UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, February 14, 1995
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Professors find way to combine classes and TV
KU campus, Regents Center connect via two-way audio
By Virginia Margneim Kansan staff writer
Mary Adamle, Lawrence graduate student, is still getting used to the idea of seeing her face on a television screen every time she asks a question in her education class.
"You have to watch what you do," she said.
About 30 miles away, students at the Regents Center in Overland Park watch and listen to Meyen's lecture on another set of television screens.
The screen is one of 10 in 336 Strong Hall, where Adamle goes every Monday evening for the class, which is taught by Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor and professor of special education.
Students at both sites are linked through a microwave signal that provides two-way audio and visual transmission. Meyen's class is one of six that can be attended — in the flesh or by the screens — on the Lawrence campus or at the Regents center. This semester classes taught through television are in the education, geology, and architectural and civil engineering departments.
All the classes are taught in 336 Strong, where 10 TVs are situated and a production room is located behind the classroom. In the production room, employees of media services control the images broadcast on the TV screens. Cameras focus on people who ask questions.
KU administrators decided about three years ago to offer classes through television to make them accessible to more students.
Breck Marion, director of media services, said that transmitting classes made it more convenient for students in the Kansas City area.
"It's a considerable time-saver for them." he said.
Bruce Lindvall, assistant dean of the Regents Center, said that generally, student reaction to TV teaching had been positive. The system allows students at both sites to participate in discussion. It also allows professors to do things which could not easily be done in a normal classroom. For example, because classes are taped, professors can use successful guest lectures repeatedly, Lindvall said.
Thomas Glavinich, associate professor of architectural engineering, has taught a graduate-level class through TV for several semesters. He said he liked the method because it allowed him to serve both sites at the same time.
TV teaching also has allowed him to use videotapes and computers in his lectures, Glavinich said.
"It works out very well," he said.
For a class to be televised, the cost must be justifiable, said Lynn Lipsey, program manager of independent study.
"There has to be a need for it in two places," she said.
Lawrence growth worries candidate
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
City commission candidate Allen Levine has one message for students: Get out and vote in
the upcoming city commission elections.
Levine, a graduate of the University of Kansas and a membership coordinator at the Spencer Museum of Art, said he would like to see more students involved in city politics. After all, many issues the commission will be dealing with in the next few years will directly affect their college years, he said.
"If students don't vote, then they have nothing to complain about, because groups that don't vote are forgotten," said Levine, 28. Students should be concerned with city politics because they
by the development that is going on. Lawrence has turned into a development free-for-all."
could affect everything from student housing to the arts and music scene, he said.
Allen Levine commission candidate
Levine, a member of the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods, said growth in Lawrence was damaging existing neighborhoods.
Concern about unrestricted development prompted Levine to run for city commission.
1 grew up here," he said. "I am just dismaved
When and where to register
The deadline to register to vote in the Feb. 28 primary election for city commissioners is Feb. 13. The deadline to register to vote in the April 4 main election is March 20. People can register at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. For more information, call the county clerk at 832-5067
Growth is inevitable," he said. "It's going to happen, but it certainly does not have to happen at the expense of the city's infrastructure—the established neighborhoods, the downtown."
Mismanagement and poor decisions by former city commissions have put Lawrence in danger of becoming a town similar to those in Johnson County, Levine said. If that were to occur, he said, Lawrence would be stripped of
"To see all the development that goes on, with what appears on the surface to be very little
things that make it unique, such as its thriving downtown and art and music scene.
Where Levine stands
Here is where Allen Levine, city commission candidate, stands on the issues:
He supports the proposal to amend the city's human relations ordinance to include protection of people on the basis of sexual orientation.
He proposes stopping annexations of surrounding areas until the city has time to examine effects of growth.
He does not support selling Lawrence Memorial Hospital to Columbia/HCA. He wants to see Lawrence Memorial Hospital maintained by the city.
He supports changing the at large method of voting for city commissioners to an election-by-district method.
Mike Rundle, former city commissioner and member of Levine's steering committee, said he supported Levine because Levine was concerned with the long-term effects
foresight. is frightening." he said.
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growth could have on all areas of the city.
"I think Levine would be concerned with taking a broad and inclusive view on matters that concern the community," Rundle said.
Lookin' for love
James Swinton,
Lawrence senior,
looks for a Valentine's Day card for
his wife at the
Kansas Union.
Many customers
shopped at the
Union and other
Lawrence businesses yesterday
for last-minute valentines.
Yumi Chikamori /
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Kansas Legislature set for budget war
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Legislators do not seem eager so far to follow conservatives' suggestions and cut enough money from Gov. Bill Graves' budget proposals to allow for large tax cuts.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday endorsed a bill that contains Graves' proposal to give most state workers a 3.5 percent pay increase. The pay increases would cost the state almost $34.2 million.
But later, the Senate approved a proposed budget for the state Department of Transportation that contains no significant cuts in Graves' recommendations for spending on highway programs.
And the House Appropriations Committee endorsed a budget bill that made only small changes in the most significant budget in that group, for the state treasurer's office.
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