'Budget your time'
Study does not make scholar dull boy
The scholar's lot, some say, is not a particularly easy one.
But Bill Coughlin, Wellsville junior, seems the exception to the rule.
For Coughlin is a scholar or at least has the characteristics of one—with a 2.85 over-all grade point and a 3.0 in his mathematics major.
YET EETWEEN those semesters of high grade point, Coughlin is also president of Owl Society, an honorary organization for KU junior men, scholarship chairman of the Inter-Fraternity Council, a member of the Dean's Advisory Council and an officer of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
—UDK Photo by Joel Ahlbrandt
BILL COUGHLIN
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Daily Including Sunday
"BUDGET YOUR TIME"
Coughlin recommends, "and don't take on more than you can handle."
"If you have desire to learn, you can make good grades," he adds.
How does he do it? The answer is surprisingly not surprising.
erstwhile scholar?
"I study a lot." Coughlin says,
"and I budget my time."
However the 20-year-old claims he's not a genius.
on the National Merit test," he says.
"MY KU PROFILI scores were real low, and I didn't even place
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Indeed, Coughlin shatters the stereotype image of the "egg-head" that some of us not-so-scholarly students hold.
But watching Coughlin tediously examine his Math 145 assignment makes one suspect there's even more to it than that.
For example, he manages to squeeze in a few dates between the books and campus activities.
"But I do proctor a few Friday night study halls." Courthouse
night study halls," Coughlin says. And if he's not studying, attending a meeting, or out on a date, he finds time to play fraternity intramural basketball and softball.
What advice does he have for
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Thursday, October 20, 1966