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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No. 127
LAWRENCE KANSAS
WEATHER MILD
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Tuesday, May 3, 1966
Women honored at AWS program
MARY LYNN MANGAN, OUTSTANDING SENIOR WOMAN Congratulated by Emily Taylor, dean of women
The American Association of University Women last night named Mary Lynn Mangan, Dodge City senior, as KU's outstanding senior woman. The voting occurred Sunday at the junior-senior brunch, and the results were announced by Dean of Women Emily Taylor at the culmination of last night's honors program in Hoch Auditorium.
Miss Mangan is a French and German major. She has participated in the honors program throughout her college career. She is a Cwen and out-going president of Mortar Board.
MISS MANGAN has also been active in her sorority, Chi Omega. She was a pledge class officer, house social chairman and pledge trainer. She had enough hours and grade points last year to be classified a senior, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Next year Miss Mangen will serve on the Dean of Women's staff.
Twenty-five seniors were capped for Torch Chapter of Mortar Board at last night's program. The gold tassel of the president went to Katy Patterson, Newton Square, Penn., junior. The silver tassel of vice-president was given to Trisha Cowen, Junction City junior.
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The parents of the new Mortar Board members were notified by mail Friday that their daughters would be capped last night. The parents of Jo Anne Emerick, Murray Hill, N.J., junior; Judy Faust, Memphis, Tenn., junior; and Kathy Beagle, Boulder, Colo., junior, did not let the distance to KU keep them from seeing their daughters capped. The parents sat in the balcony during the program.
ON THE BASIS of extra-curricular activities, leadership abilities and scholarship, 39 freshman women were tapped for Tau Chapter of Cwens. Mrs. James Ricks, resident director at Lewis Hall, was tapped as a Cwen honorary member.
According to Pam Bayless, Shawnee Mission junior, counselors are a combination Florence Nightingale, Ann Landers and maid with a master key. She continued in a more serious tone to announce the 10 senior assistants and 15 counselors to staff next year's freshman dorms.
The members of the 1966-67 KU Fashion Board were announced last night, as well as the outstanding woman in each living group. No criteria was set for these outstanding women, according to Miss Taylor. Each group chose its own qualifications.
THE LEGISLATIVE bodies in women's government were also introduced. The out-going members of the House of Representatives were introduced. Installation ceremonies were held for the 1966-67 Associated Women Students' Senate.
Other announcements at the program included Phi Beta Kappa and Woodrow Wilson awards, and the AWS memorial scholarship and the Delta Delta Delta scholarship.
Cambodia attacked in US defense move
SAIGON — (UPI) — The United States acknowledged for the first time today that U.S. forces fired into the territory of nominally neutralist Cambodia, but said an artillery barrage directed against troops presumed to be Viet Cong was fired in self defense.
The development, certain to be regarded in Communist quarters as another escalation of the Vietnamese war, came as a military spokesman reported unusually heavy pre-Monson air raids against North Vietnam. Some targets were two and five miles from North Vietnamese cities.
AMERICAN FORCES, expecting a major Viet Cong offensive with the start of the rains in a few days, sent B52 bombers from Guam against Communist supply and storage areas near the Cambodian frontier while ground forces struck out at supply caches.
DEBBIE'S A COUNSELOR
Debbie Bryant, Miss America and a junior at KU next fall, was named a residence hall counselor last night.
Miss Bryant will be a counselor in a freshman women's dorm. She was one of 15 girls named to that position at the Associated Women Students honors night program. Specific assignments will be made next fall, a spokesman for the dean of women's office said today.
Americans have been bitter because Hanoi has supplied its forces in the South via the Ho Chi Minh trail, which runs through Laos and Cambodia, and because attacking Viet Cong troops have retreated into Cambodia when defeated on the battlefields of South Vietnam Nam.
A spokesman said U.S. artillery fired into Cambodia on Saturday and silenced "very heavy automatic weapons and mortar fire" being directed at U.S. soldiers on the South Vietnamese side of the border. Similar incidents have
been reported before but today's was the first official confirmation.
THE SPOKESMAN said a unit of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division attacked a Viet Cong unit on the Vietnamese side of the 250-yard-wide border river, overrunning the guerrilla position and killing eight Viet Cong. The guerrillas fled across the river and opened heavy fire against the Americans.
The spokesman said the U.S. commander then called in artillery fire against the foe across the river.
Regain early spirit, theologians advised
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The problem facing modern theologians is how to recapture the intentions of early Christian leaders, according to Rev. Dr. Joseph Sittler.
Theologians, regardless of church affiliation should unite to
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clarify religious method, he told church leaders attending the second general session of the Ecumenical Institute yesterday.
"Catholics should join other religious groups in finding a solution to this problem," said Dr. Sittler of the University of Chicago divinity school.
Unity of study by all faiths enables theologians to think as
modern man, not necessarily alike, but toward a more concerted thinking. This will not produce a Protestant Catholic church, but a Christian Catholic church.
Today's generation is closer to Dylan Thomas than to the saints and early church leaders, Dr. Sitter said. The clergy must fashion a theological method which analyses mankind to correlate his spiritual life with his day-to-day activities.
"THE CLERGY OF all faiths must begin to open the synapse between an individual's culture and his membership in the church. In turn church members must feed into the life of the church the data occurring in everyday occurrences."
MAKING THE GRADE-II
(Editor's Note: This is one of a series of articles about grades and grading systems at KU and the problems they create.)
Degree or education?
Degree versus education. Are KU students here for a degree or an education or both? Do they feel that they are getting both under the present grade system?
By Karen Henderson
College is "too degree-oriented," said Caroly, Wortman, Atchison junior. "There are such stringent requirements for your major courses that you can't take the courses you want. There is no room for experimentation. I'm in college for the degree."
Some students felt that not everyone has the ability to do college work.
"THERE SHOULDN'T be so much stress on college. There should be more weeding out," said Mary Ann Stevenson, Leawood junior.
Mary Ann Schneider, Prairie Village junior, said that there was too much emphasis in high school on going to college.
"The stress should be on the enjoyment of getting an education. For the white middle class, college is still at status symbol.
"I'd rather get an education, but then you have to declare a major
and the degree becomes more important." Miss Schneider said.
Commenting on the American teaching system, Miss Stevenson said that "it seems like Americans are afraid to talk to their professors. They should talk to them more. The tests professors give are idiotic. They aren't designed to test the student's knowledge—just so they're easy to grade."
SHE SAID THAT she was in college for an education, but that it didn't necessarily come directly from the academic program.
"The experience of being in college is in itself an education," she said.
"Tm in college for a degree because that's all they offer. College itself doesn't offer an education. The individual may use the college as a tool for self-education," Alan Poland, Media, Pa., junior, said.
Other students felt that grades were a motivating factor for studying.
"It's hard to tell if college is giving you an education until you have a chance to do something with it. The ony criteria for judging a student's work is by his grades. There has to be a motivating factor. You don't know
how much better your education is than someone else's, therefore you're out for grades," said Bob Betts, Overland Park senior.
A JUNIOR in secondary education said that she was primarily after an education but the degree "was concrete evidence that you have fulfilled college requirements."
She said that grades are "grossly overestimated. People are going to judge you by what you can do, not by the grades you made, when you get out of college."
I'm in college for an education," said Mike Youngblood, Prairie Village sophomore.
"Right now I'm taking courses that I'm interested in. With the war in Viet Nam, the emphasis is on grades and it is going to stay that way. I do think the degree has taken precedence over learning," he said.
Rules before COSA
The Associated Women Students (AWS) rules and regulations were to be discussed at the meeting of the Council on Student Affairs (COSA) today.
This was to be the second meeting of the "new" council which added several student and faculty members last week.