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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1951
KU's Language Arts Major Is First Of Its Kind In United States
The University of Kansas is the first university in the United States to offer a language arts major in its School of Education. The department went into effect last fall under Oscar M. Haugh, assistant professor of education.
The "language arts" include reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The new language arts major replaces both English and speech majors in the School of Education. Formerly, teachers who majored in either of these subjects, unless they minored in the other, were prepared to do about half the job required of them in Kansas schools, Dr. Haugh said.
An English teacher, for example,
often has to direct school plays,
speech contests, or debates. A
speech teacher may have to teach
The language arts major has two "avenues," according to Dr. Haugh. A student may emphasize either speech or English, but he must take a minimum amount of both English and speech courses in the four fields of language arts.
English classes. The new major prepares teachers along both lines.
Production, and Fundamentals of Debate are required of all students.
In the "speaking" area of language arts, the courses Fundamentals of Speech, Fundamentals of Plav
In the "writing" area, a minimum of 13 hours in English courses required, including English 1, 2, 3, and 4 and one advanced course in composition.
One course in both American literature and in English literature, beyond English 4 is a minimum in the "reading" area for those emphasizing speech.
"Listening" is the most recently recognized area in the language arts field.
"We know relatively little about training in this area," said Dr. Haugh. "The only instruction given
in the University is included in Methods of Teaching the Language Arts.
Dr. Haugh made a fundamental study of the need for teaching "listening" in high schools, and found such a course greatly needed. More research is being done in this field.
The advantages of the new program are two-fold, said Dr. Haugh. First, it prepares teachers in both speech and English for the "special activities" into which they will probably be asked to branch in high school teaching.
Second, the added training of teachers' own personal abilities in
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communicating with others makes them better equipped to teach.
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"Accuracy Begins Here": If you should happen to wander into the Journalism building and look up at the ceiling of the newsroom, you will see a sign bearing these words in large red letters.
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"How did it get there?" is a question commonly asked of journalism students in regard to the sign some 35 feet above.
Occasionally, someone will spin a yarn that leaves the inquirer in doubt about the sign, and even more in doubt about the mental stability of the "shack rats". (Sheek rat is a term used by journalism students when referring to the strange personalities that make up the Kansas staff or may be found pecking away at the typewriters in the newsroom any hour of the day or night.)
The yarns that center on the sign are varied, vigorous and even preposterous. The sign's origin dates back to 1946 when G.A. Sabine, an instructor in the department of journalism. (It didn't become a school until 1948.) was faculty supervisor of the Daily Kansan.
students or not at all. His pet peeve was that of all journalism instructors—accuracy; accuracy in getting the facts, accuracy in spelling, accuracy in everything that concerns news.
According to reasonable authority, Mr. Sabine was the sort of person who was well liked by his
Up to this point, the yarns coincide, more or less, but beyond it they begin to deviate into all sorts of wild tales.
Some say that Mr. Sabine was always up in the air about something concerning lack of accuracy, so one day while he was up in the air about a misspelled name he tacked the sign to the ceiling, 35 feet above the center of the room.
Others say that Mr. Sabine was always thinking of some diabolical scheme for punishing those who violated the accuracy code. One day
a student misspelled the instructor's name, so the scheming Mr. Sabine made the student scale the walls of the newsroom and tack the sign to the ceiling.
Still another yarn says that a graduating senior that year was feeling quite high after celebrating the end of final week. As the story goes, the happy student staggered into the newsroom, drained a quart of "Redeye" (Moonshine no doubt), tacked the sign on the ceiling and floated out of the window.
Another version of the yarn says that he made the erring student climb to the roof of the building and enter a window to place the sign.
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Thanks To Someones' Blood, This GI Probably Will Live
A Hospital In Korea (U.P.)-The receiving room is large and high ceilinged and filled with the chugging of the motor of a blower which sends hot air into the room through two big canvas tubes Iving on the floor.
An army nurse with fluffy blonde hair crooks her finger at me as I sit on a bench at the side of the room. As I approach she hurriedly hands me a pinched-shut portion of rubber tube hanging from a blood bottle.
The ambulances back up to the receiving room door and the wounded come out on canvas litters, covered with olive drab blankets, their faces showing dust-caked beards, their arms lying dead. It's hard to tell whether some of them are alive or死 limp.
Other wounded, starting to get treatment are on a row of army cots. An attendant with knife and scissors cuts off their clothing. Two or three are getting whole blood from pint bottles hung above them on iron frames. If you watch you can see the pink blush of life coming back to their faces.
Ten soldiers lie on litters on the receiving room floor. Some smoke and gaze at the lights glowing dimly on the high ceiling. Some just lie, eyes closed, faces sick and grey. They're waiting to be checked im screened and treated. Many still wear their green field caps. Dried blood mottles they stiffened clothing. Here and there a first aid splint shows on an arm or leg.
Hold this, will you, she says and I choke off the flow of blood in the tube while she begins probing in a soldier's arm with the large hollow needle at the end of the tube. The soldier below us on the cat is in a state of deep shock, which has caused his veins to contract.
tension ladder, tacked the sign to the ceiling.
This may seem a rather pointless thing to do, but even as you read this, someone is looking at that sign and muttering to himself, "ACCURACY BEGINS HERE."
The nurse, Lt. Margaret Feil of San Francisco, can't get the needle in a vein. She probes and probes, and the wounded man jumps and olls his head at each probe. A nicid pulls off one of the soldier's boots, and he writhes in pain for ie has a mortar wound in the leg.
One of the more classic of these tales concerns two faculty members of the journalism department who returned to the building one night in fine spirits, following a newsman's convention in Kansas City, Mo. The two men were discussing the fruits of accurate reporting when they decided that the students should constantly be reminded of accuracy. In their hilarity the two pedagogues conceived this ingenious device and a plan for getting it on the ceiling.
The head surgeon, a major, comes over and takes a syringe needle and begins probing deep in the man's thigh for a blood vessel. The guy is conscious, and the surgeon says: "How do you feel now?"
A doctor takes the blood giving needle from the nurse and tries to get it in a vein lower in the arm but it's no use. They have been working on the soldier's left arm. His right arm is a stump, blown off below the elbow. It is wrapped in a huge rolled white bandage, soaked with blood.
the soldier has lost consciousness. As I leave he is lying still, his head fallen to one side, the arm stump hanging down over the cot edge. He probably will live—because someone has given the blood to keep him alive.
A medic approaches and looks at the record card tied to the soldier's clothes and goes away, shaking his head. The case is critical. The important thing is to get blood into him. The surgeon has given up probing and is cutting into one of the big veins at the ankle. No blood comes out as he cuts. He thrusts a hollow metal tube through the incision and into the vein and attaches the bottle tube to it. The blood level of the bottle begins to sink very slowly.
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"I don't feel bad at all," the guy says. He takes a cigarette.
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The larger man jumped from what the journalism students laughingly call the foyer onto the free end of the plank, catapulting his confederate to the ceiling. They got the sign up but the smaller man's thumbnails were caught under the edges of the tacks, and the fire department had to rescue him.
How did it get there? Well, it seems that the roof of the journalism building was being painted at the time, so Mr. Sabine asked the painters to put the sign as a reminder to students as they looked up contemplating what they should write. The painters opened a window and with the aid of an ex-
And so the yarns continue through the years following the birth of G. A. Sabine's brainchild. The sign has a strange fascination about it that holds the observer spellbound with wonder.
The smaller of the two men stood on one end of a plank with his arms extended upward. In his hands he held the sign and some thumb tacks. The plank rested across a desk so as to form a lever.
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The aircraft representative will see graduates in aeronautical, mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering. The Bendix agent will interview candidates for degrees in electrical engineering and engineering physics.
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W. R. Stone, representing Hazeltine, will interview June and August graduates in electrical engineering and engineering physics. A group meeting will be held from 9 to 5:00 a.m. Tuesday in 206e Marvin hall. A schedule of all the interviews is available in the office of the dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture.
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