Intensive English Center Draws Sharp Student Fire
Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part series on the views of administrators and students on the Intensive English Center.
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN Kansan Staff Writer
"I think we have one of the best programs in the country as far as integrating math, science and socialism," Edward T. Erasmus, director of the University of Kansas Intensive English Center and professor of linguistics, said in a recent interview.
"I think the students get a fairly good deal here. I don't think they are getting
One of those who disagree is Lourdes Gouveia, Caracas, Venezuela, graduate
student. Although she has not attended the center, she said she had been associated with four other centers for language study and with a few others. The KU center was worse than any of them.
SHE BECAME interested in the center when she heard the complaints of foreign students living in McColum Hall last year. She studied the program, listened to the students' grievances and submitted a list of suggestions and complaints to the English Center's Advisory Committee, which was studying the center at that time.
The formal report from that committee to Ambrose Saricks, vice chancellor of academic affairs, has not been released to the public.
Through her contact with the majority of foreign students at McCollum, Gouveia formed certain conclusions about the center.
"Students are generally very critical of the Intensive English Center," she said.
SHE ALSO SAID that many of the instructors have no knowledge of anything except grammar and linguistics. They don't know much about the cultures of the students, but they result in problems when certain concepts are translated from the students' own language into English, she said. The instructor only works with the mechanics of the language when sometimes a more specialized task is needed for an explanation, she said.
Many of these intensive English students agree that most of the instructors are inexperienced. This is one of the most common institutions found among the foreign students.
Khali Khalali, Esfahan, Iran, freshman and former intensive English student, said. They usually have inexperienced others. They teach a semester and leave."
"SOMETIMES THEY (the instructors)
don't know the answer and they get confused," said Sylvia Escobar, San Salvador, Salvador, intensive English student. "I think it's because they don't have any experience."
One of the instructors, Bill Patterson, Prairie Village graduate student in linguistics, admits that the great turnover each year of instructors means many of them don't get enough experience teaching to be good teachers. Most of the teachers working there for the experience and to get some income to pay for graduate school).
Another student complaint is that all of the eight sections of intensive English, arranged in ascending order of proficiency, use the same textbook. The students say that this makes it difficult for them to see the eight sections to understand the material.
ESCOBAR IS in section eight and her sister is in a much lower section, but they use the same book. She and her sister are doing the same exercises now, she said.
She doesn't understand why there are sections if they are going to be doing the thing.
Gouveia said each section should have different material. The material would be matched to the section proficiency so that the section could progress at a faster pace on material at its level rather than plodding and struggling with harder material.
One of the courses designed to give the foreign students a background uninterrupted has been criticized by many students that is wasteful. Some claim that the course is wasting time that could be spent studying. They say the course depicting American life are not recent.
"The AMERICAN society movies are sometimes useless to us," said Nobuyi Kufu, Wakaya Kim, Japan, intensive English student. "The subject we want to know about is American society now, not Indians or New England fishermen."
A more significant complaint was promulgated by Mark Harbison, Vernal, titular, senior, about the center's grading point. The results of this semester is totally determined by a proficiency exam given to all the seconds. The exam is taken with a B to be admitted to the University.
Harbison, a Japanese 'major', is the resident assistant in charge of the foreign student at the University and attended an intensive language institute for Japanese last summer at Washington University and he said he had been associated with foreign students for two years.
HARBISON SAID that the students in the lower sections had little chance to pass the test because they had come from their own countries with little English proficiency. Their grade for that semester is still based on only that test.
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temp at Manhattan Saturday. The attempt came after a 38-touchdown pass from Jaynes to sophomore wide receiver Bruce Adams, making the score 28-19 where it remained for the rest of the game. Jaynes, who was blocked by K-State junior defensive back James Cunningham (49), received a shoulder injury on the play and may be out of action for two weeks. See story page six.
Inches Away
University of Kansas junior quarterback, David Jaynes (12), comes within inches of giving the Jayhawks a one-point victory over Oklahoma State.
Ladies of the Evening' Still Walk Kansas Streets, Officials Report
Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series about prostitution in Kansas. The first part deals with prostitution in Lawrence and Manhattan.
By MYLA STARR Kansan Staff Writer
Red lights and madams may be pass,
but prostitution is still a thriving business
If a man has $10 and a free evening, cruising certain bars in the west bottoms will cost $75. On the Avenue in Toperia or on Fourth Street in Manhattan should net him at least one proposition. In the 200 block of E. 9th street, City, he is security assured of an offer.
A Lawrence man will have to drive a few miles unless he has an inside tip. A prostitute here is difficult to find, officials say.
Police in Manhattan admit to a prostitution problem there. They say a college population contributes to lawrence Lawrence police think differently.
In 1965 two women who made a practice of sitting in the window of their upstairs
PROSTITUTION IS not a problem in Lawrence, according to L. Vernon Harrell of the Lawrence Police Department's administrative division.
"I don't know of one arrest for prostitution made in Lawrence in the last three or four years. We had a problem with one house in East Lawrence about ten years ago where there was a little bit of everything going on," he said.
Three prostitutes were working out of a house, Harrell said, but it was raided
"THIS MAN had been busted three or four times," Harrell said, "and had spent time in jail. He has now relocated in another town and is operating a similar establishment," Harrell said. "It's the only thing he knows how to do."
"We investigated a house on Iowa street six or eight years ago," Harrell said, "but it was more of an 'entertainment parlor.' Two three or men who were renting the house had movies going and a few girls in them but they weren't taking any money."
primarily because of gambling activity. The man who owned the house was the owner of the casino.
In 1965 the proprietor of a shooseh shop on Massachusetts Street was arrested for working a prostitute in the back of his shop, Harrell said. Two years later a woman who operated a massage parlor on Massachusetts was arrested.
Past arrests in Lawrence for "solliciting for immoral purposes," Harrell said, have been made by police officers posing as customers.
Some complaints received by Lawrence police have not resulted in arrests.
"Before charging a person with prostitution, we must be sure they're taking money," he said. "And we cannot entrap the person in any way."
"IT WAS THE old con game," said Harrell. "You got a massage all right, but if you wanted the next part you had to pay more."
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apartment on Seventh Street and cat-
calling to men on the street were "closed
for security"
Air War Escalated In All of Indochina
SAIGON (AP)—Nearly 400 American jets, flying around the clock, hit North Vietnam with the second heaviest bombardment of the year while B52 bombers took out four countries of Indochina, the U.S. Command reported Sunday.
The eight-jet BS25 hit enemy positions just 15 miles from Saigon as well as in other areas of South Vietnam, Laos, and Vietnam in the onslaught Saturday.
Smaller fighter-bombers of the Air Force, Navy and Marines hit with more than 350 strikes in a wide area of North Vietnam, ranging from the demilitarized zone to the corridor between Hanoi and the Chinese border.
F111 swinging jets flew night raids from bases in Thailand.
The northern mark on Aug. 16, when more than 370 strikes were made, the U.S. Command said.
One informant reported the intensification of the air war had been ordered by the Nixon administration because North Vietnamese units had signed signs of pulling back from the South and "are still carrying out their activities."
The U.S. Command refused to comment on reports that the escalated raids were aimed at forcing Hanoi to agree to ceasefire violations and coordinate operations are said to be at a critical stager.
But senior U.S. Air Force Officers have
Congressional War Critics Lose Amendment Struggle
WASHINGTON (AP)—Congressional war critics lost ground this year in their most persistent campaign to require withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Indochina.
In an election struggle, the Senate reversed its previous majorities for setting a deadline for an end to the war and cutting off funds; and the House increased its voting support for President Nixon's war policies.
The Senate, which turned out as many as 61 votes in 1971 for an end-the-war amendment mandate and one twice in 1947 for 49-47 votes in 1985 down 45-42 on a third try in September.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Manasse of Montana, said apathy is the reason for
In the House, end-the-war advocates were defeated by margins of 92 to 50 and 52 votes in successive roll calls on the issue in September. The vote was one earlier they came within 44 votes on one occasion and 22 votes on another on procedural questions involving the war.
Search Committee Elects Chairman, Gets Acquainted
"There is nothing special about my duties as chairman," Kleinberg said. "My job is to take charge of the meetings."
The Campus Advisory Committee for the selection of a chancellor is calling for nominations after its initial meeting on Sunday afternoon.
The committee met in the Regents Room in Strong Hall for two hours in closed session to get acquainted and elect a new chairman.
The committee elected Jacob Kleinberg,
professor of chemistry, chairman, and Dr.
Ned. Smull of Shawnee Mission vice
chairman.
Rick Von Ende, Executive Secretary of the University of Kansas, said nominations should be sent to the Campus Advisory Committee in care of his office.
Kleinberg has been a member of the KU faculty for 28 years. He was chairman of the department of chemistry from 1963 to 1970 and is presently a member of the University Council. Smull is director of Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
The committee will meet again in about new weeks. Von Ends said, after they finished with their work, the committee will
Von Ende said the meeting included a preliminary discussion of procedures. The members will now start forming their own committee to select a selection of a chancellor, Von Ende said.
After this meeting, he said they would probably meet periodically on Saturdays at 10am.
"It depends on where it will be convenient," he said. "If we decide to meet during the Big Eight basketball season, for example, we will meet in Kansas City."
Von Ende said the committee had set up no time schedule for the completion of the project.
Swingyng F111 firebombers struck after dark along the northwest rail line, attacking the Ving Yen ammunition depot, the Viet Tri railway yard and a second unnamed rail yard. The strikes ranged from 12 to 31 miles northwest of Hanoi.
There were no major fighters reported in South Vietnam, but enemy troops carried out nearly 100 harassing attacks, most of them with rockets and mortars.
The committee will meet informally with the State Board of Regents on Oct. 20 for a question and answer period for both groups.
The command said targets attacked in North Vietnam included the northwest rail line connecting Hanoi and Chin, ammunition depots, fuel depots, supply bridges, bridges, waterborne logistics craft and warehouses and supply storage areas.
maintained that the only way to get a
pistol is by being shot, a soldier is
sold unarmed is to pour on air strikes.
They shelled and attacked a military dependents' camp at a district town 75 miles northeast of Saigon, killing nine militants and five of their dependents and wounding six soldiers and six civilians with Vietnamese headquarters said.
Sen. J.W. Fulbright, D-Ark., and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, blamed it on a lack of will in Congress to take responsibility.
Scattered fighting was reported about 30 miles to the northwest and 30 miles to the northeast of Saigon. Headquarters said 39 enemy soldiers were killed, while government losses were six dead and 21 wounded.
Congress Wrangles Social Security Bill
WASHINGTON (AP)—A weary and bickering Congress, with major bills on Social Security and presidential spending-cut powers still before it, resigned itself Sunday to more work this week before going home to campaign.
The Senate reconvenes Monday, the House Tuesday, blasting hopes for even three weeks of uninterrupted time with the voters before the Nov. 7 election. These
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finally died when early Sunday the House was unable to muster a quorum of 217 members and adjourned. The Senate had given up a few minutes earlier.
Conference committees Saturday night fashioned composite versions of the two brothers' positions, which acted on them before the break. Senate Democratic Whip Robert Byrd of West Virginia led the group.
THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE on the Social Security-welfare bill deleted the entire title on welfare reform. Thus, the present Congress became the second in succession to wrestle with the problem of a universal welfare system that is universally deplored, welfare system. They failed because the Senate and House could not agree.
IT WOULD RAISE widows' payments to
100 per cent of their husbands' basic
entitlement, up from $21% per cent; raise
from $1,680 to $2,100 the amount a retired
The conferences did send to the two chambers for action a compromise expanding some Social Security and housing boosting payroll taxes to pay for them.
The bill would slightly increase benefits for men by extending to them what was described as an unintended advantage women enjoy under present law in calculating their old age insurance payments.
person could earn without reducing Social Security benefits; allow those working beyond retirement age to build up higher pensions; and set a new $170-a-month minimum for persons who worked as long as 30 years in covered employment.
The bill would, for the first time, extend Medicare that retired for disability, as well.
It would federalize, with national payment standards, the programs for about 3 million aged, blind and disabled persons.
BY DELETING OTHER costly changes that had been voted on by the Senate, the conference cut the estimated price tag of 81 million for the Senate version to $8 billion.
The future prospects of welfare reform remained clouded, Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ak, of the House Ways and Means Committee, had said earlier he would not "send the house up that mountain a third time" if the Senate again failed to agree. But Chairman Warren B. Finan, Chairman Committee said Saturday night Mills had given assurances he would try again early next year.
The conference agreement on the bill to set a $25-billion ceiling on government spending for the year ending next June 30 would put substantial limitations on the sweeping powers the House voted to give the President to enforce the reduction.
ADMINISTRATION SPOKESMEN were quoted as saying the compromise is unsatisfactory. However, Nixon might have difficulty in vetting it because the bill also contains a $15-billion increase in Treasury borrowing authority.
Unless some such legislation is enacted, the national debt ceiling would fall, on Oct. 31, below the actual debt outstanding and the government's budget. If it borrows to pay the government's bills.