page 10 University Daily Kansan, September 29, 1982
Committee considers open seating at games
By DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
While parents and students sit together at Saturday's football game, members of the Student Senate sports committee will be pondering whether student seating at all football games should be open.
Reserved seating in the student section has been canceled for the game, said Mike Hamrick, administrative assistant to the athletic department. Mr. Kniffok for the game has been moved back one hour, to 2:45 p.m.
MARK Holloway, co-chairman of the Senate sports committee, said the committee would begin drafting a bill to allow induction at its next meeting in October.
Jim Lessig, KU athletic director,
told the committee yesterday that
he would favor making student
seating at all home games open,
if students decide that is what they want.
Lessig said open seating would be an advantage for students and the athletic department because students often change seats at games, so they get a nice time sitting at games and it would be easier to sell tickets.
"THOSE students who really want to see the game would get there early to get good seats," Lessig said. "If students arrive early while the band is on the field, spirit will build."
Lessig and the committee members discussed options for open seating. One would be to have it for parents as a parent's Dav and Homecoming.
"At universities where I was in the past, Parents' Day was very important because parents wanted to
be on campus," he said. "When I got to KU, it was just a name applied to a day.
"It was inconceivable to me for parents to drive all day and not be able to sit with their son or daughter." he said.
ANOTHER open seating option would be to sell both reserved and open seating tickets.
Holloway said he liked this idea because he would not want seniors to have to give up their seating privilege if they did not want to.
"I have mixed feelings about open seating," he said. "Open seating will increase enthusiasm for the team." The coach has been irritated by getting substandard seats.
"It may be good to have reserved seats for seniors and open seating for other classes. Or it may be good to let everyone have the option of choosing open seating or reserved seating."
IN THE LONG run, the sports committee will decide whether to recommend that the Senate ask the athletic department to sell open seating tickets for students next year. Holloway said.
In other business, the committee discussed a proposal made by Hamrick that it work with the athletic department to create a student committee to promote athletics at KU.
HAMRICK said he wanted a group of students who would be interested in finding ways to get people to attend athletic events.
Lessig said he wanted the committee to be made up of a cross section of students so that the department would get students' opinions
"We will never try to do anything big without getting input from students first," Lessig said.
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ANOTHER reason KU is not helping alleviate the shortage is that many teacher openings are in western Kansas, he said.
By BRET WALLACE Staff Reporter
KU not relieving teacher need, prof says
The KU department of special education is doing little to alleviate a shortage of special education teachers in Kansas, the former chairman of the department said recently.
Marshall said the most severe shortages among 15 special education programs were in programs for students with language difficulties and emotionally disturbed students.
"Single students don't want to go out there, and married students do not want to go because it would be hard for their spouses to find a job," he said.
"MOST OF them return to their old jobs when they get their degree," Clark
Clark served two years as acting chairman before the current chairman, Rutherford Turnbull, took office.
Staff Reporter
The former chairman, Gary Clark, professor of special education, said the KU program was only a graduate program, geared toward giving further training to teachers who already had jobs.
Most of the vacancies result from school cancels, reduce over-age students, let them leave
Jim Marshall, direcor of the Kansas Special Education Administration, said there were more than 200 vacancies for special education teachers in Kansas.
The KU program draws a lot of out-of-state students who are not interested in working in Kansas, Clark said.
CLARK SAID that to help alleviate the shortages, KU would have to start an undergraduate program so that students could teach straight out of college. The University does not have an undergraduate program because it would require a larger staff and because of protests from smaller state universities that do have undergraduate programs.
teachers for the mentally retarded by 1861. Marshall said. It was amended in 1974 to require teachers for all those students who require special education, such as the emotionally disturbed and those with learning disabilities.
Teacher shortages have resulted in some students being institutionalized instead of learning in a regular classroom, Clark said.
A few schools also have teachers who are not qualified to teach special education filling the vacancies, Marshall said.
A mandate passed in Kansas in 1969 required all state schools to hire
MARSHALL said special education had followed the general trend of teacher shortages in that rural areas were affected the most.
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The need is greater in rural areas because young people tend to be attracted to metropolitan areas, Marshall said. A large percentage of students in the school district because of increased interest in the field in the past 10 years, he said.
Prof says SAT score jump may mislead
By VERONICA JONGENELEN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
SAT scores of high school seniors,
released last week, increased three
percent.
A recent increase in Scholastic Aptitude Test scores could be the result of standard error of measurement and does not necessarily show an increase in aptitude, a KU associate professor said yesterday.
According to a story in this week's Newsweek, the increase in SAT scores shows the effect of educational intervention and secondary schools across the nation. Children also
are learning how to take tests and are scoring higher because of it, according to the story.
The composite ACT score of incoming KU freshmen in 1981 was 21.6, the same as in 1980, according to a report released by the office of institutional research and planning. The national average in 1981 was 18.7.
BUT GARY Price, associate professor of counseling, said a student's test result was not an absolute score and might vary.
"If people took the test a repeated number of times, you would expect the result to be greater."
For instance, Price said, a score of 500 is only a relative, not exact, measure of a person's aptitude. A more accurate measure may be 495 or 505, depending on measurement error, he said.
An decline in national ACT scores has continued since 1969, the report said. The decline at KU began in 1967 and leveled off in 1980 and 1981.
"A SMALLER fluctuation on the ACT scale would be comparable to a larger fluctuation on the SAT scale," he said. ACT scores are used at the UiN
Standard error fluctuates with the size of the test scale, he said. The SAT
High school students often are not aware of the math training they need to succeed.
scale runs from 200 to 800, he said,
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scales runs from 1 to 9.
THIS DROP in math aptitude probably means that incoming students will have to start out in a course lower than they otherwise would be able to, Robert Brown, associate chairman of the math department, said.
Mathematic scores for incoming KU freshmen declined in 1981, when 24 percent of the freshmen class had been one and 15, according to the report.
Brown said he hoped high school counselors would get the message that low ACT scores meant that students needed more training.
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