University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 3, 1979
Free University offers courses without grades
By JULIA GOPELRUD
Staff Renorter
Students who don't like to take tests or scribble down notes may do well in some Free University classes, if they have fast hands.
Free University classes, such as juggling,
sign language, disco dancing and basic
home maintenance are offered this
semester through Student Union Activities,
according to Hal Eden, SUA Free
University adviser.
"Free University is an opportunity to share what you know in a setting outside the University in a way that students don't have about grades or requirements," Eden said.
Steve Cramer, SUA Free University campus in New York, most of whom are from KU, judge during formal enrollment March 5, 6 and 7. Forty to 90 volunteer teach classes each week.
Students can still enroll in classes by contacting the instructor directly. Eden
EDEN SAID teachers were found through
admissions or personal contacts. Some
persons walked into the SUA office and volunteered to teach a class, he said.
Cramer said, "I don't require teachers to know everything about the course they're teaching. I do require them to be enlightened. You cannot know something, they will find out about it."
David Dixon, instructor of the juggling class, said he contacted SUA about teaching the class because he had taken it two years and because it was not offered last semester.
He said 10 of 17 persons enrolled in the class attended class for the first time last year.
"It's very easy to learn. You can learn how to juggle a single pattern of three-ball games."
JUGGLING IS physically and mentally relaxing and an unusual skill to have; he
Mike Jones, one of two instructors of the basic home maintenance course, said that he was contacted by SUA to teach the course, which was offered for one class period. He said that although only two out of 14 students came to the class, he thought it
was worthwhile for him to teach it and beneficial for the students who attended.
David Romano, a student in the beginning sign language class, said he learned about it after Ms. Kelley's presentation.
He said he took the course because he worked with children as a school psychologist and wanted to be able to work with deaf children and adults if necessary.
ROMANO SAID he had wanted to take a sign language course for three years, and was planning to take a KU graduate course in sign language this summer.
The teacher of the Free University class, April Benton, said the class was enthusiastic and learned quickly. She said she would not teach another student much might teach more Free University classes.
Eden said the curriculum was determined by what class instructors wanted to teach and by what classes the staff wanted to see offered.
The classes are free, except for those that have a materials fee.
Free University was started in 1968 by an English professor as a protest against KU's rigid schedule and curriculum. Cramer started the program and gave it a release until 1973. SUA began funding it in 1974.
Construction accident
Harlan Withington, Lawrence junior, was reported in fairly good condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital last night after he
Photo by DIANA CRANFORD
slipped from a beam on the second floor of the Mallott Hall construction site yesterday and fell almost 30 feet. He is being treated
Blood drive misses first day goal
Ninety-three pints of blood were taken in the first day of a three-day blood drive at the Kansas Union, which was considerably less than 10 percent, co-chairman of the drive, said yesterday.
"We were supposed to have a whole parson of ROTC guys come in," he said. "We were supposed to have a whole parson of ROTC guys come in."
"I think a lot of people forget about it," he said, and "I also think a lot of wals-tweens were afraid."
Goble said the first-day goal for the drive, uled. "Blood is the Lifeline for a Lifetime in the Park." He added that at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Fourteen of them had to be deferred for medical
The drive will be from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. today and tomorrow in the Ballroom.
Goble said the turnover time, or the amount of time yesterday that it took most to become a member.
ALTHOUGH THE hometowns and living blood vesterday were different, their
reasons for taking the time out to do it were similar.
"I've done it the last two years," Janet Cahoun, Chickaska, Okla., senior said.
Dick Keeney, Newton freshman, said, "It doesn't take too much time. It might be a lot of work."
There were others who had a more material goal in mind for spending a half-hour on their backs with a needle in their arm.
"I want a gold card—eight pints." Dan Smith, Wichita heftian. "I'm trying to get that money."
ACCORDING TO Nancy Shepard, a registered nurse who works for the American Red Cross, the blood the students need to perform their training to the regional Red Cross center in Wichita.
There it is tested to determine the blood type, and to check for hepatitis, syphilis and chlamydia.
After the blood is tested, Shepard said, it
She said that the life of whole blood was approximately 21 days but that most of the blood was frozen until it could be used later. The blood is stored in cells, or cells, for example, in three years, she said.
can be separated into different parts, including plasma and red blood cells, or left as
Shepard said the 13 nurses in the Ballroom who were taking blood were part of a 40-member team that originates at the Red Cross center in Wichita.
Shoepard said the Wichita center, which opened in 1947, was the second oldest blood center in the country.
Benefit Cabaret for
Pi Delta Phi Scholarship Fund
April 3, 8:15
B big Room of Kansas Union
Tickets Available in Department
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For fun in the sun, Come sail with
the KU Sail Club. Take a look at our
boats and facilities at Lake Perry . . .
take advantage of our free lessons. It's all
for the love of the sea . . .
KU prepares for drop
KU Sail Club Meeting Wed. 7:30 KU Union (Lessons at 7:00)
Robert Cole, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, iwi waiting for KU's enrollment to begin its projected work before he comes to grip with the problem.
Staff Renorter
By BILL RIGGINS
Examples of unattached funds could be those allocated to fill staff vacancies or to fund research, Cobb said.
Cobb said that he was not asking departmental chairmen to cut 2 percent from the budgets, but just to identify 2 percent of their funding that was "matached" to tenured faculty positions, or a higher percentage for those in office, or assistant instructor positions.
Although KU's enrollment increased slightly this year, Gee Smith Jr., member of the Student Government, enrolled at the seven Regents schools would decline by 16 percent in the next 10
"By maintaining that flexibility in the budget, if re-allocations have to be made, it won't be as painful," he said.
"IF WE ARE to maintain the flexibility necessary to be able to respond to the needs of our clients, we behave us u departmentally and College-ward, to retain the capacity to adjust."
But Smith said enrollment at the University of Kansas was projected to drop by only 13 percent, equivalent to 1970 enrollment levels.
Looking ahead to the projected drop and the reduction of funding that could follow, Cabb recently asked departmental managers to their departmental budgets by 2 percent.
"We are determined to prevent, forever if possible, giving timely notice to our
untenured colleagues for financial reasons alone," he said.
"A figure any lower would not lead to much brainstrainning and a figure any higher would only lead to more anxiety," he said.
Brower Burchill, chairman of the division of biological sciences, said he had responded to Cobb's request but that it had not been easy.
The 2 percent figure, Cobb said, was his own idea.
Earl Nehring, chairman of the political science department, said, "We think we don't have enough money anyway. Trying to cut 2 percent is like pulling out a couple
ONE REASON for Cobb's advance planning is that the College faces not only a challenge to get students moving away from the traditional liberal education to a more competitive environment.
But Cobb said that trend had not been as serious at KU as it had elsewhere.
Landgrebe, chairman of the chemistry department, said he had not yet responded to Cobb's request and wasn't sure that he would.
"An increase of three-tenths credit hours per student per semester would produce the 2 percent increase in total enrollment we hope for," he said.
But Burchall said he thought Cobb's request was a good idea.
"WE MIGHT simply tell Dean Cobb we have found a way of cutting the 2 percent but not tell him how. We'll keep it a minute until the time comes," Landrebeck said.
A part of the advising program, he said, would be to encourage students to be more demanding of themselves.
COBBA SAID he thought one way the college could maintain student engagement more effective adviving program for students. There are 912 students enrolled in the College this year.
"Unlike many other universities, the rapid increase in enrollment in professional education in the last several years has not been at the expense of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; our students have remained relatively Cobb."
"It is a threatening thing; people take it that way," he said.
Landgrebe said the only area from which 2 percent could be cut was salaries.
"We DID AS Dean Cobb asked to do and I hope we don't have to follow through," Burchill said.
"I viewed the request as one to make us start thinking about cuts," he said. "He's right for preparing us for what might happen."
"Such a carnalistic or parasitic relationship would not only jeopardize the rights of students in the climate, but it would also produce no net gains for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences."
Cobb also asked each chairman to suggest ways that enrollment in his department could be increased by 2 per cent, matching other departments within the College.
About 55 to 60 percent of all KU students are enrolled in the College, Cobb said, and he expects that figure to remain fairly constant.
Jazz concert features soloist, Red Combo act
Tenor saxophonist Chuck Berg will be the guest soloist with the Jazz Ensemble II at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murmurh Hall.
Ronald McCurdy, Belle Glade, Fla. graduate student, conducts the 23-piece group, which will perform three numbers played by a professor of radio, television and film.
In addition to the full ensemble, the Red Combo will perform during intermission.
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In high school in Wichita, so many of the experiences in which my friends were seeking earlings like outward signs of unappreciation, rebellion, or just dismay. Towed off hints.
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While I was growing up I never questioned the existence of God. The Bible神话 that Jesus Christ died for my wrong attitudes and actions in something I was acquainted with through weekly Sunday school classes. Thus "the truth" of music, however, was superficial and had little to do with my personal life. In 1985 I told a group of old people that I was Christian; yet there was not anything personal about my thoughts at God.
When I come to KU to study music, I was living away from my family for the first time. I急忙 want to flew from an extratime of our connection and away to standard. As my independence increased, I needed to learn more about music to grow me. I missed definition and challenge in my life.
With this sense of something missing I was drawn to some people met at the end of my second year in school. They talked about Jesus Christ as they knew Him. Their belief in a personal God was based on the history of the Christian life of Jesus, death, and resurrection. Serving their God was a life lived for him, provided us to automatically consider his life and consider it in God's hands. It was then that a decision to accept Jesus as my Savior and Lord.
Since that time I went my life changed, not in a religious system of rules, but by being loving. God says that my niece freely lives in being able to whose hope is right and carry it through.
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