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Summer Session Kansan Friday, July 12, 1957
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MUSIC CAMP SINGERS—Three girls in the Midwestern Music and Art Camp chorus raise their voices while practicing a number for Sunday's concert. The chorus performs twice each Sunday, in the afternoon with the orchestra and in the evening with the band.
KU Previews Give A Two Day Orientation To New Students
By JANET JUNEAU
The fifth in a series of six KU Previews for freshmen for Fall 1957 will be held Monday and Tuesday. The last dates for the previews this summer are July 29 and 30.
Placement Examinations Given
Preliminary orientation periods, with a full program of activities are under the direction of Carl G. Fahrbach, Jr., assistant director of admissions.
Placement examinations consisting of aptitude and achievement tests, normally offered to new students at the beginning of school in September, are being given to the registered groups this summer. These tests are not used for determining entrance into the university but lead to better counseling of students in their choice of careers and courses of study.
The review is not compulsory but it offers the students a chance to undergo orientation without the usual rush of fall semester.
Physical examinations which are required of all new students are also on the schedule for previewers.
Overnight housing for a maximum of 200 at each session is arranged and meals are served in the Student Union cafeteria. A banquet at which faculty members are present is held the evening of the first day at the Student Union.
Shows To Feature Court Decisions
"Your Rights Are on Trial," a series of thirteen half hour programs featuring authentic Supreme Court opinions, will be heard on KANU each Monday at 9 p.m. on the University of the Air beginning August 12.
A production of the NAEB Tape Network, the programs will present authentic dramatizations and authoritative discussions of the court opinions.
The series is based upon the idea that "your rights are not just what the Constitution says, but the ways in which the high courts interpret your constitutional guarantees."
The first program in this series, "The Due Process of Law," is based upon the case of Rochin versus California in which Los Angeles County sheriffs had a stomach pump used on a suspect to extract evidence proving the possession of narcotics.
The summary on this first program will be presented in a recording by William O. Douglas, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.
The conference with advisers and deans of the various schools and the orientation talks by the deans are perhaps the most important part of the previews.
Getting acquainted with the campus and future classmates, making arrangements for housing, and learning something about Lawrence, while not on the agenda of activities, combine with the placement tests and physical exams to complete the two days at KU.
The basic idea of the program is to offer first-hand information about KU and to make the student's transition to university life easier.
Dr. John Stephenson McNown, 41-year-old alumnus of KU, is the new dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture. Dean McNown, an internationally known authority on fluid mechanics and hydraulics, has held full professorships both at the State University of Iowa and the University of Michigan. He is a consultant to the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads and several corporations. The American Society of Civil Engineers has awarded him its J. C. Stevens Research Program prize. His father, W. C. McNown, was for 37 years professor of civil engineering at KU, retiring in 1950. Dean McNown took over from retiring Dean T. DeWitt Carr a school that enrolled 2,163 students last fall in 12 degree-granting departments.
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