—UDK Photos by Maury Breecher
PREPARING FOR LANGUAGE FINALS
Judy Reece, Medicine Lodge junior, and Jan Guinn, Dodge City sophomore, listen to tapes of French lessons in the language lab in Blake Annex.
Lab has confused times
By JOHN LOVEKIN
The first semester Chinese language student took off his earphones and somewhat dejectedly left the language lab in Blake Annex. What he did not know was that the tape was on the wrong speed.
With some 15 languages being taught at KU and some 1900 students using the language lab every week, this incident is not so unusual.
The language lab has 68 individual booths and one classroom which holds 90 students. There are 104 language classes held at Blake Annex each week.
"OUR BUSIEST TIME of the semester is the first two weeks and the last two," said Bill Fleming, Memphis, Tenn., sophomore and lab staff member. "In between there is a considerable drop. Right now many students are coming in wanting the tapes for the entire semester."
Another member of the staff, Cynthia Knocke, Wichita sophomore, said, "Most of the Spanish students are required to spend two hours here each week. They have to sign a pink slip to prove
they were here. Many of them come in, sit down for five minutes, get up, sign the slip and leave."
ERMAL GARINGER, language lab director, said that most of the students are very cooperative.
"With $50,000 worth of equipment here in tape recorders and tapes, the only thing that has been stolen was a set of earphones," said Garinger.
There are two main problems, Garinger said. "Most of the equipment is very outdated, and the biggest problem for the staff is that there are no rest rooms.
"WE HAVE ALL the languages taught at KU, including tapes of a dialect called African Vrdu, and also the American Indian dialect of Blackfoot," said Garinger.
"The most difficult people to help are the teachers. They come in and expect us to stop helping students and give them immediate attention," said Miss Knocke.
"For the most part it's a good job, with the few exceptions of a tape on the wrong speed, or sometimes when it gets real cold three different tapes will come in on the same set of earphones, then there is a little confusion," said Fleming.
One unknown member of the staff places a sign at the reception desk every day with some kind of worldly comment, said Garinger. Last Thursday the sign read "Charles De Gaulle sleeps with a teddy bear."
Bomb scares at MU Ft. Hays rout students
Two regional universities experienced bomb scares yesterday.
The Chi Omega sorority house at University of Missouri was evacuated at about 2 a.m. this morning after an anonymous tip-
ster said a bomb was ready to go off at 3:30 a.m.
Monday afternoon two classroom buildings were cleared of about 1,000 students at Fort Hays State College because of bomb hoaxes.
Debate team stops for final week then on road again for 15 contests
KU debaters can wallow in their victories among their trophies, but it's not likely that they're resting in these few weeks.
The squad has stopped long enough to study hard and take final examinations, and then they're back on the road, attending at least 15 more tournaments across the nation.
'Show Case of plays set
Produced by students, the week of showings will feature different plays each night.
"Show Case," a series of four musicals, comedies and mysteries, begins Wednesday at Murphy Hall.
Behind them, they have victories in two-thirds of their 250 debates this year.
Daily Kansan
Tuesday, January 10, 1967
"MORE DEBATERS are doing well than ever before," said Don Parson, director of forensics. "We've attended more tournaments and done better than in at least the last two years."
He said the 28 different KU debaters with special recognition signifies a new squad strength.
At the semester's end, the squad had won 18 awards as teams.
Parson added for the layman's benefit that "any ranking of fifth place and above is a pretty good placing, since each tournament has 60 to 100 teams competing."
ONE OF THE largest contests was at Wichita State University, with 121 teams attending.
KU's own Heart of America Tournament, scheduled for March
Executive reporters are Eric Morgenthaler, Prairie Village senior; Jack Harrington, Summit, N.J., senior; Judy Faust, Memphis, Tenn., senior, and Robert Stevens, Junction City senior.
be Jacki Campbell, Hiawata junior. Sports editor will be Mike Walker, Topea sophomore. Pres Doudna, Overland Park freshman, was named photo editor. Wire editor will be Betsy Wright, Topea senior.
Tony Chop, Kansas City senior and business manager, will announce his staff next week.
10. 11 and 12, will host only 48 teams because of space limitations.
Assistant managing editors are Dan Austin, Salina junior; Emery Goad, Junction City junior; Barbara Phillips, Harrisonville, Mo., senior; Steve Russell, Toppea senior, and Linda Sleffel, Norton junior.
Will Hardesty, Wheat Ridge,
Colo., junior, will be city editor.
Assistant city editor will be Carol
DeBonis, Kansas City junior.
The single first-place award in the squad was won by two freshman teams at the University of Missouri, composed of Bill Gahnstrom, Topeka, and Bob McCulloch, Overland Park. (4-0); and Jeanne Worthington, Tecumseh, and Dave Flora, Kansas City, Mo., (3-1).
Feature and society editor will
News-editorial staff positions for the Spring semester UDK were announced today by Joan McCabe, Lawrence senior and managing editor.
THE ATTENDING squad won second sweepstakes as a whole at K-State and WSU.
UDK staff named
SUA
Classical Film Series
presents
Frederico Fellini's classic creation of satire
THE WHITE SHEIK (Italy, 1953)
with
Alberto Sordi & Giulietta Masina
A bride deserts her husband on their wedding day to meet The White Sheik,
hero of a pulp-paper magazine.
7:00 & 9:00 p.m. — Wednesday
Dyche Auditorium — Single Adm. 60c