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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1920
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Daily Kansan
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1926
REINSTATEMENT
Dean Brendt expressed some worryy sentiments concerning reinstatement of students who have been caught by the 40 per cent rule, in the news columns of the Kanan yesterday. The Dean even adds that he sometimes feels that he is too severe on the first year students.
The question of whether all students can successfully adapt themselves to the new surroundings offered when they first come to college, has been one receiving much attention later. Many universities are giving students a longer period to become acclimated to college atmosphere and work.
The Dean implies a feeling of tolerance and sympathy for the student who has failed because of ill health or overwork, and for older people who find it hard to get back to the routine of student life, and no one doubts that he is sinner. The leafters—the social butterflies and activity seekers—are the ones for whom the administration has no sympathetic.
But the student should be made to realize the difficulties he faces at enrollment time and at midsemester.
Students who are on the border line at midtermere are called before the Dean or his assistants, who are always ready to help. But there is too great a tendency on the part of all advisers, including those of the faculty, to give advice without listening to the student's problem. Of course, they do not this intentionally, but they are anxious to help and short of time and there is danger that sometimes no one realizes the student's problem until he has incurred the penalty.
MORE TIME FOR ENROLL MENT
Earollment is over and the new semester has just begin, but the difficulty experienced in these two days was sufficient to leave some rather vivid impressions. Students rushed through, were crowded through, ball-dozed through, and pushed through. Some happened to get the courses they desired, some took whatever they could get, and some enrolled in almost anything to make up the required number of hours.
Such conditions and situations should not prevail in such an institution as the University of Kansas. There should be sufficient time for every one to arrange his schedule properly and to receive adequate advice from his advisers. Under the present circumstances, evidently no one is to blame if classes are closed on the first day of enrollment, but the rush and nervous tension of the operation could be avoided, if more time were granted for enrollment.
There seems to be no good reason, why at least three days, and perhaps four, could not be devoted to this procedure instead of only two. This plan would result in several benefits. Classes would not close so rapidly and thus the student would feel that he had more time to make out his schedule of classes properly. Advisors would not be so hurried and could give more time and unindulged attention to those desiring it. Long lines at the chairman's table would be avoided, and the student would be relieved of fatiguing waits. Also, the contingency of classes being closed while waiting for the chairman's approval would be far less likely to occur. This one thing alone causes untold grief and difficulty to student and faculty alike.
Not only would upperclassmen ben
eft from such a revision of the enrolment system, but it would be especially beneficial to the first year students. It is a fact that there is an inadequate number of advisers for them. This situation cannot be remedied without an increase of the instructional staff, but the difficulty can be minimized by giving additional time to the work. Too many of the freshmen are railroaded and bullied into schedules which the average freshmen should never attempt. In many cases the adviser means well, but he is rushed for time, and the student suffers. If there is any group in the university that does need careful advice concerning their work, it is the freshmen.
Four days of enrollment would receive the situation considerably. And of what use are classes on Thursday and Friday of enrollment week? Few instructors can make definite assignments and begin class work because of the numbers of withdrawals and additional enrollments yet to come. Thus two days are practically host and would be better spent in enrolling. Further, the additional time would decidedly decrease the number who would be forced to change courses on Saturday, when time is needed for late enrollments.
"THAT COURSE IS CLOSED"
The system of enrollment now used by the University is decidedly inadequate. The process in a mud sermble, with the first cues to corollate getting the courses they want and the last ones getting what is left. This is one glaring fault. There are too many classes closed the first day. This deprives those who come later of any possible chance to take work in these courses, no matter how much they may want it.
As an example of this, a senior enrolled, in accordance with the alphabetical order of her name, the next to last thing last Thursday. She had her mind made up on to the work she wanted, but was told when she showed her desired course that five hours of the work she had listed were closed. After much discussion she was carried in a five hour free晨训 course from which, however, she was forced to withdraw because of her senior standing. Saturday morning she changed her schedule. She attempted to carve in two different courses, only to be told that both of them had been closed. As a result of this she was forced to take work in which she has no interest and which probably will do her very little good .
This is a situation by no means uncommon. It checks back to one thing—the necessity of closing classes because of the lack of instructors to handle the courses, which is a result of the insufficiency of funds appropriated by the legislature.
Something ought to be done to give the student who enrolls last a chance to take the work he wants. It is nothing more than time and money wasted to load a person up with a bit of courses he cares nothing about just to fill out his required number of hours. The question seems to be up to the legislature, but even so, there ought to be some partial remedy possible on the campus.
Recognition of the problem in selection of courses by college students seems to be the motive behind the recent ruling of the University Senate which permits ten hours of failures without the necessity of repeating the course in which the failing grade was given.
THE FLUNK RULE
It seems common especially among first year students that in the rush of enrollment an individual occasionally finds himself in a course for which he is unfited or in which he is sincerely uninterested. Then too there is the problem of the working student who has been signed up for too heavy a schedule. It is seldom that the good derived from repetition of a course is equal to the amount of time expended on it. The rule is made especially to handle cases of this type, but by limiting it to ten hours no concession is made to the consistent flanker.
Many failures can be traced to the hasty selection of courses. The recent more liberal rule will no doubt serve to minimize of not to correct the existing evils.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
El Atencio se remita jueves, el 4 de febrero en la nula 105 E. Ad, nula 430 de la tarde. Hata abrasion de nuevos cuellos para el amo que vuela al otro lado del atencio.
Copy received at the Chancellor's Office until 11:00 a. m.
MYRON W. WAGGONER, presidente.
EL ATEENO;
A. L. E. E. MEETING;
There will be a meeting of the K. U, Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Marvin Hall at 7 o'clock, Thursday night, February 4, 1926. Mr. C, C. Adams of the General Electric Company will give an illustrated lecture on "Switchboards." KENNETH KREIBELI
OWL SOCIETY:
The Owl Society will meet at 7:50 tonight in the Judahwake office. The meeting will be a very brief one.
JACK KINCAD, president,
Owl Society
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KENNETH SIMONS, President.
Editorials From Other Hills
College Humour
There is, according to certain authorities, embedded in our universities, some indiscernible element which they are pleased to call College humour. A prominent member of our own university staff once asserted, at a banship event last year, that world to equal that of university students, and that more real humour was found among their conversation than in all the comic magazines of this continent. Which seems to point to banship. The humour is a quality of no mean value.
However, the supremacy of college humour is distinctly questionable, as we may find out by listening to the cranial remarks of the man in the film "dialogue" joke clipped from the filter of some obscure college newspaper. There is unobtdoubtedly a wealth of humour found amongst college students, which is found nowhere else—but the comedy is based on the amount of garbage—and consequently, we find amongst all college jokes, a large amount of repellent, pointless and rique material which would disprove city daily
We have to thank certain large magazine syndicators whose directors
make a living by digging up what they are pleased to call "college jokes," etc.—for an insidious interpretation of college humour, which has fun its way to the man in the street. The editors of these magazines receive weekly weeks and months, and like hog rootsating for garbage in a field of corn, make a point of extracting all the suggestive, dank and preposterous "jokes" from the hidden corners of the less deserving papers, and feature them in a vide book entitled "College Quips," or something like that. The cover depicting a coated viewing with amorous eyes, some scene from a college life, in which a shoulder-master collagenate figure strangles.
Thus the mind of the layman is poisoned, parents wonder why university authorities countenance such raid stuff, which evidently fill our university papers; and a disgust for the university student—male or female—enters the mind of every right-thinking man or woman.
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It is true that some college sheds are to blame for letting trachy jobs and coupless enter their columns. This should probably be cured if a co operative movement were not offer to stop the publication of any new positive alibments whatever. But the editor, who was in charge of the editorial editor would still dig up stuff from somewhere to fill his disused able columns.
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