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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 26,1962
Chancellor Says Screening Blocks Worthy Students
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said last night that screening applicants for admission to KU would block opportunity for many worthy students.
"The facts we have discovered are these; there is a strong correlation between test scores and success in college; there is even a stronger correlation between rank in high school class and success in college; but neither of these can predict with such accuracy that we would want to bet our lives on it. How then can we bet the lives of young men and women?" Chancellor Wescoe said.
THE CHANCELLOR WAS speaking to the state convention of the Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers in Topeka. In his address, given from a prepared text, he said:
"If we had eliminated students who ranked in the bottom half on our placement examination, 208 graduates of the class of 1955 would not have been admitted as freshmen.
"The loss to the state and the nation would have been 40 teachers, 22 engineers, 5 journalists, 7 lawyers, 7 doctors, 7 pharmacists, and 96 graduates from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Business who majored in areas where the supply of trained manpower is equally short," he said.
THIS EXPERIENCE AT KU shows that entrance examinations are not accurate enough to rely upon to select students for admission, Chancellor Wescoe said.
"The hidden premise in the statements about selective admission is that there is some effective way of determining upon admission of those students who will succeed and those who will fail," he said. "Every study indicates that this is not true."
He continued:
"We must never forget that this nation was founded on opportunity. The moment we close a door in the face of the ambitious, the moment we say, 'You cannot make it; you cannot even try,' that moment this will cease to be the land of opportunity. It will become the land of the privileged."
THE CHANCELLOR SAID WE should not be afraid of the large numbers of youth who want to go to college but should recognize their ambition as a valuable resource.
"Their finest impulses toward self-fulfillment must not be frustrated," he said. "If they are, if we put a readblock across this nation's principal highway of social and economic mobility, what we cherish will not长 endure."
He said that in practice, the student bodies of most colleges and universities are "self-selected" and "quality institutions of higher education attract quality students."
CHANCELLOR WESCOE SAID the increase of students wanting to go to college can best be dealt with by a willingness on the part of the country's citizens to provide the facilities for them.
"The college doors will close, true—if the American people decide that they should close, if they get tired of making their annual down payments on civilization, progress, freedom, if they value present ease over the promise of the future," he said.
India Students to Sing
Students from India will present folk songs and a movie from their native land at the International Club meeting at 7:30 tomorrow night in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
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