Interest Stirred For Crisis Day
Interest in KU's World Crisis Day is reaching other areas of the state and the possibility of having many prominent Kansans here is likely, it was reported today.
Mrs. Roy Menninger and her husband, a psychologist at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, have expressed interest in the Crisis Day.
During a meeting last weekend, Robert Lawrence, assistant instructor of political science spoke to Mrs. Menninger. He said last night that some of the prominent people she knows across the state would be interested in coming to KU for the day's activities.
HE ADDED, "Some of these people she was talking about are editors of Kansas newspapers." She did not mention any specific names, he said.
Mr. Lawrence explained that Dr. and Mrs. Meninger are interested in the cold war situation and that both have been following the development of KU's World Crisis Day.
Commenting on the interest shown locally in the Crisis Day, Brian O'Heron, Lawrence senior and co-chairman of the steering committee, said that both student and faculty response has been very encouraging.
"Various individuals and organizations have contacted me," he added, "to the effect that they are very interested in helping to make the program a success."
'OHERON ALSO' said that a phone call to Mrs. Menninger would be placed today to let her know that the steering committee appreciates any help she can offer.
He continued. "The steering committee is very anxious to have as many people as possible participating in this program and is always looking for new ideas."
Other Crisis Day plans yesterday centered around a meeting of the discussion seminar sub-committee. Although general topics for the discussion groups were presented, the final selection of topics will be determined by the faculty member heading his own discussion group. Topics suggested for the general list are:
- The Berlin crisis
- Fallout shelters
- Genetics and nuclear war
* Fellows - cohorts
- The ethical aspects of nuclear war, preventive war, and disarmament
- Racial conflicts in a torn world
* How well people are being informed by the American press
- Red China's military posture
- Marxism-Leninism and Soviet philosophy in regard to the cold war.
William James. Eureka graduate student and co-chairman of the sub-committee, said that arrange-
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Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 54
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1961
City, Mo., junior. The fund drive started Monday and will end Saturday.
CAMPUS CHEST—Examining the contributions to the Campus Chest is Michael Miller, Kansas
Kappa Sigma over Quota
Kappa Sigma fraternity last night became the first organized house to go over the quota in the 1961 Campus Chest drive.
The fraternity, which has 81 members, turned in $54.22 in Kansas Union Book Store rebate slips and $27 in cash, a total of $81.22, for an average of over $1 per man. One dollar is considered the quota.
Robert Cathey, Shawnee Mission sophomore and Campus Chest treasurer, reported the total donations turned in were approximately $475 last night, in addition to the $100 pledged by the Panhellenic Council.
CATHEY REPORTED THREE fraternites have turned in a cash total of $73.48 and approximately $89
Weather
Fair this afternoon, tonight and Thursday. Colder west and north this afternoon and tonight and over the entire state Thursday. Low tonight 15 to 20 northwest to the 20s southeast. High Thursday in the low 40s.
Nine sororites have turned in a total of $206.43 in cash and an undetermined amount of rebate slips. Cathey said, Cash contributions included Delta Gamma, $55.50; Kappa Alpha Theta, $33.88; Pi Beta Phi, $55.29; Kappa Kappa Gamma, $25.00; Sigma Kappa, $17.10; Alpha Chi Omega, $13.06; Delta Delta Delta, $11.00; Alpha Kappa Alpha, $8.00, and Gamma Phi Beta, $5.60.
in rebate slips. In addition to Kappa Sigma's contribution, Alpha Tau Omega has given $34.50 in cash and $20 in rebate slips and Tau Kappa Epsilon has given $11.98 in cash and approximately $15 in rebate slips.
Cathey estimated the rebate slips contributed by the sororites would bring the total to over $275.
Freshman women's dormitories have turned in $38.56, he said. In Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall, first floor west contributed $21.31 and third floor east contributed $17.75.
CATHEY SAID HE EXPECTED the money to begin coming even faster tonight.
day or Thursday;" he pointed out.
age of Thursday; he pointed out. Cathey said faculty members and students can mail their donations to the All Student Council office, in care of Campus Chest committee, if they desire.
"Last year, most of the money didn't start coming in until Wednes-
Contributions can also be made at the business office in Strong Hall during the day and in the Activities Lounge of the Kansas Union in the evening.
The drive ends Saturday.
Adlai Says 'No' To Senate Race
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Adalai Stevenson turned away from Illinois politics and one of his oldest ambitions yesterday in exchange for an "expanded role" in the nation's foreign policy.
He declined an invitation from leaders of his party to oppose Senate Majority Leader Everett M. Dirksen for the state's junior Senate seat next year. Stevenson said he would remain as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Ellsworth Says GOP Lives in Past
The Republican Party missed its chance of being the majority party of the future, because, even after eight years in the majority, it has failed to break with the past.
He also said that Kansas could receive about $2.6 million each year for the next five years in government aid to state colleges and universities.
Rep. Robert F. Ellsworth of Lawrence made this point yesterday. The GOP Congressman was speaking about politics on the national level.
The Congressman was speaking at the Faculty Forum. He said that federal funds should defray up to one-third of the construction costs in state schools.
"The Republicans are still caught in the throes of the past," Rep. Ellsworth said. "They are suffering from a deep internal split.
"One faction consists of liberal, urban Easterners who are deeply concerned with international problems.
"THE OTHER is a Midwestern, conservative group reflecting a very isolationist attitude."
Turning to the Democrats, Rep. Ellsworth said the Democratic Party has had more and more internal difficulty since the end of World War II.
"The Democrats find that they have crystalized and are unable to move far, if at all, in any direction," he said.
"THE MODERN Democratic Party was formed in the pressures of the depression. It was formed by a great many 'have-not' groups that had nothing to lose but their chains, so to speak.
"The former 'have not' groups are now 'have' groups. BOP (Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac) plant employees now have two cars in the garage and a boat on the lake."
He said southern Democrats are having even more difficulty than their northern counterparts.
"THERE ARE SEVERAL very strong pulls in the Democratic Party in the South.
There is a strong strain of liberalism in the South wanting to integrate with northern politics on a liberal racial policy.
"Then there is a large, strong conservative faction wanting political integration with the North but which wants nothing to do with the racial issue."
TURNING TO the workings of Congress, Rep. Ellsworth said that after the late Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, left Congress, "the House of Representatives fell apart."
"It became a mess — just one big
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Lecture Courses to Gain in Importance
By Dennis Farney
(Editor's note: This is the third in a four-part series of articles dealing with the system of classes and examinations at KU.)
They will continue to be used because KU faculty members—unlike sociologist Nathan Glazer, who criticized lecture-discussion courses in the October, 1961, issue of "Harper's Magazine"—feel they are a vital and necessary part of KU's undergraduate educational program.
Lecture-discussion courses in the social sciences and the humanities—recently attacked by a well-known American educator and sociologist as "sheer waste"—will probably continue to be the main method for the presentation of these courses to undergraduates at KU.
Mr. Glazer is co-editor of "The Lonely Crowd," a sociological study of the changing American character.
AS KU ENROLLMENT climbs toward an expected 17,000 in 1970 lecture-discussion courses will probably be used more extensively than now, although faculty members generally favor the introduction of more seminar courses in the social sciences and the humanities on the undergraduate level.
The main reason for this continued reliance on lecture-discussion
courses, faculty members say, is simple. Seminar courses are extensive, require large staffs and well-trained personnel—all luxuries in an age of sharply increasing college enrollments.
In his article, Mr. Glazer listed two reasons why he thinks lecture-discussion courses in the social sciences and the humanities are a waste of time for both the instructor and the students attending them.
But in addition, the faculty members are not convinced that seminar courses offer the one best method of presenting undergraduate courses in the social sciences and the humanities.
- Lectures given by most instructors are "not as good as the average texts in their fields."
- IN THE ARTICLE Mr. Glazer urged that students be allowed to substitute outside readings for lectures, and that more seminar courses in the social sciences and humanities be held on the undergraduate level.
- Most students "have not read enough or heard enough" to make worthwhile contributions to the class discussions.
Ray Cuzzort, associate professor of sociology, agreed that some lectures may be inferior in quality to material that could be obtained in outside readings. But the value of a lecture-discussion course, he said, lies in two factors: the ability of good lecturers to stimulate their students through their lectures, and the fact that the lecture-discussion course is the most inexpensive
means of educating large groups of students.
"In all honesty, many of my instructors told me little as an undergraduate that I could not more easily have learned from a book," he said. "But there were other teachers from whom I acquired something that no textbook can offer. When the semester was over I had obtained from these courses an indelible impression of a man (the instructor) who was a greater person because he was intellectually involved with the world around him.
"The advantage of such a course is that it stimulates the interest of the student and involves him emotionally in the field covered by the course. This kind of involvement is often difficult to bring about through the medium of a textbook.
"BUT PERHAPS the primary justification for the lecture method is that it is the cheapest way of providing many people with the feeling that at least they have been exposed to something intellectual. People pay for an education and they want something which can enable them to say they have obtained it.
Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, stressed that the role of the lecturer is to make his class
more interesting and meaningful to the student.
"Unlike reading a book, attending a lecture is tangible evidence that you have done something which presumably will benefit your mental development."
"As a lecturer," he said, "Tm there to provoke re-evaluation and re-examination of the data the students have been able to draw from the textbook. Textbooks are likely to be better organized than lectures, and they are excellent means of marshaling facts.
"BUT I SUSPECT most lecturers are interested in something more than this—in stimulating thought, and inviting student interpretation of the information they have obtained from the textbooks."
George Waggoner, dean of the College, said he favored more seminar courses at KU, but added that the problem is to find the right combination of courses for the individual student.
"A good seminar course requires so much work by the student in investigating topics and preparing papers," he said, "that there are very few students who could handle more than four seminars at a time.
"I think the ideal educational program for students is a combination of lecture, lecture-discussion, seminar and independent study courses. I am sure, however, that most stu-
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