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6th Foreign Student Center On Campus July 26-Sept.5
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The University has accepted an invitation from the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education to hold a foreign student orientation center for the sixth year, J. A. Burzle, professor of German and director of the center, has announced.
The center, one of seven in the nation, will be in operation for six weeks beginning July 26 until Sept. 5.
Approximately 50 students will attend the orientation. After they complete the orientation program they will study at U.S. universities under Fulbright and Smith-Mundt scholarships.
The center's main purposes are to help the students adjust to the social environment of the U.S., to introduce them to American society and culture, to prepare them for the classroom techniques and the American educational system, and to help them increase their proficiency in the English language.
The students will live in Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall and eat in the Student Union English Room. University graduate students will be counselors for the group.
Two 3-day trips will be taken during which the students live with American families.
The center's program will include classes in English, American civilization and speech, orientation lectures, field trips, films, tours, and
William A. Conboy, assistant professor of speech and drama, will be in charge of English instruction, J. E. Fields, associate professor of political science, will be in charge of social science instruction.
Williams' Honors Program Changed
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (IP)—Williams College has adopted a new honors program that will offer students a broadened education in their honors work in place of the present relatively narrow thesis requirement which forces them to specialize on a small phase of the field that interests them.
The first option is a continuation of the present honors work, in which the student utilizes his honors time to write a thesis.
The other three options are based on the number of single-credit seminars, or discussion groups, the student elects. Under the second option, he takes two seminars and spends the following two semesters on a thesis. The third option is to take four seminars during his honors time. And the fourth choice is to take two seminars studying the material given in the regular five to six-hour course to non-honor students in the junior year, and then studying in two seminars in his senior year.
Pershing Rifles Elects Officers
Willie Tyson, Lawrence junior,
was elected company commander of
Pershing Rifles, Army ROTC
honor society, Wednesday after-
noon.
Other officers are: Executive officer, Joon Dee Ide, Hope freshman; public information officer, Robert Lied, Overland Park sophomore; operations and training officer, James Barbour, Independence, Mo., sophomore, and supply officer, William Gerow, Kansas City, Mo., freshman.
Official installation of the officers will be held Wednesday, May 9.
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KU-Y Is New Name For YM-YWCA
The YM-YWCA voted to unite under the name KU-Y at a meeting Thursday in the Student Union.
The YMCA and the YWCA adopted similar constitutions and members passed a contractual agreement under which the groups will operate jointly on the campus. The advisory boards have been merged into one board.
Officers for next year were installed. Peggy Whitney, Wichita senior, and Don Pizinger, Great Bend junior, past presidents of the YW and YMCA were given organization pins.
Plans were completed for the YM- YWCA picnic to be held 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 10, at Potter Lake.
Oil Company Gives $500 Scholarship
The Universal Oil Products Company of Des Plaines, Ill., has given the University $500 for scholarships for seniors in chemical engineering during the 1956-57 school year.
In proposing the scholarship program, David W. Harris, chairman of the board of Universal Oil Products, wrote: "Chemical engineers from your institution have rendered outstanding service to our industry. For this reason we have selected the University of Kansas as a channel through which we can provide some measure of material assistance, in the form of scholarships, to senior students in chemical engineering."
Newman Club Sets Service Sunday
Newman Club, Catholic organization, will hold its annual Living Rosary at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 6.
The group will meet at the Student Union and will move in a procession to the Danforth Chapel grounds where a statue of the Virgin Mary will be crowned by Teresa Abdala, Mexico City special student. Her attendants will be Pat Gallant, Wichita sophomore, and Arden Weston, Kansas City, Mo freshman.
Women's Club Elects Officers
Delta Sigma Pi Elects
Gordon Ewy, Hill City junior, has been elected president of Delta Sigma Pi, honorary business fraternity. Other officers elected were William Enoch, Hutchinson, senior warden, Peter Moore, Wichita, junior warden, Gilbert Mason, Anthony, scribe, M. Dee Biestier场, Minneapolis, chancellor, Harold Metz, Kansas City, Kan., historian, all juniors, and Harry Shetlar, Lawrence senior, treasurer.
The University Women's Club elected officers for the 1956-57 academic year at a luncheon Thursday in the Student Union. The club is composed of wives of faculty members and women faculty members.
Mrs. M. E. Easton was elected president; Mrs. William R. Scott, vice president; Mrs. William J. Arger-singer, treasurer; Mrs. L. Martin Jones, assistant treasurer; Mrs. Dwight F. Metzler, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Ambrose Saricks, recording secretary, and Mrs. Charles V. Mather, publicity chairman.
Mrs. James E. Dykes, newcomers' chairman; Mrs. Thomas Gorton, interest group chairman; Mrs. George R. Waggoner, social chairman; Mrs. Nathaniel S. Eek, program chairman; Mrs. Wilfred Shaw, maintenance chairman, and Mrs. Richard S. Howey, Mrs. Leland Pritchard, and Miss Winnie Lowrance, members-at-large.
A dessert meeting for retiring and incoming officers will be held Thursday, May 10, at the home of Mrs. Easton, 818 Missouri St.
After the luncheon Mrs. Franklin Murphy, retiring president, presided over a business meeting, and Alec Ross, acquisitions librarian, read "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl.
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'Habit Enemy Of Creation' Yale Professor Claims
"Habit is the greatest enemy of creation." Josef Albers, visiting Yale University artist-teacher said in a speech Thursday night in Strong auditorium. He was speaking on "The Methods of Teaching Basic Design and Drawing." Mr. Albers also spoke at the fine arts convolution Thursday afternoon on "Color—A Magic Force."
With the use of slides that progressed from simple line drawings to life drawings and complicated designs, Dr. Albers described his conception of the modern method of teaching these two subjects.
He showed how his students at Yale were taught to be independent of habit which often robs the thought processes and the hand of their objective.
Students begin their drawing course with simple line structures. If their natural tendency is to draw
2 Engineers To Give Papers
Edward Grandle, Pittsburgh senior, and Otis P. Gouty, Kansas City, Mo, junior, are attending a regional meeting of student chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers in Manhattan. They will present papers. Other University representatives will be Kenneth Vaughn, Yates Center, and Ted Pendleton, Wellington juniors. Richard T. Page, associate professor of civil engineering and faculty adviser, is accompanying them.
from top to bottom they reverse this process and draw from bottom to top. This is only an example of many variations that teach students to transmit to paper what they wish to transmit and not what they would otherwise from habit.
Dr. Alberts said that one cannot teach art but only lead. Learning art involves a systematic development of observation and articulation.
Between afternoon and evening speeches, Dr. Albers was a dinner guest of the Design Club and Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity.
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