Big 3' networks shun global show
HOLLYWOOD -(UPI)- National Education Television took part Sunday in a two-hour global satellite broadcast which the three commercial American networks declined to join. There were no advertisements.The program was live across the board.
This landmark program which America's commercial broadcasters did not think was worth their time involved the participation of 14 nations which contributed segments fitting the theme of common problems and hopes throughout the world—such as food production, future living accommodations and aspirations in sports and the arts.
The various segments were beamed to a huge potential audience in 26 countries, including the
United States, where NET's broadcast illustrated the case for a non-commercial public television system—and why the commercial networks fear it as a possible competitor. Five continents were in on the program.
Russia and four East European governments withdrew from the broadcast because of the Middle East crisis.
The segments on the arts were an extract of entertainment in different places—Van Cliburn and Leonard Bernstein working on a piano piece at a rehearsal in New York, Franco Zefferelli directing a film of "Romeo and Juliet" in Italy, the Beatles at a recording session in England, a run-through of an opera in Germany.
Students get $5,500
A June graduate and a KU senior have received awards totaling $5.500 for study and travel.
The two are Robert E. King, Glasco, who was graduated in June, and Mitchell A. Brown, Lawrence senior in architecture.
King, a graduate of the school of education, is one of 41 U.S. students to receive a 1967 Harvard Prize Award in mathematics and science.
This is the sixth year for the awards, which carry stipends of $5,000 for outstanding students considering careers in mathematics and science education. The stipend covers expenses for 12 months of study in the master of arts teaching program at the Harvard school of education.
King worked his way through
KU. His wife, the former Marilyn Lea Godwin, Ness City, also was graduated from the school of education this spring.
Brown has been awarded a $500 study and travel grant from the new National Endowment of the Arts.
His travel itinerary for the award includes St. Louis, Columbus, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, Washington, D.C., the eastern seaboard to Maine, and Expo 67 in Montreal.
In addition to his endowment award, Brown was chosen to work this summer as a member of a National Park Service team of architectural students to do measured drawings of historic buildings for the Nantucket Historical Trust on Nantucket Island, Mass.
Stadiums hinge on KC vote
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)— Jackson Countians go to the polls today to vote on $102 million in bond proposals that could well determine the fate of major league sports in Kansas City.
Included in the bond package is a $43 million issue for a unique dual-stadium sports complex for both football and baseball. It requires a two-thirds majority for passage.
The baseball stadium, patterned after Anaheim Stadium, home of the California Angels, would seat 45,000. The football facility, similar to Rice Stadium in Houston, would seat 75,000.
Both stadiums could be covered by portable roofs.
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The remodeling of Gertrude Sellards Pearson, Joseph R. Pearson, Corbin and Ellsworth Halls was authorized at an estimated cost of $38,500, to provide administrative and classroom facilities for the College-within-a-College program.
The purchase of two sedans and two panel trucks by the residence hall maintenance fund was approved. Each vehicle will cost $2,000. A charge of $1 per sample will be charged for storage of well samples in the well library of the Kansas Geological Survey. Receipts from such charges will be used to amortize the cost of expansion of the well library at Wichita.
Class like hems; vary up and down
Required courses at KU, like women's skirt-lengths, have gone up and down several times in 101 years.
The college course in 1866 was a figurative straight-jacket. Emphasizing classics, mathematics and philosophy, the schedule was prescribed for the entire four years.
A second-semester junior could opt between more Greek and botany; he already had two years of Greek.
Practical demands of a frontier state soon liberalized the classic mold, bringing options in science, civil engineering, chemistry and natural science.
By 1895 the bars were down a bit; juniors and seniors could take anything they chose from among 20 departments. But no one could take more than four courses from one professor.
The "elective age" came in 1903. For six years the only required courses for a liberal arts degree were English, hygiene, and physical education.
Then the pendulum swung back. Today it still swings.
Current minimums in mathematics and foreign languages fall short of popularity and draw some warm descriptions from students. But none rival the tone in which an 1885 student complained about analytical geometry. His "letter to the editor" read:
"As the writer some day aspires to a place in the Christian ministry, it does not become evident to him why he should be required to take such a study, for the time necessary for its proper preparation is greater than that of any other study.
"Then, too, its influence over the morals of a theological student is very bad. In the preparation of a lesson in analytics, the mind, instead of dwelling upon pure and holy things, invariably passes to what might be termed very bad words. So the best thing that could be done would be to make analytics optional."
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