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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Feb. 14, 1957
Increasing Enrollment Causes Major Problem
The nation's colleges are facing a problem. With the increasing number of students crowding the already bulging physical plants, many colleges are being forced to select students from the list of applicants.
In the past the nation's colleges had to compete strongly with each other for students. Now, with more and more students to choose from, the larger campuses are becoming more and more selective.
In Kansas, over 30 per cent of the men and women of college age were actually in college in 1955-56, and it is predicted that the number will grow to 40 per cent by 1970.
Many of the large Eastern schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth are getting over twice as many applicants as they can accept.
Double By 1970
The problem is also a real one for schools in Kansas. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy expects a University enrollment of approximately 18,000 by 1970; over double the present enrollment.
+ "We will continue to expand with the enrollment if the legislature sees fit to give us the money," Dr. Murphy said.
One of the methods of holding down enrollment is to give entrance exams. However, selecting exams that will give an accurate analysis of a student's capabilities is a real problem that has not been completely solved.
"I don't like entrance exams be cause they fail to measure the human element," Dr. Murphy said. "I don't believe we will need entrance exams because of a natural selection we have at KU. Almost all the students here graduated in the upper 50 per cent of their high school classes."
A Small Age Group
One sobering aspect of the problem has yet to be mentioned. And that is the fact that this problem has arisen with the smallest college age group in 25 years.
What is to happen when the booming baby market of the war years descends upon this and other campuses?
Col. S. W. Eldridge, first owner on the Eldridge Hotel in Lawrence, Kan., was a delegate to the first national Republican Convention in June, 1856, in Philadelphia.
Dr. Murphy was very emphatic in saying, "We will not sacrifice the quality of our education at KU for the sake of building enrollment. We will not admit more than we can handle adequately."
4 Bridge Tourney Winners Told
The four winners of the annual duplicate bridge tournament held Wednesday in the Student Union are Gilbert Cuthbertson and Arthur Vogel, Leavenworth, Bryan McCullough, Great Bend, all sophomores, and C. E. Cornell, Mission senior.
Second place winners are James Callis, Wichita graduate student; Pingle Reddy, Hyderabad, DN, India senior; Walter Fuller, Kansas City junior, and James Redding, Kansas City, Mo., freshman.
Wednesday's match ended the campus bridge competition. KU students will compete with students from more than 100 universities and colleges in the 1957 National Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Card Room of the Student Union.
Contestants will play the sixteen hands mailed to them. Lawrence Bodle, Plattsburg, Mo. senior will direct the KU tournament.
Geoffrey Mott-Smith, contract bridge authority, will score the hands to determine campus, regional and national winners.
The contest is open to any undergraduate student.
Students need not sign up in the Student Union before the tournament.
To Take Part In Citizenship Seminar
Clayton M. Crosier, associate professor of civil engineering and chairman of the Kansas Commission for UNESCO, will be a resource leader at the Christian Citizenship Seminar for the Methodist Youth Fellowship to be held in Topeka today through Saturday.
Mr. Crosier will take part in a discussion on international relations today.
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Spontaneous ideas, ambition and enthusiasm are the only requirements for a new dramatics class being taught this semester.
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Kids Have Real Fun In This Course
The course. Creative Dramatics, is
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According to Miss Six, "Creative Dramatics
taught by Miss Sally Six, instructor in Speech and drama. The class works with and observes fourth grade pupils from the Lawrence public schools.
is informal drama, planned by the players themselves, under the careful guidance of the teacher, and played spontaneously with improvised dialogue which is never the same twice.
"Playing Out Of Ideas"
"It is the playing out of Ideas, experiences and stories with improvised action and dialogue. Such stories may be original or from history or literature."
Creative Dramatics is unlike regular theater in the sense that it is
Slides from the Jayhawk Jamboree's USO tour in Europe last summer will be shown to members of the KU chapter of Music Educators National Conference at their meeting 3 p.m. Sunday in the lounge of Bailey Hall.
Don Farrar, Kansas City, Mo., junior, and Sheila Nation, Chanute junior, will show the slides and tell of some of the groups' musical experiences in Europe.
Hall Elected Science Officer
not memorized, directed or rehearsed drama designed for the entertainment of an audience. Instead, it develops from the ideas of the children. Its value is only for those who participate.
Miss Six said the course contributes to the personal development of children who participate, giving them:
So far, students are using the course to help them in education, theater, speech correction and therapy for the physically and mentally handicapped. Others are taking it "just for pure fun," Miss Six said.
A channel for their creative imaginations
Conference To See USO Tour Slides
Experience in working together in situations which strongly motivates cooperation.
Emotional release through playing all kinds of characters.
Sensitivity to the thoughts and feelings of others, which is the basis of understanding.
Experience in thinking on their feet and expressing their ideas fearlessly and effectively.
Live Literature History
The aim of this course is to introduce the activity to the college student, explain its fundamentals and show how it can be used and integrated into many fields, she explained.
Live Literature, History The course brings alive to children dramatic episodes in literature and history. Miss Six said. It may also teach them to see both sides of a current problem.
E. Raymond Hall, professor of zoology and director of the Museum of Natural History, has been elected vice president and chairman of the zoological science section of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Hall was nominated by the section and elected by the A.A.A.S. Council. He will serve a 1-year term.
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