THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No.47 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, November 20,1968
UDK News Roundup See page 10
ASC ticket probe See page 2
Frosh class votes See page 3
KU undergrads teaching classmates
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Prof says grads should not teach low-level classes
By JOE NAAS Kansan Staff Writer
A visiting professor from the University of Chicago yesterday advocated banning graduate students and assistant professors from teaching lower-level courses.
George H. Sorter said the KU students he has known are timid and non-involved in class. "They're very hard to draw out in class discussion and they're much too reverent," he said.
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Sorter said the students were probably intimidated during their freshman years. "Being taught a beginning course by a beginning professor who might not even want to teach can have a deadening effect on the student," he said.
Sorter, professor of accounting and business at Chicago, is teaching accounting here this year as a visiting professor.
He explained the beginning courses are probably the most important, since they shape the students' attitudes toward college.
Sunny days at last
"If they don't get turned on early, they don't get turned on at all." Sorter said.
At the University of Chicago, Sorter said, the beginning courses are taught by senior professors. He said, "This could be the reason the Chicago student is intensely involved and intensely questioning."
As an illustration of their activism, Sorter pointed to the Chicago business students' involvement in Operation Breadbasket. In this pro
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After clouds and rain for days on end, a KU coed braved chill temperatures to bask in the sun today-the second consecutive day for sunny skies here.
Oriental connections not new to Wescoe
In 1959, W. Clarke Wescoe stepped off a plane in Manila to teach at the University of the Philippines as a visiting professor and fellow on the China Medical Board of New York.
Love for the orient and a desire to resume work in medical education will bring Wescoe back to the orient in 1969, as the new president of the China Medical Board.
Chancellor Wescoe, whose appointment was announced yesterday, said he decided to accept the position about a week ago.
Contacted in Garden City, Wescoe said:
"It's in my field of medicine and education and I feel an international responsibility. It will give me an opportunity to return to my fields of interest." he said.
At his new post, Wescoe will travel once a year to the orient, visiting medical schools. "I will see what their requirements are and check on problems and progress," he said.
Wescoe said he went to New York to attend a China Medical Board meeting, although speculators talked of a cabinet post appointment and possible conference with President-elect Richard Nixon.
Not only is Chancellor Wescoe looking forward to returning to the orient. Mrs. Wescoe said she is "very anxious to get back," also.
During past trips to the Far East, the Wescoes have compiled a large collection of oriental furnishings and Mrs. Wescoe said she is looking forward to enlarging her collection.
When asked if she was excited about the move to New York, Mrs. Wescoe said, "We're certainly looking forward to it—it's going to be an interesting life."
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By SUSAN BRIMACOMBE
Kansan Staff Writer
More than one University of Kansas department is relying, not only on graduate students, but upon undergraduates to carry part of the teaching load.
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About 30 undergraduates are teaching courses in Western Civilization, zoology, economics, chemistry, English, speech and engineering. The students are teaching laboratories and lectures.
Most of the undergraduates teach one or two class sections weekly—three to six hours. Most departments using undergraduate instructors began the practice last year.
While the majority of the undergraduates are paid for their teaching about $250 a semester biology and zoology undergraduates get course credit in addition to a salary, said Kenneth B. Armitage, chairman of the undergraduate department of biology.
Spokesmen for both groups said undergraduate assistants should work under a senior faculty member.
Yet, in beginning speech courses and in Western Civilization discussions, undergraduates have complete charge of the classes. They also have complete charge of chemistry II labs and both the lecture and laboratory sections of a petroleum engineering course.
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Law dean named
HAYS—The Kansas Board of Regents, meeting here today, approved the appointment of Lawrence E. Blades, an associate professor in the KU School of Law, as the new dean of the School.
Blades, who will assume duties December 1,
succeeds James K. Logan, who resigned in June to
run for the Democratic nomination for U.S.
Senate and to go into private law practice.
Provost James R. Surface indicated that William A. Kelly, associate law school dean, and John Strong, grandson of the late KU Chancellor Frank Strong and associate professor of law at Duke University, "were probably" among those considered for the position.
William R. Scott, professor of law at KU since 1947, has served as acting dean, but indicated he did not desire the dean's position permanently. Rather, he said, he wished to return to a full-time teaching position.
A native of Evanston, Ill., Blades was graduated
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--met, but later backed down. In several meetings this year and again last week, members argued about disrupting a VFW Veterans' Day Banquet in the Kansas Union.
Weather
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts generally fair and warmer weather today through tomorrow. Today's high should be in the upper 40s with tonight's low 25 to 30. Winds should be southwest at 10 to 15 m.p.h. today. Probability of precipitation is less than 5 per cent today and tomorrow.
Voice leaders quit, future uncertain
By STEVE HAYNES Kansan Staff Writer
Leaders of Peoples Voice have quit.
As he opened the meeting at the Wesley Foundation, temporary chairman Rick Atkinson informed the 40 attending persons that the entire Voice coordinating committee had resigned from their positions. The move left the group without leadership or organization.
However, members voted to continue Voice in some form—but in just what form was unclear.
Atkinson, Belleville graduate student, said Voice would have to reorganize itself or disband.
Although he suggested the organization might be disbanded, Atkinson said he did not think this would happen.
The old leaders, he said, felt the present structure was "not accomplishing enough."
"Organization will probably be settled at the next meeting, some time after Thanksgiving," he said.
Atkinson will continue as temporary chairman until then.
While the fate of Voice was not settled during the meeting, a decision was made to organize a staff and publish a newspaper. The paper is planned to be a means of communicating with Voice members and other students, leaders said.
Discussion on the future of Voice centered around the purpose of the organization—whether it should be "radical" or "reformist." This has been a continuing theme of Voice discussions. "Radicals" have argued for "confrontation"—forcing the administration, police or other authority to either back down or use force-while "reformists" (moderates) have argued for an educational approach designed to avoid confrontation.
This division within the group was evident last year when the group threatened a sit-in at Strong Hall unless its demands for more student participation in University government were
In all cases, Voice members have so far backed away from confrontations with the administration or police when the critical point has been reached.
Members suggested turning Voice into a radical group, a reformist educational group, merging with Students for a Democratic Society and forming a dual organization aimed at both goals. No final decision was reached.
Several members said they feel Voice has not been militant
enough. Others said it has not tried to educate students. One member suggested that before Voice can decide between confrontation and education, it must decide what its ultimate goals are. Abolition of the ROTC program at KU was suggested as one possible goal.
The only concrete result of the meeting was the formation of an editorial board for the proposed newspaper. Members of the board include: Lenny Zeskind; Miami, Fla., sophomore; Bill Berkowitz, New York senior; Wayne Sailor, Lawrence graduate student, and Rosanne Piazzza, Omaha freshman.
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