Thursday, August 30, 1973
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It's Not the System. Adviser Saves
By ERIC MEYER Kansan Staff Reporter
Many orientation and advising problems result from students' failure to use available program, Ellen Gold, director of Oliver College, a college-within-the-College (CWC) of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said recently.
"Students' problems can be solved," she said. "Good advising is available to students who will take the time to look for it. Many students just don't consider it important."
Gold said administrators of the CWCs, in which most freshmen enroll, have discussed advising and orientation problems "day and night."
"The CWC concept originally was designed to help new students toward faster orientation," she said, "but what it has become now is something else."
GOLD SAID current advisement programs were inadequate in some ways.
"But when you consider the numbers and expenses involved, it's a great effort," she
Fall Theatre Tryouts To End Tomorrow
Auditions for all fall University Theatre productions will continue through tomorrow, said Tom Rea, associate professor of speech and drama. They began
Although acting ability is a prerequisite for any part in a production, Rea said, singing and dancing will be major considerations for the first production, a musical, "Kiss Me Kate," to be presented in October.
"A Doll's House," said Rea, "is a more serious play written by the Norwegian playwright, Ibsen. It has a great deal to do with woman's liberation, not the woman's lib of today when women were hired. She finally states her independence."
By CATHY O'BRIEN
Kansan Staff Reporter
"A Doll's House," the only other fall University Theatre production, will be in New York.
An Irish play by J. M. Syng, "Playboy of the Western World," will open the spring series of University Theatre productions. Rea said it was a "realistic comedy."
Special Bus Moves Aged
If you are over 62 and you need a ride somewhere in Lawrence you can ride the minibus sponsored by the Douglas County Planning Council on Services for Aging, Inc.
In the first two weeks of service the minibus has picked up almost 120 persons at their doors and delivered them to their destinations, Gary Cordra, a member of the council, said yesterday that 40 per cent of the drivers have received rides back to their homes, he said.
The person answering the call will ask your destination, your starting point and the time, and then will try to work you into the minibus schedule.
The minibus runs from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. To get a ride you call the minibus number, 824-6043. The number will be listed on your telephone directory under Douglas County Commission on Aging, Conda said.
At present the minibus is covering the entire city. Condra said that as more people used the service the city might be divided into areas which would be serviced part time.
Wednesdays now appear to be the least active days, he said.
Plans include expanding minibus services to Baldwin, Eudora and Lecompont, possibly by late September. Condra said that the service still would be done by only rural and service to other towns would be scheduled when Lawrence's calls are low.
During the first year of the minibus service, the federal government will provide 75 per cent of the funds; the second year, 60 per cent, and the third year, 50 per cent. The fourth year the service will be completely funded locally.
Services to the aging were the subject of a recent Congressional directive, Condra said. The directive said each state must establish area councilons on services to the aging to channel applications for federal funds from communities.
When the area council, which will include Douglas, Shanwee and Jefferson counties, becomes active, the Douglas County council has asked the said. The area council hasn't met yet.
The Douglas County council has about 20 members, Condra said, of which half are women.
The council is considering a congregated meals program, different from Meals on Wheels, which delivers food to aging persons at their homes. The council's proposed meal program would bring aging persons together at one or more places to eat.
This year KU will sponsor the regional
theatre Festival Theatre ACT-
KU, Feb. 29-31.
"It's about what happens to someone who doesn't accept the responsibility of his own decision."
The ACTF is a program of the American Theatre Association, Rea said. Schools submit original theatre productions which are screened and judged at the regional
said, "Really, if I were to change the system, I don't know how it would be. Only some—not all or even a majority—of the students are ill-advised or under-
The productions will be judged to decide whether any of them should be presented at the next meeting.
The last major production of the University Theatre will be "Tales of Hoffman," a romantic opera of fantasy to be presented in April.
The Experimental Theatre also will be producing programs. The first of the Experimental Theatre series will be three original plays.
Ronald Willis, associate professor of speech and drama, said the plays would be based on his childhood.
An adaptation of the novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and an original play, "Half-Eaten Heads" also will be presented this semester.
"Half-Eaten Heads," written by Dan Duling, Lawrence graduate student, will be KU's entry in the ACTF under the plawriting awards section, said Willis.
Other Experimental Theatre productions will be "The Venetian Twins," the "Flats"
Wills said "The Flats" was a contemporary Irish play about the problems in Ireland. Its American premier will be at KU.
Still in the planning stages, the play may use television techniques and screens.
Tickets for University Theatre productions $2.10 and $4.40. Experimental Theatre productions $8.90.
Students may get tickets for University students free with their registration cards.
Occasionally, the system fails. Such is the case when advisers don't give students advice on how to use computers.
Half the seats for Experimental Theatre productions are reserved for students, who are admitted free. When the free seats are occupied, guests must pay to see the production.
The branch would be a night school and would offer a Masters of Business Administration degree. The curriculum would include a study of the business people who want advanced training.
The graduate education committee is developing the proposed academic planning for the branch, and the executive committee is looking into the nonacademic needs of the school, such as location and potential
A Kansas City branch of the University of Kansas School of Business may be opened by next fall, according to Joseph Pichler, associate dean of the School of Business.
KC Division Of B-School Under Study
Fichler said a decision on the branch school would be made in November or December, followed by an effort to obtain funding and a faculty in time to open next
Pichier said the reason for starting such a program was to serve the large number of business people in the Kansas City area, and possibly to decrease the large number of employees. KU School of Business has the only nationally accredited graduate program in Kansas.
Ficherl said the KU Medical Center was a "logical location option to explore," but the location would ultimately depend on the projected number of students.
Two committees in the School of Business are now studying the possibilities and needs of such a school. They are expected to develop an online Picker and the school's faculty by Oct. 1.
Dave Barfeld, Salma freshman, said he wanted to know what he should enrol in. "We are not asking for a diploma."
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"I didn't know whether I could handle the honors course," Barfield said. "I eventually wend talked to some guys who had taken it, and they told me what idea they would about what the course would be about."
"ISAW an adviser and he helped me quite a bit," Williams said. "But I had to go find hon on my own and make an appointment to see him. This was all separate from the usual advisement procedure we were told about."
Both Barbie and Williams are enrolled in Pearson College. However, Barbie said he was advised primarily as part of a group. Williams said his advisement was individual.
Mike Williams, Lawrence freshman, said he had had to use his own initiative to find a job.
Gold said one of the biggest failings of the advisement system was the adviser's inability to become fully acquainted with the students. Gold blamed this inability on
Higher prices and more peanut butter sandwiches await millions of children returning to school this week as officials try to fimy ways of coping with rising costs and
Ted McCulloch, director of food services for the school nurses were up to 20 to 25 per day.
Meat Skimpy, Prices Higher In School Fare
Officials of the Missouri Education Department said that when classes resume next week dried beans, cheese, fish and meat were sold in the campus肉餐 more often than in the past.
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An Associated Press survey yesterday showed that the price of a hot lunch had risen almost 30 per cent in some areas and that protein substitutes were replacing
Several factors combined to cause trouble for the school districts: budgets that failed to keep pace with soaring food prices; a lack of beef because of the continuation of the price ceiling; cancellation, for the time being at least, of the federal milk subsidy program, and a cut in the amount of funds provided by the U.S. Agriculture Department, from spring stocks.
All except nine of the state's 588 school district serve hot lunches, and prices last week.
Kansas officials said they were having trouble getting dried milk.
Memphis schools, which feed about 110,000 pupils a day, opened Monday with lunches costing 45 cents in elementary schools, school libraries in elementary schools, a number, longer last year.
Mrs. Inez George, director of the food services division of the Kansas Education Department, said the price of milk has gone up two cents a half pint. She added that because of Congress' failure to renew the milk subsidy program the pupils may have to pay nine cents for a carton of milk they compared to three or four cents last year.
Under the milk subsidy program, which affected 40 million children, the government provided an average of three cents toward the price of half a pint of milk. The Agriculture Department says the program is being canceled because of lack of funds. A coalition of farmers in a congressional conference committee, and the department said that "when Congress provides the money for this program we will reconsider our action."
the lack of time for advising during enrollment week.
"Some students came to me for advertisement before the enrollment rush," Gold said. "Or they still can come afterward and correct a bad enrollment."
"There's one man in the CWCs who's trying a new concept to help avoid this (time) problem. He will follow through and teach a course for all the students he advises. Hopefully, it will give him added insight into their personalities."
"I personally don't think advisers should pass judgment on courses," she said. "My parents both were college professors, and I think the advice I got from them was not economic but they told me not to take economics, and I have since developed an interest in that field."
The proper role for an adviser is being debated, Gold said. Some advisers believe they should only instruct students on how to help them with homework and wants to help students define life goals.
University Daily Kansan
SOME OF the problems also result from technicians being thrust into an unfamiliar environment.
"I imagine very few of those students who think they were ill-advised attended school when it was required to standl it, now student and spend two days constantly with teaching and academic and student advisers and getting acquainted with the campus. Of course, not all students
A personal approach to advising is needed, she added.
"Some students just walk in, present the program to me and I okay it," Gold said. "Others have problems that need more attention. Sometimes they don't get this attention. Many times it's their own fault. Occasionally, the system fails."
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SUA Rental Art Almost Gone
Art fans had better harry if they wanted to rent a picture from the SUA picture lending library in the Kansas Union gallery, Kyle Robinson, SUA office secretary, said that most of the 300 prints and original works in the lending library had been rented out.
Robinson said, "We have about 10 pictures left."
"Most of them were gone about three hours after we opened on Monday,"
The lending library's art selection includes reproductions of famous works by artists such as Picasso and original posters and graphics by artists not as well known. The reproductions rent for 75 cents and the original rent for $3 to $5.
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SUA membership meeting
7:30 p.m.
thursday
kansas union ballroom