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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1960
Reading Clinic Aids Study Habits, Rate
Many KU students are finding that courses in rapid reading and study methods offered by the reading clinic are helping them achieve their goals in reading speed and comprehension.
Vernon Troxel, assistant professor of education and director of the reading clinic, said, "The reading and study methods course teaches the student how to prepare for exams and how to budget his time more effectively. This is done by working with specific reading tasks.
"Actually, we can do no more than give the students instructions and appropriate techniques to use. The students must put these techniques to use and practice on class materials."
Learn to Read Faster Mrs. Martha Cook, instructor in the rapid reading course, said
Learn to Read Faster
the rapid reading course, said: "The course is a valuable and practical one in helping the student to read faster and more effectively. I believe the sole purpose of this course is to instruct the student to read and comprehend to the best of his ability.
"In the reading and study methods classes, the goal is to help the student see himself and evaluate himself; to show him where his weaknesses lie and what his strong points are, and how to progress from there. He is also shown where he stands in comparison to a good student and a poor student. Basically, the course is devised to enable the student to understand himself."
Students Praise Course
Students Praise Course Students who have taken the courses have found them quite helpful.
Norman Schwartzkopf, Abilene junior said, "My main problem involved the time element; the course has made me more time conscious. My reason for taking the course was to see if I was using my own abilities as effectively as I could.
I wanted to have something against which to compare and evaluate my methods of study. I feel that I achieved my goal by taking the course.
Max Schooley, Kiowa freshman said, "My reason for taking the course was to learn to read faster It has helped me to establish better study habits and to budget my time more effectively."
Students who are now taking the courses have much the same opinions.
Said Ann Betz, Kansas City sophomore. "I hope to gain a faster reading rate and learn how to retain what I've read. I like the course very much and already I feel it has helped me quite a bit. It certainly keeps you moving."
Kenneth Stewart, Kansas City sophomore, said, "I'd like to be able to read better, faster, and more effectively so I can devote more time to social activities. I feel the course is progressing very well. Although it is still somewhat early in the course. I feel I already have been helped."
Long Waiting List
This semester there are six sections in rapid reading, each with ten students enrolled. There is a waiting list of approximately the same number, said Prof. Troxel. There are four sections in the reading and study methods course with a total enrollment of 70.
"There are two classes starting today in the reading and study methods class. More will be opened following the six weeks examinations, cach to hold 18 class meetings," he said.
Yearbook Queen Deadline Friday
Nominations of candidates for the yearbook queen are due Friday.
The selection of the Jayhawker queen by a well known person will mark the election of KU's seventh queen in five months.
Each women's residence house will nominate one candidate. Her photograph will be sent to the judge who will then select a queen and four attendants.
The yearbook queen will be announced in the last issue of the layhawker.
This year's judge has not been announced.
KU's other six queens are Elizabeth Robinson, Cedar Vale senior, senior queen; Melinda Kirkman, Russell sophomore, law school homecoming queen; Judy Gorton, Lawrence junior, homecoming queen; Barbara Bach, Kansas City, Mo. junior, military ball queen; Lynda Delfs, Overland Park sophomore, Miss Santa; and Donna Graham, St. Joseph, Mo., freshman, SUA Carnival queen.
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The change was made to allow the intramural all-star game between the senior class and either the junior or sophomore all-stars.
The Class of 1960 "Roundball"
previously set for the Feb. 24 KU-
Kansas State basketball game at
Manhattan has been changed to
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'Roundball' Changed To Oklahoma Game
The game will be played prior to the regulation game time. A special section will be reserved for the seniors.
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By Dan Felger
Traces of Tropics Found on Hillside
There's a bit of the tropies at KU down the hill behind Flint Hall and next to the buildings and grounds storage area.
It's open to the public every day, but the person who wanders into this equatorial paradise will be disappointed if he goes looking for elephants or giraffes.
No elephants, giraffes or even a lowly spider monkey inhabit this campus "jungle!" But there wouldn't be much room for any animals because the tropical paradise is a mere 150 sq. ft. in area.
Steaming heat. Perhaps steam-heated would be more descriptive, for this vest-pocket jungle is nothing more than a greenhouse maintained by the buildings and grounds department for the collection of plants alien to the Kansas plains.
In this small plot is a collection of tropical and semi-tropical plants that makes the visitor think that he has just stepped into the steaming heat of the Congo.
"It wouldn't be quite fair to the buildings and grounds department to call it a greenhouse because it really isn't," said Raymond C. Jackson, assistant professor of botany. "It's what is called a conservatory."
Flower pots containing different varieties of orchids hang from wires strung along the length of the building and give promise of radiant beauty when in bloom.
Tequila is a potent alcoholic beverage distilled in many countries south of the Rio Grande.
Some university maintenance men are trying their hand at growing bananas in the conservatory. Three months ago the buildings and grounds workers harvested a crop of bananas and sampled the product of the tropical plant and the Kansas sun.
Other leafy occupants of the conservatory include a lemon tree, a cluster of banana plants and a pine tree native to Nova Scotia.
"The climate here in the conservatory is regulated to resemble that of the tropics, with the exception that the seasons can be controlled," Prof. Jackson said.
"We've got representatives of the Asian and South American jungles here, and also a number of other interesting plants," Prof. Jackson said.
Green house or conservatory, whichever the visitor prefers, he will have to admit that the building contains an interesting collection.
Whether the plants are in bloom or not, the conservatory is an interesting place at any time of the year. A visitor may walk into the small building and imagine that he has stepped into the jungle, except that this jungle has concrete pathways and goldfish playing tag in pools.
"For example, take the agave plant, which is native to the northern Mexico area. The people that inhabit the area where this plant grows use fibers from the leaves and distill tequila from the blossom," he said.
One of the plants in the conservatory is Ficus pandurata, the rubber tree. Flanking this representative of the South American jungles is a fruit-bearing plant commonly called the "Swiss Cheese Plant," not because the fruit tastes like Swiss cheese, but because the leaves, like the cheese, have large holes.
"Not bad," said one of the men.
"They're a little sweeter than usual."
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