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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 11, 1964
'Heart of America' Debate Begins Tomorrow
By Bobbie Bartelt
KU debaters call the "Heart of America" debate tournament "one of the most difficult tournaments on the circuit this season."
Margaret Miller, Red Wing, Minn., sophomore, and her colleague, Louis Floyd, Topeka freshman, expressed this opinion at a pre-tournament meeting of the KU debate squad last night.
KU will enter four two-man teams in the tournament. Students participating in the tournament are Fred Kauffeld, Minneapolis, Minn. senior; Lauralee Milberg, Arlington County, Va. senior; Judson Briegel, Kansas City freshman; Richard Hoskins, Bonner Springs freshman; Ruth Hatch, Evansville, Ind. freshman; Sharon Mahood, Springfield, Mo. freshman; Miss Miller, and Flovd.
"The teams are pretty much hand picked for this tournament," Floyd said. "They are selected on the basis of their records."
THE DEBATERS were meeting to discuss tactics before the tournament begins tomorrow morning.
"Teams are invited to the 'Heart of America' tournament not only on the basis of their records, but
also on the results in the KU tournament the previous year," David Fractenberg, assistant instructor in speech and drama, directors of the tournament. said.
"We consider the tournament a good one, because many of the teams who compete here will win the right to compete in the national championships at West Point," Fractenberg said.
THE KU debaters considered Southwest Missouri State, last year's winner at KU, the "team to beat." Other teams, which according to the debaters should be strong, are the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Southern Illinois College, and Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire.
"The topic for this year is a difficult one to argue," Miss Miller said. "After going to several tournaments we find the same arguments coming up. It's hard to find new material."
The topic for debate this year is "Resolved: that the federal government should guarantee an opportunity for higher education to all qualified high school graduates."
Preliminary rounds will begin at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow in the Kansas
Union, following registration and drawing of team numbers.
THERE WILL be four rounds of debate on Thursday and on Friday. Following the eight preliminary rounds, the 16 teams with the best win-loss record and most team points will advance to the octo-finals Saturday morning.
Speakers in the individual rounds are rated by judges on a point scale from 15 to 1, (15 is the best possible rating). Speaking ability, use of evidence, logic, and presentation are some of the factors judges take into consideration when computing a speaker rating.
Each member of the team receives a rating, and the team as a unit receives a rating. The team ratings will be totaled at the end of the preliminary rounds, and will partly determine the teams which advance to the octo-finals.
All rounds after the preliminary rounds will proceed as single- elimination matches.
The tournament banquet will be at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. George B. Smith, Dean of the Uni-
Russian Tour Deadline Extends For Lagging KU Applications
The application deadline for the summer Russian language program in Finland and the Soviet Union has been extended to March 16. This move will allow more KU students to apply for the program.
The previous March 10 deadline has been extended because there is a shortage of applicants from KU students, Professor Herbert J. Ellison, chairman of the Slavic and Soviet Area Studies Committee, said.
A ten-week, summer language program is being sponsored by the Universities of Kansas and Colorado. The program will include eight weeks of intensive Russian language study at a resident center in Jarven-paa, Finland, and a two-week study tour in the Soviet Union.
THIRTY-SIX students will be accepted, 12 from KU, 12 from CU, and the rest from other universities, Prof. Ellison said.
applicants must be undergraduate students who have completed a minimum of twelve semester hours of Russian. Advanced applicants must be either undergraduate students or graduate students who have completed a minimum of eighteen semester hours of Russian.
One-third of the students will be enrolled in the intermediate program, and two-thirds in the advanced level program. Intermediate
The total cost per student will be $1,150, which includes travel from New York to Finland and return, room and board in Jarvenpaa, thirteen days of travel in the Soviet Union, and the summer school fee for the University of Kansas.
SCHOLARSHIPS up to $850, based on financial need, will be available for students selected for the program.
Students will receive 10 hours of credit for successful completion of the program.
Prof. Ellison described the program as a real "bargain" for KU students, and said the shortage of applicants from KU students is contrary to the response last year, when the program was first started.
"Most of today's college students are the bumper crop of World War II babies. They lived in a family which experienced the struggles and tensions of not knowing whether loved ones would come back from the War. Many got off to a pretty poor start.
"The lucky ones experienced being united but even they grew up in homes where parents wanted to make up for lost time. In early childhood the parents" model was
Sherriffs explained further;
versity, will speak at the banquet. to hear them, and posters in the lobby of the Kansas Union will show interested students who would like where teams are debating.
"It took time for communications to be re-established and the majority to take over again. In the process, parents became cautious about what children said at the table. Teachers, too, were afraid to be controversial. The net result was that students became silent after growing up in homes and schools that were silent.
"Although it (the mental health movement) did a lot of needed good, it also did a lot of harm," he said. Some twisted Freud's theories, especially the one in which Freud said 'neuroses grow out of conflict.' This was twisted to say 'Don't let your child have conflicts, he might become neurotic.'
The mental health movement, loose supervision and a penchant to conform are other contributing factors, said Sherriff.
Educator Sees Student As Mirror of Society
"So, the campus extremists took over, and not the ones to the right as in their parents' day, but those to the left."
self-centered. Too, a majority of families withdrew from the political arena after the war. This is when the extremists were able to take over and we entered the period of 'McCarthyism.'
Applications can be picked up and returned in Room 22, Strong Hall, Prof. Ellison said.
THE NATURAL OUTGROWTH of this misconception, Sherriffs said, was the rise of progressive schools where students were allowed to "do whatever they wanted."
The program runs from June 10 to August 21, 1964. Jarvenpaa, Finland, was selected as the students' laboratory because of its large Russian population with which the students will be expected to establish contacts. The instructional program in Finland will be supplemented by tours to centers of Russian cultural interest and by lectures in Russian and Finnish specialists on various aspects of Russian history and culture.
"IN OUR FASCINATION for students we tend to forget that they are not a breed apart from society but a part of it," he said. "They simply reflect what's happening in society in general."
"If students are 'nutty' in some areas, the chances are that society is, too. Students simply express it in some other way than society. Because of their age and nearsightedness they tend to reflect in magnified form recent experiences or events of society."
BERKELEY, Calif.—(UPI)—The next time you see a "college kid in sandals, or a beard or sloppy clothes, don't laugh. He is a product of YOUR society.
Sheriffs recently psychoanalyzed college students collectively.
That in essence is the conclusion of Dr. Alex C. Sherriffs, vice chancellor for student affairs on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
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