Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
52nd Year, No.152
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Mav 24, 1955
Enrollment Fee Changes Announced
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Code Number To Facilitate IBM System
Editor's note—This is the last in a series of equipment and its relation to the campus.
By LIZ WOHLGEMUTH
JUDITH HOWARD
Have you noticed the number on your ID card? If you haven't, you had better take a look at it and start memorizing the number, for each student at KU will be known by that number in the records of the statistical service.
Machines understand numbers better than letters. In order to establish a way to identify the student with the introduction of IBM equipment, each student will be assigned a number. Students presently enrolled at the University will take the number they have on their present ID card and retain it for the duration of their college career and after they leave the University. New students will be given a number as they enter which they will carry for the years they are here and will be retained after graduation. ID cards will carry the same number each year and will not change as they have previously.
LINDA THORN
This procedure was tried two years ago and Mr. Hitt said that the students seemed to like it. The practice was discontinued because the long cards were mechanically awkward, some of the coupons were lost, and difficulty in collecting nine coupons. But with the shortened form, Mr. Hitt feels that the procedure should move smoothly.
"It is essential," James K. Hitt, registrar, said, "that each student know and remember his number because it will be easier to process material for him if he can give his number." The faculty and staff in the University will still think of students by their names but numbers are needed for the operation of the machines."
The letter schedule is rotated every semester, Mr. Hitt explained.
The student then shows up at the Union building according to the letter schedule to enroll rather than at Strong hall, as has been the previous practice. Students will be admitted to the enrollment floor by that schedule. Checkers will be at the Union to pick up the cards and clear the student to enroll.
With 7,000 students, it often happens that there are pairs of students with the same names which is confusing in identification and the keeping of records. Assignment of numbers will give an automatic distinction, and these people will perhaps be more conscious of their numbers than others," said Mr. Hitt.
The enrollment procedure will be changed for next fall. Students will fill out shortened registration forms consisting of two coupons instead of the usual nine. Registration cards may be picked up anytime before enrollment, starting on the Friday before enrollment. Hospital and parking fines will be cleared when the cards are picked up and re-instatements secured. Pictures for identification cards will also be taken at this time. The cards can be taken home and filled out.
During a number of years it is possible to have many students with the name of John Smith. If one of them should write in for a copy of his transcript it is difficult for the registrar to determine what John Smith it is. But in identification by number and retention of that number, the office can positively identify the student with his record.
JUDITH GARVER
ASC Raises Parking Fines
The All Student Council has raised parking fines with a resolution for amendment to the constitution. The new fines will not be in effect until Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy sign the bill.
If approved, the fines will be nothing for the first offense, $2 for the second offense, $3 for the third offense, and $5 for all other violations.
The motion passed after two other proposed changes passed the House but were failed by the Senate. The first resolution on the floor was one similar to last week's which proposed turning fining authority over to the University traffic and parking committee for the duration of the summer.
When this failed the Senate, the recommendation of the University committee was proposed. This called for making a fine of $2 for the first violation and $5 for all other violations.
Judith Garver Chosen Jayhawker Queen
Murphy OKs Magazine
The 1955 Jayhawker queen is Judith Garver, college sophomore, sponsored by Gamma Phi Beta social sorority. Her attendants are Linda Thorn, college sophomore, Alpha Delta Pi social sorority and Judith Howard, college sophomore, Pi Beta Phi social sorority.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy has signed the bill to approve as an official campus publication, Squat, a proposed campus humor magazine. This means that editor John C. Nangle, fine arts senior, can go ahead with plans for publication next fall.
nator, was named editorial assistant.
Larry Heil, journalism junior, was chosen news editor and Bob Lyle,
college sophomore, as Heil's assistant.
John McMillion, college junior,
will be sports editor and Sam
Jones, college junior, will be assistant
sports editor. Marion McCoy,
Ted Blankenship, journalism junior,
was named editorial assistant.
Nangle says he has more than enough material for a 40-page first issue. He plans to put the magazine out every two months at first, and eventually make it a monthly publication.
Charles Sledd, journalism junior, will be national advertising manager and Jack Fischer, journalism senior, is the new circulation manager.
John Herrington, Ron Grandon, Paul Bunge, and Bob Wolfe journalism juniors, yesterday were named to the top editorial and business positions on the University Daily Kansan for the first eight weeks of the fall semester.
Herrington,Grandon,Bunge Wolfe to Head Kansan
Irene Coonfer, Gretchen Guinn,
Lee Ann Urban, and Madelyn Brite,
journalism junior, were approved
by the Kansan board as managing
editors for the first part of the fall
semester. Once a week each will be
responsible for editing the Kansan's
news pages.
The selections were made at the final meeting of the year of the Kansan board, student governing body of the paper. Herrington will be executive editor, Grandon, editorial editor, Bunge, business manager, and Wolfe advertising manager.
Kansan board chairman Stan Hamilton, journalism senior, appointed Herrington as temporary chairman of the board at yesterday's meeting and named Grandon temporary secretary. Karen Hilmer, journalism senior, is the outgoing secretary of the Kansan board. The temporary chairman will call the first meeting of the Kansan board next year at which time a permanent chairman and secretary will be selected.
journalism junior, is the new society editor with Jane Pecinosky, college sophomore, her assistant Dick Walt, college junior, will be wire editor.
Seventeen new members for the Kansan board were approved yesterday. Herrington and Grandon are the only current members of the board who will be returning next year. Named to fill the vacancies are Miss Guinn, Miss Coonfer, Miss Urban, Miss Pecinvosky, Miss McCoy, Blankenship, Lyle, Walt, McMillion, Heil, Bunge, Sledd, Fisher, Wolfe, Lee Flanagan, college sophomore, Dick Hunter, special student, and John Switter, college senior.
- Seventy-seven candidate names were turned in by organized houses. The Jayhawker staff chose 10 finalists from this group. A committee of nine judges representing different groups chose the queen and her attendants. Each judge was given a 11 by 14 picture of each finalist and rated the pictures from one to ten. The ratings were then added and the candidate receiving the lowest total won.
The nine judges and the groups they represented were Dr. Jack A. Marshall, hospital; Mrs. Howard W. Jenkins, housemother; George Docking, Lawrence banker; Charles Oldfather, faculty; H. I. Swartz, business office; Katherine C.arr, SU A activities advisor; Letty Lemon, journalism senior, Kansan staff; Donald Smith, engineering junior, Jayhawker staff; and Robert Kennedy, engineering senior, student body.
The other queen finalists are Mary Lue Wickersham, journalism junior, Albha Phi; Karen Howard, college sophomore, Chi Omega; Nancy Bowman, college sophomore, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Ruby Schaulis, education junior, Miller; Janice Skaer education senior, Delta Gamma; and Betty Kogel and Sue Rider, college freshmen, Corbin.
The fourth issue of the 1955 Jayhawker will be out Thursday or Friday. It will cover the Rock Chalk, KU Relays, Greek Week, Independent picture feature, queens, during the year, engineering exposition, the year's intramurals, spring party pictures, and the senior pictures.
Proficiency Test Set for June 25
The English proficiency exam for the summer session will be given from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 25. The place will be announced later.
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Tomorrow's UDK to Be Last
Tomorrow's Kansan will be the last issue of the spring semester. The first issue of the summer session Kansan will be published June 10. It will be published twice a week.
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Officials Hope For Easing Of Enrollment
Effective in September 1955, new students will no longer pay a matriculation fee, nor will graduating students pay the $12 commencement fee, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, said today.
These changes and others in the enrollment system have been made with the approval of the board of regents to streamline enrollment procedure for new accounting machines, Mr. Nichols said.
Other changes include separation of the activity fee from incidental fees. The activity fee will be raised from $10 a regular semester to $11, the summer session fee remaining at $2.50. The fee for late enrollment will be raised from $2.50 to $5.
Effective the same date, all fees will be due and payable in full not later than 14 calendar days after the beginning of classes, with provision for a penalty of $2 per day, up to a maximum of $6. If fees are not paid by the 18th calendar day after the beginning of classes, enrollment will be canceled. At present, fees are due and payable before enrollment.
Nearly all the incidental fees have been changed. On the surface, it would appear that fees are higher, but considering the abolishment of matriculation and commencement fees the amount of money paid out in four years will be about equal to that of the present system.
Full-time students who take private music lessons stand to gain under the new system. There will be no charge for the lessons under the new system. At present the cost is $23 per semester for a one and onehalf hour lesson per week. Lesson fees for part-time students are unchanged.
A full refund is provided under the new regulation for withdrawal during the fee payment period. At present, a full refund is made of the incidental and Student Union fees and of the unused portion of the health and activity fees in case of withdrawal during the period of enrollment.
Engineering students will not be required to pay an extra 50 cents per semester added to incidental fees for the Kansas Engineer. The fee for the engineering magazine has been separated from the incidental fees.
Mills Transferred To St. Luke's
Beldon Mills, college junior, was transferred from Lawrence Memorial hospital to St. Luke's hospital in Kansas City Monday.
Mills suffered a compound fracture of the left leg above the ankle, a fractured left shoulder, and a dislocation of the left ankle April 25 in an accident near Lone Star lake.
Mills will be at St. Luke's until August 1.
Weather
Generally fair this afternoon,
cooler southeast and warmer northwest.
Increasing cloudiness tonight
and Wednesday with scattered thundershows developing over west tonight and spreading into central portion Wednesday. Warmer west tonight and cooler extreme northwest Wednesday. Low tonight 50-55. High Wednesday 75-80.