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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Jan. 13, 1958
55th Year No.72
Tulsa Editor To Deliver Press Talk
Jenkins Lloyd Jones, editor of The Tulsa Tribune and immediate past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, will deliver the ninth annual William Allen White Lecture at 3 p.m. Feb 10 in Fraser Theater.
The foundation's annual board meeting will be held at 10 a.m. that day in the William Allen White Memorial Reading Room, Flint Hall. Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, will present the annual report of the White Foundation. Dean Marvin is president of the foundation.
Mr. Jones will be presented with the William Allen White Foundation's first annual certificate of national recognition for editorial leadership and service to American journalism.
Mr. Jones has been editor of The Tulsa Tribune since 1941. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1933. He was a reporter and columnist on the Tribune from 1933 to 1936, was managing editor from 1936 to 1938 and was associate editor from 1938 to 1941.
The foundation's fifth annual certificate of journalistic merit will be presented to a Kansas editor at a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Student Union.
Editors previously honored were the late Charles M. Harger of The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, W. T. Beck the retired editor of The Holton Recorder, Fred W. Brinkerhoff, editor of The Pittsburg Sun and Headlight, and Rolla A. Clymer, editor of The El Dorado Times.
The local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, will sponsor a dinner at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Student Union in honor of Mr. Jones, who is a member of the fraternity.
How To Live To 108
JACKSON, Miss. — (UP) — Queen Victoria Scott, 108-year-old former North Carolina plantation slave, has a simple formula for longevity: "I been dipping snuff since I was 12, and now and then I takes a drink of good whisky. It keeps me in good health."
Weather
Low this morning .37. Low Sunday .37, high 52. Precipitation Sunday over a 24-hour period .02 inch.
Tonight and Tuesday mostly cloudy with occasional rain or drizzle central portion tonight spreading over east portion Tuesday. Colder west and north central Tuesday. Low tonight 15 northwest to upper 30s southeast. High Tuesday 30s west to 40s east.
The final shipment of second semester class schedules is to arrive today and there should be enough to meet the demand, James K. Hitt, registrar, said today.
New Schedules To Arrive Today
The first shipment of 2,000 arrived Wednesday and was soon exhausted
More of the listings of classes arrived Friday and Saturday. Mr.Hitt said 10,000 were ordered from the state printer.
Thieves Get $493 Camera
A camera valued at $493 was reported stolen from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information Thursday by Jimmy Bedford, instructor of journalism.
Mr. Bedford told campus police the camera was taken between 8:30 a.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday. The camera serial number is 540352 and the lens serial number is 814646.
Police chief Joe Skillman, after investigating the door to the room where the camera was stolen, said today there were marks on the lock to indicate the door was opened by a screwdriver or knife.
Mr. Bedford said he put the camera in a film receiving desk. Chief Skillman said he assumed someone saw Mr. Bedford put the camera away.
Notices of the complaint have been sent to police in Kansas City, Topeka, Lawrence and the Douglas County sheriff's office, Chief Skillman said.
Baseball Meeting Thursday
Men interested in trying out for the KU baseball team should report to the K-Room of the Allen Field House at 4 p.m. Thursday. The meeting will include freshmen.
Clean Out 'Course Clutter,'Docking Says
THESE KANSAS SCHOOLS—Gov. George Docking conferring in Topeka Saturday with Daily Kansan executives Dick Brown and Bob Hartley about school administration problems.
KU Faculty Losses Accelerated Last Year
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said in an interview that the loss of KU faculty members accelerated last year with heavy losses in December of 1956. The losses have been less this school year, he said.
Gymnastics At Halftime
Members of the physical education department will put on a gymnastics show between halves of the Kansas-Colorado game Monday night.
The women will give a dumbbell drill show, a take off on the old time gymnastics drills. A modern gymnastics drill will follow.
A free exercise and gymnastics exhibition will be given by Richard Laptad, assistant instructor of physical education; George Denny, Lawrence graduate student; Mrs. Ann Laptad and Miss Shirley Hughes, instructors of physical education.
OSU Is The Place For You
Let's transfer. Oklahoma State University doesn't have a final week.
Don't Like Final Week?
Actually, when it comes right down to cases, most students wait until almost the last minute to begin studying. They drink coffee by the gallon and take pills to stay awake all night so they can study.
Classes at OSU are conducted on the regular class schedule until the end of the semester, including the week used at other schools for final examinations. The student must keep up his work all semester and not depend on a final exam to get his grade for him.
Don't Think Much Of It
Are KU officials interested in the
However, instructors may still give final examinations by scheduling one half during one class period and the other half at the next regular meeting.
The academic council at OSU decided to end final week. They felt that this new practice would be "consistent with the best practices of learning."
L. C. Woodruff dean of students, said I doubt if the University would ever adopt such a policy. It seems that it would put more pressure on the students because there would be no way of regulating the exams, and they might be all on one day. No, I much prefer our present system."
Edna Hill, professor of home economics, said: "The students who put off their day-to-day work would still be prone to do so under this system. There would have to be some way to measure what the students learned in the semester's time. Perhaps some new way of evaluating could be developed."
Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion, said: "I have known similar experiments to be tried else-
plan? Two deans and a professor shook doubtful heads and answered "no."
He said that most faculty members leave because of higher pay offers.
"In one week in 1956, two heads of strong departments left, both to the University of Illinois," he said.
where for a time, but they were soon stopped. There must be some way of checking on grades unless no grades are to be given at all. An exam of a general review nature is a good thing. If classes are small enough, oral exams are nice. Actually, I would hate to see a system where finals were abolished."
The students at OSU don't think too much of the idea, either. Five of them interviewed Thursday by the Oklahoma State Daily O'Collegian don't like the new system as well as the old.
OSU Doesn't Like It
He said schools in the Big Ten have a 20 per cent higher pay scale than KU and some other schools have a 40 per cent higher pay scale.
They said that most instructors now give one or two-hour exams during the last week, which accomplishes the purpose of a final test, but without giving the students enough time to prepare for the final.
Added to the work of preparing term papers and attending classes during the last week, the hour exams have made the last week of the semester a hectic one for the students.
Unable to specify the number of faculty members that have left KU, Mr. Nichols said they leave from all fields of study.
Losses To Industry Minimal
"Our losses to industry have been minimal and very few faculty members have gone into government work," Mr. Nichols said. "Most of them have gone to other colleges."
He said that engineering faculty that leave KU often enter industry and generally it is those of higher professorial rank.
"Our losses to other institutions have been at all levels," he added.
He said there has always been a turnover of faculty and a certain amount of it is good. "It is nice to know that faculty members here are good enough to be wanted for higher paying jobs," he said.
Exam Grades In 2 Weeks
Results of the Western Civilization test taken Saturday afternoon will be posted in about two weeks, James E. Seaver, associate professor of history and Western Civilization, said today.
The tests are being graded by the 20-member Western Civilization staff. The objective questions on the test will be graded by machine.
At least six different persons will grade the tests with two graders grading each of the other three parts of the test. In cases of disagreement, a third person will help make final grade decisions.
A total of 121 took the test.
Fire'Squeaking Faculty' To Save Money, He Adds
By DICK BROWN and BOB HARTLEY
(Daily Kansan Assistant Managing Editor, and City, Editor)
Before budgets and salaries can be raised the "clutter of courses" and "faculty members squeaking around" should be cleaned out from state schools, Gov. George S. Docking said Saturday.
In an interview with The Daily Kansan, Gov. Docking spoke of the problems confronting his office and the Legislature before salaries at the state schools can be increased.
Gov. Docking said he had looked inside the University of Kansas and had concluded that courses such as silversmithing, horseback riding and ballroom dancing should be eliminated from the curriculum.
Speaks For Itself
"The story speaks for itself."
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, interviewed at his home Sunday by The Daily Kansan, had this comment on the interview with Gov. George S. Docking:
Legislature To Get Budget Tuesday Gov. Docking will present his budget proposal for the fiscal year 1958-59 at 4 p.m. Tuesday to a joint session of the state Senate and House of Representatives.
"Some of the departments are doing excellent work. Among these is the KU physics department, and there are some excellent professors doing rewarding work at KU," he said.
As one of the methods of clearing the way for more school economy he said, "Some of the faculty members squeaking around should be released."
"If a man is going to quit, take a good look at him. If he isn't any good let him quit," the governor said. "If he is a good man see if you are underpaying him and then go about correcting this in order to keep him."
"If we are losing members of the faculty to industry, I want to know what is wrong with the administra ion, not the faculty," he said.
"school Administrators Politicians"
In discussing his December budget hearing, Gov. Docking said this about school administrators:
"The school budget is getting to be pure politics and the college-administrators are getting to be nothing but politicians."
Gov. Docking said the improvement of our educational system depends on the type of leadership we are able to get.
"We have to change the thinking of many of our administrators. We have to get them out of politics and back to the job they are supposed to do." Gov. Docking said.
"We are expecting to find out this year for the first time just what salaries the teachers in the Big 10 schools are making," he said.