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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 10, 1956.
Professors Use Spare Time To Teach Athletes To Study
Coaches in many fields of athletics have learned—many times the hard way—that an athlete is no good to his team unless he can stay eligible scholastically.
To help KU athletes avoid the scholastic difficulties which have plagued many Jayhawker squads in the past, a unique athletic academic counseling program was started almost two years ago, and the results are now becoming apparent.
Dr. Calvin VanderWerf, professor of chemistry and chairman of the counseling program, says the program operates on the theory that the athlete wants to learn, but that he often falls down in classroom work because of a lack of time and knowledge of study methods.
Professors in various departments volunteer for the counseling work. Each athlete is assigned to a certain professor, who works with him throughout the semester.
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Band, Orchestra Tryouts Begin
"Too much can't be said for the teachers who are helping in this program." Dr. VanderWerf said. "It takes a patient and understanding type of individual to do this sort of work, but I feel that a man capable of such advice is perhaps a much better teacher for it."
Tryouts for the University band and orchestra will be held from 9 am. to 5 pm. today through Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium, Russell L. Wiley, director of the band and orchestra, has announced. Prof. Wiley, Edward A. Masters, assistant professor of band and orchestra, and Donald Scheid, instructor in band and orchestra, will audition. Tryouts for the orchestra will continue until Sept. 18.
Former members are encouraged to check in as soon as possible and to bring their instruments for renewal of insurance, Prof. Wiley said.
The first band rehearsal will be at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday. Regular rehearsals will be held from 4-5:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Orchestra rehearsals are scheduled from 4-5:30 p.m. Thursday.
Uniforms may be picked up this week, and Prof. Wiley asks that the women come early as alterations may be necessary.
Fruit juice is not a substitute for milk in a child's diet — milk is needed along with fruit to provide the necessary food elements.
"We feel that some individuals are capable of excelling in athletics and others are capable of excelling in the classrooms," Dr. VanderWerf explained.
"However, when you get young men who are able to discipline themselves in both fields—mentally and physically—then, I would say, you have an ideal combination. Such young men almost invariably go on to become useful, first-class citizens.
Pride In Classwork
"We are extremely encouraged by the healthy attitude that has resulted from our counseling program," Dr. VanderWerf continued. "A lot more boys have been taking as much pride in their classwork as they have in athletic achievement. For that reason, we look for the current list of boys in the 'top' bracket to continue to grow from semester to semester."
The chief objective of the counseling program is to help the athlete learn to study, and to be able to understand what he is studying. Once the boy is over that hurdle, it becomes much easier for him to excel in the classroom.
The professors who work in the counseling program cannot help the athlete in class or during tests, but they can show him how to prepare for the test. And in a good many cases, that's all that is necessary.
Nine Attend Baptist Student Conference
Eight University students attended a Baptist student movement conference at Green Lake, Wis. last week. The Rev. Ernst Klein, Baptist University pastor, accompanied the group and led a seminar on "The University Situation Today."
The eight students are Betty Lowell, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Calvin Comack, Abilene sophomore; Fred Brandon, Chanute senior; Dorothy Nitcher, Princeton sophomore; Don Inde, senior, and Jon Dee Inde, sophomore, both from Hope; Earl Eblen, Lenexa junior, and Guido Barrientos, Guatemala graduate student.
Of the U.S. Army's 688,000 civilian employees, one-fourth are in supply and maintenance depots. Training camps, research centers, manufacturing plants and construction follow as major employers of these civilians within the Army.
Choir Auditions Now Underway
Auditions for membership in the A Cappella Choir will be held at 4 p.m. today, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Students should call the Fine Arts office, 128 Strong Hall, for audition appointments, said Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education.
Enrollment in the A Cappella Choir, the University's first choral organization, is limited to 80. The choir performs in all vesper programs, and presents two concerts each year.
Students may sign up for the University Chorus during enrollment. The chorus meets at 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and offers one hour credit. The chorus performs once each semester, usually in a large oratorio type production. Mr. Krehbiel said the fall performance will probably be "Requiem" by Mozart, and the spring production will probably be the "Requiem" by Berlioz.
Honesty Wins Again
The Arctic panorama, under construction since 1950, will include the walrus, seal, polar bear and caribou in their natural settings.
Senior Elected Lutheran Executive
The wet weather, by preventing brittleness of the plants, speeded the collecting of the mosses and lichens. A deterrent was the mosquitoes which Mr. Bee called "large and very aggressive." Another difficulty was the northern storm which so drastically lowered temperatures here in Kansas.
Mary Swedlund, Salina senior, was elected to the executive committee of the Lutheran Student Association in August at the group's conference-retreat in Gettysburg, Penn.
Miss Swedishlund is vice president of the KU Lutheran Student Association and president of the Midwest region of the organization, which is comprised of Kansas and Nebraska.
Wichita is the nation's third largest aircraft center in employment. It ranks first in the production of personal aircraft.
dividing line between the temperate zone and the Arctic tundra, is perhaps the most northerly launching site for studying air layers.
Three members of an Arctic expedition for the University Museum of Natural History have returned from Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.
George P. Young, senior taxidermist, and James W. Bee, taxidermist, both from the Museum of Natural History, and Alfred J. Robinson, Topeka, a volunteer assistant, spent nine days collecting mosses, lichens, and small mammals in an area 14 miles southeast of the fort.
Arctic Panorama To Expand From KU Trip To Canada
CALUEMET CITY, Ill.—(UP)—Honesty paid triple dividends to nine-year-old Kathy Paterek. She received a $10 reward for returning a lost wallet that contained $3 to Delos Russell of Grand Rapids, Mich.
The mosses and lichens will become a part of the Arctic section of the huge panorama of North American mammals in Dyche Hall. The mammals Mr. Bee collected, which include the shrew, long-tailed jumping mouse, bog lemming and red-backed mouse, will be used for research and teaching purposes.
One of the highlights of the trip, according to Young and Bee, was a visit to the site for launching rockets into the ionosphere, a project of the U.S. Armed Forces at Fort Churchill. This site, at the western edge of Hudson Bay on the
Only about 50 of some 2,500 species of North American wasps are likely to sting.
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