Friday, May 17, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Letter to COSA requests pass-fail grading system
KU should set up a small liberal arts sub-college which would discard the present grading system in favor of faculty evaluations of students.
That's what 15 KU students said in a letter addressed to E. Jackson Baur, professor of sociology and chairman of the Committee on Student Affairs (COSA).
Other proposals included in the letter are reminiscent of recent "Voice" demands to the administration.
They suggested "increased representation by students on committees directly affecting the student's welfare," such as the Educational Policies Committee and COSA. The student representatives should be given voting power on these committees, the letter said.
The letter also urged the adoption of the College Intermediary Board (CIB) pass-fail grading proposal of early March, "in order to encourage more KU students to pursue excellence rather than grade points." CIB proposed a complete pass-fail system for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The adoption of "yet another grading system" will not really solve the problems, the letter said, and for that reason it was suggested that the sub-college be established.
An "experienced faculty member" should be appointed director of all KU curriculum, the letter also said. He "would be paid to study and coordinate experimental course programs and might also reorganize and relate courses such as English, Western Civilization, mathematics, and philosophy that the student may see how these courses serve as the core of his liberal education."
A major part of the letter outlined a proposed apprentice teacher program for graduate teaching assistants, a position held by one third of the signers of the letter.
"Since graduate students teach many introductory courses, it is important to the undergraduate that the graduate student seeks excellence in his teaching as well as in his research," said the letter. It described the conditions under which teaching assistants must function as "deplorable," suggesting that the University finance the first year of each teaching assistant's full - time graduate study.
Before and during his teaching, the graduate student should be apprenticed to "an especially qualified faculty member in the graduate student's teaching area," the letter said.
Ph.D. candidates should keep
The letter also suggested a reorganization of the faculty adviser system possibly to include underclass paid advisers.
A brief bibliography of major texts in each undergraduate department should be compiled and printed in The University Review to help students who want to read up on "a new area of interest."
teaching at a "minimum" so they can complete their degrees in "a reasonable amount of time," the letter added.
The final suggestion offered by these 15 students is that COSA "confer with the doctors of Watkins Hospital and urge that their requests be given top priority in the KU building program."
In the letter, the students asked Baur to contact them to arrange a meeting to discuss these proposals, but they have had no response, said John Berthrong, Norman, Okla., junior. He said that they haven't had any replies to their proposals because they had relied on the Daily Kansan to make the letter public.
Among signers of the letter were Hamilton Salsich, Webster Groves, Mo., graduate student; Joe Goering, Moundridge junior and student body vice-president; and Brian Barker, Virginia Water, England, graduate student and former student body vice-president.
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The U.S. command listed 724 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in several battles since last Wednesday. These included fights
SAIGON — (UPI) — U.S. headquarters Thursday announced the highest weekly death toll of the war for American forces — 562 killed. It said 5,552 Communists were killed and reported rising enemy losses in heavy Da Nang fighting that raged into Thursday night.
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in the Hobo Woods near Saigon, near Kontum on the Central Highlands, in the rice bowl Mekong Delta and along the coastal plains of central South Vietnam.
American losses in the widely scattered fighting were placed at 30 killed and 201 wounded. Australian and South Korean forces were credited with killing at least 152 Communists.
UPI correspondent Raymond Wilkinson reported Thursday night from Da Nang that Marine
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'Choke Cherry': KU poetry
By Scott Nunley
During finals you may purchase "The Secretly Obscene Choke Cherry Monstrosity." Seldom have half-penny sheets of poetry been so economically bargained.
Al Dewey's songs of the Midwest are comfortably haunting; but Marcia McMullen's strong statements, clear from a woman's blood, are not for every man (or perhaps for no man) to hear.
John Schmitt's best poem is a magic experience, an instant Up
with no extraneous assistance:
"We have journeyed together now /
a mystic combining of all past history . . . " And Leland McCleary's gift of sardonic black-laughter is refreshing in one hundred pages of student poetry.
But the most consistently amazing poet of this publication of English 293 must be Eric Chaet: "He has married an eagle!" they whisper wide-eyed among them." Chaet's hesitant prose-lines talk such truth that they can be painful to experience.
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