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Friday, November 5, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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QUESTION: What kind of course taught at the University of Kansas has over 2,500 students, is taught by over 200 teachers, and is almost impossible to cheat in because you never see your classmates or, for that matter, the teacher?
ANSWER: A correspondence course
There are more than 200 correspondence courses taught by the University of Kansas that are available to both traditional and nontraditional students, Sally Bruce, editor-in-chief of independent study programs in continuing education, said recently.
The majority of these are concentrated in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, but more courses in journalism, business and engineering have been added recently.
No specific grade point average is required to enroll in a correspondence course, but students are restricted to taking a maximum of 30 correspondence credit hours, which must be completed before their senior year.
Most correspondence courses average 24 lessons for a regular three-hour course, Bruce said, and most teachers require at least one completed lesson each week.
Kansas House could undergo leader changes
TOPEKA (A÷) Rep. John Hayes, Hutchinson, may announce today whether he will challenge Rep. Wendell Lady, Rivers Park, to become House minority leader.
Hayes said yesterday that he wanted to check with Reno County election officials to confirm his narrow 23-vote victory in Tuesday's election, and confer with some Republican House colleagues before Wednesday. "We are leaning toward running for the post."
Lady told a statehouse news conference yesterday that he would seek the top Republican position, now that the GOP has won the governor's race to the Democrats on an 65-40 margin.
House and Senate members of both political parties convene here Dec. 6 for organizational meetings, and that's when the will be taken on the leadership positions.
Lady and Hayes had been declared house speaker candidates until the Democrats shocked everyone by winning House control for the first time in 64 years.
On the Democrats' side, rep. James Holderman, D-Wichita, said he would decide by next week whether to challenge Senator Carlin, D-Smokel, for house speaker.
Both had said at the end of last session wanted the job in the event the Department did not.
Carlin, now House minority leader,
reiterated at a news conference his in-
spirations.
Holderman said he still was weighing his options between a leadership post and a managerial role.
He also could bid for House majority leader, the post now held by Hayes.
Rep. Patrick Hurley D-Leaventworth, declared his candidate for majority position.
Many on-campus classes in which the student receives an incomplete grade are made up by taking correspondence courses between semesters. Bruce said. Other courses in regular correspondence course may take as much as a year to complete the course.
"Correspondence courses give a student more time to study by getting him out of the one-semester routine of coursework," Bruce said.
Ken Suter. Hutchinson senior, said that he is working at his own pace in correspondence.
"I think that I had about a year to insist this history course I took when I was a junior. It wasn't too hard, and there wasn't a lot of it," he said. "It was easy to day to pick up some hours," he said.
Bruce said that correspondence courses were probably a little harder than their on-campus counterparts because the student had to use the online examination or immediate answers to his questions.
"Correspondence courses aren't inferior to or easier than any regular course," she said. "The student must take a more active role in it because he has no external motivation like friends or teachers present."
Most of the materials and books used in a correspondence course now can be purchased at the Kansas Union Bookstore, and the books can be resold at the end of the course. In the past, the materials were sold only at the Continuing Education building.
"The teacher has control over the objectives and content of the course, but the design and techniques are developed by us." Bruce said.
She said that Continuing Education was reimbursed by the Bookstore for the materials that it sold. When the teacher develops and uses his own course materials, he must report to the account of investment only, and usually is pivoted during a period of years, she said.
"The teacher never makes any money off it, and the money we make is plowed right back into developing or improving other programs," she said.
Aside from textbooks and materials for correspondence courses, additional costs may be required.
incidental fee for postage, processing and special assignment paper for each lesson
Students who have finished college, and those who are just starting, have taken advantage of KU's correspondence program.
"Some come back for refresher courses to reacquaint themselves in a specific field," Bruce said. "Last summer we started a program for recently graduated high school students who got a head start by taking three years of college English by correspondence."
"It's still cheaper than enrolling in six hours of on-campus courses." Bruce said.
The correspondence program is part of the University's Outreach program, designed to spread University services throughout a wider area.
Changes seen for third parties
Election results have signaled the end of independent support for Eugene McCarthy and the beginning of support for the Democratic women for both movements said yesterday.
Hal Wert, state coordinator for the McCarthy campaign, said the state and national vote for McCarthy, about one per cent, was disappointing.
Without the five per cent of the vote required to get federal funds for the 1980 presidential race, Wert said, neither McCain nor Clinton would be the candidate would have a chance of winning.
1" would predict that the liberal third-party movement has been nipped in the肚脐.
But Wert said he was pleased with voting results from Douglas County, because more voters have come to vote in the district.
If every place would have done as well as
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Tom Hart, American Party candidate for state representative from the 44th district, said he wasn't disappointed with election results. He won three per cent of the vote in losing to Democratic candidate Michael Glover.
He said the newly formed American Party, which stresses a reduction in government involvement, hadn't expected to win any races. American Party candidates in Douglas County ran for sheriff and two county commission seats as well as for state representative.
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