News Briefs
Computers create class mix-ups
If you are one of the many students currently enrolled in 16 hours of pass/no credit courses, don't despair.
The problem was created by a mechanical breakdown of computers in Summerfield Hall and will be cleared up by the six weeks period, registrar William L. Kelly said.
"The schedules will be changed either by hand or computer," Kelly said.
Corrections will be made by the six weeks period. Instructors will be notified through the registrar's office, he explained.
Students wishing to drop or add classes should proceed in the usual manner and ignore the pass-no credit column.
X-zone, Union now linked by tunnel!
The new tunnel between X Zone parking lot and the Kansas Union is now open to students
"It was open during enrollment and is used now as a convenience during inclement weather," said Frank Burge, Kansas Union Director.
Burge said the tunnel will be closed while construction is completed on the floors.
The tunnel, begun in June 1968, will be completed by April, Burge said.
Sorenson cancels SUA lecture
Theodore Sorenson, former adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, has cancelled his scheduled KU lecture February 13, said Bill Read, Coffeyville senior and SUA Featured Speakers chairman.
"He phoned last week with a conflict in schedule," explained Read.
Sorenson was to speak on the New Politics. Read said he does not expect to be able to re-schedule Sorenson.
Police investigate snowball fight
KU and Lawrence police were called to Templin Hall last night to investigate a disturbance involving a group of men throwing snow balls.
Dean of Men Donald Alderson
said the group was moving west toward Templin when "someone threw a snow ball." Soon after the first snow ball was thrown the group dispersed. No damage was reported.
Extension adds office work class
The University of Kansas Extension today announced a course in Office Work Simplification will be offered from 7 to 9 p.m. beginning next week at Topeka High School.
Discussion topics for the eight Tuesday meetings are: analysis
of the system, office work measurement, flow charting techniques, work distribution, office layout and forms of control and standardization.
Advance enrollments should be sent to E. S. Avison at the KU Extension, a spokesman said.
Speaker to discuss modern religion
Robert C. Frost, chairman of the department of natural sciences at Oral Roberts University, will speak to the Collegiate Organization of the Assemblies of God at 8 p.m. Friday in the Westminster Center.
Frost, author of the book, "Aglow With the Spirit," will discuss the activity of the Holy
Spirit in the 20th century, particularly "speaking in tongues."
After earning a Ph.D. from Baylor University, Frost taught at the Baylor School of Medicine, and before joining the staff at Oral Roberts held positions at Evangel College, Westmont College and Southern California College.
SUA offers print rental service
SUA again will rent prints of famous paintings to KU students for one semester, said James Congdon, Wilmette, Ill., junior, who has charge of the display.
be available this semester. Works by Dali and Picasso are among the selection.
The prints can be obtained from 9 to 5 p.m., Feb. 10 and 11, in the Kansas Union South Lounge.
Three hundred prints, ranging from classical to surrealistic, will
Bobby R. Patton, assistant professor of speech and drama at KU, will deliver the keynote speech for a leadership conference sponsored by Project Communicate of northwest Missouri, Feb. 4 to 8 at Northwest Missouri State College, Marysville.
Patton to speak at leadership meet
program, was named Outstanding College Speech Teacher of 1968 by the Kansas Speech Association.
Patton, director of KU's Fundamentals of Speech
Project Communicate helps schools in the teaching of communication skills in kindergarten through 12th grade. More than 50,000 students and 2,500 teachers are served by the program.
Poet Merwin to read tomorrow
Poet W. S. Merwin, who has lived in England and southern France for ten years, will read
his poetry at 4:00 p.m.
tomorrow in the Kansas Union
Forum Room.
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Merwin is the first of six poets this semester to be sponsored by the English department, said Jeff Lough, Salina sophomore and SUA Poetry Hour chairman.
Tet offensive planned by Reds
SAIGON (UPI) — Communist documents captured in all four regions of Vietnam have ordered guerillas to prepare for full-scale fighting during this month's Tet lunar new year holiday, U.S. intelligence sources said today.
Acting to nip in the bud any new Communist offensive against the cities of South Vietnam, government troops seized a Viet Cong arms cache in a Saigon cemetery and issued tighter security rules. The
regulations ban the traditional use of firecrackers to celebrate the holiday, which starts Feb. 17.
The American intelligence sources said documents captured set no firm date for new attacks.