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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Dec. 15, 1959
Retiring Professor Likes University
Prof. Jan Chiapusso
College atmosphere and way of living have made the university campus an ideal world within a world for Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano.
Prof. Chiapusso has worked so closely with university students during his 44 years as an instructor in U.S. colleges that he has seemed almost to claim them for his own. He is 69 years old. Discussing his plans for retirement from KU after May 1960, he says:
"I know I'll miss college students. They're the part of university life I like best."
But Prof. Chiapusso also likes to be a part of university campuses because of the contacts he may have with professors and the company he may keep with other cultured people. He says he especially enjoys KU's humanities lectures and attends them regularly.
He Is Eager To Learn
Always eager to learn, Prof. Chiapusso has made efforts to gain knowledge in fields other than music. He also keeps himself informed of developments in music. He says:
"When I came to KU in 1932. I audited several courses in history and humanities. I attend concerts and music lectures whenever I can and have a greater interest in 20th century music than some give me credit for."
Prof. Chiapusso, who says he is a classicist, said he thinks rock 'n roll is a form of atavism. It is something he definitely does not consider music.
He says he is unfamiliar with any music by a man named Montavanti.
"I like music composed by Samuel Barber, Ernest Block, Richard Strauss and Bartok."
But when it comes to training professional musicians, this Italian-Dutch pianist like the European educational system and ranks it superior to the American system.
He became accustomed to the European way of teaching when he was young and, with hard work and musical talent, excelled under it. He received a diploma from the Conservatory of Music in Cologne, Germany in three years. Some students at Cologne take ten years to get a diploma.
Individual Help to Students
"Students meet with their instructor during office hours. Those who come often and work extra hard use their talents to get their diplomas faster than others who may not be so gifted or so ambitious."
Prof. Chiapusso likes the European educational system because professors give their students individual instruction and help those students who want it. Describing the system, he says:
Even though KU isn't run under the European system, Prof. Chiapusso's liking for college campus atmosphere and way of life, along with his love for music, make him think highly enough of the University to have taught here 28 years.
"Each student keeps working on one subject until he proves to a strict professor he has mastered the course. Each must meet his professor's requirements before he goes on to another subject designed to follow the first. The student doesn't go on to another subject just because it's the end of a certain period such as a semester.
A KU faculty member is asked to deliver a humanities lecture each year. Prof. Chiapusso will speak Jan. 7 on "Bach's Natural and Metaphysical World."
Seasonal Help Dilemma Confronts KU Officials
By Carol Heller
Eenie, meenie, mynie, moe:
Build a sidewalk or make shrubs grow? ...or mow the lawn or repair the whistle stack or dredge Potter Lake?
This is the dilemma which will confront KU's physical plant officials next year if the legislature does not approve $23,000 for seasonal help.
The governor's budget committee did not recommend the item for the fiscal year 1961 budget.
Cites Unrealism
"KU has been appropriated funds for seasonal help for years, but this year, for no reason at all, this money was cut," said Raymond F. Nichols, executive secretary of the University. "It was a totally unrealistic move."
Mr. Nichols explained that the University hires extra help during the growing season to do such campus landscape work as mowing and watering the grass, fertilizing
laWS and caring for shrubbery and flower beds.
This leaves the regular yeararound crews free to do remodeling and maintenance work which can be done only in the summer when many University buildings are relatively quiescent.
"For instance, there was plenty of rain last summer so not much help was needed to water the lawns," illustrated Mr. Nichols.
"But if it is dry next summer, thousands of dollars worth of shrubs could be lost because we won't have the help to water shrubberry regularly.
Accumulating Work
"If we took men off maintenance work it would mean an accumulation of neglected work—and deferred maintenance is costly. Rising costs will make it more expensive in the future.
"But if we neglect ground work, the campus' appearance will suffer."
KU Professor on Committee To Study English Requirements
Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education, has been named to a 15member national committee to investigate "The English Language Arts in the Comprehensive Secondary School."
Sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the committee is an outgrowth of the Conant Report on the American high school.
Prepared by the former president o/ Harvard University, the report defined high school English programs in quantitative terms. The committee is charged with defining some qualitative aspects for future high school English programs.
The committee is composed of representatives from secondary school principals, the national Council of Teachers of English, the College Entrance Board, the U. S. Office of Education, and specialists in English from Stanford University, Florida State University, and the Universities of Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Marijuana Charges End Attorney's Fuss
The 15-member committee will hold its first meeting on December 13-14 in Washington, D.C.
Aides of Anderson joined other state and local officers in raiding Jordan's home Friday night. Allen later said the Attorney General's office filed charges against Jordan and that Anderson was publicity seeking.
Filing of the charges ended a brief fuss between Allen and the office of Atty. Gen. John Anderson Jr.
TOPEKA —(UPI)— Shawnee County Attorney Adrian Allen filed charges of possessing, selling and manufacturing marijuana yesterday against Jack Jordan of Topeka.
Anderson denied that his office had filed charges. He said all that was filed was an affidavit for a search warrant.
Mr. Nichols also criticized a $105,000 reduction in operating expenses. The Board of Regents had asked for $165,000 for daily maintenance of the physical plant, but the budget division recommended $60,000.
"This is a $25 million plant, and $60,000 won't go far toward its necessary repairs and remodeling," said Mr. Nichols.
As an example he cited the three-way construction currently going on at Strong Hall.
Space Conversion
Space is being converted in the basement for the history department offices, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offices will soon be housed in renovated classrooms at the west end of the second floor, and the Graduate School offices are being located in the old offices of the School of Business.
He pointed out that this one project would cost about $40,000. If the same project were underway next year, it would mean that only $20,000 of the allotted $60,000 would remain for other campus maintenance expenses.
"There is an endless amount of routine repair work to be done every year," continued Mr. Nichols, "Lighting has to be improved, floors relaid, electrical repairs made, partitions built and facilities provided for new courses.
"It's totally unrealistic," he repeated.
"With $60,000 we can do only about 40 per cent of the work that will need to be done.
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Castro's Talkathon into Free-for-All Debate
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tumes as a prosecutor. He testified, he questioned witnesses and he read dozens of letters and other documents into the record.
HAVANA — (UPI)— An all-night talkathon by Premier Fidel Castro transformed the treason trial of Maj. Hubert Matos into a free-for-all debate on the merits of Castro's revolutionary regime.
Castro spent more than seven hours at the microphone, acting sometimes as a witness and some-
He heatedly denied Matos' charges that his regime has been infiltrated by Communists, denouncing his foremer comrade-in-arms as a "counter-revolutionary plotter."