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Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER
77th Year, No. 61
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Increasingly cloudy skies today with a chance of snow late tonight or tomorrow is the U.S. Weather Bureau's prediction.
Thursday, January 5, 1967
Childrens' need filled by KU-Y
By PATRICIA PRUITT
A child's world is what people make it. And when people neglect him, it's a bad world.
Here KU-Y steps in with its Youth Friendship Program. Forty Jayhawkers have adopted brothers and sisters of elementary and junior high school age who, in the estimation of their teachers, need adult friendship.
ACCORDING TO THE college students, the program is purey mutual—"a friendship like any other friendship," as committee co-chairman Jeannie Mueller, Glendale, Mo., senior, put it.
Miss Mueller and her co-chairman Ward Coleman, Boise, Idaho, senior, report a 400 per cent increase in program participation this year. That is, 40 KU students meet weekly with their adopted brothers or sisters to do whatever they like.
One third of the KU students are boys, Miss Mueller said, but more little boys have problems than little girls. So KU-Y is scouting for more "big brothers."
Jim Young, Independence, Mo,
sophomore, applied for the program for definite reasons: "Most people feel they want to do something for others once in their lives. The tendency is to put it off. If I get depressed, I can pin it down to my thinking too much about myself. So I just decided
that there's no time like the present.
"I WOULD HAVE A tendency to get wrapped up in my school work. My little brother is helping to give me perspective of what's important. Then I can get involved in his problems—real problems."
Young's 12-year-old adopted brother is one of nine children. His teacher thought he needed more adult attention. Jim thinks he has opened up quite a bit—they carry on real conversations now and enjoy each other.
"Mostly it's just the two of us," Jim says, "but in a group he doesn't act as well—always hitting or throwing things at someone to attract attention. When we're alone, he's quite well-behaved."
Like Young's brother, most of the children have problems of some sort. For this reason, the program is handled through referrals from teachers with parental consent. The program's KU participants are divided into groups of ten, which meet bi-monthly to delve into major problems.
THE CHILDREN ARE NEVER told that the program is to help their problems. "We're just supposed to be friends," said Carol Fraizer, Oak Park, Ill., sopho-
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—UDK Photo by Pres Doudna
FIRE DEBRIS
The eighth floor lounge at Ellsworth looked like this after fire broke out at 2:45 a.m.
Fire routs residents, smokes up Ellsworth
By ROBERT STEVENS UDK Managing Editor
The third time was the charm Wednesday night as residents of Ellsworth Hall evacuated the
building at 2:45 a.m. because of fire.
The fire was on the eighth floor lounge, the third to have flames appear last night. On the seventh floor lounge two trash cans were set ablaze and on the fifth floor a formica table top was burned.
Program head comments
'Academic hell' coming
By DAN AUSTIN
About 300 KU students will walk into the jaws of academic hell at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Four hours later the 300 will walk—or be carried—out of those jaws. And, hopefully, they will leave behind them about 300 com-
plated Western Civilization Comprehensive examinations.
Often referred to as the "Comp," the exam is a prerequisite for a KU diploma in most of the University's schools and departments.
AS ITS NAME IMPLIES, the exam covers both the small and
the great ideas and events of the last 400 years of Western man.
And the exam is not an easy one.
-Staff Photo by Jay Cooper
According to James Seaver, director of the Western Civilization Program, about nine or ten per cent of those taking the test will fail.
46 HOURS TO GO
As the day of Western Civ reckoning bears down on KU, Sue Meredith, St. Joseph, Mo., junior, manages one last smile.
However, there is hope.
One myth that says the test is "made" harder when given at different times was dispelled by Seaver.
"Quite often the students taking the exam in January tend to do better because they want to get it over with," said Seaver.
"WE DON'T TRY TO make any exam any more difficult than another," he said.
For some time, a few students—and faculty members connected with the Western Civilization Program—have asked that the exam be given only immediately after a student completes the discussion phase of the program in May.
"We always urge that students take the test immediately following the discussion classes instead of waiting around," said Seaver.
The program director also suggested that students review the files of previous tests stored in Watson Library.
THE THIRD BLAZE, on the eighth floor, filled the hall with smoke and a sickening odor of burning plastic. The main damage was to two chairs which were charred by the fire.
After a couple of residents tried unsuccessfully to douse the fire with fire extinguishers, the fire alarm in the building was sounded and the residents hurried into the cold night air.
Many were dressed in night clothes and Bill Robinson, assistant resident director, was wearing a bath robe and pajamas. John Eickstadt, the other assistant resident director, and Doug Witt, resident director, had only shirt sleeves to keep warm.
ment sent three pieces of equipment to the scene, but only used an exhaust fan to help free the dormitory from the smoke. The fire was virtually out when they arrived.
The loss was estimated by firemen at $400, but J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories, set the damage at a much larger figure. Police reports stated $700 this morning.
Wilson's unofficial estimate early this morning was $500 to furnishings and another $500 to drapes, walls, ceilings and floor tiles. Paint was blistered from the paint in spots and asphalt tile on the floor had been partially burned.
THE RESIDENTS stood out in the cold or went to nearby McCollum Hall which opened its doors to the evacuees. They were allowed to re-enter the building an hour later.
At that time a heavy stench from the smoldering plastic still hung over much of the building.
Signal installation planned for Feb.
Not too many months ago the city commission of Lawrence was looking to 1966 as being the year the traffic signal at 15th and Iowa streets was installed.
This is 1667 and the signal is still in the future.
Ray Wells, Lawrence city manager, said that the shipment of the signal parts is expected Jan. 17.
Wells said, "They (the lights) will definitely be operational by second semester."
Installation has been accelerated by the completion of the
ducts beneath the streets. The ducts will hold electrical connections.
The need for a signal was first focused on in spring 1966. Accidents and injuries had occurred repeatedly at the intersection northwest of Templin Hall.
In the fall of 1963 the commission voted approval of the signal and instructed Public Works director George Williams to order the materials. Ten weeks was then set as the installation deadline. The deadline was not met at that time.