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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.62
(USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1992
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French professor receives H.O.P.E
Students credit his Socratic approach
By Lynne McAdoo Kansan staff writer
The sixteen students in Professor Ted Johnson's humanities class sat in a conference room in the Spencer Museum of Art. Johnson made half of them face the wall and the other half view a multi-colored drawing. He then asked the students to describe the drawing to the ones who were turned up.
He walked around the room smiling as the students tried to describe how the picture sounded.
One student described it as a New York traffic jams another student described it as a noisy playground. He gently prodded the students to try and form a mental image of the picture from the descriptions.
Andrew Rynnill, Spring Hill senior, said that he thought the picture looked like a child's drawing that might be posted on a refrigerator.
"That's wonderful, develop that idea." Johnson fired back.
The discussion wandered to the topic of how the refrigerator might be the most important appliance in the house
AP poll favors KU
The number within parentheses represents the total first-place votes received.
last year's points final rank
1. Michigan (23) 1,536 15
2. KANSAS (19) 1,513 2
3. Duke (15) 1,504 1
4. Indiana (6) 1,489 5
5. Kentucky 1,341 6
6. Seton Hall (2) 1,300 19
James Dean Wendy Vise
Three other Big-8 teams are ranked
See related story on Page 9
By David Dorsey
'Hawks land second spot in first poll
ing for the Kansas men's basketball the NCAA Tournament, the Jay-2 in the nation in the final Association.
Iblams said he was not surprised at ing, which was the highest the Jayreseason since his tenure began in
heigh this season, as the Jayhawks,
2 ranking two weeks before their
Michigan, which lost the NCAA
last season to Duke, was the top-
released yesterday.
was to be expected, especially publications ranked us so highly" g this means is that people do have r, in basketball, you have to do it on Ils. Our players and coaching staff
tations, "Dick Vitale's Basketbaur College/Prep Preview", ranked theation.
insas, Duke, Indiana and Kentucky f the AP's preseason poll.
Eric Pauley said that the poll did out that Kansas belonged in the top
hose teams probably belongs up
yay look at what we accomplished
we'll do this year. A lot of things can
we guard, said he agreed with the n the poll but not necessarily with
uld be any of those five teams," he in pinpoint who is the best team in
one starter from last season. no
Senior guides Rex Walters and
it is considered to be one of the top
try. Junior forward Richard Scott,
very game last season, returns as
r first exhibition game of the sea at 7 p.m. Thursday in Allen Field
idea about my team after Thurs-
regular season for the Jayhawks is
could indicate the validity of the usas will play No. 4 Indiana in the polis. That same day, the defend the third-ranked Duke Blue Devkeled Michigan Wolverines in a CAA championship game.
award
ett Griffin
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