Tom Moore
Professor says students bored during vacations
CANYON, TEX. (UPI)—Summer vacation for most high school students is a wasted time, according to a West Texas State University professor.
Dr. Fred Stoker, head of the Department of Educational Administration at West Texas State, said a study he made showed many students unhappy with present summer activities.
"I believe they are bored with a three-month vacation, from June until September, as the public school system is now set up." Stoker said. "Our schools should take another look at the vacation period. To combat boredom and provide worthwhile experiences, more students could be involved in volunteer service oriented activities."
The University professor also said schools should provide more summer activities in addition to remedial classes and, he said, colleges should waive some antiquated admission requirements and permit superior high school students to take college credit courses in the summer.
"The vacation originally was set up to permit students to work on farms," Stoker said. "In a predominantly agricultural area such as the Texas Panhandle, only 20 per cent of the students now work on farms."
Stoker said large groups of students wanted summer employment but were unable to find it. He said girls have a harder time than boys and often find nothing except baby sitting at low wages.
"The survey shows that students who work during the summer months are generally happier than those who do not," Stoker said. "Less than six per cent of the students sampled believe the money earned in summer employment is essential to continue their education."
Elkin named novelist in residence
The first novelist in residence at the University of Kansas next fall will be Stanley Elkin of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., September 9-18.
Elkin, a native New Yorker, is the author of "Boswell," published in 1964, a collection of short stories, "Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers," 1966 and "A Bad Man," 1967.
Elkin will work with graduate students and advanced seniors in James E. Gunn's class in the writing of fiction. He will also give a public reading of his work.
2 KANSAN June 23 1970
Tom Moore is candidate
Tom Moore, former director of the KU-Y, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the Kansas House of Representatives.
Moore resigned his position as Executive Director of KU-Y late in the spring semester 1970, after a revision of the executive offices of that organization.
In a prepared statement, Moore said his resignation from KU-Y had made it possible to plan a "reordering" of his life, to include the flexibility of schedule that would enable him to work effectively in the House of Representatives.
A 1949 graduate of the University of California, Moore has been involved in youth programs for more than 20 years, 10 of these as Executive Director of KU-Y.
"My training as a group work specialist and my experiences referred to above coupled with the time I am able to devote give me reason to hope that I might effectively represent all of the people of the 40th District," said his statement.
COPENHAGEN (UPI)—When Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, resketched the German-Danish border in 1864, so the story goes, his hand inadvertently covered Aeroe on the map, thereby neglecting to include the tiny southern Danish island in his booty.
Bureaucrats annoy Danish island
The islanders claim it is the Danish government that now has its hand over the map and that the cobble-stoned, thatch-roofed isle is little more than a blot on the horizon to the bureaucrats in Copenhagen.
With hollyhocks lining the streets, 17th century pastel-colored homes legally protected as museum pieces, and the island enshrined as a must by travel experts, Aerose would appear to be sitting pretty.
Not so. Like many small Danish islands dependent on farming, fishing and seasonal tourism, Aeroe has been in an economic slump. The national government thinks it has the cure: a bridge linking the community to the mainland. But someone forgot to consult the islanders.
"The bridge will just help people leave," complained local newspaper editor William Nielsen. "The island's future lies in developing its own distinctive charm."
To Nielsen, the solution lies in converting the island into a duty-free Hong Kong of the north, plus a few gambling casinos like the Crown Colony's neighboring Macao.
In addition to tax-free revenue, there should be state subsidies for the island's ferry services, Nielsen savs.
When Bismarck revised the borderline the people of Aerose opted for the Danish kingdom with the promise they would be given equal status with the rest of Denmark.
"Local administration by local people," explained Nielsen, "Was supposed to have been the settlement. Instead, we're only a suburb of Svendborg, a town on the larger island of Fuen to the north.
Because Denmark has neglected the island, Nielsen maintains, the 10,000 people of Aeroe are perfectly entitled to go their own way.
To demonstrate their resistance, the islanders have begun rolling their own postage stamps (souvenir issues only, thus far) and the yellow-green red Aeroe flag, dating back to before 1864, has been fluttering from local flagpoles. One even turned up on an Aeroe pleasure craft, prompting a guard station to ask "What country is that supposed to be?" The Danish navy ordered the flag off the high seas.
After the first murmurs of discontent, newsmen descended upon Aerose last summer and began sending back illustrated reports of life on the idyllic little island.
But Nielsen has begun to worry that things are getting out of hand.
"Please don't write that we are planning to declare independence," he said. "We are only standing up for the rights we won when we insisted on becoming Danish."
An estimated 219,000 gasoline service stations now operate in the United States.
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