University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, February 6, 1979
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French class hopes to offer speedy learning
By JULIA GOPLERUD
Staff Renorter
When drill sergeants in a new French cask that is to be offered next fall snap their knives from the neck.
This will be one of the unusual teaching techniques used in an elementary French class for students who want to learn French quickly and without much homework.
Norris J. Lacy, chairman of the department of French and Italian, said yesterday that he would credit hours as the traditional elementary class, but intensive in-class work would be
"We substitute more class time instead of w
"Students in this class spend 12 hours a week in class, of which two are in the lab.
but have only two or three hours of outside work." Lucy said.
He said studies at Dartmouth College, here the course began, showed that some students were as proficient as students who had taken four years of French in traditional
"THEERE IS A good possibility that students who make good progress in the course could skip the first semester of their second year of French," he said.
The class is to meet for two hours a day. During the first hour, Robert E. Anderson, professor of French and Italian, will teach basic course material. Three undergraduate instructors will drill students on the material during the second hour.
Teaching techniques will be nontraditional, Lacy said.
"we want to give the students more time to talk. The number of verbal responses will increase."
factor," he said. "If someone gives a wrong answer, the drill sergeant will immediately go to someone else until he gets the right one."
Lacy said the teaching assistants would try to establish a rhythmic question-and answer pattern by snapping their fingers and pointing to the student nuzzed.
"OUR EMPHASIS is less on intellectual understanding of the language and more on the practical use of it. We want the students to learn about a question without thinkable about," he said.
Lacy said the techniques emphasizing quick responses might cause a few students to drop out at first. But, he said, he thought fewer students in the new course would drop out after the first week than those in the traditional courses.
"Very quickly, the students will find that instead of being intimidated by the teaching techniques, they are learning more French than they would otherwise," Lacy said.
Snow removal raises FO costs
LACY SAID the three undergraduate instructors, who are only two years older, are at the language and realize that they can be that good," he said.
The intensive French course is 16 credit hours and fulfills the language requirement for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It is for students who have never taken a French course or are 11 credit hours, and is designed for students who have some knowledge of French.
French classes would not be affected by the new course.
“Our intensive French program is very important because most of our French majors come out of it, or else the people that take it are very excited about the language and want to learn it.” Lacy said. “I really don't think this course will appeal to the same students.”
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"The program is ideal for anyone who wants to have a major or minor in French but can't take the intensive program we offer, or for those who know they will be spending the summer in France and want as good the knowledge of the language as possible."
He said the course was funded by a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation. The University of Kansas was matching the funds received from the grant, he said.
Staff Reporter
"Snow removal crews work all hours of the night and many weekends clearing and hauling away snow," Oroke said. "The large piles of snow by Allen Field House and by the football stadium are an indication of the work that has been done."
Orok said another reason for the increased costs was the snow was not melting. He says a new snowpack system could save $250,000.
Heavy and frequent snowfalls have increased costs and other problems for Facilities Operations this winter, Roden Oroke, director of FO, said recently.
Orke said overtime wages for snow removal crews had already exceeded $12,000, twice what had been paid at this time last year.
Lacy said the enrollment in the intensive
to clear the streets and sidewalks with each additional snowfall," he said. "Crews can't get the pavement as clean as they could after the first snow."
begins to melt, the sand that was spread on sidewalks and streets to improve traction is still flowing.
"It's more difficult and time-consuming
OROKE SAID the increased overtime costs had not been budgeted and would have resulted in a loss of $350,000.
He also said that there were additional costs because of equipment stress caused by the heavy snowfalls. Replacements for the equipment may be necessary in snow removal equipment have been costly.
Another problem associated with snow removal is the difficulty of keeping the snow removed.
"By the end of winter we will have used 200 tons on sand on the university's streets and sidewalks," Oroke said. "Several tons on sand will be tracked into the buildings."
"We try to get the chains off equipment as soon as possible, but chains wear out quickly. Owe said. Tractor chains run fast in heavy rain and movements so far have cost us around $2000."
Oroke said that it then would be the snow removal crews' jobs to clean up the sand, and to prevent it from being tracked into buildings.
"We have to sweep the sand because it can't be washed down the drains or else drains get clogged up with the sand," Oroke said.
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"I think he's one of the greatest alo players in the world." Wright said.
Woods, voted No. 1 alo sx player in the Down Beat Reader's Poll last year, has been called "the best all-around player in jazz today," by Dick Wright, associate station director of KANU, who teaches classes in jazz at the University of Kansas.
Paul Gray, owner of the Jazz Place, said,
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a player like Phil Woods at the Jazz Place "concert has received little publicity."
Woods and his group were traveling through the area and had an open date. When Woods' manager offered the date to the Jazz Place, Gray said he snapped it up.
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