OH SAY CAN YOU SEE?—Farther and farther above the golden valley, the frame of new Fraser Hall inches its way to the heavens. Skeletons of twin towers now crown the seven story building, scheduled to be completed in the fall of 1967.
76th Year, No.133
FAILS LEMONADE TEST
Food expert visits ASC
By Eric Morgenthaler
The director of the Kansas Union Food Service was unable to identify by taste a cup of lemonade from the Hawk's Nest at last night's All Student Council (ASC) meeting.
Dwayne L. Hall, who came to the meeting to answer questions about food service and prices on campus, was asked by Don Chubb, Topeka sophomore (UP—Fraternity), to submit to a taste test with a drink Chubb had just purchased from the Hawk's Nest.
HALL sipped the drink, and Chubb asked him what he thought it was.
"I don't know," Hall admitted. "I'm going to have to go down and check that fountain (in the Hawk's Nest)."
Earlier in the meeting, a special ASC committee, created to investigate the formation and use of student dossiers, submitted its written report.
DICK DARVILLE, Shawnee Mission junior (Vox-Large Men's), outlined the committee's three recommendations to the administration concerning dossiers:
- That information concerning the existence, contents, and use of dossiers be published in the Student Handbook;
**That no record of a student's political activity or attitudes be included in dossiers except those which a student himself submits;**
That no newspaper clippings be included in dossiers.
Darville reported that copies of the committee report had been sent to the personnel deans of the University and to Provost James R. Surface.
A resolution that would have put the ASC on record as opposing the ban on campus cigarette sales was tabled because of dissension over the form which the resolution should take.
THE RESOLUTION was an outgrowth of a Conference on Higher Education in Kansas (CHEK) meeting which several ASC members attended Friday.
At the conference, it was decided that the delegates from all state colleges and universities would take back identically worded resolutions to their respective student legislative bodies for action.
All schools which passed the
COSA discusses coed living rules
Petitions protesting women's living rules passed by the AWS convention and changed by the AWS senate were discussed at the meeting of the Council on Student Affairs (COSA) yesterday.
"WE OBJECTED to the method in which the AWS senate conducted things," Miss Thayer said.
resolution, which petitioned the Board of Regents to reconsider the cigarette ban, would have sent copies of their resolutions to the Board of Regents.
Jackie Thayer, Ellsworth senior; Kathy Powell, Garnett senior; and Peggy Smith, Garden City, senior, appeared before the committee in opposition to the rules.
She explained that she had a duty to KU women to use
HOWEVER, ASC members who sponsored last night's resolution disagreed with the wording of the CHEK resolution and changed it. The resolution was tabled because of doubt about the effect that the changed resolution would have on the Board of Regents.
In other action, the council passed an amendment to ASC Bill 3 which changed somewhat the structure and functions of the ASC Social Committee. It was sponsored by Darville and John Hill, Waverly junior (Vox—College Man).
the opinions of the convention and the rules they passed instead of changing them.
"There was too much secrecy. The Senate had a duty to inform women on campus," Miss Thayer said.
THE DELEGATION presented the committee with petitions in protest, signed by one-third of the AWS convention delegates and 25 per cent of the undergraduate women living in organized housing.
The petitions protested the regulations and the method in which they were adopted.
City ponders corner signal
Ray S. Wells, Lawrence City Manager, indicated yesterday that the city is seriously considering installing a traffic signal at the intersection of 15th and Iowa streets.
JAMES F. SCHUBERT, newly-elected mayor of Lawrence, had said earlier that the State was conducting a survey of the traffic at the intersection to determine whether or not a signal was warranted.
Wells then said that he had received a letter from the State saying that the survey had been
completed, and the results reported to him.
"BUT WE FEEL DIFFERENT, knowing the circumstances connected with the intersection itself," he said, referring to the frequency of accidents at 15th and Iowa. "They have said we can put a signal in there if we want to."
Wells added that he is analyzing the results of the State survey and that they will be announced within the next week.
"They have completed the survey," Wells said, "and they do not feel that the traffic count warrants any control there.
MAKING THE GRADE - VIII
Pud can become Hill Waterloo
(Editor's note; This is one of a series of articles about grades and grading systems at KU and the problems they create.)
By Jack Harrington
A second-semester senior was recently asked if he would graduate with his class this spring, and he replied that he still had part of his foreign language requirements to complete.
"Next semester, it's going to be three hours of Spanish and ten hours of freshman-sophomore puds," he said. "Time to relax."
RUSH WEEK, country club week, and finally enrollment looms mysteriously before the freshman pledge. "What should I take?" he asks his new pledge father.
"Well, you want to be sure to make your grades first semester," is the reply, "so let's see about a couple of puds you can take. Geology I and Poli Sci I are an easy eight hours of B, and maybe a phys ed course for laughs."
WEATHER
Lawrence is included in a U.S. Weather Bureau alert for thunderstorms or tornadoes from 2 until 8 p.m. today. Skies will be cloudy tomorrow, accompanied by colder temperatures.
Pud—the campus-wide term which, along with its numerous synonyms and variations throughout the college world, means a course in which a student is assured of a good grade in return for a minimum, if any, output on his part.
But what exactly is a pud course? Do such things really exist? If so, are there pud departments, pud schools within a university, or pud universities?
Too often a student enrolls in a course he has been told is a pud and soon realizes that a "good" grade is not at all easy to come by.
Also, it is extremely rare for failing grades to appear on the transcript of a graduate student in his major area. Then, according to the definition, should graduate courses be classified as puds?
Obviously, a course will not acquire a reputation as a pud merely because one student received a high grade. But on the other hand, it will not lose the reputation because several people fail it each semester.
THE DISCREPANCY, therefore,
must lie in the definition. Perhaps
it is too general. A reason must
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THE ABSTRACT MEANING OF IT ALL—Paula Nina Waxse, Oswego sophomore, and Zuhair Omar Duhaiby, Saudi Arabia sophomore and president of the International Club, ponder over the message presented by one of the paintings currently on display in the Kansas Union. It is part of a faculty art show.