Friday, February 23, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Centennial men are messier but more of them stay at KU
Men in the Colleges-within-the-College (CC) system apparently became less dependent on their families, less orderly and systematic in their study habits, and less involved in extracurricular activities than those men in a "control group."
The CC group was compared to an equal number of nonparticipating freshmen in a recent study by the department to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. The test showed 81.3 per cent of the CC students remained after one year, and only 70.7 per cent of the control group remained.
The study failed to show any significant effect of CC in any of these areas on the women students.
The study indicated because the CC men had strong peer ties with the men who lived on the same floors they were less dependent on their families and less inclined to join organizations outside the residence hall.
The men also seemed influenced in their study practices more by their dorm mates than men in the control group.
The study also indicated there were differences in physical condition in those parts of a residence hall occupied by CC men and other floors where control group freshmen lived.
Centennial College students live together on special floors in the residence halls, while the control group freshmen live on floors with upperclassmen.
Halls, lounges and wash rooms of the CC floors showed more dirt and damage. The report surmised that on CC floors, less mature patterns of conduct tended to prevail, while on other floors the older students set more responsible standards of conduct.
On study habits, the report showed CC men agreed most of their courses cannot be passed just by learning what is in the textbooks, and they thought their
classes were harder than those of their non-CC friends.
The CC program began with 450 freshman men and women in 1966, and was expanded to include all entering freshmen in the Fall of 1967.
The CC students said most of their friends lived on the same wing of their floor of the residence hall, not always the case with the control group students.
A majority of CC students reacted favorably to the attention and instruction they received: 96 per cent said they got more personal attention from their instructors than did their friends. Eighty-two per cent thought they were being pushed more in their classes and had to spend more time on homework than did their non-CC friends.
The report said: It may be that their courses were more difficult; but if not, in their relative isolation from upperclassmen they may have compared college with high school standards.
Heart fund drive
Coeds get $5000 for heart fund
Ten degree weather did not deter Oliver Hall coeds and other freshman women this week from collecting nearly $5,000—none of which they will keep for themselves. The girls participated in the Heart Fund drive in Lawrence.
participation, Mrs. Ricks, assistant dean of women, said.
Oliver Hall will be awarded the trophy, a shiny silver bowl. The winning hall was decided on the basis of the percentage of hall
Dr. Alex C. Mitchel, president of the Kaw Valley Heart Fund, and Peter Curran, head of the local Heart Fund drive, will present the award at a noon luncheon Sunday at Oliver Hall.
The students said they liked running from door to door meeting people during their two-evening drive.
"We're having a lot of fun," one coed remarked to Curran.
Women from Oliver Hall publicized their part in the drive by wearing red on the Hill Wednesday.
"The freshman women at KU express a satisfaction in working for a worthy cause. This kind of enthusiasm is a major contribution to the Heart Fund drive," Curran said.
The three freshman halls collected a total of $4,974: GSP $1,616, Corbin Hall $1,070 and Oliver Hall $2,288.
Student demands action from President- "or else"
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — (ACP)—What would you do if you were calmly watching TV and two men walked briskly in—one from the Secret Service, the other from the campus police—and told you they had been following and checking up on you for days?
Willard Fox III, a junior at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University, kept his cool, the B-G News reports. He asked the men, "What brings you around?"
They produced a letter he had written to President Johnson more than a month ago.
"I demand immediate withdrawal from Vietnam," the letter read. "Realizing you won't get this communication for a few days I am giving you until Dec. 24 to withdraw all troops . . . or else."
Also asking the President to legalize marijuana, the letter continued: "If you do not comply with those wishes, I can only judge you either are totally incompetent or do not wish to comply (which would be very foolish indeed.)"
Reclining on a bed, Fox answered the officials' questioning.
The letter involved no personal threat, Fox said.
"What do you mean about demand," they asked.
"As a supposedly free citizen I can demand anything I want," he replied.
Fox was questioned for half an hour about organizations he belonged to, his draft status, whether he had ever been in a mental institution ("Not yet," Fox said).
And then he was asked: "Did you go to Pennsylvania over Thanksgiving vacation and eat dog food as a protest against famine?"
Fox said yes, that he had gone with the international director of WHIP.
"You should have seen them sit
up and demand, 'What's WHIP?' "He told them it was the World Health Instead of Poverty group.
"The men were very polite," Fox said. "They had a thick folder of papers about me. They probably know more about me than I do."
No action was taken against Fox. But what did he mean by "or else" in the letter? He laughed when the officials asked him.
"Or else I won't vote for Johnson," he said.
Purses, TV stolen
Nine purses have been stolen from Watson Library and a color television set taken from a fraternity chapter room in the past 10 days.
The purse thefts were taken from all parts of the library, Terrence Williams, assistant director of the library, said. He said he was "unhappy that such a situation exists in an academic community."
A color television set valued at $400 was stolen Wednesday night from Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity, said Spencer Smith, house president and Mission junior. The set was not insured.
"We can not insure things like that because our doors are always unlocked," Smith said.
Hijacker wanted by FBI
Scratches on the floor indicated the set had been removed through the kitchen, he said.
CORRECTION
MIAMI — (UPI) — The hijacker who forced an American jetliner to fly to Cuba was identified by the FBI Thursday night as a West Virginia fugitive wanted for robbery.
The FBI said the hijacker was Lawrence Mahlon Rhodes Jr., 28, who is wanted for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for the robbery of a Lundale, W. Va., coal company last December.
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Rhodes was charged before U.S. Commissioner Edward C. Swann with hijacking the jetliner Wednesday and forcing the pilot to fly to the Communist island nation. Bond of $100,000 was recommended should Rhodes be returned to this country and arrested.
During the robbery, the FBI said, Rhodes escaped with $10,000 after using a payroll clerk and three members of the clerk's family as hostages. The hostages were released unharmed, the FBI said.
The Kansan incorrectly reported Wednesday that Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe was planning a trip to Washington, D.C., Saturday. He plans no such trips this weekend.
The Fidel Castro regime Thursday indicated it was not sure who it got when it gave refuge to a "cowboy" dressed gunman who commandeered the airplane on a flight over Florida.
The man commandeered the DC8 Delta Air Lines jet with 109 persons aboard was quoted as saying he was fleeing from a death sentence in the electric chair. The FBI said it had no information connecting him with a death sentence. However, armed robbery in some states is a capital offense.
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The FBI said Rhodes' wife, Marjorie, is from Pegram, Tenn. She was not aboard the plane Wednesday and was believed to be in her home town near Nashville.
The gunman attracted attention Wednesday even before he pulled the hijacking. He was dressed in a ten-gallon hat, cowboy shirt, blue jeans and sneakers.
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