Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 22, 1966
76th Year, No.11
Lawrence, Kansas
—Photo by Glen Phillips
AND THE ROAD RUNS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE HOUSE?! With all the sidewalk entrances to the complex fence to keep out wandering students, trucks removing debris from the demolition of the World War II vintage annex building behind Strong Hall desperately needed an opening. They apparently found one—through the middle of old Strong Annex C.
Foreign students center is on-strike or no strike
Despite the airlines strike which seriously hampered travel, activities of the Orientation Center for Foreign Students are well under way. "I've been called out of bed at 3 a.m. several times as students arrived by bus and train," said J. A. Burzle, head of the German Department and of the center.
"The program," Dr. Burzle said, "is designed to aid the foreign student in the transition from his homeland to the American academic system: to increase their proficiency in written and spoken English, to become familiar with the customs and culture of the United States, and to become familiar with the classroom techniques and with the educational system of American colleges and universities."
HE SAID the students have a wide variety of majors ranging from law and chemistry to business and the arts including an outstanding pianist and a dancer. They come from countries all over the world-from Afghanistan and Thailand to Chile and Argentina. When they leave they will return to equally diverse colleges and universities including Columbia, Carnegie Institute, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.
All of the students will pursue advanced graduate work this fall. Most of the students understand three or four languages and are conversant in two or three languages. A few speak as many as six or eight languages.
In addition to classes, this week's schedule includes a talk on American art and a trip to the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City, a visit to the Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac car assembly
plant, and instruction in square dancing.
THE WEEKEND stays with Kansas and Missouri families are an important part of the orientation program. In the past years the students have stayed with families in Independence, Abilene, Paola, Clay Center, Kansas City and other communities. Burlingame is being considered as the site for this year's stay in a smaller town.
The program annually involves one weekend in Kansas City, Mo. for a taste of American big-city life, and a weekend in a smaller community.
Begun in 1950 under a U.S. State Department contract that has been renewed annually, the KU Orientation Center recently launched its 17th year.
ABOUT 55 STUDENTS from nearly 25 nations are participating this summer. The session will end Sept. 6 in time for the visitors to enroll in the American colleges and universities.
The students annually visit the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., where former President Harry S. Truman traditionally
Conference ending on family finance
Twenty-one teachers and administrators from five states will end a 4-week intensive study of family finance at KU today.
The educators from Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio and Alabama studied instructional problems of teaching budgeting, banking, credit, savings and investments, insurance, Social Security, home ownership, wills and estates, and taxation.
meets with them. It was under Truman's administration that the program was begun.
Participants also spend six hours a day in the classroom and learn something of quizzes, machine graded tests and open book examinations. Informal evenings of singing, games, parties and counseling are other facets of the orientation.
New College not restrictive
By Bill Robinson
The newly created college-within-a-college of KU is deliberately structured so as not to exclude undergraduate professional training or endanger the existence of fraternities and sororites.
Recent apprehensions that Greek houses might be slowly depopulated by the new program, until they no longer exist, have no legitimate basis, said Jerry Lewis, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Dean Lewis said that the quasi-residential program slated to open this fall is the only segment of the program which focuses on the residence of students involved.
DEAN LEWIS said that after next year, essentially stage one of a multi-staged program, there would be no emphasis given to the residence of participating students. Therefore, he added, there is no danger of depopulating Greek organizations implied in the program.
The new system, designated the Centennial College, will be housed in Oliver and Ellsworth Halls next year solely for administrative purposes. Once the program is beyond the experimental stage, Dean Lewis said, students from all living districts on campus will be included in it.
Regarding the possibility that professional schools would lose students through strict orientation with the College, Dean Lewis explained that only certain courses are included in the program, and that students would in no way be restricted to courses offered within- in the College.
A STUDENT WISHING to take courses preparing him for professional training in journalism, pharmacy, education, or business would certainly be free to do so, said Dean Lewis. He explained that students taking pre-professional courses would be assigned to classes together whenever possible, but that no student would be denied enrollment in a class simply because no other Centennial students were enrolled in it.
Dean Lewis said that he has received several letters expressing concern about the possible restrictions in the new program, but that he hoped all such apprehensions could be alleviated before the opening of Centennial College this fall. He stressed that the purpose of the new program is to offer the personal contacts of a small school while providing the numerous academic and social opportunities of a large school.
Midnight is show time
To meet the demand for tickets,
a special performance of "Stop
the World—I Want To Get Off"
will be given at midnight Saturday
in the Experimental Theatre.
The Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley musical is one of four productions by the KU Summer Repertory Theatre Company. It will be staged for the last time Friday, July 29, at 8:20.
TICKETS FOR Saturday's performance are 75 cents for summer school students with certificates of registration. Other tickets are $1.50. Telephone orders are taken at the box office, UN 4-3982. 24 hours a day or students may purchase tickets there until 5 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow.
A limited number of standing room tickets are on sale at 7 p.m. nightly, before performances of the three other plays in the series, also at 8:20 in the Experimental Theatre.
—Photo by Taylor Huebner
THOSE LAZY HAZY CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER A few campers enjoy the forbidden waters of the Chi Omega Fountain.