Oread merely joins trend in CC
KU's Centennial College may be the only one of its kind in the Big Eight.
But it has more than a dozen brothers across the United States, one of which has been in existence six years.
Michigan State University, with over 35.600 students and a 1.500-acre campus that requires 20-minute breaks between classes, experienced faculty complaints that classes "are so big we feel like performers in front of an audience" and student complaints that they were "lost among the hordes."
companies that they were tested during In 1961 a "living-learning residence hall" program was established as a possible remedy.
FACULTY MEMBERS ARE AVAILABLE to these students most of the day and often have coffee or lunch with them to discuss class subjects and everything else.
"We've had far more success than we would have guessed." MSU Prevent Howard Neville said.
SIMILAR TO MSU'S PROGRAM is Orchard Hill Residence College at Massachusetts U., now in its third year. It consists of four residence halls, each housing about 330 students. Classes are held in the halls, approximately 25 students to a class.
Over 80 per cent of the 1964-65 Orchard Hill students elected to return to it after their first year. Plans at Massachusetts U. call for 5.000 students in residential colleges by 1969 and one-fifth of the total student body in 1975.
The project started with 200 freshman men and 200 freshman women. Justin S. Morrill is a four-year liberal arts institution with its own curriculum and degrees.
The project, called Justin S. Morrill College, presently has 42 classrooms, 22 laboratories, seven lecture halls, four libraries and 223 faculty offices in what is basically student living space.
DOMINANT DISTAFF
IN HOPES OF KEEPING STUDENT UNREST from expanding into campus demonstrations, Florida State U. officials began a pilot study in 1964 similar to KU's Centennial College.
The program involved 30 students. All were assigned to the same four teachers for classes in English, math, social studies, and history. The instructors coordinated their assignments so that the English teacher, for example, would assign themes on topics the students were studying in the other three courses. The English teacher graded the themes for form and the other teachers graded for content.
Dr. E. L. Chambers, Jr., dean of FSU's college of liberal arts and sciences, said, "I believe the lowest grade anyone in the group made in any of these four subjects was a C."
THE INITIAL SUCCESS prompted FSU to divide half of its 1966 freshman class into groups of 30, each of which stay together
for all classes. The other half of the freshmen are being used as a control group.
In other "college within a college" programs:
- The University of California, which started its project in 1965 substituting trailers and a field house for unfinished dormitories and dining halls, opened its second residence college of 700 students last fall and plans up to 18 more.
- New York State U. plans a system of 200- to 400-student residence colleges, the first to open this fall.
The University of Michigan will admit 250 freshmen into its first project this fall.
WASHINGTON - (UPI) Women and girls outnumber men and boys in the United States by 3.6 million, according to the 1963 Statistical Abstract of the United States issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of the Census.
Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 23, 1967
Mize names KU junior Princess
A KU woman has been named the Kansas Cherry Blossom Princess for 1967, Congressman Chester Mize, president of the Kansas State Society in Washington, D.C., announced.
Janice Whelan, Topeka junior, will spend the week of April 1-8 in Washington, participating in the many functions connected with the 1967 National Cherry Blossom Festival and will compete for the title of Cherry Blossom Queen.
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