77th Year, No. 27 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years Tuesday, October 25, 1966
Says honors programs vital
Council concludes
By GARY MURRELL
Honors programs not only have a bright future but are the one aspect of academic work which cannot be discarded if education is to advance, a leading educator told the final session of National Collegiate Honors Council Monday.
Hans Rosenhaupt, National Director of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, told about 200 representatives of American colleges and universities that there is a tendency in this country to find one solution to problems of the honors program.
"As far as I'm concerned, each campus has to find the answer to its own problems," Rosenhaupt said. "You are responsible and know best the needs of your institution."
TRADITIONALLY, the major difficulty encountered in formulating honors programs has been people.
"It doesn't matter what kind of program a school has, but rather what kind of people who are carrying out the program," he said.
Records show a great number of honors students have gone on to attain success as college professors.
"And many of them come out of Woodrow Wilson fellows," Rosenhaupt said. "Of the schools represented at the council, there have been 139 Wilson scholarships awarded them in the last five years."
ANOTHER PROBLEM confronted in honors programs is that too much emphasis is placed on grades and credits, he said.
SDS challenge draws comment
By RUTH ROHRER
Members of the Council for Student Affairs (COSA) and the student body expressed varying reactions to a recent statement by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) concerning COSA's policies and methods.
SDS described COSA as an inherently undemocratic device for social control operating through secrecy and repression.
Rosenhaupt said that being an honor student has developed into a "fad."
IN ITS STATEMENT, SDS listed as one of its demands that "any student be permitted to appear before COSA upon submitting in writing his intention to do so."
"It seems professors expect too much from honors students. They apparently think they are dealing with little Einsteins rather than potentially outstanding students."
A person now wishing to appear before the group must have a prospectus of his concern approved by the committee before he may appear, the SDS statement claimed.
Laurence Woodruff, dean of students and chairman of COSA, said he had never been approached by a member of SDS concerning any issue. He said he would be happy to discuss the group's charges and demands at any time its members wish to come before the council.
"HOWEVER, I AM not going to be drawn into a controversy in
He believes the relationship of the gifted with their fellow man is the most important issue of honors programs today.
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Since beginning his work in honors programs, Rosenhaupt said the most gratifying experience has been the complete devotion of professors who volunteer to teach in predominately Negro institutions in the South every year.
"It WOULD BE tragic if we developed an elite concentration of mentality separated from the general populace and a group unable to communicate with those of lesser ability."
He feels the object of honors work "is to give accelerated students the opportunity to express ideas and feelings in discussions and also to learn from the experiences of others."
Rosenhaupt said that KU ranks as the leading producer of Woodrow Wilson Fellows and it has won 150 scholarships since the Foundation was founded.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts generally fair skies today with little change in temperature. The high will be in the mid 70s with light winds. A low of 35 to 40 is expected tonight.
-Staff photo by Bill Mauk
BLOOD DRIVE BEGINS TODAY
This is BMOC (Blood Mobile On Campus) week at KU. Students began giving blood at the donor station in the south lounge of the Kansas Union at 11:15 a.m. today. The station's hours Wednesday and Thursday are 9:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Ryun has sore back
The 19-year-old Wichita sophomore, holder of the world record in the mile run with a 3:51.3, was x-rayed at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City yesterday. No diagnosis has been released.
KU miler Jim Ryun is suffering a sore back which hurts when he runs downhill.
Describing his ailment, Ryun said that his back had tightened, making it hard to sprint.
"I may have injured my back while running in a cross-country practice about six weeks ago." Ryan added.
Ryum is scheduled to compete in a cross-country meet at
KU this weekend, but Bob Timmons, KU track coach, did not know if Ryun would be able to run in the meet.
WHAT'S INSIDE
**SPORTS**—Bob Skahan is out for good (page 6).
**EDITORIALS**—The complex Far East (page 2).
DJ fights KU apathy between discs and study
Staff Photo by Jay Cooper BILL HANSEN
KLWN disc jockey ponders the probable effects of a record selection upon his KU audience before picking it for the turntable.
By WILL HARDESTY
"All request radio, may I help you?"
"Thanks for calling," he said, and hung up. Then he played bass guitar with the Beach Boys for a few seconds.
HE FLIPPED a recorded spot commercial into the machine that plays the tape over the air. Then he turned.
Bill Hansen recorded another request.
"I'm not interested in running a program that's just a planned-out, all music show. I'd rather have a show that says something."
The record ended. He played the taped commercial and identified the station as "KLWN, 1320, Lawrence." He asked listeners to call in their requests and dedications. He introduced the next record and started it.
CHAIN-SMOKING, chain-sipping Coke, he got the next record cued, the next commercial ready to go. Constantly, the light on his phone flashed the message that someone wanted to make a request or dedication.
He had time to turn from the control board.
"KU has the most apathetic student body in the world," he said. "The only thing the students get fired up for is the football game, and with a team like KU has had for the past two years, even football doesn't fire them."
ANOTHER SIP. Another drag.
"There's nothing worse than this apathetic situation," he said. "Students should have some convictions—any convictions. Any are better than none."
Another commercial. Some comments to students—some spoofing, some challenging, some informing. A dedication from a student:
"I'd like to dedicate 'You Make Me Feel So Young' to Mia Farrow from Frank Sinatra."
HE STOOD up to stretch, looking more like a cross country runner than a disc jockey. Tall, lanky, sharp-jawed, blond, blue-eyed. Maybe a Swedish skier and not a track jock.
"The dedication part of the show is to stimulate some thought, discussion and creativity. Some of
the dedications have really shown some ingenuity. I hope they have made people who have heard them think."
Hensen, whom KU regards as a Shawnee Mission senior, doesn't see himself as a savior of the KU student body.
"I WANT everybody to listen, of course, but primarily, I want the college crowd to tune in. I don't pretend to solve any major problems on the show, and I hope I can stimulate people in some small way."
Hansen enrolled at KU in 1961. He was in the radio-TV-film option in journalism. Then he ran out of money and had to quit school.
He started working for a radio station in Kansas City and got drafted. He served in the Navy, and then on what he termed "a strange complicated program"—the Navy "let me out to go back to school." He re-entered KU in international relations.
Hansen hopes to enter law school when he graduates.
"At least I'm going to take the
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