CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 28,1993
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Haskell president values education
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Between taking doctoral classes at KU, Bob Martin found time to run a university.
Last spring, Martin graduated with a doctorate in instructional leadership from the University of Kansas. But he does not have time to enjoy his sudden lack of course work. Martin also is the president of Haskell Indian Nations University, a job that consumes the majority of his time.
"That was part of the learning experience," Martin said with a slight smile. "I was managing multiple priorities."
Aquet but constant presence at Haskell meetings and functions, Martin is Haskell's top administrator and guide. In addition to managing Haskell's tight federal budgets, Martin has strived to make improving the state of Native-American education Haskell's top priority.
That concern is what has kept Martin, a Cherokee, involved. He said Native Americans often were taught by teachers who did not understand how to communicate with them. Education systems also tend to be standard, he said.
The result, Martin said, is a lack of lawyers, doctors, resource management experts and other professionals in Native-American communities.
"Education is vital to the future," he said. "That has to be the basis from which we go forward."
with the skills Martin learned at KU, he can have a profound effect on the educational services at Haskell, said Suzanne Robinson, associate professor of special education at KU.
"What really impresses me about Bob is his commitment to apply what he has learned to Haskell at all levels," said Robinson, who taught Martin's classes on collaborative work in education. "I felt he took a broad reach in terms of looking at school reform."
BOB MARTIN
One of Martin's recent goals is the implementation of the four-year elementary teachers education program. The program, which will be implemented next year after two to three years of
OCCUPATION:
President, Haskell Indian Nations University
EDUCATION:
AGE:
KANSAN
Bachelor's and Master's degrees in sociology, Appalachian State University, N.C. Doctorate in instructional leadership, University of Kansas
HERITAGE:
FAMILY:
Wife: Luci Tapahonso, associate professor of English at KU
Five Children: Jonathan, Lori, Derek, Misty,
Amber
delay, is designed to train Haskell students to teach in their home communities.
The need is important, he said. Illiteracy on Native-American reservations is still a pressing problem, and more than half of Native-American students drop out of college after one year.
"Hopefully, we'll be implementing the placement of American Indians in the classroom," Martin said. "These teachers should be more culturally sensitive and cognizant of different learning styles."
Martin began his own career in education in his hometown of Pryor, Okla., where he was born 47 years ago. He said the idealism of the 1960s, especially in Native-American communities, inspired him to succeed in school and go into education. He became the first person in his family to earn a college degree.
Martin went on to teach at several Native-American colleges, including Haskell. He served a stint as president of Southwestern Indian Polytechnic
Institute before becoming Haskell's president in 1989.
Haskell represented a change for Martin. The university, which serves about 800 students who attend free as part of the federal government's treaty obligations to Native-American nations, is moving beyond the trade-oriented curriculum of other Native-American colleges. Currently, it is the only Native-American university in the United States.
When Martin isn't working, he spends his time at home with his wife, Luci Tapahonso, associate professor of English at KU and a Navajo. He said the two of them have fostered a tradition of education in their five children. Three of his five children are college-age and currently attending different universities across the United States.
"It's appropriate to have that vision," Martin said. "With a vision, you have goals that you want to become reality."
Surrounding cities offer alternatives
Local hotels booked during graduation
By Shannon Newton Kansan staff writer
During graduation weekend, Simone Wehbe's parents might be sleeping on her apartment floor or in Kansas City.
Wehbe, Omaha, Neb., senior, said that she started looking in September for commencement weekend hotel accommodations for her parents but that she had no luck finding a vacant hotel.
"I called about five hotels in town, and none of them had any rooms," she said. "I didn't have the time or the patience to call every single one."
Wehbe is not alone.
Many graduating seniors who are going to walk down the Campanile Hill for commencement on May 14 are going to have problems finding a place for their family and friends to stay in Lawrence. Many area hotels currently are full for the graduation weekend.
"People are already calling to reserve rooms for graduation in '96 and '97," she said. "We can't take reservations that far in advance, but I'm sure that they will call back in May."
Linda Mazz, manager of the Westminster Inn, 2525 West Sixth St., said that the motel took reservations a year in advance.
Maaiz said that the motel referred people to motels in areas such as
Ottawa or to larger areas such as Topeka and Kansas City.
She said that the hotel also had a waiting list of 25 reservations but that it had to quit adding to it because no one had canceled.
"Maybe some of the people on the waiting list will be able to get a room," she said. "I'm sure some of the rooms will be canceled in January after students get their grades."
Jonnie Gary, relief manager of the Travelodge Motel, 801 Iowa St., said that the motel had been booked since June and that it had a waiting list. But she said that she didn't see any point in adding to it.
She said she didn't anticipate cancellation before commencement, so the motel has been referring people to local hotels in surrounding cities or those that are not yet full, such as the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Dr.
Shawn Keller, an employee at the Holdome, said that of the 192 rooms in the hotel, 81 were still available for graduation weekend.
He said the hotel was offering a package for the graduation weekend for $359 that included a room May 12-14, a shuttle to the commencement ceremony and tickets to a Sunday brunch.
Webe said that her parents probably would not be staying in Lawrence for that weekend but would stay in Kansas City.
"My sister warned me not to have my parents stay with me for that weekend, and I think she's right," she said. "I want to take advantage of my last weekend in Lawrence."
BEER: It's sold from a 40-dog to a 12-ounce bottle
Students guzzle approximately 7,500 gallons of beer from area liquor stores each weekend. This is more than the capacity of an 18-wheel tanker rig.
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popular."
But not all students adhere to the norm. Of 25 students who were informally surveyed at a local bar, nine said that when they went to liquor stores they routinely bought Bud Light, five bought Natural Light, two bought Budweiser, two bought Shiner Bock, two bought Milwaukee's Best, two bought Pete's Wicked Ale, and one each said that they bought Rolling Rock, Schaeffer and Keystone.
At Patterson Liquor, 844 Illinois St,
at least 50 cases of their most popular
beer, Natural Light, is sold every
weekend, said Shelley Patterson, the
store's owner.
Patterson also said that beer sales remained consistent even when new products, such as Zima, were introduced to the market.
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The Associated Press
Debate on trade accord to be settled this week
Opponents argue that the World Trade Organization symbolizes big, global government that will trample American laws protecting the environment, health and safety.
WASHINGTON — In the trench warfare over a new trade agreement, no battle has been more intense than the one waged over the international body being created to police new rules of global commerce.
Conservatives argue that the WTO, where each country will have one vote regardless of its size, is a threat to American sovereignty.
To liberals, the WTO attacks U.S. environmental and health standards they have spent a lifetime building.
President Clinton and supporters argue that fears about the WTO are grossly exaggerated. They insist that creation of a new referee for trade disputes will mean more success in opening overseas markets for U.S. businesses and farmers.
The Clinton administration is predicting it will win when the House votes on Tuesday and the Senate on Thursday.
When the bid for an International Trade Organization was defeated after World War II, supporters of trade liberalization pursued the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the formal title for global trade rules.
But during the Uruguay Round, negotiators sought to eliminate countries' refusals to obey GATT rulings against them. To that end, it decided to eliminate the one-country veto.
Last week the administration struck a deal with Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole, endorsing the creation of a panel of five U.S. judges who could recommend withdrawal from the WTO if the United States lost three cases in a five-year period and the panel found the decisions arbitrary and capricious.
Some free trade supporters worry that the U.S. threat to withdraw has undermined the WTO before it begins operating.
"The core principal of the WTO is the impartial settlement of trade disputes for all nations under the rule of law," said Jagidish N. Bhagwati, a Columbia University economics professor. "How impartial can it be, if the United States is seen as ready to pull out if it loses too many disputes?"
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