KU Co-Initiates New Scholarship
Bv Susan Hartlev
The University of Kansas has been instrumental in establishing a new scholarship program sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and has a good chance of sharing in the results.
Laurence C. Woodruff, Dean of Students, is one of six members of a NCAA committee created to organize, then implement a scholarship program honoring senior athletes who have distinguished themselves both in athletic competition and in the classroom.
The program, which is slated to continue on an annual basis established 32 scholarships of $1,000 each, to be awarded to 22 football players and 10 basketball players for use towards graduate or professional study.
Half of the scholarships in the two sports areas will be awarded to athletes from the university division of the NCAA, and half to the college division.
Eight of the eleven allotted football scholarships will go to student athletes from each of the eight NCAA districts in both divisions. The remaining three scholarships will be awarded on an at-large basis in the two divisions.
Ron Oelschlager
The basketball scholarships will all be awarded on an at-large basis.
The winners of the football scholarships will be announced Jan. 1 at the various Bowl games, and the winners of the basketball scholarships will be announced at the national NCAA tournament in March.
"This is an excellent program recognizing the very definite connection between athletics and scholarships," Dean Woodruff said. "Certainly this is a program we want to promote and support, for it encourages our athletes to recognize their real goals."
Ron Oelschlager, Jayhawker fullback, is KU's candidate for the football scholarship.
Oelschlager, a senior from Marion, Kansas, will compete against student athletes from Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and other schools in the Big Eight Conference and the Missouri Valley Conference who are not within the geographical boundaries of the four states.
Awards of this type are not new to Oelschlager, for he was recently selected a winner of a $500 scholarship from the Football Hall of Fame, and received an additional $500 from the Red Blaik fund for athletes going into medicine.
He will fly to New York City Sunday to attend the annual banquet of the Football Hall of Fame and receive his award.
Oelschlager has been nominated for Scholastic All-American both in 1962 and 1963. He was selected to the All Big Eight Scholastic team both his sophomore and junior years. The 1964 team has not yet been announced.
To be eligible for the NCAA seholarship, an athlete must have a minimum grade point average of 2.0, and have distinguished himself as a member of the varsity football or basketball team.
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62nd Year, No. 51
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Hall Students Unhappy Over Occupancy Switch
He was referring to Ellsworth men's attempt to establish a hall government, and traditions. "It will put us back where we started at the first of last year," he said.
"This means, in effect, an end to all we have worked for in two years," Dick Darville, Shawnee Mission sophomore and president of Ellsworth. said.
Darville said he thought the men realized the administration's problem and that this was the only logical solution.
Many residents of Lewis and Ellsworth Halls are meeting the proposed living accommodation change for next year with shock and irritation.
John Putnam, Leawood junior,
found many distressed with the
news. "I think they should put the
women in McCollum," he said.
Friday, Dec. 4, 1964
"The possibility of anonymity is awful with roughly 726," he said. "You can imagine what it would be with 976."
He said it was probably the only logical move because the men are so overcrowded now. But he said something will have to be done about the parking situation.
Plans now are for a parking lot across Iowa. "It's possible it won't even be done when we are ready to move in," he added.
"Most of the guys aren't too hap-
Cafeteria Trays, Snow Bring Out Daredevils
By Karen Lambert
All work and no play makes college men dull boys, and the men of Ellsworth decided they had had enough of their study business. Skiing at Aspen was never like this, as the men demonstrated their original ideas about tackling a snowy slope.
A slick spot on the path behind Hashinger Hall took on a luminous patina as 50 or so posteriors slid across it. The boys gambled on their equilibrium once too often and slid, splattered and careened across the patch of ice.
Winter frolics exploded on Daisy Hill last night. The spontaneous outburst of good spirits began as basketball fans began to plod and flounder up the snow blanketed hill.
A FEW HASHINGER residents joined the fun, sliding down the hill on cafeteria trays.
Chivalry died a sudden death as boys captured the trays, not too gently, from the snow maidens.
There seemed to be two basic tray-sliding methods, There was
the plant-posterior-firmly-hold-on for-dear-lake take-off and, for the jet set, landing on the tray in a takeyour-chances leap, zipping at dizzying speed down the hill, and landing in a heap.
LUSTY SHOUTS pierced the air and a full-throated cry of "Charge!" rang out as the boys converged on Lewis Hall and challenged the girls to a snow fight. The men pummeled Lewis residents with snowballs and gave them invigorating "snow facials".
The boys charged Lewis several times. However, the girls evidently didn't know the rules of modern warfare, as they preferred to skitter in the front doors, rather than counterattack.
Closing hours ended the coed carousing, and so the boys struggled back to Ellsworth.
This morning, heavy snow has covered the hill again and at 7:30 no one was in the mood for fun. But Daisy Hill is frosted with drifts of winter icing again, ready for another onslaught the next time fun seems more appealing than study
boy." Mike Starkweather, Wichita junior, said. "We have been trying to get a hall government set up and this disrupts the whole thing."
He also said organization will be hard with so many new freshmen coming into McCollum. There is a possibility of a freshman majority, he said.
Judy Collins, Shawnee Mission junior, said the decision came out without warning. "Lewis has built up a tradition as being a winner," she said.
"I'm not saying take Hashinger," she said. "I'm saying find another solution."
Miss Collins said it has taken a long time to get the government the way it is at Lewis. She cited the trophies won at Spring Fling and Spring Sing as examples of Lewis Hall achievements.
"We aren't trying to start any trouble," she said. "We just don't want the administration to think they can push us around without looking at the situation first."
On the other hand, Gloria Farha, Wichita senior and president of Lewis, said she thought the girls were accepting the move as a challenge.
"Everyone was unhappy at first," she said. "It was sort of a shock. They didn't know they would be involved in the change.
"Some of the girls are very unhappy, but you find that whenever you make a change," she said. "Even if you don't change some will be unhappy."
Beth Mayrath, Dodge City junior, said the general reaction was, "Why us? Why not some other hall?"
"It seems like they are breaking us up when we are just doing something," she said. "I've even heard this thing is only temporary. Then why not let us stay?"
Linda McPearson, Tulsa, Okla. senior, said a lot of the bad feeling arose because Lewis women feel they are the first Independent hall to get unity and do something.
Miss McPearson said the administration had to do what they thought was best but she feels the girls should have had some say in the matter.
Freshmen Judge High School's Help
By Judy Farrell and Corinne Newberry
KU freshmen passed or failed their high schools yesterday in interviews with their former principals and counselors at KU's 16th Annual Principal-Counselor-Freshman Conference.
Representing 94 Kansas high schools in the conference were 210 principals and counselors here to talk with their students of last year on anything from KU social life to language laboratories.
Conducted annually since 1948, the conferences have been helpful to both the high schools and the University in easing the student's transition to college and in improving various aspects of college preparation. Freshmen are urged to discuss areas of strength or weakness in their first months at KU, and to suggest certain curriculum changes in their high schools.
HIGH SCHOOLS SHOULD ASK more of their students, eight KU freshmen from Wichita High School South told their former principal yesterday.
Students could be better prepared for college, the students told Dr. Ralph Pyles, if high schools stressed more reading, less busy work, and more individual initiative.
Asked what advice he would send to seniors at South High, Evan Watkins said, "Read a lot more."
WATKINS SAID, "Students have to learn to read fast, and to comprehend."
Sharon Bryant and Keith Goodner added that reading improvement courses would definitely help potential college students.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS receive their best preparation in the sciences, the group said, for there is a greater continuity of subject matter. Mathematics and science teaching could be improved, they said, if students were given less busy work and more opportunity to work with unknowns in problem solving.
The students also said high school English courses should give students more experience in literary criticism and in writing in-class themes.
JIM ASKINS, "You're really on your own in college. You could procrastinate at home, but here you can't. You've got a responsibility to yourself if you're ever going to get anywhere."
Dan Atkisson said, "High school teachers led us through the subject; here they expect you to get it on your own."
Miss Bryant added that she did not think high school teachers demanded enough of their students.
While students felt their college teachers are less personal than high school teachers, all agreed teachers are willing to help if the student is willing to ask for it.
The Wichita students, who had graduated from a school with an enrollment of 2,100, said a student's adjustment to college did not depend as much on the size of his school as upon his school preparation.
DR. PYLES agreed with them, saying, "I think it (preparation for college) is all in the teachers and equipment available in a high school.
Steve Schaefer of Wellington, where the high school enrolls 600 in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades, said, "I am sure large high schools that can offer real college prep courses and accelerated studies send their students here much better prepared."
The general conclusion of freshmen coming from small high schools is that they are at a sizeable disadvantage at a large university.
PAT BARKER, also from Wellington, agreed. "I don't think the personal attention and counseling you are more apt to get in a small school help that much. My classes here, on the whole, are smaller than those at Wellington, and I can get any help I need.
J. Andrew Nelson, counselor from Tonganoxie High School where students total 215, said, "Small schools may develop all kinds of leadership and personal potential, but there's also a tendency to shelter students. All students are 'special' in
a small school. And all of a sudden, they're freshmen in a big University and are nobody.
Nelson said he believed, however, that academics are not the main reason for students who flunk out early in their college years, particularly those from small high schools.
STUDENTS from a school of relatively small enrollment have a certain identity back home, and when they first hit the big college campus, it's a real fight to keep that identity. They all have their own, established concepts of study and of social life, and find it hard to realize that new ones must be developed.
Several participating freshmen agreed that the social life on campus is as great a problem as academics.
Deanne Taggart, Wellington freshman, said, "I've found you just have to put all the clubs and organizations you'd like to join away for awhile. It's too much of an adjustment, just learning how to study."
THE CHIEF DEFIICIENCY in their high school training expressed by the freshmen was the rote learning and memory work they had received before coming to KU.
"It's all so different here," Schaefer said. "Of course, you expect it to be rougher, but you aren't just given work to learn. You have to go out and dig it up and then learn it. This was completely new to me."
"Upperclasswomen should get some privileges, but it seems to be the opposite here," she said. "They've been here longer and have contributed something."
"I think it's a big farce," Nancy Behen, Yankton, South Dakota, junior, said. "They say they can't take JRP because it is traditional but Lewis had a tradition just like JRP.
"Shouldn't upperclass women have some conveniences?" she asked. "I don't think the freshmen should have all the good places to live."
Snow Slows People, Cars
Snow plows inched along Kansas Highways today in a battle against the first major snow storm of winter.
According to the Weather Bureau, skies will be mostly cloudy through Saturday. The high temperature will be in the 20's with a low tonight of 10 to 15 degrees.
The wind will be out of the northwest today and tomorrow.
Four inches of snow have been reported in Lawrence, but no more is forecast for the weekend.
Authorities said few routes were blocked in the state, and those only temporarily; however, driving was extremely hazardous throughout the state.