MAKING THE GRADE-V
GPA-athletic concern
(Editor's Note: This is one of a series of articles about grades and grading systems at KU and the problems they create.)
By Ron Hanson
All students want to make good grades, but the athlete has to—if he wants to participate in sports.
At KU, to be eligible for intercollegiate athletics, a participant is required to maintain at least the minimum grade average that would keep him off scholastic probation. If he fails to keep his grades up, the athlete becomes ineligible.
MIKE SHINN, KU football star for the past three years and a member of the 1965 academic All-America team said, "When I was a freshman football player, the coaches told the entire team that three-fourths of us would not make it to graduation. That prophecy certainly came true because out of the 55 men with whom I played freshman football, only eight or ten are here today."
Shinn attributes most of these "drop-outs" to stolastic difficult-
ties, and said that if an athlete truly wants to go to school and participate in athletics, he can.
Practically all concerned believe that participating in collegiate athletics and maintaining a respectable grade average is not an easy task. According to Don Fambrough, assistant football coach at KU, one way of insuring that an athlete will make his grades is to recruit only those high school prospects who have demonstrated scholastic ability. He also said that picking high school boys on their scholastic merit will be easier in the future because of a new NCAA rule which requires high school athletes to have a 1.6 grade average to participate in collegiate athletics.
Of the NCAA rule, Wade Stinson, KU athletic director, said he liked it "very much."
that he hoped the athletes thought that too, or they have no business in school.
Most of them do. Queries of athletes in different sports, Gary Schwartz; track; John Adams, baseball; Esam El-Shafey, fencing; and Shinn, football, indicated that these men and many more take not only their sport seriously but also their academic endeavors.
Former KU basketball coach for 39 years and an immortal of the game, Forrest C. (Phog) Allen has a noteworthy philosophy about athletics and success in life. He rates the best boys he coached by the way they succeeded in life. He found that for the most part those that were serious in college about basketball and scholastic pursuits had the greatest success in their careers.
It would not be hard to rate how today's KU athlete will fare in life as most consider their sport and their studies as integral parts of their lives.
China warns Thailand aid
TOKYO —(UPI)— Red China warned Thailand today its decision to send air and naval units to Viet Nam was a serious step “to widen the war” and a step for which it would be held “to account.”
The warning was carried by Peking's "Dwangming Daily," and broadcast by the New China News Agency.
"The THAI authorities are long-time accomplices in the U.S. criminal war against Viet Nam and other Indochinese countries," the broadcast said. "Their latest decision to take a direct part in the U.S. war shows that they are willing to follow the U.S. to the end."
It said "this token force from Thailand will play no significant role in the Viet Nam war, except as a sacrifice for U.S. imperialism."
"The long-cherished dream of the U.S. imperialists to use Asians to fight Asians has achieved little success," the Chinese broadcast said. "Instead, they have stirred up strong anti-U.S. storms by trying to gather more cannon fodder from this part of the world.
"THE THAI authorities who have acted against the will of the people will be brought to account by the people for their service to U.S. imperialism and their betrayal of national interest."
The broadcast said the "two
warships and handful of airplanes" Thailand is sending to Viet Nam "belongs to the United States anyway," and are being sent only "to put up a show."
"It is a poor show and reveals that the U.S., which prompted the Thai reactionaries' action, has few means at its command and is at the end of its tether."
Sculptors to conclude international meet
An international group of sculptors will conclude the Fourth National-International Sculpture Casting Conference Saturday.
The conference, sponsored by KU's design department and the Hallmark Educational Foundation, will count participants from three continents, eight countries and ten American universities.
It has been held at KU biennially since 1960. However, this will be the first year the conference will have full international participation.
"The primary objective of the sculpture casting conference from its start was to foster, through technical exchange, aesthetic communication between sculptors not only from this country, but from around the world." Elden C. Teft, professor of design and coordinating chairman for the conference, said.
A number of other countries were represented at the 1964 conference. Encouraged by this foreign interest, it has been decided to make the 1966 conference an international event, Tefft continued.
KUOK attempts endurance mark
KU is out to break still another record! This time the campus radio station, KUOK, 630 kilocycles, is going to stage a broadcasting marathon from the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard.
KUOK has designated this weekend "Walker Weekend." Beginning at 10 a.m. today, Cole Walker, Topeka junior, entered the booth to shatter the national collegiate broadcasting record.
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Accidents involve students
Three non-injury traffic accidents involving KU students were reported to the Lawrence Police Department this week.
At 12:46 this morning, a motorcycle ridden by Terry E. Fewel,
1805 Illinois St., collided on Louisiana Street near 23rd with a car driven by Verlin W. Fisher,
Lawrence senior. Damage was estimated at $150 to the car and $100 to the motorcycle.
David J. Hutchins, Kansas City, Mo., junior, backed his car into one driven by James L. Giarruso,
Lawrence, Mass., senior, Thursday morning at 17th and Louisiana streets. Giarrusso's car received $125 in damage and there was no damage to Hutchins' car.
Wednesday night, Grover J. Askins, Joplin, Mo., senior, was stopped waiting to turn north onto Emery Road from High Drive, when a car driven by Donna L. Hanschu, Tampa sophomore, collided with his car, as she was turning west on Emery Road. There was no damage to Miss Hanschu's car and $103 in damage to Askins' car.
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