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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. November 15, 1961
A Kansan Profile:
Prof. Clark Has Varied Interests
Carroll D. Clark, professor of sociology and chairman of the KU sociology department, is one of KU's most varied personalities. Educator, researcher, author, sports fan, jazz musician and soldier, he has one of the longer KU service records, with over 30 years as head of the sociology department.
Prof. Clark's greatest interest throughout the years has been KU's growth "not only in quantity but in quality." He remarks with pride how he has watched as KU "has become to a growing extent an international University" instead of a "rather provincial state university."
Prof. Clark says he wants to be remembered not just for his efforts to establish a graduate sociology program and human relations courses but, more important, for his efforts to develop a staff with a world outlook.
ASKED ABOUT student attitudes on controversial issues. Prof. Clark said there has always been considerable student apathy, but where liberal student groups of the past were more concerned with smaller, less consequential issues, today's KU student groups are concerned with bigger issues.
He used the People-to-People program as an example of something "radical in the right sense." He further explained, saying "the word radical means root," and programs such as People-to-People to the real root of things.
Prof. Clark says his greatest interest outside the University is jazz. He recalls having played in Dixieland bands, dance bands and, as an undergraduate at KU, in the KU marching band. He says that he has not lost his interest in jazz since purchasing a second-hand alto saxophone in the late 1930's.
FOR TWO YEARS, 1958 and 1959. Prof. Clark presented an hour-long weekly jazz program on KANU. He says he still likes to play along with jazz records on his portable hi-fi but is a "little rusty" now.
Prof. Clark says he is interested in modern forms of jazz even though his heart is still with the "hot music" he came to love in the 1930's. Of Dave Brubeck, one of the better-known proponents of the "cool sound." Prof. Clark says, "He (Brubeck) has something to say." Trumpeter Miles Davis is his favorite modern. Among his older favorites are Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman.
PROF. CLARK describes old-time jazz as a "free-wheeling kind of music that flourishes best in unconventional settings." Where old-time jazz was more functional (for dancing), he feels that today's jazz is becoming a bit "to respectable" through concerts and more formal night club performances.
He mentioned that Kansas City, once rich in jazz musicians, has faded a great deal in this respect in recent years. In part, he attributes this to Kansas City's increasing respectability. The Negro, whose only expression of soul used to be jazz, has become "an increasingly respectable citizen" and now has other outlets.
Prof. Clark does, however, have a great deal of appreciation for the jazz created by today's Negro jazz musician, who may be extensively trained through formal music schools.
JAZZ IS THE "only native American art form," said Prof. Clark. He feels that it has had a world-wide impact and that the "best emissaries we have sent abroad were our iazz men."
Prof. Clark says the future of jazz is with the young people:
"Real jazz has always been music for the discriminating minority," he says. "I enjoy classical music, but classical music is essentially European music while jazz is as American as apple pie or football."
An avid sports fan, Prof. Clark was on the KU Athletic Board for 12 years. He said he still sees most of KU's home games.
HE DESCRIBES the growth of professionalization and commercialization in collegiate athletics as an unhappy development but feels that firmer control is developing. Of KU's encounter with the NCAA, he said, "some of our friends weren't sufficiently discreet." He feels that the NCAA was overly technical in its dealings with KU, for it is "very difficult to restrain the ardor of the alumni."
"KU has had an unusually sound athletic program, particularly under Chancellors Murphy and Wescoe," he says. He described KU's athletic director, A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, as a very scrupulous administrator who has done a great deal to build a balanced athletic program for KU.
"To me there is no minor sport in intercollegiate athletics," said Prof. Clark. He wants to see swimming and baseball at KU developed as successfully as football, basketball and track are now.
PROF. CLARK'S educational and teaching backgrounds are as varied as his outside interests. He began teaching in 1916 at Ashland, Kan., where he was the elementary school principal, school band director and football coach. He resigned this post in 1917 to join the Coast Artillery Corps, 53rd Regiment, with which he attained the rank of first sergeant and saw service in France.
In 1919 he returned from France and came to KU, where he received his B.A. degree three years later. He then became superintendent of schools in Wakefield, Kan. In 1925 he returned to KU to become an instructor of sociology and work on his master's degree.
PROF. CLARK went on to the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. degree and specialized in collective behavior in relation to newspapers and public opinion. He then taught at the Universities of Virginia and Connecticut before coming back to KU in 1930, where he has been ever since except for sabbatical leaves and a military leave, during which he became a major in the Air Training Command. He trained navigators at Selman Field, La. during World War II.
Prof. Clark became acting chairman of KU's sociology department in 1931. This post was made official in 1933, and he has held it since that time.
AFTER LEAVING military service in 1945. Prof. Clark was asked by former Chancellor Maltot to go to Harvard University, at its invitation, to be a visiting professor and also to study the case method in human relations. He returned to KU a year later to introduce the case method into KU human relations courses.
Prof. Clark was a sociological consultant with former Governor Alfred M. Landon's Kansas State Planning Board. His research project, "People of Kansas: A Sociological and Demographic Study," was published with a foreword by William Allen White. Prof. Clark was also a co-author and editor of "Handbook of Kansas" Social Resources."
HE ATTENDED the University of Iowa conference to study the use of public opinion polls in the 1948 presidential election. He wrote several sections in "The Polls and Public Opinions," a critical study of the effectiveness of public opinion polls in predicting sociologically determined events.
Prof. Clark said the scientific basis for sociology is growing today. He feels that sociologists are now much less given to sweeping generalizations.
"We should never forget that one of the main links in sociology has traditionally been with the humanities rather than with the positivistic conception that would make it an imitator of the natural sciences," said Prof. Clark.
Joseph M. Kellogg's, professor emeritus of architecture, water colors exhibition opens Saturday in the south lounge of the Kansas Union.
Paintings to Be Shown
The showing, which runs until November 26, features a collection of paintings in the English water color style. Most of the pictures are scenes of the Maine coast and Laguna Beach in California.
KU Senate Lifts Restrictions
The University Senate has removed all scholarship restrictions on students participating in non-athletic, extra-curricular activities
The former regulation, which was the same as the Big Eight eligibility ruling for intercollegiate athletics, stated a student must have 60 per cent C's to participate in extra-curricular activities. The Big Eight recently raised the standards to 0.6 for freshmen and sophomores, and 0.8 for juniors and seniors.
dent either had a grade point average better than the Big Eight's new standard, or was on academic probation.
The Senate, composed of senior faculty members, thought any stu-
Freshmen and sophomores are placed on academic probation if they do not maintain a GPA of 0.8.The minimum for juniors and seniors is 1.0.
Peace Corps Exams Soon
Peace Corps examinations will be held in Lawrence Post Office at 8:30 a.m., on Nov. 28 and 29.
》Exclusive《
THE AUTHENTIC STORY OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S WARTIME ADVENTURES
This week The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first authentic account of Lieutenant Kennedy at war. To get this story, writer Robert Donovan traveled halfway around the world. He got eyewitness reports from every survivor of the Kennedy crew. He even interviewed the Japanese commander whose destroyer sank Kennedy's PT boat. This is a story of heroism, humor and heartbreak. You will follow John Kennedy's adventures from the moment his ship went down — right up to his dramatic rescue from a desert island. Read "PT 109: The Adventure That Made a President."
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