University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 25, 1970
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Language Profs Defend Requirement
There are considerably fewer students who must take 16 hours to complete their language requirement than most students think, according to two language professors.
Francis Lide, assistant professor of German and chairman of the College Foreign Language Proficiency Committee, and Michael Doudoroff, assistant professor of Spanish, said that, contrary to an opinion expressed by the Committee on Language Research, most students fulfill this requirement in other ways than by taking 16 hours of language.
The committee said they felt that it was unfair to require a student to spend the equivalent of one semester's work taking language.
Lida and Doudoroff said, some students fulfilled the requirement by passing the proficiency exam given three times a year. Of the 70 students that passed the exam on Aug. 29 of this year, 47 were freshman. These students passed on the basis of their high school work in foreign language, the professors said.
Students can also place out of certain amount of language work, they said, by taking the placement exam given in each language. For example, a student may place up to the fourth course in a language. This student will then only have to take three hours of college language.
"Most students should be able to place into the second course of
Law Students Present Forum For Candidates
The Student Bar Association at the University of Kansas is sponsoring a series of political forums this fall before the November elections.
A member of the association, Mark Anderson, Wichita law student, said Thursday that the first forum would feature Lt. Gov. James DeCoursey, Democratic candidate for Congress from the 3rd District.
Anderson said DeCoursey would appear at a question and answer discussion at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, in Green Hall.
The association is providing the forums, Anderson said, so that any KU student may speak with various candidates on issues of the different campaigns.
Anderson said other politicians scheduled to speak were Richard Rome, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, Oct. 6; Richard Seaton, Republican candidate for attorney general, Oct. 20; Larry Winn, incumbent Republican for Congress from the 3rd District, Oct. 27; and Kent Frizzell, attorney general and Republican candidate for governor.
Reynolds Shultz, state senator and Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, will speak after the election on Nov. 10.
the language," Lida said. "The student will then have to take at the most 11 hours of language."
Doudoroff said the only students who had to take 16 hours of language were those who had had no foreign language in high school, those who changed to a new language in college and those who had studied a language in high school, but let it slip and thereby lost their placement potential.
"There would be considerably fewer students having to take 16 hours if more people made use of their high school potential," Dudoroff said.
Lida said the language requirements varied in schools within the University and that many schools required fewer than 16 hours. The School of Journalism, he said, requires only 10 hours of language.
Experimental Geography Class Counts Litter in Lawrence, Maps Information
A "trash map" of Lawrence has been compiled by the students in an experimental geography class.
The class, "Environment and Man," deals with the concepts of ecology as it is related to geography.
S. A. Morain, assistant professor of geography, is conducting the class.
The information for the map was gathered by 225 students and drawn up as a strip map showing the amount of trash along the major highways and streets of Lawrence.
The class was divided into teams of two. The teams, spaced at intervals of a half mile along the major highways in and around Lawrence counted the pieces of trash on each side of the road for their half mile strain.
The students then drew a map showing the streets covered and the amount of each type of trash
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