Alumni always seem to come back
Doodling doesn't mean dawdling
By DAVE ANDERSEN Kansan Staff Writer
Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson came to KU as the assistant to the dean of men in 1948. Since that time he has experienced many changes both within and outside the University.
A KU graduate with a B.S. in business, Alderson was one of six members of Sachem, senior men's honorary, president of his senior class, a member of the All Student Council and president of Carruth Scholarship Hall.
Alderson was named University "Honor Man" in 1945, an award presented to a KU graduate one year after graduation, on the basis of scholastic and extracurricular activities at KU and performance after graduation.
The dean says that when he came to work at KU in 1948, there were only Dean Woodruff and him in the dean of men's office. Now, because of the pressing needs of the great numbers of students enrolled, there are 10 people working in the office.
Dean Donald Alderson
Since becoming dean of men in 1953, Alderson says it is unfortunate that the dean of men's office has a rather negative connotation. He says he and his coworkers are at a distinct disadvantage because of this.
Well-traveled dean heads foreign office
Bv MARCIA MITCHELL
Kansan Staff Writer
When a college graduate accepts his first job, initial thoughts are usually, "Will I really like what I'm doing?"
Although the title has changed and the responsibility has expanded, Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, is still content with his first position.
Beginning in 1957, Coan was a part-time foreign student adviser and part-time dean of men. In 1966, the title became dean of foreign students. The office was taken out of the dean of men's office and became a separate department.
However, this job was not Coan's first experience with KU. He received a BA in political science, a MA in political science and a Ph.D. in education.
Foreign affairs were not new to Coan as he had traveled extensively in the Pacific during World War II. World travel since then varied from a summer in 1968 touring Hong Kong and Japan as a guest of the Chinese cabinet to a consultant at a Costa Rican university in connection with KU's junior year abroad program.
Coan also visited Europe. He was a two-week guest of the German government during a fact-finding tour and interviewed prospective KU students from Southern Africa in 1963.
However, travel is not this dean's main prerequisite. He must deal with students who come to his office with personal, social, immigration and financial problems.
Correspondence also takes up time in the busy dave's schedule
“This year I received over 300 Christmas cards and I replied to all of them,” said Coan. “We also send out a yearly international alumni letter to former students in the United States and overseas. Also, with such a mobile faculty, teachers are able to keep in contact with former students.”
Although KU is fairly well represented by foreign students, Coan said there are usually tens of thousands of students that apply for admission. However, they must meet the English proficiency requirements, have a good financial standing and various other details.
Besides involvement in campus activities as dean of foreign students, Coan is active in foreign student organizations. He served as the 1968-69 president of the National Association for Foreign
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Student Affairs established in 1948 in Ann Arbor, Mich. Presently acting as a member of the Board of Directors, Coan will attend an international conference to be held in Kansas City next April.
Coan is also a regional advisor for international education with headquarters in New York. It is a non-profit organization which finds places for students in the United States.
Col. Philip H. Riedel, Army ROTC professor of military science, has announced that applications are now being taken for the two-year AROTC program.
ROTC to accept two-year cadets
This program is designed specifically for students who were unable to enroll in ROTC during their first two years of college, or for graduate students. Nearly half the juniors in AROTC are now in this program.
"Our office is not so much disciplinary as it is counseling to discover why someone has done something," said the dean.
A Cadet will receive $50 per month subsistance allowance during the last two years and will be commissioned as a second lieutenant when he graduates, just as a four-year cadet. The two-year active service obligation is also the same as a four-year cadet's.
Two-year cadets attend a basic summer camp which replaces the first two years of on-campus study. Cadets then enter the two-year advanced courses on campus.
Alderson says he enjoys working with foreign students. Years ago when there were fewer foreign students at KU, he says, he could work with them on a more personal basis.
"The things that I could learn from foreign students are unattainable within the classroom," says Alderson.
Increased numbers of students is a fact the dean dislikes.
Interested students should apply early, said Riedel, because available spaces are limited.
"I used to work with individuals," he says, "now I work with groups and I dislike it."
Dean Alderson says he is alarmed with the manner of persuasion used by students today. He remembers when one used to "ask," or "suggest" and wait for the results. Now the trend is to demand and expect an answer at once, says Alderson.
His job as dean of men takes Alderson on public relations trips around the country. He says he has found it increasingly necessary to explain campus disruptions at KU to prospective students because of the heavy news coverage of such events.
"High school visitation is a very rewarding and enjoyable experience," says Alderson. "I especially enjoy visiting high schools in the Chicago area."
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KU Judo Club: Robinson Gymnastium, 7 p.m.
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"A View from the Bridge." Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
Dean and Mrs. Alderson, a KU graduate of the KU School of Pharmacy, reminisce about their days as KU students. "We would walk to the Dynamite, a former night spot in Lawrence," says Mrs. Alderson. Not very many students had cars. When we had a special date, we would take a taxi to the Tee Pee."
Dean Alderson says he recalls when the "big band" sound filled the Kansas Union Ballroom for a campus-wide dance.
"I believe that students prefer
to do things on their own, within their own living groups, rather than on a campus-wide basis," says the dean. "It's only natural though with the great numbers of students enrolled at KU now. It would be physically impossible."
Dean Alderson likes to read, does some sketching and vacations in Colorado quite often.
A favorite pastime of the dean is his doodling with geometric shapes.
"They tell no story," says Alderson, "but I find them interesting."
Secret inquest ends; Kopechnes may sue
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (UPI)—The secret inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, highlighted by conflicting testimony on the time element of the accident in Sen. Sdward M. Kennedy's car, ended Thursday.
Final witnesses at the four-day inquest were five girls who attended a cookout reunion—with Kennedy, Miss Kopechne and five other men—on the night last July when the senator's car ran off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, killing Miss Kopechne.
The Hartford (Conn.) Courant said in a copyright story Thursday that the parents of Mary Jo Kopechne are considering suing Kennedy for his part in the death of their daughter.
The story by Courant reporter Dave Offer said an out-of-court settlement is likely to stop the lawsuit by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kopechne against Kennedy.
The newspaper said it was impossible to verify the report
Wednesday and if a settlement is reached without the legal paperwork—a distinct possibility in the view of the Kopechehn family associate—there may never be public acknowledgement that the suit was ever considered.
District Attorney Edmund S. Dinis, who ordered the inquest and assisted District Judge James A. Boyle in conducting the closed-door investigation, said he was "satisfied we've put on the record all of the witnesses that we have wanted to."
The judge said he would file "without undue delay" a report on the inquest with the superior court clerk in Edgartown. A Kennedy attorney predicted it could be "weeks and weeks" before the report was delivered.
A Kennedy aide said the 37-year-old Massachusetts Democrat planned no comments on the inquest. He has said he wants the transcript of the inquest made public as soon as possible.
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