University Daily Kansan / Wednesdav. March 27. 1991
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Prof studies German program
By Sarah Davis
Kansan staff writer
A questionnaire designed to help students achieve better results in first-year German courses has been devised by Henry Fullenwider, associate professor of German, and a colleague in Helsinki, Finland.
"Our wish is that every student entering the University would have some foreign language background," said Fullenwider, who administered the course to all KU students enrolled in German 104 at the end of last semester.
His colleague, Anu Virkkuun,
director of the language center at the
University of Helsinki, gave the Finnish-version of the survey to students in Helsinki but has not yet tabulated the results.
Results: Placement could be better
Fullenwider said his results showed that the placement system at KKM would be helpful.
"The assumption is that two years of high school German ought to be equivalent to college German," he said. "A great number of KU students are false beginners. The great majority of them have had German
in the classroom before.
"We were completely certain that the background of these students would vary."
The survey asks students open-ended questions, such as why they are studying German and what they taught and easy in the German language.
"The feedback is much more difficult to analyze because obviously you get a large range of responses," Fullenwider said. "I was very satisfied with the responses. The students
really telling me what they believe
Tom Adams, Warrensburg, mo.
sophomore, was one of the students
in German 104 last semester who
wrote a poem about their mairie
might help immerse the course.
"It can't hurt," he said. "Student input would do some good."
Fullenwider he found that many students already had known the German language when they came to KU, and students were unsophisticated about English and German grammar.
Parking may make Lied events cost more
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
Don Robertson, parking board chairperson, said the extra money was needed for maintaining the center's parking lot.
When the Lied Center is completed in 1993, students can expect some training.
"We have to cover maintenance costs," he said. "The lines must be painted, and the snow has to be scraped off in the winter."
But Jacqueline Davis, director of
the center, said not all concerts would have the additional cost.
Events in the Concert Series and events that KU students are involved in will not be affected, she said.
"Nop-University events that are on a large scale will have the additional fee," she said.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said the University currently charged patrons of certain events for parking.
"We pre-empt certain lots for events, like basketball," she said.
Hutline told the charge for events parking was $2 per vehicle, and the fee for events at the center probably would be the same.
"We charge the group that sponsored the event."
Hultine said no parking charge was applied to events at Hoch Auditorium because of problems with student parking.
"The problem with that is that Hoch is in the academic core and if we pre-empotted the lots around that area, it would make parking for
students difficult." she said.
Robertson said that when the center was built, its parking would be consistent with that on the rest of the campus.
"Until this year, all the lots on West Campus were yellow. Now there will be a mix of zones," he said.
Robertson said that in addition to blue-, red- and yellow-permit parking zones, there also would be meters on the sidewalk or a park when picking up concert tickets.
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