September 6,1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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The University Daily KANSAN
Watson Library to have sale tomorrow and Friday
Watson Library will have a surplus book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow and Friday in the courtyard in front of the library.
"There is a something for everyone," said Susan Hamilton, library assistant for exchange and gifts.
The books on sale, most of which will sell for 50 cents, range from literature to travel to art. Encyclopaedia Britannicas dating back to the 1940s also will be on sale, she said.
The East Asian Library will have its own book sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday on fifth floor Watson.
Art director for Time to speak
Rudi Hoglund, art director for Time magazine, will give the first lecture in the Hallmark Symposium Series at 6 p.m. Monday in 3140 Wescoe.
Hogland will speak about the relationships among illustrators, art directors and editors, said Tom Allen, Hallmark visiting professor in the School of Fine Arts.
"He'll also talk about the process of selecting covers for Time — the team decision of choosing a photo or painting." said Allen, who is in his third year as a Hallmark professor.
Hallmark professional.
Allen helped last year to develop the lecture series, which is financed by a $38.00 grant from Hallmark. Six other Hallmark lectures are scheduled throughout the semester.
Republicans plan ceremony
Vern Chesbro, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party will attend the Sunday opening of the Douglas County Republican Party Headquarters, 1601 W. 23rd St., suite 104. The opening ceremony is scheduled from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
representatives from the campaigns of Sens. Nancy Kassebaum and Robert Dole and local Republican candidates will attend the informal opening.
Volunteers to help with the campaigns of Republican candidates will be accepted. Refreshments will be served.
Prof to lead Geology Congress
John C. Davis, senior scientist at the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas, was elected president of the International Association for Mathematical Geology in August at the 27th annual International Geological Congress in Moscow.
Davis, also a professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, described the association as a "research forum" for more than 1,000 scientists from all parts of the world, including 200 from the Soviet Union. The association specializes in the application of mathematics to problems in geology.
geoblogy Davis will lead the organization until the 1989 International Congress in Washington, D.C.
Photo exhibit opens Sept. 15
An exhibit of about 125 photographs of mud-style architecture in western African and southwestern Asian deserts will open Sept. 15 at the KU Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall.
Jean-Louis Bourgeois, architectural historian, and Carolele Pelos, photographer, spent two years documenting religious buildings and homes in such places as Morocco, Niger, India and Afghanistan.
The photos — most in color — are on a two-year tour organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition. The exhibition will be at the museum until Dec. 12.
Weather
Today will be sunny, windy and warmer. The high will be in the mid 90s with southerly winds of 15 to 30 mph and gusty. Tonight and tomorrow will be mostly clear. The low tonight will be in the mid to upper 60s. Tomorrow will be hot, with a high in the mid to upper 90s.
NCAA's academic standards studied
By BRENDA STOCKMAN
Staff Reporter
Officials at the University of Kansas this week agreed with a recent study that calls for the National Collegiate Athletic Association to modify its academic eligibility standards for first-year athletes
The study, released last week by Advanced Technology Inc. of Reston, Va., said that the NCAA should greatly modify its new freshmen eligibility standards, which have been adopted by the group but won't take effect until 1986.
The use of the new standards may discriminate against disadvantaged students, many of whom would eventually graduate if given the chance, the study said.
THE STUDY LISTED THE SIMI-graduation rates of athletes and non-athletes at NCAA Division I schools as a reason to doubt the effectiveness of the new standards.
of students with grades 10 or higher.
More specific records of the graduation.
Lonny Rose, assistant athletic director and professor of law, said that there were fewer than five percentage point differences in college athletics at the athletics and nonathletes who graduated from KU.
and attrition rates of student athletes is not yet available, said Paul Busirk, special assistant for athletic advising in the office of academic affairs. The office hasn't yet had time to complete a study of those rates, he said.
saID. Bel Brinkman, faculty representative to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board and dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said that NCAA Proposition No. 48, which outlines the new standards, was passed with the understanding that studies and revisions would be made.
The proposition, although not perfect, has focused attention on the problem of academic eligibility, he said.
"I THINK IT WILL be adjusted," Brinkman said. "I don't think Proposition No. 48 go as it now stands."
The new NCAA standards, which will go into effect in 1986, say that incoming athletes must meet two requirements: to be immediately eligible, an athlete must score 700 on the SAT or 15 on the ACT, and he must have a 2.0 average in 11 core course requirements.
The study suggests three alternatives to the proposition:
- require freshmen to meet either the
grade point average or the test criteria.
- require all student athletes to pass the core curriculum and allow those with grade point averages below 2.0 to earn freshmen eligibility by scoring the test minimum.
- weigh the test score and core curriculum separately, but have a minimum qualifying standard of the two together.
standard of the NCAA. Brinkman said that because the NCAA was seeking ways to predict college success it turned to the ACT and SAT scores. These scores have long been used as standards for student placement, honors programs and scholarship awards, but many coaches and athletes objected when the NCAA suggested using them for standards of athlete eligibility.
only. Brinkman said that ACT and SAT were not meant to be predictors of college success and that high school preparation varied.
that might. MONTE JOHNSON, ATHLETIC director, said that establishing a core curriculum was more difficult than it might appear
"You can imagine what some schools in any part of the country might have that would meet the math core curriculum," he said. "If one school has Fun With Math and another has Algebra — Trig, what's the comparison in difficulty?"
But, Brinkman said, problems with a core-curriculum requirement were part of the reason the NCAA sought a standard that combined test scores. The best standard available was previous academic records, he said.
Johnson said, "We're all groping to find something that's fair.
"I'd like to see every one of our athletes that we make a commitment to, graduate. If all you do is keep him eligible you might not be helping him graduate."
HE SAID THAT ALTHOUGH academic standards were needed, a provision for exceptions also was needed.
exception in man. Brinkman said the new standards would not prevent any student from attending the University. Athletes could still participate as sophomores if they met the eligibility standards.
Rose and Larry Brown, KU head basketball coach, said that they would prefer that freshmen not be eligible for varsity sports
no matter what it is there will probably be someone, somewhere who will abuse it," Brinkman said.
in effect, the final standards would require either a minimum test score or a core curriculum.
William Blue, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, stands at one of the micro computers (in 3064 Wescoe, a small room next to Spanish office) he uses to tutor Spanish students. Blue is the first at KU to use micro computers as a teaching aid.
Joel Jackson/KANSAN
New programs to aid learning by computer
By ERIKA BLACKSHER Staff Reporter
KU students may have an easier time learning the Spanish language, writing an essay or understanding logic because of developments being made by professors in computer programming.
The Spanish department next week will begin using a computer program designed to drill and challenge beginning Spanish students.
"It could be a helping program for those who are having some difficulties or a challenging program for those who are doing well and wanted to improve," said William Blue, professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT is designing a similar program which will be ready by fall 1985, and the philosophy department is in the early stages of a program for the introductory logic course.
Blue said the Spanish program, the first of its type to be used at the University of Kansas, was more advanced than most programs because it could deal with everything from the simplest vocabulary words to the most complex sentence structure.
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"As it works now, the program knows how to conjugate all verbs in the Spanish language," he said. "Therefore, when a student is answering a question about verb conjugation, the computer then can give him or her hints about what's wrong with the answer."
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HASKELL SPRINGER, PROFESSOR of English and director of the freshman and sophomore English program, said the English department was looking for a system that not only would assist students with basic grammar and punctuation but also would teach them good writing habits.
For example, if a student abuses the passive verb construction, Springer said, the program will alert him.
prog in which he says, "Our intention is to start out with a small pilot program," he said, "and then adapt it to students' needs."
students need Blue's program, which he began designing in December 1983 with the assistance of KU graduates Robin Rasure and Grant Steinle, initially will be used by students in the intensive 10-credit hour Spanish course.
The program will give the instructor and students more time in class for activities other than repetitive drilling. Blue said, "IT GIVES THE STUDENTS the opportunity to do an entire series of drills that can be geared directly to their class, to the level they're working on and to work at their own speed," he said.
speed, the said.
Because repetition is essential to learning a language, the computer works well as a tutor. Blue said.
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"It's a skill course." he said. "The more practice that you get, just like the piano, the better you get at it."
Arthur Skidmore, associate professor of philosophy, began working on a computer program for an introductory logic course three weeks ago.
The program, which should be completed by fall 1968, will be aimed at students who need or want extra help. Skidmore said. Almost 40 percent of the students in the Introduction to Logic course fit that category, he said.
"ITS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to give that kind of extra instruction," he said.
Blue said he planned to have the computer available for students Mondays through Wednesdays in the Spanish and Portuguese office. He will check the computer on Thursdays to see where the students' main problems are and then review the problems before weekly quizzes
KU students keep clean records after mock abduction
Staff Reporter
By JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
A college prank that backfired on its perpetrators ended yesterday with a diversion agreement between the students involved and the Douglas County District Attorney.
UNDER THE TERMS of the diversion agreement, if the four students charged in the incident successfully complete the terms of their probabilities, no charges will be pressed, and no record will be kept of the case.
The four students charged agreed to pay $30 restitution each to Goodpasture, as well as court costs and a diversion fee. The four also agreed to work 10 hours of community service. They will be on probation for 11 months.
AUTHORITY
The prank took place in May when Victor Goodpasture, Topka sophomore, was held by six other KU students in a mock abduction. The diversion agreement was reached after the district attorney's office decided to press charges, although Goodpasture had declined to do so.
"I didn't press charges, the state did," Goodpasture said yesterday. "I didn't want the court hassle, and anyway, it was just a prank."
BUT ASSISTANT DISTRICT Attorney Jerry Wells said, "We felt strongly that because of the possible harm that could have come, even out of a prank, that it merited more than not doing anything."
Goodpasture and Kruger were roommates at the time.
The prank was the culmination of a series of incidents that took place last year in Ellsworth Hall between Goodpasture and other residents of his floor, including the four who were charged in the incident. John, junior; Dirk Kruger, Leavenworth junior; Robert McAlexander, McLouth sophomore; and Quentin McClung, Metamora, III, junior.
"We were definitely total opposites," Kruger said. "I probably did it just because of all the little things throughout the year."
ON MAY 9, AS Goodpasture was walking back to Ellsworth after a Western Civilization final, six men wearing masks threw a sheet over his head, put him in the back of a yellow pickup and held him down while they drove to Woody Park.
"It was perfectly executed." Goodpasture said. "I thought it was a joke. I didn't take it seriously at first."
Goodpasture said, however, that he became concerned because no one spoke to him.
SIGMA DELTA TAU HAS COME TO K.U.
ALL INTERESTED SOPHOMORE JUNIOR AND SENIOR WOMEN ARE INVITED TO AN INFORMATIONAL MEETING
SEPTEMBER 6TH
5-7 P.M.
ENGLISH ROOM
KANSAS UNION
SVA FILMS
TONIGHT
with Takashi Shamura
Woodruff Auditorium, Level 5, Kansas Union
7:30 $1.50
M G O O P B O V E O U
BIKING AROUND LAWRENCE
TOURS: All tours leave from South Park Sept. 8: Ride to Baldwin, 8 am breakfast at Blackjack Inn
22. Clinton Lake, 080410
Bring your swimming suit
Sept. 15: Eudora Evening Ride, 3:15 pm
Sept. 22: Clinton Lake, 8:30 am Bring your swimming suit
Sept. 29: Perry Lake, 8:30 am 50 mi.
Routes for tourists and racers
FIRST CLUB RACE OF THE SEASON:
Sat, Sept. 8th, 10am:
12 mi.Time Trial, $1 entry fee (no charge for bike club members)
Entries at SUA Office or call 864-3477 Start: 2 mi. N of Kasold & Peterson.
For info on all bike club activities, call 864-3477 or stop by the SUA Office.