Inside Today's Daily Kansan
Those placement examinations were rough, but Judy Asel also had time for fun during orientation week.
Judy Meets KU
- See page 8.
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Coaches and players put in many hours of grueling work on the practice field in preparation for the opening game.
Practice Pays Off
- See page 3, Section B.
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What makes Elizabeth smile?
It Must Be Love
He coupled this with a warning: "We are becoming increasingly intolerant of intellectual laziness, or more plainly, of academic boondogging."
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy this week reaffirmed the University's policy of making KU "a vital center of scholastic, cultural, and intellectual activity for the Trans-Mississippi West."
- See page 14.
Murphy Raps Lazy Students
During an interview with Daily
1. "Education today has become a serious business, with the well-being and the existence of the nation depending on the quality of higher education.
"Therefore, we are not interested in wasting the time of a gifted faculty or in overburdening limited physical facilities with those students who do not wish to
Kansan reporters and in a convocation speech to new students, he made these two major points:
develop to the outer limits of their native ability," he said.
2. Chancellor Murphy denied KU is going overboard in toughening up its academic standards, as some have charged.
Have Wrong Idea
develop to the outer limits of their native ability," he said.
"Unfortunately there has developed an idea that the University is interested only in the intellectual elite. Nothing could be further from the truth.
"The University belongs to all
Daily hansan
57th Year. No. 1
SECTION A
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Idle Minds Turn To Study Habits
Briefly forgotten problems of how to make good grades are again becoming the uppermost thought in the minds of students.
This brings up the subject of study—the bane of every student.
A successful KU student believes the most important factor is establishing a time schedule.
Stan Shopmaker, Olathe senior, found the method best suited to him after several years of trial by error.
"Notes are the basic part of studying. If you obtain the fundamentals from the lecture, you can learn the details from the book," Shopmaker said.
The place for study is important, too, he adds.
Prefers Library
"I like to study at the library where the lighting and atmosphere seem conducive to study and resource materials are handy."
The annual Opening Convocation of the University will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Hoch Auditorium.
A "break" every hour or so helps
As most of us, Shopmaker has found that he tires quickly from long hours of study and that psychology timmicks such as the "reward" system are a help in studying.
Convocation Schedule
Monday morning classes will follow this schedule:
8 o'clock classes, 8-8:35 a.m.
9 o'clock classes, 8:45-9:20 a.m.
v. repetition, 9:30-10:20 a.m.
10 o'clock classes, 10:30-11:05 a.m.
11 o'clock classes, 11:15-11:50 a.m.
Convocation, 9:30-10:20 a.m.
"Of course I believe that one of the essential elements of good studying is to establish a definite schedule—a time to eat, sleep, study, relax, and participate in social activities."
Flexibility Important
to keep studying from becoming monotonous, he adds.
Shopman cautioned that the schedule should be adapted to an individual's needs and should allow a certain amount of flexibility.
"A time schedule is of prime importance. It shows the individual how much work he has to do and how his hours must be divided."
Martha Cook, assistant director of the reading and study clinic, agrees with Shopmaker on the importance of organized study.
"Of course you'd have to be psychotic to strictly adhere to it," she commented. But she was emphatic in stressing that it should be generally followed.
Miss Cook explained that courses in reading and study method are designed to help a student establish such a schedule.
Helps Student
"Our study courses help the individual to become better aware of his capabilities and how he stands in comparison with the 'good' student. Then we outline a rather rigid study method based on the evaluation the student arrives at through the course."
The course can save a student from using trial by error methods tried by most students at some time in their college career, she said.
Courses in study methods are available at most hours of the day. New classes begin throughout the semester. Classes last 18 sessions are non-credited and involve no homework.
Rudy Vondracek, Timken senior and chairman of the council, said new appointments to the committee will be made at the next regularly
ASC Invalidates Four Appointments
Only four of the appointments will be affected by the ruling. Ted Hall, Garden City senior, is automatically the chairman of the committee due to his position as vice-chairman of the ASC.
The All Student Council ruled Tuesday that four appointments to the ASC committee on committees were unconstitutional.
The council also discussed foreign and new student orientation at the meeting, the first of this school year.
The committee appointments were declared unconstitutional after Larry Blickhan, Prairie Village senior, read a provision of the ASC constitution which states that the committee on committees shall be composed of five members, no more than three of these being of the same party.
scheduled meeting of the council
scheduled meeting of the council. The next meeting will be at 8 p.m Tuesday in the Kansas Union.
Want to Work On The Kansan?
Any student interested in newspaper photography or reporting is welcome on the Daily Kansan staff.
The Kansan is the newspaper of the whole University. Anyone may work on the paper regardless of his major.
Chancellor Murphy Extends Greetings
Photographers are paid 75 cents an hour. Sports reporters, society writers and general reporters are especially needed.
Those interested in a position on the staff should call or see Jack Harrison at the Kansan newsroom, 112 Flint, phone KU 711.
On behalf of the faculty and administration of the University of Kansas. I bid our 9,400 students greetings.
We join you in hoping that this, the 94th year of the University will be one of accelerated progress and achievement, culturally and academically.
The classrooms, laboratories, libraries, museums and recreational facilities stand waiting for you to use them. Even more important, a distinguished and capable faculty will assist you in expanding your intellectual horizons.
You are inheriting the rich KU tradition. You are also inheriting great responsibilities and opportunities. Do not fail to feel, and respond to, the challenge.
Weather
Today occasional light rain or drizzle and cooler. Continued cool High today 60s. Maximum temperatures through Monday will average near 72 with a minimum average of 46.
Kansas. For more than 90 years it has served the youth of the state and nation, and its objective is no different today.
"We are proud of our gifted student program which has attracted nationwide attention and provided young Kansans with educational opportunities unexcelled anywhere.
"But we are equally proud and eager to serve the ambitious average boy or girl, in which category most of us belong and who, in the final analysis, are the kind of people who built this nation."
Affects Freshmen
Part of the program to further develop the scholastic curriculum will affect entering freshmen this fall.
Last spring the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences approved an entire curriculum revision which had been under discussion for three years. The changes marked the first major changes in college requirements since 1936.
The changes are:
1. Under class requirements which require the student to take more mathematics.
2. Underclass requirements which require the student to fill distribution requirements from a list of "principal courses." There are approximately 55 such courses designed by one, two, or three stars, depending upon the division, in the class schedule.
3. New B.A. and B.S. requirements. These require the student to have a minor of 15 hours and to pass college algebra. He must pass a foreign language proficiency examination or enroll in 16 hours of one foreign language.
Effective This Fall
In a lighter moment during the interview the Chancellor was asked if he had heard of KU referred to as "The Harvard on the Kaw." Jokingly, he replied that the phrase was cuited wrong. He said
All provisions will go into effect this semester with the exception of the mathematics requirement, which will be effected in September, 1961.
"That should be 'Harvard is the KU on the Charles'."
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NOW OR NEVER—Geri Kerkstra, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, ponders the difficulties of planning classes. Miss Kerkstra's comment? "It's a mess!"