University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 3, 1975
'Great Ideas' tried at KU
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A new approach to the Western Civilization program is being tried this year, James Seaver, director of Western Civilization, said yesterday.
Students enrolled in the new course don't take the Western Civilization comprehensive exam required for students taking this course (WC14 and 106). Students in the new course, "The Great Ideas" (WC12 and 125), take a mid-term and final exam, receive three hours credit each semester and two lectures and a discussion a week.
There are 210 students enrolled in the new course.
from Donaldson, assistant director of Western Civilization, said, "The lectures in the readings are based on ideas in the readings as much as they are designed to help the students understand the historical and ideological background and context in which the writer has writ-
The lectures are given by Seaver and Francis Heller, professor of law and philology.
Seaver said guest speakers, slides and films were also presented in the class.
"The college assembly three or four years ago suggested we experiment with different routes," Server said. "The idea is some kind of better bet to one approach than they would another."
The first experimental course, called Western Civilization Discussion-Lecture Course, was taught by Larry Seaver said. This course meets three hours a week for three hours credit in classes of 30. There are 280 people enrolled in this course this semester. There are no separate courses offered.
Donaldson said this course was successful and was now a permanent part of the Donaldson's team.
"At the end of the course we're going to try to have some of the students take the comprehensive, but not for credit," said he. "We just want to see how they do."
Donaldson said that at the end of the year the Western Civilization Committee would evaluate the Great Ideas course and would determine whether it should continue. He said he faculty members, one graduate student and two undergraduates on the committee.
Seaver said that he thought background material presented in the lectures would help the student appreciate the meaning of the authors more.
Paul Ceruzzi, Western Civilization teaching assistant, teaches discussion groups of students enrolled in the lectures and students who aren't.
He said he thought students who had the lectures came to class better prepared to discuss, but he said it was too early to judge the value of the lecture course.
Greg Stokesbury, Bonner Springs junior, is enrolled in the new course. He said he would prefer all lectures without the discussion.
Seaver doesn't think large lecture classes will replace the discussion group. He said one of the goals of the course was to begin to teach students to speak intelligently about important ideas.
Dong Stark, Wichita sophomore, said, "I think the discussions are by far the most important part, especially if you have a good discussion leader."
Seaver said that the grade for the new Western Civilization course is based 50 per cent on the discussion group. He said the exams are similar to the three and one-half hour comprehensive exam, but were designed to be taken in 50 minutes.
KU blood drive breaks record with 744 pints
move the lines twice as fast as usual
McCarthy said that scholarship hall representatives were much more involved in organizing the drive this fall than they had been in the past. She said she thought next spring's total would be even greater because representatives from residence hall government planned to assist the other groups in organizing the drive.
this fall, according to Kelpie McCarthy,
Northbrook, III, junior and coordinator of
the drive. More students signed up for
appointments, she said, and this helped
balance the number of donors throughout
the three days of the drive.
come along with us,
This week's blood drive, sponsored by the Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council, resulted in a record 144 pints of blood.
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The German conference room in 2005 Weco Hall has previously been used as the German library. Hulserbauer said that the office offices where the Engel Library was built.
The drive fell 56 pins short of its goal of
300, but the total exceeded the 728 pins that
would have been needed.
If the system is a success, it will be put into orbit aboard a NASA satellite. Unabate
Marjorie Zwiers, assistant instructor of German, will be the librarian. She said the library would be open Monday. The library will probably be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, Zwiers said, but definite hours haven't been set yet.
The Engel family has invited representatives of the University and friends to the dedication.
To find a way to detect crop diseases and speed up crop inventories, Fewwaz Ulab, associate professor of electrical engineering, is doing research with a special radar system, designed and built at the University.
Crop data radar studied
The long wait in line that donors have faced in the past were greatly diminished.
Tom Bush, senior research engineer and Lawrence graduate student, said a radar-equipped satellite could fly over the area and send back data on Kansas fields.
Angel and his wife, Cora, both died in 1958. The Engel Fund started in 1968 with donations from friends and former students of the Engels. In 1969 the fund received support from six the Engel sons and daughters, who were all graduates of KUJ
Bush said that a pulse of energy was
It takes from six months to a year to collect this data now, Ulaby said. With the help of a satellite the data could be collected in a matter of seconds.
Elmer Engel, for whom the fund was named, graduated from KU in 1892 and was a member of the faculty of the KU German department. He was a department chairman for five years.
McCarthy also said two lines were used by the men, on one for those with appointment and on the other for those without.
Dedication of a new German library, Engel Library, will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the new library on the second floor of Wescace Hall.
Helmut Huelsberger, chairman of the Germanic languages and literatures department, said yesterday that the library was presented to the University of Kansas by the Engel Fund of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
German library to be dedicated
bounced on the fiel' and that from the echo the researchers hope to be able to tell the moisture of the soil, the plant size and the growth rate. The soil is the plant. This isn't possible yet, he said.
"But the research of the last three years has hadrimonio results," he said.
Ulaby said that the moisture content of both the plants and soil could be ascertained from the data. Checking these figures could help detect a possible drought. he said.
If the soil moisture content was low, Bush said, the people running the irrigation wells could be notified to send more water to the plants.
He said that this radar was different from others because it was absolutely calibrated. This means that numbers could be attached to the degree of moisture read by the radar. The amount of moisture content could be determined but no absolute number could be attached to the data.
Security and Parking reported yesterday that a bench power supply, valued at $127, and the internal parts of a tape recorder, were stolen from Learned Hall, possibly Sunday.
Ulaby said the moisture content data could also be analyzed in computers to more accurately predict the water loss.
Another advantage of this radar system, according to Bush, is that clouds don't affect it.
Electrical equipment valued at more than $500 was stolen sometime between Friday and a day from the department of aerospace, to be transferred to the Security and Parking Department.
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