Friday, June 14, 1968
THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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Frosh oriented by older students
Incoming KU freshmen will begin to arrive Sunday for the first of ten two-day orientation previews scheduled June 16 to July 16.
Although freshmen are not required to come to the campus for a preview session, approximately 70 per cent of the 3000 expected next fall will take advantage of the summer orientation sessions. Students unable to attend summer previews will be oriented when school begins this fall.
THE ADISSIONS office, dean of men and dean of women are directly in charge of sessions. However, the college of liberal arts, the schools of fine arts, engineering, and architecture and the physical education department are involved. Guidance in academic areas is provided through interpretation of placement exams taken before students pre-enroll.
Students also learn about ROTC, housing, and Greek organizations. Medical examinations are given and photographs are taken for identification cards. Social events include a banquet and dance. Participants live in Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall during their campus visit.
Five boys and five girls have taken special orientation classes this week to prepare themselves as student counselors during the orientation sessions. They were chosen to represent a cross-section of campus life through their own experiences and academic pursuits. Their goal is to make the freshmen feel at ease by helping them understand the rules and regulations of campus life.
JOHN MYERS, assistant dean of men, said, "This type of leisurely orientation has proved to be more successful than visits with prospective students at their high schools or with individual personal campus visits by students."
The program began in 1954 when two previews acquainted 382 freshmen with campus life. Last year the previews involved 1700 freshmen.
Fall coed housing planned for KU freshman women
Freshman women will be housed in coeducational halls for the first time this fall.
Oliver Hall will house only freshman men and women while Ellsworth will house freshmen, sophomores, and junior enrolled in Centennial College.
Coeducational housing is not new at KU. Carruth-O'Leary was operated as a coeducational hall during the 1959-60 school year. This was before many other universities were using the plan. McCollum Hall has housed upper class women and men from freshman through senior years.
Enrollment figures show 12% increase
A 12 per cent increase in summer enrollment was reported by James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions.
Oliver and Ellsworth will be a part of the college-within-a-college plan which helps students to identify with a group. A few seminar classes will be held in the residence halls as well as administration of the colleges. There will be a counseling staff of both men and women. Dinner table talk and contact with faculty members in the college will contribute to the sense of belonging.
Summer registration totals 5,481. This figure is expected to reach about 7,500 by August 31. There were 6,929 registered last summer. Credit enrollments will approach 6,700 according to Hitt. KU summer enrollment has grown by approximately 1,000 since 1965. This summer's enrollment shows the greatest increase.
There are 4.665 students on the Lawrence campus-an increase of 389 over last year.The Medical Center in Kansas City enrolled 786,up 169.
Hitt said that perhaps the summer increase was due to the Selective Service requirement which states that one-fourth of a man's college work be completed within 12 months. Draft-eligible students, who lack hours, may have increased the summer school ranks. He also attributed some growth to the University's
increasing fall and spring enrollment.
One hundred international students are participating in the Intensive English Center which offers special instruction in English as a second language. Upon completion of this program, students will transfer to various colleges throughout the United States.
Not included in the enrollment figures are the 2,000 high school students who will be attending the six-week Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Non-credit enrollments totaling about 5,000 for the University Extension courses are not included in Hitt's figures.
Fall projection figures indicate that freshman enrollment is expected to be about the same as in 1967 with the 3,000 students equally divided between men and women.
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Dean of Women Emily Taylor said, "Our objective is to offer many choices to the people to be housed." All freshman women live in University housing and about 85 per cent of freshman men also live in organized housing.
Coeducational housing offers greater flexibility in assignment of rooms. While about 15 parents have objected to the coeducational housing arrangements, Dean Taylor stressed that this is not a large number from the prospective enrollment.
The decision about placement of men and women on different floors is determined by the number of units in the hall. In Oliver Hall men will occupy the top floors and women the lower floors. In Ellsworth the opposite arrangement is planned.
This fall there will be two freshman halls for women, two upperclass halls for women, two halls for men and three coeducational halls. While the pattern in the past has been for a greater number of students to be housed in segregated housing, the new arrangement of people with common interests may become more popular.
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June 18—Tuesday
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June 19—Wed. 7-10 p.m.
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