Old-fashioned enrollment frustrates KU students
By MIKE SHEARER Kansas Staff Writer
"You know, don't you, that some universities enroll students by automation?" asked the boy with bags under his eyes and a dean's stamp on his forehead.
"Yes," said the coed with blisters on her feet and a car registration sticker behind her ear as she handed her enrollment card to the woman beneath the sign "All Sections Closed; Go Away." "But automation is so impersonal, not warm and human like . . ."
"I'm sorry but these two courses are closed," said the woman beneath the sign in a monotone paralleled only by the standard telephone operator's voice.
"But I have the instructor's consent," pleaded the coed, "and this is the fifth semester I've stood in this line and been turned down. Have a heart."
"I'm sorry but those two courses are closed. We are recommending Economy of Ceylon and Characteristics of the Weasel."
"But I don't care about the economy of Ceylon nor the characteristics of the weasel," retorted the exasperated rod.
"I'm sorry but those courses are all we have left. If you'll take my advice, you'll take Ceylon and the weasel. An education is an education."
The peaked coed finally consented, took the two class cards and made way for the boy with the bags under his eyes and the dean's stamp on his forehead. After looking at her cards, however, the coed elbowed her way back to the front of the line and said:
"The weasel course scheduled the same time as the Ceylon course! What shall I do?" asked the coed.
"I'm sorry but that is the only time 'those two courses are offered. Why don't you wait until next week, then return to the line in your advisor's office, then go to the line at your dean's office, then your college office; after that, you'll need to go to the Ceylon and Weasel departments and wait in line there until..."
County Parenthood Assn. becomes self-supporting
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe was presented with the new Douglas County Family Planning Association's first membership yesterday by Mrs. Aldon Bell, a member of the Kansas City Planned Parenthood Association
Membership invitations for the new Lawrence association have been sent out to 450 Lawrence residents, many of whom are KU students.
For two and one half years, the Kansas City chapter has given complete financial aid to the Lawrence chapter, but hopes of increased membership may allow the local chapter to become self-supporting. 5900
The membership fee of $26
allows a woman medical attention at the Lawrence birth control clinic for one year. A $13 fee will keep a woman supplied with birth control pills for six months.
The clinic, 1035% Massachusetts, opens its doors every Thursday evening. A doctor and a nurse are always on duty to give any help needed and to show a 15-minute color movie dealing with birth control.
Besides supporting the clinic, the People for Planned Parenthood club has sponsored several public information campaigns, and have done extensive counseling
The Hong Kong flu didn't reach epidemic proportions at KU last semester, but "we were verging on it," said Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of the student health service.
Hong Kong flu struck KU hard
Schwegel explained that after school had resumed following Christmas vacation, a count of the number of students contracting the flu at home reached as high as 75 per cent in
some classes.
The sudden closing of classes two and one-half days before the planned vacation was only a precautionary measure to insure that an epidemic would not start at KU. Schwegler estimated that KU's facilities could not adequately treat the number of patients that an epidemic would provide.
The registar's office did not have enough data compiled as
yet to indicate the flu had any previous effects on a larger than usual proportion of the student body.
LOS ANGELES (UPI) Completed in 1965 at a cost of $20 million, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the largest built in the United States since the National Gallery opened in Washington. D.C., in 1941.
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February 5-8; Curtain time: 8:20 p.m.
(Matinee, 2:30)
THE MURPHY HALL MAIN STAGE
University Theatre Box Office Hours
University Theatre Box Office Hours:
10-12 a.m.; 1-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; Sat., Feb. 8: 10-12 a.m.
Tickets: $2.40, $1.80, $1.20
With KU ID: $1.20, 60c, Free
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