Fame grows
Workshops draw students
By LINDA BROWNING
Kansan Staff Writer
When the Jayhawkers and Rock Chalkers have scattered to their hometowns across the country, KU will get set for its 32nd year as a work shop and play ground for high school students.
From June 15 through July 26, Midwestern Music and Art Campers will invade Mount Oread.
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp and its affiliate divisions have served high schoolers for 31 years. The purpose of the Camp is to help the gifted student create an awareness of the vast opportunities which lie ahead of him in his chosen field.
Forty-nine states sent 2,500 students to attend the 11 divisions of the 1968 Camp. An estimated 2,800 students will attend the 1969 session, said Russell L. Wiley, Camp Director.
In the earlier years of the Camp, students were allowed to participate in several divisions such as music, art, journalism, speech, etc. The Camp has become so specialized that it is no longer practical for a student to participate in more than one division, Wiley said.
Air-conditioned living
The campers will be housed in five large air-conditioned residence halls. These halls, along with other air-conditioned buildings on the campus, offer the camper what many of the past participants have described as a "relaxed atmosphere to really excel in my field."
The Camp has created a far-reaching name for itself, according to many visiting music directors and professors in general. Franklin D. Murphy, chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles, commented, "It is an extraordinary thing that you have built at KU, and I really think that there is nothing like it in the country."
Wiley added, "This seems to be the general consensus of the campers that attend this second oldest music camp in the country since we have 20 per cent of our students repeating. Some come all four years of high school."
Great many return
Every school and department that the 11 divisions represent has been cooperative in offering a complete counseling service to students who are seriously considering KU.
"The number of students who return to KU after
their excellent introduction to the campus through summer camp is astonishing," Wiley said.
"I know the University realizes that this program acts as one of its main public relations campaigns." Wiley said. "But that's only the by-product, not the real purpose of the camp."
From Wiley's top band two years ago, 60 out of the 92 students are now enrolled at KU.
The music division is by far the largest of the 11, with this year's turnout expected to be more than 1,000 senior high students. It is also the only division that has a program for junior high students, and the Camp expects 500 of them in June.
Specialized training
The senior high music division offers specialized training in four bands, three choirs, two orchestras, private study, music theory and small ensembles. Eighteen guest conductors, all of national or international reputation, will spend a week in Camp. The campers will have ample opportunity to work under a staff including Lt. Col. Arnald D. Gabriel, U.S. Air Force Band director; Frederic Balazs, director of the Cincinnati Philharmonic Orchestra; and Milburn Carey who works with the Tri-State Music Festival.
The junior high music division will include grades six, seven and eight and will run from June 4 through June 14. The all-inclusive fee for the junior high division is $100, but for all other divisions the fee is $425 for six weeks.
Second in size the art division, expecting more than 400 students. It will offer a complete program of instruction with studio classes planned for students with no previous instruction and for those with experience in school and in private classes. Classes in design, drawing, art history, calligraphy, ceramics, jewelry, printmaking, sculpture and weaving will be held in the KU art studios and shops with opportunities to use the resources of the many other facilities of the campus. These facilities include the Art Museum and the Natural History Museum.
The 1969 Summer Speech and Debate Camp will have facilities for 200 students. Video-taping equipment, enabling all students to see themselves in speaking situations; expanded offerings in radio; new classes in acting; and human relations training will be added to the forensic tournaments, debates symposiums and picnics.
There are four Foreign Language Divisions this year; Latin, French, Spanish and German. They will offer a complete program of instruction for beginning, intermediate and advanced students in these languages. Participants will use University classrooms and equipment and study with regular members of the faculty.
"Students who are planning a trip to any foreign country will find the Camp's intensive study program an invaluable preparation which will make their stay abroad more profitable and pleasant," said Sandra Traversa, foreign study advisor of the international programs.
The ballet division will offer intensive instruction in classic ballet, pointe work, character and choreography. Students from all levels of accomplishment will be accepted, and there will be costumed concerts at the end of the session in which all students will perform, said Marguerite M. Reed, director of the ballet division. Also a special seminar for dance teachers will be offered, she said.
Intensive instruction
The journalism division will offer intensive instruction in reporting, editing, photography, graphic arts, yearbooks, advertising and radio-television. It will use the same facilities available to University journalism students. The faculty will include regular staff members in the William Allen White School of Journalism, said Lee F. Young, Journalism Camp Director.
Wiley said he realized that students couldn't work 24 hours a day, so he set up an extensive recreational program that will keep the students engaged on-campus. This year Merle Nay, athletic director and head football coach at El Dorado Junior College, will act as full time recreational director in charge of all indoor and outdoor recreational activities. Working with seven assistants, Nay has many social evenings planned with informal dances, concerts and movies.
Partial scholarships will be available in all divisions of the Camp. The amount of each scholarship will depend upon the student's experience and ability as recommended by his high school teacher.
Health Service at the Watkin's Hospital is included in the Camp fee of $425. The Camp carries Blue Cross and Blue Shield coverage which is available to every student enrolling.
"We know that the camp is growing in fame and quality," said Wiley, "and we are ready to live up to all expectations this summer."
KU Infant Research Lab works actively in Fraser
The Infant Research Laboratory at Kansas University is an active center that few people are familiar with.
Room 11 Fraser Hall is one of the areas on campus where research is conducted. This room, which includes a psychedelic soundproof center, is now being used for special study only.
Saunny Scott, Lawrence graduate student, is conducting a study of auditory discrimination. She presents a series of pure tones varying in loudness. The study measures heart rate before and after stimulus.
"Understanding how individual differences in response to stimulation are functionally related to learning is the job of the Infant Research Laboratory," said Mrs. Frances Horowitz, laboratory director.
"Researchers in the lab work with conditioning," she explained, "to determine under what conditions babies will learn specified responses."
Another example of research is visual stimulation, Mrs. Horowitz said. The infant is shown various slides. Heart rate changes, duration of visual fixation, head turning and vocalization are measured. No attempt is made to modify the response.
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"The most infants we have during the week is 12 to 15. Mothers are usually willing to bring their children in. It's the fathers who are conservative," Mrs. Horowitz said.
"When the children leave the laboratory they are given a small gift," Mrs. Paden said, "unaware of the contribution they have made to science."
Data from the experiments is analyzed and presented at meetings and conferences throughout the nation. Some of the work is part of the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education.
Mrs. Lucille Paden, Lawrence graduate student and laboratory co-ordinator, keeps records of infants born at the local hospitals. Mothers are called and if they wish, bring their infants to further scientific knowledge.
"The infant laboratory is not synonymous with the entire center for research in mental retardation and human development," she continued. "It is only one segment of the entire program."
Mrs. Horowitz said that the Infant Research Laboratory was developed during the spring of 1966 under her direction. Actual studies began a year later after lab procedures were developed and equipment was installed.
The Bureau of Child Research is one of about 15 infant behavior labs in the nation. The Kansas Center is comprised of the infant research labs at KU, Parsons and Kansas City.
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