LOVE THAT SUNSHINE—A break in winter's gloom brings a smile from Jo Ann Snyder, Bethesda, Md., sophomore.
Battenfeld Scholarship Hall's donation to Campus Chest, the largest so far both in amount and on a per capita basis—boosted the total receipts above $850 last night. The drive ends Saturday.
Robert Cathey, Shawnee Mission sophomore and Campus Chest treasurer, said Battenfeld Hall turned in $160 in cash and "more (Kansas Union Book Store) rebate slips than I knew existed."
Fund Drive Total Is Still Below Goal
Thursday, Dec. 7, 1961
He estimated the rebate slips would bring in $100, making the total Battenfield contribution $260. This is an average of $5 each for the 52 residents.
"THIS FAR SURPASSES ANYthing that has been given this year, and as far as I know it's the highest average in any Campus Chest drive at KU." Cathey said.
Two sororites and three women's dormitory units turned in donations yesterday. Pi Delta Phi donated an additional $15, bringing its total to $50, and Kappa Kappa Gamma's donation of $11 brought its total to $36. Both also have contributed an undetermined amount of rebate slips, Cathey reported.
Dormitory donations included Lewis seventh floor, $18; Miller Hall, $6.80; and Gertrude Sellards Pearson ground floor east, $24.
TOM BERTELSEN, Evanston. Ill. senior and Campus Chest solicitations chairman, said students living in unorganized housing will be contacted during the dinner hour. Each solicitor has eight students to contact by Sunday.
Bertelsen reported that Kappa Sigma fraternity, Pi Beta Phi sorority and Delta Gamma sorority, in addition to Battenfeld Hall, have gone over their quotas. One dollar per resident is considered the quota.
Other top-ranking houses include Alpha Kappa Alpha, 90 per cent; Alpha Omicron Pi, 70 per cent; Gamma Phil Beta, 65 per cent; and Delta Delta Delta, 60 per cent.
PERTELSEN SAID THE groups have used a variety of methods to raise contributions. Many groups are relying on individual contributions, he said, and some have organized competition within the group. Others have sold or auctioned off articles to raise money.
Contributions will continue to be collected through Friday evening, and donations can be turned in at the business office in Strong Hall Saturday morning. Cathey said.
No goal has been set for the drive, but Campus Chest committee members earlier said they hoped at least $5,000 would be contributed. The slogan is "$1 from you, $10,000 from KU."
To Discuss Africa
Walter Bogya of Tanganyika will speak on "Tanganyikan Independence: A Model for Africa?" at the Current Events Forum tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
Definite confirmation of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. special assistant to the President and Alexander Forin, counselor to the Soviet Ambassador, as the keynote speakers for KU's World Crisis Day on Dec. 14 was received late yesterday.
Speakers Certain For Crisis Day
Earlier this week it was learned that both men had accepted invitations to speak here but there was still concern as to whether Mr. Schlesinger would be free from his other duties to attend.
THE SOURCE ALSO said that Mr. Schlesinger will probably leave shortly after the convocation. The steering committee, however, would like to have both speakers participate in the discussion groups and attend the evaluation meeting that evening.
It was also learned today that a letter has been sent to the Soviet Embassy asking Mr. Fomin to stay for the whole day.
PRESENT INFORMATION indicates that both speakers will address the opening convocation for Crisis Day unless a situation requiring their attention develops.
The letter also asks if is possible for the Soviet representative to remain at KU for an extra day. It suggests the possibility of having the Russian speak in several of the political science and history classes if he stays
If the Russians accept the offer to stay Friday, Dec. 15, the committee would like Mr. Fomin to speak at the Current Events Forum or at the Presidential Forum, it was reported.
A spokesman for the Crisis Day steering committee explained that nothing is definite about having the Russians for an extra day. He said that the committee is simply negotiating the possibility and that they realize Mr. Fomin is "a busy man" and probably will not be able to spend an extra day here.
The steering committee for the World Crisis Day will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Kansas Union.
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59th Year, No. 55
UN Seeks Destruction Of Katangese Resistance
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga — (UPI) — United Nations forces controlled the skies over Katanga province today and sought to wipe out ground resistance before the Katangese could carry out a vow to reduce the province to "fire and ashes."
U. N. military commanders were hurriedly marshaling reinforcements of men and materials being flown in by big U.S. Air Force cargo planes.
KATANGSE GROUND TROOPS fired on and set afire one of the Globemasters coming in for a landing at the United Nations-held Elisabethville airport.
The big plane, a fuel tank and one engine belching flames from submachinegun and rifle fire hits, managed to land safely and all its crew members were reported unharmed. It was ferrying in supplies for U.N. forces.
Katanga President Moise Tshombe was rushing home from Paris where he denounced the American participation and proclaimed his people would fight "to the last cartridge before reverting to weapons of their ancestors—spears and poisoned arrows."
(Shortly after the shooting the United States called off its Globemaster airlift of troops and supplies to the United Nations forces for the time being, it was disclosed in Leopoldville, Civilian charter pilots flying DC3's and DC4's continued flying supplies to the United Nations troops despite the order holding up the globemasters.)
The U.N. war with the secessionist-minded Katangese was reported to have spread to three other towns besides Elisabethville—Manono, 275 miles to the northwest, Kolwezi, 150 miles to the northwest, and Jadotville, 65 miles to the northwest.
Compounding the problems of the Congo as a whole was a report that Antoine Gizenga, the leftist political heir to Patrice Lumumba, had launched a new independence movement in Oriental province.
Informed sources said Gizenga, a Vice Premier in the Central Government, was recalling all Congolese officials accredited to him, claiming that Central Government Army Chief Joseph Mobutu tried to murder him.
IF THE UNITED NATIONS succeeds in putting down the flames of rebellion in Katanga province it is likely its forces will have to turn then to Oriental.
U. N. officials finally agreed late yesterday to get civilians out of Elisabetbville after first opposing the move.
The decision may have been determined in part by a bristling statement by Katanga foreign minister Evariste Kimba that his government would not seek another ceasefire.
"We'll practice a scorched earth policy and on the day we are obliged to surrender Katanga will be reduced to fire and ashes," he declared.
THERE WAS NO DOUBT that the United Nations was master of the skies with its Swedish "flying barrel" jet fighters, Indian Canberra bombers and United States transports.
A U.N. spokesman said U.N. fighters yesterday destroyed four Katangese planes at the Kolwezi air field, including Katanga's last Fouga jet.
The United Nations withheld its planes when fighting erupted in Elisabethville last September and the tiny Katanga Air Force was
credited with holding U.N. ground forces to a standoff,
Swedish U.N. troops were reported to have captured a vital road tunnel in the center of Elisabethville yesterday, enabling them to control the main communications out of the city.
ONE OF THE HEAVIEST Kataangese attacks was against U.N. headquarters. It was beaten off after an hour but U.N. officials said mortars and at least 3,000 rounds of rifle and machine gun fire were used in the battle.
At the edge of the city, U.N. forces were reported last night to be in command of the key road intersection leading to the airport but under constant sniper fire from Katangese hidden only 500 yards away.
Katangese authorities placed U.S. Consul Lewis Hoffacker under house surveillance yesterday after the United States announced its full support for the U.N. operation. But Hoffacker said he was not worried.
"I don't feel I am in danger," he said. "I will fulfill my functions normally. I feel I am under the protection of the Katanga government."
THERE WAS NO INDICATION whether Tshombe would try to land at Elisabethville airport—which is under U.N. control—or if the United Nations would let him do so.
He took off from Paris last night for Brazzaville, capital of neighboring Republic of the Congo. It was possible he would try to slip back into Katanga through Northern Rhodesia.
He told a press conference at Paris that the "attitude of Americans who by the decision of Washington have sent transport planes to the United Nations in the Congo must be condemned."
Quality Education Is Costly
By Dennis Farney
(Editor's Note: This is the last in a series of four articles dealing with the system of classes and examinations at KU.)
The KU Western Civilization program is a large, expanding and successful experiment in education which began 16 years ago.
Based on independent student study and weekly discussion groups, the program—which has an enrollment of 1,605 freshmen and sophomores this year—is by far the largest of KU's seminar-type courses for undergraduate students.
It is required for students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and the School of Journalism, but each year it attracts students who voluntarily enroll in its discussion program.
Yet paradoxically, this successful program is also the most striking example of why KU does not have more undergraduate seminar courses of this type.
THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION program is simply too costly to be imitated by other KU departments within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Ray Cuzzort, associate professor of sociology, and James E. Seaver, director of the Western Civilization program, recently compared the advantages and the disadvantages of a program of this type.
"I've conducted Western Civilization courses myself and it's a fascinating experience," Prof. Cuzzort said. "Students read the week's assignment and then come to small discussion groups to personalize their knowledge. They get involved in the subject matter."
"This is high quality education, but it's expensive education. It would obviously be better to have more seminars of this sort at KU. But since the state is concerned with having the maximum number
of individuals receive certification as educated people for a modest sum of money, we may expect fewer seminar courses and more 'monster' courses of 500 or more students in a lecture room as enrollment here increases."
Prof. Seaver described the advantages of the Western Civilization course over the conventional lecture-discussion course and then further illustrated the obstacles to the initiation of more courses like it at KU.
"THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION program is still very largely a self-study course," he said. "We make no attempt to make our weekly discussion groups preparations for examinations."
"Instead, the discussions point up important features of the weekly readings and enable students to express themselves and to argue about the validity of the points brought out in the readings. Students get this opportunity to formulate their ideas verbally in few other courses.
"But a professor can do just so much. Seminar courses are wonderful for students, but they make it hard for the professor to get ahead on research because they take up more of his time than lecture courses.
"We could have more seminar courses at KU by lowering the quality of the personnel conducting them, I suppose, but this isn't desirable."
To facilitate a thorough discussion
Since the course was re-organized in 1955 into its present form of independent student readings combined with weekly discussion groups, enrollment in the program has increased from about 900 to 1600.
THE GROWTH OF THE Western Civilization program illustrates the expense involved in maintaining a large scale seminar-type program of this sort for undergraduates.
of each week's material, this total enrollment must be broken down into 229 discussion groups of about seven or eight students each, Prof. Seaver said.
Each discussion group requires the presence of a staff discussion leader, and each discussion leader must conduct several such discussions—sometimes as many as seven or eight—each week.
The result of this combination of many small discussion groups and a large total enrollment can easily be seen. This year the equivalent of 37 staff members are required to conduct this single four to six hour course.
For this seminar type of presentation to be extended to other courses and departments within the College is obviously a financial impossibility,
WHAT, THEN, CAN BE DONE in these larger lecture-discussion courses to expose the students within them to seminar-type courses?
George B. Smith, dean of the University, explained how several courses within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have modified their lecture method of course presentation to include more student discussion groups.
One example of this, he said, is the course of general psychology, which features a single lecture class of 462 students and many smaller
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UDK Christmas Edition
Today's Daily Kansan contains two sections. Section B is eight pages of Christmas advertising.
Weather
Increasing cloudiness this afternoon and tonight becoming mostly cloudy Friday with rain or snow likely southwest and extreme west Friday. Colder this afternoon.