Serving public
School gives advice
By PATRICIA PRUITT
Well, let's put it this way. How doesn't the School of Education serve the public?
The school's business is teaching.
Its graduates teach children in public schools. Everyone knows that. This is the school's most direct and important contribution to the public.
When educators from across the state appear on campus for conferences, they are informed on latest developments in administration, teaching methods, and curriculum.
BUT THE SCHOOL also serves the public through conferences, research, surveys, and consultation.
And when KU art professors explain to kindergarten teachers that their pupils can recognize and appreciate great art, a whole field of teaching is open for change.
AT ONE TIME only one-third of Kansas fifth-graders understood their textbooks; the rest were in varying degrees of confusion. KU researchers discovered and publicized the situation. The result was revision of state textbook adoption policies.
Some science texts contain far less factual material than others, and the degree of readability also varies. KU students have done comparative studies to assist text selection.
Staff members give individual consultation or serve on teams to accredit or evaluate a school system's curriculum and teaching. An area debating unification turns to KU for advice too. When a decision is made, schools look for advice on building construction and location.
IF A CHILD needs remedial training, KU educators are willing to help adjust curriculum and teaching methods.
Discipline problems are not brought to KU as a rule. But Robert W. Ridgway, acting dean, quickly produces an approach to the problem that is still within the curriculum-boundary.
His philosophy is that an emotionally-disturbed child from an underprivileged background needs to be graded against his own progress and to be guided on his own level. The child's discovery of his own worth could begin with a revision of his curriculum to match his learning age.
Ridgway says, "We limit ourselves to what we can handle. We don't go in as inspectors or evaluators. We don't try to tell them things. We do our work with information which the people give us. The school personnel and community assist in evaluating, and we come up with a consensus which they must accept whether they like it or not.
STAFF TEAMS survey and consult perhaps four or five school systems per year. Time is voluntarily given.
"Next time, they know how to solve the problem themselves. They know how to draw on their own resources in the future."
SPU to construct Homecoming art
The Student Peace Union (SPU) got into the spirit of KU Homecoming 1966 at their weekly meeting last night with plans for their own Homecoming decoration.
The SPU Homecoming display—still in the planning stage—will include a slogan saying, "War is good business. Invest your son." Anti-war literature will accompany the display.
A place for the SPU display has not been found, however.
BLONDE REPORT
WAYNE, N.J. — (UFI)— Do blondes have more fun? Whether they do or not, they definitely have more hair than brunettes and redheads, according to researchers at John H. Breck, Inc., hair care products manufacturer.
The average blonde grows about 140,000 individual scalp hairs. Brunettes sprout about 109,000 separate hairs, while redheads trail with 90,000, say the researchers.
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Janson spoke on the emergence of the use of chance and random effects and perspective in art, and traced its history.
James A. McNeill Whistler, creator of "Whistler's Mother," sought out and used chance effects in his painting, according to H. W. Janson, art historian and chairman of fine arts at New York University, last night's Humanities lecturer.
"Here, for the first time in history, the creative process is described as a 'reading' or projecting of images into random shapes and the quality of imagination needed to do this is proclaimed as the special talent that sets the artist apart from the layman," Janson said.
"Unlike Cozen, who still wanted his blots to yield recognizable images, Whistler solicits chance effects for the sake of 'symmetry' representation," said Janson.
"The non-figurative art of our own time,ruled by the muse of chance,is strikingly forecast in Whistler's thinking," Janson said.
IN 1785 Alexander Cozen described a method whereby ink blots were dabbed on paper with a brush, to serve as a bank of compositional ideas.
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Three thousand tickets were sold yesterday in the first on-campus sale for the Student Union Activities (SUA) concert featuring Al Hirt.
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"Anyone who is still looking for a good ticket can find one," said Craig.
Limited numbers will be available the day of the concert until noon in the information booth and that night at the door.
Tickets will be sold until Wednesday in the information booth and in the Hawklet in Summerfield. After that time they may be purchased at the information desk in the main lobby of the Kansas Union.
WATERBURY, Conn.—(UPI)Archeologists have documented that the first type of safety pin was used in the Bronze Age, about 1400 B.C., according to researchers at Scovill Manufacturing Co., the largest American producer.
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He explained that the committee has tried to improve seating this year by eliminating seats behind the stage. "We don't think there will be many bad seats in the place."
Craig expressed satisfaction with the turnout and said students are showing a lot of enthusiasm for the show this year.
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