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Wednesday, October 27, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Scholar wants education changed
By DAYNA HEIDRICK
Staff Writer
Roeremary Park, Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, said last night that a possible illiterate society of the future could be created by reorganization of the educational system.
Park, speaking in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union to about 25 people, pointed to the decline in scholastic aptitude test (SAT) scores among high school graduates during the past few years as the first symptom of a student's dependence on literacy for political and economical action and that felt no need to understand human history.
Park said an illiterate society could be avoided if studies were conducted to discover when the human mind easily grasped certain types of learning, such as mathematics, language, philosophy, and history, and if the educational system were reorganized to correspond to those research findings.
Without this reorganization, Park said, it is possible that the world could soon experience a new Dark Ages.
Park said the course of higher education in the future also depended on understanding the history of higher education and present social policies.
Park outlined the development of
autonomy accountability and specialization.
Park said autonomy, the right of scholars
to teach and engage in research without external constraints, is sometimes compromised by funding from outside the university. The internal pressures into university decisions.
Park said the concept of autonomy encouraged the development of private or independent schools, which were not dependent on governmental funding. But as these schools face financial crises today, they must be able to function state or federal government and, consequently, their autonomy is potentially threatened.
Park cautioned against excessive educational specialization, pointing out that the jobs students train for today may not exist in 10 years. She said she feared the potential for new skills to outweigh any concern for developing energies that might direct these skills.
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Students must melt about 350 pounds of glass each evening so there will be enough glass for eight students to work with the next day. Brecha said. Now, he said, they melt glass from a pile of broken soda bottles, which were shaken after that used. Brecha said, they'll have to get another donation or make it themselves from pure silica and potash.
Breecha said glass blowing was gaining popularity because it was a new art. The first collegiate glass blowing course was offered at Wisconsin at Madison in 1962, he said.
Brejcha said he became interested in the art of glass blowing when he studied with Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin. Brejcha received a Master of
Fine Arts degree from that university in 1972.
According to Steve Kinker, Abille, Tex. senior, the students study with Ivette Friesen and the teacher.
THE NUMBER of students taking a course in glass blowing at KU has grown from four in 1972 to 18 this fall. Brewja schlai. Although there's a great demand for instruction, he said, the numbness of two students can work at the barn's two furnaces at one time, he said, because he doesn't want them bumping into each other or getting burned.
"YOU HAVE to have that attitude to be in glass." Kinker said. "You have to be dedicated to it. Most of the students fight to get time slots."
Brewja said there had been an increase in the demand for pieces of hard-blown glass.
WHEN MACHINE-MADE glass was introduced at the beginning of this century, he said, people bought it because it was inexpensive. It became a new aesthetic, and people thought it was as nice or nicer than the glass that was made by hand, he said.
"But society finally realized that it can't live off of the machine dictates as per Brechner."
He said there was high demand for glass art objects that range in price from $2 to a million dollars.
People have grown weary of objects that are mass produced, he said, but there's always something more to see in a hand-blow work of art.
"I've had pieces of glass by other artists in my home for years that I still have to pick up and touch," Brejcha said.
Infection spurs study
A doctor from the National Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, is in Lawrence exploring why three children from the Little Indian Center, a day care center at Haskell Indian Junior College, contracted a bacterial infection.
Ward urged that people not be alarmed by the infection can't cause an endemic.
Joel Ward, a physician from the National Center, said last night that he was investigating the infection contracted by the vaccine and other antibiotics could be used to help stop it.
The infection is Haemophilus influenzae,
an infection caused by an influenza virus.
However, Ward said, the infection isn't a flu
that causes the illness with swine oil or any other type of flu.
children at the day care center with antibiotics to try to prevent the infection.
He said that the three children contracted the disease before Oct. 16 and that no new cases had been reported since then. He said Haskell health officials asked him to investigate why the three children contracted the disease. He has also treated the healthy
"We don't know if the antibiotics will prevent the infection, but if they prevent one child from getting the infection, then it'll be worth it." Ward said.
Ward conducted throat culture surveys at the day care center and will also conduct them at the University of Kansas Hilltop Child Care Center today.
A culture survey determines which a body is growing in the area of the body studied.
Ward said that the infection wasn't a rare disease among children but that it seldom occurred in adults. He said that the infection occasionally could become serious in youth and could also be found in throat cultures of healthy children and adults.
The purpose of the threat culture surveys at both day care centers, Ward said, is to determine the number of normal children who carry the bacteria.
The Little Indian Center won't be closed because of the three cases, Ward said.
TODAY: MARTIN GREEN, professor of English at Tufts University, will speak on "The Challenge of Gandhi and Tolstoy" at 4 p.m. in the Kansas Union's Council Room. HE DEPARTMENT COLLEQUIM will present Sashee Prete, the classics by James Joyce, Latin Text of Marco Folei's *Hiliene*, at 4 p.m. in the Union's Walnut Room.
OnCampus
1 p.m. in the Union's Forum Room. JOHN BOOKER, assistant professor of French and Italian, will lecture on a Trevan Todov art article, "La lecture comme construction," at 3:30 p.m. in the Union's Walnut Room. VOLUNTEER CLEARING HOUSE meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Union's Walnut Room. The EAST ASIAN STUDIES department will present a lecture at 7 in the Union's Forum Room. The ISRAELI FOLK DANCE CLUB meets at 7 at Oliver Hall. A reception for NICHILASON HOFFMAN, Washington Post Columnist and SUA Forum Series speaker, begins at 9 p.m. in the Union's Centennial Room.
TONIGHT: The STUDENT SERVICES COMMITTEE meets at 6:30 in the Union's Big Eight Room. INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL will present a public relations seminar featuring Joe Lillis, public relations director for Midwest Coca-Cola operations, at 6:30 in the Union's Big Eight Room. PHI CHI THETA meet at 7 in the International Room. THE SUA BACKGAMMON CLUB meets at 7 in the Union's Parliors Room. THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BOARD meets at 7 in the Union's Governors Room. THE EAST ASIAN STUDIES department will present a lecture on historical aspects of China; the SIGMA X1 presents John Brandt, associate professor of speech and drama, who will speak on "Middle Ear Muscles and You" at 7:30 in the Union's Council Room. LLOYD BUZZI, state representative for the 4th district, will speak at a KU CollegeRepublic meeting at 7:30 in the Union's Big Eight Room. THE CONSERVATIVE BOARD meets at 8 in the Union's Walnut Room.
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