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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 4, 1968
Nursing students miss Lawrence
By LINDA LOYD Kansan Staff Writer
First year nursing students from KU at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., are overwhelmed by differences between the two campuses.
"I miss the smell of fall, fresh air, green grass, trees and wide-open spaces," Janet Byer, Hamlin junior, bemoaned. Her roommate, Nancy Simmons, Lawrence junior, chimed in, "Yea-all we get are jets, ambulances and smog!"
Talking with several of the first year nursing students this week, the students agreed they don't feel a part of the Lawrence campus. They miss long walks and organized social activities. As someone remarked, "We're in the middle of a city; it's not like a college campus. There are sick people here—it's like living in a hospital!"
Because their classes, dormitory and student cafeteria are in the same building, it's possible to go for weeks without going outside, the girls explained. "That's why we just have to clear out of here on Friday afternoon."
"This place is deserted on weekends," Mary Meyer, Independence junior, said. "There's nothing to do here—everyone goes to Lawrence."
Sharon Hildebrande, Lorraine junior, described the social life as much different from that at KU. "The medical students are either married or unfriendly. They're so busy and there is no place to meet them."
Although they find classes different from those at KU, and in most cases, much more difficult, the students are enthusiastic
about studying subjects which apply to nursing.
"The KU nursing program stresses independent study," Nancy Gjendahl, Lansing junior, explained. "We have no required texts, but go to the library for readings from current journal articles."
"No one was too gung-ho the first two weeks," Miss Byer said. "We were all scared to death because the program is so unstructured. At KU we griped about textbooks—now we wish they had them."
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Mike Sterrett, former student council vice president at Emporia State Teachers College and president of this year's junior nursing class, and Bill Peck, 21-year-old psychology graduate of Kansas State University, are two of three male nurses in KU's junior nursing class.
"I guess you could call it male backlash." Peck said with a grin.
Nursing is an open field to men, the students agreed. But society has more or less closed it. "People just naturally think of a lady in a dress and cap when they think of a nurse."
"I don't feel I'm the one with a problem," Peck said. "Mike and I are more flexible and able to adjust to this whole thing. I'm not trying to perform or exhibit myself."
In a burgundy sweater and blue jeans, Sterrett explained that although it sounds kind of corny, it requires a sense of dedication to mankind to become a nurse. "Sometimes it is embarrassing-like at a party, people think you're atypical."
Sterrett, 22, became interested in nursing because his older brother, a graduate of KU, is a male nurse in the Army. After graduation, Sterrett would like to go into anesthesiology.
Kuo-Tseng Sheng to be played here
Kuo-Tseng and Sheng, two traditional Chinese music instruments rarely seen in the United States, will be played by Sherman Chich, graduate student in civil engineering during the annual Chinese Banquet at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Wesley Foundation.
Chich, who came to the United States about a month ago, was an instructor in classical Chinese music for two years each in both National Taiwan University and College of Culture.
Kuo-Tseng, a 16-stringed musical instrument, was initiated in the Chin Dynasty, about 200 B.C. Originally the strings were made from silk. Later they were made of copper and finally of the present steel, Chich said.
Sheng, the Chinese mouth organ, has existed even longer than Kuo-Tseng, Chich explained. Sheng, in the beginning, was composed of three pipes of bamboo. It evolved to the present-day 17 pipes.
About 50 people in Taiwan play Sheng, but no more than 20 play it well, he said.
it is a new trend that more and more university students in Taiwan are taking an interest in classical Chinese music, he said.
Chich, a conductor as well as a performer in Chinese music, plays more than seven Chinese musical instruments. He said he also plans to organize a Chinese music club for the KU Chinese Student Association.
Field day scheduled
The 17th annual Science, Mathematics and Engineering Day will host about 2,500 Kansas and Missouri high school students and teachers Oct. 12, Karl C. Kappelman, University Extension coordinator for the event. announced.
Kappelman said the visitors will hear talks on "Radar Photography" and "Drugs and the Mind." Counseling sessions will be scheduled to enable students to discuss career training, job opportunities and current research problems in their fields of interest.
Open houses in the afternoon will feature departmental exhibits, films, demonstrations and guided tours of the Museum of Natural History and the Computation Center in Summerfield Hall.
The Schools of Education Pharmacy and Engineering are hosting the day's events.
Departments participating are botany, chemistry, comparative biochemistry and physiology entomology, geology, mathematics microbiology, physics psychology, radiation biophysics and zoology.
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