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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Dec. 11, 1963
PBOAE Lecturers Discuss Education
Two KU professors agreed last night that the trend in education is toward less specialization. They spoke at the latest lecture on the Philosophical Basis of Absolutely Everything (PBOAE).
One of the professors, Bruce L. Hood, assistant professor of education, said that while there is a trend toward less specialization, there is also a trend toward specialization.
Since the seventeenth century in America the trend has been toward a more liberal offering of courses and an expansion of curriculum, he said.
FRANKLYN C. NELICK, associate professor of English, said education is not becoming more specialized, but less. He said it is much more liberal than when he went to school.
"The student is expected by the community to be more educated in four years than before," Prof. Nelick said. He added that undergraduates are required to know a wider range of subjects than before.
Prof. Nelick said there is nothing wrong with a broad curriculum "But the elective system doesn't insure that you don't become a specialist," he said.
GRADUATES SHOULD have a specialty, Prof. Nelick said, but liberalization is necessary for undergraduates.
Prof. Nelick advocated a system for undergraduates which would require them to take unspecified courses in several specified areas.
He said the courses in these areas should not be general courses. General courses are a waste, he said.
THIS SYSTEM MUST be as carefully devised as possible to give the student as much freedom as possible, he explained.
Prof. Hood said the Latin derivative of curriculum is "race track." "This implies," he said, "that once we get the student running around in a broad curriculum we must also get him out."
PROF. HOOD SAID he could not say whether he was for a hard core of courses or not.
Through the credit system, it is hoped the student is educated, he said. But it is not what is required, but what the students gets out of the courses. Learning is something a student does for himself, he said.
Prof. Hood said research is a good opportunity for the student.
Moving to another topic, Prof. Hood said, "Most college teachers don't recognize that they are teachers. Rather they are biologists, chemists, or poets who happen to have a couple of classes."
THE MOST CONDEMNING THING one teacher can say about another, Prof. Nelick said, is that he is not quite professional.
Turning to the need for the present amount of time spent in class, Prof. Nelick said class time might be better used in personal research.
George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and moderator of the discussion, said the idea that "for every hour in class two hours out of class should be spent" has not been questioned since the turn of the century. He said less class time and more time spent in research might be the next step in education.
Polish Literary Art Is Lecturer's Topic
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Jery Krzyzanowski, assistant professor of Polish and Russian at the University of Colorado, will speak on "Modern Polish Literature at the Crossroads" at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas Union.
Professor Kryzyzanowski came to the United States three years ago to teach at the University of Michigan. He recently wrote a book on the influence of Hemingway on modern Polish writers. His main interest is in Polish-American literary relationships.
Wives Give Haircuts
LONDON, —(UPI)—The "solicitors, Journal," a legal magazine, said today a poll revealed that many British lawyers have their hair cut by their wives.
STANFORD, Calif. —(UPI)— Dr. Theodore Kreps, emeritus professor of finance at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, has developed the following simplified economic definitions:
Gruber said the number of people who responded compared with the money collected made it seem that on the average each person contacted donated $24.50.
Panic—when your wife loses her job.
This was Capt. Gruber's first year as fund manager at KU. He will not be connected with it next year since he is awaiting orders to be transferred to another post this summer.
Depression—when you lose your job.
Recession—when the man next to you loses his job.
Gruber said he sent out letters to 1,500 faculty and staff members around October 1. Of all contacted about one third responded to the drive, he said.
Dean Taylor to Entertain Women
The drive began Oct. 1 and ended Nov. 15. In the space of six weeks the money was collected and turned over to the main United Fund drive
KU faculty and staff members made the United Fund drive on campus a success this year by donating a total of about $1,000 more this year than in 1962.
He said reaching the goal was an achievement since the goal was raised by the United Fund Board $200 from last year. The drive was $800 short of the $9,800 goal in 1962.
Richard D. Gruber, professor of Naval science and director of the KU division said the $10,000 goal was achieved by Nov. 15.
Campus UF Goal Reached
Professor Defines
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The Dean of Women's staff will entertain women student leaders next week with a series of informal open houses.
program in Lawrence.
THE POPULATION OF THE city of Lawrence has increased more than 40 per cent since 1950. The present population totals more than 33,000 persons.
The schedule of open houses:
Most of the holiday parties will be held at the home of Emily Taylor, dean of women. The parties are an annual affair.
the schedule of open houses:
Sunday, Panhellenic and Inter-
Resident Councils; Tuesday,
Associated Women Students Senate and
Watkins Scholars; Wednesday, freshman-hall counselors and CWENS,
and Thursday, AWS House and upperclass-hall student assistants.
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