KU Students Have Chance To Return to Grades as Aides
Students who want to help teachers in the elementary schools have a chance to do so in the KU-Y School Resource Volunteers.
Wally Thurston, Elmdale senior and director of the School Resource Volunteers, said that the program is open to anyone who is willing and able to spend three to six hours a week helping do clerical work for teachers.
THE VOLUNTEERS are undergraduates at KU. They grade papers, help put up bulletin boards, and carry out the teacher's requests. Thurston said the students do not substitute for the teachers, but help them.
The student allows the teacher more time to concentrate on the individual pupil. He visits the class at least twice a week.
This year is the third year of the program at KU. Thurston said the program is based on a similar program at the University of California at Berkeley.
THIS YEAR there are 20 volunteers,14 women and six men,many of whom are freshmen. The Lawrence city schools have not turned in all requests so the demand may be for 25 to 30 volunteers.
Student volunteers work in
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grades one through six. Some also work in the special classes at Cordley school.
THE PRINCIPAL of each school decides whether he will allow volunteers from the program. The teachers then have the option of requesting assistants. The complaint in the
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past has been that there have not been enough assistants to go around.
The volunteers are given their choice of grade level and school within limits. They are generally paired with teachers in areas close to where they live.
Snow Museum Holds Two Million Insects
The place is bugged!—literally,
that is.
Snow Hall's entomological research museum is filled with rows and rows of insect cabinets reaching to the ceiling. Most of the insects are stored in drawers inside the cabinets, although spiders and other soft-bodied insects are preserved in jars of alcohol.
THE MUSEUM contains two million separately pinned and labeled species from North and Central America and other parts of the world. It is believed to be the largest insect collection owned by any university between the east and west coasts.
The curator, Charles D. Michener, professor of entomology, is the first KU faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The assistant curator is George W. Byers, professor of entomology.
"THIS COLLECTION has been built by species collected on summer field expeditions," said Byers. "This summer one was made to the mountains of Colorado and New Mexico, although others have been made to Mexico, Alaska, and Costa Rica. Sometimes 1,000 species are collected a year."
Of special interest is a drawer of huge tropical beatles. They are kept in a particular cabinet with other specimens that might be of special interest to the public.
Professor Jayathi Chidambaraswamy has joined the faculty of the mathematics department this fall. Chidambaraswamy is from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D.
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there in 1964 and continued there one year as an instructor.
Chidambaraswamy's arrival brings the total of full professors in the mathematics department to five.
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