Study examines college motivation
Do many University of Kansas students take their college education for granted, particularly in comparison to students at a foreign university? Are KU students concerned with getting a college education for its intellectual benefits or for the things it can buy them?
These are some of the questions which a research project in sociology presently being conducted by Nancy Meyer, Shawnee Mission senior, is seeking to answer. Miss Meyer is working on the study in connection with one of her courses, Seminar in Sociology, which is taught by Gary Maranell, assistant professor of sociology.
She explained that her project "is an examination of students at KU and with those at a university in Esfahan, Iran, and their feelings on the value of a higher education in order to compare students in a highly-developed country with those from an under-developed country."
MISS MEYER SAID she expects to find Iranian students will place a higher value on education since so few people are able to obtain a higher education. Another part of her hypothesis is that Iranian students will value a college education for its non-materialistic aspects such as knowledge whereas American students place a much greater value on the materialistic benefits of college.
Miss Meyer said that she has sent out questionnaires to over 50 KU students selected in a random sample. She has sent the same questionnaires to Iran for about the same number of college students to fill out too.
The Iranian questionnaires were sent first to her brother, Wayne, who is stationed with the Peace Corps in Esfahan. She said he has three roommates, all of whom are teachers at the university. The teachers have agreed to translate the questions from English and administer them randomly to their various classes. They will then translate them back into English and forward them on to Miss Meyer.
She emphasized that her project is a "pilot study" which examines the possibilities of some question "but is not supposed to reveal definite and final results but just indicates whether or not there are any outstanding differences between the student groups and whether or not these are worth studying further."
THE QUESTIONS WHICH the students are asked to answer include such inquiries as: the reason they are attending college, the importance of the educational level of their acquaintances to them, the advantages they think their education level will give them in society, how their education will aid society if at all, the rank or class they hope to be in, and the importance of extracurricular college activities to them.
Although she has only received half of the KU questionnaires back and none of the Iranian ones back, at the time of this writing, Miss Meyer said that the answers are showing that KU students are more oriented toward materialistic advancement than the Iranians.
"I've found so far that American students are seeking an education primarily because they feel it is necessary for bettering their financial state," Miss Meyer stated.
WHEN ASKED WHY she decided on the student project, Miss Meyer replied, "I thought the project would be interesting
because, in talking to some of the foreign students here, they seem to place such different values on things in general, education in particular.
"I came from a high school where over 90 per cent of the people went on to college. I think it would be interesting to find how students react where they don't have such an opportunity and where it really isn't expected of them . . . an area where it isn't so easy to attend school and it is the exception rather than rule as where I came from."
Although the students are asked not to sign their questionnaires they are asked to tell their age, religion, sex, socioeconomic status, etc., on the form. Miss Meyer said she hopes to run correlations between the students with this information and their other answers so as "to get an image of the average student in Iran and the U.S."
"It will give me more of an idea of the type of person they are and possibly what background factors have influenced their other answers to the questionnaire," she concluded.
A line from the poem "Johnson's Cabinet Watched By Ants" reads, "Tonight they throw the fire bombs, tomorrow they read the Declaration of Independence."
Tape recordings offer Viet Nam poems
About 10 students gathered yesterday afternoon in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union to hear taped poetry readings en Viet Nam.
THE FIRST SPEAKER on tape, Robert Bly, summed up the hour and a half program by commenting, "We aren't here only to read poetry, but essentially to protest against the policies of President Johnson."
The readers of poetry included Carl Shapiro, described by Bly as "one of the wickedest men in American literature"; Donald Justice, winner of the Rockefeller award for playwrighting and a Ford Foundation award for poetry; and Anne Cambell, connected with Canada's Stratford Theatre.
one speakers read original
1952 band was swinger
What are the "Kampus Kats?" It depends on which era of KU history one's reviewing. In 1952, they were the newest band on campus. Composed of 11 students, this group offered four different mixed bands for hire.
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A placard leaning against the table of literature in the front of the Forum Room quoted U Thant, saying, "As you know, in times of war and hostilities the first casualty is usually truth."
works such as "Counting the Small-boned Bodies," "To the Hawks — Dedicated to MacNamara, Rusk and Bundy," and "The Way of Dissent - A Poem for Senator Morse."
IN THE THREE ROUNDS of readings the panel of speakers often drew from other people including Walt Whitman, e.e. cummings and Thucydides.
Daily Kansan 9
Wednesday, May 25, 1966
Wednesday, May 25, 1966
GOOD NEWS FOR BOWLERS The Jay Bowl will stay open Regular Hours this summer.
SUMMER HOURS 8:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m. Weekdays 1:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.Sundays
Remember our WEEKEND DATE SPECIAL! (Dates bowl every other game Free, Moms bowl every game Free, 6:00 p.m. Friday-Closing Saturday.) In the sub-subbasement of the Kansas Union.
Please don't zlupf Sprite. It makes plenty of noise all by itself.
Sprite, you recall, is the soft drink that's so tart and tingling, we just couldn't keep it quiet.
Flip its lid and it really flips.
Bubbling, fizzing, gurgling, hissing and carrying on all over the place.
An almost exces- sively lively drink
Hence, to zlupf is to err.
What is zlupfing?
SPRITE IS A REGISTERED TRADE MARK
Zlupfing is to drinking what smacking one's lips is to eating.
It's the staccato buzz you make when draining the last few deliciously tangy drops of Sprite from the bottle with a straw.
It's completely uncalled for. Frowned upon in polite society. And not appreciated on campus either.
But. If zlupfing Sprite is absolutely essential to your enjoyment; if a good healthy zlupf is your idea of heaven, well...all right.
But have a heart. With a drink as noisy as Sprite, a little zlupf goes a long, long way.
SPRITE, SO TART AND
TINGLING, WE JUST COULDN'T
KEEP IT QUIET.