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Honors program aids outstanding students KU accepts bronze sculptures
By PAM ALLOWAY Staff Reporter
There is an elite society which exists not only on this campus, but also on neighboring university campuses.
The society recognizes the intellect of
students and sets them apart from other
students.
This society is the college honors program. These programs are found on campuses all over the country. Their purpose is to give outstanding students opportunities to develop their special abilities.
KU HAD ONE OF the first honors programs in the country, David Katzman, director of the College Honors Program, said yesterday. Katzman estimated that KU has had an honors program for about 25 years.
Other area schools that have been forerunners in developing honors programs are the University of Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma.
At the University of Oklahoma, about 700 students from all levels participate in the honors system. Oklahoma honors students must take at least four honors courses during their freshman and sophomore years. During their junior and senior years they do independent reading and research in their major field of study. Juniors and seniors also take courses in calculus and covers different topics each semester according to the honors director there.
At the University of Colorado, segregation of honor students from their fellow classmates continues past the classroom door.
AT COLORADO there is an honor's
lounge, special classrooms within the
college.
all specifically for about 300 honor students, Laura Cooper, honors program, secretary of the院, there are 1000 students who attend the University of Colorado.
At the University of Kansas, students can take honors courses and participate in such extra-curricular activities as noon forums. The honors courses, offered by the College of Arts, they sound, according to some students who have participated in the program.
"They taught us a lot about a few people, in classes like Honors English, but the regular English classes give a broader base by teaching a little about a lot of people. Honors courses are useful and I think you can be hurt in upper level. You don't have a broad base," Cheryl Watson, Topeka senior said yesterday.
This is the fourth year Watson has participated in the program. She entered the program on a provisional basis.
A provisional basis means the student didn't meet the ACT composite score of 30 or higher that is required for admission into the program.
ADMISSION TO THE College Honors Program is also open to National Merit semifinalists, and finalists in the Summerfield and Watkins-Berger scholarship competitions. Students who have slightly lower test scores but have outstanding academic records also are considered.
Diane Schwartz, Hoisington sophomore, who has participated in the program for the last three semesters, said although the honors classes were very interesting, the class structure really denoted on the instructor.
"It depends on how teachers feel about the program. To a certain extent the group is elite. In the biology course, I felt like I was being punished
and made to work harder because I was smarter. Biology really bogged me down."
Watson agreed.
"If you didn't do well in an honors class, some instructors would look at you like, 'What's the matter with you, you're an honors student.' "
"If you're not meant to be there, you feel it right away. The smaller classes in the honors program don't necessarily mean more individualized treatment. The classes were really a blow to my ego and I lost a lot of confidence."
Katzman said the honor student is expected to already have the critical skills that other students haven't developed yet or are in the process of developing. Most honors classes are taught in a discussion format
"The goal of the honors program is to provide individuals opportunities to reach their intellectual potential," he said.
By LISA BOLTON Staff Reporter
Scenes from the Battle of the Little Big Horn have been captured in bronze at the KU Museum of Natural History exhibition of native American culture.
The sculptures are a gift from Robert and Elyse Patterson, Mission Hills. Rogers Aston, an artist and a family friend of the creators, cast three battle scenes in bronze.
Aston is a student of southwest Kansas lore, and has a museum in Roswell, N.M., which is Elyse Patterson's former home, Patterson said.
Patterson said he shared Aston's interest in the American Indian wars of the 19th century.
"It was a wonderful era in our
horses' history, in our horse
 cavalry myself in Worcester in 1813.
1978 battle in which Gen. George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavary were wiped out by Sioux and Chayne Indians in what is now Montana. The Seventh Cavary's only survivor after the battle was Capt. Myles Keogh's horse, Comanche, whose stuffed cascass is displayed in the KU's museum.
The sculptures commemorate the
"I thought part of my collection was about the French Comanche is theft." Fetter said. "Eagerly."
One sculpture shows Keogh and Comaniche during the fight.
Another sculpture shows the field of dead soldiers, arrows piercing their bodies.
In the third, a Sioux chief and a warrior hold a bugle from Custer's cavalry as they gaze at Custer and his dead troops.
Aston's bronzed battle scenes will be a permanent part of the collection in the Dyche Hall museum.
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