Latin Instruction Needs Described
By CHERIE WITTMEYER
Latin's key problem is that it is not offered in grades 6 through 8. Dr. John F. Latimer, professor at George Washington University, said in a speech to Latin students Monday.
Students must publicize Latin to get it into more school curricula. "We need you," Latimer said in his talk at Carruth-O'Leary. "You could be the nucleus in your own state."
ONE OUT OF 10 — maybe two are able to take Latin in school, because it's not offered with the consistency that Spanish, French and German are.
Latin classics seem remote today because teachers don't know enough and students have new interpretations of ancient Latin writings.
Latimer commended the 40 Latin campers and commented
Yes, Virginia Jayhawk Is for Real
Dear Editor,
My little friends at the Midwestern Music and Art Camp are from many states other than Kansas. They laugh at me when I talk about the good Kansas Jayhawk, and say I shouldn't believe in a silly childish thing like that.
My counselor says that what I read in the Kamper Kansan is true.
Is there a good Jayhawk?
Yours truly,
Virginia
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Dear Virginia,
Dear Virginia,
Your little friends are wrong.
Have them look around the KU campus. The good Jayhawk has left his mark everywhere, especially during the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. He has instilled a warmth, a friendliness, an incentive to learn.
The good Jayhawk has made Kansas beautiful. Have your friends look at the trees that spread out a green arch over the sidewalks. And at the buildings covered with a protection of clinging ivy. And have them take a long look at the proud tower of Campanile—surely the good Jayhawk had a hand in that.
When your little friends go home to their other states, they'll look back and remember those sights—and they'll remember sounds and much more, and they'll wonder why they laughed.
Kansas has sunflowers, wheat,
plains, prairie;—and—
Yes, Virginia, there is a good Jawhack. —Elaine Grantham
that KU's six-week summer Latin course was the only one he knew of. He added that the Latin paper was excellent.
"Latin teachers . . . are links between the past and the present," Latimer said. They are close to their students, too, because their classes are smaller.
THOUGH 35,000 students take Latin in college and 15,000 take Greek, there are 2,900 Greek graduates and 1,500 graduates in Latin.
Why?
Because, Latimer thinks, there is more emphasis in Greek mythology and archeology. There are also more movies on Greece. He said that Greek culture has "more glamor" than Roman culture.
Latinier writes the Latin newsletter for Classical Action USA. The initials—C, A, U, S, and A—spell the Latin word "Causa," meaning cause or reason. The organization's motto is "Nostra Causa Tota Causa Est" — "Our Cause Is Everyone's Cause."
Latiner's paper, in its second year, has 29,000 subscribers.
He is also executive secretary of the Latin Classical League.
"After I touched it and it was still warm, I knew it wasn't dead,"
Audio House Cuts Albums
Music campers have an opportunity to preserve their performances in camp concerts since Audio House, a local music company, tapes and processes all Saturday and Sunday concerts into records, which students may buy.
The firm also is responsible for the playbacks of the concerts in the dorm lounges after the weekend performances.
This service has been offered since 1951, but the process and type of record has changed.
ror the past five years the firm has sponsored an album cover design contest for the art campers. The winner gets his design, incorporating the triple theme of orchestral, band, and choral music, on the record album, a $10 cash prize, and six records.
That hand looks real, he thought, as he gave it a curious nudge. The hand did not respond but flopped lifelessly back to its original position.
Price of an album is $5.65.
Kamper Kansan
Students Lose Hideout
Friday, July 28, 1967
Bv KAREN ZUPKO
When Charles Lawson inspects campers' rooms, he expects to find dirty socks, Playboy pin-ups, letters from Mother, and dust under the beds. Add bodies in the closet to the list.
Clip-board in hand, Lawson, Templin supervisor, was checking seven north Saturday after all campers were out of their rooms by the required 8 a.m., when he noticed something looking much like a hand sticking out of the top of the closet.
"Come down out of there, wake up, I say, wake up! And get out of there!" The closet door opened and a sleepy, rather scared boy came down from his perch.
he said.
"What were you doing up there?"
"I see, well, put on your shoes
"
Then a muffled snore came from the other upper closet.
"Sleeping."
Lawson opened the door. Pillow in hand a second boy emerged and explained that he was looking for his tie clip.
Lawson didn't think so.
Room inspection will now include a quick check of all closet births, steamer trunks and anything else that is body-sized.
SKITCH ACCEPTS GIFT
-Kansan Photo by David Gump
Camp Queen Ginger Graf, left, presents guest conductor Skitch Henderson with a silver tray as a gift from the 1967 Midwestern Music and Art Camp. The presentation was made at Saturday night's formal dance.
Outstanding Campers Get Awards in Final Week
By CASSANDRA CHURCH
Outstanding campers in each division were presented with awards at division assemblies in this the final week of camp.
The Spanish Division presented its students with awards in Dyche Auditorium Thursday afternoon. Outstanding student awards were given to Patricia Anderson and Angela Walton; high honors to Marc Levinson and Ponce Pierson; honors to Elaine Coupland and Susan Oglesbee, and honorable mention to Cindy Buhl, Carolynne Fruthaler, James Layton, Dorothy Menousek, Pamela Piusz and Judith Ann Sell.
Award winners were chosen on the recommendation of their instructors.
SPEECH DIVISION awards were presented Tuesday in Templin Hall Lounge. The awards were based on performance in the division tournament held Saturday and Monday.
Pierce, a 1940 KU journalism graduate, was an all-conference center in football during his collegiate days and later played professional football. After graduating, he worked on the sports desk of the Topeka State Journal and the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman until 1945, when he returned to KU as sports information director, the position he held until his death.
Journalist Gets $100
A former journalism camper who is now a sports writer on the Daily Kansan at KU has been named to receive the first $100 Don Pierce Memorial Award.
Charles F. "Chip" Rouse III of Shawnee Mission, a junior-to-be in the School of Journalism, will receive the scholarship which honors the late Don Pierce, for 20 years sports information director at KU.
Shortly after his death in early 1965, friends of Pierce contributed $2,000 to the KU Endowment Association to establish the award. Interest from the principal is used for the scholarship, awarded yearly to the best sports writer on the Daily Kansan.
Rouse was a sports writer for the Kansan last spring and this fall will be co-sports editor. This summer he is working as a news intern on the Kansas City Kansan.
First, second and third place awards were given in each of the speaking categories: extemporaneous speaking, Patti Barnett and Diane Bartelli, tie for first, Jim Akins, second, and Roy Hodges, third; dramatic interpretation, Susan Reilly, first, Ellen White, second, and Ron Heilman, third.
In oratory, Patti Barnett won first, Becky Trowbridge, second, and Marc Nicolet, Gary Moe and Larry Thompson tied for third.
Taking top awards in poetry reading were Susan Reilly, first, Diane Blakely, second, and Jan Svoboda, third. Prose reading winners were Jan Svoboda, first, Becky Trowbridge, second, and Stephanie Karr, third.
WINNERS IN FORMATIVE speaking were Becky Walker, first, Mike Hays, second, and Bill Weber and Diane Blakely tied for third.
Duet acting awards went to the teams of Denver Marlow-Larry Thompson, first; Jeanne Dillinger-Andrew Shirmer, second; and Jim Akins-Patti Platt, third.
Top honors in novice debate went to the teams of Peter Williams-John Metzler, first; Peggy Taylor-Theresa Hasty, second. Kansas experienced division winners were Ellen White-Jan Gar-
ton, first; Carol Johnson-Jan Svoboda, second.
National championship division winners were Nancy Corley-Karren Buettner, first; Malcolm Koch-Mark Rhinehart, second.
The Art Division will present its awards in an assembly today in Swarthout Recital Hall.
AWARDS WILL GO to eight students, who will receive art books from the Kansas University Bookstore. All students recommended for awards will be included in the art camp honor roll.
Journalism campers will receive their awards in a final assembly this afternoon in Flint Hall.
The Ballet Division does not give awards. It considers the rolls assigned in the ballet equal to awards.
SCIENCE DIVISION awards take the form of a return apprenticeship. One winner will be selected from each course and return next summer as a science apprentice to work with KU professors in laboratories with all fees paid.
Music Division awards will be presented after the Saturday concert in the University Theatre. Two girls and one boy will be chosen as outstanding campers. Four others will be awarded honorable mentions.
Life of a Journalist Is Yoga, Incense, Songs
By SUSAN SACKS
It's said that a good journalist has to know a little about all. Hoping someday to become a writer, I've probed into some things others might think weird. They have, however, taught me a lot.
Recently I have given yoga lessons to the boys at Templin Hall. I recite chapters of many books for the asking, and give all types of opinions to all types of people.
When I am not annoying new friends, I am learning. My Swedish roommate, Asa Bjerneld, teaches me Swedish, French and German folk songs while I stand on my yogi head. When I can bear the position no longer, I come down and teach her a Bobby Dyllan song.
I've gone to a Lutheran Church service. I, being Jewish,
found it very interesting—my vocal chords got a real work out. The boy that took me to the service felt a pride in knowing I had learned about his religion.
"Ive also learned how to tie those 16-inch sandal straps up to my knee caps. (This took more than a single lesson.)
The girls in five south Lewis and I have incense burning, peanut butter eating sessions after the Monday night wing meetings. I've found these girls as strange and interesting as myself.
I have come to see that journalism is my handy excuse for learning anything. Would anyone like to swap knowledge? I have a copy of Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" and Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media" available to any lucky camper who can teach me to whistle out instead of in.