Christmas Color -
Campus of Lights Ready for Voltage
By Jerry Kern
Christmas lights, which are being installed on campus, will be turned on next Monday, Harry Buchholz, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, announced Tuesday.
Buchholz said the job of stringing the 6,000 lights on various campus buildings usually takes his men four or five days to set up.
"The length of time it takes to put up the decorations depends on the weather and how many lights are stolen. Three years ago we had three-fourths of our lights stolen." Buchholz said,
"IT IS THE students who are swiping the lights. I will follow the same policy this year as I followed last year. If any lights are swiped, they won't be replaced. Students will have to do without complete, decorations.
"Sometimes it's rather obvious who is doing the swiping. I remember one night when all the blue lights were stolen off the front of the chapel. The very next night one of the fraternities lit up in blue for the first time in years," he said.
Campus buildings which receive colored lights are Strong Hall, Hoch Auditorium, the Union, Danforth chapel, Watkins Hospital, the Chancellor's house, and the nurses home. A 22-foot rotating Christmas tree decorated with lights, tinsel, and Christmas bulbs is being placed in the rotunda of Strong Hall. Buehholz pointed out that there is a very tricky problem involved in balancing this large of a tree which also revolves.
"THE NUMBER of men working on the decorations vary from day to day and from year to year," said Buchholz. "It depends on what other projects we are working on at the same time. This year we have less men working on decorations than ever before."
On the cost to the University for Christmas decoration Buchholz said, "I can't even make an estimate. It would be impossible to
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guess because of the intangible nature of the cost. For example, we will not know how much it will cost us this year to replace burned out lights until we turn them on Monday. This varies from year to year.
Buchholz could not recall when the campus first received its Christmas decorations. However, as far as he can remember, the campus has been decorated for at least the last 20 years.
The decorations will stay up until just after Christmas, and will be taken down before students return for classes on Jan. 3.
"WE HAVE NEVER really sat down and figured this thing out, because, like many cities which decorate for Christmas, we don't want to know what it costs. People want Christmas decorations, but they don't want to know how expensive it is," he said.
High School Officials Visit Freshmen. Discuss Problems
By Judy McGhee
Placement examinations are the primary topic of the Seventeenth Annual Principal-Counselor-Freshman Conference being held today in the Kansas Union.
Principalals and counselors from 125 high schools held conferences with freshmen this morning following opening remarks by Registrar James K. Hitt. The 225 visiting high school administrators visited with 1,800 KU freshmen.
"There has been considerable confusion over placement examinations," said Hitt. "Some counselors are not informed as to why we have the exams. Discussing our policy with them helps us understand it better."
AMONG THE topics discussed were reasons for having placement examinations, ways in which results should be handled, and methods by which advisors should place students.
KU freshmen will continue to take the placement examinations, Hitt said. He reported on the work of a committee of university
and high school representatives appointed by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe to study the examations and possible alternatives. Hitt said the committee recommended the continuance of the present examinations at summer previews and during orientation week in September.
"The permanent committee has authority to change the testing program in whatever direction seems to be most appropriate, as subsequent study reveals this to be necessary." Hitt continued.
Present examinations consist of scholastic aptitude and achievement tests, and are used to determine placement of students in
courses suited to their ability and prior preparation.
A permanent Faculty Senate Committee on placement examinations is being organized as a result of the study to supervise the testing program. The committee's responsibilities will include selecting the examinations to be given, the method of administration, the uses made of examination scores, and also advanced placement.
AT 2 P.M. a general discussion among the visiting administrators and approximately 100 KU faculty members was slated to evaluate the conferences with students.
"The purposes of this discussion were to see how we can improve our freshman program and to give high school administrators ideas for improving their college preparatory program," said Hitt.
"IT ALSO PROVIDES the opportunity for freshmen to visit with their principal or counselor and tell him how things are going," he added.
In a notice to the faculty, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said, "Our experience in the past has shown us that conferences of this type are beneficial to us in many ways and have brought out a number of excellent suggestions which we have been able to put in practice in our efforts to ease the transition of students from high school to the University of Kansas.
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