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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1964
KU Anticipated Baby "Boom"
The surge of new students which hit the University of Kansas campus Monday for the fall term came as no surprise to the administration, James K. Hitt, registrar, said.
The increased enrollment is part of a wave of new students that had been expected and should continue for several years.
A record 13,054 students enrolled Sept. 16-18. This is a 10 per cent increase over the fall 1963 enrollment of 11,971.
Nearly 500 late enrollments are predicted by the registrar's office before final enrollment figures are calculated Oct. 3.
The 2,502-member freshman class, 25 per cent larger than last year's freshman class, owes its size to the post-war baby boom. Hitt said.
THIS GROUP, born in 1946 after
Schools Help Cut Most Students' Marriage Rate
College, according to authorities in Washington, D.C., has a strange effect on women. It makes them stop, look and listen before they get married.
Surveying current marriage trends, the Population Reference Bureau in Washington has issued a statement containing the fact that this year there will be about 1.8 million marriages in the United States.
Some 20,000 girls were married last June, and the majority of them were teenagers. The boys they married were only slightly older.
The bureau has advice for worried parents who hope their daughter will not plunge into marriage before they have a chance to see the world: Get her into college fast!
On the average, a college career delays a girl's marriage about four years. The PRB emphasizes the world average, but the statistics are conclusive.
Other intriguing, isolated and sometimes paradoxical facts relating to college graduates and their marriages were cited:
- Approximately 596,300 students made up the college class of 1964. Approximately 38 per cent were women.
- Women received almost 40 per cent of the bachelor's degrees and first professional degrees, and a third of the masters degrees, but only 11 per cent of the doctoral degrees.
- Marriage has been firmly woven into the fabric of campus life ever since the first GI invaded college campuses after World War II. The mothers and fathers of today's graduates would have been expelled from most colleges a generation ago had they been married while in school. Today, undergraduate marriages in major colleges are taboo only in the armed services academies.
- Almost one-fourth of all students who graduated in 1964 were already married. An army of children and babes-in-arms attended graduation ceremonies for pop and mom or both.
- Four out of five of the married graduates were men. The scarcity of women reflects in part the fact that many coeds who marry drop out of college to bolster the family income, often making it possible for their husbands to graduate.
Perhaps one of the most revealing sets of figures the PRB found determines the worth of enough of an education. The bureau found the most frequent age at marriage for women college graduates is 22 years, for high school graduates 18 years and for women who did not attend high school 14-16 years.
Among married women, a larger proportion of college graduates have jobs, according to the Eureau of the Census. In 1960 42 per cent of the married college graduates were employed and only 32 per cent of the high school graduates had jobs.
most soldiers returned from World War II, has been cramming classrooms since it began its education 13 years ago.
Tangible evidence of this can be seen in any town, Hitt said, as most communities had to expand their elementary and high school facilities to accommodate the group as it moved through the educational system.
"This is the class," he said, "which has either occupied new buildings or had split shifts throughout its education."
Besides the increased college-age population, Hitt said the enrollment jump resulted from a post-war emphasis on higher education and even longer education.
OVER 50 per cent of the collegeage people in Kansas are attending college, he said, since World War II advanced technology requires a college education. A greater percentage of college-age people are in college in the United States than at any other time, Hitt said.
Coupled with this is the tendency for students to stay in college longer. Fewer students are dropping out of college and more are staying in to attend graduate school, Hitt said.
nearly three-fourths of students previously enrolled at KU returned this year, also a record number, indicating a greater persistence factor among KU students.
DESPITE THE increased enrollment, classroom space is adequate at KU. Hitt said building plans
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The bulging enrollment will show where the University did not plan adequately, he said, and then construction plans might have to be revised.
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Every scheduled class had a place to meet for the first day of class Monday, Hitt said, and office space had been provided for every faculty member.
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Pharmacist Is New Instructor
Ronald J. Koehn, a Lawrence pharmacist, has been appointed to the new post of clinical instructor in pharmacy at KU.
He will supervise the prescription laboratory work of senior students in the School of Pharmacy. The new position is part-time and Koehn will continue his professional work.
Dean Duane G. Wenzel of the School of Pharmacy said the use of a practicing pharmacist in this course would more closely relate the teaching and course work to its practice in the community pharmacy.
Acacia Chooses VOX Affiliation
Acacia fraternity voted to affiliate with Vox Populi (VOX) last night, it was announced by Ron Peden, Danville senior and Acacia president.
we telt membership in VOX would be an asset to our fraternity image, Peden said. We also had several individuals who were very active in the party. Their opinions carried a lot of weight in the voting.
The Acacia fraternity had been affiliated with VOX several years ago but had dropped out of the party due to internal problems. Since that time they had been unaffiliated.
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