Friday, November 9, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Language Lab to Be Ready Soon
Kansas Photo by CORKY TREWIN
Garinger Explains Tape Duplicator
A new language laboratory for the University of Kansas should be in operation by Thanksgiving, according to Ermal E. Director of the KU language laboratories.
The new lab will be in Wescott Hall. It will be the only installation of its kind in the world because it will utilize selective direct cooling. The lab will monitor computer control, Garringer said this week.
Because computers aren't used to control the lab, he said, the price of the facility will be about one-fourth the price of a computer-controlled lab.
"The electronic classrooms are 95 per cent operational and we expect them to be completed by the end of next week." Garinger said, "But we don't expect to have the student study labs ready before Thanksgiving."
He said delays in equipment deliveries had prevented completion.
There will be 12 electronic classrooms and two study labs. The classrooms each contain a console to record recorded lessons through speakers in the classroom, playing through speakers in the classroom.
The study labs will each accommodate 50 students, and each is divided into two sections. One lab is divided into a blue section for studying Spanish and Portuguese, the other into French and Italian. The other lab is split into a gold section for the Germanic
languages and a green section for studying Oriental and Slavic languages.
All of the booths in the labs are installed with equipment for listening and responding to the programming center. Cassette players are installed in the front three rows of the room. There is any part of the lesson or for playing any cassette the student brings to the lab.
Garinge said the programming center would be able to play 96 neograms at once.
The tape library will contain multiple copies of each lesson to be studied by lower level language courses, he said. The week a lesson is to be used the lab will try to have 20 copies of the lesson available. All other times there will be two copies on hand.
Until the study labs become operational, the lab is using a cassette check-out system in which students can check out a recorded lesson and a tape player. The equipment must be checked out after 1 p.m. and delivered by noon the next day, Garringer said.
Laboratory personnel will also record, usually free of charge, any lesson in the tape library, if the student supplies a cassette.
Free U Helped by SUA Funds
By LINDA WEINSTEIN Kansan Staff Reporter
The Free University is still alive in Lawrence, according to Susan Lorniska, Sayville, N.Y., senior and self-appointed director of the Free U.
The Free U. should be even stronger next semester because Student Union Activities (SUA) has voted to incorporate the Free U into its organization as a student activity and service, according to Steve Warren, Nebr., senior and SUA board president.
Warren said he started to investigate the possibility of the SUA running the Free U last summer. He said he had talked with Arthur Skidmore, former adviser to the Free U and assistant professor of philosophy, and Lominska, who was running the Free U out of the University Information Center without funds or help.
AS A RESULT of his investigation,
Warren proposed Monday night at an SUA
board meeting; (1) to create a ninth board
area to be known as the Free University
with a position to be filled by a student
designated as the Free University Director*
(2) a semester's budget of $500 be approved for the Free U program; and (3) that Susan Lominska be appointed by the university director for the rest of the year.
The SUA Board agreed to fund the Free U with $500 and to appoint Lominska, to whom Warren gives credit for the survival of the Free U. as director.
However, the board did not provide for the creation of a ninth board area. Instead, the board used a fourth area.
organization under the direction of SUA
Hoh Rammseee, Prairie
Village school
"The board's feeling was that it was a bit early, include the Free U as a board emblem."
WARREN SAID HE WASN'T happy with his deception. He said he thought the Free University was not good for him.
"It's a large program and it deserves emphasis. This kind of program is different than most other programs."
SUA has already given the Free U $100 emergency funding out of the SUA vice president's budget this semester. Warren M. Schultz, the school's administrator, of 29 classes alive.
Lominska said that $80 of the emergency funding would be used to pay for advertising by the end of the semester and that the other $20 would pay for artwork featured in the course catalog which was distributed at the first of the fall semester.
Lominska said the SUA emergency funding was "like a band-aid."
From 1967 until last spring, the Free U had been funded by the Student Senate. The Senate budget had included allocations for a new building, and the budget wasn't renewed last year.
AS AN SUA organization, the Free U will receive $1,000 a year, $1,000 less a year than its previous Student Senate allocations. No money will be allotted for a director's salary.
Lominska said that the Free U director's job was a time consuming one. Therefore, she said, "There's going to be a problem of someone assuming the main responsibilities without getting a salary."
Warren said he didn't think there would be a money problem.
'As an SUA organization, the Free UM management will be included in the SUA office load. The director will just make decisions and steer the area," he said.
Warren said the future of the Free U was very bright. He's concerned, he said, about the publicity that the "death" of the Free U has received and said he and Lominska would soon begin planning publicity for next semester. Warren plans to set up a table to answer questions about the free U will hand out brochures about the Free U and answer questions. He also plans to distribute posters and to run ads in the University Daily Kansas.
LOMISKA AGREED that publicity was a problem for the Free U and said that advertising would probably take a large chunk out of the Free U's budget.
She's worried, she said, about recruiting teachers for next semester's causes.
"We really need teachers. They can call the University Information Center or notify the SUA office if they're interested in teaching a course," Lominska said.
Some courses offered this semester, Lominska said, such as House Plants, VW Repair, Women's Health Study Group and an English conversation class, were so successful that they'll probably be offered again next semester.
She's even thinking of teaching a course call Sewing for Survival herself.
KU-Y Retreat Offers Refuge New Friends
If you're looking for new friends and people to meet, you might very well find them at an upcoming retreat sponsored by the KU-Y, according to Ellen Cohn, Shawne Mission freshman and member of the KU-Y staff.
Cohn said the overnight retreat would be held at the YMCA camp outside of Lawrence Nov. 17-18. There will be a $3 fee for participating students to cover expenses for food, transportation and lodging, she said.
The purpose of the retreat is to bring people together, Cohn said.
"Many people feel lost in the huge residence halls and really want to meet other people and make new friends, but we need." That's why we are having this retreat.
According to Cohn, KU-Y emphasizes small interaction groups and therefore the retreat will be very similar to a group encounter.
"It's an opportunity for people to talk about themselves and the world they live in."
It's a chance for people to get away from the crowds and relax out in the country "
Cohn said the only planned activity was the showing of the film "Why Man Wants Love," an movie she made it reveals a lot about human relationships and aspirations.
The retreat is basically geared towards treatment," she said, "but everyone is happy."
Cohn said registration for the retreat had begun and interested students should contact the KU-Y office in the Kansas Union.
The new course will focus on the culture of Chicago children. Escamilla said.
"We're going to bring his home environment into the classroom," he said.
Hughes said the program would attempt to use all of a child's background in his education. Many schools let a child's native language, die he said, instead of preserving the language as a tool in the child's education.
"The level of education of Chicanos or Mexican-Americans is 7.2 years, which is four years behind the level of Anglo-American," Escamilla said.
Pilot Program Seeks Cultural Understanding
The first course will be followed by three other courses, Hughes said, if plans were
He said the program would be funded by the school of Education, although federal funding has been limited.
Kansas Staff Reporter
By CRAIG STOCK
Imagine yourself as a child, coming into a classroom and being unable to speak or read.
I ngues said the four courses would form
the core requirement for a degree in
mathematics.
Students will be asked to imagine that situation in a new education course next semester, according to George Hughes, assistant professor of education. Hughes is the director of a pilot program, "Bilingual, Bicultural Education."
The new course, "Bilingual, Bicultural Education in the United States," will be the first of the program, and, according to Hughes, is designed to prepare people to work with students who speak little or no English.
"Federally-funded programs are
we want this program to last," he said.
The new course will be oriented primarily toward the education of Mexican-American and other Spanish-speaking children, accustomed to the familiar vocabulary, assistant director of the program.
Escaimila said that there were about seven million Spanish-speaking people in the United States, and that in some areas they speak English, the language and culture of their students.
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