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Sleepy Students Nap In Class; Claim Only 5 Hours Rest At Night
By Jackie Helstrom
How does he keep going indefinitely? By sleeping during the day, often in his classes?
(ASSUMPTION)
If complaints are to be taken seriously, the average college student is existing on five hours of sleep a night.
Professors are likely to see closed eyelids and drooping heads in some of their classes most of the time, but in general these sleeping beauties don't seem to bother them too much.
"IF MY STUDENTS don't find what I am saying interesting enough to keep them awake, it doesn't bother me," Earl A. Nehring, assistant professor of political science, commented.
"I don't do anything about a sleeping student. Depending on the time of day and the temperature, it's not unexpected. I can recall times when I fell asleep in class myself," he added.
In large introductory courses of 200 to 400 students there is usually somebody asleep, said William Bass, assistant professor of anthropology.
"When I see too many nodding,
I tell them a joke. That usually
wakes them up," he said.
He said that his formula for waking them un is to tell jokes.
PROF. BASS also said that he felt the student who consistently sleeps in class is usually the D or F student. He said that when he spots a continual napper, he takes down their seat number and checks on their grades. They are usually the poor students.
Professors who teach both the introductory and upperclass courses feel, however, that the students in the upperclass courses are not as likely to fall asleep.
Sleeping is probably easier in a large class because you have the feeling of anonymity, was the comment made by one student in considering why he falls asleep in certain classes.
tam classes.
But the anonymous sleeper in an upperclass course might have more trouble remaining anonymous.
JACK MIXER, Kansas City sophomore, said that a teacher once threw an eraser at him to wake him up.
Curator Sees Risk In Building Trend
"There is no growth without risk," Gerald Bernstein, curator of the Museum of Art said last night at the Faculty Club where he discussed the history and development of American campus architecture.
By Rogers Worthington
Bernstein was referring to the risk of ultra-modern buildings which fail to fit in with older buildings surrounding them, and are not successful in functionally fulfilling their purpose.
As an example of buildings that fail to relate with existing structures, Bernstein showed a slide of the auditorium and chapel on MIT's campus. The architect who designed the two buildings considered them to be failures. Bernstein said. "He called them 'egotistical'; not able to 'live with' the other structures."
BUT THE ARCHITECT, Eero Saarinen, later made amends for his "failure" at M.I.T. Bernstein said. Pointing to a slide of the library of the University of Chicago's Law School, Bernstein said, "this structure really works. This is an example of an extremely successful attempt to relate to surroundings."
Bernstein traced the trends in American campus architecture from the early 18th century to the present.
The first college buildings were "basically a memory style architecture," he said, "derivative from houses of old England."
Towards the middle of the 18th century the styles tended to be provincial and Georgian in design, "clearly an example of attachment to our English predecessors," he said.
BUT THOMAS JEFFERSON led a new trend in American architecture. Bernstein said, when he helped design the University of Virginia. Bernstein called the trend a "classical revival . although more Roman than Greek."
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Most methods are not quite this drastic, but some teachers do make some effort to keep students in upperclass courses awake.
pager Elmur Beth, professor of journalism, said that when he sees that someone is going to sleep he will first ask them a question to try to bring them back to life and if that doesn't work he will ask them to leave class for a few minutes to go out and get some air.
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Chancery Club, 7:15 p.m. Moot Court
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BERNSTEIN REFERRED to this period of neo-classicism as "the most powerful movement in architecture in the beginning of the 19th century."
central mall was modeled after the Pantheon in Rome," he said.
But toward the middle of the 19th century, a new spirit, "a romantic spirit" began catching on: the Gothic.
"There is no point in their just sitting there and sleeping. I forget what I am trying to say because I start watching them," he said.
"We have at KU a fine example of collective architecture," he said. "We have all the styles here, copied from all the good buildings back East."
PROF. BETH said that there is only one student who ever slept through his classes. That was a boy he had several years ago who could sleep with his eyes open.
The Museum of Art, he said, was built in a spirit of Romanesque revival. Bernstein considers the building as "one of the most exciting buildings on campus." He said the best view of the Museum was from 14th street.
Bernstein also discussed what he called "aberration style," or "collective architecture."
Green Hall, he said, is an example of another direction in classical motifs. Renaissance classicism.
Campus architecture returned to neo-classicism and seemed to be "stuck in the mud" until there was a revival of Gothic architecture in the early thirties, Bernstein said.
But in 1940, a progressive modern architect was finally given an opportunity, Bernstein said. He was Frank Lloyd Wright, and he designed a building for a college in southern Florida that was "not necessarily exciting, but a break with tradition."
"I never knew about it until the semester was over."
Some professors can keep their students awake by a means that is not a conscious effort. David E. Dykstra, assistant professor of English, said that in the ten years he has been teaching he has never had a student go to sleep in his classes.
a student go to sleep in He added, however, that if one did he did not think he would get very excited about it.
FROM THE STUDENTS' point of view, sleeping in class is looked upon with mixed feelings.
Some students say that if you can't stay awake you should stay home and sleep while others feel that you ought to go to class and at least try to stay awake. Such an effort shows that you are at least trying, they feel.
And the student who finds himself falling asleep will usually fight to stay awake.
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Smoking, doodling, fidgeting, and staring straight into the eyes of the teacher are some of the favorite methods.
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the woman said that when she discovers early in the semester that she is not going to be able to stay awake in one particular class, she will take a caffeine pill before that class every day.
VIRGINIA MAULDIN, St. Joseph,
Mo, sophomore, said that she has no
problem with sleeping in her classes.
She has never indulged simply because
she can't sleep in a sitting
position. And besides, she said, she is afraid she would fall off her
chair.
Once you start going to sleep in classes, it is a hard habit to break, Miss Mauldin commented.
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Malott to Speak at Pittsburg St.
Deane W. Malott, former KU Chancellor, will address, Kansas State College of Pittsburg's Honors Dav Convocation, April 6.
Malolew was Chancellor at Kansas University 12 years, then spent another dozen years as head of Cornell
University. He retired from Cornell in July 1963.
Pittsburg State officials said the former Kansan also will consult with Alumni and Endowment Association officials during his two-day stay.
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