Thursday, April 5. 1973
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Language DebateContinues
Kansan Staff Writer
By JEFFREY STINSON
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Assembly will resume discussion April 10 on changes in requirements for the bachelor of arts degree proposed by the Educational Policies and Procedures Committee (EPPC) of the college.
A student presently must demonstrate proficiency in one foreign language or take a foreign language exam.
The EPPC, which has been reviewing the requirements for the past year, introduced its requirement changes to the assembly March 29. The assembly adjourned before the meeting, and foreign language requirements, however, were hollydied during the meeting.
The EPPC proposed that starting June 1, proficiency in a foreign language or 10 hours of a foreign language plus the option of two additional language courses, two culture courses of the country or 10 hours of a different language be substituted.
The student would still need a minimum of 16 hours of language and language related credits to graduate, but he could choose his last six hours.
William Conboy, professor of speech and drama and sponsor of the amendment, argued during the meeting that the competence and preparation of the student could possibly be impaired if the traditional course was altered in the proposed manner.
The assembly amended the proposal to require that the culture courses be taught in the language of the culture rather than in English, as suggested by the EPPC.
Opponents of the amendment questioned whether students would be capable of taking cultural courses in politics, sociology and geography in a foreign language after graduation. He asserted that the college essentially would be returning to the original 16-hour requirement.
Raymond D. Souza, associate professor of Spanish and D. Portuguese, said he favored the amended proposal as the best way to learn a language.
"Our experiences in the Nunemaker College intensive program show that it is possible for a student to take courses taught in Spanish after 10 hours," he said. "We've given our students other disciplines taught in the program, everything from biology to guerrilla poetry."
"The trouble with having a course taught in English is that you get away from seeing the culture that you are studying. There are many different cultures, divided from the language of the culture."
Helmut Heulsenbergen, professor of German, said the assembly should express language requirements in not hours but in proficiency. He said 10 hours might not be student competent enough in a language to take a course taught only in the language.
"I would speculate that the EPPC proposal was based on the results of the Spanish program," he said. "We do not much such results and examples in German."
He said that after 10 hours of study the majority of the students did not pass their
News Briefs By the Associated Press Torture Stories
SAIGON—North Vietnam and the Viet Cong said Wednesday that torture stories from former American war prisoners threatened to interfere with the return of the bodies of prisoners who died in captivity and the search for U.S. servicemen listed as the claimants from officials tended to play down the statement, saying Communists made their statement more "for the record" than as a sincerely indication of their plans.
Watergate
The two-paragraph statement from the panel's chairman and vice chairman came one day after a Republican member said he was very closely linked to that spying and should resign.
WASHINGTON—The Senate Watergate investigating committee said Wednesday that "as of this time it has received no evidence of any nature" linking White House chief of staff H. R. Haldean to political spying.
Vietnam Aid
SAIGON—President Nguyen Van Thieu's list for American economic aid calls for "considerably more" dollars than current sources, and informed sources said here Wednesday.
Tihie gave the aid requests to President Nixon during their meeting Tuesday in San Clemente. But presidential news secretary Ronald Ziegler said the administration would adopt specific aid programs only after consultation with Congress.
Neither the Saigon sources or Ziegler materialed figures on how much the South had suffered.
Floods Continue
Property damage estimates from the floodwaters of the Mississippi River system swelling to 129-year crests, climbed toward $25 million Wednesday. More than seven million acres from Illinois to Louisiana made up. Damage was estimated at $19 million and caused on one million acres flooded between Hampton Cairo, on the southern tip of Illinois. The crest at St. Louis, expected Friday, was forecast at 40.5 feet, the highest in 128 years.
proficiency exam in the language and that if cultural courses were to be taught at the third semester level they would have to be secondary in order for the student to benefit.
Bryant Freeman, professor of French and Italian, said that he favored the amended proposal but that the courses would have to be tailored to the level $c$ the student.
"If the 10 hours are well taught, students can step right into a course taught in French, but the course will have to be geared to how much they've had." he said.
Freeman said that the student would not only learn the subject being taught but that he would learn the language better in which it was taught under this rooogram.
"The program's going to be different, but quite feasible," he said. "The language departments are ready, willing and able to try it."
The college recently polled 6,951 of its alumni on their opinions of degree requirements to help formulate the recommendations.
Of the 36 per cent who responded, 60 per cent indicated that they would have preferred either no change or an increase in the language requirements.
Fifty-six per cent said they considered their foreign language proficiency either better or worse.
The assembly also will address itself to proposed changes in requirements in English, mathematics, speech and Western Civilization in the April 10 meeting.
said that it was of questionable value or of no value at all.
A requirement of speech proficiency or a two-hour course in the fundamentals of speech would be changed to oral communication proficiency or a two or three hour course in oral communication from a wide range of choice.
The EPPC proposed that the current requirement of nine hours of composition and literature be changed to English 1 and 2 plus one of these courses: English 3, 8, 9, 10, a proposal, students with an ACT score of at least 27 would be allowed to omit English 1.
It was recommended that the current Western Civilization requirement of discussion I and II and the comprehensive examination be changed to a choice bet-ween the program and two other three-credit-hour courses to be offered by the department.
Mathematics would be altered from proficiency or Math 2C or 11 to one of these combinations: two courses in mathematics or logic or both; or with an ACT score or 27, one course in mathematics or logic; or a beginning course in calculus.
Douglas County Heart Campaign Nearing Goal
This year's Heart Fund drive for Douglas County is approaching its projected goal.
"As of Tuesday we had approximately $9,800 in the fund," Alan Lileeion, treasurer of the Douglas County Unit of the Kansas Heart Association, said Tuesday. "We are hoping to reach our goal (of $10,800) by the middle of May."
Gary Cooper, Lawrence senior, who is the public relations director for the local heart line, outlined the quota for Douglas County the method used to determine the quota.
"Our fair share this year is based on the population of the area," he said. "We need more people."
"Douglas County has never reached its goal in the history of the campaign, and I am so proud of that."
Two methods have been used to collect money. During February block workers were dispatched to local residential areas to call on residents on a door-to-door basis.
Although the canvassing is over for this year, Hampton Shirer, professor of physiology and cell biology and electrical engineering and president of the local unit, said he was surprised by the information, said contributions were accepted by the Heart Fund through June 30.
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