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Monday, October 9, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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College senior poll finds lack of basics
Startling discoveries prompt organization to demand better curricula in universities
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A Columbus Day poll suggests that one-fourth of U.S. college seniors either never heard or do not remember the childhood ditty: "In 1402, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
In addition to finding that one in four do not know Christopher Columbus made his famous landing in the Western Hemisphere prior to the year 1500, the Gallup Poll suggests that there is considerable ignorance of other basic facts about history and literature.
Almost 60 percent did not know the Korean War started when Harry S. Truman was president, 58 percent did not know that William Shakespeare wrote "The Tempest" and almost a quarter thought a famous saying by Karl Marx is part of the U.S. Constitution.
"If the students' answers were to be graded, more than half of those tested would have failed," concluded the survey, which was conducted for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Armed with the survey results, NEH chairman Lynne Cheney yesterday called for colleges and universities to revise their curricula so
undergraduates would study "essential areas of knowledge."
In a booklet titled "50 Hours," she outlined a suggested core curriculum for college students.
Here are some of the Gallup Poll highlights:
Responding to her admonition, several college presidents essentially told the NEH chief she was behind homes or to mind her own business.
24 percent of the college seniors surveyed thought Columbus landed in the Western Hemisphere some time after 1500.
42 percent could not place the Civil War in the correct half century.
war in the 18th century.
▶ 58 percent did not know that Shakespeare was the author of "The Tempest," but 85 percent knew that Mark Twain wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
> 58 percent did not know Truman was president when the Korean War began. Fourteen percent thought it started when John F. Kennedy was born.
▶ 55 percent could not identify the "Magna Carta."
▶ 23 percent thought that Marx's phrase, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability," is part of the U.S. Constitution.
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> Clothing valued at $52 was taken Saturday from a store in the 3100 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police reported.
A student's purse and its contents valued together at $115 were taken Friday while she was at a bar in the 700 block of New Hampshire Street, Lawrence police reported.
► A Haskell Indian Junior College student's vehicle valued at $2,500 was taken Friday from in front of his residence on the Haskell campus, Lawrence police reported.
► A 1977 blue Cadillac valued at $1,200 was taken Saturday from the 300 block of Locust Drive, Lawrence police reported.
▶ A student's unsecured bicycle valued at $25 was taken Friday from the porch of a house in the 1300 block of Fulton Street, Lawrence police reported.
Lawrence jonce reported.
A vehicle sustained $100 damage Saturday when it was scratched with a sharp instrument in the 2600 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police reported.
> A man punched a Haskell Indian Junior College security employee and bit a Haskell student Saturday in
A student said someone hit him on the head Saturday on Haskell Street, Lawrence police reported.
► The side window of a student's vehicle valued at $150 was shot with a pellet gun Saturday in the 1600 block of Edgehill Road, Lawrence police reported.
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Anderson said that during the interviews of Ridpath's acquaintances, officers had discovered that Ridpath may have been homosexual.
Police search for clues in murder of teen-ager
By Jim Petterson Kansan staff writer
Authorities still are searching for a motive in the murder of an 18-year-old independence, Mo., who whose mother was killed Oct. 2 in northern Doubled县 County.
Douglas County Sheriff Loren Anderson said Timothy K. Ridpith died of gunshot wounds late Oct. 1. Ridpith's body was found lying next to his car on Douglas County Road 1250E south of U.S. Highway 24-59, about a half-mile north of Lawrence's northern city limit.
Liz Tolbert, a member of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said a sheriff's deputy told members of the
"We're still in about the same place we were Tuesday," he said. "We've got no focus for the investigation. We're still gathering information to determine the victim's actions in Lawrence."
Anderson said the 18 officers assigned to the case were interviewing people who had known Ridath.
Results from fingerprint samples lifted from Ridpath's car were expected by the end of the week, Anderson said.
"I've been in this organization for four years, and I've never seen him before in my life," she said. "We know all of my functions the night he was killed."
"When you're looking for a motive, you look everywhere," he said. "Normally in a crime like this there's sex, money or drugs and alcohol involved somewhere. We're not going to leave anything untouched."
Anderson said he was not pessimistic about finding Ridpath's killer because the case was wide open.
Anderson said that anyone with information about Ridpath and why he was in Lawrence should contact the Douglas County sheriff's office at 841-0007.
Anderson said officers were exploring all possibilities in the investigation.
group that Ridpath was homosexual and may have been in Lawrence to meet another man. She said that a photo of Ridpath was passed around Thursday at the GLSOK meeting but that no one recognized him.
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