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Wednesday, March 23, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Video features schol hall life
Students produce promotional tape
By Kim Lightle
Kansan staff writer
Members of the All Scholarship Hall Council and the makers of "KU Scholarship Halls: A Great Way to Stay Involved" hope their new promotional video will make the grade with high school students.
The six-minute video uses popular music and scenes showing the kinds of activities and responsibilities of students who live in the halls, said the video's maker, Tim Savage, Lawrence senior. For example, some scenes show hall residents on telephone duty or attending hall parties, he said.
The council's public relations committee decided at the beginning of the fall semester that they needed a new presentation to replace the slide show usually shown to recruit high
school students. Helen Svoboda, Chapman freshman and a member of the committee, said the committee wanted a more exciting way to present the information.
"The slide show was put together many years ago," she said. "It was kind of dull."
Svoboda and Megan Crawford, Wichita freshman and committee member, decided to contact students in the division of communications and theatre to see if they would shoot the video. The committee wanted to use students to produce the video to keep the costs down.
Dave Mills, Topeka senior, and Savage said they shot the video during the first two weeks of March as a project for their film classes.
The video probably will cost the committee $120 to $200, Savage said. The cost might increase because of licensing fees for the music used in the video. It would have cost about $4,000 for a professional film company to produce the video, he said.
Savage worked with Crawford and with members of the offices of residential programs and university relations to get ideas for the video's script.
Frank Barthell, electronic media coordinator for university relations, said he looked over the script to make sure it presented the University's image accurately.
Deb Stafford, assistant director of residential programs, said the video probably would be shown to high school students who attend orientation on campus during the summer. The video also might be sent to Kansas high schools next year, she said.
Students who want to live in a scholarship hall must fill out a special application and have high scores on the Stolastic Aptitude Test or American College Test. They also must write two short essays and submit two references. Stafford said the students' high school ranking also was considered.
Students, professors meet via mail through independent study program
The program has three main elements : a student, an instructor and a mail carrier.
By Brenda Finnell
Kansan staff writer
These components are part of independent study, a program in the division of continuing education that offers students more than 100 correspondence courses.
in this course, to the textbook writing assignments.
Students are given writing assignments, which they send to an instructor, who critiques and then returns the work.
When students enroll in an independent study course, they are given a complete course study guide, which includes study questions, course objectives and an introduction to the textbook reading assignments.
"Independent study is based on the premise there is going to be some dialogue and exchange of ideas between instructors and students," said Jo Lutz, coordinator of student services for independent study.
The independent study program recently introduced new correspondence courses in biology, religion, education, psychology, and speech and language
development.
Lutz said that students took about 2,500 courses this fiscal year. Students enrolled in the program are from all over Kansas and out of state, too, she said. Most of the students enrolled are 18 to 35 years old.
Students enroll in correspondence courses for a variety of reasons, Lutz said.
Some are people who work in an office and want to advance professionally, she said. Others have never attended college and want to experience a college course. Gifted high school students sometimes enroll in independent study to earn college credit.
Students might use independent study to earn the few hours necessary to finish a degree, Lutz said. Some students also study by correspondence while working in their hometown during the summer.
Nancy Colyer, director of independent study, said student evaluations generally showed that students were happy with the program.
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