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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 21, 1964
College Board Asks For Reading Period
By Rogers Worthington
A "reading period," which would take place immediately following Christmas vacation and extend to the end of the semester, has been proposed to the faculty and administration by the College Intermediary Board.
The reading period, which B. George Barisas, Kansas City senior and board chairman, referred to as "one of the coming things in progressive education," is already in use at several Eastern schools.
UNDER THE PLAN, Barisas said,
an objective examination would be
given just before Christmas vacation.
After the exam, all formal course work would end.
During the period following the vacation, students would be required to do several weeks of outside reading designed to bring together all the material covered in the first part of the course.
During this period instructors would be in their offices during class hours in order that students may consult with them.
AT THE END OF the semester, a comprehensive final would be given, in which the student would demonstrate his comprehension of the material read during the reading period, and the material's relativity to the formal part of the course.
Barisas said the main object to the plan is whether or not it would be applicable to all departments.
He pointed out that a reading period is not similar to a stop week
"We don't want it to wind up as a long stop week. We want it to be a fresh, vital, and different way of attacking the material of a course."
UNLIKE A STOP week, the reading period would not require the fall semester to begin earlier, or the
spring semester to end later. There would be no need to delete vacation days.
But instructors would be required to concentrate the objective material of their courses for presentation in a shorter period of time.
Barisas said that he and other members of the College Intermediary Board got the idea for a reading period from "The Grinnell Report," a widely publicized and much discussed document by Harold R. Bowen, Grinell's president, who advocated progressive changes in educational policy.
"THIS REPORT has been the genesis for many of our ideas," Barisas said.
The proposal, submitted earlier in the semester, is still under consideration by the Administration Committee, which functions as a steering committee for the faculty.
The College Intermediary Board, which Barisas said "has no real power . . . except through the logic of its recommendations," serves as a liaison between the student body and the administration and faculty.
Social Workers Receive Awards
Two graduate women in the department of social work have been given outstanding student awards for the 1963-64 year.
Mrs. Barbara Pomeroy, Muncie, received the outstanding student award of the Topeka chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. The prize was $25 and a plaque.
Miss Shirley Patterson, Topeka, was given the Ursula Lewis award, a book prize established in honor of the associate professor in the department who died in 1958.
Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity has announced that it has purchased a house at 1209 Ohio street, and will take an active role as a KU social fraternity this fall.
Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity To Begin Formal Rush
The fraternity was active until 1954 when they became inactive because of a lack of members. Bob Weinstein, newly elected secretary of the group, said this was due to a "lack of pledging and not enough hard rushing."
The national organization has financed the new house that the men will move into this coming fall.
The members of the executive board for the coming year are:
president, Mervyn Schwedt, Kansas City, Mo., junior; vice-president, Mike Davis, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; secretary, Bob Weinstein, Shawnee Mission freshman, and treasurer, Howard Hoffman, Cranston, R.I., sophomore.
To Discuss Venoms
The use of venom in the study of nerve conduction will be discussed at 4 p.m. Monday, May 25, in 124 Malott Hall. Dr. Philip Rosenberg, assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University, will give the lecture.
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