruce said, "is simply a case where we took our own initiative to encourage instructors to take advantage of our resources."
ONE SECTION of Math 10c was designated for independent study last semester. Students read the text, solved problems and used a syllabus for direction. Individual appointments and weekly optional discussion groups were scheduled.
The psychology, history and physics departments also have main use areas: center for research on the human mind;
Bruce said the Center had had tremendous success in eliciting responses from inmates.
Courses are constantly being reviewed to determine whether they are meeting their objectives. Students and instructors are the two major sources of evaluation.
"They'll report a minor problem with the phraseology in a question or they'll notify us when something is changed, such as the edition of a text," she said.
EACH STUDENT who completes a course
"Why (extension students) never get started is one of the things people around here are very interested in, but it is one of the hardest things to analyze. Is he intimidated by the first lesson? Can't he get his books? Because we don't hear from him, we never know."
is asked to fill out a written evaluation of the course and the instructor. If the instructor hasn't been doing a good job, the evaluation usually reflects this. Bruce said.
Sally Bruce
"There are cases where we feel that the materials are inferior, but the instructor is so good that he makes the course. On the other hand," Bruce said, "there are cases where the materials are really of very high quality but the instructor is not doing a good job. As a result student ratings tend to fall down."
A sampling of the evaluations showed that most students were satisfied with their courses. All but two said that they would take the course again through correspondence if they had to make that decision over.
STUDENTS SAID that they liked being able to work at their own pace. Many found that the comments of the instructors were quite stimulating.
A business student said that he spent too much time waiting to hear from the instructor to see if he understood the chapter before moving to the next. A few students complained that the text was outdated and the questions irrelevant.
MOST STUDENTS said that an independent course was much harder than its
TV Subtitles Proposed for Deaf
Kansan Staff Writer
By CATHY Q'BRIEN
Thanks to an experimental program launched recently, the time of lip reading television commercials may come to an end for the hard of hearing.
The program is a cooperative effort by the Public Broadcasting System, the National Bureau of Standards and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Bridges said that sex education was taught adequately in the schools and that there would be no need for the area scout to teach it, much as the one being tried in Philadelphia.
There is little likelihood that a sex education program will be developed for the Kaw Valley Girls Scouts, according to the Kansas State University director of the Kaw Valley Girl's School, Scott Church.
The Philadelphia program offers the merit badge "To Be a Woman." The badge has four parts: Know Our Bodies, Know Our Oppportunities and Know Our Situation.
Dale Anderson, general manager of KTWU, channel 11 in Topeka, said that the project was developed by PBS and a grant of $215,000 was given to them by HEW.
She said there was a possibility scout leaders might go through a training program to enable them to answer all questions scouts may have about sex education. At present the leaders don't feel able to handle those problems, she said.
Director Says Sex Education Unlikely for Local Girl Scouts
Bridges would offer no opinion of the Philadelphia program, and said that all she
Anderson said that there would be a signal transmitted to television sets equipped with a special coder, which would translate the spoken text into captions across the screen. He said that the experiment would use certain programs next fall.
Clark said that the main thing at the Center was "not a quickie at all."<sup>3</sup> There
Carolyn Dary, associate chairwoman of the Lawrence Girl Scouts, said she saw little need for a program in Lawrence like the one she worked with. "One would be developed in the near future."
She said the girls received sex education in the schools, but that if anyone had a problem, they knew they could call one of the leaders for advice.
knew about it was what she had read in the papers.
"It doesn't seem like students are rushing to us for graduation requirements, in a hurry," she said. In most cases, they come to us to fulfill requirements, but it is obvious that they have most of the rest of their career steps blocked out and taken care of."
He said that KTWU had a good chance because there was a school for the deaf in their viewing area. If the station is chosen, he said that the station conveyed its willingness to cooperate.
Students may not submit more than five assignments a week, Clark said. Students are urged to submit their first lesson and no more until they hear from the instructor.
"We hope we will be one of the participating stations," said Anderson.
ALTHOUGH many students come to the center to fulfill requirements for graduation, Bruce said, they do plan in advance.
counterpart on campus.
An English student said that he missed comparing his own work with that of his classmates. Other students said courses were harder because there weren't opportunities for asking questions and participating in group discussions.
"This course was an adequate substitute for the same class taught on campus," a student enrolled in an education course at the university where she instructed her comments and erroneous.
Last month Anderson went to the Kansas Association for the Deaf where there was a filming by such a system. He said that there already had been some comments such as, the captions should be larger, not as crowded and of a different color scheme. These are some suggestions and the deaf seem very interested.
The gist of the experiment, said Anderson, is that the special coders would be
parceled out and programs shown. After a period of time, an expert analyst would get together with the viewers and evaluate the programs. With this information, the PBS can come up with desirable programs, said Anderson.
Harvey Stewart of channel 19, KCPT, in Kansas City said that they did not have any information as yet on the experimental report and receive a report in the very near future.
for one reason or another. So you have to take their comments rather seriously and at the same time show them that you care.
Bruce said that in some ways reviewing evaluations was a contradictory process.
A BUSINESS student found his course more "time consuming with more Mickey Mouse"
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BECAUSE MOST correspondence courses are composed of 24 lessons, it would be impossible to ordinary cir- course complete the course in less than five weeks.
"Consider the student who has received a D," she said. "You tend to think in many terms, the statements are made out of bitterness. By the way, this student for whom the approach didn't work
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