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Tuesday, July 12, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Paper work
Ned Huston is the only tutor in Lawrence who helps students write
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research papers. Huston says that tutoring students in writing research papers allows him to profit from his best skill-writing,
Tutor offers aid to ailing writers
By KEVIN KIOUS
Staff Writer
For a $5-an-hour tutor's fee this story might have been written better.
Posters placed around the University of Kansas campus have advertised "expert instruction in all aspects of paper construction." provided by Ned Huston.
Huston said he was the only tutor in Lawrence who helped students write papers. He said he also charged prices comparable to other tutors.
"I charge $ an hour for my services," he said. "That's typical for tutoring at KU." Huston said he had eight students last semester.
One of the services Huston offers is to help a student get started on a paper by helping him organize his thoughts. Huston said that students often feel like they don't about getting something down on paper.
"My major contribution is just getting them started," he said. "Some of my
students just don't know how to sit down and get to work
"Some of my students are disorganized. I can especially help them because a little organization can go a long way toward compiling a paper."
Huston said most of his students bought three to four hours of tutoring.
He now collects his fee at the end of each session, he said, because a student once changed topics after the first session and refused to pay for the work on the first tonic.
Occasionally, Huston said, he gets someone who has already written the paper.
"Some are hoping that, because of my service, they will get a better grade," he said.
Huston said most of the papers he read made their points well, but the style errors were pervasive.
"Most students' I see not '读 read too porry," he said. "But they lack impact
and they are full of mistakes. All of them are too wordy; many are repetitions.
He said he didn't tutor anyone writing a composition for an English class.
"I don't do ghost writing," he said. "I have had students call asking me to take their papers for them, and I've turned them down."
Huston said he also had some students who were pressed for time.
"I save them time by organizing their project and doing the legwork and finger-
Huston's leegwork involves finding research sources, and his fingerprint is used in some of the data.
Huston said the closest he came to any actual writing was when he corrected a typo.
"Supposedly, they are being graded for their ideas," he said. "They have to supply them to the teacher."
Bonds,neighborhood group on Commission's agenda
The refinancing of hospital bonds, a hearing with the newly formed Oread Neighborhood Association and several on the city commission's agenda tonight.
According to the feasibility report, refinancing the bonds would save the hospital $130,000 in interest payments each year for the next 23 years.
The commissioners were presented a feasibility report two weeks ago about refinancing the new Lawrence Revenue bonds used to build the new Lawrence Memorial building. They will hear the first reading of an ordinance to authorize the refinancing.
The Oread Neighborhood Association will ask commissioners to draw up a comprehensive neighborhood plan. They will also request Community Development funds; the four other Lawrence neighborhood groups have been allotted the
The Oread group was formed after the Community Development funds had
already been appropriated by the other groups.
Commissioners will also take action on several site plans, rezoning requests and plats referred to them by the planning commission.
A request to rezone Jayhawk Towers from "residence-dormitory" to "planned commercial development" is expected to be completed. The homeowners have recommended denal of rezoning
TONIGHT: A MEETING TO LEARN BICYCLING BASICS, sponored by the M. Oread Bicycle Club, will be at 7:30 in South Park. The meeting is open to the public. TALL BY FACULTY ARTISTS will be at a Swarthworth Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
E and E Specialties Inc., 910 E. 29 St., will appeal to the commission for issuance of industrial revenue bonds to fund expansion of present facilities.
TOMORROW: ORIENTATION for liberal arts and science majors will begin at 8:15 a.m. in the Jayhawk Room in the Union. An SUA FILM, "Evolution of the American Man," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in woodruff the union in the Admission is $1.
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'Star Wars' a fantasy trip into an alien outer space
Somehow, after "Star Wars," driving a car will never be the same. After you've experienced a battle at speed faster than survived a bake at a faster pace or bunch of aliens or a dip into a spaceport on an antigravity scooter, getting in a car and driving down Massachusetts Street is just easy.
"That what's 'Star Wars' will do to you. Writer-director George Lucas' galactic extravaganza grips you from beginning to end." A movie about a theatre lobby on Earth. But the amazing part is that this copie is achieved by using some of the oldest clichés in the book. How does a film so blatantly unoriginal manage to make it work? The answer lies in the film's disimproving honesty.
THIS QUALITY OF honesty, a feeling that the film is all in good fun and the incredibly fast-paced action keep one from noticing, until much later, that nearly every element in the film has been borrowed from other sources. The story begins, for example, in an explanatory prologue outside of the film's opening. The space hardware is vintage "2001: A Space Odyssey." And the plot is even older, strikingly reminiscent of Arthurian legends. This hardly matters, though, as these movies that Lucas isn't trying to hide anything.
"Star Wars" is one of the rarest of films—a family science fiction film with universal appeal. Lucas achieves this by keeping the focus on the robots and the human element up front. Even the robots, or "droids", have distinct and appealing personalities. And instead of spending a lot of time showing snazzy hardware, the movie focuses more on the robot toward her NASA-quality equipment. The
By DAVID WALSH Staff Writer
Parochial school officials discuss Court aid ruling
Staff Writer
Sister Jeanne Marie Blacet, superintendent of schools in the Archdiocese of Kansas in Kansas City, said Thursday that she had not decided whether to apply for state aid for her schools. But, she said, state and local schools probably would be discussed in early August when the Kansas Association of Nonpublic Schools meets in Topeka.
Area parochial school administrators say they haven't decided yet what action to take as a result of last month's Supreme Court ruling that could give more state aid to their schools. However, they say they are pleased with the ruling.
THE KANSAS ASSSOCIATION OF Nonpublic Schools comprises representatives from church-affiliated schools. The school district is responsible once a year to discuss among themselves and with state legislators the relationship between the parochial schools and the public schools.
In its decision on parochial and the Supreme Court said that state governments supplement such workbooks and more academic testing services; and speech, hearing and some forms of psychological or medical testing services to parochial schools.
The issue of state aid to parochial schools was brought up again last week when the Governor asked lawmakers to vote.
calling for government aid for Roman Catholic schools. The Vatican also warned against operating parochial schools that would have a lack of public funds was the reason.
SISTER JEANNE MARIE, who supervises 41 elementary schools, seven high schools and more than 13,000 students in the northeast Kansas school system that includes Lawrence and Topeka schools, said that her school system wasn't in any financial trouble now. However, she said she would aid to her schools would be beneficial.
Sister Mary Ann Bartolou, principal of St. John's School, 1208 Kentucky St. said Wednesday that state aid would be beneficial.
"We don't have any immediate financial problems on Mary, Ann said, "but it will be a challenge."
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THERE ARE no explanations of how the equipment works to bog down the action. And there is plenty of action, as Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) sets out to rescue Princess Leia Organe (Carrie Fisher) and Titan in that rules the galaxy with an iron hand. In his quest, Luke is added by two "droids," Seethreephy and Artodo-Tooty, as well as an old knight (Alec Guinness) and a devil-maclemputer smuggler (Harrison Ford). As they view finds their arrow excavate to another, the viewer finds their arrow move from his seat—even for more noncoon.
Some serious science fiction fans have criticized "Star Wars," saying that it represents a flippant attempt at science fiction. But Lucas says that "Star Wars" is science fiction, not science fiction. What he is really saying is that "Star Wars" was meant to be an old-fashioned escape. By the time ago, by galaxy far, far away, "Jaws" avoids social comment—a traditional element of serious science fiction.
Unlike "2001: A Space Odyssey," which proposed an alternative view of man's place in the universe, or "Silent Running," which brought death to the Earth disaster, "Star Wars" simply spins a good yarn. The phenomenal attention to details of plot, timing, humor and that old adventure standby, the "close call," proves once more important but what you do with them that counts.
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