Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 19, 1963
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No.11
RODIN'S "THE THINKER" PONDERS the situation as Mary Davis, Topeka, and Ron Longsdorf, Omaha, Neb., pause before beginning a recent group tour of Kansas City's Nelson Art Gallery and Swope Park. Both are campers in the Art division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp being held here.
Fulbright Tradition Continues at KU
Since the first University of Kansas faculty member to receive a Fulbright grant was sent to Italy in 1947, 62 faculty members and 126 students have won the awards.
They are a small part of the 22,000 Americans who have traveled to 36 countries of the free world since the program began in 1948.
In the 1956-57 exchange term, a record number of 10 faculty members were sent abroad. During the 1962-63 term, KU sent a record of 17 students, six of whom received Fulbright travel grants.
NEXT YEAR NINE students will study abroad. They are Roger Doudna, philosophy, University of Lille, France; Robert William Ebendorf, design, University of Oslo, Norway; Philip Kimball, German, University of Heidelberg, Germany; Laird Patterson, chemistry, Technische Hochschule München, Germany; Nadine Proity, German and English, University of Tubingen, Germany; Roger Rose, anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Harry Seelig, German, University of Berlin, Germany; and Catherine Zeliff, German, University of Hamburg, Germany.
ALL OF THESE STUDENTS have full Fulbright grants. Judith Wager, German, University of Bonn, Germany, will hold a partial grant.
AN EQUAL NUMBER of graduate students from "sisister" institutions in Europe have also attended KU, as part of the exchanges.
Another 150 students have participated it. the Direct Exchange Program with universities in England, France, Germany, Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland.
Before the Fulbright program went into operation, KU had established the Direct Exchange Program with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Zurich and the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
TRAVELING DURING THE 1963-
64 term under the "Direct Exchange
Program" will be Carol Betlock,
bacteriology, Birmingham, England;
Dixie Lee Kaufman, sociology,
Exeter, Scotland; William Salter,
political science, Reading, England;
Judith Wager, German, Bonn, Germany;
Lois Lorand, German, Kiel,
Germany; Martha Sipes, psychology,
Tübingen, Germany; Willard Hiebert,
education, Mainz, Germany;
William Borden Elnolf, French,
Clermont-Ferrand, France; Mary
Jean Cowell, art history, Stras-
bourg, Austria; Naomi Olsen, Ecole
HECJF, Paris, France; David Scott,
Hamburg, Germany; Sharon Graves
 and Carl Peel, Stuttgart, Germany;
and Johnnie McLaurin and Emerson
Tjart, Zurich, Switzerland.
English Pro Grades Out; Failures Up
The results of this summer's English proficiency examination show that the per cent of students failing the test increased again slightly.
A list of those students passing the examination, and statistics since spring 1961 for the test given three times annually were released yesterday by James E. Seaver, director of the English proficiency examination. The statistics show that 25.5 per cent of the students failed this summer in comparison with 23.8 per cent this spring.
THE FIGURES ALSO show that the peak year for those passing the examination was the fall of 1962, when 842 out of the 1,047 students participating, or 81 per cent, passed as compared with 167 out of 223, or 74.5 per cent, who passed this summer.
Though approximately one-third as many students took the June 8 examination as took it this spring, Seaver said that most of the summer faculty members from schools involved were enlisted as graders for the examination. Such a large number of graders are needed because papers which do not pass an initial grading are re-graded by another faculty member before the students final grade is determined. A student's paper need only pass once to pass the examination.
Students who did not pass the examination have been notified by letters from their respective schools. Students passing the examination are listed on page three.
Power Fades, Play Stalls
A University power failure delayed curtain time for the University Theatre production, "Separate Tables," Wednesday night.
The play began an hour late at 9:00 p.m. after the lights came back on about 8:15, a spokesman at the University Theatre box office said.
"About 7 p.m. people wanting standing room tickets were turned away and the players were really getting nervous because we didn't know exactly when the power would be turned on again. We called Buildings and Grounds and they said it would be sometime between 9:00 and 11:00. So we just had to wait and hope."
An official from the buildings and grounds department said that all incoming power to the University was cut off to repair a loose connection in a cable of the sub-station of the physical plant located behind Flint Hall.
All power was cut off approximately at 4:30 p.m. to 8:15 except that power necessary for "vital buildings," the plant official said. "We started a turbine here at the plant to feed power to vital buildings such as Watkins Hospital, Snow Hall and Malott until the repairs were made."
Tonight's SUA Film, "The Sheepman"
He said that all University departments were notified of the power shut-off early Wednesday afternoon.
Tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, "The Sheepman" starring Glenn Ford and Shirley McLaine, will be shown at 7 and 9 p.m.
Next week, the last movie to be sponsored by the SUA for the summer session will be "Breakfast At Tiffany's," with Audrey Hepburn. It will be shown three times at 3:00, 7:00, and 9:00 p.m.
See No Housing Shortage at KU
The addition of a new dormitory to house 670 men and the converting of two previously men's dormitories to accommodate the overflow of women students will prevent a housing shortage at the University of Kansas this fall. Dormitory Director J. J. Wilson, re- ported today
Douthart Leads With 2.19 Average
The women of Douthart, a women's scholarship hall, led all living units at the University of Kansas in the spring semester scholarship report released Wednesday by James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions.
The nearly 50 women of Douthart Hall had a grade point average of 2.19, well over all B. (All A is 3.00, B is 2.00.)
PEARSON HALL, a scholarship residence for men, led that category with 2.08. Beta Theta Pi led the 27 fraternities with a house average of 2.03 and Kappa Alpha Theta was the leader among 13 sororities with 2.00.
Two other women's scholarship halls — Sellants, with 2.04, and Watkins, 2.00 — also equalled or exceeded the all B mark.
The all-university average was 1.51, a significant advance from the 1.43 for the fall semester. The men accounted for a major portion of the improvement, advancing to 1.44 from 1.34, while the all-women mark was 1.62 compared to 1.57.
THE ALL-FRATERNITY average in the Spring was an exceptional 1.51, equalling the all-university mark, and up from 1.42 in the Fall. The all-sorority average fell to 1.79 from 1.83.
The all-men's residence hall average made a greater advance, from 1.18 to 1.31 in the spring. Templin Hall led this group with 1.38. Lewis Hall led the women's residence halls with 1.51 and the average for that group was 1.39 compared to 1.34 in the fall.
Among the leaders: Sorority — Kappa Alpha Theta, 2.00; Pi Beta Phi, 1.97; Chi Omega and Delta Delta Delta, 1.84; Alpha Chi Omega, 1.82; and Gamma Phi Beta, 1.80.
Fraternity — Beta Theta Pi, 20.3; Phi Delta Theta, 1.83; Delta Tau Delta, 1.79; Alpha Kappa Lambda, 1.75; Alpha Tau Omega, 1.70; and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1.65.
Though an enrollment of 11,259 is predicted, an increase of 750 over last fall's actual enrollment, Wilson said, "I see no housing crisis this Fall, for anyone who wants to come—even those who make the decision at the end of August."
NINE MEN'S and women's residence halls including three freshman women's halls, three upperclass women's halls, three men's halls and one temporary residence hall, will provide 3,500 living spaces. Nine men's and women's scholarship halls will serve an additional 450 students
The $2.5 million Fred Ellsworth Hall for men, the newest of a group of four similar halls completed since September, 1959, will be opened this Fall to accommodate part of the expected increase of 500 students desiring residence hall space this year.
Grace Pearson and Carruth-O'Leary Halls, both previously men's dormitories, will handle this year's overflow of women students.
Wilson said that private housing would not be necessary to handle the increase of students this year unless the students themselves desired apartment instead of dormitory facilities. Nor did he foresee any need to house both men and women students in a sort of co-educational dormitory with "proper separate divisions" as has been done in the past.
Because of a dormitory shortage last year and an overflow of 170, Wilson added that particularly in Corbin and GSP, freshman women halls, three students had been assigned to a room instead of two. We do not expect to do this again this year, he said.
Oread Hall, a temporary residence hall, Wilson said, will probably be used again this Fall at the last minute until vacancies are available in other halls. "The number of students desiring residence hall space usually shrinks four or five per cent by the Spring," he said.
In regard to long-range plans, Wilson said, "We plan to have an additional four or five dormitories by 1970. But these halls are only in the planning stages and we don't anticipate opening another hall until the fall of 1965."
Students Learn
Spain's Image False
The stereotyped image of Spain has vaporized during our trip, for we saw that Spain is above all a land of contrasts, reported a Spanish student attending the 1963 summer language institute in Barcelona.
Bill Getz, Newton junior and one of the approximately 70 KU French and Spanish students studying in Paris and Barcelona wrote in a newsletter to the Romance department, "Spain is often given a stereotyped image by foreign writers, who describe it as a 'sunny' land inhabited by an assortment of gypsies, bullfighters, and Flamenco dancers."
ANOTHER SPANISH STUDENT, Dorothy Spitzfaden explained "From the beginning, three distinct things have interested us greatly—the difference between the regions of Spain the ancient remains of past cultures and the varying of the personalities of the Spanish people themselves."
Included in the newsletter of the French students was a diary of the first days trip. After describing a not-so-modern French hotel, one student said, "The description makes
it sound as if it would be uncomfortable and unpleasant to tired, dirty travelers, but it wasn't. It was new and strange and fascinating, a fitting introduction to a summer of new experiences."
The Spanish students spent fourteen days traveling in Spain through the northern Basque country and the central Mesa, five days in Madrid and then on to Barcelona for classes.
THE FRENCH STUDENTS visited Rouen, Bayeux, Omaha Beach, the Norman beachheads, Mont St. Michel, and St. Malo, before going to Paris for their classes.
Each student who participates in the institutes must have from 10-13 hours of the Spanish or French language. John A. Weiss, associate professor in the department, is accompanying the Spanish students, and J. Neale Carman, professor in the department, is accompanying the French students. Both groups of student will take about six hours of French or Spanish courses while attending the institute.