Lecture on Brazilian education set
George Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will speak at 7:30 tonight in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
The speech is part of the Luso-Brazilian colloquium series. The title of Waggoner's speech is "The Problems of Higher Education in Brazil."
Texas professor to lecture
University of Texas professor Max Westbrook, an authority on American literature, will speak Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. Westbrook's lecture will be "The Confidence Child: Social Protest and the American Character."
Workshop planned for grades 5-12
Westbrook has written two books and numerous essays on American literature. He is also a frequently published poet. The lecture is being sponsored by the English department.
The KU Museum of Natural History has announced its plans for a summer workshop program for fifth graders through senior high students.
Each of the 10 two-week sessions will have a maximum enrollment of 10 students and will continue from June 15 to Aug. 21, said Al Bielland, the museum taxidermist.
Bjelland and Larry Watkins, a candidate for a master's degree in systematics and ecology, will teach the program, which costs $30 per session.
For those who have not attended the sessions previously, seven of the sessions will deal with "Survey of Natural History" and the advanced students will be concerned with the topics "Woodland Communities," "Aquatic Communities" and "Water in Our Environment."
Artists to exchange ideas at sculpture conference
Hundreds of persons from the United States, Canada and other countries are expected to attend the sixth National Sculpture Conference April 23-25 at the University of Kansas.
The purpose of the conference is for artists and art industries to exchange ideas, information and research on the technology of today's sculpture.
A. Bret Waller, director of KU's Museum of Art, said the sculpture exhibits will be divided into three categories. They are small indoor pieces, large outdoor pieces and inflatable airborne pieces.
Inflatable airborne pieces are also known as atmospheric art because this type of sculpture can be filled with helium to ascend hundreds of feet. Atmospheric art, said Waller, is a new development in the world of sculpturing, and it is hoped that this category will arouse discussion.
The large outdoor category will be displayed near Memorial Stadium, while the small indoor pieces will be shown in the south lounge of the Kansas Union. The KU Museum of Art will not be used "due to a lack of space and inadequate facilities, said Waller.
Waller said that no one artist or his work will be featured at this conference. Artists were encouraged to bring only one piece of work.
Professor Elden C. Tefft, department of design, formulated the program and is conference director. The idea came from the suggestions of sculptors who attended the seminar here two years ago.
Speaking of artists and the art industry, Teftt said the industry has greatly helped the artist in the use and availability of materials.
Besides the non-traditional inflatable art, topics include light magnetics; computers; new uses of traditional methods and histology, which involves the use of three-dimensional images by means of lasers.
Payroll checks stolen from KU campus mail
Payments on the checks have been stopped. The amounts vary from $29 to slightly less than $700, and all were dated April 1.
An estimated 23 payroll checks, totaling more than $7,500, have been stolen from the KU campus mail according to University officials and the Douglas County Sheriff's Department.
The payroll checks, to students, staff and faculty members, were issued to both men and women and to employees of the Museum of Natural History.
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During this biennial conference, members of the advisory board for the National Sculpture Center will also meet. KU is the national center for the organization.
College dean expects no change in requirements during spring
By GALEN BLAND Kansan staff writer
Many students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as indicated by a poll at spring semester registration, would like to change the foreign language graduation requirement of the College.
Merker's attitude, however, was hardly indicative of a joke as he used worn-out cliches to express his feelings toward ROTC on campus.
Yet George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said in an interview Friday that he would be surprised if any changes in graduation requirements were made this spring.
To accomplish this, the Education Policy committee would have to forward a motion to the faculty and the faculty would have to vote for abolishing the requirement. A committee from North College will meet with the Education Policy committee Tuesday to discuss the possibilities of abolishing the language requirement.
Johnson added, "We figured it was a joke and went along with it; but he didn't pursue it any further and that's it."
Long haired and bearded, Merker said that the presence of ROTC on campus was in direct conflict to a liberal academic atmosphere that should prevail on campus.
"He got himself out of it." Johnson said, "by not signing up for an interview. We were ready to accept him."
No chance for male color girl nominee eliminates himself
"There are committees that are in the process of deciding the goals of the College," he said, "but we must know what our goals are before we start changing our requirements."
Waggoner said there were several groups in the college that favored dropping the 16-hour foreign language requirement or the language proficiency exam. He said there was a large group of students who were opposed to
Eric Johnson, an Overland Park junior and chairman of the NROTC committee for choosing a color girl, was emphatic that no pressure was used to get Merker out of the competition.
The only non-female nominee for KU Navy ROTC color girl, Randy Merker, removed himself from competition Friday night at a NROTC color girl meeting when he failed to sign up for an interview.
The Overland Park junior, who was nominated by Naismith Hall originally as a joke but later taken as a serious means of protesting ROTC on campus, said it was obvious he didn't have a chance.
He said, "its presence on campus gives tacit support to the war in Vietnam which I'm strongly against."
John Friedman, a Mission junior and vice-president of Naismith Hall, served as a spokesman for both Merker's nomination and for the movement behind it.
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He said, "We would like to abolish academic credit in courses that involve instruction in combat."
With Merker's absence the NROTC now has 19 women students, all nominated by living groups on campus, to choose its color girl from.
Following Tuesday and Thursday evening interviews, the field will be cut to six. These six will be voted on by the entire NROTC membership to decide the top three finalists. An honor company will vote to decide the color girl and her two attendants.
foreign language requirements. This group, he said, has combined with a smaller group of students who are opposed to all requirements in the College. This latter group, he said, says any requirement keeps people "from doing their own thing."
Waggoner said he believed that students in the college should have a choice of what they want to study, but that they must be able to write well, speak well, have a knowledge of mathematics and of a foreign language.
"It would be absurd," he said,
"to leave it up to the student if
he wants to speak well or not, or
whether he wants to write well,
or learn a foreign language."
He said that anyone who took four years of a language in high school would be able to pass the exemption test. There are also exemption tests in math and speech, he said. He said that one-third of the students in the college use the exemption test to fulfill their speech requirement.
"People who know a foreign language will use it," he said. He cited travel as one area in which the language could be put to use.
"You have seen the trouble that foreign people who cannot speak English have when they come to this country. Traveling will increase during the seventies and people will need to know other languages," he said.
Waggoner said that the study of a foreign language helped the student to better understand English.
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