SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Friday, July 27, 1962
50th Year, No.14
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUMMER EMPLOYMENT - Eugene Caylor, Lawrence senior, takes careful aim before firing the .45 caliber automatic on the pistol range at Fort Riley, Kansas. Caylor is one of 34 KU students undergoing training at the Army ROTC
encampment at Fort Riley. Forty-five colleges and universities are represented at the camp by over 1400 ROTC students. The program leads to a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Peace Officer School Now Underway at KU
A school to increase the efficiency of Kansas peace officers began Monday at KU.
The training program, conducted by the KU Governmental Research Center and University Extension, is financed by a 1962 Kansas legislature appropriation of $5,250. It provides training in collection and evaluation of evidence, ballistics, firearms, fingerprinting and related subjects by key officials in area governmental agencies.
Beginning on Monday were a basic course for peace officers and a police science course, both six days long, and a three-day, special course for correctional officers. On Tuesday a three-day seminar in juvenile delinquency prevention and control began, and on Wednesday a three-day basic course in traffic started.
Marvin E. Larson, director of the state department of social welfare, was guest speaker Tuesday evening for the seminar on juvenile delinquency prevention and control.
Alvin S. McCoy, Pulitzer prizewinning Kansas editor of the Kansas City Star, and Wesley M. Norwood,
Douglas county attorney, spoke Monday on "What the Public Expects of a Penal System" at the special course for correctional officers.
Among state officials who were discussion leaders are L. A. Billings, superintendent of the motor vehicle department; Fred R. Farr, state fire marshal; Walter Reed Gage, director of Alcoholic Beverage Control; Larry E. Hughes, superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol; Robert J. Kaiser, director of penal institutions, and Logan H. Sanford, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Out-of-state leaders include Dr. Hayden H. Donahue, superintendent of the Central State Griffin Memorial Hospital, Norman, Okla.; W. Mark Felt, special agent-in-charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kansas City, Mo.; Clifford E. Fernstrom, supervisor of training, Traffic Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; S. J. Gilman, director of the Prison Camp Program, department of corrections, Jackson, Mich.; Carl F. Hansson, Mesquite Tex., chief of police, and Hubert H Haney, federal jail inspector, U.S. department of justice, El Reno, Oka
41 Telephone Execs in KU Study Program
Forty-one executives of telephone companies throughout the nation began an intensive four-week executive development program at KU this week.
The program in its fifth year is geared to help independent telephone executives prepare themselves for effective managerial leadership. Sponsored by the United States Independent Telephone Association, the program has included representatives of 68 companies.
The program has been planned by the personnel committee of the U.S.I.T.A. and James R. Surface, vice chancellor and dean of the faculties at KU. Dean Surface, former dean of the KU School of Business, is director.
The program's broad objective is to help independent telephone management personnel to be more effective in their own jobs and with respect to the current and future position of their companies. Much of the instruction follows the case method approach.
7:30 p.m.—Midwestern Music and Art Camp ballet recital, University Theatre.
Campus Activities
Today
7:30 p.m.—Summer SUA film series, "Battle Cry," starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Tab Hunter, Dorothy Malone and Raymond Massey, Kansas Union Ballroom, no charge.
8 p.m.—Outdoor movies, east of Robinson Gymnasium. "Sport-wheeling the Sierras," "Picturesque Gaspe," and "The Most Important Corner in the U.S.A."
Tomorrow
8 p.m.—"Lady Chatterly's Lover," (film) University Theatre.
Sunday
8 p.m.—Band concert, outdoor theatre east of Hoch Auditorium.
2:30 p.m.—Choir concert. University Theatre.
3:30 p.m.—Orchestra concert, University Theatre.
Monday
5:15 p.m.—Intramural softball, Lindley Oilers vs. Hicks, field seven, Betas vs. Pharmacy Chemicals, field eight.
Faculty from KU are Max E. Fessler, professor of business administration; Ronald R. Olsen, assistant professor of economics, and Frank S. Pinet, associate professor of business administration and associate director of the U.S.I.T.A. management development program. Roger L. Singleton, instructor in the School of Business, is assistant director.
SUA Movie Today Will Be Free
FOUR MAJOR areas being taught are the functions of administration, the American business climate, rate regulation and operations research.
The last of the Summer SUA Film series. "Battle Cry" to be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Kansas Union Ballroom will be free.
The picture is being shown free "to show appreciation for student support at SUA activities," Chuck Burin, chairman of SUA, said.
15 Freshmen Speed Careers
In a not-so-quiet classroom at KU 15 very young but unusually alert students wrangle with 15 different ideas.
They are fresh out of high school and on their way into an intellectual experience not many university students know—an accelerated academic career in the honors program.
This is the third group of freshmen to begin the program in the summer, and the students are among hundreds who have participated since its beginning in 1955. They will be among the 90-100 students invited to be members of the honors program this fall. Few decline this invitation.
This particular group of students is taking three honors courses in English, biology and philosophy, and during the summer session each student will have a total of eight credit hours when he finishes.
in the KU Honors program, which has received nationwide recognition, was conceived by Dean George R. Waggoner and is administered by Associate Dean Francis H. Heller of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The students will be ahead of many of their classmates when September rolls around, but honors students generally have a habit of skipping ahead of their class, whether they start the summer before or the spring after the September group.
THE STUDENTS attend classes together during the week and carry on many an intellectual bull session outside the classroom. They meet again for dinner once each week and hear talks by professors from various departments of the University.
These fifteen students, as are all honors students, were hand picked to join the program. All elected to start their college careers in the summer, thus gaining a head start on their September classmates.
Honors students often graduate a full year ahead of their freshman classmates, as they avail themselves of opportunities to bypass pre-
Intensive Slavic Course at KU
A lot of Russian is being spoken at KU this summer, but there's nothing subversive going on.
With varying proficiency, 28 students are improving their fluency in the Slavic language. They are members of KU's first summer Russian institute, an intensive nine-week program that ends Aur. 3.
program.
Included in the 28 are high school teachers, college freshmen, graduate students specializing in the Soviet area, housewives and a prospective scientist. All are taking a full load of courses that includes not only five or six hours of the Russian language but additional hours in government, history or economics.
Beginners are in a basic language course that meets for ten regular classes and eight laboratory sessions weekly. Intermediate language students are concentrating on literary and technical selections.
Since all institute courses are being offered through the regular summer session, about 50 more students also are enrolled in one or more subjects in the Soviet area.
The institute itself is part of KU'S Slavic and Soviet area studies center directed by Oswald P. Backus, professor of history. The summer program and scholarship support for nine institute members are provided from funds made available by the KU Endowment Association and the International Affairs committee.
requisites, take heavier work loads, enroll in advanced courses, special honors sections, advanced seminars and the like if they have demonstrated enough aptitude to proceed without undue difficulty.
Honors students are usually invited into the program before they arrive as freshmen at KU. Originally they are "discovered" from their performances on competitive examinations for Summerfield, Watkins or National Merit scholarships. Others may be invited into the program if they have eye-catching scores on their KU placement examinations.
Although only freshmen are officially invited, other students of unusual worth who demonstrate their abilities later in their academic careers are included in some phases of the honors program.
KC Star Man To J-School In September
John DeMott, assignment editor on the city desk of the Kansas City Star, will become assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas Sept. 1. He will succeed Melvin Mencher, who is joining the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
DeMott will teach advanced reporting and editing and will be news adviser to the University Daily Kanan, student daily newspaper and laboratory for news-editorial and advertising students in the William
Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
John DeMott
He received his bachelor's degree in education at the University of Kansas in 1946 and his master's degree in government, English, and history at the University of Kansas City in 1960. He took graduate work in educational psychology at Northwestern University before joining the staff of the Star late in 1946. Since that time he has had varied experience on the Star, including seven years as city hall reporter in Kansas City, Kas., five years as editor of the Kansas City, Kas., edition and the last two years as assignment editor on the city desk.
De Mott also is Kansas City area correspondent for the Religious News Service and special correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. He is the current president of the Kansas City Press Club, professional chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism society.
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