Friday, April 16, 1965
University Daily/Kansan
Page 13
Superior Students Studied by Group
Five KU representatives to the Inter-University Committee on the Superior Student (ICSS) had a busy Spring Break.
George Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Robert P. Cobb, assistant dean of the College; E. Jackson Baur, professor of sociology; Ray P. Cuzzort, associate professor of sociology on leave to the ICSS; and George Barisas, Kansas City, Mo., senior, attended the fifth annual ICSS conference April 5-9 in Denver.
Only six of these were students. In addition to Barissas, students came from the University of Colorado, University of New Mexico, Duke University, Seattle University and Occidental College in Los Angeles.
"THIS IS THE last year of the conference," Dean Cobb said, "as the Carnegie grant has expired. But the journal of the committee will continue publication at the University of Michigan."
ICSS was founded five years ago under a grant from the Carnegie Corporation to study the problems in finding and motivating superior students. Dean Waggoner has been on the executive board of the committee since its inception.
Nearly 250 persons from around 200 schools participated in last week's conference, according to Cobb.
"What the committee has done and was designed to do was provide impetus for the study and growth of honors programs in general," Cobb said.
"I couldn't say definitely, but of the six students present I am fairly sure I was the only Rhodes scholar." Barisas said.
"TO ME IT was an interesting and valuable opportunity to see the work involved in planning, coordinating and evaluating the honors programs throughout the country," Barissas added.
Conference activities included a banquet, after which Dean Waggoner and other executive board members spoke, and group discussions Thursday and Friday.
Cuzzort chaired the panel concerned with evaluation of honors programs. Prof. Baur was a member of the same panel.
The panel on special activities and special courses was headed by Dean Cobb.
Dean Waggoner conducted the panel discussion on experimentation with honors programs.
Barikas and the other students participated in discussions on honors experience.
OTHER TOPICS included the general honors program; inter-disciplinary courses; identification and selection of students; honors—problems and pitfalls; departmental honors programs; all-university honors programs; school-college liaison; planning an honors program; honors
Official Bulletin
Foreign Students: Leaving for home this summer? Interested in a special program in Colorado? See the Dean of Students' office, 228 Strong, for information.
TODAY
Professional Advisory Committee-Dept of Social Work. All Day, Union.
Friday Flicks, 7:00 and 9:30 p.m. Fraser Theater.
Good Friday Communion; 3:00 p.m.
Adoration and communion; confessions;
4:00-5:30 p.m. St. Lawrence Student Center.
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel,
SEVENFURT
Explorer Scouts, All Day. Kansas Uni-
S.U.A. President's Brunch, 10:00 a.m.
Kansas Room, Union.
Holy Saturday Schedule: confessions 11-12 a.m. and 3-5 p.m. Easter Vigil, blessing of font, 11:00 p.m. followed by Midnight Mass.
SUNDAY
Annual Community Passover Seder,
6:30 p.m. pcm.-co-sponsored by B'nal Brith
Hillel Counselorship and Lawrence
Jewish Community at Eldridge Hotel.
United Campus Christian Fellowship,
9:15 a.m., study seminar; 10:45 a.m.
loving worship; 5:15 p.m., evening fellow-
ship U.C.C.F. (Westminster) Center,
1204 Oread
Quaker Meeting 10:30 a.m. Dan'sorth
Court Overseas Friends Meeting welcomes
visitors
KU Religious Liberals, 6:30 p.m. Maddowark Room, Kansas Union, Panel of COBE volunteers, "Report from Bogahusa."
and the professional school, and the honors climate.
usa.
A philosophy professor at the University of Colorado, Joseph W. Cohen, has been a prime mover in the committee's program, Cobb said. Cohen has edited an anthology on aspects of honors programs, "The Superior Student in American Higher Education, An Analysis of Honors Programs."
KU's honors program was described by Cobb as "older than most and younger than some." It was officially established in 1955, but several of its features were available before that time.
The book will be published this fall. One of the book's 11 chapters, "Departmental Honors Programs," is authored by Dean Waggoner. The Book is a compilation of ICSS work, according to its editor.
TKE House Goes Hollywood
During its first decade, Cobb said more than 800 students have taken part in its programs.
The glaring lights and whirring cameras of a Hollywood movie company have come to KU.
The large living room of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house has been transformed into a sound stage for the production of a 15 minute color and sound movie to be used by the national fraternity for a "rush film."
Amid a jumble of cables, hot lights and switchboxes with strange looking red pushbuttons protruding, the Bill Melendez Production Company of Hollywood, Calif. is filming a variety of scenes to portray typical fraternity activities.
GEORGE WOOLERY. public relations director for the national fraternity, said, "This is a public relations film to be made available for television, alum groups, or any of the 210 TKE chapters to explain fraternities."
The film, to be narrated by Ronald Raegan with music composed and directed by Stan Kenton, both TKE alums, will be filmed on three campuses in this area. The individual schools were chosen to represent a large, medium, and small school.
The KU sequence will portray the
large school with the Kansas State Teacher's College of Emporia representing the medium sized school. Missouri Valley College at Marshall, Mo. will be representative of the small schools.
The students being filmed seemed to enjoy the whole process as they quipped with moustached cinematographers and electrical technicians who were shoving exposure meters in front of faces and adjusting lights to the proper level.
AFTER A SHORT delay due to a breakdown in the camera, one pledge quipped, "See, I told you you'd break the camera!"
"Will we get an Oscar for this?," one asked.
This clowning took place while scenes were being set up and, since the only sound will be that of Reagan's narration, there was also some spicy dialogue during actual shooting.
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