Monday, July 24, 1972
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Feedback on 'Feedback'
During this, our final week of summer school, many classes will be taking out for about 30 minutes to participate in "Feedback," KU's Curriculum and Inquiry program. Many who have been at KU for the last two years, this is old stuff, but for many others it will be a first experience.
Before examining this newest of KU's attempts to evaluate instruction, we should call to mind that this summer's version is a far cry from what participants had to put up with two years ago. To answer effectively all of the questions asked in the early questionnaires was more than a full period's work, although most professors seldom gave us that much time. In most classes, it was like taking an hour exam and starting in the middle of the period. No wonder students and faculty members took the results lightly!
The suggestion that this year's "Feedback" be used at the beginning of the period makes more sense, for now students can give more thoughtful attention to the questions instead of a token response or one that is hasty and illformed. Even more important is the fact that the questions have been considerably reduced in number. The high degree of repetition in the earlier editions of this question the earlier editions did much to discourage those who answered them, although I presume we should have been sophisticated enough to know that reliability of a questionnaire can be determined by the consistency with which people answer questions asking for much the same information.
"Feedback" is an expensive operation not only in printing all the forms and paying the salaries of those who design the questionnaires and compile the results. A class of 30 needs fifteen class-man hours of time at the minimum, and when the amount is figured for all our summer session students, the total is staggering indeed.
Improved though it may be, this summer's version of "Feedback" could be still better. Some of us are wondering if all of the 56 questions are worth asking. Then, too, are there more important questions that should be asked instead? Why has a question been avoided about the time lapse that occurs in the return of tests and term papers by professors? Or how about a question that indicates how helpful the teacher's remarks were on materials returned to his students?
It is true that there have been improvements in our survey since it first began. But let's not be content. We still really have a long way to go.
The five-part answers to the questions disturbed me because I learned in an elementary course in measurement that when there were five answers along a continuum such as (1) of little value, (2) of some value, (3) valuable, (4) very valuable and (5) extremely valuable, there is equipment the middle end-user. This must have been in the context of the questionnaire when they invited neutrality, since we had to choose from the following five responses to some questions: disagree, moderately disagree, neutral, moderately agree and agree.
Rita E. Haugh Editor
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All-Male Band Favored
To the Editor:
I do not consider myself a male chauvinism. Iku Merchang Bane seems female chauvinism has destroyed one of the few chauvinists I know.
the dastardly deed of forcing acceptance of females onto the band. It would be interesting to know how many of the women in the women's liberation have actually ever been in a college marching band that rehearsed one and a half to two hours a day as a half-hour period of humidity in the 80's and 90's and performed on almost every Saturday afternoon for three hours in a hot and heavy uniform.
Reason: After observing how much time and work went into it, they were no longer interested in music. They did not receive I was received from a music education major who claimed she could not teach marching band if she was not interested in perience. Just because one car march does not imply one can reason.
I am not saying women can not do it. I asked some freshmen women in music last year that if given the chance, would they join the chitting band. The answer in all cases except one the answer was no.
teach marching. Likewise, a person able to follow instructions on a formation chart may not be in the correct fundamentals of marching and making formation charts can be taught in a classroom situation.
coed bands are worse than all-male bands. Florida A&M is *all* male marching band in the country; Florida A&M has an all-male marching band is supposed to be one best; it has an all-male marching band was supposed to have a big Eight and they did have the big beat at the last Orange Bowl Eight and they did have the big beat at the last Orange Bowl KU had an all-male marching band in the country; Florida A&M has an all-male marching band is supposed to be one best; it has an all-male marching band was supposed to have a big Eight and they did have the big beat at the last Orange Bowl Eight and they did have the big beat at the last Orange Bowl KU had an all-male marching band is supposed to be one best; it has
One fact that one or two KU music administrators seem to think is that the smallest marching band in the Big Eight, 144 last year. They do not realize that quality is not necessarily proportional to size of marching band and fans would agree that KU equaled or out performed such oversized, co-ed bands as MU, K-Man and during the last football season.
Mr. Foster says membership has been down the last couple of years. What Foster does not say is that he never knew KU, about 125 men marched.
After three months of his recruiting the number was raised to about 144 men. Given an entire year or two of the same kind of women, you would have the size all-male team some people think necessary.
Foster also says the band will look better. Look better in what way? Like the Houston Honkeys or the rank of unformed marchers?
According to the Journal- World issue of July 17 concerning the integration of the KU marching band. "The snapping, the shaking, and the sounds of their music will be similar." The reason for this is a thing called pride. Pride in the fact the KU marching band could compete in a national competition. Pride that KU had one of a few all-male bands that could hold their own. A pride that KU had the team spirit of a good football or basketball队. A pride that made all the unenjoyable hard work and lost time worthwhile. A pride that would be difficult to rebuild.
The KM duarching band may not be in town, everytime it wout out on the field, but the only kind of group that is at hand all the time is a ledgerium.
Steven D. Sooby Lawrence Junior
Cheerleading Clinic Trains 268
By STEVE HIX
Kansan Staff Writer
The yells that could be heard on campus last week were the yells of enthusiasm from the in-
formation team and the headers Foundation clinic.
The clinic attracted 268 girls from Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Kentucky.
The instructors were employees of International Cheerleaders Foundation, Overland Park, Kansas.
The four instructors, who will teach in the first semester, teach high school girls new tricks in the art of ballet, which Randy Maynard, an instructor,
instructor, said, "If a person is to take this job, he or she will need to love cheerleading as well as people in general. It is not an odd thing. It involves being close to people instantly and lots of traveling."
The cheerleading clinic held in Lawrence is one of nine similar clinics across the country. The International Cheerleading Foundation has nine groups of cheerleaders from the States this summer. To qualify for the job a person must have been a cheerleader.
Sally Tennis, cheerleading
The only problem that face the clinic at KU was rain. Several practices were called of because of it.
Sally Sterling, cheerleading instructor, said that she was
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Janet Colmen, Pratt High School senior, said she was pleased with the clinic. She said she was surprised that so many of her colleagues were phony in their relationships, but liked the experience.
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The department of athletics is making a special effort this fall to keep recent KU graduates interested in Javahawk football.
Wade Stinson, director of
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University High School Was Discontinued in 1950
Kansan Photo by STEVE CRAIG
Building Housed University High School Education students once did practice teaching on campus
Stinson said each graduate may purchase two season books at the reduced price.
"We want to do all we can to keep our graduates with us," Stinson said, "and we feel this is a blessing. We come back to the campus."
Between 1911 and 1950, the University of Kansas had a high campus. Originally known as the Oread Training school it was later named the Purdue University.
Applications for the special tickets are being mailed now to 1972 graduates.
The Oread Training School accommodated undergraduate student teachers, while graduate students experience in off-campus programs.
By BARBARA STROH
Kenyan Staff Writer
Oread Training School was originally housed in Myers Hall, on the campus of Boston College. School of Religion, Smith Hall. In 1983, the Oread Training School moved to a new location. The school was moved. A quotation from the "Annual Catalogue of Occupational Records" (2005)
"The 48th Annual Catalogue of the University of Kansas" states two purposes: provide facilities for observation and practice teaching and the other to promote experimentation in new methods of study.
"As a laboratory for the science of education there is maintained as a part of the appy high school under the name Oral Training. Good it is by the student by the student and partly by the state. This
school is designed to exemplify for prospective teachers and for visiting teachers, principals and superintendents, the equipment, materials, and method of instruction advocated by the School of Education."
Karl Edwards, principal of the school from 1946 to 1950, said the Oread building housed only the offices, library and a small portion of the classrooms. Other subjects were taught in various buildings where the appropriate subjects were also taught to University students.
The maximum enrollment was 100 students in grades 9 through 12, including all students at Lawrences area. Although the school naturally attracted children of faculty members, it was not limited to them. Edwards
In 1942, the name of the school was changed to University High School.
The school held a State of Kansas "class A" standing. Student teachers served under the faculty of fully certified teachers.
In 1946, the school began a unique core program, an institute of teacher training in which the studies of language and social studies are emphasized.
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commonly found in junior high schools today.
The school was closed in 1850 because the number of prospective teachers then being taught there was more than Education was more than could be accommodated in any one school, said Edwards. Student teaching was conducted afresh in surrounding public schools.
The first stages of the new operation began this month with the use of new appointment forms. Angeenbrug said.
There were several changes in the payroll process, according to the employee's decision to make the changeover. First the cost of making out the payroll increased when the company changed its school calendar.
"The change will be very subtle," he said. "Our main concern right now is that everyone gets paid on time."
THE PAYROLL department has been using the computation center for a number of years, Anangenbruk said, "but we are now trying to put in a new system to generate additional information
It was more expensive to make checks for a portion of August, so it was made to it from the first to September to the end of
Many faculty and staff members wanted their paychecks divided so that they
Kansan Staff Writer
The automation of the University of Kansas's payroll is expected to be in operation by late fall, according to R.T. Angneungbeen, director of International Research and Planning.
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would receive them over a 12- month period instead of during the academic year only. This led to another complication, he said.
FOUR MAIN objectives are sought with the change, Aangenebrug said.
-It should allow for decentralization of the decision making process.
—It should allow for people on the payroll to make out a program as near as possible to their needs.
—And it is hoped that the new system will bring about changes and developments in the ad valence in respect to current needs.
—The new system should bring about simpler procedures for an individual to get on the payroll.
"THEER will be new accounting procedures will bring about better accounting organization and new budget systems," he added.
"It will allow for the ac-countability in organization at all levels," he said.
Besides payroll, the new system is concerned with budgets and the status of KU employees, Aangene bugged said.
"In the past there have been at least five or six different forms to fill out in several different places." Anjeenbruan said.
Ruth Faulh, library assistant at the Earth Science Library, is the vice president of the Jawahk Chapter of the National Audubon
Librarian's Hobby Is Watching Birds
The Audubon Society is preparing to do a continuous study of birds and wildlife in an close to the Clinton Dum site.
The chapter received its charter last August. Kansas bird studies called the Kansas Bird Studies called the Kansas Ornithological Society. But the local chapter is devoted mostly to the academic side of bird study,
Faulh, who called bird-watching an inexpensive hobby, has been interested in birds for 35 years.
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"Wherever you go you will at least see some house sparrows or nigrets," she said. "It is interesting to note the interest."
Although most of the species in the United States have been fledged, Faull said there was still much to do in the study of bird behavior in the study of bird behavior.
Faulh has planned and led several field trips in Lawrence to observe birds, watches as many birds as possible, and plants in the area.
Faulk said she was surprised about the growing interest in fisheries, noting that only hunters and fishermen were interested in the issue, but now it is a major business.
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ones in different places."
Most of the computer grants were when the center contracted to do work for a specific project. This usually involved a project that would produce results which improve the use of the computer.
"The competition for the funds that the federal agencies have is now stronger and there are fewer funds available." Wolfe said.
Wolfe said that one thing that affected the KU programs was that KU had one of the only computers of its type a few years ago. Now there are many other computers available to work with.
HE SAID that to get projects at the center, new and better ideas to be developed. There was a need for research programs where two or three different centers could bring their particular area of expertise.
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