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Visiting Sociologist Studies KU Students But Won't Talk
Everett C. Hughes, visiting professor of sociology, said that he is part of a four-member team that is studying KU students, but that he could not give a hint of the team's findings.
He spoke to the Faculty Forum in the Kansas Union.
He said:
"If you people (faculty) heard of customs practiced by students which are out of line, you might punish the students. Therefore, we won't tell our findings.
"All information must be guarded throughout the study so that students or anyone else will not be hurt.
No One Knows
"Some of my colleagues at KU used to be my students, but even they have no idea of what we are finding.
"What we are finding is of great
concern to the students and of great concern to all of you."
Prof. Hughes explained that one of the purposes of the study is to discover why some students are strongly motivated and why some are disinterested.
"To find why some students work harder than others, we never talk about the information we gather. We just listen to the students," he said.
'Hothouses' Make Conformity
He said the answers the team is trying to find cannot be found in "hothouses." Hothouses are colleges or universities with rigidly controlled standards of admission and curriculum. Many of them are small.
"There is never one hothouse like any other. They each tend to make their own kind of conformity," Prof. Hughes said.
He said the organization of the
team's study is not easy. Two to three hours of recording are required for every hour of observation.
Everything is recorded the day it is observed, he said.
"Memory has a way of letting vital details be forgotten. Time is a dangerous thing." Prof. Hughes explained.
Why KU?
He said that KU was chosen for the study because its atmosphere has as much or more variety than any other college or university in the United States. The different schools, living groups, and activities provide this variety.
He said he realized the sociological team is limited in trying to observe and record the lives of KU students.
Students Play Games That Will Pay Profits
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Nine Midwestern universities will compete today in "business decision games" designed to test students' ability to make practical business moves.
The team with the biggest "profit" at the end of the games will be declared the winner.
The students, formed in five-man teams, will gather around an IBM computer which will compute the effects of the decisions upon each other and issue a "profit picture" for each team.
"But while we can't be everywhere all the time, we will be everywhere some time or other."
Competing are university teams from Northwestern, Illinois, Chicago, Wisconsin, Washington, Ohio State, Pennsylvania State, Michigan and Oklahoma State.
Officials estimate the two days of play will enable the students to make decisions on problems which normally would come up over several years of actual business dealings.
Warren C. Hume, IBM's midwest regional manager, said: "The students will be able to make decisions typical of those they will be called upon to make when entering business after graduation. And they will be getting theoretical knowledge with practical business experience during the games."
Worked With Riesman
The nationally known sociologist—who has worked with David Riesman, author of "The Lonely Crowd"—said that the United States has the widest variety of educational institutions in the world.
"The United States has 99 per cent of the 300 worst educational institutions in the world. But it probably has more than its share of the 30 to 40 top educational institutions in the world." Prof. Hughes said.
He said accreditation is not a measure of the worth of colleges. Ninety per cent of colleges and universities are accredited.
He observed that one problem in preparing students for higher education is the "terrific inequality" of the high schools.
Accreditation Not True Measure
"However, we (sociology team) are studying the students' lives, not their programs," Prof. Hughes said.
Bored Princeton Students Hiss Beatnik Performance
PRINCETON, N.J. — (UPI)— Man, like it was nowhere! The effect was Dullsville.
No beards, no bongo drums. Well-cut suits and creased trousers. Many of the 700 Princeton students in Alexander Hall hissed.
"Man, we're farther out than any of these beats," commented a bearded geology student with a knapsack full of rocks. A companion stroked a red beard, which slipped a bit as he tugged it.
Man, Age 105, Votes 1st Time
HARTFORD, Conn. (UPI) — Walter G. Davis, a U. S. citizen for 63 years, didn't become a voter until he was 105 years old. He explained, "I've had a lot of trouble and sickness and doctors' bills and a big family to raise up."
The students listened politely as Ray Bremser, of New York, read his "Quiet Lion", which ended "shame on me, miserable degenerate."
Philip Whelan, of San Francisco, repeated his poem read last year and dedicated it to Princeton students:
"There are no girls in Tigertown
Tigertown
"And Tigertown is falling down.
"Escape! Escape! Escape!"
Le Roi (The King) Jones, of New York and Michael McClure of San Francisco, also performed.
Jones read his own rendition of "The Yellow Dog Blues" and "Vice." His three companions sipped chilii in the background.
McClure decried death, sex and godhood in bored monosyllables. He shuffled from one foot to another; the crowd shuffled, too.
Some of the poetry was read with music playing in the background and candle light flickering. Some was unprintable.
Three girl beatniks, imported from Trenton, moved among the audience selling espresso at 25 cents a cup.
McClure concluded "This is a loss. It means nothing."
The group had arrived at Princeton under sponsorship of Lampshade Productions.
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Carnegie Head Cites Need For More Science Teaching
Warner blamed liberal arts professors "who talk sanctimoniously about the glories of liberal arts" and then crowd their curriculum with vocational courses.
CHICAGO — (UPI)—Dr. John C. Warren, president of Carnegie Institute of Technology, yesterday expressed concern over the lack of science courses in arts colleges.
He said: "I wish they were as interested in having their students learn science as we are in having
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. —Aesop
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. —Aeschylus
students learn about the "Science is an essential part of a liberal education, but I don't think many liberal arts students are getting the scientific knowledge they need for the 20th century. These same liberal arts colleges, however, will offer vocational courses like business administration and education." Warner said.
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