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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Dean Says J-School Is in Top 5 in U.S.
By LAUREL DEFOE
Kansan Staff Writer
The William Allen White School of Journalism is one of the top five journalism schools in the country in undergraduate study, Edward Bassett, dean of the school.
Bassett said that he based his opinion on his knowledge of and the accreditation of the various schools around the country that offer undergraduate degrees.
He said that many of the nation's 60 accredited education journals schools are accredited in only one sequence or program. KU is accredited in three sequences: News-Editorial; Radio, Television and Film and Advertising.
BASSETT SAID THAT he wouldn't want to say which place KU would take in the top five but said that he could think of only four other schools whose undergraduate programs out-ranked or equaled KU's undergraduate program.
Bassett attributed the school's high standards to a good faculty, good student and good media contacts within the state. The fact that the school has produced quality students is one factor that has led the school to acquire a good reputation. Bassett said.
Bassett said that years ago the school placed one KU graduate at the Dallas campus.
Edward Bassett
now the entire Dallas bureau is almost totally manned by former KU students.
"KU GRADS DO well because KU is regarded as having quality programs," he
He said that most of the sequences in the school, such as news-editorial and photo-journalism, were fully adequate programs but that there was need for expansion in
courses in editing and broadcast news.
The School of Journalism, Bassett said, is continuing the expansion of its internship programs. These programs give students the opportunity to obtain practical experience and reporting in the field and to see how a professional business is run.
IN THE PAST, most of the intern programs were offered only in the summer. Students applied during the spring semester and, if accepted, spent the summer working for a newspaper, television or radio station or magazine in Kansas or elsewhere in the
Recently the school has sought new ways to incorporate intern programs into the curriculum.
Bassett said that David Dary, assistant professor of broadcast news and an aide in the office of University Relations, was instrumental in creating some excellent work at television and radio stations on the state during the academic year.
THE PROFESSIONAL world, Bassett is, willing to utilize students' work because of the present state of the economy and because it sees these students as potential employees. Thus, they are willing to investment in the student who comes to them.
Most students enter the School of Journalism after completing their basic freshman—sophomore college requirements. Students must have at least a 2.2 grade point average to be admitted. Although the school requires junior standing for admission, some exceptions are made in order to admit exceptional sophomores.
There will be no net increase in the number of faculty members in the school next year, nor will there be an increase in financial support needed to expand facilities and up-grade equipment, according to Bassett.
BASSETT SAID THE current enrollment of about 600 students was nearing the 700-student maximum for the school under its present conditions.
If enrollment were to exceed 700 with current classroom space, equipment, number of faculty members and financial support, he said there would be distinct possibilities that admissions requirements would toughen.
His primary goal now is to try to influence at least one bright student a year and help that student towards achieving a rewarding and successful career as a journalist.
Bassett said that journalism had been a rewarding career for him.
Bassett said that journalism was one of the most exciting and important professions in society today. He said it was not a calling that was for everyone and that there were some students in the school now who shouldn't be.
Arthur Katz
UNIVERSITIES AND colleges are graduating a large number of journalists today, Bassett said. Because of this, it's a very competitive field and it's difficult to compare.
work extremely hard. He is, in Bassett's words, "created from a special mold."
Social Welfare Works with Needs
Bassett described a journalist as an individual with honest skepticism and the fortitude to take abuse. A journalist should be many things according to Bassett. He should be a translator and an investigator. He should be a moral guardian, cerned for others and able and willing to
If each professor in the school did this, the school would produce at least 15 bright teachers.
BECAUSE THE school, like others at the university, suffering from a lack of books (in particular for backpacks) has
By CATHLEEN SCHEIER
And KAREN DIRKS
Students may seek entrance to the school as junists. However, only one out of three undergraduate applying will be admitted. Students must also graduate program, according to Brad
The primary objective of the school is to prepare competent professionals in social work, according to Arthur Katz, dean of the School of Social Welfare.
The School of Social Welfare was instituted in 1989 and is one of the newest schools.
Social Welfare is concerned with meeting direct human needs, Katz said. In its broadest sense the term includes a concern for public safety and security, housing and mental health.
In his senior year a student may take advanced courses for graduate credit and then take a semester of undergraduate.
to that. That he said, would be a contribution to society.
Undergraduate electives focus on special areas of topical concern: corrections, social movements, social activism, child welfare, drug abuse and drug culture, community development, group communications, health and social legislative processes.
AS A SENIOR the student takes part in field instruction courses, Katz said, and works at social welfare agencies in Lawrence, Topea or Kansas City.
During the junior year the student has the opportunity to study critical issues and social problems within American society. Other important institutions are an important resource.
Sheafar, assistant professor of social welfare.
The offices of U.S. Rep. Larry Winn Jr. and Senators James Pearson and Robert Dole have jointly announced that the University of Kansas has received a three-year, $97,537-a-year training grant from the Institute of Mental Health.
This allows him to complete the two-year masters program in one year and summer. This program is in its second year of existence.
GENERALLY ABOUT a third of the entering class are members of ethnic minority groups.
U.S. Grant to Train Houseparents at KU
Other courses allow concentrated study in a special area of social work practice.
The purpose of the grant is to finance continued training of married couples to operate juvenile centers like Lawrence's two Achievement Place's.
School of Pharmacy Limited to Kansans
By C. S. GROOM
Kansas Staf Wenger
The incoming students will also have to decide quickly what their professions will be, because there are several sequences available.
MANY PHARMACY students attempt to go into other schools within the University, such as law and business, and relate those fields to pharmacy.
Dean Howard Mossberg said he expected 50 per cent of the incoming students to be women, and noted that there was an increase in the number of women enrolled in the school each year.
Curriculum changes made the last two years allow for much of the practical experience necessary for the degree to be attained within the school.
Mossberg said, "We'd like to prepare the students emotionally and I hope they will
prepare themselves financially for the extra expense of leaving the immediate family.
"Half of that semester will be spent at the KU Medical Center and the other half will be spent anywhere in the state of Kansas, for field instruction."
There are about 250 students enrolled in the undergraduate division of the school. More than 60 students are enrolled in the graduate division. About 15 students are pursuing their doctorate degrees in pharmacy.
MOSSBERG SAID that the school would, for the first time, offer a variety of undergraduate programs in summer session 1974. He said he thought the enrollment had increased because the department programs have been widely known for their areas of expertise."
The market for pharmacists is not tight yet, according to Mossberg. He noted that the school had had no difficulty placing its students in pharmacy, but that the coming year would be no different.
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Committee Posts Open to Students
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University Senate minus the students," Zuther said.
Its committee structure is identical to that of the University Senate, and the membership for faculty representatives is the same. Faculty Senate committees are simply University Senate committees without their student membership.
THE STUDENT SENATE comprises 108 student representatives elected from the college or school in which they are enrolled. One senator is chosen for every 200 students in each school of the University and each student unimpeded at least two representatives.
In addition, there is one representative from each organized living group association, plus the student body president and vice president.
Elections this fall will be October 17 and 18. Two senators will be elected from Oliver College, and one senator each from the remaining CWCs.
Student senators are elected mid-way into the spring semester, except for those chosen by freshman from the College務委員會. These are selected early in the fall.
"SIX STANDING COMMITTEEES are the nucleus of the Student Senate structure," says the orientation pamphlet. "These committees formulate legislation and prepare and organize various student services."
Questionnaires are distributed at the end or each instructor in every class. Responses to these questions can be used.
The first of the committee is academic affairs. One of its primary projects has been the preparation and circulation of Feed- an evaluation of KU teachers and courses.
distributed in pamphlet form free-of-charge at the beginning of each semester.
THE STUDENT SENATE communications committee concerns itself with maintaining and improving communications among Senate committees and members, and between the Senate and the University community.
This committee is planning sessions for each organized living group in the next few weeks in order to explain more about the Student Senate and to answer questions.
The budget provides a guideline for Senate allocation of the $12 student fee, collected at enrollment and divided among campus organizations such as the University Theatre, intercollegiate athletics and over fifty clubs.
The finance and auditing committee has perhaps the biggest task of all. It is its responsibility to prepare a budget for the allocation of the student activity fee.
Student information requests and complaints concerning housing are directed to the following addresses:
The student rights and responsibilities committee enforces the Code of Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities, that the thing KU has to a student bill of rults.
THE HOUSING COMMITTEE has prepared a pamphlet "The Lawrence Apartment Complex Guide" and is working with the University non-complex rentals near the University.
"Major emphasis has been given to securing 30 per cent student representation in all departmental decision-making on issues," according to the Senate pamphlet.
It also coordinates activities with the
Kansas Union and works with student
basketball teams.
Unlike the University Senate committees, anyone can be a member of a Student Senate committee, even if he is not a senator.
NON-SENATORS COMPIRE a large percentage of committee membership, and some committees will be selecting additional members shortly, according to the
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BUCKLEY SETS his foremost goal for you is "developing a better understanding of how people learn."
"That's the most important thing about this year--getting the students involved," said Buckley. "In the past we had a lot of people that brought it all. Now we're trying to spread it out."
THE FINAL committee, student services, manages the Complaint Center, the Whomper Reclamation Center and the Eemporium Book Store.
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