Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year, No. 59
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1962
Boost in Requirements StirsStudentComment
By Linda Machin
College graduation requirements are getting tougher and some KU students like it. Others don't.
Credit changes in foreign languages, and English and mathematics courses to tighten College graduation requirements, announced recently by George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, have aroused both student approval and disapproval.
With the changes, some beginning or remedial foreign language, English and mathematics courses will be fully credited to reflect students' actual course loads. Although reflected in the student's grade-point average, full credit for those courses cannot be applied toward graduation from the college.
THE NEW POLICY WHICH probably will go into effect the fall of 1965, will discourage College students from taking courses, which College officials deem should have been taken in high school.
Students interviewed, feel that the new policy would be fair only if high schools were made well aware of the changes ahead of time.
Several said it wouldn't be fair to come to KU and suddenly find out many of their required courses which they did not take in high school are not applicable toward graduation.
Mary Meek, Wichita freshman, said. "If high school counselors aren't well informed, students might not find out about requirements until after graduation—when it's too late."
Some students praised the changes. One junior in the College said she thought it a good idea to discourage taking high school level courses because the purpose of a college education is to take harder courses in order to learn. This cannot be done if elective hours are filled with algebra and elementary Spanish that could have been taken in high school.
SALLY BROWN, Prairie Village junior in the School of Education, said, "College language requirements are outdated. In the world we live in today, a knowledge of foreign languages is becoming more and more important."
She added that requirements in the School of Education should be stiffened. A knowledge of language aids in understanding other cultures, and an elementary five hour course won't do the job.
On the other hand, Sheila Brown, Leavenworth sophomore, said that making course credits non-applicable toward a degree in the college is detrimental for students coming from small high schools.
"I came from a small school of 350 students. Spanish and trigonometry were not available to me then," she said.
Several students commended the change from three to five credit hours for English 1A which currently meets five hours a week.
Eight KU Methodists To March for Peace
About eight members of the KU Methodist study group on disarmament will join the "Witness the Peace" march in Topeka Saturday.
But another third of the 24-member group will not participate unless the placards to be carried agree with their feelings on disarmament.
The remaining third has refused to participate at all.
THE REV. DON HULL, pastor at Wesley Foundation, the Methodist student center, said the undecided group will not make a final decision until Saturday morning, when the students will meet prior to the march.
"If the consensus of the placards, which will be made by students across the state, does not represent the students' own feelings, some students will not march." Rev. Hull said.
He said the students were leery of platitudes that simply say, "We Hate War."
Rev. Hull said the students did not want to appear as a group "naively advocating unilateral disarmament, but as students searching for a reasonable approach to arms control."
THE UNDECIDED STUDENTS, he added, feel that the march should call on people to study the issues and decide for themselves.
He said that the KU study group had gone far beyond the program set out by Rodney Shaw, director of disarmament education for the Division of Peace and World Order of the Methodist Church. Shaw's book, "None Shall Make Them Afraid," has been the basis of the six-week study program.
THE KU GROUP, Rev. Hull said, had tried to study the problems in depth and had included works by writers favoring the strong deterrent approach, as well as a book by Erich Fromm, who favors unilateral disarmament.
The march in Topeka Saturday will include a march across that part of the city which would be destroyed should a one-megaton bomb be dropped on the statehouse.
Negro Status at KU on Rise Says Civil Rights Adviser
Possible Health Fee Boost Seen
Student health fees may be increased by three dollars, the Daily Kansan has learned.
The present $12 fee will remain in effect for the second semester, however. Any change will not occur before this summer, and perhaps not until the fall semester, it was learned.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of student health services, could not be reached for comment. But Dr. Canuteson's secretary said he had authorized a statement indicating he will be free to discuss the matter after KU's preliminary budget has been submitted to the Board of Regents in mid-January.
RAYMOND NICHOLS, vice chancellor of finance, had no comment when asked about a possible increase.
In 1960, Dr. Canuteson said a $2 or $3 increase in student health fees would ease a financial strain on Watkins Hospital. Seventy-two per cent of the hospital's income comes from student health fees, Dr. Canuteson said at that time.
About 24 per cent of this income is from charges for services over and above those covered by fees, and four per cent is from income on the endowment of Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins.
Watkins Hospital is not tax supported and is one of only ten student health hospitals in the United States fully accredited by the Joint Committee on Accreditation, a group composed of the major medical and hospital associations in the country.
A STAFF OF about 50 members is on the hospital's payroll. These include seven physicians, two clinical psychologists, three laboratory technicians, one part-time and one full-time physical therapist, the half-time services of a dietician, nine full-time office personnel and food service workers, maintenance people and other part-time help.
The hospital building, constructed in 1931, was designed to provide health services for a student enrollment of 4.500. The present 10.-000 enrollment taxes Watkins' present facilities heavily.
About 2,000 physical examinations were given last year at the hospital and some 20,000 prescriptions were filled.
NEW DELHI — (UPI) — Premier Jawaharlal Nehru said today reports from the front indicate Red China is massing troops south of conquered Bomdila, within easy striking distance of the densely populated Assam plains.
Red China Move Puzzles Indians
Nehru told India's "senate" the Red invaders' concentration may be a preliminary to their promised withdrawal from some of the Indian territory they have seized. Other high officials were reported worried, however, about the threat of a possible new Communist attack.
U. S. ambassador John K. Galbraith left for home today to report to Kennedy on the Indian situation.
(Red China's official radio reported that the invaders marched north from Bomdila Sunday. The same Peking broadcast, however, carried a report on conditions in the border community as of yesterday.)
By Jackie Stern
The Civil Rights coordinator of the All Student Council said last night the Negro at KU is constantly rising in status and improving his opportunities.
Cordell Meeks, Kansas City, Mo. junior, told Council members there was little evidence of "open" discrimination on the KU campus.
HE CITED THE winning of the Military Ball Queen by a Negro girl,
Mona Lisa Approved For Display in U.S.
PARIS — (UPI) “The "Mona Lisa," one of the world's most famous paintings, will leave here in the next few days for display in the United States, government officials said today.
Leonardo da Vinci's famed masterpiece, a symbol of feminine mystery for 456 years, has been the center of a national storm as a result of the government's plan to lend it to the Metropolitan Museum in New York and Washington's National Gallery.
The idea of shipping "Mona Lisa" abroad has been laid at the doorstep of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, who told French cultural minister Andre Malraux during his visit to Washington last spring that she'd love to see the painting in the National Gallery.
Rusk Has Tough Job In Europe
PARIS — (UPI) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk embarked on a heavy schedule of diplomatic meetings today in an effort to patch up some cracks in the Atlantic Alliance.
Rusk arranged separate meetings today with three top French leaders — President Charles de Gaulle, Premier George Pompidou and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de
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Murville -- as a prelude to a three-day session of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization council of ministers opening tomorrow.
American sources said Rusk did not intend to try again to persuade De Gaulle to abandon plans for an independent French nuclear striking force, although the United States has opposed it all along.
In a message to the national assembly yesterday, De Gaulle said it was "inconceivable" that France should not have its own nuclear force.
American sources said Washington has decided that it will have to abide by this decision.
However, Rusk was expected to:
- Sound out De Gaulle on merging a French nuclear force with a European nuclear force inside NATO.
- Urge France to step up its commitment of conventional forces to NATO. France pledged 14 divisions in 1952 but has only 2 under NATO command now. De Gaulle apparently will not give more until the United States and Great Britain agree to include France in a big three NATO directorate.
- Appeal to De Gaulle not to make Britain's entry into the six-nation European Common Market too difficult. The United States fears that if negotiations collapse Britain might pull its forces out of Europe.
the selection of the first Negro counselor at a freshman dormitory, a Negro Hilltopter chosen by the Jayhawker staff as an outstanding senior, and the number of Negros participating in varsity sports and competing for top scholastic and political honors.
"The problem lies with the citizens of Lawrence, not with KU students," Meeks said. "No one can do more to wipe out traces of discrimination in Lawrence than the citizens, themselves."
In other Council reports, Theodore Childers, Wamego senior, said he would resign as chairman of the ASC Liaison committee if the Council did not take action on a resolution enacted two years ago. This resolution instructed his committee to approach the State legislature on enlarging Watkins Hospital.
CHILDERS EXPLAINED the action was not advisable in view of the opposition expressed by Chancellor Wescow, James Gunn, administrative assistant to the Chancellor, and Laurence Woodruff, dean of men.
After some debate, the Council passed a resolution requiring student government to go through the administration for University building improvements.
A bill establishing a student board to advise students on enrollment procedures and class schedules passed the Council.
Thomas G. Turner, Seattle, Wash., junior, and newly-elected vice-chairman, presented this bill and another resolution designating the College Intermediary Board as the official body for carrying out the Big Eight College Bowl program.
LAST NIGHT TURNER was elected ASC vice-chairman over Phyllis Wertzberger, Lawrence graduate student. Jane Breckenridge, Louisburg sophomore, won the election for secretary against Jerrie Sue Trantum, Kansas City junior.
As a result of Council approval on another resolution, nightly bus service may be available to students living in freshman dormitories, scholarship halls, large women's residence halls and sororities.
Suzanne Runnells, Greeley, Colo., senior, requested the bus service and a committee was formed to negotiate with the Lawrence Transit Company.
THE PASSAGE OF A resolution introduced by John Underwood, Parsons junior, provides for an investigation on University food standards by the Student Health committee if the need arises.
Sandra Garvey, St. Louis, Mo., junor, introduced an amendment to a bill which establishes the ASC Secretarial committee. She suggested a list of all ASC committees be sent by the secretarial committee to the presidents of all living groups. This list should refer to the ASC constitution on the purpose and function of the committees.
In other action, the Council voted to give $500 bonuses to last year's Jayhawk editor, Blaine King, Emporia senior, and Grover Askins, business manager, Joplin, Mo., senior. The bonus, proposed by Thomas Yoe, secretary of the Jayhawker advisory board, was provided from a net profit of $2,943 from last year's Jayhawk.
Weather
Sub-freezing temperatures will continue in the Lawrence area through tomorrow. Low tonight is expected at 10 above with the high tomorrow around 20. No snow is expected in the eastern part of the state, but some light flurries are expected in the western section.