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College to Tighten Graduation Credits
Major changes in course credit in the English, mathematics and language departments of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences indicate a crack-down on high school preparation for college.
"Beginning in Sept. 1965, we will no longer give credit toward graduation from the College for courses that students should have taken in high school," said George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Mathematics 2, which currently meets three times a week for two hours of credit, will receive three hours credit. Mathematics A and B, currently no-credit courses, will be assigned three hours each.
Waggoner explained that new policies decided at a Nov. 20 faculty meeting concerning mathematics and foreign languages will go into effect Sept.1965, but changes concerning the English department are still subject to the approval of the Administrative committee.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE will decide whether the new changes will effect present University students as well as 1965 freshmen.
Waggoner explained that English I A, which currently meets five times a week for three hours credit. will receive five hours credit to better indicate the students' course load. However, only three of the five hours of credit and gradepoints will be applicable to a College degree.
Since these courses contain material that should have been taken in high school, Waggoner explained, the amount of grade points and credits will be shown on student grade reports with a notation indicating that the credit is not applicable to a College degree.
BEGINNING IN 1965, students cannot apply credit or gradepoints earned in a beginning course in language toward a degree in the College, unless they are eligible for the second course in another foreign language.
This means that a freshman in 1965 would be able to fulfill part of the 16 hour requirement by taking Spanish I, but could not apply that credit toward graduation unless he would be eligible for French 2 or another second course in a foreign language.
A student is eligible for a second language course if he meets one of the following requirements:
- earn two years of high school credit in a language.
- earn college credit in the first course of a language.
- earn college credit in the first semester.
- make a satisfactory score on the language placement examination.
WAGGONER SAID the ruling was aimed at preventing college students from substituting high school-level courses for electives in the College.
Waggoner explained another credit change which concerns repeated failures in a course. Heretofore, a student who failed a three hour course twice would have received only three negative gradepoints. Beginning the next school year, such a student will be assessed six negative grade points.
Anti-War Group Quizzed
Movement and its members.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The House Committee on Un-American Activities opened an investigation of peace movements today in a hearing room jammed with hundreds of indignant women, some of them holding babies.
The committee subpoenaed leaders of the women's group and other "non-communist" peace organizations to determine if they are being "infiltrated" by communists.
MOST OF THE women were members of an anti-nuclear war group called "Women's Strike For Peace." Many of them were young mothers, about eight of them carrying their children.
REP. CLYDE DOYLE, D-Calif,
who presided at the request of
Chairman Francis E. Walter, D-Pa.
emphasized as the hearing opened:
Leaders of the group said in advance that they would "refuse to cower" before the House investigators, whom they accused of trying to "smear" the Strike For Peace
"The fact that communists have created and infiltrated peace organizations does not mean that all peace groups are communists or that all members of them—or even a majority of them—are Communists, Communist sympathizers, or fellow-travellers."
Daily hansan
Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1962
60th Year, No. 58
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
"I went into a store and asked the clerk for some mailing labels. He didn't understand what I meant, so I tried to show him. We went around and around and got nowhere. Then one of my Filipino friends came in and asked what the trouble was. I told him. He said I should ask for (lah-BELLS), not (LAY-bls).
Agnew Will Discuss Abolition of Athletics
The "Abolition of Inter-collegiate Athletics" will be proposed Wednesday by a KU professor.
"The Peace Corps could do a useful job in the Philippines if it were to focus its attentions on problems of community development, and in the Province of Lanao des Sur to help the Filipinos to understand one another," Prof. Warriner said.
Pronunciations are often different and can lead to some awkward misunderstandings he said.
Dr. L. R. C. Agnew, professor of medical history, will point out the negative aspects of college athletics in a SUA Minority Opinions Forum at 4:20 p.m. in the Forum room of the Kansas Union.
The forecast for today and tonight in northeast Kansas reads partly cloudy and bitterly cold with Northernly winds 15 to 25 miles per hour diminishing this afternoon and evening.
After Dr. Agnew has presented the reasons he thinks college athletics should be abolished the forum will be opened up for questions and discussion from the audience.
Charles K. Warriner, associate professor of sociology and chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, was in the Philippines on a Fulbright grant during the 1958-59 school year.
The Peace Corps can make a worthwhile contribution to the Philippines, even though some Corps members have run into cultural difficulties, a KU sociologist says.
Corpsmen have problems when they try to help the Filipinos learn English. Prof. Warriner said.
Philippine English differs from American English just as British English differs from American English. Prof. Warriner said.
US Peace Corps Aids Philippines
Skies will be partly cloudy. Temperatures are expected to range from 12 to 15 with a low tonight of near zero.
Weather
YOU'RE KIDDING!-Janice Wise, Kansas City senior, pauses to read the Engineering thermometer in front of Lindley Hall as freezing temperatures from the season's first major winter storm continue to prevail. The thermometer read seven above.
Cuban Official Reveals Proposed Attack on US
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Cuba planned an all-out nuclear attack on the United States in the event of armed conflict because it felt the struggle would be a "fight to the death," a top Cuban official was disclosed to have told a European Communist reporter in a Havana interview.
The official, Argentine-born Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Cuba's economics czar, told the Communist London Daily Worker;
"In the face of an aggressor like the U.S., there can be no other solution than a fight to the death, inflicting the maximum damage to the enemy. . . .
"If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York..."
Guevara, with a long history of Communist maneuvering throughout Latin America in the past decade, revealed a deep hatred of the United States.
He said it would be "ridiculous" to pretend that the U.S. economic
blockade of Cuba has not hit Cuba. He pointed out that Cuban factories were mostly equipped with Western machinery, and that the blockade made it impossible for Cuba to get spare parts to keep them running.
This means Cuban development plans "will have to be modified, and be less ambitious," he said. "We are under no illusion," he said. "We know we cannot exist on our own.
"We depend on the solidarity of the socialist camp and of the whole world."
Guevara told the Communist newsman that the "most effective form of help" international Communism could render Cuba "was (in) the armed struggle already taking place in some Latin American countries. . ."
He boasted that the Cuban revolution "has shown that small (Communist) guerrilla groups, well-led and located in key points . . . can act as a catalyst of the masses bringing them into mass struggle through action.
Campus Police are Unhailed Educators
By Phil Magers
(Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of three articles on the campus police.)
Many KU teachers are well known but there are some that are unrecognized—the campus police.
JOSEPH SKILLMAN, chief of the Traffic and Security Department, believes prevention of crime is the best way to deter crime.
They see their job as the prevention of crime through education of the student body on safety and the law.
best way to to inpast years, this has worked very well." Skillman says. "And I think it will in the future. Students are more responsible today than they used to be."
One example of this "education" is the traffic regulations pamphlet which is handed out at the beginning of every school year. This pamphlet explains traffic laws and zones.
"WE DON'T HAVE any trouble with most students," Skillman says. "Some students are away from home
for the first time and often will do things they would not do at home."
Skillman says there is a difference between a "prank" and malicious mischief, but sometimes students do not realize this.
This is one reason why campus police provide a special indoctrination program in which new officers are instructed about dealing with students.
When "pranks" are not "pranks", but malicious crimes, the police must resort to some type of punishment.
TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS usually are corrected by fines. But, more serious crimes usually are dealt with by the dean of men.
"Someone may steal a stop sign from a congested intersection," Skillman says. "This could lead to a serious accident, but pranksters often
Any other trouble which occurs off-campus is reported through the campus police to the dean.
To carry out this unusual form of education and to curb any "hard learners" the police work 24 hours.
Chief Joe Skillman
The director of the department, Joseph Skillman, who has been with the department for almost 14 years, has been director since 1951.
"I ENJOY WORKING with young people and that's the reason that I joined the department in the first place and why today I work with the Boy Scouts," he says.
The department itself is like any police department in its organization.
ALSO UNDER HIS command is Lt. Edwin Fenstemaker who is in charge of the five traffic control booths and the patrolmen who man them.
The chancellor of the university has complete power over the department and Vice Chancellor Keith Lawton is the direct superior of the department.
Capt. Willard G. Anderson is second in command to Chief Skillman and is in charge of all outside patrol and is directly in charge of the day patrol, which is composed of three patrolmen and a dispatcher.
Lt. Earl Steck is also under Anderson's command as officer in charge of night patrols. The two night patrols are composed of four men and a dispatcher.
All officers in the department are commissioned by the state, the Lawrence Police Department and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. They exercise their jurisdiction only on the campus unless trouble involving a student is off-campus.
EVERY CAMPUS officer has had previous police experience and some of the patrolmen at the booths have had car checking experience in addition to police experience.
Every year each patrolman receives 40 to 50 hours of in-service training and each patrolman goes to the Kansas Peace Officers Training School periodically.
The Traffic and Security office in Hoch Auditorium is manned by four clerks. The director's office and the squad room also are in the office.
(Tomorrow, Magers deals with the history of the 16-year-old campus law enforcement agency.)