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Wednesday, January 31, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Fly-fishing lures students
By DOUG HITCHCOCK
The door of Dyche Hall opens and a cold and blistered snow into the building. A basket of sweets rests on the floor.
Staff Reporter
"You in the right place?" the professor asks.
"I think so," the newer answers, apprehensively. "Fly class here?"
"Yep, sure is. Come on in," says the professor and the social ice is broken, if not frozen.
Despite near-blizzard conditions, most students enrolled in the Fly-fishing Workshop arrived on time for the first session of class, which meets on Thursday
After a while, everyone follows the professor, Phillip Humphrey, director of the Natural History Museum, upstairs to the classroom.
"Fly-fishing, per say, is the art of applying飞 casting to the capture of fish," Humphrey said. "It is not a cheap hobby but it need not behörb expensive."
THE COURSE, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Associates, an adult education program, also was listed as a book in the school library's 108 in enrollment timetables to make it
easier for KU students to enroll, Humphrey said.
The course includes sessions on fly tying, which is the construction of lures for fly-fishing, rod care and repair and the making of fishing floats in lakes. The course also includes field trips.
Each student gets two opportunities to go fishing with Humphrey and Robert Mengel, curator of ornithology and Humphry's animal museum. An informal instruction in the fine art of fly-fishing.
Because the course has never received any academic funding, a class fee of $23 is used to pay for the trips and cover the cost of supplies and equipment. Humphrey and Mengel require each student to have a fly rod, reel and fishing line.
Fly-fishing is an all-consuming hobby for Mengel and Humphrey. They treat the subject with the respect owed an art or science, Humphrey said.
"Fly-fishing, in my opinion, is considerably harder than spin casting, but not as hard as learning a good golf swing," he said.
Twenty students are enrolled in this semester's class. In the past, they taught two sections with 15 students each, but both Mengel and Humphrey decided the larger
group lowered the quality of instruction they could give.
Students enrolled through KU enrollment receive 1 hour of credit. Those taking the class through the associates program get no credit for the course.
IN THE PAST, the class has only been available through the museum associates, an adult education program. But both courses were taught by a number of KU students wanted the class, also.
Fourteen of the class' students enrolled through the museums associates program, leaving six cards for KU enrollment. Those cards were snapped up and a waiting list of 12 others who wanted to cast a line for credit had formed before the first class.
Paul Schwaa, Leawood senior, said he wanted to improve his fly-fishing techniques. Schwab enrolled through the University.
He said he had heard about the class from friends who had taken it before.
"I ENJOY fish-fishing for trout because there's a little more to it than fly casting." Schwab said. "I do it for the relaxation and the friends."
Dave Heeter, Shawnee, said he had never been fly-fishing before. After hearing about the class from relatives, he enrolled through the associates program. Heater said he had been fishing for years, but wanted to learn about fly casting.
To help newcomers like Heeter, Humphrey and Mengel put together a syllabus for the course that resembles a large textbook.
"A remarkable collection of stuff," as Humphrey calls it, the syllabus is more than the usual collection of course outlines and required readings. Besides these things, the syllabus contains chapters of text, encyclopedias of books and flies and sets of sample test questions to prepare for the exams.
More terminals, longer hours to ease crowding at computer
By GENE BROWNING
Because of a large number of students in computer science classes this spring, the course will be taught on computers and more computer terminals will be installed. Paul Wolfe, computer center manager, will lead the course.
Staff Reporter
Wolfe said that longer hours at the center and adding 20 terminals to the 30 at the center would relieve overcrowding at the computer terminals.
semester, the lines behind a terminal would be five to six deep. It was not uncommon for a student to wait an hour for a terminal." Jones said.
The number of terminals and amount of time students had access to the terminals was also increased. Students would handle the load of beginning students who needed to use the terminals, according to Mark Jones, Lawrence graduate student at an advanced computer science class.
He said the number of hours increased would depend on finding people to work
"At two weeks toward the end of the
GREG WETZEL, Overland Park graduate student and assistant instructor of Computer Science 200, said that when CS 200 students began using the computer, 600 students would be using terminals that could accommodate only 100 people.
Although students in advanced computer classes are not yet overcrowded at the terminals, there have been complaints that they are slow. You use the terminals and print-out machines.
The hours, which used to be 7:30 a.m. to 4 a.m., every day, were cut last year to 7:30 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday and 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The hours were reduced because funding was short and there were not enough full-time employees who would work on Saturday.
ISSAC ALLOTEY, Accre. Ghana.
"Some weeks I want to work into the night. The center closes at 10 now and we have leave. he said, "I'm working on a project with my friend for a whole day. I used the hour late at 10."
Students who work on project projects late at night could get finished faster, according to Date Dewispeleaire. Ottawa has a computer instructor for Computer Science 200.
However, one instructor said many of the crowding problems were caused by the weather.
graduate student, said he missed the longer hours.
The instructor, Ann Sanner, Manhattan graduate student, who is an assistant instructor of CS 200, said her class put off doing projects.
a few people who worked would have linked to have longer hours. But a lot of stairs wait until the last minute when they are worked a little bit every day," she said.
New degree in history proposed
By MARK GATES Staff Reporter
The public's increased interest in history and the resulting increase in jobs for historians outside universities has prompted the University of Kansas to plan a new master's of historical administration program.
A recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education noted several reasons for the
The program will teach students to do research and organize historical records for public agencies and businesses, said Bill Jackson, chairman of the history department.
"There is a growth of historical consciousness," Wilson said. "Businesses and municipalities are becoming aware of the 'knowing where they're coming from.'"
expanding job market for historians. The chronicle said the increase in people researching family history and the greater interest in history shown by business and government had opened up more jobs for historians.
The proposed program has been approved by the history department and the Committee on Graduate Studies for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The program now is being considered by the Graduate Council, the University group and the American Academy.
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the proposal would be sent to the Council of Chief Academic Officers, a group representing all Board of Regents schools. The proposal will be presented to Regents for final approval. Wilson said.
Wilson said he expected about 20 full-time students to enroll in the program next year. Donald McCoy, professor of history, will head the new program, Wilson said.
While openings for historians in universities across the country have declined with enrollments, the demand for their services has increased and government has increased, Wilson said.
"We expect to have one of the best and one of the very few programs responding to this initiative."
The master's of historical administration would not lead to a Pb.D. as a master's in history.
"The M.A. in history is an anachronism. It is for going on for a Ph.D. or for teaching." Wilson said. "In and of itself, it has very little value."
JOB PLACEMENT for graduates with the new degree is expected to be good, he said.
Many churches use historians to administer their records and document the lives of those who attended.
IBM and the Santa Fe railroad employ a group of historians. The city of Wichita has a history that includes
Genealogy, the study of ancestry, is the fastest growing hobby in the last 20 years and is the third largest behind stamp and have profiled from this family tree craze.
"Our program will provide an education in administration as well as history," Wilson said. "That way, our historians can provide service in the public interest."
The services of historians also are needed when an environmental impact statement must be filed before the start of a federal construction project. A new interpretation of that law requires that archaeological, architectural statements be included.
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