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VOL.104,NO.82
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Business dean announces resignation
Bauman's interest turns to classroom
By Matt Hood Kansan staff writer
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Joseph Bauman, dean of KU's school of business, is leaving the dean's office in favor of the classroom.
Bauman announced Friday that he would resign his position, effective at the end of the semester. He said he planned to take a year off and then start teaching in the Fall of 1996.
"I intend to spend a year studying things and preparing to teach," Bauman said. "I look forward to more interaction with students."
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, praised Bauman's job as dean.
"While I regret Joe's decision to leave the
deanship, I understand his desire to leave the administrative arena and devote more time directly to students," Shulen-burger said.
Bauman, who has been dean since 1990, said that his reasons for resigning were personal.
"It's really a personal decision to step out of that position and get more engaged with students." Bauman said.
Joseph Bauman
As dean, Bauman has been a guest lecturer in the school, but he never has been a full-time teacher. Prior to becoming dean, his experience was in the business world.
Bauman received a degree in engineering from KU in 1961. He spent most of his career at IBM, where he helped develop the original
Bauman plans to bring some of his professional experience to the classroom. He said he intended to teach courses in manufacturing management and operations.
IBM personal computer. By 1990, when he left IBM for KU, Bauman was the director of quality/development and manufacturing.
Bauman said that the course offerings at the Regents Center had increased and that the M.B.A. programs at both campuses had been redesigned to better prepare the student for the needs of business.
Looking back on his tenure as dean, Bauman is proud of the improvements in the business school both on campus and at the Regents Center in Overland Park.
Allen Ford, professor of business, said Bauman was respected among business school faculty.
"Most of the faculty consider him to be a conscientious and supporting person," Ford said.
scientist and support person. For Jack Gaunnitz, professor of business, was
chair of the search committee that selected Bauman.
Gaummitz admitted that some of Bauman's decisions regarding spending and his lack of a doctorate's degree may have irritated a few faculty members at the business school. But Gaummitz said that Bauman's tenure was free of significant controversy.
"He has flexibility," he said. "He is willing to listen."
Gaunnitz said that several senior faculty members went to Bauman Friday afternoon to try to convince him to stay on as dean.
But Bauman is ready for a change, and he said that a new dean probably would be named by June.
Shulenburger said that he intended to name a search committee by the end of January. The committee will include business school faculty, staff members and students, as well as a dean from another KU school and an alumni representative.
Mr. Mayor? Don't laugh. Slackjaw's Bob Cutler is campaigning for City Commission
Editor's note: This is the first story that will appear in the Kansan profiling city commission candidates.
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
"I want to change the name of Lawrence to a symbol, like Prince, and install UFO landing sights around the city," he said. laughing.
Bob Cutler, lead guitarist for Slackjaw and candidate for Lawrence City Commission, realizes that some people might wonder what a hard-core punk rock musician like himself would do if elected.
Cutler has created quite a stir since he announced a week ago that he wanted to take his show to city hall. People not connected to Cutler's campaign have been passing out filers downtown urging people to vote for him, and a number of downtown merchants have thrown their support behind his campaign, Cutler said.
"There seems to have been a groundswell of support," Cutler said. "I've been surprised at the number of downtown business owners that are really behind me."
Cutler's stance on development in Lawrence might explain why he has the support of downtown merchants.
Outlier said if they elected, he would be hesitant to allow outlet malls like Tanger Factory Outlet Mall in north Lawrence to expand. The expansion would put downtown businesses in jeopardy, he said.
"It's not like I'm anti-growth — it's just things like that have to be done carefully," he said. "Downtown is a valuable asset to the city, and we don't want to destroy that all in the name of more advertising dollars for the local paper."
Kristen Lange Clark, an employee of Love Garden Sounds, 936/12 Massachusetts St., said she supported Cutler because he was new to the political scene in Lawrence.
"I support Bob because he is new blood," Clark said. "He is very socially aware, and he knows a lot about what is going on in Lawrence."
Other Cutler campaign promises are:
to support adding the words' sexual ori
entation' to the city code
to repeal the ordinance that requires new establishments downtown to make 65 percent of their profit from food sales
to allow people between the ages of 18 and 20 to enter bars
Cutler said he appealed to younger voters because of his support of the downtown music scene.
Cutler said the ordinance the commission passed last year restricting the new drinking establishments stifled the Lawrence music scene by preventing new businesses that wanted to feature live music.
Clark said Cutler had a realistic idea of what the live music scene meant to Lawrence. Some members of the commission fail to recognize that the music scene is something that is positive about Lawrence and see only the problems, she said.
To win, Cutler says he'll have to mobilize younger people to register to vote.
"Most of my support base isn't even registered," Cutler said. "But that is kind of the basis of my campaign; to get out and get people registered to vote."
Clark said the owners and managers of Love Garden hoped to set up a voter registration booth in the store and offer a 10-percent discount to anyone who registered.
"I think a lot of the people Bob appeals to have not had any reason to become enfranchised in the system," Clark said. "There has never been a candidate that was there for them before."
"It is really an opportunity to get some kids involved," she said. "We, of course, support Bob as a candidate, but we also support the idea that people should get involved. If you're old enough to vote, you should vote."
Ten candidates have filed to run for the three commission seats currently filled by John Nalbandian, Doug Compton and Bob Shulte. Shulte is the only current commissioner who will not run. The filing deadline is Thursday at noon. The election is April 4. A primary election will take place in February.
Clark said Love Garden employees were excited about the chance to get younger people registered to vote.
Bob Cutter, lead guitarist for the band Slackjaw, rehearses with the group. Cutter recently announced his candidacy for a seat on the Lawrence City Commission.
Historic decision still elicitsemotion
By Brian Vandervliet Kansan staff writer
Twenty-two years ago yesterday, the Supreme Court legalized abortion with the historic Roe vs. Wade decision. Since then, ideologues on both sides of the abortion issue have passionately expressed their beliefs.
At the University of Kansas and in Lawrence, the controversy is the same.
"To me, abortion means death — death for a child and pain for a mother," said Tina Jinkens, Seneca gradu
ate student, who marched with more than 100 others at the annual "March for Life" Saturday in downtown Lawrence.
Jinkens said she marched for what she believed was right. She said that her concept of life was derived from her Christian faith.
"I believe that from conception to natural death, people have a right to life," she said.
Sara Deer is copresident of the KU Pro-Choice Coalition. When Deer, Lawrence senior, had an
The Supreme Court decided in 1973 that a Texas statute prohibiting the abortion of pregnancies that did not threaten the mother's life was unconstitutional on two grounds. (1) Women are guaranteed the right to privacy by the 14th Amendment, and (2) unborn fetuses are not people with the right to equal protection of the law.
abortion two years ago, it was a decision that she was grateful to have the opportunity to make. She said that it allowed her to plan responsibly for a family in the future.
"I felt like it was one of the best decisions I could have made," she said. "My life would have been chaos if abortion had not been legal."
Deer said that the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade was a reminder to her that abortion rights had to be protected. She planned to remember the day by attending an abortion rights workshop Monday in Topeka.
For abortion rights advocates, there is no celebration.
Tom Grelinger, vice president of KU Students for Life, said the day marked a tragedy for unborn life.
"It's a day we regard as the beginning of a holocaust," he said.
Grelinger said that although he felt strongly about his anti-abortion stance, he felt dismayed by recent acts of extremist violence against abortion doctors.
"I utterly reject those acts as being inconsistent with pro-life." he said.
Brebecca Romalis, Wichita senior, said that the lives of women had improved since Roe vs. Wade.
"If somebody cannot afford to have a child, I think they should have that option," she said. "I think it's wrong to make a woman continue a pregnancy if she doesn't want to," she said.
Kansas junior forward Sean Pearson scored a career-high 26 points and led the Jayhawks past the Colorado Buffaloes 91-77 Saturday in Boulder, Colo.
Mile-high heroes
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Growth too much to handle
By Virginia Margheim Kansan staff writer
Biology struggles with lack of space for new students
Kansan staff writer
Angela Desandro, Leawood senior, never has been overwhelmed by the size of the University of Kansas.
"I've always taught KU is just as large as you make it," Desmond said. "You can get personalized attention, you just have to put some time into it."
Desandro may graduate while this still holds true, but getting personal attention is becoming more difficult in the division of biological sciences, in which Desandro is a genetics major. Throughout her college career, Desandro said, she noticed the large size of the division.
"As long as I've been in the program, there have always been classes that are hard to get into," Desandro said.
During the past few years, the number of students majoring in the biological sciences has grown. There were 530 biology majors in 1990; in 1993, there were 896. The environmental studies program also has experienced similar growth: 19 students graduated from the program in 1987; the number of graduates in 1994 was 109.
To deal with the influx of students, the biology division has tried to offer as many sections of classes as possible. But with only 71 professors and about 70 graduate teaching assistants, overcrowding is inevitable.
A notice to students is posted in a hall in Haworth Hall stating that class openers for biology 106, an introductory lab, will not be issued. There is only enough equipment and space for 12 students per lab, although the poster stated that 13 were allowed to enroll in each lab because it was assumed that at least one student would drop. As many as eight labs are offered simultaneously, so the poster suggested that students shop around for a lab with an opening and understand that they may have to wait a semester to take the class.
See BIOLOGY, Page 5A.
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