Tests Reveal Student Goals, Professor Says
The nature of a language test decides what the student wants to study, but it is difficult to test accurately, said Waldo Sweet associate professor of Latin at the University of Michigan.
"To accurately test, the examination must be of the same activity as the class work," he said. "It is incongruous to give a written test to a class that has done only laboratory work."
The major problems for the instructor of a language are defining goals and seeing if the student does what is expected, he said.
"Often I am asked why I study Latin," Prof. Sweet said. "To that I have an answer, but I've never used it. Sometimes I'll say the reason is to keep from asking questions like 'Why study Latin,'" he said.
Waldo Sweet
The goal he set forth in Latin instruction was to comprehend the text as an art form and an expression of the culture. To do this the knowledge must precede the appreciation, hence the need for adequate testing, he said.
"By the open-book method, we give a student a line of Latin and tell him to find the page and line number," he said. "If he knows the test well, he can find the line location easily."
The open-book test and the closed-book test forms were suggested by Prof. Sweet.
"This is the best single device I know for accuracy." Prof. Sweet said. "Students don't like it as well because there is no way to bluff it. They must be well acquainted with the text to answer exactly."
Prof. Sweet advocated testing Latin by the use of "closes." These are lines with one or two words omitted. The student must supply the correct word.
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He suggested other methods such as a scrambled line, leaving the student to correct it; comprehensive questions, dictation and variances from the original manuscript.
"The Latin texts often have parallels," he said. "The instructor reads the parallel and asks the student to quote the original manuscript. This is a good method, but many students feel this is only memorizing the text."
Prof. Sweet said conversation and grammar courses in modern languages could not use these methods as easily as could a course in modern language literature, but they were adaptable to literature courses.
"An elementary language course should stimulate a student to take a literature course," he said. "By the testing in the advanced course, we can judge the effectiveness of the first one."
CRC Discusses Student Petitions
Bruce E. Wright, Salina sophomore and member of the Civil Rights Council, last night told a small group of the CRC that he had more than 800 signatures on the petitions which were circulated around campus and posted at the information booth last week.
Two Grads Hold Top State Posts
The petitions asked that students support boycots of any place of business which practices discrimination, and also called for an all-student referendum on the resolution proposed by the NSA representative to the All-Student Council.
Two KU graduates hold top posts in this session of the state legislature. The two, both graduates in journalism, head key committees in the House and Senate.
John J. Conrad, of Greensburg, was recently appointed chairman of the Ways and Means committee. He is the publisher of the Kiowa County Signal in Greensburg and a 1943 KU graduate. He received a Ph.D from the Sorbonne, Paris, in 1951.
Glee Smith, of Larned, is chairman of the Senate judiciary committee and of the education subcommittee on college building. After receiving his B.A. in journalism in 1945, he took a degree in law at KU and has practiced in Larned since then.
Wright said that more petitions were still being circulated. The petitions will be continued next semester in an attempt to get the needed 2,000 signatures to force the student council to take some action on a Civil Rights resolution.
The sit-in was staged by approximately 40 students from one of the dormitories because a Negro student was discriminated against in a Lawrence tavern. Most of the students who participated in the sit-in were not members of the CRC.
The group, acting in an unofficial capacity, also discussed whether to sanction last week's sit-in.
Most of the members present agreed with Wright and decided to limit the meeting to discussion instead of the formation of official policies.
It was suggested that the CRC try to incorporate those students who participated in the sit-in into the council and that the council endorse the action.
Wright said he felt it would be dictatorial for the small group to pass any resolutions for the CRC without any officers present.
Weather
Generally fair this afternoon,
tonight and tomorrow. Colder
east and south portions this afternoon
and tonight. Warmer Friday
but turning colder again tomorrow
night. Low tonight generally
near 15. High tomorrow 35 to 40.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year. No. 74
No $1.5 Million Slash
KU Welcomes Budget
Gov. John Anderson, in his budget recommendation to the state legislature, expressed complete approval of KU's request for a $17,-832,701 operating budget for fiscal year 1961.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS were elated at the governor's message which endorsed the proposed faculty salary increase and retirement plan, and the Board of Regent's program for building construction.
"I don't see how I could help but be pleased," Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said yesterday afternoon.
"The recommendations relative to the operating budget were identical to the Regent's request. Those relative to capital improvements will allow the building program to move forward as we had planned."
It was erroneously reported in yesterday's Daily Kansan that the governor had recommended cutting the budget by $1.5 million. This was due to United Press International's misinterpretation of the budget's figures.
THE BUDGET is comprised of two parts: educational and general (operating) expenditures ($15,257,-116), and auxiliary enterprises ($2,-521,925). Both were approved in toto by the governor.
This is the first time in several years that the governor's office has not recommended cuts in the proposed budget. It now goes to the legislature for consideration and final approval is expected in March.
The governor recommended that funds for the $3,555,000 KU building program be allotted over a period of two fiscal years (fiscal year 1962 begins July 1, 1961).
THIS PLAN calls for five per cent contributed by the state and the total ten per cent to be placed in an annuity fund sponsored by the Teacher's Insurance and Annuity Association. This will allow a faculty member to retire at approximately 50 per cent of maximum salary instead of the approximate 25 per cent now allowed by the present provisions.
Gov. Anderson set aside in reserve for legislative action the $280,803 request for KU's funded retirement plan out of the $15,257,-116 operating budget.
**THIS IS THE reason for the error in yesterday's paper. The UPI report only listed the "capital improvements" (building funds) that Gov. Anderson recommended for fiscal year 1962. This amount ($2,234,900) is $1,210,000 less than the requested $3,555,000 but was
John Anderson
recommended for appropriation for iscal year 1963.
He recommended that the $1,375,-000 engineering building receive $750,000 in FY 1962 and $625,000 in FY 1963. All this will be drawn from the educational building fund which annually draws about $3 million for construction in the state's colleges and universities.
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The Senate foreign relations committee today tentatively approved Chester Bowles as undersecretary of state pending his formal nomination by President-elect John F. Kennedy.
Bowles Gets Tentative OK
The governor recommended approval of funds for an addition to Dyche Natural History Hall. More than half of the $835,000 addition is available from federal grants and private contributions and the Regents' request of $350,000 was recommended for allotment in FY 1963.
A SUM of $30,000 was recommended to plan for remodeling or replacing the now vacant Blake Hall east of Watkins Hospital.
The governor's method of financing capital improvements to meet the unexpected rise in enrollments at the state schools was through a diversion of the mill levy for building of mental hospitals and charitable institutions. During the emergency, the governor recommended the total levy of 1.75 mills would be available to the Regents for school buildings and dormitories. This would be appropriated
He recommended that the $1,800,-000 addition to Watson Library receive $800 in FY 1962 and $1 million in FY 1963. This was as the Regents requested and will allow construction to begin in the summer with completion expected by the summer of 1963.
Chairman J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., said after the hearing that a poll of most committee members showed no opposition to Bowles' nomination. Other members were to be polled later so the nomination could be sent to the Senate as soon as it is formally received after Kennedy's inauguration.
The action came on a poll of most committee members after a three-hour and 15-minute hearing in which Bowles was questioned at length about his views on Red China and said he did not think the United States should recognize the Peiping regime.
Bowles said he is nervily opposed to recognition of Red China-or its admission to the United Nations at this time.
Answering further question Bowles added that a current magazine article notes that Red Chinese leader Chou En-Lai attacked Bowles for his views.
On the possibility of a communist attempt to stage a coup d'etat on Formosa, Bowles said he hoped that it "would never occur." But he said that if it did, the United States should "not allow" Formosa to link up with the mainland communist powers.
Bowles concluded that the matter of recognition of Red China is "completely unnegotiable . . . at the time being."
Sparkman summarized by asking if Bowles was saying that this country should not give "formal recognition" to Red China or recommend its admission to the United Nations. "That is my view," Bowles replied.
Bowles again emphasized the importance of India and Pakistan becoming strong and resolving their differences, with American help.
during fiscal years 1962-63 for building purposes.
THE GOVERNOR deferred the requests for the KU Medical Center saying, "I believe there should be further study of the factors related to expansion of the physical plant, such as the plans for increasing the number of doctors, nurses and technicians to be trained at the medical center, the cost of operating the expanded facilities, and the amount of non-teaching medical service that should be provided at the center."
Chancellor Wescoe indicated that the governor's position was reasonable but added that the building program at the medical center is at a critical stage.
"I THINK there are certain critical items in the building program that should be taken care of immediately," he said.
"It might be pointed out that construction there has been at the least possible cost to the state of any medical center in the nation."
Ike, JFK Confer On U.S. Security
Today's White House meeting lasted a little more than two hours.
This was the second meeting between the outgoing and incoming president.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) - President-Elect John F. Kennedy was brought up to date by President Eisenhower today "on a number of matters affecting" U. S. security in various areas of the wgrld.
THE TWO MEN, who were joined by six key cabinet aides, had what was described as "a full discussion of the current world situation."
"World areas under discussion included the Far East, Africa, Western Europe and the Caribbean," according to a joint statement issued by the White House after the meeting.
Eisenhower and Kennedy first met alone in the President's office and then in the cabinet room with their top advisers.
THEO WHO JOINED Eisenhower and Kennedy were Secretary of State Christian A. Hertter, Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates, Secretary of State-Designate Dean Rusk, Treasury Secretary-Designate C. Douglas Dillon and Defense Secretary-Designate Robert McNamara.
the three-paragraph statement issued by Eisenhower's Press Secretary James C. Hagerty and Kennedy's Press Secretary Pierre Salinger did not go into any details except to mention generally the world areas which were discussed.
Nixon Still Unsure Of Political Future
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Outgoing Vice President Richard M. Nixon said today he has "no plans at the present time" to run for office in 1962 or 1964, but he would not rule himself out of the political picture.
Nixon told reporters he "will not make any decision or consider a decision on that at the present time."
Heading for a month's vacation and then a law practice in California, Nixon said the "verdict of history" will not sustain a Democratic charge that the Republicans left a "terrible mess in Washington."