Crediting of LAS courses continued
Student reaction to an announcement last week that Liberal Arts and Sciences courses will continue to be given credit by individual schools was favorable.
It had been reported previously that certain schools, including the School of Fine Arts and the School of Education were considering dropping credit for LAS courses.
City Manager Buford Watson officially received the $41,400 grant offer from the Federal Highway Administration last week for the Lawrence Department of Safety.
The training, Watson said, would take place at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., but the plans were not definite yet.
"This will help to pay the salaries of the officers," Watson said, "and provide for their specific training in traffic control and law enforcement."
The program, scheduled to take effect May 1, Watson said, would eventually be used for the training and equipping of an eightman team of officers.
The money will also provide for uniforms, radar equipment, a narcotics analyzing kit, radio equipment, a video-tape recorder and camera.
Watson said that he was still searching for a director of the public safety department to replace Gilbert Smith, who resigned recently.
Safety Dept. of Lawrence given grant
"Over the last couple of weeks, I think the police department did a tremendous job," Watson said, "and I think that probably the morale was somewhat shaken when Mr. Smith resigned. However, I think that it is coming back and will probably be better than it ever has been."
"My LAS course is very good." said Susan Brimacombe, Kansas City, Mo. senior. "It's small and includes films and several very good novels."
Qualifications for the safety director's position, Watson said, included experience both in police and fire work, plus administrative experience.
A viewpoint stressing the importance of high teacher interest was given by Gail Padgett, Ventura, Calif. junior, who said that if the teacher was highly interested, the class, though unstructured, was very good.
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teachers and students," said Lewis. He mentioned one particular course which had a 29 person capacity and had 200 students interested in being enrolled.
Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College said he would have been unhappy if any of the LAS course offerings had not been accepted for credit by any of the schools, but indicated that this would not have necessarily terminated the program.
All students questioned responded that they were pleased
Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said the School of Fine Arts had allowed one LAS course to be counted toward graduation and would continue this policy for next year. Any LAS courses above this, however would not be counted toward graduation, said Gorton.
that the individual schools were still going to credit LAS courses.
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"As a matter of fact, students have shown the desire to take these courses whether credit is given or not," said Lewis.
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