Thursday, September 19,1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Motorists: slow down; campus cops are watching
KU students have obeyed traffic regulations fairly well during this first week of school, E. P. Moomau, campus police chief, said Wednesday. He warned, however, that campus patrolmen are watching for infractions and are keeping an especially close eye on the automobile/pedestrian scene.
Moomau also cautioned students to observe the posted speed limits. "We don't want to make any arrests," he said, "but we will if necessary."
"The pedestrian has the right of way on many parts of the campus," Mooomai said. "We strongly urge drivers to watch for persons crossing the streets." Pedestrians, for their part, should use the marked crossing zones.
The spirit of Peoples Voice seems to be catching. The latest proposal for student participation comes from the Watson Library director, David W. Heron.
Despite the presence of many new students on campus, the number of violations has been
Library director urges more voice
Heron suggested Wednesday the possibility of establishing a student library committee similar to the one proposed for student participation in the University Senate. Peoples Voice has been asking for 50-50 participation in University policy making affairs.
"This committee," says Heron, "would serve as a vehicle for systematically channeling student complaints and suggestions."
Ways of teaching must be changed dropouts charge
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—(UPI)—Take it from 400 dropouts. Today's methods of public education must be revised in order to head off the soaring number of high school quitters.
This was the conclusion reached in a study by the Institute For Research on Human Resources at Penn State University.
"Today's schools are not reaching lower-class students because their traditional practices only aggravate these conditions," says Dr. Jacob J. Kaufman, head of the institute, and Dr. Morgan V. Lewis, research associate, co-authors of the report.
Good teachers must tailor the subject matter to fit the student, aiming to instill the desire to learn and to provide the tools for acquisition of further knowledge.
The study, involving 400 dropouts from two school districts in Pennsylvania, was supported by the U.S. Office of Education (USOE).
"Rigid behavior rules and curriculum standards alienate the students, making them hostile and uncooperative," the report stated.
"It is necessary to develop new standards to replace the old ones such as the expectation that students must reach certain levels of development at specific times, or that students have to spend most of their time listening, reading and writing."
"To make appropriate educational experiences for disadvantaged students, it is necessary to make basic changes in school organization and curriculum, $ ^{8} $ Kaufman and Lewis said.
Teachers and students should share in the planning, the two suggest. Teaching of necessary skills should be done as they are needed at the level of development of the student.
held down. "We have not had to issue as many tickets as might be expected at the beginning of the year." Moomau said. "By and large, the students have followed the parking and traffic rules well."
The chief added, however,
that a number of tickets had
been issued for improper parking
in the dormitory parking zones.
Moomau said there has been no problem with student drivers trying to get onto Jayhawk Boulevard during the school day. "Students seem to understand why we can't allow daytime traffic there and make few efforts to get in." He added that persons with legitimate reasons for entering—such as an emergency case to Watkins Hospital—would be admitted to the restricted area.
More than 11,180 vehicles have been registered by students and staff with the Traffic and Security Office, Moomau said. This does not include late enrollees, who are expected to bring the number of registrations to an all-time high.
The sale of zone parking stickers is beginning to taper off, Moomau said, and the lines of persons in the Hoch Auditorium lobby are becoming less lengthy.
"On Wednesday morning, between 8 a.m. and 8 a.m., we had no customers at all," Moomau noted.
KU-Y meets Wed. to plan programs and committees
KU-Y, which sponsors community service activities for University students, will have a membership meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room to discuss Y programs and available committee positions.
KU-Y sponsors such activities as the Youth Friendship program, which pairs college students with underprivileged children in the Lawrence area; Children's Hour, which recruits volunteers to work with the Lawrence Headstart program; and Special Activities, in which KU students work with mentally retarded children at Cordley School in Lawrence.
Tom Moore, KU-Y staff director, said more than 200 students have been involved in KU-Y at one time.
Moore said it is estimated that 16,000 man hours of volunteer service will be given through this year's service programs.
to finance service programs and pay the salaries of a fulltime and a part-time staff member, KU-Y will sell mums at football games, work at concession stands during the games, plan an International Gift Fair at Christmas time and sponsor Rock Chalk Revue.
Open door is in effect at Wesley Foundation
An open door policy at the Wesley Foundation has attracted no fewer than 12 groups to the Methodist organization's meeting rooms.
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The groups range from the African Club to the Kappa Phi Methodist Girls Society, from the China students club to the Hindu Society.
One of the foundation's more frequent users is Peoples Voice.
Associates said that while Rev. Tom Rehorn Jr., a foundation advisor, played a significant role last spring in Voice activities, he shows no favorites. The foundation allots its meeting rooms on a first-come-first-served basis.
Peoples Voice's frequent meetings there have nonetheless caused problems for the foundation.
Since Voice is not a religious group, some critics contend that it should not meet at the Wesley Foundation, Rev. Rehorn said.
"Many people feel if Voice didn't meet here they wouldn't exist." he continued.
"But I feel I have given them some place on campus to meet which is open for the public to come and debate, whereas if the meetings were off campus or in an apartment, there might not be this chance."
Mrs. Morni Leoni, another
foundation director, says the campus ministry should be where the action is. Peoples Voice is an "action group," she said, so the foundation welcomed them.
"There is no conflict as far as our church is concerned," said Rev. R. Dennis Bowers, associate pastor of the First Methodist Church, one of the foundation sponsors.
"We feel that all kinds of organizations should be able to meet freely and say what they want."
"However," Rev. Bowers continued, "we don't feel the foundation should be used as headquarters for negative activities which are trying to hurt the campus."
The Wesley Foundation feels that any group has the right to be heard. For this reason any group can use their building. The advisors believe this helps the foundation become involved in the total life of the University.
LOCATION SHOOTING
HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) — Jerry Lewis and Peter Lawford hied off to Lisbon, Portugal, for a single week of location shooting for "Hook, Line & Sinker."