University Summer Kansan
Friday, June 25,1971
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Kamper Kansan
The Kamer Kansan, a newspaper written and produced by journalism campers for the Midwest Music and Art Camp, will appear four times as part of the Summer Session Kansan. Publication dates for the Kamer Kansan are June 25, July 2, July 9 and July 23.
The University of Kan Lawrence, Kansas
Kazoos, Cards Provide Diversion
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Counselors Keep Peace In the Halls
By STEVE WHITLOCK
(*Editor's note*) This is the first in a series of four articles on law counselors.
As most Midwestern Music and Art campers are beginning to realize, the camps regulations and rules will be followed to the hilt and will be strictly enforced by those stalwart crushers for order and justice, the wing counselors.
The jovial but strict individuals are the backbone of the judicial system in the residence halls and are quite frequently the absorbing point of criticism.
From the south wing of the sixth floor of McCollum Hall, Sandy Stegelman, just relinquishing her grip on her junior high campers, is taking summer courses in voice in addition to counseling activities. In her home town of Winfield, she works in the local theater and is a senior at Southwestern University. She was not only blessed with a view of a big tree but one girl from her wing was voted the honor of junior huesteen.
After an influential five years as a camper, Gilen Adams decided to join the ranks of counselors besides her full schedule of organ, art, history, the western civilization comprehensive exam and a self-taught computer science course.
She said. "The dorm rules are a lot more permissive with things like room inspections, pizza deliveries and lights out."
Since her wing is usually asleep at 10:30 p.m., she hasn't had any problems with lights out, but. "There are still five weeks left,"
She says she feels that counselors don't have to be cruel and if they treat campers like human beings, the campers will respond like human beings.
Debra Crawford's first enjoyable experience with the junior high campers during the first week of camp involved the open letter to her letters on the wing bulletin board.
Besides taking care of the occasional broom out of the window or broken key, the main portion of her time is taken up with "just being a person." The branch of people from all over the nation.
The University of Kansas English major is spending her summer away from the town of Kearney, Nebraska. She found the junior high campers excited about derstanding, especially during the pre-dawn tornado warning the first week of camp, when the major portion of the night was spent in the hills.
Debra says she feels that "The more nights you spend in camp, the more you will receive." She feels that "You can do it."
Majoring in speech and English, Bill Russell finds summer counseling an "interesting way to open the summer, plus free room and board." He is currently teaching in the speech section of the camp and taking residence course in English and geography.
In his first year as a counselor, his major impression was that it was not as easy as it looked from the outside but he has found his work to be an important to be a fine balance of friendship and respect.
Supplying ample humor to get along with his wing, Jim Malone has hated kids since he was a child. He likens his friends and creating his need to team up and dogs for companionship. During the summer session, he is taking classes in economics, political science, accounting and sports.
He attended the University as a camper for three years and considered it such a tremendous idea that he was happy to participate as a counselor.
While perusing the area around Potter Lake for tasty tidbits, this duck caught sight of an art camper wearing what looked like enough lunch for the whole family.
Lunch?
New Features Highlight 1971 Camp Yearbook
In just three short weeks, the camp yearbook, Tempo, will hit the presses. "It's a demonstration of journalism in a hurry," said Jack Raymond, editor of Tempo.
Tempe is produced by a staff of 14, headed by Mrs. Mary Raymond, and on sabbatical from McPherson High in McPherson, Ks., where she has taught journalism for six years. She is now a university graduate assistant and in a position with the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
The yearbook is priced at $3 and can be ordered soon. This year there will be several innovations: a larger photo essay section, a larger photo essay section on closing student life section, and group
photos taken by division instead of by residence hall wings.
Student staffers are Michel Thompson, McPherson, Kan., Music Editor; Barb Schreuerger, Shawnee Mission, Kan. Speechwriter, McKinney Oaks, Oki, Science Editor; Liz Looney, Wichita, Kan., Journalism Editor; Gale Norton, Thornton, Colo. Art Editor; Regina Ahrens, Florissant, Mo., Editorial Assistant; and William Okin, Oki, Junior High Section Editor
Jackie Raymond
editor of Tempo
Photographers for Tempé are Debbie Gump, Gimp, okakosao, Janki Joinego, St. Joseph, Mo; Steve Whitlock, McPherson, Kan; Lennie Sophrin, Wilmington, Del.; Brian Bickford, Oberlin, Kan; and Kevin Ragan, Rabeha, Kane.
Four of the staff members will be editors of their school yearbooks next year. All of them are enrolled in the journalism division of the camp, where they produce the yearbook to gain first-hand experience in photography, conduct interviews and writings.
The 64-page yearbook, printed by the University Press, will be distributed Wed.
Enrollment Declines, But Camp Lives On
By LEONARD SOPHRIN
The camp, now in its 34th year of a flourishing existence, has had to kick aside a number of stumbling blocks in order that it might continue to be successful.
Despite a struggling national economy and a campus that has been plagued with violent death and various bombings, the 1972 session of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp has once again opened its doors to more than 1,000 school students from across the United States.
The Music Division, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, has maintained a satisfactory enrollment rate despite an increase in camp fees and a one week reduction
in time, while the affiliated divisions have suffered up to 50 per cent drops in enrollment. Wiley said he felt that the level of the music decline is due to better deteriorate, despite the decline in enrollment.
"Things are turning out fairly well, in
things to the camp population," Wiley said.
"I feel that there are two direct reasons for
the decline in the number of applicants in
most of the divisions--campus unrest and
an inflating economy."
Wiley predicted that things would improve and expand "if these two evils were
The senior art camp will offer a complete program of instruction with studio and
--division. There are classes in reporting features, editorials, editing and advertising Camps learn to take, develop and print pictures. Broadcasting is also studied
Journalism Campers Get Field Experience
Bv PEGGY BROWN
"Hey, hold it, while I check the reading on my light meter."
"What was your opinion of the campus when you first arrived here?"
"Don't step on my camera!"
This is all part of the journalism division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, which offers courses in music, theater, and dance.
The purpose of the camp, in the opinion of Del Brinkman, journalism camp director, is twofold. The first is to provide an opportunity to get better understanding in all phases of journalism as much as is possible in 6 weeks. The second is to give practical experience in skills that can be brought back to high school publications.
The camper works with the regular William Allen White School of Journalism staff. Brinkman says he feels that it is a good social and cultural experience for the campers to be housed in the dormitories with the other summer camps divisions.
Brinkman, who received his master's degree in journalism from Indiana University, has worked on a newspaper, as have many of the other teachers in the summer
The campers attend classes in the morning. The rest of their time can be devoted to whatever their main interests are. This means either working the photography laboratory, on the newspaper or the yearbook.
One newspaper, the Summer Session Kansan, is the university campus newspaper and is published semweekly. The other is the Kampfer Kansan. On both papers, campers have responsibilities of reporting, writing editor and editor team positions in the staff, such as photo editor, editor-in-chief, features editor, editorial editor and the yearbook, Teem is the camp yearbook, published for students in all divisions. Working on layout and being editors of the different divisions gives the campers access to back to the campers' high school yearbooks.
private classes. University of Kansas faculty members, many of whom are practicing professional artists and designers, make up the art camao's staff.
Many of the campers who attend the journalism camp return to the University as regular students in the William Allen White School of Journalism.
UPI Wire News Catches Interest
Art history, calligraphy, ceramics, design, and printmaking represent a cross-section of the wide range of courses available to the high school artists.
John S. McKay, associate dean of the school of Visual Arts at KU is the art division director.
campers learn to work with tools of journalism
Art students will have the opportunity to use the many fine facilities of the campus, including the art museum and the natural history museum.
The senior high school music division offers specialized training in band, choirs, orchestra, and music theory, plus various other opportunities for students to get involved in, on an individual basis. Art teachers from the University of Kansas music faculty and company orchestras will be available for private study in all fields of applied music.
Guest conductors, most of them of national and international republic, will each spend a week at the camp. This will provide an interesting seldom experienced by high school students.
According to Gerald Carney, a 23-year veteran with the music division of the camp,
"Things are turning out very well, a heck of a lot better than I thought."
Volunteer Hears Woes On 'Hotline'
Bv REGINA AHRENS
"Holme is a listening service and a referral service for people with problems."
In response to a call for volunteers to form an answering service in her hometown, Lynne Haynes, a senior from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, answered by "answering a 'bott' telephone once a week.
"People call us when they don't have anyone to talk to. We are not authorized to give advice, but we listen to people's problems and if they can't find a solution themselves, we help them find someone who can," she explained.
The project was started in Tulsa, OKa, by two sisters and psychologists, Drs. Jan Kiziar and Judy Hagedorn. Soon the need for services arise in the neighborhood of Bartlettville.
Lyme helped form this branch of "Holine" in October, 1970. She has since become a member of the "listener's com- munity" which is the backbone of the organization.
"One of the more frequent calls concerns boy-joy problems," Lynne said. "We also receive more calls during certain seasons. For example, after New Year's, when bills have to be paid, people are more upright, so we get more calls."
The only age limit for "Hotline" volunteers is a minimum of 16 years. However, applicants are screened and must receive special training before joining the staff. No restrictions are set for the age of callers or the types of calls received.
Lyme is enrolled in the science division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Camp Draws Students Back for Another Session
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp and the associated Academic Institutes have lured about 825 young people away from their homes this summer. Of this number, approximately 57 are campers back for their
"I like the University atmosphere. I really love it."
Bv DEBBIE GUMP
second or third year. The music camp has an estimated 40 returning campers; art: 13.
Why would these people come back? How have they seen the camp change? What do they think of the camp? These questions were put to a few of the returnees.
Patti Roach, 17, from Sarasota, Fla., came back to the art camp because she got a job.
"I came back because I didn't want to be at home during the summer," she said.
The camp's "the same but I just take it with a different attitude, I think a better attitude, than last year. I didn't like the rules. The art was hard, not easy," she said in a situation was kind of strict, I thought.
Returnees Tell Why
Kathy Nelson, also from 17 and from Sarasota, Fla., came because "I'm real interested in science. I really love the freedom here, not having to report every time you're going on, and stuff like that, like with your parents. Here, all you have to do is sign up for the school, and nobody really questions it. And I love the University atmosphere. I really love it."
"I don't rebel against everything they say, I sort of take it if I don't agree. I figure, well I'm here for six weeks, not the rest of my life. So, I'm bumby. I guess."
"There are some better rules, like there isn't room in room管理. I think over it all it's just a matter of getting the experience but not really an important, big difference. We weren't here when the junior high kids were here first year, so we kind of went through a new experience with that."
Naomi Forbes, a 16-year-old contra-bass
clairistinet from Sands Spring, Okla.
returned because "I loved it last year, and I got a lot out of it last year, and it's a great place just to get away from home and learn."
"If the membership decreased, I think it be just as good because last year it was a little crowded and you didn't know as many. I think you can meet a lot more people and learn a lot from them than you did last year because the membership has decreased."
"I liked it last year," she said. "I like the freedom of the camp because you're free to do whatever you want at night and I also like playing in an orchestra a lot and I like music. The idea of five, six hours of music a day appeals to me."
Sara Lee Ackerman, 14, is a vola player from Prairie Village. Kan
"You're more on your own. They trust you more, you've not enough responsibility."
Sara Lee said the drop in enrollment was
disappointing "I like it with a lot of people,
because you can always meet more people."
"I don't think they're very well organized this year with the room arrangements. I think the enrollment idea, the idea they had in mind, is better because it shouldn't be such a
"I would guess it. I hope the would be about the same. I hope it is because I liked it."
Robert Boccan, 17, from Fremont, Calif.
came back to the speech camp.
The camp is "definitely better" for two reasons he said.
4My classes are generally better. and Mr
"At the end of last year's institute, I said, 'Never again will I spend a summer working like this.' But when this year's debate topic came around, the only way to do well would be to come back and start all over. So far, it been quite orbital as it was last year."
Brandon has liberalized some of the rules." Leonard Sophrin, 17, traveled from Wilmington, Delaware to be the only returning journalism camper.
"The students that were here last year, especially a few in particular who I got to know well, continued corresponding with, were enough of a reason to come back, to meet more people like that. Anybody who can tell me what happened with the students or a concentrated learning situation some
So I come back, first of all to increase my interest, my knowledge. One of the basic reasons was the faculty in the school of journalism, which inspired me so that I could not picture myself not just seeing those people again, learning from them."
"After coming here last year I really had a good time in the classes, especially the way the professors worked with you on such an individual basis, and it's something that you never get to experience in a high school situation. I felt that I hadn't obtained all the knowledge and that I could and you know, six weeks in is really a small time slot.
people would say are crazy, but I feel that these are the type of people you learn to hate.
"There's a slackening of the rules. Generally, there's less tension between the supervisors and the counselors and the students. The intensity of the program has
"I felt that I hadn't obtained all the information and knowledge that I could."
increased. The response of the students to the faculty is much better."
"Obviously, the enrolment has decreased," Lemme said. "In this particular department, it is for the better, because the learning experience can be on more of an upward basis. I'd be disappointed if the camp would have to leave of lack of enrolment.