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University Daily Kansan/ Tuesday, September 3, 1991
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Homecoming parade returns
Annual event to be held on campus
By Alexander Bloemhof Kansan staff writer
There will be two homecomings during homecoming weekend this fall.
Not only will KU graduates return for the homecoming game, the homecoming parade will be back on campus as well.
After having been abandoned, re-established and moved back and forth between campus and downtown Lawrence, the parade will be conducted on campus this year for the first time since the mid-1980s.
The University Senate Executive Committee and the executive vice chancellor last week supported a homecoming parade proposal that would move the parade back to campus from downtown.
"Student Union Activities and the Homecoming Committee enthusiastically requested that the parade be brought back to campus for more participation," said Del Shankle, interim executive vice chancellor.
"We thought it might create more enthusiasm and a nice boost for the football team, and the proposal will disruption of classes." Shankel said.
The proposal requires only the approval of the chancellor and vice chancellor, but Shankel said he also wanted to hear the opinion of SenEx.
SenEx approved the proposal Aug. 27
According to the proposal, the 30-minute parade would begin at 2:20 p.m. Friday, Oct.18 in front of Joseph R. Pearson Hall. The parade would move past the Chi Omega Fountain, travel east on Kawaiyah Boulevard and
then north on Mississippi Street.
then north on Mississippi Street.
the area in the west will be
built with courts and judges.
The University's first homecoming parade was conducted downtown in 1916. In 1948, the administration abandoned the parade, and for 30 years, KU homecomings had no parades.
In 1979, the parade returned on campus and stayed there for the next few years. In 1886, downtown again became the site for the parade, and from then on, the event occurred early afternoon on campus.
"A lot of people didn't really understand it was a KU event because it was downtown, said. Dear Newton, since you're coming committee representative."
"We thought it would be a good idea to move the parade back to campus because not many students would attend it on a Saturday morning at 9.
"More of the University will participate because it's more accessible," he said. "It's going to create a positive environment."
Robert Foster, who heads the Parents Day, Band Day and Homecoming Planning Committee, said the people he had talked with seemed pleased by the proposal.
"It's a fairly standard college tradition that homecoming parades are held Friday afternoons on campus," he said. "When the parade was re-created, 70s or a compass parade on Jayhawk Boulevard, it was a huge success."
Whether classes will be canceled during the parade will be up to the individual instructors, Shankel said.
Mark Rowlands/KANSAN
The reservoir on West Campus was the perfect place to chat for KU alumnae Debra Seeger (left), Lawrence resident, and Cathy Heitzmann, Overland Park resident. The two had not seen each other since
Rappin' by the reservoir
May and said they enjoyed catching up on the events of the summer. The KU Weather Service said temperatures Monday climbed to 87 degrees after highs on Saturday and Sunday in the high 70s.
Survey: New requirements accepted
By Blaine Kimrey Kansan staff writer
The survey results are in
According to a survey of students taken last spring, graduation requirement changes made in 1987 for students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been a success. James Musselsk, dean of the college.
CLAS is rated by the students
The changes were designed to give KU students a broader understanding of the liberal arts, Muysksen said.
Before the changes, students could fulfill the requirement of three science courses by taking any three science courses.
The changes included adding a math class requirement; requiring students to take four semesters of one foreign language, rather than giving them the option of taking two semesters of one foreign language and creating specific categories for science requirements.
Since 1987, students have been required to fulfill their science requirement by taking one course in the choice of four different categories.
In April, the college sent a survey to 357 seniors and 112 juniors who entered the University of Kansas in 1987 as freshmen.
Forty-two percent of the students responded.
"I was shocked at how many responses we had," said Susan Twombly, assistant professor of education and director of the study.
CLAS is rated by the students In an attempt to gauge the success of changes in graduation requirements made in 1987, students were asked to rate CLAS on a scale of 1 (poorly) to 9 (very well) on how well the provided education accomplished general goals identified by the University and by CLAS.
Goal Mean
Acquire, develop and convey information 6.9
Enhance sensitivity to social, political issues 6.9
Understanding of history of U.S. 5.6
Role of technology 5.2
Appreciation of critical dimension 6.4
Develop capacity for critical thinking 7.1
Greater appreciation for the arts 6.1
Capacity for innovative thinking 6.7
which is called the college curriculum evaluation project.
Twomby said she was especially surprised at the response because of the length of the survey. It was five pages long and had about 50 questions.
The survey questioned the students about their experiences with the new general degree requirements.
in eight separate categories, including understanding of U.S. history and developing critical think skills. Students also learned the curriculum above average.
Although Twomby said many students had complained to her about the redundancy of the last two semesters of foreign language classes, she said the survey seemed to contradict the complaints.
"I was surprised to find that 67 percent of the students said they learned new skills in the last two
semesters of foreign language," she said.
Nevertheless, Muyskens said he believed the spring survey was worthwhile.
Muyksen said he regretted that a survey was not taken before the requirement changes were made. He was wrong to conclude as a basis for comparison, he said.
Twombly said the college was planning to conduct a faculty survey either this fall or spring.
Rather than being a comparison survey, it was a consumer satisfaction survey, he said.
She said she would like to compare faculty opinions of the changes with the student opinions.
"If we sent a survey to the faculty as long as the student survey, they'd pitch it," she said.
The faculty survey, however, will be shorter, she said.
KU departments combine resources to offer program
Clinical child-care program to begin in Fall 1992
By Jennifer Bach Kansan staff writer
The KU department of psychology and department of human development and family life plan to join forces create a clinical child-care program.
The program, scheduled to begin in Fall 1992, will be a five-year program designed for graduate students who hold a doctorate in clinical child psychology.
Michael Roberts, director of the program, came to the University of Kansas this summer from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
Roberts ran a similar program in Alabama. He said it would give students classroom education as well as with children in need of clinical care.
For the first four years of the program, students will take a combination of human development and pay attention to classes that focus on clinical child care.
During the fifth year, students will intern at a mental health clinic or hospital.
The program's goal is to teach students to assess a child's ability to learn. Roberts said,
"The students will work with a child who is hyperactive or has other emotional problems so they learn how to control their behaviors without relying on
drugs."
The program was proposed by the human development and family life department in 1985 but was not developed until this year.
Roberts said financing problems may have held up the development of the program.
He said the program would be accredited by the American Psychology Association and would follow the association's standards.
The standards include a broad base of study in psychology and several hundred hours of direct association with children.
After obtaining a doctorate in the program, a student would be licensed to practice clinical psychology in any state.
To be admitted to the program, students must achieve a high score on the Graduate Record Examination and a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
The minimum score needed on the GRE has not been established yet, Roberts said.
The program will admit only four students, first year and will graduate within one year.
Roberts said the program would be selective because the focus was to educate students very well, as opposed to educating many students relatively well.
"The students will totally immerse themselves in clinical aspects," he said.
une students will be learning about the profession, what the needs are and to meet them. It's not something we can hand out in a lecture hall of 150
Robert's said he came to KU to start the clinical program because he saw potential in combining the human experience with socially life and psychology departments.
He said the Midwest was in desperate need of a clinical child psychology program.
"There were no real clinical psychology people here until I came here," he said. "There's never been a great deal of sense, that so it made a great deal of sense.
"These two departments have a good mix to make things happen. This is going to be an exciting program. Good good things are going to happen here."
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate dean of social sciences of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that Roberts' excellent reputation in clinical psychology attract a lot of attention to the program.
"We did a search to find a director," she said. "He's one of the best child psychologists in the country."
She said that in five or six years, the program would be one of the four largest.
The location of the clinic has yet to be decided.
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