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Thursday, July 5, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Numbers Game KU, State Schools to Adopt Uniform Course Numbering System
By LYDIA BEEBE
Kanyon Stall, Writer
A cooperative effort among Kansas' six state institutions is being completed this summer to bring about identical course numbering systems in all six schools by the spring semester of 1974, William Kelly, Registrar, said Tuesday.
The new course numbering plan will divide courses into six categories, and the program will be divided by them.
Lower division undergraduate courses,
primarily aimed at freshmen and
sophomores, will be numbered from 100 to
299.
Here's the New Statewide Class Identification System
course numbers classes eligible
100-299 freshman, sophomore
300-499 junior, senior
500-699 junior, senior, graduate I
700-799 junior*, senior*, graduate I
800-899 graduate I
900-999 graduate II
*WITH PERMISSION
Graduate I is masters candidates
Graduate II is doctoral candidates
Upper division undergraduate classes, designed specifically for juniors and seniors, will be assigned numbers between 300 and 499.
The third category is set up also primarily for upper division undergraduates but in-
includes some courses that graduate I
student masters' candidates, can receive
their degrees from the University.
from 500 to 699
students and also open to some un-
known majors mainly for graduate
students
Kennedy Blasts Nixon's Policies, Lauds Wallace at Southern Rally
DECATUR, Ala. (AP)—Sen. Edward Kennedy called on the South Wednesday to "surmount the injustices of the present and the divisions of the past" in helping to restore constitutional principles "trumped upon" by the Nixon administration.
At a patriotic festival halloween Alabama Gov. George Wallace, Kennedy's sharp nose, is seen at the Republican convention in Washington.
applause from a crowd estimated by local police at 10,000.
In his own brief talk, delivered standing up while braced against the podium, Wallace said that Kennedy's family "has suffered more loss as a result of being involved in public life" than any in American history.
Latest Bombing Increase Called 'Diplomatic Tool'
Associated Press Writer
By DENNIS NEELD Associated Press Writer
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — American officials here say the recent sharp increase in U.S. Bombing in Cambodia is designed to convince the Communist insurgents that they cannot win a total military victory.
The air strikes are said to be delivering that message to the rebels and their North Vietnamese allies in the knowledge that a group of rebels might have attacked Phnom Penh regime is easily impossible.
The military situation in Cambodia remains serious, but no more so than in the last few weeks. The observers thus interpret the bombing increase as a diplomatic tool in President Nixon's efforts to negotiate a Cambodian cease-fire.
OFFICIALS HERE believe the United States is seeking to persuade China and North Vietnam to cut off ammunition and other war supplies by the insurgents and other groups.
In signing legislation to cut off funds for American bombing in Cambodia after Aug. 15, Nixon said "delicate negotiations" at a peace settlement were under way.
White House sources reported Wednesday that Henry A. Kissinger would meet later this month or in early August with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Peking.
SPECULATION THAT the Peking meeting will focus on a settlement of the fighting in Cambodia was not discouraged during the second bigger was expected to meet with Shihanok
Kennedy never mentioned Watergate or Nixon in his prepared speech. However, he said that the administration had "tran- sitional" views toward the nation's historic constitutional creed.
Kennedy said, "It is the people's power and the people's money and the people's government, which has been abused and perverted for the benefit of a favored few."
Kennedy noted his differences with Wallace but observed that they both were on an alleged Nixon administration "enemy list."
The senator said he came to Alabama because Wallace stood for "the right of every American to speak his mind and be fearless and in any part of the country."
"George Wallace almost lost his life—sits before you in a wheel chair today—because of his belief in that spirit," Kennedy said.
"Two of my brothers have been killed because they shared that belief."
Kennedy combined patriotic and economic appeals by declaring that the administration denies Americans fair treatment. But the troops took up arms" in Revolutionary days.
"They have so degraded the eminence of America in the community of the world that the dollar itself is now dependent upon the good will of those nations which, under Knoosebelt and Harry Truman, we conquered and helped to rebuild," Kennedy said.
dergraduates will be numbered from 700 to 799.
Courses numbered from 800 to 899 will be restricted to graduate I students, and those from 900 to 999 will be for graduate II students, doctoral candidates.
The idea of having consistent numbering systems across the state was conceived a year and a half ago by the Council of Presidents of the six schools involved.
Their recommendation was given to the Board of Regents, who issued a memorandum March 28, 1972, requiring the systems' development and adoption.
Kelly said he thought the new system would simplify the course numbering also.
"The entire system will be cleaner and much cleaner once it is implemented. We have worked tremendously on it for the last year," said Kelly.
Kelly said that members of his office and the office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs were the major KU faculty involved in the innovative development of the numbering plan.
One purpose of the new system is to facilitate student transfers among the schools as well as future Board of Regents and course changes and improvements.
The new course numbers will be included in the 1973-74 catalogue and in the fall timetable, but the old numbers will be used for enrollment.
The situation will be reversed for the spring semester, with the old numbers included in the timetable but the new numbers used for enrollment.
"But the student will probably never see a course's entire identification number," Kelly said. The three digits of the course name are printed in an 11-digit classification for every course.
The first three digits will be used specifically for the University, the first one identifying the school and the second and third the department.
Next will follow the three digits of the course number.
The last five digits will identify the course according to a Health, Education and Welfare Department taxonomy. KU has been recognized as this nationwide classification since 1970.
Although these additional numbers are not included in any student information, they are programmed into the University Computer Information Department of Education and to HEW.
Ross in Good Condition
Helen Ross, office manager of the Kansan, is in good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after suffering injuries in a car accident Friday.
Horses: Unsafe at Any Speed?
Kansan Photo by RAYNA LANCASTER
To What End Would the Gas Shortage Bring Us?
By JACK SMITH
The Los Angeles Times
A nostalgic yearning for the horse and buggy days is likely to spread and deepen this summer as gasoline grows scarce, as fuel costs it more and more to pollute the air.
I hope those who would like to see the horse replace the automobile happened to catch that little Associated Press dispatch from Santa Claire in the paper the other day.
A man named James T. Potts, assistant chief of the Santa Clara county transit district, evidently got to thinking about horses. Instead of merely daydreaming, Potts did some hard figureuring, perhaps with one of those pocket electronic computers.
NOTING THAT THERE were 735,867 automobiles in the county, Pots calculated that their combined horsepower would be about two million miles of motorized million horses to generate the same amount of transit energy. However, Pots further calculated, these horses would also produce 1.8 million tons of manure a day, which in turn would cause a significant loss of the Santa Clara valley by one foot.
The AP story didn't say whether Potts expanded on the possible consequences of her death. It suggested that projection, however, in a symposium at the University of Santa Clara, where we may assume it was received with solemn inebursement, could be a conspicuous victim of such a deluge.
We should all be grateful to Potts for showing us, in such a graphic way, the folly of going back to anything, however simple it may seem through the soft focus lens of time.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF AMERICANS at
play in the first decade of the century are so pretty. I have on my desk a book opened to a picture taken at Daytona Beach about 1904. It is Sunday, judging from the clothes. The ladies are Gibson Girls, with white ruffled blouses, pinched-in waists and skirts that sweep the sand. The men wear dark suits with stiff collars and a variety of hats—straw sailors, derbies, panamas and trousers. They wear long bathing suits up to their knees, with long stockings, middle blouses and ties; the men look like convicts in their striped teries.
These rewelvers have brought their horses and buggies right down on the beach. There are a dozen rinks in sight, and a bicycle or two. These are the wealthy Americans, out
griff and the unicorn
for a bit of sea air, a bracing interlude between a dull Sunday sermon and the stupefy midday dinner to follow. Their eyes flittered above them on the sea cliffs, hovering like birds.
That anonymous photographer's shutter may have clicked at America's most exuberant moment. We had come to manhood strong and rich. We could lick or eat the flesh of someone we had heard so, bullying the whole world with his shrill voice and ferocious grin.
WHO WOULDN'T LIKE to go back to that time of clean air and simply Sunday job and moral certitude? I wouldn't, for one. Not long ago I read a romantic novel about a young man who managed to get himself back into the New York of the '90s. He was on a government mission and planned to return to the present, but he fell in love with her. She made him wait a year and present to go into his future, so he stayed there with her. Like the photograph, the story looked good in soft focus, but under the magnifying glass they both fall apart.
I don't think anyone was having much of a good time at *at* day at the beach. The ladies were in corsets. Their button shoes were full of sand. Their skirts were clammy at the hem. The men's collars chafed their necks. In their wrinkled suits they looked like prunes. There wasn't a thread of polyester only beings in the water were a small boy and a dog. The ladies in their black bounty bathing suits stood in timid covies at the sea's edge, wetting their toes in the spent waves.
I don't mean to stand in the way of anyone who wants to go back on his own, like the man in the novel. But we mustn't look back at her. We mustn't look at her. ClaraVA from a fate worse than smog.
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