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42 Students Believe English Used as 'Flunk-Out' Course
Young Republican Student Opinion Poll results show that 42 students believe English to be a freshman-sophomore "flunk-out" course.
Figures from the Registrar's Office indicate that of the 2,119 freshmen who started the fall semester with English courses, 2,093 actually finished with a grade. Apparently the remaining 26 dropped out before the end of the semester.
OF THOSE WHO completed their courses, 1,788 received passing grades as compared to 234 who failed. Seventy-one of the students are recorded as having incomplete or missing grades.
Physics was named by 13 students as the second "flunk-out" course. University records indicate that only six freshmen were enrolled in physics last semester.
Twelve students believed mathematics to be another course designed to weed out inferior students. In this area, 1,180 students were enrolled during the fall semester.
Here, 959 students passed and 199 failed. Twenty-two grades are incomplete or missing.
ACCORDING TO James K. Hitt, registrar, English has a characteristic which is possessed by no other course—everyone is required to take it.
"I don't believe that English or anything else is set up as a "flunk-out" course, but if English is, it isn't doing a very good job of it," Mr. Hitt said.
Peace Corps Representative
To Visit Campus Tomorrow
Arthur Massolo, field representative for the United States Peace Corps in Central America, will be at KU tomorrow and Wednesday to visit with students interested in Corps projects in Central America. He will talk at 4 p.m. Wednesday in room 306, Kansas Union. Mr. Massolo can be contacted through Clark Coan, foreign adviser in the Dean of Student's office.
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