Cut Class May Hurt In Language Pro Tests
Tomorrow some foreign language students may regret the times they cut class, did not practice their language dialogs and failed to write out answers to daily classroom exercises.
At 1:30 p.m. Fraser Hall will be the scene of language proficiency examinations in French, German, Spanish and Latin.
Nearly one-third of the students taking the examinations in past years failed according to Cyrus DeCoster, professor of Romance Languages. Over 150 students are expected to take the tests this year.
GRADUATION requirements in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences specify that students either complete 16 hours of language or pass the proficiency test, which is given three times a year — in September, January and Mav.
"We encourage strong students in course two of languages or in higher courses to take the exam." prof. DeCoster said. He added that many students not currently enrolled in language courses take the test "to prove they have done more than stagger through the 16 hours."
The French and Spanish examinations, which are similar in structure, will consist of three parts, two of which will be given tomorrow. The first part is a one hour reading-translation examination.
THE SECOND PART will be a listening examination. After listening to a tape recording students will answer questions based on the recording.
The third and last part of the Spanish, French and German examinations will be a ten minute oral interview.
Only students who pass the first two parts of the examinations will be eligible to take the oral part. "Those who pass the first part usually pass the oral interview," said
Prof. DeCoster. "The oral is not a rigorous test."
Students passing the written parts must make appointments with their respective departments for the oral examination next week.
The German examination will be similar to the French and Spanish examinations, but it also includes composition to be written in 50 minutes over a specified topic. The entire examination will last two hours.
THE LATIN TEST, which will last approximately an hour, will consist only of a reading-translation test.
"The test is a much shorter test, because people don't speak Latin anymore." Prof. DeCoster said.
The French test will be in room 208; German, room 210; Latin, room 213; and Spanish room 205.
Students may still register for the examinations in their respective language departments.
W. Germans Arrested For Blasting Wall
BERLIN — (UPI) — West Berlin police today announced the arrest of three men and a woman on charges they set off two explosions last month which blew holes in the anti-refugee wall and broke 161 windows in West Berlin.
Police said the four — all West Germans — brought explosives to West Berlin by air in their hand luggage and were involved in wall blasts on the American sector border Dec. 2 and 16.
The Dec. 2 blast blew a four-by-two-foot hole in the wall and broke 120 windows.
The arrests showed the determination of the West Berlin city government to halt attempts to blow up the wall.
The city has denounced the explosions as useless and dangerous. There have been 14 wall explosions since the wall went up Aug. 13, 1961, and no refugees ever escaped through holes made by them. The holes are guarded immediately by Eastern police and repaired quickly.
In the city's view, the explosions do more damage to the property of West Berliners living near the border than they do to the wall.
The men arrested yesterday were 20, 28 and 32. The woman was 36. Their names were not disclosed.
The 20-year-old man was described as an apprentice demolitions worker and the 28-year-old man as a beer salesman.
Police said they would be brought here for trial.
KU Receives $221,300 In Research Grants
KU has received two grants totaling $131,300 for studies in physics and the space-oriented studies.
These grants are $111,300 from the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for the study of the nuclear properties of the lighter elements and over $20,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a graduate fellowship program.
THE NASA GRANT will allow eight students to be selected for fellowships. These students will be candidates for doctorates in the space-oriented areas of study or science, mathematics and engineering.
The awards for $2,400, renewable for three years of study, will have an additional allowance for expense of up to $1,000 a year.
The Atomic Energy Commission grant, in effect for the past five years, has been enlarged to include the research of L. Worth Seagondollar, professor of physics. In the past the grant has been under the direction of Ralph W. Krone, professor of physics, and Francis W. Prosser, assistant professor of physics, who will continue working under the program.
The Atomic Energy Commission also granted $150,000 last year for study using a Van de Graaff accelerator which provided high energy protons and deuterons for the work by the three physicists. This accelerator, expected to be installed between February 7 and April 7, will replace the homemade accelerator used during the past thirteen years.
KU has also received a $22,000 grant for the research of language problems of mentally retarded children.
The award, for 1963, is the latest of a series for a long-term study which began in 1958. The grant is given by the National Institute of Mental Health, a division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
DR. RICHARD SCHIEFELBUSCH, professor of speech, director of the Bureau of Child Research, and co-director of the study, said the purpose of the research is to develop procedures to improve speech disabilities of mentally retarded children.
"Mentally retarded children can be taught to lead a normal life in society, but first must be taught to speak effectively," said Dr. Schiefelbusch.
He added that by the end of 1963 the research project will have received nearly $500,000 in total grants.
Watson Library Expects Milliont Book by Summe
KU's Watson Library is a fastgrowing and complex business. Books are arriving at the library at a rate of 40-50,000 books per year, and will hit the million mark sometime next summer.
Presently the library is out of room. It has been storing volumes in basements and under the football stadiums for years.
KU students and faculty members are utilizing Watson's services. They checked out almost a half-million books, pamphlets, records and other materials last year, the busiest in the library's history. This year is expected to be even busier.
By the fall of 1963 the $1,600,000 expansions will make it possible for Watson to take care of 1.3 million volumes and 2,200 readers.
To promote efficiency on a large and diverse campus, the books are not concentrated in one building, but are scattered in several specialized collections. The greatest number of books are in Watson Library, but there are smaller collections in the schools of engineering, law, fine arts, journalism, the Science Library and in several departments. There are also about 10,500 volumes at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Operations have become so complex that automatic data processing equipment will be installed in the near future to handle some of the routine filing chores.
Friday, Jan. 4, 1963 University Daily Kansan Page 3
Corps Trainees End KU Training Period
By Trudy Meserve
As KU students complete the final lap of the first semester, 26 Peace Corps trainees begin the second preparatory stage for a joint KU-Corps project in Costa Rica.
The trainees arrived in Puerto Rico Wednesday for further language and physical training.
FOR THE 26, the Puerto Rican orientation means they have been accepted into the second of three training sessions. The group successfully completed eight weeks of training at KU Dec. 21.
The trainees may be dismissed from the program at any time until they reach Costa Rica.
One trainee, for example, was dismissed for a physical disability. A second was transferred to another Corps program. Another recently notified KU authorities of her resignation because of her pending marriage.
Following the Puerto Rican orientation, the group will receive in-country training at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose.
However, John Augelli, chairman of the Latin American studies and professor of geography, said recently that "compared to other Peace Corps training groups, our trainee loss is low."
THE TRAINEES ARE SCHEDULED to begin work as English or science teachers or library assistants in Costa Rican secondary schools and the university Feb.18.
Graduation ceremonies were held at KU Dec. 21, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe gave the trainees certificates signifying they finished the KU course in technical subjects, world affairs, communism, Latin American area and American studies and language, health, medical and physical training.
Samuel Babbit, national Peace Corps director of the universities division, spoke briefly.
Thomas M. Gale, assistant professor of history and project coordinator, will teach at the University in San Jose. Prof. Gale will leave for Costa Rica Jan. 10. Mrs. Gale and family will join him in Costa Rica in February.
Skits Accepted For Rock Chalk
Four skis have been accepted for the 1963 Rock Chalk Revue.
Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta, Beta Theta Pi and Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Chi and Chi Omega, and Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Delta Pi were the houses whose skits were accepted by the four judges of this year's Revue, "Historical Hysteria."
Alba Tau Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta's skit is "The Big Dump," based on the Boston Tea Party; Beta Theta Pi and Pibeta Phi's is "The Poole Game," about Marco Polo's trip to China; Sigma Chi and Chi Omega's is "Once Upon a Rock," a prehistoric parody on the Kennedy administration, and Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Delta Pi's is "Hill and Gully Raiders," on Quantrill's raid.
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