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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1965
SAFE T Y E I L M
Semester's Wind-Up Brings Many Problems to Students
Students-turned-prophets are beginning to predict their own doom as Christmas visions of sugar plums give way to more scholastic thoughts of final week beginning Jan. 25.
The KU student is now faced with three weeks of term paper deadlines, last minute tests and quizzes, and at least some serious contemplation, if not some serious studying, of final examinations.
The most pressing scholastic event in the next three weeks is the Western Civilization Examination from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
For some the four-hour exam means the difference between graduating or not graduating; for others it is a chance to complete a graduation requirement on the first try.
SPECIAL REVIEW SESSIONS will be conducted by the Western Civilization Department this week for students taking the exam. The sessions will be from 7:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in Dyche Auditorium.
Review will be presented by Western Civilization instructors, James E. Seaver, director of the program, said.
"Tuesday night will be devoted to coverage of the first semester readings; Wednesday night to the second semester's work." Prof. Seaver said,
ROOM ASSIGNMENTS for the examination are on the IBM cards given to students when they registered.
Looking beyond Western Civilization, some students are making plans to case the tensions of final week.
In meetings of organized residences, pleas are being made for quiet study conditions. Students are stopping by the Registrar's office in Strong Hall to pick up final examination schedules, and the more optimistic are even plotting second semester's schedule.
IN THE MIDST of the organization process of stocking up on food, pencils, and "anti-sleep" pills, one group of KU students came up with an ease-tension-make-money plan.
The Inter-Residence Council (IRC) is sponsoring a Survival Kit program among the four women's scholarship halls and Lewis and Hashinger Halls.
Letters were sent to the parents of these women students, asking them to purchase a Survival Kit for their daughter. The kit, costing $1, will contain candy, fruit, potato chips, and gum. The packages will be delivered to the women the Saturday before finals begin.
"WE HOPE THE SURVIAL KIT will serve as a little something from home to relieve tension." Kathy Rose, co-chairman of the Kit committee, said. "This way the student knows that at least one person is thinking about them during final week."
Miss Rose said the money raised from the Survival Kits would be used to set up a small loan fund in the Scholarship halls and residence halls participating.
Under the loan program, a woman student can borrow up to $10 with no questions asked. The money is repayable without interest after two weeks. Each hall will be responsible for their share of the loan fund.
AN ADDITIONAL TENSIONeaser has been added to KU's prefinal weeks—the instructor's option to hold no classes during the week preceding finals.
The dismissal option concerns only courses numbered over 50 in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Jerry Lewis, assistant dean of Liberal Arts, said yesterday.
and reflection can be dismissed." Dean Lewis said. "This action was approved by the College faculty last spring."
"The classes in which the instructors feel it would be advantageous for students to have a week for reading
ALSO CANCELLED THE WEEK preceding finals are all University activities, Bob Stewart, Vancouver, British Columbia, senior and Student Body President, said the no-activity ruling was put into effect several years ago by the All Student Council.
Mrs. Marcia Goldstein, assistant to the Dean of Women, said that the final week situation in the Freshman Women's Residence Halls would be much the same as always. Quiet hours will be observed and the dress dinners will be changed to casual style.
"The coffee and cigarette consumption will probably increase," Mrs. Goldstein said, "but we try to avoid tension or making final week an abnormal situation."
Final week across campus will be much as it is in the Freshman Women's dorms — more casual dress, a quieter atmosphere, and coffee and cigarette consumption at an all time high.
Steel Contract Talks Resumed
PITTSBURGH—(UPI)—Contract talks between the nation's steelmakers and the United Steelworkers (USW) resumd today after an 18-day holiday recess.
Of prime importance was the question of whether the union had revised its original demands during the recess because of the recent $6 per ton selective steel price increase announced by the industry on some products.
It was a moving ceremony, and the Finns who crowded the auditorium were impressed.
LATER, MAYOR EINAR Pyvkko wrote that "the students deserve special thanks because they came through with such talent and sincerity before a large audience, and created a favorable impression of American youth."
KU STUDENT EVELYN Thomas read selections from American Negro poetry, and there was a brief memorial service for the late President John Kennedy.
Colorado coed Susan Clyde gave a talk on American independence which was translated into Finnish by her friend, Helen Laaksonen of Järvenpaa, a student at KU.
The Fourth of July program came about because the American students were part of a unique language training program administered by KU and operated jointly with the University of Colorado. The program is sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation.
Official Bulletin
Thirteen students from KU, 13 from the University of Colorado, and 14 others from colleges and universities around the United States gathered at the front of a grade school auditorium in Jarvenpaa and in creditable Finnish sang the Finns' national anthem.
They followed this with the Star Spangled Banner, several hymns sung in the Church-Slavonic dialect, and piano and vocal solos.
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Ph.D. Final Exam: Richard C. Basinger, mathematics, 3:30 p.m., 119 John Sorenson, pharmaceutical chemistry, 2 p.m., 522 Malott
German Graduate Reading Exam: Saturday, Jan. 16, 9:30 a.m. in 110 Fraser Candidates must register in 306 Fraser by 4:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 8.
Some young Kansans last summer helped the little city of Jarvenpaa, Finland, discover the meaning of the American Fourth of July.
Finns Celebrated American Holiday
A Ph A Film Series, 12:30 p.m. 324
Malott "Behind the Window."
Police Management Seminar, All day Kansas. Union.
Malott, "Behind the Window." **"The Senate," 3:30 p.m. Swarthout Residual Hall**
American Society Class, 7:00 p.m. 24N
Society of American Societies to teach about American society
Student Peace Union Open Meeting, 7:00 p.m. Student Union.
Inquiry Forum, 7:00 p.m. St. Lawrence Catholic Student Center, Littoral Technical Center, 8:00 p.m. Student Center, YCS Discussion Group, 8:15 p.m. Student Center.
Christian Science College Organization,
7-30, Davenport, Iowa
For seven weeks each year, 30 to 40 American students become residents of Jarvenpaa and plunge into intensive studies of Russian. This is followed by three weeks of travel in Russia. The students take a pledge to speak nothing but Russian to each other in the classroom, at meals, and throughout their daily routine.
7.30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Inquirers Class, 7.30 p.m. Canterbury
bury Church.
Humanities Lecture. 8:00 p.m. Dr. Linda Ruckman
ovations and the Bible. Easley, Easley
Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Wesley Foundation Community Worship
9:35 p.m. Methodist Center, 1381 Orad
Ireland
Wesley Foundation Morning Prayer,
7:30 a.m. Methodist Center, 1314
Osprey
TOMORROW
Sanitary Engineering Conference, All Day. Kansas Union
SUA Men's Table Tennis Tournament,
6:30 p.m. Student Union Ballroom.
8-man playoff to determine team to represent KU in Region 8 playoff.
Carillon Recital, 7:00 p.m. Albert
Gerken.
Film Service, 7:00 p.m. Gibb
1:00 p.m. Robb
Hood." Fraser Theater.
Recital, Hospital. 8:00 p. Swarovski
Faculty Recital, 8:00 p.m. Swarthownt Recital Hall. Robert Ward, pianist.
Italy's Juke-Boxes Feature Silence Disc
ROME—(UPI)—Relief is on the way for the human who is weary of listening to the incessant clatter of rock 'n' roll, jazz and beat music that reverberates from thousands of jike boxes in cafes, restaurants and bars.
The Italian juke-box industry currently is experimenting on a new machine which, in addition to a slot for the coins that set the contraption going, will possess an additional slot marked "silence." The insertion of a coin here will keep the machine quiet for a certain number of minutes.
There are almost 20,000 juke boxes of various types—including cine-boxes offering the added horror of watching the performer on film—in operation in public places throughout Italy.
Man has always paid for his amusements more willingly perhaps than for his necessities. But he had to wait until the 20th century to encounter a proposal that he pay not to be amused.
by their products has grated on the raw nerves of enough listeners to make it worth while to offer them silence—at a price.
But Italy still is a long way from the 45,000 similar instruments of torture that constantly hammer away at the ear drums of West Germans and the 33,000 in tiny Belgium.
Market research analysts have now convinced the jukie box industry's leaders that the racket made
While teen-agers stuff juke boxes with coins to listen to the Beatles. Rolling Stones and other "beat stars" make noise, other customers may be willing to insert coins into the noise-makers to get a few minutes of welcome silence.
It seems that the only winners will be the men of the juke box industry. After all, it is not every industry which can offer a product where the customer is willing to pay to listen to it—and also pay not to hear it.
But why study Russian in a Finnish city?
AN ACCIDENT OF HISTORY makes Jarvenpaa an ideal site for the Kansas-Colorado language study program. As a result of the Soviet seizure of southeastern Finland in 1940 and again in 1944, virtually all the inhabitants of that area migrated to the remainder of free Finland. Among them were the inhabitants of Russian-speaking communities close to the Soviet border.
Some 600 of these refugees settled in Jarvenpaa, making it proportionately the most Russian of all Finnish cities. They speak modern Russian, and when they converse with students, it is in virtually the same language used in Russia today.
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JARVENPAA IS A RAPIDLY growing city of about 15,000 in wooded, rolling hill country. The public grade school where the Americans study is at the edge of town, set amid fir and birch trees, as are many Finnish residences.
The students live in dormitories, about six to a room. They eat Finnish food, exercise in the school's gymnasium, and spend a tremendously busy day learning language.
There are several advantages to studying in Finland, free of Russian restrictions and red tape. One is the students acquire a knowledge of Finland, as well as the Russian language, from their neighbors.
FINNISH-RUSSIANS FROM THE Finnish capital of Helsinki, which is about 30 miles away, often visit their relatives and friends in Jarvenpaa. The Americans, in turn, frequently go to Helsinki to enjoy its entertainment and cultural events.
After a day of studies, they often ride bicycles the mile or so into the heart of the city, where they may spend an evening with a Russian-speaking family.
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