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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 9, 1955
IBM Equipment Used In Research Studies
Editor's note—This is the fourth in a series of articles explaining IBM equipment and its relation to the campus.
8y LIZ WOHLGEMUTH
The obvious advantage of using IBM equipment in research studies is that for the same expenditure, time, and money, the researcher can obtain more usable information.
Some equipment has been at the University since 1949 but now with more equipment the researcher will be able to do more work. It wasn't that bad but IBM equipment was introduced in the business and registrar's offices.
The equipment has been used in a number of departments on a research basis.
There are essentially two uses of TtM in research—in teaching methods to students for teaching and research purposes and the actual use in research.
IBM equipment has been used to develop new norms on the placement examinations given to entering freshmen. These new norms were used for the first time last fall. The norms were worked out from the scores of entering KU freshmen since 1950, which involved the analysis of 5,500 sets of scores. Dr. Gordon Collister, director of the Guidance Bureau and associate professor of education, said "We wouldn't have been able to do this study without the use of IBM because of all the time involved in doing the work by hand."
Five years ago the Guidance Bureau completed a follow-up study of KU graduates. Information from 1,500 questionaires was used. Each person participating answered from 75 to 80 questions. If the analysis had been made by hand the bureau wouldn't have been able to do the study. With the information placed on IBM cards such studies are possible.
The entomology department has used the equipment in making a study of insects which cause galling in plants.
The Bureau of Business Research has also used the equipment in some of its studies.
Dr. John Weir, associate professor of zoology, is using the equipment in studying the genetics of white mice.
The equipment will be used in studies conducted in education. A questionnaire was filled out by all entering freshmen this year and the IBM equipment provides a means of
tabulating this information.
Statistical work on proficiency exams given by the Air Force has been tabulated here by IBM equipment.
The bureau has also done studies for the Bureau of Indian affairs. For four years they constructed norms on achievement tests for children from the ages of 6 to 12. The number of people involved in this study has varied from 5,000 to 12,000.
J-School Gets Accreditation
Three sequences of courses offered by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information have been accredited by the American Council on Education for Journalism, Dean Burton W. Marvin announced today. They are advertising-business, news-editorial, and radio.
Word that these sequences had been approved was received from Dr. Fred S. Siebert, secretary-treasurer of ACEJ and director of the School of Journalism at the University of Illinois.
ine advertising-business and news-editorial sequences at the University were accredited by ACEJ in 1948 in its first announcement of accreditation of schools and departments of journalism. ACEJ regulations provide for periodical re-evaluation of programs, and the Kansas curricula were re-examined by a visiting team in December, 1954.
The radio sequence, now in its second year of operation, is newly-accredited. A wired-wireless station, KDGU, operates as laboratory for this sequence with radio majors holding full responsibility for three and one-half hours of broadcasts daily.
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Salvation Army Chapel Drive Set
For full details how you may have this opportunity see George J. Neumer, Sunflower Room, Student Union at 7:00 p.m. Wednesday May 11.
The Salvation Army will begin a building fund drive for a new chapel Monday, May 16. Its goal is $35,000.
"To me the Salvation Army has a place in Lawrence," said former mayor Chris Kraft,
"It does charitable work not done by civic groups and other organizations," Kraft said.
The chairmen of the KU division of the drive are Frank Brown and Gilbert Ulmer. The committee members are Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Dr. Harold G. Barr, and Prof. Verner F. Smith.
Contributions may be made to Dr. Allen's office, room 107, Robinson gym.
Architecture Students Win Awards, Scholarships
The famed swallows of southern California's mission of San Juan Capistrano are cliff swallows, one of the few western birds that live close to man.
Ten engineering and architecture students received awards at the annual Awards Dinner in Architecture Thursday in the Kansas room of the Student Union.
Frank E. DeGasperi, engineering junior, received the Voskamp-Slezak award of $25 for excellence in working drawings; Richard C. Murray, 2nd year architecture received the Goldwin Goldsmith prize for general excellence in architecture.
Murray and Horst B. Engel, 2nd year architecture each received $75 from the Gorge H. Miehl's fund for their high scholarship; Phillip J. Greene, 5th year architecture, received the Thaver medal and cash award of $25 for excellence in architectural design; Thomas W. Wellman, engineering senior, received the medal of the American Institute
of Architects for the highest scholarship through the 5-year course.
Dean E. Matthews, engineering junior, received the Tau Sigma Delta award for excellence in scholarship; Dean Glasco, 5th year architecture was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi medal for a senior excelling in leadership.
Three students each received a $25 savings bond in the Andrew Glaze residential design competition. They are Richard Cameron, Joseph T. Werrill, and C. Warren Bates, all 4th year architecture.
Miss Puliver Named Queen
Sandra Puliver, education senior,
was queen of the Air Force ROTC
Voodoo Ball Saturday night. Kay
Pfhmum, college sophomore and Pat
Stetter, fine arts freshman, were
the queen's attendants.
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