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Students reject 'pass-fail' idea
Trophies amounting to $1,600 are being unpacked in the intramural office this week. They will be awarded for winners of the latest intramural contests.
$1,600 IN TROPHIES
A sampling of student opinion yesterday indicates a generally unfavorable reaction to the proposed pass-fail grading system at KU.
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Most of the students interviewed felt that adoption of such a system, which eliminates letter grades and ranks students only as passing or failing, would fail to distinguish between average and superior students and might lower incentive.
SOME STUDENTS, however,
pass a thought-fail grading system might work if not used throughout the University.
Jim Tidwell, Wichita junior, said, "it think it (pass-fail) would be a ridiculous idea for any large number of courses or for courses in a student's major field. There wouldn't be any way to differentiate between the guy who barely scrapes by and the guy who knows what's he's doing."
Twenty-eight KU Collegiate Young Republicans (CYR's) will meet with 200 other young politicians Friday and Saturday at the state convention in Hutchinson.
CYR to meet on weekend
Doug Balcombe, Parsons junior, will run for the office of program chairman. The elections will be held on Friday.
Connie Meyer, Newton senior and local CYR queen, will compete with other representatives for the title of state Young Republican queen.
"College students don't need to have a grade," Marty Heuduck, St. Louis, Mo., junior, said. "Most students do satisfactory work anyway, so they do well under this type of system too."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday, March 1, 1967
77th Year. No.89
KU students protest
Group to stage fast
By PATRICIA PRUITT
By PATRICIA PRUITT For three days, they will not eat.
It's not a Gandhi-type fast, but a personal act of penitent worship, designed to evoke a rebirth of compassion by full physical participation in this manner.
The Fast for the Rebirth of Compassion, a national movement joined by persons on the Hill, will last from sundown March 15 until sundown March 18.
THE STUDENTS will condemn all war and the suffering that goes with it, and protest the inhumanity of the Vietnam conflict.
KU participants invite all Christians, Jews, agnostics, and otherwise to join them. The ad hoc committee for the fast will give information in a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, in the Kansas Union Cottonwood Room.
TWO THOUSAND five hundred clergymen and laymen concerned about Vietnam came from all states but two in a non-denominational national conference in Washington, D.C., Jan. 31-Feb. 1.
Sara Paretsky, Eudora senior and member of the ad hoc committee here, said "this is not to take the view that America is inhumane and the Viet Cong should win the war, but rather it is just a call for the rebirth of compassion. Questions of right and wrong do not exist in war where both sides suffer equally."
OTHER MEMBERS of the committee are the Rev, Tom Woodward of Episcopal Canterbury House, the Rev. John Simmons of U.C.C.F., Gail Miller, St. Louis, Mo., junior, and Anne Lockhart, Wichita junior.
The proclamation issued by the conference reads, in part: "We confess that, in this century of global conflict, we are losing our sensitivity to human misery
and prolonged suffering; to death,
divided families, and war-orphaned
children; to black markets and
poisoned food ... to villages
burned and cities bombed
"We confess that we are participants in the inhumanity of war
by the taxes which we pay, the fruits of the war economy we enjoy and our failure to care deeply and speak courageously . . . by the products of our factories and the blood of our youth. We are
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A Kansas City, Mo., medical corpsman began a fast to death Monday in protest against the violence of war.
Pfc. Robert Levy, 22, said yesterday he would rather starve to death "than serve the gods of war."
In a statement issued by his lawyer, William Hanson, Levy said, "From the moment the Army began teaching me how to kill, I knew I could not do as they required and remain honest with myself."
Levy, who has been in the service 13 months, said he thinks the Army is "an institution whose sole reason for existence is to kill and destroy."
Builders to pick plans for dorms
Construction of a private residence hall complex may begin this spring. E.R.Zook, Jayhawk Investments, Inc.business manager, said yesterday.
Zook said the group is studying three possible designs for the complex and that a final design will be chosen in April.
The complex will include four residence halls, a swimming pool, deck parking and dining facilities. Each hall will be six stories tall.
THE COMPLEX WILL be constructed in two phases with each phase consisting of two halls. The
first phase could be completed by fall 1968 and the second a year later.
AN ATTEMPT TO MOVE the house from the site of the proposed resident-hall complex failed Monday night when the truck used to pull the structure had transmission difficulties.
A spokesman for Jayhawk Investments, Inc. said another attempt to move the house would be made before this weekend.
THE PROJECT WAS postponed in September after a low bid of $4.5 million for construction of the complex was received. This bid was more than the company anticipated paying.
ASC continues evaluation
By JOHN MARSHALL
Act II, scene I...
Six more All Student Council (ASC) committee chairmen were questioned last night by the Committee Evaluation Board.
The board, headed by Rusty Wells, Portland Ore., sophomore, is questioning ASC committee chairmen to find out whether they are doing their jobs. The investigation is being conducted to improve the committees, not abolish them.
IN THE SECOND night of questioning, none of the chairmen could explain accomplishments of their committees. Also, two of the committees in question theoretically are unconstitutional.
Bob Van Cleave, Kansas City law student and Traffic Safety Committee chairman, said no ASC members were on his committee. The constitution requires one ASC member on that Committee.
Sandy Arnold, Concordia junior and Facts and Statistics Committee chairman, said no member from the Communications Board was on her committee . . . another flaw.
"THE FACTS AND Statistics Committee," Miss Arnold said, "is characteristic of many student committees. It's made up of students who
really don't know what they want, so they make up a committee."
Miss Arnold said the committee could be more effective if it weren't under the ASC.
AFTER 45 MINUTES of routine questioning and routine answers, Jim McNish, Topeka junior and Public Relations Committee chairman, woke everyone up.
McNish, newly appointed chairman, was asked why his predecessor, Larry Peterson, Kansas City senior, had quit.
"I quit because I was elected treasurer of my fraternity." Peterson interrupted, "and I felt I could not spare the time for both jobs."
At that time Zook cited three reasons for the postponement:
Then Fred Krebs, Shawnee Mission junior and Traditions Committee chairman, slammed the ASC before Wells could ask his first question.
Tomorrow night, Act III, Scene I, room 306 Kansas Union, at 7:00.
ASC functions are duplicated in other areas, Krebs said, such as the KU-Y, Student Union Activities, College Intermediary Board, and the Academic Affairs Committee.
KREBS SAID outside of a request for money, he had little use for the ASC.
- Fall enrollment was 800 students below University predictions made in 1965.
- Interest rates on investment money were high.
- The domestic and international situation was not good for investments.
"The domestic and international situation seems to have stabilized," Zook said.
Three KU drama students and one faculty member have been given major roles in the forthcoming movie version of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood."
Capote film roles given
They are: Brenda Currin, Rockville, Md., senior, Paul Hough, Newton senior, Mary Linda Rapelye, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and Tom Rea, speech and drama instructor and member of the KU resident acting company.
Niemeyre said that preliminary shooting on the movie will begin Monday in the northeast portion of Kansas.