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Nine Books Needed For Prison Course
A group of prisoners at the Kansas State Penitentiary filed into a classroom Saturday morning to take part in the first college level course on government ever taught at the institution.
Eleven copies of Readings in American Government I (Revised 1960) to be used in the course have been donated by students. Nine more copies are needed, according to Clifford Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, and may be turned in at 19 Strong B.
The course is voluntarily being taught by Ted Heim, assistant director of penal institutions and KU graduate. Classes will be held at the prison for two hours each Saturday morning for 18 weeks. Inmates who complete the program with a satisfactory record will be given three hours college credit and a certificate from the KU Extension.
A program to teach government and political science has been organized through the KU department of political science, University Extension, the Kansas Board of Regents, and H. O. Alleman, director of education at the penitentiary.
IT IS OPEN to prisoners who have graduated from high school or have passed a general educational development (G.E.D.) examination, and who would qualify to enter a college or university.
THE PROGRAM entered the planning stage in the fall of 1960 at the KU department of political science. It was started as an experiment to determine whether there was a demand for higher education by the prisoners, whether
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there were enough inmates eligible to profit from it and whether prisoners would respond to a chance for self-improvement past the high school level.
Heim said the course will require a great deal of reading and an evaluation of material based on the case-study method and class discussion. But so far there are not enough textbooks so that each member of the class may have one.
"MANY INMATES are working in the prison at salaries of 10 or 15 cents per day and five cents of that is frozen to their account. They can't touch it." Heim said. "The standard political science text costs about $4. At the 10 cent base salary it would take almost three months to save enough to buy a book. In an effort to get started Heim said that the first ten pages of readings were mimeographed by the inmates.
"If the program proves to be a success we will try to set it up on a permanent basis seeking volunteer teachers or an appropriation to take care of the necessary expenses," Heim said.
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The KU Civil Rights Council will meet at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
Civil Rights Group To Meet Tomorrow
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 231 Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin to the Daily Kansai Notice should include name, place, date, and time of function.
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Catholic Daily Mass: 6:30 a.m. St. John's Church, 13th and Kentucky.
Ph.D. French Reading Exam: 9-11 a.m. (Sat. Feb. 18), Fraser 11. Leave all books with Miss Craig at Fraser 120 bv Feb. 15.
Teachers Appointment Bureau: 117 Bailey Hall. Interviewer will be Charles Hostetler, Pers. Dir., Littleton, Colorado (Flem. & Sec.).
TODAY
Slide Rule Class: 11 a.m. Room 207,
Marvin Hall. No enrollment required.
Episcopal Holy Communion: 12 noon
Centerbury House
Cornbury House.
Club Nursing Club: 7-8 p.m., 110 Frasen Hall
Humanities Forum: 7:30 p.m., Oreaa Room, Kansas Union, "Kinship and Political Western Countries" by DCIr Lande, assistant professor of political science.
ADS Meeting; 7:30 p.m., English Room, Kansas Union.
Math Club and Pi Mu Epsilon (joint meeting): 7:30 p.m., Cottonwood Room, Kansas Union. Problems in Approximate Wimp, Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. Everyone invited. Free refreshments.
Teachers Appointment Bureau: 117 Bailey Hall. Interviewers will be Law-
yers, Social Workers, and Clinical. Calif. (K-8); and Donald Madson,
Citrus Union High School, Azusa, Calif.
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Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1961
Operation Abolition Postponed Indefinitely
"Operation Abolition," the film sponsored by the National Student Assn. be shown Thursday, has been postponed to an indefinite date.
ONE OF NSA'S projects now is the organization of its group in the Big 8 schools.
NSA plans to mimeograph copies of convention rules and study them so the delegates will have a better understanding of procedures, she said.
Carol McMillian, Coldwater junior, said at yesterday's NSA meeting in the Kansas Union:
"We hope to prevent illegal procedure by letting all members know the right rules in detail," she said.
Miss McMillian said, "The eastern and metropolitan areas now outvote NSA members in the midwest, and the easterners can be radical. I
"The film is ordered, but the company evidently got mixed up and sent it to another school for showing. KU will be able to get it in three or four weeks, however."
The NSA members also are studying regulation concerning the submission of resolutions.
LAST YEAR "Robert's Rules of Order" were used to the advantage of a few, and resolutions were passed that probably wouldn't have been" Miss McMillian said.
believe students in the midwest are more conservative. If we organize, we'll have more power, and can make our stand better known."
Bob Cathey, Overland Park freshman, will be NSA travel director for the KU campus, it was announced at last night's meeting.
Mansfield Asks Senate To Hurry Legislation
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield prodded Congress yesterday to act swiftly on two key parts of President Kennedy's anti-recession program because the economic situation "is one of urgency."
The Montana Democrat called for quick approval of measures to raise the federal minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour and to extend the duration of unemployment benefits to a maximum of 39 weeks.
"We are in a recession and it is beginning to become nationwide," Mansfield told the Senate.
He told the chamber that the Kennedy administration "has no intention of fiddling while the fire goes out of the nation's economy." He noted that some senators were opposed to Kennedy's proposals but said, "There is not a single member who approves of human suffering."
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