Fewer students receive scholarships
The number of academically outstanding scholarship applicants at the University of Kansas was so great this year that many students with GPA's of 2.5 and above had to be turned down, Robert Billing, director of student financial aid, said Wednesday.
Billing attributed this to the increased number of students with superior academic records and
obvious financial needs which far exceeded those of last year. Also the scholarships have each been increased by $50 to provide for the rise in tuition next year.
Billing said about 80 per cent of the applicants were eligible for scholarships on the basis of school records and financial needs, but the University was
able to give scholarships to only about 20 per cent of the applicants. The office had to send many letters of regret to incoming freshmen, Billing said.
The scholarship selection committee, composed of students, faculty and staff members, had
a very hard task to perform this year, said Billing. For freshman applicants, the director said the main factors taken into consideration were class rank, letters of reference and financial need. In many cases, the final decision was dependent upon the student's
scores on the American College Testing Program or the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Billing said the selection committees tried to pay equal attention to academic records and financial need.
Decker incompetent
Howard Dean Decker, the man charged with setting fire to the University of Kansas Military Science building, was found incompetent to stand trial after an examination held this morning in Douglas County District Court.
The examination given by a commission of doctors was requested by Decker's court-appointed attorney. He will be taken to the State Security Hospital at Larned following the report by
the doctors, county attorney Daniel A. Young said.
KU classical music group to perform
The twenty-four-year-old Decker was arrested on April 27 and charged with second-degree arson in the ROTC blaze. Decker was a custodian at the building and reported the fire to a telephone operator who relayed the information to the Lawrence Fire Department. The fire was extinguished by personnel on "fire watch" before the fire department arrived.
The University of Kansas Collegium Musicum will present an informal concert of classical music at 3:30 p.m. Sunday on the patio of Murphy Hall. In case of rain, the concert will be moved to Swarthout Recital Hall.
In instruments to be included in the concert are: sackbuts (an early form of the trombone), cornett, viola da gamba, krummhorns, recorders and harpsichord.
Michael Seyfrit, Lawrence graduate student, will be in charge of strings and woodwinds. George Foreman, Clayton, New Mexico graduate student, will direct the sackbuts. J. Bunker Clark, associate professor of music history, is the faculty advisor.
Solos included in the concert will be presented by Mrs. Nydia Font de Vera, Puerto Rican graduate student, on the harpsichord, Seyfrit and Judith Cooper, both flutists.
Composers represented on the program will be Bach, Telemann, Diego Ortiz, Johann Christian Schickhardt, Daniel Speer, Clemens non Papa, Heinrich Biber, Rudolf Lerich and Paul Hindemith.
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Awards given at honors dinner
An estimated $500 damage was made to a wood and cloth target in the small arms firing range in the basement of the building. Decker has been in the county jail since his arrest with bond set at $25,000.
The KU Speech and Drama Department held its annual honors dinner at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room.
Outstanding part-time faculty members and students were cited and awards were presented by the various sequences within the department.
E. Christian Buehler, professor emeritus of speech, delivered an address entitled, "You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine," to the nearly 300 persons present. He said today's "mixed up kids" weren't "that bad," that they simply had ideals which they were trying to hold on to.
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