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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 9, 1956
Panhel Guides Sorority Coeds
Besides its general purpose of coordinating the activities of KU's 13 social sororities, the Panhellenic Council lists several specific duties. These include the sponsoring and awarding of a scholarship, co-sponsoring a housemothers' tea, Greek Week, planning and holding a Panhellenic workshop, helping plan and supervise the entire women's rush system.
Awards Scholarship
A scholarship is awarded each semester to a woman student chosen by a council committee, based on her scholastic ability and financial needs.
The Panhellenic Council, together with the Inter-fraternity Council, sponsors a tea for the new house-mothers at the University. Held in the fall, the tea enables the students to meet all of the new housemothers at the same time.
Greek Week, held annually in the spring, is a joint project of the Panhellenic Council and the IFC. One feature of the week is the scholarship banquet. At this banquet trophies are awarded to the sorority with the highest house grade average, to the sorority that has improved its grades the most in the past year, and to the pledge with the most outstanding work.
Joint Greek Week
Also during Greek Week the council and the IFC join in a work project designed to aid people off the campus. In the past clearing a park area in Lawrence and collecting funds for the multiple sclerosis fund have been examples of this activity.
The council, whose members include the president and an elected representative from each house, a non-voting representative from the Junior Panhellenic Council, and a representative from the Associated Women Students' Senate, sponsors a Panhellenic workshop which this year will be held Thursday. Various house officials bring their problems to the workshop and different policies and programs are discussed in an attempt to solve them.
The biggest job the Panhellenic Council has is to supervise the entire women's rush system. The program is in operation for the entire year.
The system begins in the fall with a sorority open house for all freshmen women. A similar open house is held in the spring, enabling freshmen and the sorority women to become better acquainted. In the spring, the council also sends a manual of information about the Greek houses to the freshmen women.
Conferences? Extension's Dish
Would you like to call all the hog callers in the state together for a general meeting and "call" session? University Extension has a division to help you set up your conference.
That's the function of the Lawrence Center of University Extension. Each year the Lawrence Center sets up and coordinates around 125 institutes and conferences which cover a wide variety of subjects.
A typical month's schedule of conferences may include such a wide variety as a week-long fire school and a 1-day high school mathematics and science conference. If you want to hold a specialized conference, University Extension, directed by T. Howard Walker, can set it up for you.
Williams College Has New Honors Plan
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—(IP)—The English department at Williams College has a new honors program, inaugurated this fall. Rather than having the honors candidate spend two years writing a thesis, he is required to attend two seminars in his junior year and to devote his entire senior year preparing a thesis on a specific topic.
Under the new system, candidates for English honors have two choices. They may follow the previous program, or may participate in two more honors seminars in their senior year rather than writing a thesis.
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