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Thursday, August 31, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Classics gives training for varied careers
Staff Renorter
By JEWELL WILLHITE
Students who studied Greek, Latin and ancient civilizations in the eighteenth century became doctors, lawyers, clergywomen and teachers.
Today students who pursue a classical education not only may enter those professions but also may run a bicycle shop, build furniture or work on or be publishers representatives.
A few, according to Oliver Phillips,
annotated proofs of *classics*, *manage*
problems in *proofing*.
Within the classes department at the University of Kansas, there are 12 students
majoring in classical antiquities, five in classical languages and five pursuing master's degrees. About 60 percent of the department is non-majors. Phillips said.
"THE IS AIS it should be," he said. "We'd be in a mess if they all decided to major in classics. We function as a service department."
In conjunction with the School of Education, the classics department trains future high school Latin teachers. In contrast with other areas of study within the classics, "there is more demand for Latin teachers than we can supply," Phillips said.
Other classics students use their studies in connection with degrees in other areas. Half the students of Greek have theological interests, Phillips said, and study the language to read the New Testament in the language in which it was written.
PRE-MED STUDENTS may find Latin help, he said, and Latin and Greek are useful to those studying ancient or medieval languages. They can also make use in those languages until the Reformation.
There usually are fewer than six students enrolled in the program, he said.
was named after a governing body of ancient Rome.
The influence of ancient Greece and Rome continued until the explosion of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century, Phillips said. Writers of the U.S. Constitution were influenced by a federation of states in ancient Greece and the U.S. Senate
But not all classics students are able to apply what they learn directly to the task of teaching.
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"We try to stress alternate vocations," Phillips said.
Joyce Sulcinke, who graduated with a master's degree in classics about 10 years ago and wrote her thesis on a political figure in ancient Rome, runs George's Bicycle Shop in Boise, Idaho, in addition to being a bicycle racer, Phillips said.
WHILE AT KU, Sulcinka founded the Octoginta, an 80-mile bicycle tour beginning and ending in Lawrence. Octoginta, held each fall, is the Latin word for 80.
During World War II, some classics scholars were involved in government in-
tellence work because of their knowledge of languages, Phillips said. He said this week he will be giving a talk.
"At a classical meeting in the East, I met a fellow who was said to be in the CIA," Phillips said. When asked, the man "smiled and looked at his drink."
Phillips had his own reasons for studying the classics.
"It's interesting and personally meaningful and would be if I sold Fuller back."
Tom Murray, a Lawrence lawyer with the law firm of Barber, Emerson, Six, Springer and Zinn, also said he thought the study of ancient civilizations was interesting.
Murray, who graduated from KU in 1969 with a major in classical languages, taught at the University of New York.
teacher, Gertrude Ruttan, with influencing him toward the classics.
HE SAID HE also had read that Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard Law School, said he could think of no better preparation for law than a classical education.
Study of Greek and Roman orators such as Cletoer, Domenosthoe, and Lydias can be seen in the works of Aristophanes.
Although Murray described a liberally educated person as open minded, he said that on the importance of studying the classics, his mind was made up.
"It is unfortunate that scientists seem to be overwhelmed the humanities," Murray says. "We need Western Civilization, said. 'A liberal education should include the study of Latin literature."
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Upon hearing the verdict from a Warren County Circuit Court jury, defendant Maria Elaine Pitchford burst into tears. She is believed to be one of the first women to stand trial on charges of performing a self-induced abortion.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP)—A 22-year-old woman charged with performing an illegal abortion on herself was found innocent on grounds of insanity yesterday after the defense said she thrust a knitting into her body during a moment of panic.
Woman cleared in abortion case
The woman was indicted June 14 on a charge of performing an illegal abortion on herself. She could have been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison if convicted.
**FLORA STUART* A public defender, said the testimony of Dwight Wundt, Pitchford's former fiance, "tipped the scale on our side." Mundy, who testified Tuesday under oath, noted that he had been told the jury he had had to do with the alleged illegal abortion, but that it had been
Prosecutors sought to convince the jury that the defense wanted to divert the charge.
IN A STATEMENT Pitchford gave police
a day after the June 9 abortion, she said she had turned to self-induced abortion after being turned away from a Louisville clinic because her pregnancy was too far advanced.
The 1974 statute under which Pitchford
was prosecuted with abortions to be performed only by a licensed physician except during the first three months of pregnancy, when a woman may perform the operation herself under a doctor's supervision.
KJHK is radio music alternative
Music fans in Lawrence can tune in to jazz and rock programs without ever hearing the band's music.
KJHIK radio station, which is run by the radio, TV and film department of KU's School of Journalism, consciously shuns biggest售训套.
Any song that reaches the top 40 is automatically banned from JKHK's programming, Karen Barber, daze jockey for TBS and director of the station, said yesterday.
Nearly all songs aired on KJHK 90.7 on the
FM dial, but pegged as "sound 91" are album cuts, Barber said.
THE STATION LABELS itself an "alternative progressive rock" station. It broadcasts rock and jazz 21 out of 24 hours, from 7 a.m. to 4 a.m. seven days a week.
"KJHK wants to make sure listeners can here always something else," she said.
Only radios in Lawrence can pick up the watt station. KLW, when compared, is a 10mw station.
KJHK's weekday programming is interspersed with "Hersay," short news
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for fantasy fashions "Contemporary clothes for the lass with sass"
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Holiday Plaza West of Kiefs
broadcasts about women, aired three times a day on Tuesdays and Thursdays, "Day in the Life News," news bits of interest to students and comedy news pieces are broadcast on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
"WE TRY TO NOT play anything real loud and heavy until after 2 p.m." Barber
On weekends the program offerings are expanded to include shows featuring big band music from the top 40 tunes from the mid '80s through the early '87s and tunes from the first days of the show.
The station is supported by underwriter grants from local businesses and funding by the bank.
Students under the adviser Dale Gadd,
assistant professor of radio, TV and film.
Disc jockeys are chosen on a first come, first serve basis, after doing a trial spot, test run, or another university credit and some, who have as many hours as they can receive from the university.
films sua
The price is worth the wait Popular films coming this semester
- Sorcerer
- Sweet Movie Director Dusan Makavejev in person
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Allegro Non Troppo
- The Goodbye Girl
- Word Is Out
$1.50 for all admission