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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 16, 1968
Core programs aid the student
Coordinating the instruction rather than having students integrate material from several different courses is one description of the block or core programs in various schools at KU.
The School of Business has a core program comprised of production, marketing and finance taken by business students the first semester of their senior year.
H. K. L'Ecuyer, assistant dean of the business school, compared students in the core program to medical students. Before taking specific courses in medicine, medical students take courses such as biology, biochemistry and anatomy. None of these are medical courses, but they are foundations for the specialized courses they will take.
Similarly, a business student takes accounting and economics which are not business courses, but will provide a background for the business courses in the core program.
The core, which has been part of the business curriculum for 10 years, consists of 12 hours.
"Our view is every student needs an awareness of what goes on in the entirety of the business he's in," L'Ecuyer said, "regardless of his field."
Sometimes, block programs, although they are valuable, turn out to be more work for the students than the administrators thought. A year ago the School of Journalism made a block program of 10 hours of editing, reporting and news photography.
The main reason for the block, according to Malcolm Applegate, administrative assistant to the dean of the journalism school, is to help students concentrate their attention to the basic skills of journalism in one semester. Students are discouraged from taking other journalism courses during the block semester because of the time spent in the three courses, which are heavily laboratory oriented.
"The block program turned out to be more demanding than we thought," Applegate said. "Students weren't able to give enough
of the needed time to each course because of the work involved."
Next year the news photography course will be dropped from the block. Although there won't be a block program as it now stands, students will be advised to take the other two courses together because reporting and editing skills are so closely interrelated, Applegate said.
Education majors enroll in a block program for eight weeks of one semester their senior year. The other half of the semester is spent student teaching.
Robert Ridgway, associate dean of the School of Education, said the courses relate to understanding the school as a social institution but they are not specifically integrated.
"This type of teaching is not new by any means," Ridgway said. "This method enables a school to pull together educators from various disciplines to aid the student in his general understanding of a field."
Medical Center professor appointed Markle Scholar
Dr. Lucian L. Leape Jr., assistant professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, has been named a Markle Scholar in medical sciences.
The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation in New York announced the appointment. The 37-year-old physician is one of 25
chosen from all medical schools in the United States and Canada.
Markle awards have been made annually since 1948 to encourage young men and women in the pursuit of academic careers in medicine. The scholar_receives $30,000 over a five-year period to support him in his research.
Forum: Married Life in the Peace Corps
with: Mr. and Mrs. Rod Angle Returned volunteers from Panama
Thursday, April 18
7:30 p.m. — Union — Room 305
— COFFEE —
Sponsored by the KU Peace Corps Committee
April 17 "Ad Day" features 4 talks
The national president of Alpha Delta Sigma (ADS), professional advertising fraternity, will speak at the annual "Ad Day," Wednesday, April 17, in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Activities begin with a 9:30 speech by Ray Senate, the national advertising representative for WIBW-television in Topeka. He will explain "What I Do as a National Representative." At 10:30, Henry Jameson Jr., public relations writer for Phillips Petroleum, will discuss the "Phillips Campaign 1968."
Speeches continue in the afternoon with James Firth, marketing consultant at Brickman and Selders, Kansas City, speaking at 1:30 on "Possibilities for the Graduate in the Marketing Research Feld."
Ad day will conclude with a prediction of "Advertising 1844," by Lee Fondren, national president of ADS. Fondren is station
There are 520 faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The noted pediatrician currently charged with conspiracy to disrupt the draft defines his position on the illegality of the war in Vietnam . . .
Sunday, April 21
8 o'clock p.m.
Hoch Auditorium
Free Admission
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES FEATURED SPEAKERS
DANIELE SANDALS Italian Made
A BRAND SELECTION OF COLORS AND STYLES TO CHOOSE FROM
NICOTINE, BROWN AND NATURAL. $8
BROWN,WHITE,BLACK YELLOW ORANGE,GREEN.
TAN, NICOTINE,
BROWN.