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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
62nd Year, No. 62
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1965
Flexibility Becomes Key In Grad Policy Changes
KU master's degree candidates may find that they no longer are required to write a thesis.
Upon recommendations by the Graduate School Council, the Graduate School faculty passed measures affecting the hours and thesis requirements for master's degree candidates and the post-comprehensive examination enrollment requirements for doctoral candidates.
The changes will effect those graduate students in programs leading to the M.A., M.S., Ph.D. and Ed.D.
"ONE THEORY behind the changes is that we are giving the departments more flexibility in designing their graduate programs," William P. Albrecht, dean of the graduate school, said.
"The Graduate Council feels this is necessary because of the wide variety of programs offered by the Graduate School. The special needs of the departments and students must be met, and by getting away from the strict adherence to credit hours by graduate students we hope to stir creative imagination in planning new programs," Dean Albrecht said.
According to the changes in the
Don Pierce Mourned In Topeka Services
At least 800 persons, including representatives from every Big Eight conference school, crowded into Grace Episcopal cathedral yesterday for the funeral of Don Pierce, sports publicity director at KU.
Two memorial funds have been established in Pierce's name.
A Don Pierce Memorial Athletic Fund has been formed. Wade Stinson, athletic director, said the fund was established from contributions received by the KU Endowment Association. The family has requested memorial contributions in lieu of flowers, he said.
"WE HAVE NOT decided yet how the fund will be used and we won't decide until we have talked with the family," he added.
The Big Eight Sportswriters-Sportscasters Association onouncled Tuesday the establishment of the Don Pierce Reporters Trust Fund.
The fund, initiated by Pierce's newspaper and broadcasting friends was established as an educational fund for the Pierce children, Ann 18, Wayne, 13 and Bobby, 10.
RAY EVANS, president of the Trader's National Bank, Kansas City Mo., will administer the fund. Evans was a KU All-America football player.
Pierce, 45. died Sunday in the
KU Medical Center of head injuries suffered in a two-car collision in Lawrence New Year's Eve.
His wife Vivian, 43, also injured in the crash, was in "fairly good" condition today at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
A NATIVE OF Topeka, Pierce was a 1941 graduate of the KU School of Journalism. In 1940 he was an All-Big Six center at KU and later played pro football for the old Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Cardinals.
Representing KU at the services were Jack Mitchell, football coach; Wade Stinson, athletic director; Ted Owens, basketball coach; A. L. (Dutch) Lonborg, retired athletic director and Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, retired basketball coach.
Coaches from the universities of Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa. Kansas State, Iowa State, and Oklahoma State universities also attended the funeral.
Others included Reeves Peters, director emeritus of the Big Eight conference; Wayne Duke, present conference director; and E. A. Thomas, retired director of the Kansas High School activities association.
HENRY BUBB, past chairman of the board of regents, represented the board at the services.
master's degree programs, the various schools and departments within the University may make the master's thesis optional. Departments also have the option of testing master's candidates orally, by written examination, or by both methods. In the past, the thesis for M.A. and M.S. candidates was mandatory, and examinations were required to be at least partly oral.
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL faculty lowered the minimum credit hour requirement for the M.A. and M.S. degrees from 30 to 24 hours of approved graduate work.
Dean Albrecht emphasized that in making the master's degree thesis optional, the graduate school is not taking research out of the programs.
"If the thesis is not required, then other independent research techniques will be used—such as seminars," Dean Albrecht said.
All new or revised programs are subject to the approval of the Graduate School Council, Dean Albrecht said.
REGARDING THE doctoral degree requirement changes by the Graduate School Faculty, the insidence requirement at KU was left at two semesters, but the doctoral candidate may be involved in teaching, up to half-time, during this period. Full time study was previously required.
Under the new regulations, doctoral candidates must wait at least five months following successful completion of the comprehensive oral examination before they are eligible to take the final oral exam.
During this period, the candidate must be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours. The old requirement set a minimum of 24 graduate hours between the comprehensive and final oral examinations.
DEAN ALBRECHT said the old 24-hour requirement between the comprehensive and final examinations was too rigid.
"Not every doctoral dissertation its into the 24 hour pattern," Dean Albrecht said.
Weather
Fog is likely again tonight, and skies will be mostly cloudy tomorrow. Not much temperature change is predicted. The low tonight will be in the middle 30's.
KU May Triple By Year 2000
KU's student population could more than triple in the next 35 years, bringing enrollment to more than 45,000, Kenneth B. Anderson, dean of the school of education, predicted yesterday.
Anderson's predictions were in a report released by KU officials which indicated potential enrollments for every school year from now until 1999-2000.
Though the 12,344 present KU enrollment is a record, this figure will double during the next ten years. Anderson forecasted. At that time, Anderson said, there will be 15 to 16 million college-age people in the United States, according to the Population Reference Bureau.
THESE ENROLLMENT increases actually depend on several factors, Anderson said.
Limiting factors might be higher tuition charges, selective admission policies, economic conditions, world conflict, failure to maintain present KU enrollment ratio in competition with other institutions, decrease in out-of-state enrollments, availability of teaching personnel, opportunities for employment, and changes in the pattern of higher education in Kansas.
Factors which could increase enrollments might be increases in appropriations for facilities and personnel, increase in financial aid to students, better economic conditions, lack of employment opportunity, increased demand for trained personnel by government, business and industry, political stability in world affairs, and the ability to sell higher education to the people of Kansas.
CONTRIBUTING TO the increase in KU's population particularly will be an increase in college-age Kansans. About 79,000 people are expected to enroll in Kansas colleges this year.
Potential college entrants will soar to 131,000 by 1974-75. But, the biggest increase will come in the following 25 years when the number of college-age people in Kansas again doubles. More than 270,000 students are expected to enroll in Kansas colleges and universities in 1999-2000.
This year's eight per cent increase in student body has been only a hint of things to come.
ONE REASON FOR KU's population increase this fall has been the large enrollment in its freshman class. New freshmen increased by 511 or 25.6 this fall.
Next year the increase could be even more significant as there will be almost 16 per cent more seniors graduating from Kansas high schools.
This year's enrollment came from 214 schools in 95 of Kansas's 105 counties. Forty-four states also sent freshmen to the University.
OF THE 241 KANSAS schools, 28 had more than 10 graduates enrolling at KU this fall. This is an increase of three over last year.
Schools with more than ten range from Wichita South High School to Wellington High School to Ottawa High School.
Also in the "more than 10" group are schools which have consistently sent more than ten graduates, such as Shawnee Mission East and Shawnee Mission North, Topeka and Topeka West, Wyandotte, and four Wichita high schools.
Ninety-seven Kansas schools each sent one freshman and fourteen sent as many as seven.
A majority, 83.1 per cent, of the new freshmen last year were ranked in the top half of their high school graduating class. More than a fourth were in the top 10 per cent of their class. Nearly one-half were in the top 20 per cent.
Anderson's predictions were published in a 15-page booklet. His predictions were based on the numerical relationships between university enrollment and the number of high school graduates.
This relationship, which includes variables, can predict enrollment estimates with accuracy, he said.
Scholar Strums Guitar During Study Break
A young man was sprawled across his bed in the smoke-filled room strumming his guitar apparently without a care.
But George Barisas, Kansas City, Mo., senior, has much to care about in his preparation for the years he will spend at Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar.
Barisas, majoring in Mathematics, German, and Chemistry, is the fifth KU winner of the Rhodes Scholarship which he received on Dec. 19, 1864.
"I was tremendously relieved," the 6-foot blond said upon hearing of the decision. "The pressure from the interviews was indescribable. When my name was announced I was neither elated nor depressed, just a feeling of relaxation because it was over.
"THERE'S A SENSE OF PERSONAL accomplishment," Barisas said, "but it's also a humbling feeling being in the presence of all the former Rhodes Scholars. There's a humbling aspect."
After graduation from KU this spring Earisas will begin his two
to three year career as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, England.
AFTER A TWO YEAR PERIOD at Oxford, Barisas will have the option of returning, if he passes his comprehensive exams, to do an extra year of research and reporting his findings.
"I plan to continue my studies at Oxford, leading to a degree in chemistry." Barassa said. "I would hope to pursue later studies leading to a doctorate, probably in the United States."
The application for a Rhodes Scholarship consists of a rigorous series of interviews by former Rhodes Scholars, preceded by a careful study of transcripts and a paper written by the applicant on his accomplishments and hopes.
From the thousands who apply, only two are chosen from each state for the final interviews, which are then narrowed down to the 32 winning entrants.
"OF COURSE YOU'RE anxious." Barisas said of the interviews, "nervous and anxious, everybody is. I think one of the facets the
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committee is trying to investigate is to see how you react and handle yourself in such a situation. Poise in these interviews is of considerable importance and maintaining your composition."
Although a triple major may put some students on a 24 hour study schedule, Barisas said, "I have flexible study habits. I adjust my studying to the work in the courses. You have intense periods and slack periods so I study in bits and spurs. I think one has to strike a balance between studying too much or not enough."
Even Rhodes Scholars find themselves taking breaks between the study periods.
"I PLAY A FEW SONGS, get a coke, or just run across the hall," Barisas said. "But I very seldom take a four to six hour study break.
When asked if his car tempted him to take longer study breaks
than necessary Barisas said, "I couldn't get along without it. It doesn't tempt me away. If I were in the mood to be distracted I'd be distracted no matter where I was."
"I've been folk singing and playing the guitar since I was a freshman," Barisas said. "I find it good relaxation and in some ways it's a form of self-expression, especially when you're in the sciences where you don't deal with human values and emotions."
AFTER BEING GRADUATED from Southeast High School in Kansas City, Mo., Barisas received a four-year scholarship in chemistry and three mathematics department scholarships.
At KU he is active in the German Summer Language Institute, Chairman of the College Intermediary Board, editor of the student-produced German magazine, Versuch, and has been elected to Sachem and Phi Beta Kappa.
Barisas has also received a National Science Foundation Research Grant for his research in chemistry.
PRESENTLY RESIDING in Tempolin Hall, Barisas is now working on a senior research project in chemistry, but not the customary type, he said.
He is working on the solutions of chemistry problems by computer and writing and running programs.