University Daily Kansan
Wednesdav. October 13. 1976
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which uses UMA programs, said he wasn't disappointed with enrollments in UMA courses. The Nebraska's student newspaper, the Butler Nebraska, reported that the University of Nebraska, expected to reach 30,000 in SUN's first five years, had totalled 2,840.
THE NEBRASKAN said that 325 students currently were enrolled in SUN programs.
McBride said that the number of adults in the program hadn't reached original predictions but that the separate delivery systems, or state programs such as SUN, were responsible for enrollments, rather than UMA.
"The enrollments are now respectable," he said. "They're indicative of what can be
UMA programs are leased, for amounts ranging from $500 to $2,000, to universities. Students taking courses at one of the UMA colleges have access to television courses may pay fees to the universities.
McBride said UMA was experimenting with two types of charges, a flat rate of from $2,000 to $4,000 for use of the course and a charge based on enrollments.
HUTCHISON SAID total enrollments in UMA hadn't increased during the project's existence. Calgary said costs of ownership so low that slightly higherless there were "mammoth enrollments."
To effectively serve students, Calgaard said, a state program must provide offices, broadcast facilities, textbooks, some instructors who are knowledgeable about materials, people and amount of student's queries and regional learning centers.
Nebraska has five learning centers and Iowa uses county extension offices to provide students with local guidance on course material.
"SOME HAVE said it would be cheaper to put a MASTER in every town," he said.
Calgaard said fees charged by KU for courses wouldn't "begin to cover" costs, unless fees of from $150 to $150 were paid on the Board. Regents pxer would allow such charges.
Another finance problem is the development of courses. Calgaard said some UMA productions had been elaborate, movies and cartoons of professional quality. Professional actors were used in some cases, he said.
An example of the expense of an individual course was the "Cultural History of the Great Plains," funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The course reportedly was stopped in production after projected costs ran to about $2 million.
McBride said that production was continuing on a revised version of the course and that the total cost would be only about $250,000. He said extensive research was being done in the development of the off-ahead Production has been "on-again, off-again," he said.
THE PROBLEM, McBride said, was that the courses' planners wanted dramatic television programs, "some on movie TV, some on professional produced series for public television.
Most of UMA's funding has been from the federal government through the National Institute for Education (NIE). NIE has been providing $1.5 million a year to UMA. Last year's UMA budget was about $2.2 million. McBride said,
The Nebraskan newspaper also reported that annual funding by NIE would be discontinued in 1978 with preparation of a new website. McBrien didn't know if the funding would be cut off.
THE REMAINER of UMA's budget comes from foundation grants. The Ford Foundation was the source of a grant that has financed FIRST, an inward WATS students at Johns Hopkins Kansas residents to call KU to ask about education programs in the state.
The grant for FIRST was given to KU by UMA. Calgaard, Hutchison, McBride and others contacted said that Robert Senecal, associate dean of continuing education, announced that the grant and other programs at KU that were begun with UMA's help.
However, a secretary to Senecal said twice that he wouldn't talk to the press
about UMA and that all information should come from the office of academic affairs.
A UNIVERSITY COUNCIL committee, the Committee on Cooperation Among institutions for Higher Learning, is trying to increase its cooperative agreements, including UMA.
Art Breipohl, professor of electrical engineering and committee chairman, said that UMA had been discussed at meetings, but that the committee had made no recommendations about KU's participation in UMA.
McBride and Hassel said they hoped that KU would be able to offer UMA courses in the future, but Calgaard said continued KU participation in UMA would depend upon the programs that were developed and their costs.
Hassel said UMA was progressing well and was accomplishing its intentions. McChride said, however, that it would be difficult to do so without indefinitely providing funding for UMA.
"If funding were cut off, there would be problems," he said. "In the end, it will either be so successful that it can continue in a self-generating mold, or so unsuccessful that other measures will have to be found."
Wanna get high & get down?
Sky Dive!
KU Sky Diving Club
Oct.14 at 8:30 p.m.
in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. For further information call Craig at 841-4704. Beginners welcome. Movie will be shown.
FILMS
CLASSICAL SERIES
IN THE YEAR OF THE PIC
Dir. DeAntonio plus
INTERVIEWS WITH MY LAI
Dir. Joseph Striple plus
WINTERSOLDIER (1971)
Winter film collective, Vietnam
Veterans testifying on war
archetypes.
Wed.. Oct. 13, 7:30, 75c
FILM SOCIETY
BADLANDS [1974]
BAD. Terrence Malick, with
Marian Sheen, Sissy Spacek
Thurs., Oct. 14, 7:30, 9:30, 75
POPULAR FILMS
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY
GRAIL 1 (1975)
Dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones with Monty Python's Flying Circus Fri. and Sat., Oct. 15 and 16 3:30; 7:00; 9:00
SPECIAL WEEKEND
FILMS
Independent/Experimental
film maker Mike Leggert from
campus to show his films
and THE SHEARED
(a collection of SEVEN
separate films)
Fri, Oct 15, 8:00; 3
Saturday
MIDNIGHT MOVIES
RIGHT MOVIES
Roger Coreman
"King of the BIS"
With Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg
Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern
IN PSYCHEDELIC COLOR
and
THE WILD ANGELS
With Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra
Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd
Sat., Oct. 16, 12 midnight, 5
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Jews celebrate harvest, exodus
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There probably will be some cold Jews in the world this week as many of them celebrate a harvest festival, Sakshb, by building an outdoor frame structure covered with branches.
Brian Salvay, Shawnee Mission sophomore, is one of a few Jews in Lawrence who is living in one of the structures, a sukkah, to commemorate the exodus of Jews from Egypt and to recognize the end of harvest.
"It is a mitzvah (commandment) incumbent upon every Jew, every male Jew, to dwell in a sukkah," Salavy said yesterday.
face a judgment about whether there will be ample water in the coming year.
director at the Jewish Community Center and a conservative Jew, said conservatives of the Jewish community.
The purpose of fulfilling the mitzvah is to
She said that none of them would live in sokkhet but that a group of conservatives would build one sukkah to serve the needs of many people.
SALVAY IS AN example of how Jews have changed since the first Jews were forced to live in sukkoht for lack of better shelter while fleeing Egypt. Although the commandment calls for Jews to carry on normal living habits in a sukkah, Salvay and his friends had to leave because he said he wouldn't sleep in it because nights were cold and he didn't have a sleeping bag.
Salvay, a traditional Jew, doesn't follow the strict customs of Orthodox Jews.
THE SUKKAH must be built according to minimum requirements, he said.
"The reason for the sukuk is to dwell under the roof, but it's not a krother roof"
"It's a rothouse."
"I COME FROM a conservative background. I'm making a move to the right. This is the first year I've dwelled in a large city for the year I will make a more complete move."
However, he said, "I'm in the process of observing more Orthodox customs. I've made a personal commitment of living in a place that is so different from partially. I have to be honest with myself."
Although Salavy has a lax interpretation of Sukkoth compared with Orthodox Jews, he is strict compared with other Jews in Lawrence.
There must be at least three walls, each
hands tall. One wall should be at least one
wall shorter than the other.
Sig Lindenbaum, associate professor of pharmacology at KU, said the festival, which began Friday to sunset, lasted nine days in Israel and seven days in the diaspora. The difference was caused by a communication problem that existed when dates were measured by phases of the sun during the festival in Israel were often a day late in arriving in other countries.
LORIANE LINDENBAUM, educational
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