THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 25.1974
University Daily Kansan
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FEATURES
Truth within is the only teacher, Senior says
By MARK MITCHELL.
Renorter
Although John Senior is one of the five finalists for this year's HOPE Award, which honors outstanding teachers at the school, John was determined that he be a teacher if you asked him.
"I awaken the students and get them to recognize those things that are already there."
"I'm not a teacher at all and I do not claim to be a man of wisdom," Senior said. "The truth within you is the only teacher. The only thing I do is prepare the way."
John Senior
Senior, a professor of comparative literature, said truth was available to all students. He asked a coach to habit bats, laziness and fears to the truth. To help a student gain confidence, Senior said, he works with him as a coach works with an athlete to help allay the
"I think the beginning of the philosophic life is the awareness that there is motion," Senior said. "It would seem as if there are people who don't think about that.
According to Senior, the search for truth and self-awareness comes from two fundamental questions: Where do we come from and where do we go from here?
"The ancient philosopher Heraculus may be the paradigm case in our history—the man who sat by the river one day and said, 'The river flows.' That's a very profound comment—someone would say that anybody knows that the river flows, but
Heraclitus was the man who said 'The river flows.'
"That is, he reflected on it, and he looked at other things and he saw that the clouds move, he saw that the grass was growing, that trees move and he even discovered that stones moved very slowly. He came to the cave and sat there watching everything moves. The philosopher is the man who reflects on that and then asks what are the consequences."
1. answer to the question of whether life can sustain us, juggling gaining of knowledge and experiencing fruitful experiences.
"Truth would have to be something greater than ourselves, and one ends up with the oldest and greatest answer, which is that God makes philosophers say, call God." Senior, said.
Because man has a conscience, Senior he has an ability to make choices in his effort to achieve the goals of education. The purpose of education, according to Senior, is to facilitate the gaining of knowledge.
The ideal educational system, he said, would comprise the development of the whole human being. The first stage in the ideal education is the gymnastic stage, in which the student studies how his body moves and functions, and practices the use of his body to help the mind develop, he said.
Midway between the body and the mind is the memory or the imagination, Senior said. This area is essential to a student's ability to recall only those images that come from the senses and are stored in the memory. One of the problems with universities and colleges today, according to Senior, is that the imitation of the memory has been neglected.
"This is something that we have, by and large, lost track of in modern education," Senior said. "There is very little attention paid to the memory anymore. We think that
because we have books, notebooks, computers or tape recorder we don't have to
This improvement of the memory and imagination—what Senior calls the poetic experience—is very important in the educational process, he said, because it helps students handle the more factual, scientific part of education, the third stage of education.
The first two stages of education allow the land to be owned. Senior said, but Mr. Ginsburg negatively neglected
"I'm convinced that the gymnastic and the poetic are absolutely prerequisite, and that it's a terrible mistake to put someone into the gymnastic or prepareation," he said. "In our educational system, we tend to put students instantly into the work of the intelligence, and we leave out gymnastics except as fun, and we leave out poetry except as a form of entertainment."
"We don't any longer ask children to memorize poetry, we don't ask them to submit themselves in a passive way to the poetic experience."
Senior said that 90 per cent of his work in the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program, which he co-founded with Franklin C. Nelick, professor of English, and Demina B. Quinn, professor of English, was going to help students make up for lost time.
*They (students) don't have the living poetic experience and they have shrunken
memories," Senior said. "They can't hold anything in their memory, and there's very little in their memories that they have to hold."
In Pearson College students are asked to memorize poems and songs that, according to Senior, will help give people back their childhoods.
Unless students receive this training, he said, all they have at graduation is intelligence operating in the absence of reason.
Editor's Note; This is the fourth in a series on the five HOPE (Honor to the Outstanding Progressive Educator) Award Finalists.
"You get people who are smart but who don't know the meaning of what they're smart about," Senior said. "You get people who can compute, who can make all kinds of generalizations but have no real experience of the truth of things. For example, they're hard to find, and they don't think that life has a meaning and they don't realize that they're going anywhere."
The fourth and final stage of education is religion, Senior said, which is equally neglected. He said religion was treated as merely a branch of anthropology, but any scientific knowledge was meaningless without religion.
Senior said he had had a natural aptitude for the poetic life since his childhood, but he has never read poetry.
difficult it was to lead this type of life.
When he entered school, Senior said, he specialized in the subjects that closely related to his study of philosophy and literature. One of the greatest influences in his life, he said, came during years at Columbia University, from which he graduated with a Ph.D. He came to KU in 1946.
Senior said he began to study Plato and other philosophers of Western civilization, and this sparked his explosion of consciousness.
Senior said all three founders of the program were interested in the poetic life, so they combined their efforts to form the Pearson Humanities Program.
"We've been working almost like a trio ever since," he said. "It's as if one of us were on clarinet and another on trumpet and another on piano. One of us starts to talk, the other one picks up the tune and the other one gets the beat.
"We've been working with a marvelous group of students since 2014, our students ever since. Pearson College is kind of a spontaneous manifestation of what we had been working on independently all our years."
Senior also teaches several Latin courses at KU. He said he was planning a trip to France as part of the Pearson College program. In France, the students and teachers of his life that Senior said was in simple, gymnasial and poetic contact with reality.
Chess captures students' nights
Bv MIKE MEESKE
Reporter
Vern Meller was' having a press conference in Parlor A of the Kansas Union. He might as well have been in Topke as far as he could, chess players in Parlor C were concocted.
None of the players paid much attention to the sounds of the crowd shuffling into the Ballroom. They were even oblivious to the boos and cheers as Miller was introduced.
As Miller began his speech, one of the players rose from his chair quietly and disconnected the speaker in the parlor. He returned to the chess game.
The player is part of a group that meets on Sunday afternoon and Monday evenings to play in the SUA Chess Club. There were 10 players last night.
Ray Reis, Topeka freshman, said he played the game since he was 7 years old.
Space scientists map state
Officials at the University of Kansas Space Technology Center have assisted in the production of the first complete aerial map of Kansas.
The grant for applied research was one of two grants totaling $450,000 for research involving data derived from the Earth Observatory (TGS-1), which was launched in July 1972.
The project was financed with part of the funds from a renewable $100,000 grant for applied research from NASA, Robert Mays Jr., who faculty interns at the center, said yesterday.
Only California and Alaska received larger grants.
The map was compiled from 17 aerial photographs taken by ERTS-I between ABERDEEN and WICHITA.
Walters said the map had many applications.
The original mosaic was compiled by the General Electric Corporation's Space Division at Bellsville, Md. The map was annotated and reproduced by the Space Technology Center with the financial assistance of NASA.
"Land use patterns are available and
may be observed in the mosaic," he said,
daily observable from the mosaic.
The map also has valuable information about water resources, he said.
The checkerboard appearance of agricultural areas because of varying field
conditions and patterns is visible on the map. Irrigated land is indicated by very dark tones, and center pivot irrigation systems appear as small black circles. Range land appears as large, irregularly shaped gray areas. Cities and road networks appear as bright white areas on the map.
An organization representing eight counties in north-central Kansas requested last year that the Space Technology Center and land-use map for the eight-county area.
"We prepared a gross land-use map for the eight counties using information from the ERTS-I imagery (aerial photos);" Walters said.
Chess players are rated by a class system. Class A has the highest rating. Class B, C, D and E are respectively lower. Class A is numerately rated from 1.000 to 2.000.
He said he hoped to compete in a tournament that would choose members for a University of Kansas chess team. That match was between collegiate tournament later in the year.
From Class A, the rating system goes up to expert. master and grand master.
Bob Woronick, Shawnee Mission sophomore, who has a rating of 1.965, he started playing chess about six years ago. He said a player received his rating by playing, drawing or losing to rated players at sanctioned tournaments.
Woronick said some college teams were vastly superior to others. One team at LSU was better.
KU students weren't the only persons playing chess. Spencer and John Conard, sons of John J. Conard, assistant to the coach of 1614 Louisiana St., were playing each other.
Spencer Conard is in the ninth grade at
Cameron Junior High, John, 11, goes to
Saint Mary's.
Spencer said he had been playing chess for three years and was in a chest club at school. He didn't plan to be a Bobby Fischer, he said.
To even the game, Spencer spotted John three chess pieces and a time advantage.
Young mates check skill
John Conard, 11, was matched against his brother Spencer, 14, last night at a meeting of the SA Chess Club in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.
to the chancellor. The Chess Club meets on Sunday afternoon and Monday evenings.
Large classes, inadequate facilities criticized
Reporter
By GARY BORG
The lecture area was stewed with beer,
wax, whisky bottles, wine bottles and cisterns.
The scene was in Hoch Auditorium yesterday morning after Saturday night's concert and just before the beginning of a break. In which, in what about 370 students are enrolled,
Bible shaking evangelist proselytizes at field house
Reporter
By TOM BILLAM
Amid myhms and exhortations Bill Glass preached old-time religion to about 1,000 people in the Bronx.
Glass, a former all-pro defensive end for the Cleveland Browns, turned to evangelism in 1968 and has led more than 60 crusades since then.
Glass made a dramatic appeal by falling to his knees, shaking a Bible in the air and saying, "Down in my guys I need Him . . . so do you. Faith is the only way to become right with God. If you know Jesus Christ, you are eternal."
Young and old alike listened to evangelist Glass explain what Christianity meant to him. Glass quoted the Bible, shared football encounters and told parables about Jesus Christ.
He said ans' wounded understand him even if he got down on his knees and told me to stay still.
Glass spoke of the problem of communicating with an infinite, perfect being. He compared man's relationship with God to ants' relationship with man.
'I can't even speak French or German,
let alone 'ant',' he said. "The only way for
me to communicate with them is to become an ant."
Jesus took the sins of the world upon himself for you, Glass said as he pointed to the cross.
"During his six hours on the cross, Christ lived your hell for you. He literally lived . . . your hell . . . for you," Glass said, shaking his fist.
Glass expressed concern for people who believed the university's great bigest accident.
That was God's task, Glass said. To talk to man, God had to become a man, he said. The other person said, "Okay."
Glass ended his sermon by asking those in the congregation who were hearing God to come forward and make a commitment to Him.
Everything in the universe was made by one of four causes—man, machine, accident or God. Glass said he. Immediately after that, he started the creation of universe, which left only God.
"God is running the show , and it I believe that, I'd be shaking in my boots."
Many took that first step.
Many instructors have to contend with huge classes and facilities that, as in the case of Hoch, must also serve as the setting for the orchestra or symphony orchestras and student registration.
"Oh, it was cleaned up before class started," said Jacob Kleinberg, professor of chemistry and teacher of the course. But places where he taught best places to lecture in anyway, he said.
Enrollment in some courses at the University of Kansas exceeds 300. This is particularly true in lower level required courses.
"The lecture is just the beginning of the teaching process." Kleinberg said.
In large lecture classes, Kleinberg said, "there is not as much give and take." He also said that demonstrations were difficult because he didn't know where weren't in a position to see them clearly.
He said that in addition to the required laboratory sessions, he also offered optional discussion periods to supplement the lectures.
However, Kleinberg said he hoped he didn't have much of a problem with abdomen.
Kleinberg said it was impossible to keep a record of absences. He said in one of his classes, in which about 370 students were only about 324 were in class at any one time.
"I like to think I give my own flavor to the book," he said in my lectures. "Klempen said, 'I know.'"
At a recent University of Kansas American Association of University Professors meeting, several professors expressed concern over the fact that instructors apparently received lower salaries in the larger sections of their courses.
Charles Reynolds, professor of chemistry at the University that Feedback Labs is lower in levels.
"But you have to take into account that these are usually required classes also."
Reynolds said, "which means some students didn't want in to start with."
Reynolds said that he, as well as most other chemistry professors, offered optional discussion periods during the week as a way for students to interact and interaction lost in the lecture periods.
Reynolds also criticized the lack of adequate lecture rooms at the University.
Kleinberg said the chemistry department had "tried to persuade them to have at least a 700-seat lecture room in Wescow." He also said that equipment for demonstrations was desirable and that present facilities were inadequate.
He said the 200-seat lecture rooms in Wescole Hall weren't adequate.
as well have 1,500 (students) for a lecture," Reynolds said.
"If you're going past 175 or 200, you might
Penny shortage lingers
Last spring's penny shortage has lost much of its sting, but it can still be found around Lawrence, mostly at the local banks.
First National Bank of Lawrence, 9th and Massachusetts streets, hasn't had much of a problem with the shortage but is still on a penny allotment from the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, Mo., said Harold Flanders, head cashier.
Flanders said the bank received $30 in pennies, each month from the Reserve Bank. The Reserve Bank does out pennies to most banks in the country.
In the past, Flanders said, First National used to order as many pennies as they needed.
Flanders said his bank was also supplemented by the pennies in Lawrence's parking meters, which the bank collects.
According to Flanders, the shortage occurred because the minting of pennies hasn't kept up with the demand. He also said there was probably some amount of boarding going on, caused by people hoping for the value of pennies to increase.
Flanders advised people to spend their pennies because keeping them in circulation would be the only way to avert another shortage.
"The mint in Denver works on a tight budget," he said. "They can up their production, but can't do so until the penny increase is budgeted." Lawrence National Bank, and Massachusetts streets, also said they were being rationed, but at a rate of one-third of what they used to order.
"If our people didn't bring in pennies, we would have a shortage." I love you. "They just have a tendency to bring them back to us."
Loney said the only way to prevent further shortages would be to give the local merchants the correct change and make checks out for
Judy Loney, vice president in charge of operations, said they didn't have too much of a problem because their customers had cooperated.
Overflowing classrooms aren't peculiar to the department of chemistry. One example of this is a course entitled *Biochemistry*. Professor Maguad Maestro studies professor of psychology
Shely said his biggest problem was the sheathing. He taught a course which includes about 300 students.
Optional workshops, conducted by un-merged students, along with optional coursework, at the site or by perimeters. Shelly said, tend to complicate the bookkeeping process but allows the use of a computer.
"I've read that some actors spend as much as half an hour getting ready for a performance, but not one lecture, somewhere, it wouldn't be any problem. But three times a week, I
Shelly said he could limit the size of his classes, but there were pressures on him not to.
"With a small class it doesn't matter." Shelly said. But for a large class, Shelly said he had to prepare himself much as an actor does before a performance.
Shelly also said he felt the need to "get up" for a lecture before a large audience.
Lower level biology courses also have their share of student overflow. Robert Hersh, professor of biochemistry, teaches courses of Biology 104 with about 225 students.
"The main problem is getting to know the students." Hersh said.
Hersh said that although he hadn't thought much about the problem, he would prefer to have smaller classes. He said demonstrations in larger classes were infeasible without the aid of television equipment.
"The one-on-one approach is ideal," Hersh said.
to supplement the lectures, Hersh said,
we try to get them (students) interested in
them.