SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
50th Year, No.10
Friday, July 13, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
732 Students In KU Study Camp
Seven hundred and thirty two students from 40 states are enrolled in the silver anniversary session of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp at KU.
The six-week camp, the largest ever held, will end July 29 for campers in the music, art, ballet, theater, speech and engineering divisions. Earlier in the summer 109 science and mathematics campers and apprentice researchers were at KU.
The engineering camp is in its first season this year, with 15 students enrolled. Memberships in the other camps are: music 365, art 189, theater 37, speech 17, and ballet 19.
The camp was started 25 years ago by Prof. Russell L. Wiley, KU band director, with 67 band students. Prof. Wiley is still camp director, and Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education, is associate director.
Music campers present Sunday concerts in both indoor and outdoor theaters and will present two special recitals. The campers study with several guest conductors. Theater campers will appear in their production of "Insect Comedy" tonight in the University Theatre.
Art students study oils and water color painting, nature drawing, pottery, fashion drawing, color and design, jewelry and silversmithing. Speech students are concentrating on debating, oral interpretation of literature and public speaking. Ballet students will present a special program July 27 in Hoch Auditorium.
Engineering campers are studying modern engineering materials, science and design, with laboratory work in all phases of engineering including field trips.
NSF Awards $27,822 to KU
The National Science Foundation has awarded KU a $27,822 flexible grant based on NSF research support at KU last year nearing one-half million dollars.
The KU award and a $27,826 grant to Colorado University are the largest received by Big Eight schools. The funds are made on a percentage bases of NSF research grant payments from April 1, 1961, to March 31, 1962. Those payments totaled $461,450 at KU.
The grants are provided by the National Science Foundation as a means of strengthening an institution's ability to create new scientific knowledge and to educate scientists and engineers. They are to be used to develop and maintain well-balanced programs of research, education or related activities in the sciences.
The NSF provided funds totaling $3,730,634 to 302 colleges and universities. Each grant equaled 100 per cent of basic research grant payments to the institution in the designated year, plus five per cent of such payments beyond $5,000.
In making the grants, the NSF noted some institutional needs result from existing federal programs which often result in imbalances among various fields of science or between research and teaching. Freedom from restrictions will permit an institution to use the funds quickly and easily to strengthen its total scientific program, the foundation said.
Institutional grants received by other Big Eight universities were: Oklahoma, $23,148; Iowa State, $22,322; Missouri, $19,254; Nebraska, $14,364; Oklahoma State, $11,555; Kansas State University, $11,075.
THE LONG FINANCIAL HAUL—A mass of enrolling students present strong testimony to the increasing crowdedness of the nation's universities coupled unwillingly with an ever-increasing cost of getting a college education.
Campus Activities
Today
7:30 p.m.—"Stalag 17." William Holden. Ballroom, Kansas Union. Admission: 35 cents.
8 p.m.—"Insect Comedy," University Theatre. Admission $1.50 Free with LD's.
8 p.m.—Outdoor movies. East of Robinson Gymnasium. Educational.
Saturday
3 p.m.—Midwestern Music and Art Camp. Junior high camp concert. University Theatre.
Sunday
2:30 p.m.—Choir concert. University Theatre.
3:30 p.m.—Orchestra concert. University Theatre.
Four cars approach an intersection cautiously. They all stop. They all beckon for each other to go on through. No one moves. Pretty soon, one driver thinks, "I guess they're waiting for me."
8 p.m.—Band concert. Outdoor Theatre.
The other drivers are thinking the same thing. Result: four-car pileup.
Monday
Horrendous Things Await on Campus
5:15 p.m.—Summer session softball. Delta Function vs. Hicks. "?" Marks vs. Betas.
By Steve Clark
You shouldn't have picked up this newspaper; you shouldn't even be "on the hill," you should be at home in bed, it's Friday the 13th.
Drop this paper and stride for home as fast as your legs can carry in hopes that you will make it before bad luck befalls you.
There are horrendous things awaiting those few who have tests today. Our records show that there was 100 per cent flunk-out rate on the last Friday the 13th.
Friday the 13th is particularly bad for boy-girl relationships. A young
It's a bad day for instructors too. They wake up ready to meet the world, but after their wives have hit them with three rolling pins, they've tripped over the children's toys and left their lecture notes at home they are in a far from cheerful mood.
WATCH OUT for black eats, don't run under any ladders and by all means don't smash any mirrors, it will make the day that much worse.
FRIDAY THE 13TH is a bad day for traffic accidents too, so one had better not venture out in an automobile. Four-way stop signs are particularly bad for Friday the 13th accidents.
Legislation is also hazardous on this treacherous day. One Friday the 13th Congress had an exhaustive session in which they voted on 15 complete bill revisions with 73 minor amendments before passing into law a bill they had passed the day before. All this was attributed to Friday the 13th.
courtier is driving with his girl out in secluded country. He drives, he drives, he drives, but his car continues to run. He remembers he specifically checked his gas gauge and noted that it was empty. That car just won't run out of gas, another tragic saga of Friday the 13th.
As the sun sets and everything turns dark, distinct figures can be detected on the horizon. What are they? Certainly not the voluptuous figures of Brigitte Bardot, but evil looking figures. Could they be witches, ghosts or goblins? No, they're mothers-in-law.
You disobeyed. Why did you read this far. Please pay heed to this good advice. Run, hide yourself from the evil spirits which this day brings.
Today Last Day For WC Registration
Oh yes, GOOD LUCK
Today is the last day to register for the Western Civilization Comprehensive examination to be held Saturday, July 23 from 8 a.m. to noon.
Registrations are being taken in Room 130 at Strong Hall.
Cost Rise, But KU Stays Low
The cost of a college education has reached staggering proportions.
Cost estimates for a college education range from under $1,000 a year at a few Western and Southern state colleges to $2,835 at M.T. and $3,150 at Cornell. The admissions office at KU estimates it will cost anywhere from $1,285 to $1,400 for one undergraduate year for an instate student, $1,593 to $1,710 for out-of-state.
A STUDY made for Ladies Home Journal magazine by the Joint Office of Institutional Research pointed out that increasing tuition costs usually lie behind the rise.
Tuition increases for state and land grant universities have averaged 48 per cent since 1958. At KU, tuition has only jumped one dollar for the same period—from $103 in 1958 to $104 in 1961.
Board costs for the same period have also risen—10 to 20 per cent. At KU, the cost of a dormitory room for one year has risen from $630 to $675, an increase of 7.3 per cent.
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Admission Now Growing Harder
A survey of state universities (including KU) and land grant institutions underscores the growing trend toward tighter admissions standards.
Of the 94 institutions covered by the survey,59 have specific requirements for admission, while 35 keep a relatively "open door" for students who have graduated from accredited high schools in their states.
The openness of the door varies, however, from schools admitting all such accredited graduates to those which use progressive admissions or other techniques to discourage marginal students.
NINE COLLEGES in five states—KU, Kansas State University, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wyoming colleges are required by state law to admit all accredited high school graduates from their state.
As far as the survey could determine, all the 35 institutions who admit any graduate of an accredited high school in their state require students to have completed certain high school courses in English, mathematics, science, and similar academic subjects.
The survey was taken by the Joint Office of Institutional Research of the Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and the State Universities Association.
Out of the 35 "open door" schools, three require the recommendation of the high school principal for admission. Another, the University of Tennessee, discourages applicants whose average is below a certain level and has announced that it will probably refuse admission to such applicants beginning in 1964.
The University of Illinois requires that applicants from the lowest quarter of their high school graduating classes pass prescribed tests or defer admission one year and in 1963 this will apply to lowerhalf graduates.
KU's admission of all accredited Kansas high school graduates has not lowered the school's quality, but rather has given an opportunity to many to succeed in college who otherwise may not have had a chance, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has maintained.
THE SURVEY showed that student loans are the main source of financing a college education. At KU, parents provide the main source of income for a student, reports Robert Billings, director of aids and awards. The breakdown for an average student's source of funds is parents (50 per cent), outside work (23 per cent), loans (12 per cent), scholarships (seven per cent), and miscellaneous (eight per cent).
The survey of the Joint Office of Institutional Research also showed that while scholarships are increasingly available, they are neither so plentiful nor so large as parents sometimes hope.
For example, Ohio State university last year turned down 3,000 of 5,000 scholarship applications. The University of Massachusetts awarded only 72 scholarships to the 1,150 prospective freshmen who applied for them.
Comparable figures at KU show that 1,247 out of 2,150 scholarship applications were turned down. The number of scholarships awarded to freshmen who applied was 475 out of 1,128.
The total figures on scholarships show that $800,000 came through this source out of the $11,200,000 spent yearly on KU education. One million, four hundred thousand came from loan programs.
KU News Director's Condition "Good"
The condition of Tom Yoe, director of the KU News Bureau, is listed as "good" according to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Yoe suffered a heart attack Saturday. His wife reports that Yoe became ill Saturday morning and went to the hospital for a check-up. He will remain at the hospital for about three weeks.
A graduate student in physics proved himself equally adept at ping-pong as he is in the laboratory when he won the SUA ping-pong tournament in the Student Union, Tuesday.
Robert Makufka never lost a game and won two-out-of-three in defeating Subhash Nerurkav in the finals. There were 32 contestants entered in the singles tournament.
Makufka Wins Tournament
Makufka teamed with Fida Mohammed in the doubles tournament and came out with his second trophy of the day as he and Mohammed defeated Wilfred Danielson and Norman Sabiesk 21-14, 11-21, 21-17. Eight doubles teams were entered.
The tournament was termed "successful" by John Atkinson, the tournament director, who announced that there will be a biliards tournament July 17 at the Union. About 75 persons attended the tournament.
English Pro Results On Page Eight
Names of students who passed the Summer 1962 English proficiency examination are on page 8 of this issue of the Daily Kansan. examination are on page 8 of this issue of the Daily Kansan.
Out of 207 taking the exam, 171 passed and 36 failed. This failing rate of 18 per cent was the lowest in the past two years.