4 Tuesday, July 30, 1974 University Daily Kansan Cooperative University to Offer Correspondence Study By RICHARD PAXSON Kansan Staff Reporter KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The creation of an institution that may someday become a major midwestern university was an exception. The state public attention than you'd expect. The school may come to have 100,000 students, although it will probably never have a The school, the University of Mid- America (UMA), was organized yesterday in Kansas City, Mo., as a cooperative union of four universities in the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, the University of Missouri, Iowa State University and the University of Washington. James McCain, K-State president, who was elected chairman of the board of trustees of UMA yesterday, said at a news conference that the school would become a regional "open learning" university that would make college-level courses available to people from all over the country to people who found it impossible to pursue their education on a campus. UMA is needed even though the participating schools already offer correspondence courses, McCain said, because it can take advantage of the experience of all the participating schools continuing education programs. McCain also said federal funding was more readily available for a regional project than for a program sponsored by only one university. "the creation of UMA marks an important first in cooperative regional educational endeavors," he said. "We're going to our courses to wherever the people are." The project was initiated by J. B. Varner, president of the University of Nebraska and UMA, under a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Education, the research division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. "Within 18 months to two years," Varner said, "students should be able to begin work on a four-year degree program that they will never ever set foot on a university campus." "This program must produce education at a lower dollar cost than on-campus courses." UMA courses will stress easy accessibility to nontraditional adult students, high quality standards in course materials and program economy. Varner said. KU Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said that UMA "is another example of how interinstitutional and interstate cooperation can provide improved services and educational opportunities at minimum cost to the taxpayers and the people they serve. By 'Mama' Cass Elliot Dead LONDON (AP) — "Mama" Cass Elliot, one of America's top pop singers, died yesterday in a luxury London apartment, police reported. Her physician said the girl was killed by death on a ham sandwich, but he did not rule out the possibility of a heart attack. Elliot, 33, died as she lay in bed watching television. "Mama," Cass, who was 5 feet 5 and weighed 238 pounds, rose to fame as a member of "The Mamas and the Papa's" band. She sang songs of peace and love. Her show at the London Palladium closed Saturday after a two-week run, and she was staying at a flat Dot MacLeod, Cass's 23-year-old secretary, found Elliot his Forzano, 45-year-old former head coach at the U.S. Naval academy, was named interim head coach of the Lions yesterday, after a fierce affair, who died Sunday of a heart attack. BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Rick Fowardzoen said he and his assistants were still Mc's coachs, and John McCarthy, who apparently would guide the Detroit Lions this season. In an interview published in the London Times a day before her death, Elliot said, "I could eat Chinese food all the time. I lost 80 pounds in the past year. I'm not really on a diet, but my one rule is don't eat anything white, because they're all fattening things." Forzano had been the offensive backfield of the cions, joining McCafferty before last season when a new staff replaced that of Joe Schmidt, who resigned. "The first order of business is to sit down with the staff and discuss priorities," Foley said. Don McCafferty Dies; Forzano To Head Lions Dr. Greenburg said, "She had been drilling and had in fact been doing quite well." Frozan, head coach at Navy from 1969 and a coach for US Air Force didn't aign lazier a contract as head coach He said he was proud to be selected but didn't want any congratulations because he didn't know where it was. McCaffery, 53, died at a Pontiac hospital several hours after suffering a heart attack Sunday while working in his yard. He had been admitted to May in May and had no history of heart trouble. "I really don't want to change much of 'i anything,' said Forzano, who considers the book *deceptivarian*. "There will be some changes, but I have to have in a pew of my thoughts." McCaffery, sometimes known as "Easy Rider" because of his demeanor, installed a new play numbering system and made the Lions head coach of the Lions. McBride described UMA as a major educational breakthrough because of the increased use of communications media in teaching. UMA will use television, radio, telephone systems, audio and video tape computers, printers, newspapers, and perhaps computers and satellites as instructional delivery systems, he said. By The Associated Press National League East W L Pct. GB Philadelphia 51 30 28 St. Louis 51 30 28 Pittsburgh 48 34 475 Monterey 48 34 469 New York 48 34 459 Colorado 48 34 474 W L W Pct. GB Boston 15 46 323 Cleveland 15 46 323 Baltimore 11 40 310 2 Vero Beach 11 40 310 Milwaukee 49 40 600 Chicago 49 40 600 Oakland 59 42 384 -7% Kansas City 60 42 310 -7% Chicago 51 51 300 -8% Toronto 51 51 300 -8% Naperville 49 43 300 -8% California 49 43 300 -8% One of the two courses, a study in American history, is being developed by prominent historian Henry Steele Comminger, McBride said. 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