University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 6, 1988
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Film and video as teaching aides
KU Media Services' loans rise 45 percent from '87
By Deb Gruver Kansan staff writer
Total use of educational film and video at the University of Kansas was 45 percent higher last year than in previous years, the director of KU's Media Services said last week.
Breck Marion, the director, said, "KU has always been a very film-oriented campus. We have one of the finest universities in America and have about $1 million in films."
Now, KU is becoming a video-oriented campus, too. Marion said that during the 1987-88 academic
year, Media Services was responsible for 1,114 video showings at KU, at a1 percent increase over last year.
Marion attributed the increase, in part, to the acceptance of video as an educational supplement.
"Everybody is becoming more comfortable with the VCR and TV." he said.
Availability of video technology has resulted in increased video use in classrooms by KU faculty members. Following the increase in demand, Media Services has made a special effort to make more
purchases in video format.
Marion said the University offered only educational materials and video supplements to her video supplement for teaching French. Video technology is especially helpful in language because repetition can be reworked for repetition.
Faculty at KU can request films and videos and check out equipment at Customer Services in the basement of Lippincott Hall. Approximately 3,500 films and 560 video cases are available for classroom use.
Billie Campbell, the office manager at Customer Services, said she had noticed the increase in film and video use.
"More professors are becoming more aware of what we have to
offer," Campbell said. "We have worked hard to let faculty and staff know what we have."
Everything offered by Media Services is on a first-come, first-served basis. Faculty or staff need to request films or videos that Media Services offers through Customer Services. Campbell said that faculty members must be available 48 hours in advance so that Customer Services had time to schedule the films and videos.
Materials are then ordered from Media Services' downtown annex, which is in the old post office building. Media Services also stored in that building. Media Services also has a storage closet for equipment in each building at
KU could give credit for watching TV
By Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas could offer coursework on television within the next five years, the university media services said Thursday.
Breck Marion, the director, said that KU could offer a program in education to students at University, in which students learned course material by tuning in to public broadcasting at specifi c universities where that corresponded to their classes.
Such a program would benefit students who work full time or who want to take courses that are full.
KState has offered courses on television since the 1970s. Peg Wherry, the telecourse coordinator at KState, said that the university offered two or three television classes each semester.
At K-State, the classes are generally taught by full-time professors and include textbooks, reading assignments and usually four to six class meetings. The professor highlights the more important
material, Wherry said, and television replaces some of the lecture material.
Marion said that KU needed more equipment, such as TV monitors and recorders, before a program could be offered here.
Both KU and KState are members of KAPSET, the Kansas Association for Post Secondary Education on Television. KAPSET usually funds one of KState's television courses.
Paul Scroggs, a Lawrence resident, attended the "Faces of
He said the course was helpful because he could tape the programs and review what he needed to learn. The class structure than a usual class
Benefits enticing nursing students
Anthropology 'class offered by K-State a year ago and has helped K-State plan a television class on food technology.
"I enjoyed the course immensely," Scroggs said "I travel for my job and am two weeks on the road each week." He also taught TV course, I was able to have my wife video-tape what I was missing."
By Grace Hobson
Kansan staff writer
Unlike many students, Shirley Kurtz already has a job lined up when she graduates, and that future employer is paying part of her tuition.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital is paying Kurtz, De Soto junior, to go to nursing school.
"I always wanted to go into the health field. This just gave me the incentive to do it," Kurtz said.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital will help Purtz and other prospective nurses prepare for the school. In return, the nurses must promise to work for the hospital for three years.
The hospital's financial incentive program is just one example of the intense drive by hospitals and nurses. Nurses and the drive is working.
Applications to KU's School of Nursing are up 12 percent from last year, said Rita Clifford, assistant dean of nursing.
Clifford attributes the increase to hard work.
Faculty and staff have been working overtime giving seminars and talks to students to interest them in nursing. Traveling to high schools and colleges; the staff presents educational material everything from the joys of new-parent care to the excitement of flight nursing
"Sometimes we're invited; some
times we invite ourselves," Clifford said.
invited or not, Clifford and staff are trying to leave students with a better view of the profession by offering the benefits of a marsing career.
"You can hardly pick up a newspaper without reading about the nursing shortage," Clifford said. "Working conditions have improved dramatically, and the salaries are better. The job market is excellent."
Starting salaries vary, but the average first-year salary in the Kansas City area is $2,000. Clifford said, "You're going to pay $2,000 to $2,000 for a year starting."
The financial incentive programs also are important recruiting tools.
Donna Brewer, personnel director of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said that the hospital, like other hospitals in the Kansas City area, offered many incentives to recruit nurses; and tuition reimbursement for part-time employees and full time students.
Math 590 gets loan of new calculators
Steve Eslinger, assistant executive director of nurses at the hospital, said he hoped the financial assistance provided by the program will the increased interest in nursing
"We are racking our brains for ways to attract people who are interested in pursuing a nursing career," he said.
Machines simplify complex problems
By James Farquhar Kansan staff writer
Complex math assignments may be easier for some students this semester; to thank now calculators and computers of Kansas mathematics department.
The department spent $2,290 on 185 Hewlett-Packard HP-285 calculators this summer. Robert Adams, associate professor of mathematics, learned the calculators to students of his linear algebra class. Math 358 was an experiment to see how well the calculators help learning.
These calculators are like no other calculator, or even microcomputer. I have seen. Adams said we have a computer program and we have in the microcomputer lab.
For example, a five-by-five matrix, an array of numbers used as a primary tool of applied mathematics, requires a student to calculate
The calculator, which comes with the 200-page instruction manuals, carries 32,000 bytes of information. Its advanced capabilities permit students to skip the medium of compulsory mathematics and concentrate on theoretical mathematics.
I these calculators are like no other calculator, or even microcomputer. I have seen. They are better than the computers we have in the microcomputer lab.'
- Robert Adams
Associate professor of mathematics
42 smaller arithmetic problems. The HP-285 allows the student to instantly manipulate these complex arithmetic as elements of a larger problem.
"Students will use the calculators in class, at home and during examinations." Adams said.
John Beacom, Lenexa junior, likes the HP-295 so much he said he was tempted to buy one after he gets out of the class.
"This calculator simplifies complexities beyond words," Beacom said.
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Adams expects many upper level classes to use the calculators in the future.
Jeffrey Johnston/KANSAN
Gypsies
RIGHT: A gypsy woman searches for a virgin to "sacrifice" as part of a performance Saturday at the City Kansairena Festival near Bonner Springs. The Rainbow Gypsy Theatre was just one of many troops performing on the opening day of the event, which includes performances by gypsei entertainers the crowd at the Renaissance Festival with ancient rituals that include a fat gypsy resting on a bed of nails.
Jeffrey Johnston/KANSAN
Two KU entomologists win awards to do research in Washington, D.C.
Bv Katv Monk
Kansan staff writer
Two University of Kansas graduate students were among six entomologists nationwide to receive $1,600 million from the Smithsonian Institution.
one year conducting research at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., which houses world's largest insect collections.
Geihua is studying populations of crane flies. He identifies species new to science and tries to determine their evolutionary relationships.
has the best collection of crane flies in the world, Gelhaus said.
"It's really a great opportunity to go there," he said. "There's a good corus of people there."
George Byers, director and senior curator of the Museum of Entomology in Snow Hall, said many people had applied for the awards.
Jon Gehaus, Sacramento, Calif.
and Bryan Danforth, Locust Valley
N.Y., will leave in January to spend
The museum where he will work
"This is a very competitive thing."
he said.
Danfort, the other recipient,studies wasps and bees and is now in Arizona studying a bee species that searches morphometrics, the study of anatomical differences as they relate to soil, as well as a pattern of wing-folding in these insects.
of serot entology and professor of systematics and ecology, said Danforth won the award because of his excellent work. Danforth has published and given speeches about his work.
Micheran. "We were told that six people received fellowships and hat these two were the two top people."
The awards speak well for KU's graduate department of entomology, be said.
Byers said the Museum of Entomology, where the men conducted their research, housed some of the world's best collections of insects particularly scorpion fleses, beetles, water bugs, leafhoppers and crane flies.
Charles Michener, Watkins profes-
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