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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Oct. 11, 1963
Visiting Professor Cites Change Toward old Age
A visiting professor of psychology from Glasgow University, Scotland, said last night that facts about growing old haven't changed, but the attitudes toward it have.
Prof. Alastair Weir, in a speech to the psychology club, said that youth is highly emphasized. In western Europe and the United States, the attitude prevails that it is great to be young, and undesirable to be old.
PROF. WEIR then explained what
All American Credits Success To Religion
Too many students on the campuses across the country today are existing, but they are not living.
This is the opinion of former All-American Bill Krisher, who spoke to students last night in the Kansas Union.
Krisher, who is now working for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at its headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., told the audience that he believes too many young people, not only in colleges, but in every walk of life, are neglecting their duty as Christians.
THE OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY graduate spoke at the request of the Campus Crusade.
"Just because a person goes to church on Sundays." Krisher said. "he is not necessarily a Christian."
A ONE-TIME professional football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and captain of the old Dallas Texans, Krisher credited his accomplishments to his belief in Christianity.
"Many people feel that talk like this is something that would come from a sissy, Krisher said. But if these same people consider sissies Rafer Johnson (Olympic gold medal winner), Bobby Richardson (second baseman of the New York Yankees) and Francis Tarkington (quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings), then they are talking about the type of sissy I would like to be."
was being done in one area of Scotland to help retreived people of a community gain respect during their retirement years.
"The problem is that the family structure today is a two-generation family," he said. "The older group is left out of this structure and isolated."
Prof. Weir said that these problems have caused many people to look forward to retirement with great apprehension. These people felt left out because there was nothing useful for them to do.
As an example of what is being done to correct this problem, Prof. Weir told about the Glasgow Retirement Council.
"DANIEL GRANT, a factory director, saw the need for helping retired people, and almost singlehandedly set up this retirement council."
Prof. Weir said Grant wanted to set up a hobby and crafts shop to occupy their spare time, and a sheltered workshop where they could work and earn a small wage. These two projects were designed to help the elderly people feel that they were again a useful part of the community.
"The hobby and crafts shop proved very successful, but the sheltered workshop ran into stiff opposition from labor unions," Prof. Weir said.
THE GLASGOW Retirement Council also set up a school for people who were approaching retirement age.
"Co-operating with both labor and management in the area, the council has set up a pre-retirement training course," Prof. Weir said.
He said the course, which is taught on seven consecutive Fridays at a nearby jr. college is attended by people who are within two years of retirement. The companies they work for pay them full wages for attending these classes.
PROF. WEIR said that he felt "senior citizen" settlements do more harm than good.
"These places are good in that they build a sense of interdependency," he said, "but they also isolate these people from a normal community."
Students have until tomorrow to drop a course without it showing on university records according to James K. Hitt, registrar.
Tomorrow Final Day For Dropping Course
The student must go to the Dean of the School in which he is enrolled to drop a course.
If a student drops a course after Oct. 12, a record of whether he is passing or failing the course will appear on his transcript. If the student is passing at the time of the drop, a WD or withdrawal will be recorded. If he is failing, the student will receive an F in the course.
GrantsBoostStu ForKUProjects
KU has received $824,850 in grants and contracts for research-related graduate training programs on the campus during the months of July, August, and September, William J. Argersinger, associate dean of faculties for research, announced today.
The funds will support 42 different projects in 19 different departments ranging from aerospace engineering to zoology. Three of the projects have been undertaken for private industry by the KU center for research in engineering science.
One grant to the English department will finance an experiment in the teaching of English composition to college freshmen by a "Correspondence-tutorial" method. Others will make possible studies in botany, child research, chemistry, entomology, geography, electrical engineering, mathematics, meteorology, microbiology, pharamaceutical chemistry, psychology, radiation biophysics, social work, sociology, and speech.
Motorist's Complaint Illustrated by Collision
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.—(UPI)—A motorist stopped yesterday and told state trooper Carl Young, who was clocking drivers with a radar unit, that he had passed a car that was weaving along the road.
The warning did not come soon enough. The car approached, swerved off the road and slammed into the rear of Young's parked auto.
The driver, John N. Norwod, Urbana, Ill., was charged with driving while intoxicated.
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ARE CATHOLICS CHRISTIANS?
Are the basic tenets of Catholicism the same or different from those of other Christians? Are Catholics logical? Why can't Catholies eat meat on Fridays? Or can they? Why do Catholics drink and smoke? Why isn't drinking or smoking necessarily a sin for Catholics? Are Catholics really different? Was Christ a Catholic?
In an effort to inform those interested in learning about the Catholic Church and what it means, an Inquiry Forum has been set up. The forum consists mainly of a question-answer and discussion session. It is held every Tuesday night at 7:00 at the St. Lawrence Catholic Student Center, 1915 Stratford Road or call Brendan Downey, O.S.B. at VI 3-0357.
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