High school program offers aid to slower students
By BILL HUMMELL
Reporter
Lawrence High School students who can't keep up with their classmates in a regular high school environment are receiving help from the Lawrence High School Extension Program.
Cathy Braddys, math and science teacher for the program, said it was designed to meet the needs of students who, for one reason or another, learn at a slower pace.
"The normal high school is programmed for the average or above average student." Brondos said. "Some kids just can't keep up."
Brondos said, however, that these students weren't necessarily below average in learning
capabilities. For some students, she said, the problem might be a reading disability. In other cases, it might be that the student simply didn't apply himself.
"One problem," Brondos said, "is getting the student to realize that he isn't that dumb, that he's just been goofing off.
"Mary of them have the mental capabilities to be succeeding very well, but they can't take to regular high school structure. For them, it is a case of classic 'ate 1900 nonconformity.'"
The program, which has 84 students and a waiting list, tries to achieve progress by individual instruction.
"We are primarily interested in progress as long
These independent projects may be in the form of a series of readings or additional research on science projects. Mainly, the students are allowed extra time in their own areas of interest, he said.
as the student works at a reasonable rate along a daily program," Brondos said. "After receiving credit for attending 70 days of course work, he can begin on independent projects."
The program is unique in that there is no definite, predetermined program for the student, Brondos said. A student in general science, for example, must have a background in areas; biology, earth science, physics and ecology.
"Once he decides on his topic of interest,."
Brondes said, "he may choose how he wants to study it and his own method of self-evaluation through tests, discussions with the teacher or projects, such as the making of a movie or slide show. Students are judged only by their own progress."
There are no failures in the Extension Program. "A student can carry work over as many students as he needs to complete his work," she said. "I just don't get credit until he completes his work."
The program has reduced frustration to a minimum, she said.
"Most of them, especially the ones with learning patterns, have been delighted with not having the preconditions."
The program is fashioned after the regular high school curriculum of English, math, science and social science courses. In addition, trade courses like food services, carpentry and business are offered.
"The program is more vocationally oriented" Bronise said, "but we can accommodate the state needs of our students."
"A student can stay in the program through grades nine through 12. Upon graduation he receives a regular Lawrence High School diploma. We do encourage a student, though, to go to regular high school in areas of, for example, foreign languages or auto mechanics."
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85-No.38 Thursday, October 17, 1974
Richardson defends actions in handling of Agnew case
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By ERIC MEYER
Editor
Former Vice President Sprog Ayesca escaped a prison sentence because priority was given to getting him out of office before former President Richard Nixon could be impeached, Elliot Richardson, former attorney general, said last night.
Richardson, who recommended that Agnew get no jail sentence, told about 500
people in Hoch Auditorium that he had felt more and more vindicated in making the recommendation.
"Priority had to be given to getting Agnew out the closer we came to the impeachment of President Nixon," Richardson said. "It seemed to me intolerable that we could have a situation in which the impeachment inquiry as to Nixon was going
forward in the House while the vice president was being tried in the Senate."
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Richardson also defended the decision to pardon former President Nixon.
president was being tried in the Senate.” By entering a solo contendere plea, Mr. Sanders also gave government to prove the case against him, either in the Senate or in the courts, Richardson said, and in return the Justice Department agreed not to recommend a jail
Speaker questions need for special prosecutor
The United States doesn't need a permanent special prosecutor, Elliott Richardson, former attorney general, said at a press conference here last night.
Richardson appointed the first Watergate special prosecutor and then resigned as attorney general rather than carry out his duties. The M. Nixon's orders to fire the probe.
"I don't think there is any day in-day and out need for a special prosecutor," he said. "I haven't had a situation comparable to that, so I would have equivalent of a special prosecutor then. That was 50 years ago. I would hope that we could have another need for at least twice that long."
Richardson said he appointed a special prosecutor only because he was too closely identified with the Nixon administration to conduct the investigation himself. Other defendants in general himself should have the responsibility for all investigation and prosecution.
But before the present prosecution force goes out of business, Richardson said, it should complete all cases currently under litigation and write a final report. He said the final report should include all inquiries being on Nixon's involvement in the scandal.
Richardson took the job as attorney general reluctantly, he said, and only in the face of a threat from his own side.
step into the office immediately in the wake of the resignations of Richard Kleindienst, Dr. William W. Gosse and
His experience in three cabinet posts during the Nixon administration has given him ideas on how to more effectively organize the executive branch.
It is ironic that one of former President Nixon's plans to reorganize the executive branch has been viewed as a thrust to take the role of the president, Richardson said.
The plan called for the creation of superagencies to oversee the operation of several present executive departments. Richardson said that unless responsible major officials had direct control over all of the competing interests of the departments might be sedated by some obscure, irresponsible bureaucrat or White House staffer.
He said the result of the pardon was right because justice didn't require prolonged trial for the sole purpose of being able to impose a jail sentence on Nixon.
Richardson
"In the light of his very real service to the nation, especially in foreign policy, and in the light even more of the enormous burden of disprecie that will forever attach to his wife's jail sentence on top of this would be an act of petty retribution," Richardson said.
and, "with due respect," he said, it would be ridiculous to imprison Xionkong order to recorder.
"You have to try to imagine the consequences for an individual of resignation from the presidency of the United States," Richardson said. "You can't do anything to President Nixon now that can hurt anything like as much as that."
However, he said, he would have preferred that the charges against Nixon be spelled out first, responded to by Nixon, and passed the law. He and the attorney general and then dropped
Although he doesn't think a double standard of justice was applied in either case, Richardson said, he thinks the cases were more likely to be focused on the entire sentencing process.
"Disparities in sentences are nothing new in this country," he said. "But . . . it is, the notion that the person who commits an ordinary crime—stealing a loaf of bread is the usual cliche—is going to go to jail just isn't so."
Another development in the aftermath of Watergate is the upgrading of standards on computer systems.
"Things that seemed part of the tough politics of as it has been practiced in the past have not worked."
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Backstage
By Kanaan Photographer JAN SEYMOUR
Elliot Richardson, former attorney general, checked his night before going on stage in Hosta Auditorium to speak in behalf of Secu. Boh Dolce, who is running for re-election.
Nonunion glass firm links damage to union
A rash of recent glass-damaging incidents have been linked to union activities by a team of state legislators.
At least 14 local business were struck
last Tuesday night or early Friday morning.
recently had used the services of nonunion glass firms. Most of these installations occurred within the last 18 months.
Damage in most of the incidents was attributed by police to steel pellets or acid
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Detective Sergeant Francis Auburn said it would be difficult for police to prove exactly who the vandals were because there were no witnesses to the incidents.
firm to be contacted and asked to honor the firm. However, the spokesman said the firm hadn't been contacted during the past strike or before the vandalism incidents.
Alexander said the closest place to get the acid was Kansas City, but it didn't work. The acid doesn't eat through the glass end, and discolors it and roughs the surface.
Police described the acid used by the vandal as an etching acid used by glaziers to decorate windows.
although police were unable to find a cause for some of the firms' damages.
Two businesses said they had received anonymous phone calls asking if they were aware that their glass was being installed by nonunion firms. However, no threats were made directly and no one was asked to stop using nonunion firms. Some firms said they were the damage repaired by the same nonunion firm that first installed the glass.
Police have made no arrests related to the incidents. They have pinpointed the time of the attacks at 11 a.m., in Jersey St., as between 4 and 5 a.m. The times the other incidents occurred were
Police theorized that a slingshot could have been used to propel the pellets, but Alexander said the objects could have been thrown through the windows.
Gene La Combe, operator of Lawrence Glass and Mirror, the only local union shop, was out of town and unavailable for comment.
A spokesman for one nonunion glass firm said no threats had been received before or after the incidents. The union glaziers in New York were unaware of the spokesman said it wasn't unusual for the
The steel pellets used in some of the incidents were described as about one-half inch in diameter. Many had several flat edges. Police said some of the pellets were industrial shot used to put finished surfaces on cast metal parts.
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Dykes asks for opinions on requests
Opinions from other areas of the University concerning recent requests from minority groups are needed, Chancellor Dyks said yesterday at a SenEx meeting.
Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, attended the meeting to clarify the administration's position on matters given to the committee for their recommendations, including the recent' list of demands presented to Dykes by MECHA and the Commission on Indian Affairs (CIA).
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Dykes said the University had tried to be as responsive to minority needs as possible,
Tickets still unsold for Warwicke show
Ticket sales for the Homecoming Concert are moving slowly, according to Bill Weber, chairman of SUA concert promotions.
The concert, with Dionne Warwick and the Righteous Brothers, will be at 7 and 10 p.m. Oct. 28 in Hoch Auditorium.
Weber estimated yesterday that about two-thirds of the tickets for the first show and about half of those for the second show had been sold. The concert was very popular.
Weber said this concert was one of SUA's biggest concerts because of the number of performers who would be coming.
The Rightheas Brothers will bring 15 musicians, including a band, brass and backup singers. Warwicke will be accompanied by a 17-
Wether said two shows had been planned once a show would have sold out long ago. The SUA board chose Hoch because its atmosphere is very upbeat, and it doesn't feel like a show.
Both groups performing have enjoyed successful careers for more than a decade, Weehan said. The Righteous Brothers have had two Top 10 singles in the last few months, "Rock and Roll Heaven" and "Give It to the People." One of their old hits was "Soul and Inspiration."
"Then Came You!" is Warwicke's present hit, coming 10 years after her gold record, "Walk On By."
Tickets for the concert cost $4 and $5. They are available at the SUA ticket office in the Kansas Union. All seats are reserved.