University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1983
Carlin
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that doctors were not sure whether Carlin's injury would require surgery, and that a press conference had been scheduled for 8:30 a.m. CDT today to answer more questions about the governor's condition.
Karen Carlin and Bruce suffered minor cuts and bruises but were not admitted to the hospital.
Kaye said Carlin's fracture was mild, but Allen's was "moderately severe." He told Allen she was a compression fracture to one vertebra in the lower spine and was expected to be in the hospital several days.
A TOPEKA PHYSICIAN said the effected vertebrae were "squashed together" in such injuries. The compression narrows the space between the vertebrae weaves come together, often causing extensive pain.
Swenson said both Carlin and Allen were able to walk, although both were experiencing pain.
LT. GOV. TOM DOCKING and several legislative leaders were informed of the accident. Carlin's family, including his four children, also were told of the accident but did not have plans to fly to Washington, Swenson said.
Carlin, described as being in "relatively good spirits," spoke with his chief of staff, Bill Hoch, by telephone yesterday morning. Swenson said that because Carlin was not incapacitated by the accident, he would not be relieved of his job as chief executive.
Col. David Hornbaker, superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, said reports indicated that the flatbed truck, which was abandoned, did not have lighting lights or equipment to indicate it was stalled.
In Washington, National Park Service spokesman Joe Geary said the truck was cited for being stopped on the highway.
Transfer
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1980 to determine the performance on KU students who took short English courses at Johnson County Community College and then returned to KU.
Short courses are intensive classes offered between semester students receive a full semester course for such students.
"We didn't find any characteristics that seemed to be different from the norm," said Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. "But it seemed to us to be a lot more of 40 or 60 students, who were taking more than one course in their English courses at the college community."
James Williams, chairman of the English department of Johnson County Community College, said that almost half the students in the short classes were from other schools.
JOHNSON SAID THAT a higher number of KU students might be taking English classes at schools other than KU because of the rumor that all of English 101 students failed the class here.
He said that the class failure rate was actually about 13 percent.
Although many students take English classes at a junior college for such reasons as convenience or cost, some also avoid taking English 101 at KU because they must pass the competency exam at the end of the semester to pass the class. Johnson said.
SOME FACULTY MEMBERS said they were concerned that students might be receiving degrees from KU who were incompetent in their English skills.
University administrators could alleviate the
problem by adding a University-wide com-
munications would have to take to graduate, Johnson said.
*“This would have a bearing on transfer credit. You can take the class where you want, but you must wear it.”*
Don Doucette, director of institutional research at Johnson County Community College, said many students experienced a grade point drop after the shock, when they attended a new university.
"Nationwide studies have shown that when students leave one institution to go to another, they usually lose a half a grade point, or they finish a course at the time they finish, they do as well," he said.
Johnson said he thought that KU was probably better than a smaller school because bigger state universities probably had better programs. He said he would not think all junior college programs were bad.
"TRANSFER CREDIT IS a politically hot issue." he said. "KU must maintain a good relationship with access one in the area. It's to all students with access credit and the students are prepared well for KU."
Williams said that he was not aware of any problems in Johnson County Community College's preparation of students for English preparation. PRIRECITIES and junior colleges might have problems.
"I feel our program is as rigorous," he said.
"One difference is in the nature of the program. In our composition classes, we spend more time writing on the product and the process of writing."
Vietnam
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EARLY IN 1964, American assistance to South Vietnam was running at $400 million annually. Some 12,000 U.S. military advisers were serving there, and 50 of them had been killed during the four previous years. Yet a poll published at the time disclosed that 63 percent of Americans were paying "little or no attention" to the situation. Nor was there much concern on Capitol Hill. In August 1964, with almost no dissent, Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which gave President Johnson a free hand in Southeast Asia.
Before being sent to the jungles of Vietnam, the young men with an average age of 19 worked in supermarkets and shoe stores, on farms and
They had been raised in a country where freedom was so commonly taken for granted that it seemed inconceivable that people elsewhere were not as free.
in factories, earning decent wages and looking with hope to the future.
BUT MORE THAN 50,000 of America's sons had no future and were to die in a country so remote not even the best geography students among them could say where it was and for reasons not even the most eminent historians could agree upon.
Nearly 20 years later some still speak of domino theories and creeping communism while others talk about the end of an era of being the
policeman to the world and making the world safe for democracy
Others see parallels to so-called "limited involvements" in Latin America and Beirut and warn of becoming stuck in yet another quamgire.
For an entire generation of people, the Vietnam War was the most important event of their lives. It was also the first war to be brought home by nightly television newscasts and eventually became known as the "living-room war."
DURING THE HEIGHT of the war almost every action was analyzed for its political component.
David Silverman, Glennville, III., sophomore, puts up a shot basketball court behind Ellsworth and McCollum Halls. He against Barry Hammaker, Manhattan sophomore, on the missed.
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