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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Sept. 9, 1985
Math classes add up to student approval
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Although KU's three self-paced math courses generated numerous complaints when they began three years ago, most students and parents now view the courses in a more positive light, the director of pre-calculus courses said last week.
The Self Instruction Mastery Plan, which started in fall 1981, doesn't receive that many complaints anymore, said Philip Montgomery, the director.
"When the program started there was a lot of resistance from students and teachers," Montgomery said. Students were used to being taught and teachers were used to teaching.
About 2,500 students this semester are taking an active role in their education through the self-paced MATH 000, 002 and 101 courses, Montgomery said.
Students take an active role in the courses, Montgomery said, by learning the material on their own and of being instructed in a class.
However, he said, students can attend an optional two-hour lecture once a week that covers material for the tests.
An advantage to the self-paced program is that students have to
understand material for one test before starting on material for another test, he said.
In other math classes, Montgomery said, students who don't understand a concept may have trouble throughout the course.
The biggest disadvantage of the program is that most of the students in the courses are freshmen, he said, and they have difficulty disciplining themselves.
John Williams, Halstead junior,
said he took 002 and 101 last year to
review the algebra.
"I think you remember a lot more of the principles with this system," he said. "It's a well-run program."
Another student, Lori Kagan,
Highland Park, Ill., junior, said she didn't like the program.
"You have to figure most of the material out by yourself," she said. "It makes more sense to have a class."
But Marilyn Persson, assistant coordinator of the program, said students weren't forced to learn the material on their own.
Students need to be active in the program, by asking tutors for help, she said.
Students are required to pass one exam a week, she said. They take the exam until they pass with at least 70 percent of the answers correct.
"I see one around town sometimes," she said.
"It'll be a surprise," Vogel said.
Neither Highberger nor Vogel could predict when the white bikes might be ready to ride. Highberger said he hoped to see them out next semester.
Although it has taced difficulties, the white bikes idea is still a good one, Vogel said.
Two white bikes occasionally were on campus last spring, but they aren't back this year, Vogel said.
Higherberger, Pleasant Grove graduate student, said the original plan was to leave bikes — painted all white — at various sites around campus. A student could pick up a bike at one spot and ride it to another where it would be left for someone else.
White bikes program moves forward
"It's a clean, environmentally sound way of transportation," she said.
White bikes is an idea whose time hasn't come.
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
But it will soon, according to promoters of the White Bicycle project, who want to give KU students and faculty a free ride around campus.
with a concrete floor and a roof that doesn't leak," Mark Parker, a leader of the project, said in the KU Disorientation handbook.
Carla Vogel and then-vice president Dennis Highberger.
The idea to create a new campus transportation system by making community bicycles available to anyone who wants to ride began last fall with then-student body president
Despite the slow start, Vogel, Overland Park special student, said yesterday the project wasn't dead. Thirty or 40 bikes are in storage, waiting to be repaired. And a yard sale this summer raised enough money to buy a few tools and a book on bicycle maintenance.
"Right now we're looking for people power," Vogel said. "We're trying to find people who are committed."
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