Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1959 University Daily Kansan
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Correspondence Bureau Offers Personal Touch
A student who never meets his teacher face to face can have a closer personal relationship than the student who sees his teacher each day.
This has been the finding of the KU Bureau of Correspondence Study.
Donald R. McCoy, director of the Bureau, said a real advantage in taking school work by correspondence is the close tie that often develops between student and instructor. This relationship might be lost if the course were taken under normal classroom conditions.
The Bureau, whose contact with its students is by way of the U. S. mails, is a busy place all year round. Just take a look at the mailbags piled outside the office of the Bureau at 109 Fraser Hall each morning if there is any doubt.
The Bureau usually has about 5,000 students on its rolls, half of whom are off the campus.
"Correspondence study serves
Debaters Going To Northwestern
Nearly 250 debaters will enter the eight preliminary and four final rounds during the three-day Owen L. Coon tournament.
University debaters will compete with 65 college and university debate squads Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the nation's largest debate tournament at Northwestern University.
At the tournament a "Speaker of the Year" plaque will be presented Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn), a former college debater. Sen. Humphrey will speak at a dinner for debaters and coaches Friday.
In debate action last week the squad added a second place and a loss to its record.
At William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., Saturday, the team had a 50 per cent win-loss record.
Thursday at Midland College in Fremont, Neb., the team took second place.
KU debaters who faced William Jewell were Robert Walker, Frankfort junior, and Robert Nebrig, Leavenworth junior, in the senior division; and Charles Nicol, Blue Springs, Mo., freshman, and Ward White, Russell freshman, in junior competition.
Interviews Set For Engineers
Job interviews will be held this week in Room 111 of Marvin Hall for students in the School of Engineering and Architecture. Companies interviewing are:
Today — Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc., Dallas, Tex.; Convair, Fort Worth, Tex.; Esso Standard Oil Co., Baton Rouge, La.; Locomotive Finished Materials, Atchison.
Wednesday — Mallinkrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis, Mo.; OlinMathieson Chemical Corp., all locations; Trane Company, all locations; Sperry Glyroscope Co., Great Neck, N.Y. & Salt Lake City, Utah; Whirlpool Corp., St. Joseph, Mich.
Friday — Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp., Toledo, Ohio; National Security Agency, Md.; Bendix Aviation Corp., Kansas City, Mo.
Thursday — Linde Air Products, New York, N. Y.; National Security Agency, Md.; Standard Oil Co. of Indiana and subsidiaries.
those who are unable to attend school on a resident basis," said Mr. McCoy. "We are also able to help students on the campus who need certain courses but have schedule conflicts."
Other students are American citizens in foreign countries.
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Foreign citizens also enroll in the wide range of courses the Bureau offers. At present, residents of India, Austria, Venezuela and Canada are on the Bureau's rolls. Members of the American armed forces and civilian government workers are particularly good customers of correspondence study.
A correspondence study course must be completed within two years. Students may turn in no more than eight assignments a week, and some students like to stretch a course out over a wider period.
Elementary courses based on reading and writing are suited to correspondence study. Mr. McCoy said English Composition is the most popular course offered. This course and others which have unusually high enrollments pay for themselves and also for less popular subjects that are carried on a service basis.
The maximum credit that can be earned by correspondence is 30 hours. No more than ten hours of this may be junior-senior credit. Only two courses may be taken at once. If credit toward a degree is required, prior approval by the student's dean is needed.
Mr. McCoy pointed out that correspondence course grades count for honors, scholarships and extracurricular recognition, but that in some schools of the University, all grades above C only count one grade point per hour.
courses are $8 per semester hour for Kansas residents, $9 for nonresidents. Incidental fees of oncampus students may cover charges for a course, but this requires approval by the dean of the school and by the Bureau.
The charges for correspondence
French Club Topic To Be Comic Play
The French Club will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday in 11 Fraser. Members will discuss the French farce, "An Italian Straw Hat," which opens at 8 tonight in the University Theatre.
Miss Mattie Crumrine, associate professor of Romance languages, said members would also discuss Lubiche, author of the play. French II honors students will read scenes from the play in French.
Murphy Nominated For Advisory Post
The Commission cooperates with other nations on transferring information regarding various problems. Chancellor Murphy's nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.
Scholarship Halls Elect
President Eisenhower yesterday nominated Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy for another 3-year term as a member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange.
Roger Minneman, Sabetha sophmore, has been elected spring semester president of the Men's Scholarship Hall Council.
Other new officers are Jerry Albright, Haven sophomore, secretary treasurer, and Dick Umstatd, Kansas City, Mo., junior, social coordinator.
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