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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
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77th Year, No.107
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Monday, March 27, 1967
'Count', Odetta, electrify crowd
A near capacity crowd filled Hoch Auditorium Saturday night for the sixth and last event of KU's first Festival of the Arts, featuring Count Basie and Odetta.
Basis and his 14 musicians began the program softly and built up to blaring renditions of "Willow, Weep for Me" and "Go Away, Little Girl."
The message of Basie's music from the sweet sound of the sax, featured in "The Midnight Sun Never Sets," to the piercing squeal of the trumpet in "Sunset Glow" was particularly relevant to the audience because the roots of his style began in Kansas City and features the blues of the Southern Midwest.
THE COUNT'S MUSIC featured a variety of types and tempos.
The members of the band added some personal entertainment by clowning on the stage. One trumpeter repeatedly waved the spotlight over to himself, while another fanned himself with sheet music and mopped his brow with a handkerchief.
The biggest laughs were drawn from the audience by the difficulty the spotlight operator had in focusing the spot on Basie. As the Count sat in the darkness at his piano, he said to the spot. "We sorta miss you around here."
One of the most unusual selections was a baby-talk solo sung by a new member of the band. His voice intonations revealed more about the subject of the song than did the nonsensical syllables.
OTHER SELECTIONS included "Moose the Mooch" and "The Shadow of Your Smile."
Bass sax, flugle horn, flute and
trombone were featured in certain numbers individually. The audience burst into extra applause and whistles for the standard favorite, "I Can't Stop Loving You."
Following a 15-minute intermission, world-famous singer Odetta walked out on the stage in a striking pink-and-purple paisley gown.
She introduced her "family" of accompanists on bass, piano and drums.
"YOU'RE A MAN" was Odetta's first song, followed by one of her favorites, "Love Song of the Nile." Odetta moved and swayed with the rhythm of the music.
Following each number, Odetta beamed a radiant smile on the
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All but one school cuts English Pro test
By MERRILY ROBINSON
For 99 per cent of KU students, the English Proficiency Examination is officially dead.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Architecture, Education, Business and Journalism have deleted the English Pro from their graduation requirements. The School of Pharmacy will decide at its next faculty meeting, April 18, whether to follow suit, but Howard E. Mossbert, pharmacy dean, doubts "very seriously" that the test will be continued.
Final plans have not yet been made, but the deans of the various schools concurred that the English Pro probably would not be required for spring graduates.
THE ENGLISH PRO, instituted by the College in 1937, has been the subject of hot debate for most of its 30 years of existence. The College dropped it last Tuesday along with the English Pro committee. In so doing, they granted more than the All Student Council had requested in a Feb. 7 resolution calling for abolition of the test for students completing required undergraduate English courses with grades of "C" or better.
With the English Pro committee no longer in existence, the examination cannot be administered to the below-"C" students. According to George R. Waggoner, dean of the College, students' grades in their nine hours of required English will simply be averaged into their overall grade point average.
The School of Fine Arts anticipated the College by two years in dropping the English Pro from its graduation requirements. "We couldn't see that it was serving any useful purpose," said Dean Thomas Gordton, "so we abandoned it."
THE WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE School of Journalism decided to delete the English Pro requirement a week before the College announcement.
Grades average for fall
Journalism Dean Warren K. Agee said the faculty could see little value in the English Pro because "practically everything in the journalism school is based on writing, anyway."
Undergraduates at KU made fall semester grades neither better nor worse than a year ago but some groups moved up to modern record highs.
The all-university grade point average of 1.44 was not significantly different from the 1.45 of fall 1965.
The four women's scholarship halls averaged 2.15 and the five men's scholarship halls hit 2.10, up from 2.02, and the highest in years.
UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN averaged 1.60 compared to the men's 1.34. Sororities averaged 1.84, the highest in several years and the fraternities were 1.45, both marks showing significant gains over a year ago.
The results of academic persistency are shown in the difference between the average of senior,
junior and sophomore women of 1.71 compared to 1.35 for freshman women. Freshman men average 1.12, the best in recent years.
DONALD K. ALDERSON, dean of men, reported that the 51 men of Joliffe scholarship hall compiled a 2.20 average to lead all men's living groups. The other men's scholarship halls hit the B-mark or better: Pearson, 2.15; Grace Pearson, 2.12; Battenfeld and Stephenson, 2.00.
Beta Theta Pi again led the 28 fraternities with 1.95. Phi Delta Theta moved up to second, 1.83. In top quarter were Delta Upsilon, 1.78; Alpha Tau Omega, 1.72; Alpha Kappa Lambda, 1.67; Delta Tau Delta, 1.61; and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1.60.
Templin Hall led the men's residence hall with 1.33.
Kenneth Anderson, dean of the School of Education, said their faculty had decided to drop the test principally because they felt unable, in terms of staff time and personnel, to administer the exam on their own.
"Personally, I'm glad the English Pro was dropped," Anderson said. "Our students must pass 12 hours of English and speech anyway, and I think this establishes some evidence they have proficiency in English. This 'sample' of their writing at a given time may not be the most reliable test of their skills."
- CDR Fn0.0 by Glenn Philips
Joseph McGuire, dean of the Business School, said the school had abandoned the examination and would not count the results of the last test, given March 2.
“I’M VERY HAPPY that it’s been abandoned,” McGuire said. “I always thought it was a rather superfluous exam. Because of its
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AND THERE WERE LIGHTS . . AT LAST!
Almost a year after the UDK began a campaign for traffic lights at 15th and Iowa, they are a reality.
The lights, delayed by city administration, hampered by state administration and hindered by war materials going to Vietnam, were turned on last Friday at 2.30 p.m. The lights are activated by traffic approaching on 15th.
Similar lights are currently being installed at the corner of Iowa and Harvard.