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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1959
Say Car Owners' Grades Not Hurt
There seems to be little correlation between owning an automobile and ending up with poor grades.
This was the opinion of most students and faculty interviewed last weekend.
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, said a study made about three years ago failed to show any significant relationship between student car ownership and grades
Dean Kenneth E. Anderson, School of Education, made this comment:
"I imagine if we were to work this out and do research on it, having a car would probably tend to lower the grade point average."
Martha Graves, Independence freshman, said:
"We took a poll in high school and found that it didn't seem to matter much. Having a car would be more of a temptation to me. I stay home because I don't have a way to get anywhere. If I had a car I'm sure I'd want to drive around."
Lynn Niswonger, Denver freshman, sees no relationship between cars and grades.
"I know kids that have cars and some that don't and they make the same grades," he said. "It depends on the person."
Poet-Critic to Be Here This Week
John Ciardi, professor of English at Rutgers University and poetry editor of the "Saturday Review" will be guest speaker at the seventh annual Conference on Composition and Literature in High School and College here Thursday and Friday.
Prof. Ciardi will speak on the topic, "How a Poem Means," at 8 p.m. Friday in Fraser Theater. He will lead an open discussion period at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Kansas Union music and browsing room.
Prof. Ciardi also is known as a poet, a translator of Dante, and a critic.
Friday's program will begin with registration at 8 a.m. followed by visits to English classes.
Panel discussions will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. at the Kansas Union. Topics will be recent poets, dramatists and novelists. The panels will be repeated at 9 a.m. Saturday
WA to be repaired at 2:45 p.m. will
A coffee hour at 2:45 p.m. will
precede workshop sessions at 3:15
p.m. at the Kansas Union.
Workshop topics will be "The Teaching of Creative Writing",
"Standard English: Fact or Fancy?"
"The Gifted Student" and "High
Concluding Friday's activities will be a dinner at 6 p.m. at the Union. Tom Sawyer, a KU graduate, will present "The Voices of Shakespeare." Prof. Ciardi's lecture will follow at 8 p.m.
School and College Standards in Composition." The workshops will be repeated at 10:45 a.m. Saturday.
Guests from numerous universities and high schools have been invited to the conference.
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Representatives of the Marine Corps will be at the Kansas Union October 19-22 to interview and accept applicants for the USMC Platoon Leaders Class.
Marine Corps To Interview
Interested graduate and undergraduate students will have the option of entering the Platoon Leaders Class or Officer Candidate School for aviation or ground training.
The PLC program in no way interfere's with the student's education. Members of the program must complete two six-week summer sessions prior to graduation. This training phase places emphasis on leadership, physical conditioning and Marine Corps training.
The total active duty agreement is three years for ground officers and three and one-half years for Marine pilots.
Upon successful completion of the two training periods and graduation, the student will be commissioned second lieutenant in the USMC Reserve.
"We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present." Fairfield Osborn.
Polish Student a 'First' at KU
Zibigniew Wilk of Crakow, Poland will be the first student to attend KU with the full approval of the Polish and Soviet governments. John H. Nelson, dean of the KU Graduate School, said other students from behind the Iron Curtain have
attended KU without their governments' approvals.
Wilk has scholarships from the U.S. government and from KU. He will toward his doctorate degree in ground water geology.
Wilk is expected to arrive late this month.
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