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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1955
59 Schools Questioned On Freshman Counseling Needs
NEW YORK—(I.P.)The problem of screening college freshmen who need personal counseling, despite some progress in this field, is "far from approaching a satisfactory solution." according to a research report prepared at Fordham University.
A questionnaire was sent to 59 colleges and universities in the northeast-middle Atlantic area. It showed that screening techniques for students who need personal counseling are generally still in the experimental stage.
"Since we were primarily interested in the type of programs maintained at institutions similar to our university, no college for women was included in our sampling," George De Nittis, guidance expert, explained. "Of the schools selected, 35 were non-Catholic and 24 were Catholic institutions. Responses came back from 85.7 per cent of the non-Catholic institutions and 91.7 per cent of the Catholic institutions which received the questionnaire."
The first evaluation was how frequently the screening programs were used. Types of program included a paper-and-pencil personality inventory, personality interview, faculty adviser program, or a combination of the three.
It was found that 4.6 per cent of the Catholic and 3.3 per cent of the non-Catholic institutions sampled had not as yet adopted any of these techniques. None limited itself to the personality inventory only.
Among the Catholic colleges surveyed, 22.7 per cent used the personality interview only; 13.6 per cent the faculty adviser program only. Of those using more than one approach, 9.1 per cent used both test and interview, 4.6 per cent the test and faculty adviser method, and 13.6 per cent the interview and faculty adviser techniques, while 31.8 per cent employed all three types of screening.
In the non-Catholic institutions the percentages were 16.7 per cent personality interview only, 26.6 per cent faculty adviser only, 6.7 per cent test plus interview, 16.7 test plus faculty adviser, 16.7 per cent interview and faculty adviser, and 13.3 a combination of all the techniques canvassed. Other points brought out in the survey included the following:
In many instances the personal interview was used not only for general screening purposes but also to indicate the student should see a psychiatrist or obtain individual psychological testing.
Some institutions felt that the personal interview should be conducted by psychologically trained personnel.
There was a desire for closer referral arrangements between the faculty and the guidance office.
Many comments indicated most of the paper-and-pencil inventories are inadequate.
Tau Beta Pi Initiates 27
Twenty-seven engineering upper-classmen were initiated yesterday into Tau Beta Pi, highest honor society to which undergraduate students in the School of Engineering can be elected.
It was the largest number of initiates in recent years.
Ross C. Keeling Sr., (engineering "16.) was initiated as an alumni member of the organization.
E. C. Buehler, professor of speech,
gave a talk on "Engineers, What Do
You Have in Your Hands?"
Candidates are chosen for scholastic standing and character.
New
Jack M. Ambercrombie, Beloit junior; Richard Baker, Kansas City, Kan senior; Rex H. Blumberg, Denison senior; Francis Brinkmeyer, Independence junior; James Carl, East St. Louis, Ill., junior; Thomas Childers, Eudora senior; Edward Chimenti, Kansas City, Mo. senior; Robert Crisler, Merriam senior; Billy Crow, Logan senior; Jerry Davies, Kansas City, Kan. seni
Oscar Gaddy, St. Joseph, Mo.
senior; James Hardy, Lawrence
senior; Gale Harris, Cunningham
junior; Joseph Hopkins, Lawrence
junior; Ralph Kelley, Marysville
senior; Gary Kinemond, Bushton
senior; Leo Lesage, Concordia jun-
ior; John Lightstone, Coffeyville
senior; Thomas McCall, Pittsburg
senior; James McLaughlin, Omaha,
Neb. senior.
Marion Moon, Pratt senior; James Remsberg, Iola junior; Frank Robl, Ellinwood senior; Dean Smith Jr., Topeka junior; Robert Wade, Coffeyville junior; Daniel Wiley, Lawrence senior, and Clyde Zehr, Hutchinson junior.
Nixon Receives Award
WASHINGTON (U.P.)—Vice President Richard M. Nixon yesterday received the annual award of the National Association of Traveling Salesmen for outstanding sales-manship. He was cited for the "outstanding job of selling American good-will" on a tour of Central America last spring.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (U.P.)—Inmates of the Missouri State Penitentiary were kept locked in their cells today after a six-hour demonstration last night in protest to new military-like rules requiring saluting of guards and addressing prison officials as "sir."
The convicts were not given breakfast, but sandwiches were eaten by the inmates in their cells.
State Penal Director James Carter said no one was injured in the demonstration. He and the prison warden made a cell-by-cell inspection to determine damage, which was slight. Halls in the cell-blocks were littered with debris, mostly torn rule books and shaving articles.
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Red Bomb Hits 100 Miles
CALCUTTA, India, Nov. 30—(U.P.)-Soviet Communist Party Chief Nikita Khruschev told an Indian official that a nuclear explosion in Russia affected nearly 100 square miles of territory.
On a river cruise with West Bengal's chief minister, Dr.B.C. Roy, Mr.Khrushev referred to the dense population of Calcutta where he and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul-
Eastern U.S. Students To Meet Saturday
A meeting of the Northeast United States of Statewide Activities will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Pine Room of the Student Union.
ganin were hemmed in by five million cheering Indians on their arrival yesterday.
Rides home for Christmas vacation will be arranged at this meeting, and area chairmen will be appointed. Every student living east of Chicago is urged to attend this meeting.
Sources said the Communist chief advised Roy to "spread Calcutta out lest some madman decide to throw an atom or hydrogen bomb."
Khrushchev said Russian engineers went to Britain to study town dispersal and returned with the impression that British officials were right in considering a population spread-out as an atomic defense, according to the sources.
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