Faculty Discusses Grade. Class Plans
By Lee Stone
Life and study at KU may be much different for future students than for today's.
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences met yesterday afternoon to discuss ten proposals, made by the College administrative committee, which could change the grading system at KU, and also the ratio of class to study time.
DAVID SIMONETT, associate professor of geology and meteorology and a member of the administrative committee, said, "These things move very slowly." He said not to expect any definite action on the proposals until next year. Even then, action would not be conclusive, Prof. Simonett' said.
Simonett said.
Describing how slowly changes in a university can be, Prof. Simonett said that in 1956 a move was started to revise the curriculum. "It took three years to bear fruit," he said.
The ten proposals were presented in question form. Generally, they provide suggested ways of giving the students a greater share of the responsibility for his own education. They are:
- Should the number of courses a student must enroll in be reduced?
● SHOULD THE relationship between class hours and outside study be changed to give more credit value to outside study?
value to outcomes
- Should seminar, discussion and laboratory activities replace lectures in some courses?
- Should more comprehensive essay type examinations be given instead of objective examinations?
- Should shot-gun examinations be eliminated?
- Should the time for final examinations be longer than one week so professors could prepare and grade essay examinations? The committee
A former ASC large women's residence halls representative said last night she would file an appeal with the student court to contest her recall.
ASC Recall In Protest
Peggy Conner, Sacramento, Calif,
senior, who was served with the
recall petition at the last ASC meeting,
said she would contest the recall on the grounds that the action was unconstitutional.
wonders if cramming the whole examination schedule into one week is desirable, a College communique said.
was unconstitutional.
"The only reason given for my recall was that I moved out of the hall and thus could no longer represent the district." Miss Conner said.
- Should the emphasis on grades and grade-point averages be reduced?
said. "This is not unconstitutional according to the ASC. A council member may now retain his seat if he moves out of the district from which he was elected," Miss Conner said.
- **SHOULD THERE BE a period between each term for the student to reflect on his studies?**
- Should the weight of the course grade be reduced and the weight of comprehensive examinations be increased?
"I will continue to make plans for the replacement election from large women's halls until I receive an injunction from the student court stopping me," King said.
The petition, which was circulated by Marsha Dutton, Colby senior, was certified by ASC election chairman Dick King, Kansas City sophomore, as representing a valid 25 percent of district.
Miss Conner said she would file the appeal today. Her defense attorney, Fred Petzold, Lawrence second year law student, said there would be a preliminary hearing within a few days, and ultimately a trial.
This election is to be held with the regular spring elections April 1 and 2. Applications of candidates are due at 5:00 today in the Dean of Students office.
Fetzold said it would probably be a week or more before the appeal comes to trial. This would mean that the special election could not be held April 1 and 2 if an injunction is issued at the preliminary hearing
According to the ASC section on recall Miss Conner is off the council if the petition is certified by the elections committee.
Miss Conner said she wished to clear up the confusion centering around the reasons for the petition being circulated.
"I would like to stand up for my representation on the council. I did not run for the name of being on the ASC only or I would have taken the easy way and run with a party instead of unaffiliated." Miss Conner said.
Whether or not the proposals are adopted can not take away the good effect of discussing them. Prof. Worth said. Although the suggestions may be "a little beyond us now" Prof Worth said, they can nevertheless provide the faculty with guide lines or material for "just philosophizing."
George Worth, associate professor of English and member of the committee which made the proposals, said, "I don't think any one of us is in one hundred percent favor of all the proposals."
PROF. WORTH SAID he was particularly in favor of the first proposal, to reduce the number of courses taken at one time. "I was brought up under a system where you took three or four courses at a time. I wonder how students stand up under the present system," Prof. Worth said.
Asked if he would go as far as require that a student study only one course at a time, Prof. Worth said this was "maybe too utopian."
Prof. Simonett appeared to favor the proposal that would eliminate shot-gun examinations. "They are an indignity," he said. He believes, however, that it is still up to individual professors as to whether they should use them.
ALL THE proposals "are predicated on somewhat utopian notions." Prof. Simonett said. Speaking of Tuesday's meeting, the professor said there was too little time to discuss the issues thoroughly. "We thrashed in a muddy fashion around the edges of the questions," he said.
Other members of the College administrative committee are George R. Waggoner, dean of the College and chairman of the committee; Austin Lashbrook, associate professor of classics; Frederick Samson, professor of comparative biology and physiology; G. Baley Price, professor of mathematics; and Joseph Camin, professor of entomology.
Members of the College administrative committee are elected by the college faculty.
The freezing rain that began last night will continue, changing to snow during the night, according to the weather bureau. Temperatures will continue to drop tonight, falling to 20. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and warmer.
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Daily hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, March 25, 1964
**IN 1962 NEGROES picketed for their rights in Albany, Georgia. "In so doing," he said, "they were operating in an American tradition."**
The civil rights revolution entered its third phase in 1961, when the jails of Birmingham were filled to capacity with freedom riders, Prof Franklin said.
"In the summer of 1963, Negroes and whites were demonstrating all over the United States. This culminated in the march on Washington, and the civil rights revolution entered its fourth stage.
PROF. FRANKLIN pointed out that there were three distinctive new elements in these demonstrations. New techniques were introduced, such as sit-ins and boycots; whites joined in with Negroes; and the movement was dominated by young people.
Negro Historian Describes Civil Rights as 'Revolution'
The movement was "characterized on the whole as a non-violent one, in the American tradition," he said.
61st Year, No. 111
The "freedom riders," as they came to be called, were in a position to stimulate support of large numbers of citizens, Prof. Franklin said.
PROF. FRANKLIN told of CORE members (Congress of Racial Equality) traveling in buses throughout the South, testing the effectiveness of the Supreme Court's ruling which constitutionally guaranteed equality on vehicles involved in interstate transportation.
John Hope Franklin, historian and visiting humanities series lecturer, made it clear last night that the civil rights movement in the United States is a revolution.
By Rogers Worthington
Franklin, chairman of the department of history at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, cited 1956 as the year the civil rights revolution started in full force, but added that "it did not occur in a vacuum."
Three significant developments arose out of the discrimination and arrest of a woman on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956. An ad hoc organization in Montgomery defending the woman developed the new techniques of protestation and the emergence of Martin Luther King.
The second salvo came in 1960 when four Negro students participated in the first sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The four men, who were refused a cup of coffee, remained seated until closing time, when they were arrested, Prof. Franklin said
John Hope Franklin
AT EMANCIPATION, he said. Negroes were stunned that there was no attempt made by their former masters and liberators to provide opportunities for them to secure an education, jobs and political rights.
"They protested and sent representatives to the President, asking that they be recognized as free people. They wanted freedom of the jury box, the cartridge box and the ballot box," he said.
The Negroes' plight was made even more dramatic, he said, by experiences they had during reconstruction.
"DURING THAT period, the rights of Negroes dwindled rapidly."
of Negroes. Prof. Franklin pointed out that a considerable number of Negroes, reaching the conclusion that there was no hope for them in the South, migrated to Kansas.
migrated. In 1893, when the Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, one Negro leader said "We Negroes, by the action of the Supreme Court and the U.S. government . . . have been bantised in ice water."
PROF. FRANKLIN said that Negroes then began to organize and demand their rights. They also began to defend themselves intellectually against the interpreters of Social Darwinism, who said Negroes were "unfit, uncivilized and inferior."
Serenade Sororities
Yale Singers Do Unexpected
While being entertained by KU students Monday night, they decided to warm up their voices by an un-
Applause was heard coming from the rotunda in Strong Hall yesterday as members of the Yale Russian Chorus sang between classes beginning at 2:20 p.m. yesterday.
chorus second Climaxing their stay of more than twenty-four hours they gave a concert in Hoch Auditorium last night
Singing in the style and language of the Russian people, the chorus stopped about 100 students and professors who paused to listen. The impromptu singing was part of the chorus' second trip to KU.
A MEMBER of the Yale Russian Chorus described the chorus' activities since coming to KU. About 4:30 Monday afternoon they arrived by chartered bus at the Kansas Union and after eating, members of the chorus were taken to fraternity houses where they would stay for the next two nights.
KU-Y, which sponsored the chorus' visit here, had a reception at the Kansas Union after which the chorus sang at a couple of sororites.
"It it just sounded too good to be any KU fraternity," Susan Lawrence, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore and member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, said.
"WE COULDNT believe it was the Yale Russian chorus on our front lawn at 12:30. Several of them waved pop bottles, and they did a Russian-type dance." Miss Lawrence said.
registered serenade at the Kappa Kappa Gamma and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority houses.
The chorus sang four songs at the Kappa house, and then went down the hill and sang two more at the Theta house before leaving.
members of the chorus ate dinner at various living groups last night and about two-thirds of them went back to the Kappa house for coffee and cookies after the concert.
This time they were invited and the serenade was registered with the Dean of Women's office.
THE CHORUS gave impromptu concerts at the Union and Strong Hall before members of the chorus spent their afternoon studying, visiting friends, or doing whatever they
wished. The chorus left at 8 a.m. to day to go back to New Haven, Conn.
Friendliness and hospitality from students impressed the chorus. "Even when we wanted beds we had red carpets," Karl Ziegler, the temporary director of the chorus, said.
"I'm impressed with how friendly everyone is," James Epps, a member of the chorus, remarked.
SEVERAL MEMBERS of the chorus commented on the hills around KU. One member of the chorus was quite impressed with the size of the University and said "it's all on a hill of what I thought was flat country."
"I was very happy to see the only hill in Kansas," Daniel Gsovski, a member of the chorus, said.
"I'm surprised you can't see Okla home from here." Pete Andrews, a member of the chorus, remarked
Most chorus members had enjoyed the students they had met at KU very much. "I haven't met anyone I dislike yet." Andrews commented.
The chorus which was founded in 1954 sings Russian songs in the style and language of the Russian people
Surprisingly, Prof. Franklin said, many "so-called quality" magazines, such as Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, took the view of the Social Darwinists. But intellectual Negroes rose to defend the attacks on their capabilities and offered proof, citing Negroes who were quite capable of scholarly, scientific and intellectual achievement.
It was then, he said, that William B. Du Bois and other Negroes met in Niagara Falls and formed "the Niagara movement."
AT THE TURN of the century, Prof. Franklin said, Du Bois predicted that the "problem of the 20th century will be the problem of the color line."
After the establishment of the NAACP in 1909, Negroes started becoming a more urban group, flocking to the big cities where industry thrived.
They were in a position to give each other confidence, security and self-respect, providing them with the self-assurance and courage to push forward for their rights, he said.
As late as 1941, Negroes had to protest their rights in national defense industries. Prof. Franklin said. A march was planned on Washington, he added, but President Roosevelt proclaimed fair employment in industries involved in national defense.
Parties Drop DormDebate
The University Party and Vox Populi apparently have scheduled themselves out of debates at the freshman women's residence halls, originally planned for tomorrow night.
UP general secretary Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission senior, said at the UP campus council meeting last night that it was impossible to match the schedules of the two candidates running for student body president.
"I have always questioned the effectiveness of debates anyway." Whitman said, "Bob (Stewart, UP) and Marshall (Crowther, Vox) have made other commitments and we cannot agree on a time when both are available."
WHITMAN SAID the only alternative which both parties had agreed on was to have freshman workers for each party debate the issues and candidates.
"This is a new plan which might stir up more interest in the freshman dorms. Freshman girls who work in the parties are quite enthusiastic and knowledgeable about student government and can answer what freshman girls want to know," Whitman said.
However, Vox Populi president,
Tom Bornholdt, Topeka senior, said
after the meeting that he had not
and would not agree to a substitute
freshman debate tomorrow night.
"The original debate in the freshman halls was scheduled and agreed upon by both parties. We will show up for the debate with our Vox candidates and party representatives." Bornholdt said.
"WE HAVE NO intention of having freshman Vox workers debate. This was not the original agreement with the University Party and we will act on our initial understanding of the debate conditions." Bornholdt said.
Candidates from both parties will give statements about their platforms and answer questions at 10:30 tonight at Templin Hall. They will follow the same general procedure tomorrow night at 9:30 in Lewis and 10:00 in Hashinger.
In other business UP announced that they will hold interviews for a candidate for large women's residence halls representative at 4:00 today in Hashinger lobby.