"I'm Feeling A Touch Of Disability Myself"
A worthwhile project Two weeks for finals
If COSA's recommended change is approved, the official time designated for final week would be extended to two full weeks for the fall and spring semesters, and that only two final examination periods of three hours each be scheduled on each day.
It seems rather early to start worrying about final week, but the Council on Student Affairs has been doing just that.
COSA ALSO recommended that, in conjunction with such a change, the academic deans make a more vigorous attempt to prevent the arbitrary early scheduling of final examinations in lecture courses.
This proposal could be a godsend to those harried masses who have their calculus, chemistry and German finals all scheduled on the same day.
The idea of stop week, that week in which students can recover from a long and difficult semester and prepare for the even more rigorous grind of finals, has been abandoned.
COSA's recommendation is a compromise between the students and the faculty, who feel
that a stop week is not feasible. The compromise, we feel, is not only just, but could be quite beneficial to the student body and to the faculty.
THE TWO WEEK FINAL period would mean, hopefully, that a student would have exams spread out over the entire period, thus giving him time to review and study.
Step week itself seems to have some basic structural faults. It would be difficult to begin studying when the realization hits you that exams are still a week away.
If, however, a final exam is facing you every other day or so, you might actually be motivated to study.
THE OTHER PHASE of the COSA recommendation is also quite worthy of consideration. Early finals in lecture courses often conflict with papers assigned late in the semester and cause that mythical average student to have a rather large headache.
Therefore, we feel that the COSA proposal should be approved to help out the students.
And some of us students are going to need help about that time. —Barbara Phillips
Initial-itus strikes!
Dread disease hits KU
BY JOHN HILL
Dr. Bedpan's footsteps echoed ominously in the cathedral-like halls of Watkins Hospital.
"YES DR. BEDPAN?"
The nurse quickly looked through the forms on her clip board.
"Uh, nurse, what is wrong with that now patient in 208?"
"It says here, sir, that he is suffering from an acute case of Initial-itus," replied the nurse, brightly.
"WHAT," SAID Dr. Theedore Bedpan, noted specialist for diseases peculiar to the midwest region of the U.S., "is that?"
"Hmmm?"
"He's been assaulted by too many initials." "Hamm?"
"INITIALS. You know, kind of like that case we had last month where the patient was babbling his telephone number, student number, street number, social security number, license number, selective serv—
"—I get the idea, nurse. And his problem is initials?"
"Yes sir. He was telling me how it actually started during rush week, soon after he get to KU, when he visited the ATO's, AKL's, SAE's, DU's, and other members of the IFC. He began listening to KUOK, but his big mistake came when he began reading the UDK —"
"I CAN UNDERSTAND."
"—because he started reading about the activities of the AURH and KU-Y and SUA and AWS, and then the recent trouble of the ASC with L&M, not to mention, above all, the men of B&G. All this didn't seem OK to him, and he gradually began to rebel."
"It's enough to make him join the SPU," murmered the M.D.
"And then he read in the UDK about the AP and UPI wire stories about the GOP, CIA, FBI, and LBJ. He said that what he needed was to take a trip and get away from it all but then some well-meaning soul suggested LSD . . ."
"AND THAT'S WHAT triggered his Initialitis?"
"No, but it almost got to him. He gradually began to TGIF every day, cutting his ME 6 class, in spite of his GPA, and he sold his KU-ID to get a BUD . . .."
"And that's what finally did it?"
"No, a GDI friend of his who was a BMOC and get him involved in CYR and CCC, turned out to be an SOB from KSU . . ."
"And all these initials drove him into the hospital?"
"HUH? OH, that? No."
"Then why一"
"He was run over by an MG."
The people say...
To the editor:
We are distressed to see that by virtue of the mismatched headline, "KU students protest," the Fast for the Rebirth of Compassion has suddenly taken on the character of a political protest. In hopes of clearing up confusion about an event which we feel to be most important in the life of the University community, we would like to say the following:
- This is not a political protest. It is not peace-nik, Viet-nik, McNamara-nik or any other "nik" in character. Some military people are planning to take part, as are some pacifists—all are participating as human beings.
- Whether we rejoice in, reluctantly support, or totally reject the U.S. position in Viet Nam, we all feel, or should feel!
responsible for the suffering—on both sides—that our participation in the war involves. This fact is a means by which we acknowledge this responsibility and attempt in a small, symbolic way to express the fact that when anyone in God's world suffers, we also suffer.
- There will be no marches, no "We are More Righteous and Sensitive than Theu" placards, no flaming crosses or fiery speeches—just a group of people who, together, acknowledge their involvement in suffering and feel a need for rebirth of compassion in themselves.
will be available, and required, for all those who do choose to participate.
During the coming week we will hold an informationel meeting for those interested in participating in the Fast which begins March 15. Medical advice
Wichita senior
Sara Paretsky,
Eudora junior
Call Miller,
Lawrence junior
The Rev. Thomas B. Woodward,
Episcopal Chaplain
The Rev. John R. Simmons,
UCCF Chaplain
Anne Lockhart.
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editorial page Friday, March 3, 1967
UDK Review for old 'kids' too
By GARY MITCHELL
An exciting new project made its debut on the University Theatre main stage yesterday as the newly-organized KU Theatre for Young People (the KU-TYP) presented "Two Pails of Water," a Dutch play by Aad Greidanus.
It is a fine production offering an hour of solid entertainment. The script plays exceptionally well judging from how attentively the children's audience watched the performance. Jerry Davis' set is colorful and refreshingly simple.
THE SIX ACTORS in the company and three student technicians will travel throughout the Midwest during the rest of the semester performing the show for children.
Director Jed Davis utilizes the talents o fsix fine actors. Perhaps most pleasing to the children audience is Earl Trussell as Joris, the procrastinating constable whose nervous antics are well-chosen and effectively used.
The show will be presented tonight at 7:30 and tomorrow afternoon at 2. If you have children of your own, rest assured they will enjoy themselves. Many sophisticated college students, I think, will also find the show well worthwhile.
Simplina and Sandra, the two girls who are after husbands and around whom the main plot functions, are given spirited, light-hearted performances by Kay Habenstein and Becky Creed.
"TWO PAILS OF WATER" is a uniquely different children's play. It contains romance, mistaken identity, a "living" telephone, and excellent pantomime. The story is simple, fast-moving and, in the KU-TYP production, carried out with contagious gusto and joie de vie.
Finally, Lanny Fellers as the mischievous Hoddel de Boddele cleverly pulls off every trick in the script to the immense enjoyment of the audience.
To all persons not ashamed of being kids again, see "Two Pails of Water." It delights the heart.
Stephen Reed skillfully conveys the frustrated, unhappy, and slightly cynical Alphonso Goldpurse.
JOHN ERICKSON projects the energetic Dophilius with aplomb and excellent diction.
To all nine members of the KU-TYP before they embark on their semester-long tour of the midwest: Bon Voyage!
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