University officials reject trimester plan
Adoption of a trimester plan at KU would be impractical for reasons which were outlined by James R. Surface, provost, yesterday.
This plan for year-round school calls for three 15-week instruction periods, a total of 45 weeks of classes per year. The present system has two 16-week semesters and an eight-week summer session, making a total of 40 weeks of classes.
PROVOST SURFACE said KU officials have reviewed the plan since the 1950's and have consistently decided against it for a number of reasons.
The only way to make it pay is to have 65 per cent of the student enrollment in the third trimester. A larger number of faculty would be employed and enough people would have to be enrolled to make it feasible, he said.
Another reason is that the campus is so full during summer with summer school, band camp and summer institutes that there are about as many people roaming the Hill as during the regular school year. He estimated that, including the 5,000 summer school students, about 18,500 would be on the Hill this summer.
Only five weeks of classes would be added to the regular school year, and most students can earn the same credit hour accumulation by attending the summer school sessions as they can by the trimester plan, he said.
Friday Henry Bubb, a member of the Kansas Board of Regents, suggested that the trimester system was the "coming thing." Regents directed the heads of all the state schools to study the system and report to the board at a later date.
Under the trimester plan classes would run from late August to Christmas; from January to mid-April; from late April to mid-August.
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CAPE KENNEDY — (UPI) — While disappointed astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan went back to training, technicians sought today to find out what caused an Atlas rocket engine to go haywire and spoil their daring Gemini 9 mission.
into their spacecraft and aim again for a rendezvous and record spacewalk adventure.
It will be at least three weeks, officials said, before Stafford and Cernan, the nation's seventh set of Gemini pilots, can climb back
RESCHEDULING of their flight, however, depends on the outcome of the scientific detective work to discover what went wrong Tuesday.
After a preliminary investigation, a Gemini flight safety review board blamed the failure on one of the Atlas' two booster engines. This engine, the board said, swiveled to an extreme "hardover" position about 10 seconds before the two booster engines were due to shut down and fall away from the rocket—roughly two minutes after the Atlas blasted off at 9:15 a.m. Stafford and Cernan had been scheduled to follow 99 minutes later.
Watts mob beats newsmen
LOS ANGELES—(UPI) Two news magazine reporters were beaten by a gang of about 20 Negro youths Tuesday night in an outbreak of looting that followed an "orderly" march of some 500 other Negroes on a police station in the trouble-torn Watts district.
Seriously injured in the assault was Karl Fleming, 38. Los Angeles
manager for Newsweek, David Moberg, 23, staff writer for the magazine, escaped with minor injuries.
A fleet of police cars was dispatched to the area after bottles were thrown through store windows, shops looted of alcohol and food and a rash of fire alarms triggered at corner call boxes.
THE GEMINI 9 mission, thus far the most ambitious of this country's projects on the way to the moon, was scrubbed Tuesday when an Atlas and the Agena it carried on its nose plunged into the ocean some 190 miles down-range from the launch site.
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