University Summer Kansan
Monday, June 5, 1972
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Frosh Begin Previews June 12
By KENT PULLIAM
Kansan Staff Writer
Previews are back at the bakehouse this summer for the first time since. These summer orientation sessions will begin June 12. The program will be held Monday through Friday.
The summer orientation program was reinstated by John Meyers, director of the Office of Student Affairs. We are to allow the students who will be enrolling as freshmen next fall to complete many of the registration forms that are required for school starts in the fall he said.
The prospective students will complete their physical exams, get their I.D. photos taken, talk with advisors and select some of
the courses they want to take in the fall.
Other activities for the new students are some special interest sessions in which they get to meet faculty members and students who are involved in campus activities. Many of the students have representatives available to talk with these students.
THIS SUMMER's sessions will
begin during the last three
weeks of April and June.
A schedule is arranged for June 12 to 13, 15
to 16, 19 to 20, 22 to 23, 26 to 27
and 28.
The program is completely self-supporting, and each of the students who comes will pay his own way. There is a $20
registration fee, which covers room and board for the day and half each student attends the previews.
All the students will be housed in residence halls for the sessions. The women will be in the SSP and the men in the north half of Corbin Hall.
Meyers said he was pleased that the first session was receiving for reservations. The first session had been full for several days and the second one was only about a week long.
"There will probably be somewhere between 1000 and 1200 students attending this summer's sessions," he said.
MEYERS SAID the 1969 sessions were attended by almost 850 freshman class, and this year there were already nearly 450
"The program is for the students," Myers said, "and we've tried to give them the opportunity to complete some procedures in a more relaxed atmosphere during the summer."
receiving from 50-80 new responses each day.
The KU Preview program originally started in the 1854. Each of the sessions was for incoming students to complete an eight hour block of examinations and prepare for placement. When KU went the ACT testing program, there was no need for this eight hour block.
The program was discontinued after 1969.
"ALTHOUGH the program is for the students, it also helps the advisors and faculty during a week in the fall," Merriams said.
"We didn't realize how much they accomplished," he said. The previews cut down the show's schedule and in the fall so that each of them can see an advisor easier and more when they get to see them.
"The only real concern for the program was whether there would be enough faculty at KU to teach it," said Furman, who "but everyone we are help with the program ever sees." We get preview sets at KU.
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resources—both of which are scarce at the moment.
HOROWITZ DESCRIBED the RU program as modest, and said that he would not use it because of a 20 to 25 per cent increase in the program each
There are only nine full-time faculty members in the department, and these are taught in other fields, such as mathematics or English, he said. Although computer science is a core subject, Horowitz said, he doesn't see it as a required course in the future. "We'll probably be put into the machines in readable form, and it would help us to give people we would learn to use computers."
He said computers could have a mass effect similar to that of the telephone. Almost everyone used them as a way to stay in contact possible to exist without them.
CRTS are remote units that can communicate with the main computer. They can be located in a rack and can be accessed there. There are 55 terminals outside the center, 27 of which can work with the main computer at any time.
"I've been to four or five instationaries, and I've never smaller than the KK that have more their hallways than we have in our total computation center."
Another factor which limits the development of the computer department and of computers in general is the problem of space. There are limited facilities for computer work to be undertaken on computers at KU, and few places are as crowded as the computation center.
PAUL J. WOLFE, director of the computer center,计费 system for cramped conditions and calls to cramped conditions and calls at KU "minimal."
Although many people fear machines and dread a course such as Computer Science 16, a few who were introduced to Herowitz said he saw an advantage to working with machines. They were reliable, had few breakdowns, and often found interesting than professors.
But there is a need for extended facilities at KU. As one official noted, the university downtown to mail letters, everyone shouldn't have to go to the computation center to get information from the library, although nobody would go to the library at 3 a.m., people come regularly to the computation at that time.
Wolfe estimated that 2,500 to 3,000 transactions took place daily in the computation center and that about a quarter came into the center every day. He said the amount of equipment such as key punch machines and CRTS (computer terminals at KU was also limited.
SMALL COMPUTER networks within the University could ease the problem of space. Such a network can be created with help from the National Science Foundation. Small laboratory units will be connected to the main computer and be connected to the main computer. The system is designed to help automate laboratory experiments and record relay data from them.
He said there was a constant rate of high performance between a student and a machine. It was sometimes easier to learn from a teacher than a computer communicated more effectively than a professor. Such learning was immediately rewarding, and it gave both practical and theory work.
He said that white computer courses would probably not be required in the future, more information would inform high and high school levels
HOROWITZ SAID he thought the fear of computers which many people had was the same response made to any new intellectual theory. He gave the reason of early fears of Darwinism.
Another professor, Walter Sedelow, who teaches both computer science and sociology, agreed that teaching by computers could be more satisfying for the individual student and because the University environment more personalized for students.
In the 50s, when computer science was first introduced at
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According to recent information from the computation center, "it is obvious that the use
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