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Penitentiary Inmates Make Alert Students
Prisoners at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary offer a perfect example of alert and intelligent students, say two University instructors who teach Spanish at the prison.
Maurice Bourquin and Rodrigo Solera, assistant instructors of Romance languages, drive to Leavenworth Thursday nights to teach a course sponsored by the University Extension.
"Naturally the prisoners are much more mature and they are fairly intelligent. In fact, some of them are brilliant." said Mr. Solera.
Each instructor has about 25 students and the range in age is 20 to 65. The prisoners take the same elementary course offered here, and they pay tuition and buy their books.
Mr. Solera said Spanish and typewriting are the most popular courses. He said there were 70 other prisoners who wanted to take Spanish but were crowded out.
Regular college credit is given for the course which is offered $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ hours a week.
Eager Students
"It is so nice to go into class and feel students are really waiting for you," Mr. Solera said. "The prison is nothing like what I've seen in the movies. It is pleasant, extremely clean, and the prisoners are very neat. It's not a sordid place at all," he said.
Mr. Borquin said teaching there is very stimulating. They are paying to learn and that makes a person feel the instruction is important to them, he said.
"Within a given class there is the same range of intelligence that you have here, but these fellows have been exposed to more Spanish," Mr. Borquin said.
"For one thing there are about 155 Mexicans in the prison so the students hear a lot of it spoken. Another thing is that most of them come from the Southwest where they come in contact with the language," he said.
Mr. Borquin said the classes are very informal and the speech is quite spontaneous. He said every now and then a guard will step into the room and see that everything is all right.
Informal Classes
He said the basic difference between the prison student and one here is that the prisoner wants to learn Spanish while the KU student is sometimes taking it for a requirement.
Paintings Shown In Topeka
Paintings by Robert Sudlow, assistant professor of drawing and painting are featured this month at the Topeka Art Guild Gallery at Topeka High School. The display includes 45 oils, water colors and drawings that Mr. Sudlow has completed during the past three years.
Chairman Sought For KU-Y UN Trip
Applications are now being accepted for chairman of the KU-Y-sponsored trip to the United Nations Building during Thanksgiving vacation. Those interested should call or visit the KU-Y office, Student Union B-111.
Professor To Lead Workshop
The KU delegation will join groups from the University of Nebraska and Iowa State College for the trip, which is being planned by the KU-Y International Commission. Anne Miller, Dodge City senior, and Stan Lehman, Abilene sophomore, are co-chairmen of the commission.
The 3 day visit will include a General Assembly session, a general tour of the UN, interviews with members of the secretariat, and sightseeing in the New York City area.
Wednesday. Oct. 9, 1957 University Daily Kansan
Miss Elin K. Jorgensen, professor of music education, will be a speaker at the Central Missouri State Teachers Association meeting Thursday in Warrensburg, Mo. Miss Jorgensen will conduct a workshop which will demonstrate and discuss problems in music education. Ways of making music meaningful to children from ages one to six will be discussed.
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Qualifications for senior calendar queen candidates were being discussed at a sorority meeting. One coed who was nominated for the honor immediately declined.
What Are The Calendar Qualities?
When asked what her reason was for withdrawing she replied, "I just don't have any calendar ability."
The Jayhawk Jump, a dance honor ing visiting Iowa State students will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday in the Student Union Ballroom.
Hop Planned For I-Staters
Elliott Livingood and his band will play. The dance is sponsored by Student Union Activities.
Mums for Parents Day are being sold for $1 by members of the KU-J.
"We are expecting about 400 Iowa State students on their annual migration," Mike Johnson, Independence, Mo. sophomore and publicity chairman of the dance, said today. "We would like to see a lot of KU students out to meet the visitors."
The general chairman of the dance is Sandy Smith, Lawrence junior. Sue Suran, Hays sophomore, is decorations committee chairman.
Mums Are On Sale For Parents Day
Mums for Parents Day are being sold for $1 by members of the KU-Y. KU-Y representatives will be taking orders for the mums during the week in the organized houses and they will be delivered to the houses on Saturday. Mums may also be bought Saturation in the Student Union. Proceeds from the sale will go into the KU-Y program fund.
$32 Stolen At Theta Tau
Thirty-two dollars was taken from billfolds of members of Theta Tau fraternity about 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
According to police reports, Myron Bernitz, Eurora junior, said the money was taken after he came in about 1:15 a.m. He also told police he had seen no strangers.
Those who reported thefts were Fredrick H. Jones, Bloomington, Ill. sophomore; $10; Jacob Goble, Caney senior; $10; Thomas Domville, Kansas City, Kan. junior; $$ and Bernitz; $4.
Five paintings in the room are a gift of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Burt, Hutchinson. Mr. Burt is a 1908 graduate of KU.
Last weekend $244 was taken from the members of Delta Upsilon and Kappa Sigma fraternities.
New Curry Room Ready For Use
The last of the paintings by John Steuart Curry, Kansas artist, have been hung in the newly decorated room of the Student Union which was named after the artist.
His preliminary oil sketches of four murals, "Tragic Prelude," I and II, and "Kansas Pastorale," I and II, are among those displayed in the room. Also displayed are a self-portrait and two other works.
The room was formerly the Sunflower Room.
Mr. Curry, who died in 1947, painted the murals in the statehouse in Topeka.
Walt Whitman issued "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, the same year Henry Longfellow wrote "The Song of Hiawatha."
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