Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 8, 1966
76th Year, No. 7
Lawrence, Kansas
MUSIC HATH CHARMS TO SOOTHE THE SAVAGE? A popular form of entertainment at McCollum this summer.
Director pleased by German camp
By Annie Reid
To Robert Elkins, director of the German Division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, it is "unbelievable... that so many high school students would want to learn German in the summer." The German division, in its first year and originally planned for 30 students, has enrolled more than five times that many.
"It kept growing and growing until we had 160 students and 13 teachers," Elkins said. In fact, the camp received so many applications that 200 had to be returned, and the camp had to become quite selective in accepting applicants.
THE PROGRAM for the German students is intensive. Students have six hours of class each day, totaling 150 classroom hours. Someone who completes the program, Elkins said, should be able to "jump ahead one year" in his German studies. In addition to class, German movies are shown to the campers each week.
The German campers have been split into four levels corresponding to second, third, fourth and fifth years of study. Most campers are at the third-year level, but there are 19 in the most advanced class, which is taught at the level of a junior-year course in college.
The classes are designed to cover six areas: vocabulary and structure, grammar, reading, conversation, culture lecture, and culture discussion.
ALL CLASSES are conducted completely in German. "We try to give no writing outside of class because the students will use a dictionary to do translation. We want them to think in German," Elkins said. An enthusiast for the ALM method of teaching foreign languages, he believes in the oral approach in which the student learns to comprehend and respond.
The staff-members recruited from the KU faculty are: Ted Garten, Judith Edwards, Harry Parker, Harry Seelig (whose parents are native Germans), Robin Clouser, Bob Reiner, Lothar Schweder (a native German), and Robert J. Elkins.
Although most of the camper's work is in "standard German," the most advanced group does reading in the "Berlin Dialect."
Other staff-members are: Magda Meisels, a native German with her doctorate from the University of Vienna; Ida Wheeler, a native German who has lived and taught abroad and now teaches in Castro Valley, Calif.; David Sachen, a native German teaching French, Spanish, and German at Oak Park High School, Missouri; Siegfried Magiera, a German graduate student of law and political sciences, studying in this country for one year; and Ingo Roedig, also a native German teaching high school in the U.S.
The movies seen by the Ger-
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TWO NEW PROGRAMS
By Bill Robinson Two new financial programs, both sponsored by the Federal government, will be available this fall to KU students of significant financial need who have demonstrated adequate scholastic ability.
Student aid grows
By Bill Robinson
The new programs, the Educational Opportunity Grants and the College Work-Study Program, are results of recent federal legislation in education and poverty. The total amount available to KU students through the two programs depends on the resources of KU, in that all Educational Opportunity Grants allocations must be matched by a like sum from University scholarship or loan funds.
THE COLLEGE WORK-Study Program, effective beginning September 1, offers part-time employment to students with exceptional financial need and the ability to maintain average grades while working. The employment available under the Program will be for on-campus work only; no off-campus employment will be included.
A minimum wage of $1.00 per hour will be paid students employed under the College Work-Study Program. A student in the program may not work more than 15 hours during any week in which he attends scheduled classes, nor more than 40 hours in any other week.
An additional stipulation of the program is that no jobs currently held by students not under the new Program shall be given to Program students. Participants in the Program will be employed for new jobs, and will not replace students now holding jobs with the University.
IN EFFECT, THE NEW PROGRAM creates several new jobs for students in a specific category without endangering the jobs of other students not covered by the Work-Study Program.
Educational Opportunity Grants will make available nearly $140,-000 to KU students, primarily new freshmen. The grants are
awarded on the basis of financial need and capability of maintaining good standing at the University of Kansas. To be eligible for a grant, a student must be enrolled in at least 12 hours.
Students receiving an EOG will also receive a like amount in scholarships or loans from the University. In that way, students receiving an EOG receive a total "package" from the University equal to twice the amount of the grant. The University commits the necessary funds for subsequent renewals of the "package" for a total of four years. Renewal, however, is entirely dependent on the recipient's achievement.
Rusk fails to win Japanese on war
TOKYO—(UPI)—Secretary of State Dean Rusk wound up a two-day conference with Japanese government ministers yesterday but failed in attempts to win endorsements for U.S. Viet Nam policy.
Although the Southeast Asian conflict was a chief topic of discussion, the conference communique made no mention of the war and Japanese Foreign Minister Etsusaburu Shina told newsmen there were "differences in views" between the two countries on the American course in the war.
Sources said Prime Minister Eisaku Sato would urge that the
United States carefully consider whether to continue its bombing of North Viet Nam.
The sources said Sato basically supports the U.S. policy in Viet Nam but believes that an escalation in bombing raids would hinder a peaceful settlement of the dispute.
Carillonneur to give
Belgian carillonneur Piet van den Broek will present a recital at 8 p.m. today on the University Carillon.
Last Friday's Kansas erroneously reported the date of van den Brock's recital as July 1.
(Photo by Glen Phillips)
UP IN THE AIR! IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, NO, IT'S FIREWORKS!
Part of the entertainment given by the Lawrence Jaycees at the Fourth of July celebration.