Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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GUIDES Am GDVEMMEM Students have ' harped long about ' deadtvood ' on the f acuity but for the most part, teacher-pupil relationship is congenial. CALL ENROLLMENT days . . . happy-to- be-back students rush to greet last year ' s classmates. In search of friends they throng favorite haunts. Suddenly a favorite professor enters and is immediately beset by a half-dozen grinning, yelling coUegiates . . . Have you heard the one . . . ' With a guffaw, Doc dis- cards his academic dignity and all make for the soda fountain. . . . Such is the relationship of teacher and pupil at Kansas State College . . . that is, with some professors and some students. Guides — friendly voices in the student ' s prob- lematic darkness. Not the too stern taskmaster of learning, but counselor to the collegiate and his omnipresent two problems — life and living. The College cannot decipher these puzzles for him. It can but guide his efforts in finding his own answers. To that end, K-State ' s faculty is an hierarchy of guides. President, dean, profes- sor, and instructor work to increase personal con- tact in an effort to better show him the way. Professional divisions make up this College — analogous to the colleges of a university. Thereby, the student of his chosen field finds organized for him professional guidance. And almost every faculty man and woman at K-State has his or her own large or very small retinue of student-followers, seeking less technical and, in a way, more practical wisdom. From the Presi- dent on down, the under-graduate receives this guidance and understanding. Such a system resembles but little the medieval university where scholar and tutor were worlds apart and classroom technique consisted of cold, impersonal lectures followed by examinations based on ability to memorize hard facts. A few instructors retain this attitude but for the most part, K-State is patterned after institutions of early Renaissance with students and teachers gathering to discuss professional and personal difficulties. Added in the modern school is a detailed organization administered with the effi- ciency characteristic of present-day institutions of higher education. Kansas State students are governed by them- selves and the administrating officers. Every stu- dent paying the activity fee is a member of the Student Governing Association. This, in turn, is headed by the Student Council — comprised of nine elected students. This body performs many duties for the welfare of the student body. Actions of the Council are passed on by the Faculty Council on Student Affairs which is the controlling factor of most student affairs. Then there ' s the various deans who supervise the stu- dent ' s academic life. Other governing forces are the dean of women, men ' s advisor, and a final voice — the President.