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Wednesday, November 15, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photo by T. DEAN CAPLE
Tom Koppes, Student Athlete, Hits the Books
Scholastics require discipline, practice too...
By MIKE BAUER Kansan Staff Writer
This is just one example of the increasing traffic on the Kansas Tumpkine.
THE TYPICAL DAY for an athlete is morning classes, practice from 2:30 to 6:00 p.m. and study hall from 8 to 10 p.m. Taking out time for lunch and supper the athlete has little time for extra study so tutors help him develop habits studies. Shaan said.
"If our athletes have above a C average the first semester, they have achieved a standard. C is average, but at that point the athletes can realize they can do it, and by the end of the first semester they gain confidence," he said.
When Harold Johnson began working for the Kansas Turnpike Authority as a toll collector ten years ago, he said that in the early morning working shift he seldom collected $20 in tolls. Now, be said, tolls are well over $100.
Athletes, said Skahan, compete in two ways, through athletics and through academics. Athletes are required to take a course of hours, so their schedules are held, he said.
Skahan arranges for individuals well versed in study habits or career counseling to lecture the athletes. Group tutoring is also used extensively, Skahan said.
Wade Stinson, athletic director, said that $7,000 a year was allocated in the athletic budget for individual tutors. He said that $200 a month on financial aid were eligible for tutors.
Tutors, Study Halls Help Athletes
To help athletes develop their study habits, freshman football and basketball players have a two-hour study hall four days a week. Students in upper-class athletes if they need them.
Turnpike Sees Increase in Traffic
SKAHAN SAID that the two-hour study
involved students in a transition from high school to college
Athletic counselor Bobby Skahan said Tuesday that KU athletes needed to develop a discipline in scholastic as well as athletic pursuits.
Practice is a vital part of athletics. To develop physical prowess, KU athletes train three hours a day and to develop mental skills, KU athletes have the aid of academic tutors.
Football game traffic becomes so heavy that the two Lawrence turnipke interchanges cannot handle the turnipke authority closes the west tail to booth to outgoing traffic.
He said. "If the athlete gives me two hours of concentrated study every night,
By MALCOLM TURNER Kanson Staff Writer
and detours the carts to the east岸. Then, only incoming turnpike traffic is processed.
AFTER THE KU-NEBURASKA GAME, Johnson estimated that in two hours the toll collectors had processed over 3,000 vehicles.
According to Johnson, this type of traffic was unusual for Lawrence, except when large activities were held on campus, such as a football game.
People who use the turnpike give various impressions.
"Some comment that it is really a great
and that they love to drive it," said
Students as Teachers Keynote Piano Classes
By MARY SKOLAUT Kansan Staff Writer
They take on this role as a class requirement. Mrs. Flora Silini, coordinator of piano instruction for the University of Colorado, co-class entitled Piano Teaching Materials.
Nine students assume the role of teacher for three hours a week and teach free piano lessons to non-music majors. In doing this, they learn to play keyboard and perform a service to interested people.
"You can't talk to students and teach
them." Sinai said. "It takes
64 hours."
The teachers are piano majors and minors, and music education majors. The piano majors receive two hours credit for these courses and the others one hour of credit.
EACH TEACHER has two students, one beginner and either an intermediate or advanced student. Each pupil receives a 30-minute private lesson every week. He does not pay for the lesson but must buy his materials, which cost about $10.
"This classroom teaching of piano is the latest trend, especially in teaching adult beginners."
The students have only two requirements for their free instruction: they must stay in the class for the entire semester, and practice every day.
THE PROGRAM for intermediate and advanced students is a little different. They have no class together, only the weekly 30-minute private lesson. Silini said their instruction could be categorized as coaching rather than teaching.
"The semester all of our beginners or "guminea pets" are KU students." Silini said. Besides their private lesson the beginners also meet together once a week for an hour. Enclosing a turn teaching this class, during his turn he is critiqued by the other eight teachers.
As the comments about the turpike differ, so do the travelers. Johnson said many people believed that the turpike was worth the money. He thought this was true to a certain degree, but on weekends over 50 per cent of the turpike traffic leaving Lawrence was
Sinii said she noticed that two basic problems confronted her teachers: The communication between teacher and pupil is often critical, and the initial adjustment a teacher must make in his new role of instructor was difficult. And did she she was there to solve these problems.
The program is in its sixth semester and since it has used different materials each semester.
She said she was surprised at the growth of the program and the interest that boys had in it. There are 12 prospective students on a waiting list now and present students can continue their lessons from semester to semester.
Options for Templin's Use To Be Presented Tonight
THE KANSAS TURNIPE was completed in 1956 at a cost of $160 million. It was built, unlike most highways, without cost to Kansas taxpayer and without federal funds.
Fowler also said she preferred the private lessons with her teacher rather than the public lessons. She preferred the pressure and that mistakes were easily made. The class introduced material which she could ask questions about and understand better in her private lesson, she
Johnson. "Others say that they should be paid for driving it."
Asked about the future value of her program, Silini said that more and more students were attended junior colleges and colleges for higher or further lessons there. She said that it would be advantageous to strengthen KU's program on math better teach piano on the junior college program.
The residence halls' Contract Coordinating Committee will present a report on suggestions for contract options to the Residents' Assembly meeting tonight.
"The place where I live only has certain times that we can practice and sometimes it is hard to find time to go to Murphy," she said.
SUSIE FOWLER, Overland Park junior and beginning student said that her main interest is in math.
In turn, she would get better students from the junior colleges. In this way, she said, she could help herself by making the program self-perpetuating.
The main topic in the report will be a proposal by the Administrative Housing Committee (AHC) to turn Templin Hall into a coed hall.
Templin's representatives will present a plan for other options in that hall without
A weight-lifting room, a dark room and
a gym. In 1989 in Ipunlin are some of the suggestions.
Another suggestion is to have a "mini-
compter center" in the area of the snackbar.
This would put keychain machines and
tables in the hall for the use of
residents of any hall.
Ideas from the report are to be discussed by the Residents' Assembly. The purpose for the report is to elicit response to the ideas from other resident hall representatives, according to John Beiser, Salina sophomore and member of the assembly.
Another suggestion is for extensive maintenance to be done in the hall.
The turpike is 238 miles long with 15 interchange ways, although there are just 47. The turpike is 170, 128 and East US 65.
Fare from the west Lawrence exit to Kansas City is 85 cents. From Lawrence to Topeka is 35 cents. To drive the entire city, from Kansas City, Kan., to South Haven, posts $4.35.
Passenger car tolls average 2.2 cents per mile on axiom scale, averaging 3.7 cents per mile.
The turnpike was established by a Kansas statute, coming under the direction of a five member board. This board, which consists of a member from both the Kansas senate and house highway committees, the director of the highway commissary, and two members appointed by the governor.
Because the turnipie is not funded by the federal or state governments and is not dependent on Congress or the state legislature for financing, it has not been affected by highway appropriation measures.
While the athletic department is quick to provide tutors, the department is not as quick to provide personal libraries for its athletes.
Through the financial aid program, the athletic department buys course books for the athletes, but the athletes must return them to the department at the end of each semester.
IT IS the KTA's responsibility to set toll prices in order to pay back the $380 million that was initially borrowed to build the bridge, but only source of income for the turnover.
In addition to repaying the loan the tolls also finance road repairs and pay the tax on all new cars.
The athletic department in turn, returns most of the books to the Kansas Union Bookstore for refunds. Skahan said some books are kept by the department so that athletes would not have to keep buying the same books.
According to Jerry Brindle, KTA general manager, the turnip collects $15 million annually in toil. Of the $15 million, approximately $4 million is spent on repairs.
A recent increase in the number of cases handled by the Douglas County Legal Aid Society has been brought about by a new clause in its constitution. The clause gives the Court more deal with misdemeanor cases, according to Dennis Prater, student director.
Stinson said that athletes could buy their own books if they wanted to build a library. The athletic department also has a small library.
SKAHAN SAID that his office did everything it could to see that athletes made at least 1.8, the average required by the College Athletic Association (NCGA).
Prater said there had been a steady increase in the number of cases as people became more aware of the society's services. However, he said, the sharpest increase had occurred since July when the misdemeanor clause became effective.
Misdemeanors Now Handled By Aid Group
Skahan's office receives a copy of the athletes' down slips and receives reports about the athletes from some of the instructors.
There were 505 cases accepted out of 970 on Jan. 1, 1972, according to Louise Wheeler, assistant professor of law and faculty adviser.
Sittson said the rules laid down by the NCAA prevented universities from signing high school athletes who could not achieve a 1.6 grade point average in college.
He explained that for an incoming freshman to qualify for athletics, he must be in the upper 50 per cent of his class or receive an adequate score on the ACT test.
She said family cases such as divorce suits ranked highest with 174. Others include: consumer cases, 91; misdemeanors, 56; administrative, 56; and miscellaneous, 45.
Some of the cases have not been decided yet and some may not have been heard, she
Funded by the United Fund and the Student Senate, the society is a nonprofit yearly law student and supervised by members of the Douglas County Bar Association.
ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS are administered through the Office of Student Financial Aid. Stinson said that athletic coaches were not supposed to have any influence in determining whether the students received a scholarship. Coaches do not give grants. They can only recommend graduates. Stinson said.
A recently passed NCAA rule allows athletes to go to an institution and get financial aid even though he cannot expect a scholarship. The institution肋Institutional as any other student does.
Stinson said several coaches at other schools apparently had influenced their financial aid offices because it was unlikely that the student would qualify for any financial aid.
Skahan said the primary concern of any athlete was scholastics and sports were secondary. If an athlete has a test or has too much training, the coach said that he is excused from practice.
TOM KOPPEPS, Lakewood, Calif., freshman, said that his track coach, Robert Timmons, was understanding about his missing practice to study for tests.
He said that scholastic and athletic pursuits were equally important to him and that the tutors provided by the athletic department would be bella-briro.
studying doesn't leave you time for much work so do better in my athletics if I study harder."
"I have a biology test tomorrow, so I'm not going to play with the team," Kopep said Monday.
MIKE McDANIELS, Kansas City, Mo.
MUSE used the tutorial program
several times.
"When you are up here on your own for
the first time you get a lot of pressure put on
you and it's up to you to study." he said.
When McDaniels took the study hall, the athletes had to participate only when down sips were sent out. Now all freshman and sophomores are required to participate, he said.
McDaniels said when he came to KU he was interested in making grades, but he said playing football was now more important to him.
Koppes said, "Going out for athletics and
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