University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 18, 1976
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Hand calculators are student time savers
Electronic pocket calculators are a great benefit to students because they save time, according to some University of Kansas faculty and students.
Jan Rosakam, professor of aerospace engineering, said yesterday that calculators with much more faculty members to touch much more realistic and instructive" assignments.
"For example, in development of an airplane design, wing function and thrust function are two very important elements. We like to have students do trade-off with these functions," Roskam said. Trade-off involves varying the two figures.
WITHOUT THE calculator, he said,
students couldn't be expected to do the
trade-off, because of the tremendous
amount of work involved.
Robert Fräuf, professor of physics and astronomy, said that calculators were timesavers but that they didn't solve all problems.
"If you have numbers to calculate, then calculators are marvelous," he said. "But you have to know what to put into the calculator to get the right thing out."
"Students should use calculators for routine work that simply takes up a lot of their time, but they shouldn't count on learning anything by using them."
Pennnington said the use of calculators as 'pretty prevalent' among graduate students is "not surprising."
Claudia Corson, art department manager in the Kansas Union Bookstore, said 320 calculators, ranging in price from $9.95 to $750, had been sold this semester.
MARK PENNINGTON, Bogue graduate student in business administration, said that the use of calculators allowed him to proceed more rapidly on tests.
*the only value I see in them is that they help you to save time, so you're able to get more done.*
Calculators don't make a lot of difference as far as the student's performance in class, Prinif said. But, he said, it's a good idea to have them because they're convenient.
ROKSM SAID he encouraged students to use calculators whenever possible. Engineering students, he said, should have a programmable calculator.
For more technical use, Friauf said, the
Calculator fire causes damage in JRP room
An electrical short in an overheated calculator started a fire Tuesday morning in a room at a retail location which caused an estimated $300 damage to the belongings of the occupants.
The occupants, Dean Naegle, Salina sophomore, and Jack McLean, Shawne sophomore, said the electrical short had ignited several plastic cups on the desk the calculator was lying on. The fire soon broke out on the table, and with a fire extinguisher by John Rodgers, Agra freshman and a JRP resident, before it could spread more.
student might want a calculator with logarithmic functions.
Black smoke from the fire was responsible for most of the damage to their clothes. Their clothes were ruined by the smoke, which also damaged the walls of the room.
Rokam suggested the Hewlett Packard 25, or the Texas Instruments SR-52. These units perform 520 calculations that would be used in most of the calculators. These calculators sell for $145 and $299.95.
Friauf that students should look for convenience when buying a calculator.
The damage to the room itself was estimated by fire officials at $300.
"It should feel good, and the student should have no difficulty performing the onestep exercise."
Turkey trot runners compete for meat
A long distance run Saturday will give KU students and faculty members a chance to enjoy the race.
According to Tom Wilkerson, physical education instructor, the run, called the turkey trot, will have junior high, high school, student, faculty and open divisions. It will be a 2.5-mile cross country race for student, faculty and open divisions, and a 1.8-mile run for junior high and high school trotters.
The turkeys, donated by Lawrence grocers, will be awarded to the male and female animals in open divisions, and to the person in each of those divisions who predicts most close-
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KU INDIA CLUB presents DIWALI NIGHT
Tickets are now available at the Dean of Foreign Students Office (Strong Hall) and the SUA Office (at the Kansas Union).
Sunday, Nov. 21st 5:30 p.m. Kansas Union
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