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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 22, 1968
Speech dept. defends policy
College to vote on requirement
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty will meet at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to vote on a proposal to abolish Speech 1a and 1b as a freshman-sophomore College requirement.
According to Bobby R. Patton, director of the beginning speech program, the speech department doesn't know why it is "being singled out." He said last fall George Waggoner, dean of the College, appointed a committee to review the College requirements which reported that everything was fine.
Patton said the speech department voted for a review of the speech course, but was surprised when the educational policies subcommittee proposed to abolish the requirement.
Fellowships go to 8 profs
Eight young faculty members at KU will be able to spend the coming summer working on a research project or the improvement of courses. They will receive summer faculty fellowships of $1,200 each.
Seven of the assistant professors will receive their grants from the KU Endowment Association's Elizabeth M. Watkins fund and the contributions of student parents to the Greater University Fund. The eighth fellowship will be funded from the University's National Science Foundation Institutional Support Grant.
The eight faculty members are Peter J. Casagrande, English; John W. Dardess, history; John P. Farrell, English; James A. Gowen, English; Alfred Habegger, English; F. Allan Hanson, anthropology; Oliver C. Phillips Jr., classics; and George W. Woodyard, Spanish.
"The trend in colleges seems to be for a speech requirement," Patton said. "We were one of the first schools to have such a requirement, but more and more speech courses are becoming requirements. We seem to be going counter to current trends."
William Conboy, professor of speech and drama, submitted a report to the Educational Policies committee stating the speech department's rationale behind the speech requirement. In the report, Conboy said speaking and listening are significant human processes and are educable abilities. He said these abilities are not guaranteed to improve without systematic instruction, such as that offered in a speech course.
Conboy also said these two abilities contribute to student development in functional intelligence, social decision-making and self-expression. He cited surveys that have shown students in greatest need for speaking and listening improvement tend to avoid speech courses unless they are required.
Conboy called the first two years of college optimal time for communication learning.
The speech department distributed a copy of Gordon Hostetler's "Speech as a Liberal Study"
Hodgell print exhibit presented this month
Forty-three original prints by artist Robert O. Hodgell are on exhibit through May 12 at the First Methodist Church, 946 Vermont.
The prints will be on display in the educational foyer and hallway from 8:30 until 4:30 weekdays, 8:30 until 12:30 Saturdays, and 9 until 12:30 and 2 until 5 Sundays.
Hodgell, a native of Kansas, is associate professor of art and artist-in-residence at Florida Presbyterian College, St. Petersburg, Fla.
to all the College department chairmen after the proposal to abolish the speech requirement was submitted. Hostettler states that 'it is paradoxical that speech, one of the oldest studies known to man, is called up so often to defend its claim to a place amid the liberal arts."
Hostettler summed up the report by saying speech can serve "as an excellent medium for integration of other fields of study. On these bases, speech surely can claim a place—yes, a high place—among liberal studies."
Patton said he hopes the people on campus are concerned enough about the proposal to voice their feelings. The speech department doesn't feel it has had an adequate explanation for dropping speech as a requirement, he said.
"We hope to get answers at the Tuesday meeting, Patton said, before the faculty votes on the proposal."
Greek activities at KU was the topic of a seminar and discussion series Sunday in the Kansas Union.
The group, which was scheduled to appear at KU April 23-25, had given 11 performances within a period of 40 days at universities across the nation. KU was to be the last stop for the group before it returned to the Dominican Republic.
Greek activities discussed
In addition to presenting plays in Spanish the group has also been learning about life in the United States, Litto said.
The Dominican Republic University Theater group which has been touring the United States giving performances as a guest of the state department, has cancelled its scheduled appearance at KU "because of exhaustion," Fredric Litto, acting assistant professor of speech and drama, said Wednesday.
Terry Bullock, a Topeka lawyer, gave the keynote address. Following the address, the five delegates to the seminar from each Greek house divided into eight groups for discussion of the address and four topics of interest.
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