Friday, April 25, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Oral research reaps state history
Rv GREG HACK
Kansan Staff Reporter
More time is needed to investigate classroom teaching and the need for an advisory board for women's athletics at the University of Kansas, officials said Thursday.
The Student Senate Commission on the Quality of Classroom Teaching, appointed in March by Ed Rolfs, student body president, was to finish its work by May 17. Rolfs and Chris Jillis, commission chairman, said the ground would need more time.
He said the seven members of the commission had split up for interviews with the group.
"We have made progress," Hiff said, "but
we need to talk about many different people we
need to talk with."
Rolf's said the commission already had interviewed Phil McKnight, director of instructional resources; Dennis Embry, Lawrence graduate student who designed the Curriculum and Instruction Survey; Jill Sullivan, professor of chemistry.
ROLFS SAID the group would interview award-winning teachers, Chancellor Archie D. Rykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor. Ilff said Shankel had expressed interest in meeting with the commission to discuss matters of working out a time for the meeting.
He said the wide range of views on how to improve teaching had slowed the group.
"Everybody has different ideas about what to do," he said. "We have had some trouble setting our own goals for teaching improvement."
Iriff said the commission would have commissions ready for the April 30 Senate hearing.
"We would like to have a symposium of
A text of previously unrecorded Kanaas students using methodologies of oral histories and methodology.
Thomas Lewin, assistant professor of history, said Thursday that his class, Problems of Oral History and Methodology, was gathering oral research on specific Kansas history. He said bound transcripts of the records were available in the Kansas Collection in Spencer Research Library for study by interested scholars.
Committee needs time for studies
Lewin said his class, the first of its kind at the University, had been studying how to interview informants to obtain accurate data. "Because they wouldn't be recorded in written form.
The class first acted the roles of informants and interviewers to gain practice before they attempted their individual research studies outside the classroom, he said. Each student is required to write a research paper based on his findings.
THE CLASS RECEIVED $2,050 from the Improvement of Instruction Grant which is part of a $2,500 fund from the Endowment Association. The $25,000 fund is added to the Instructor Instructional Resources for the purpose of improving instruction and research.
The $2,050 was used to pay secretaries from Sepmerc to record the interviews, Lewin said. Funds to bind the material are being allocated by the history department.
The volumes will be stored in the Kansas Collection because it is the center of local history and because it has the legal auspices for the deposit of the documents. All the documents will become public when the informants sign releases. Levin said.
"BASICALLY, we set out to acquaint the students with the techniques of gathering oral data," Lewin said, "and to provide a perspective on written documents as well as collect material that has never been written down."
He said the class had worked closely with the local community in the collection of attitudes and views. The informants were cooperative, Lewin said.
Students are doing research on the history of the Jewish and black communities in Lawrence as well as the lynchings that occurred in Kansas City, Kan., in 1831, Lewin said.
He said he hoped to create a national an oral data course through the RU program.
When the project is completed the students will have compiled about 2,500 pages of type-written transcripts, he said. He will also present work from Northwestern University where he was involved in similar projects. Before that he spent two years in West Africa informants and elderly informants about economic and social attitudes during the 1880s and 1890s.
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INTERNATIONAL CLUB ELECTIONS
notted teachers from around the country next year." he said.
Elections for 1975-76 International Club officers will be held April 25, 1975, in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room at 7 p.m. Foreign and American students can become members at the gate of the Big Eight Room.
Lliff said this would allow the University to reduce the number of schools doing to improve their flexibility.
HE SAID OTHER recommendations
would be made April 30 but weren't ready
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Improved classroom teaching was the issue stressed most by Rolfs and Mary Louce, student body vice president, in their campaign.
Rofs said, "The commission has been working hard, and I expect some controversial recommendations for improvement in its report to the Senate."
Marian Washington, assistant athletic director in charge of women's athletics, has been named the national media personality.
"I have just started to look into the possibility of setting up an advisory board for our students."
HE SAID A BOARD for women's athletics, patterned after the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board, would be able to relieve some of the burden on Washington.
Dave Shapiro, chairman of the Student Senate Sports Committee, said Washington was in charge of almost all administration of women's athletics.
Washington said, "I've been asking for either a position on the existing (KUAC) board or a board of my own for quite some time. I'm finally beginning to see what I would need to do to set up a board for women's athletics."
She said a board could be "good all the way around," helping with both administration of women's athletics and communication with the University and the
Shippo and Washington agreed that any proposed board should be made up of representatives from all three countries.
Washington said that she had much investigation ahead of her.
"I am seeking input from many different people before I will start thinking about preparing a package to present to the administration," she said.
Race draws 35 canoeists
the traditional rivalry between the University of Kansas and Kansas State University will vent itself on the Kaw River this weekend.
Saturday morning, 35 men and women from the two universities will assemble at the Kaw River bridge in Manhattan for the first spring running of the Kaw River
Rivaly, a two-day caner race beginning in Manhattan and ending in Lawrence.
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For the past four years, a Kaw River Rivalry was sponsored in the fall by the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) of both KU and K-State. In those races, although anyone could compete, only two teams had teams were eligible for trophies.
"We wanted everyone, even nonstudents to be able to compete and win," Wallace said. He will be an official for the race Saturday.
The race is run in relays with a switchpoint approximately every three miles, according to Gary Holleran, team captain Sigma Omega Betas, a Lawrence team.
This spring, for the first time, the race is being cosponsored by the Jahawkh Cafe in Lawrence and the Dark Horse Tavern in Salt Lake and anyone who enters is eligible to run.
Each canoe must have one canoeist of each sex plus a third canoeist of either sex,
both Holleran and Wallace said the race was mainly an excuse for a three-day beer party. Holleran he asked his raccoons to drink from beer for an hour before they had to race.
"The rest of the time," Wallace said, "we run on beer."
Ken Willeman, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe,
said Thursday that in the future, the AURH
would continue to sponsor the race in the
league. The Niemers would sponsor the
race in the spring.
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