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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.140
WEATHER: SHOWERS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Friday, May 20,1966
Photo by Emery Goad
KU POLICE SEARCH SUBJECT AT WATER FIGHTS At 12:25 a.m. today police arrived at the ATO house, collected student ID's and questioned students. This film was confiscated from the UDK photographer's camera by the police officer, but later returned.
Trimester system pros,cons listed
By Linda Sleffel
"The trimester has some advantages, but I really don't think they will have a lot of students attending during the summer. Both the professors and the students want the summer off."
deems want to take this.
This is what Diane Morris,
Leavenworth senior, said in describing the trimester system at the University of Michigan. Miss Morris attended the spring and summer trimesters there last year after the system was initiated in the fall of 1964.
the trimester system, which Provost James Surface this week described as impractical for KU, is presently in operation in 55 of the more than 2,100 colleges and universities in the United States. Some, such as the University of Michigan, have found the trimester successful. Others have failed to attract enough students for the summer trimester to pay for the faculty required. And Florida, which in 1962 became the first and only state to adopt the trimester statewide, dropped the plan this spring.
THE TRIMESTER INVOLVES a year-round program of three 15-week sessions. The first runs from late August until Christmas, the second from January until mid-April, and the third from late April until mid-August. It is intended to increase a school's capacity for students, but because a large staff is required for the summer trimester, a summer enrollment of at least 65 per cent of the fall and winter enrollment is necessary to meet expenses, Surface said.
In a number of schools, the summer enrollment has increased only slightly. At Pittsburgh University, 40 per cent of the faculty was retained for the summer triester, but only one-fourth of the fall and winter students enrolled.
At Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa, the summer enrollment was raised to 80 per cent of the winter figure by accepting students from the lower end of the
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SCHWEGLER IS DIRECTOR
RESTLESS AGAIN!
Dr. Raymond A. Schwegler Jr., today becomes director of the Student Health Service at the University of Kansas after having been "acting director" since July 1.
"We are delighted that Dr. Schwegler has consented to continue in the position he has so well filled since the retirement of Dr. Canuteson." Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said.
Wescoe quiets frats
By Robert Stevens and Emery Goad
The second night of Greek restlessness was climaxed at 1 am. today when Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe paid more than a social call on the south flats.
The Chancellor, in a gray flannel sweater and with his usual cigar, met Fred McElhenie, assistant dean of men, and Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, who had just returned from out of town.
The officials were summoned by Steve Adams, Leawood junior and Lambda Chi Alpha president, who was afraid the fun was getting out of hand.
THE SCENE was set when a dark blue car reportedly sped down Stewart Avenue with firecrackers being thrown from the window. After drawing men from both the Lambda Chi and Tau Kappa Epsilon houses into the street, the car retraced its tracks, barely missing several of the men.
At this time a Traffic and Security officer arrived on the scene and stopped the motorist.
ONE OF THE first events of Thursday night started with a "function" between the Alpha Phis and Delta Chis on a sand-bar north of Eudora.
According to Diane Steed, Hutchinson junior and Alpha Phi president, upon leaving the sand bar the entire group was stopped by several area sheriff's units and a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper
Arthur Peck of Holmes, Peck, and Brown, Inc., owners of the area, had filed a complaint for trespassing on private property. No arrests were made at this time, but future users will be prosecuted, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's office.
THE SANDBAR is located underneath the new bridge north of Eudora. It has been reported several groups had been planning to use this area this weekend.
About the same time, a call was made to Lawrence police about a water fight in front of the Kappa Alpha Theta house with the Beta Theta Pi's involved. The call was made by a neighboring fraternity.
"A lot of houses were used . . and there was red and green paint . . and people threw mud
... and oh ... it was quite messy," one Theta reported.
THROUGHOUT THE night firecrackers echoed from the West Hills to the East Hills. Fraternity men perched in their windows keeping one eye on their books and the other on the street out front.
Expecting a midnight raid on the eastern sector, the men of Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Tau Omega gathered along Tennessee street. Finally, at 12:15 a.m., two unidentified
cars came by and tossed water and water balloons at the gathering. They were barraged with balloons before they could speed away.
A Campus policeman appeared and warned the men "There will be another report on your house tonight unless you get inside and quiet down." Finally, when this failed, he pulled several onlookers to his car where he noted their names and student numbers.
See WESCOE on page 3
Hitt, Salsicht talk ondraftpetition
Registrar James K. Hitt talked for about an hour Tuesday with Hamilton Salsich, assistant instructor of English, who presented him with a petition, signed by about 15 faculty members concerning the KU policy of sending class standing to Selective Service boards.
Hitt said that the importance of the petition is "not so much people disapproving of a particular administrative practice, as it is people concerned with certain other issues that warrant discussion."
ssion.
SALSICH COULD NOT BE reached for comment.
Hitt said, "First, the university is a place where ideas are allowed to develop and conflicting points of view are discussed. Second, it ought not be a place to run and hide from military service. Important as it may be in the national interest to defer the service of gifted students, these students shouldn't feel they are substituting continued schooling for their military obligation."
He added that the university "shouldn't be viewed as an arm of the Selective Service, but simply as a source of information, an attempt to convey to the boys all the university knows that they should know about selective service."
Hitt pointed out that it might be easy to get the impression that the university is obligated to report a student's class standing to his local Selective Service board. He emphasized that this is not the case.
KU POLICY IS TO REPORT the class standings of those students who at enrollment voluntarily register their selective service numbers with the Admissions and Records Office unless the student requests that his standing not be reported.
the student requests that they The signers of the petition urged the university to change its policy so that no class standings are reported unless the student specifically requests it.
"Ideas and differences of opinion of this kind ought to be discussed publicly by all members of the university community," Hitt said. "Perhaps it would change the way some people view issues of this kind. So much of what happens is a matter of individual perception."
MAKING THE GRADE-XV
Scholar is characterized in files
By Elizabeth Rhodes
By Elizabeth Nibbs
(Editor's note: This is one of a series about grades and grading systems at UU and the problems they create.)
In the corner of a newly refurnished Strong Hall office stand two banks of gunmetal-grey filing cabinets. Small paper tags on the outside of the drawers are the only clue to the contents: names of an elite group among the KU student populus.
These students have two major things in common, financial need and superior academic records. They are the holders of over 1,000 scholarships awarded each year
by the Office of Student Financial Aid.
Inside the cabinets, the individual records often reveal a pattern.
THE STUDENT with the scholarship was in the top 10 to 20 percent of his graduating class. He worked during the summers. His father, and sometimes his mother, worked, but no matter how much money the family had there was never enough for the college student, too.
He participated in extracurricular events in both high school and college. When he sent a scholarship personality-evaluation sheet
to his high school principal or to a KU faculty member such questions as "Has keen sense of responsibility and initiative," and "Without hesitation a person of the very highest moral integrity," came back marked "yes" with a heavy "X."
IT IS NOT unusual to see a student's high school record covered with enough "A's" to give him a near-perfect record. It also
Above all, the student displays an excellent, often awesome academic record, for if one thing characterizes the average scholarship winner it is his consistent good grades.
is not unusual to see a scholarship winner with an overall 2.5 college grade point average (GPA).
One man with a generous scholarship had a straight "A" high school record. He took a college placement test at the beginning of his freshman year, and placed in the 99th percentile in all five categories. His college grades have been excellent.
Just how much weight do grades carry when a student is applying for a scholarship? According to Robert Billings, director of Student Financial Aid, "a student already at the University must See SCHOLAR IS on page 3