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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, January 10, 1969
Curriculum aids kept in Bailey lab
Although it houses a collection of more than 11,500 books, the curriculum laboratory, 213 Bailey Hall, is not officially connected with the Watson Library system.
P. Rogers, director of the curriculum center said it is classified as laboratory rather than a library because its primary function is to support research.
"It's a place to work on curriculum," Rogers said. He added that the center has materials for elementary and secondary levels and will expand to higher education curricula in the future.
Teachers in the public schools and students in education use the laboratory the most, Rogers said, but it is open to anyone.
Textbooks from all publishers are available in the laboratory. Rogers said personnel from surrounding school districts use this supply of texts frequently. The center's text collection is not limited to those books used in Kansas schools.
The center also has a professional materials section for use by education students. Rogers said these materials relate to methods and subject matter taught in KU classes.
Rogers said the laboratory
recently obtained a microfilm reader-printer. "We have microfilm records of about 70 periodicals available to students." Rogers said.
The curriculum lab also has a stock of audio-visual equipment which can be checked out for use in the classroom. Records and filstrips are among the aids most commonly used by professionals and student teachers, Rogers said.
Maps and charts used as teachers' guides accompany the audio-visual materials. Rogers said the laboratory's file of teaching tools is "used in teaching future teachers."
He further explained that such charts might be used to teach education students how to teach a 5th grade social studies class. A traveling book exhibit which places new texts in the curriculum laboratory on a temporary basis provides still another service to teachers.
"It gives teachers a chance to review all the new books published in their particular fields." Rogers said.
The center also gives students a chance to see some of the innovations in visual aids through exhibits of materials furnished by various manufacturing companies.
Monstrous photographs give coed a big 'headache'
It's not a nightmare, nor any kind of dream, nor is it a tissue advertisement—it's an eight foot by four foot photography project of a KU coed.
The photo is one taken and blown up to monstrous proportions by Pat Spurgeon, Des Moines, Iowa, senior, in a painting class assignment and something she "just wanted to do."
The photos of children presented problems to Miss Spurgeon and to Gary Mason, journalism instructor, who helped with the development of the enlargements.
Miss Spurgeon hopes to make her "liquid motion on canvas" go farther than the photos. She plans to make a related series of enlarged photos with some of them having color either by tone or paint."
Miss Spurgeon said one of her instructors wanted her to "cheapen the image, that is to make it not so perfect, not so innocent, not so precious."
The instructor suggested making a large red X on it, but Miss Spurgeon said, "that would ruin the essence of the whole thing." She added, however, she plans to be "more creative and more abstract" in some others in her series.
The physical size of the pictures presented some problems, she said. Mason provided his personal developing trays which measure 24 feet by 36 feet. "Five gallons each of developing solution, short stop and hypo were used to develop the pictures," Mason said.
The enlarger projected the picture from one end of the darkroom in Flint Hall to the other, to get the picture large enough. Mason said, "It was projected nearly fifteen feet, with two persons helping focus the shot."
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The enormous paper needed for the print was cut from a roll of photographic paper which measured 40 feet by 36 feet.
After the prints were made, they were allowed to dry over night on the living room floor of Miss Spurgeon's apartment.
The photo editor of the Jayhawker, and Mason, Jerry Hoffman, sophomore; Mike Gunther, senior; and William Seymour, journalism instructor, all helped mount the two prints. The prints were mounted on boards "which needed to be sanded so the dry mounting tissue would stick." Before the prints could even be mounted, "they were ironed, with a hand iron," Mason said.
The developing process consumed "an hour to an hour and a half," Mason said, "and this was after the time consuming process of focusing the print. The prints were washed for two to three hours after that. The mounting process took at least another hour."
Miss Emily Taylor, dean of women, was appointed legislative chairman of the Commission on the Status of Women for Kansas by Gov. Robert Docking Tuesday.
State committee will be chaired by Dean Taylor
A lot of time, but cheap for the money, Miss Spurgeon said. She borrowed what equipment she could and only spent $10 for both pictures. Mason said, "Commercially the prints would have cost between $20 and $30 each."
As legislative chairman, Miss Taylor will "exert pressure on the appropriate agencies to act on discriminatory practices against women," said Mrs. James Ricks, assistant dean of women.
Mrs. Ricks said Miss Taylor is familiar with studies on the status of women because of her work with the KU Associated Women Students (AWS) commission on the subject.
Mrs. Ricks cited a survey completed last fall by the AWS commission on discrimination against Kansas women in employment.
Student interest and a faculty response recently helped create a course on the New Left.
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, said several students approached him and requested the course which will open spring semester.
Ketzel said he met with Aldon Bell, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, John Wright, associate professor in the department of human development and family life, Wayne Penn, assistant professor of political science and Bob Howard, of the associated student council.
Political Science 98 (LAS 98) for juniors and seniors and political science 48 (LAS 48) for
"We met and discussed means by which a series of seminars could be organized," Ketzel said. Later we called a general meeting of the four professors and 16 interested students to set up two courses."
New left course offered
All University students are eligible to try out.
"Twilight Crane" and "The Red Tunic" are two of a series of folk dramas written in the New Theatre genre. "Twilight Crane" is very popular in Japan. It was made into an opera and toured the United States. It is the fantasy of a crane that becomes a wife to show her gratitude to the man who saved her life.
"The Red Tunic," never before staged in this country, deals humorously with a situation of a lustful local governor foiled by a clever and faithful wife.
The same cast of four men and four women will perform both plays to be presented March 24-28 and April 8-12.
KU theatre tryouts to be Feb. 3
Showing the frustration and bitterness of an Army squad in Vietnam, "The Day the Fish Got Away" takes place prior to the big troop build-up in 1965.
"John-John" is a realistic comedy that takes place in the restroom of a movie theater.
"Young Goodman Brown" is a theatricalist epic of witchcraft in the late 17th century. These three original one-act plays will be presented in the Experimental Theatre April
29-May 1 and May 4-10.
The University Theatre will hold tryouts for three spring semester productions at 7 p.m. February 3. Interested students are to report to the theatre lobby.
Moliere's classic farce, "The Imaginary Invalid," will be directed by Thomas R. Long.
The three productions are "The Imaginary Invalid" by Moliere; two Japanese folk dramas, "Tvilight Crane" and "The Red Tunic" by Junji Kinoshita. Three original one-act plays will be presented by KU students: "John-John" by Doug Wasson, Chambersburg, Pa., senior, "The Day the Fish Got Away" by Lannie Fellers, former KU student, and "Young Goodman Brown" by Stephen Biddle, Topeka graduate student.
freshmen and sophomores, Ketzel said, will define and evaluate the New Left movement in the United States.
The play will be costumed and styled in the period of Louis XIV. It will be presented in the University Theatre March 13-15 and 21-22.
"Juniors and seniors will exchange views on lower division teaching methods at separate meetings where they can develop a common core for the program." Ketzel said.
Political science 48 will be open next semester, Ketzel said, however, political science 98 is already filled with juniors and seniors. He said upperclassmen will act as discussion leaders for seven freshmen and sophomore sections, each of which will include 12 students. Discussion groups will meet once a week for two hours in the evening. Students will receive two hours credit for the course.
He explained the course was designed to present criticism of modern American society and foreign policy from the New Left perspective.
"We will examine alternatives of existing middle class cultures," Ketzel said. "It's hoped by the end of the semester that students can define the New Left movement in the United States."
"The course is part of an attempt by interested faculty and students," he said, "to set up a student-initiated course not regularly offered in an existing department."
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