University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 4, 1987
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Education prof to give talk on faculty union
Robert Hohn, professor of educational psychology and research, is scheduled to speak Wednesday on "The AUAP on Collective Bargaining" at 11:40 a.m., Sept. 9, at 11:30 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:40 p.m., 12:80 p.m., 12:10 p.m., 12:40 p.m., 12:80 p.m., 12:10 p.m., 12:40 p.m., 12:8
Apprenticeships open in folk arts
The Kansas Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, sponsored by the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Arts Commission, is providing people experienced in a folk art with the opportunity to study with a master folk artist.
Deadline for applications for 1988 apprenticeships in the study of traditional music, dance and crafts is Oct. 1.
Money is available to pay for master artist fees, supplies and travel.
For more information, contact Jennie Chinn at the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka.
Engineering fair set for Sept. 16
An engineering career fair will be held Sept. 16 at Allen Field House. The fair will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free.
The fair is designed for any student interested in a technical career, but engineering and computer science majors may benefit the most, said Jill Cunningham, engineering placement director.
Forty-five employers are expected to have booths at the fair, including American Telephone & Telegraph Co., General Motors Corp., Procter & Gamble Co., International Business Machines Corp. and the FBI, Cunningham said.
The fair will be informal, Cunningham said, and students can dash through to pick up brochures or spend as much time as they want to talk to recruiters. Last week more than 800 students attended.
Employers will benefit from the fair because they increase their visibility on campus and have a better chance of hiring qualified graduates, she said.
Ukraine role in war to be speech topic
John A. Armstrong, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus of political science, will give a lecture titled "The Ukraine in World War II" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union. The speech, sponsored by the department of history, will be followed by a reception at the Adams Alumni Center.
Correction
because of a reporter's error, the date of the ground-breaking ceremony for KU's new science library was reported incorrectly in yesterday Kanstan.
The ceremony will be at 1:45 p.m. Sept. 11 on the site of the planned building, southeast of Hoch Auditorium.
From staff and wire reports.
Shorter add period ends today
But departments may let students around new deadir.
Bv AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
Today is the last day to add classes — well, almost
Students still can add classes, but the process is more complex. Department officials must grant students special permission before students can add classes.
After today, students who wish to add a class must obtain approval from the designated official from the department that offers the course. Often this official is the chairman of the department. The official shows approval by signing an add card.
"This is approval to add after the last day to add, assuming the class is open," said Gary Thompson, director of student records.
If the class is closed, students must get a closed class opener card. That card permits a student to add a class even if the class is full.
However, the opener cards may be hard to get.
hard to pen. Penny Harris, Cheyenne, Wyo., freshman, tried to add a Biology 106 lab but could not because it was closed. She didn't have an opener card.
"I am taking 106, but I couldn't get into the lab," she said. "I am angry. I'll have to take the lab by itself next semester."
Because this is the first year the add period has been condensed to two weeks, Thompson said it was hard to predict how hectic would be.
"A couple of weeks ago I would
have guessed we would have been extremely busy. But considering how things kind of slowed down this week, the kind of hard to say." Thompson said.
One indication that the center might not be too busy today is that some graduate teaching assistants receive a lot of requests many requests for add cards.
"I have had fewer people asking for add cards than last year," said George Trey, graduate teaching assistant in philosophy. "But people may be getting so discouraged, they may not be asking for cards."
Thompson said that enrollment center staff had been hired to accommodate the maximum number of students in case many students had
waited to add classes. The enrollment center will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. But Thompson said that the center would stay open if people were trying to add classes at 5 p.m.
Although today is officially the last day to add classes, students still can drop classes.
Students have until Sept. 25 to drop classes for most departments without the classes appearing on their transcripts. After Sept. 25, each school has a policy that determines whether a "W" or "F" grade is recorded on the transcript. A "W" grade means the student withdrew from the class. Students should check page 15 of the timetable to see what the policies are.
Scott Carpenter/KANSAN
Getting to know you
Linda Moshier, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, tweaks the nose of David students feel more comfortable with each other in an Acting I class. The Osborn, Kansas City, Kan., senior, as part of an exercise to help the class met in front of Murphy Hall yesterday.
Schumm to solve mystery
By NOEL GERDES Staff writer
Schumm, a Lawrence City Commissioner who owns the Massachusetts Street Delicatessen, 941 Massachusetts St. and Bobo Falbos $150 Smokehouse, 719 Massachusetts St. said the new restaurant would be the end of Sepienmer and it was only a matter of days before he announced its name. But don't ask him how many days. That's a secret, too.
He's not telling the name of his new restaurant at 1511 W. 23rd St. That's right, the one with the sign that's been teasing passers-by since spring with the question "What's my name buh."
Bob Schumm can keep a secret.
"It's an upscale, moderatelypriced, very unique, well-decorated, fun, semi-casual restaurant," Schumm said.
He said that it was modeled after a turn-of-the-century, European bistro, and that it would be decorated with lots of marble, French light fixtures, and original posters that date from 1880 to 1920.
"It's a place where students might take their parents when they come to visit," Schumm said.
The menu will feature a wide variety of cook-to-order dishes, including fresh seafood, chicken, beef, pasta, salads, omelets and an extensive selection of appetizers, he said.
Schumm said the sign had been good advertising, especially since it
"I've been having such a good time keeping the secret," he said, "that I don't know how I'm going to break the name to everyone."
Dayne Relihan, Lawrence senior and night supervisor at Yello Sub, 1814 W. 23rd St., said employees had put a sign up in the window before that restaurant opened that said, "Hey hum, if you tell me your name I'll tell you mine." He said the sign was a joke and was up for four or five days. Yello Sub opened in the middle of July.
Schumm said his new restaurant was originally a Sambo's Restaurant, and most recently was the Egg Roll King.
Math test is made easier
Staff writer
By MARK TILFORD
For Math 101 students, there should not be as much labor after Labor Day this year.
The second test in the college algebra course, in which students work at their own pace, has been reexamined and made a little easier since the fall of 1985. Marilyn Person, director of college algebra said.
Persson said complaints from students about the difficulty of the course's second weekly test were the result of making the test a little less difficult.
"We have gone over the problems and made the figures a little more reasonable for the students," Person said. "We want tests one and two to be good, solid tests to see if they can deal with the arithmetic."
Math 101 and 002 are self-help courses. There are no regular classes, but a room staffed by tutors is available for an evening or experimental lecture is held twice a week.
Students are assigned a weekly test deadline, determined by the last digit in their KUID number. There are 12
weekly tests, a midterm and a final. Deadlines for the second test begin Tuesday.
Among other things, students may not go on to the next test until they receive a grade of 14 or better out of the 20 points possible, but they may take a test as many times as they need before the deadline.
That has helped many students get by in the past.
"More than half of the students
were proficient in John
Massad, lecturer for Math 101.
The second test gives students their first look of the semester at something they have likely seen before: story problems.
"They're a big nightmare for everybody," said Philip Montgomery, director of pre-calculus courses. "That's the big problem involving mathematics. I don't think this test is harder than the other ones, per se."
For Shannon McClure, Ottawa freshman, the test had not presented any problems so far. But she had not taken it vet.
waiting for help in the tutoring room in Strong Hall. "I've been working the problems and I'm going to take it tomorrow."
"I'm not having much of problem," McClure said yesterday while
Steve McBride, Kansas City, Kan. freshman, was not having as easy a time.
"I think it (the course) would be a little better if it were in a classroom," he said. "I went through all the math classes in high school and did pretty well, but it's still pretty tough."
Massad said that passing was likely for students who got help from the tutors.
"Those students who take it four or five times and hope they get an easy test are not going to have an easy time." Massad said.
The test isn't designed to be more difficult than any of the other tests in the semester, he said.
"This is the first time that they hit new material." Massad said.
Students plan trips to help Dole in Iowa
A newly formed committee of KU students met last night to plan trips to Iowa and a letter-writing campaign aimed at helping Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan, win the Iowa Republican primary in February.
Staff writer
Brett Frazier, Pratt junior and chairman of the KU Dole for President campaign, said students would be making trips to fairs in Iowa beginning this month. The students will be at booths where they will answer questions and hand out information about Dole, he said.
"Our main goal is to project that Kansans love Bob Dole." Frazier said. "Students, young people, have such a lot of exuberance and energy that, given the tonight turnout, I feel KU students can do a lot for Bob Dole."
Frazier, who spoke yesterday to about 55 people in the Walnut Room at the Kansas Union, said several students had signed up to go to the
By BEN JOHNSTON
John Jacob, El Dorado junior and treasurer of the KU campaign, said, "Each county in Kansas was assigned by the Dole campaign to write letters, and some of the counties in western Kansas could not meet their quota, so we will have to write more to make up for them."
Frazier said he would not try to raise money from KU students for the Dole campaign. But efforts will be made to solicit other kinds of support from KU students, and the College Republicans will be involved.
"Surely all of you could do three or four or 30 or 20," Frazier said.
The students also would write letters to registered Iowa Republicans who voted in the 1986 Iowa Republican Primary, Frazier said.
Clay County, Iowa. Fair and the National Cattle County Fair in Waterloo, Iowa. These students would spend most of the second and third weekends of September campaigning for Dole, he said.