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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KAIHUN
VOL.104.NO.47
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY,OCTOBER 27.1994
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O rgasms are like potato chips, Dennis Dailey tells his class. Have one, you want more. "Anyone who tells you differently hasn't
had one," the professor of social welfare savs. laughing.
The students in Daley's Human Sexuality in Everyday Life class offer no reaction — not a surprised look, not even a chuckle. They continue taking notes.
"Nothing shocks me in that class because Dennis Dalley isn't afraid to say anything," says Tom McCall, Lenene senior. "He talks openly with students about his own experiences, and that's why students love him."
That's why almost 600 students fill Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union at 8 a.m. every Monday and Wednesday for Dalley's class. That's why "The Fiske Guide to Colleges" dubbed Dalley as "one of the most popular professors on campus." That's why Dalley, 56, received a Charceller's Distinguished Teaching Professor award in 1990 and won the 1993 Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator award, the highest teaching award at the University of Kansas that is voted on by students.
But popularity does not a class make. The chairs in Social Welfare 303 will sit empty in the spring.
For the first time in its 10-year history, Human Sexuality in Everyday life won't be offered. The School of Social Welfare will offer only one section each fall. Each spring, Dailey will teach three graduate classes to about 100 social welfare students.
Who's to blame? Fingers point in all directions.
Writers to balance. Fingers point in all directions.
The School of Social Welfare says the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences cut needed funding for the class.
The college says social welfare made the decision to cut the class. The Office of Academic Affairs says it is uninvolved.
Regardless of the politics of the decision, the bottom line remains: One of KU's most popular classes, taught by one of KU's most popular professors, will be cut by half. Politics and budgets, things Dalley seems relatively unconcerned with, are the reasons. Dalley just wants to teach the class.
"Decision-making in the University is a mystery to me, and I guess maybe I don't want to know," Dalley confesses. "I'm disappointed, but I have to be realistic about this. I am an employee of the University and a member of the School of Social Welfare faculty, and I don't get my way a lot of the time."
McCall, who is in Dailey's class this semester, says it is important to students that Dailey gets his way on this one.
"By students' senior year, everyone wants to take this class," he says. "This is a class that explores issues that are important to people our age, and Professor Daisy makes it easy to relate those ideas to your own life."
"Deep in my heart, I believe that if the University valued this course for its students, a way would be found
See DAILEY, Page 6A.
Dailey says there must be a way to make the class available to students every semester, but he's not sure how.
Jay Thornton / KANSAN
Students wait in line during enrollment. Enrollment started Friday and will run through Nov. 18.
A method exists for enrolling
Appointment mysteries revealed, to be changed
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
In Spring 1992, three KU students tried to enroll earlier than their assigned enrollment times by changing the dates and times on their enrollment forms.
But the counterfit enrollment forms had one fatal flaw: The students had typed in times when the enrollment staffers were on break. The students were caught, and the Office of Student Life filed a complaint against them.
Rich Morrell, University registrar, said he understood the students' frustration at getting late enrollment dates. But he wants students to know that there is a method to the madness that determines who enrolls when.
Here's how it works.
Here's how it works.
Student athletes go first
Their schedules have to fit their practice schedules.
To qualify as a student athlete, a student must be on the roster of an NCAA sport.
Among the rest of the student body, seniors and graduate students enroll first, followed by juniors, then sophomores, then freshman. The number of semesters students have attended the University of Kansas has no bearing on when they enroll.
Within each grade level, the system gets a bit more complicated.
By Colleen McCain • Photos by Paul Kotz
Each grade is divided into six groups, Morrell said. The groups are determined by the last three digits of a student's six-digit KUID number.
Morrell said students whose last three digits were 000 through 166 made up one group, 167 through 333 made up another group and so on.
The six groups are rotated every semester. If the 000 through 166 group went first this semester, it would go second next semester.
But the rotation system doesn't follow students from grade to grade. Morrell said
That will change next semester when enrollment order will be based on how many hours a student has, Morrell said.
Another problem with the enrollment system in assigning times is that it does not recognize how many hours a student has taken.
Even then, there still will be the problem of determining the order for a group of students who have the same number of hours.
Morrall said he and other administrators had considered using KUID numbers, which are given sequentially, but dropped the idea because it would discriminate against transfer students.
The registrar's office settled on computer-selected random order for groups of students who had taken the same number of hours.
The Kansas men's cross country team enters this weekend's Big Eight Conference meet ranked 25th in the nation. But it will have to beat Iowa State for the title.
Challenger supports term limits, campaign reform
Editor's note: This is the second of two stories profiling the candidates for the 2nd District of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Kansaswill be profiling all the candidates and issues on the Nov. 8 ballot.
By James Evans Kansan staff writer
John Carlin wants to take his experience as governor and from the private sector to Washington.
Carlin, who was governor from 1979 to 1987, said he believed he had the right mix of experience to be an
effective representative of the 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
After leaving the governor's post, Carlin moved back into the private sector in 1988. He founded and worked for Economic Development Associates of Toppea, which specialized
to 1979. He said that he had enjoyed his past political experiences and that he enjoyed making public policies.
"Developing public policy is one of the most difficult challenges we face," he said.
"I think I have a sensitivity to the needs of Kansans," Carlin said.
In addition to his time as governor, Carlin, 54,
served in the Kansas state house as a representative
and as the speaker of the house from 1971
in international trade consulting. In 1990, Carlin became the president of MidwestSuperconductivity of Lawrence, which does research and development of high temperature superconductive materials.
Carlin said that with his work experience, he would be able to help develop Kansas business. He said he would encourage and expand foreign trade for Kansas.
The information superhighway in the 2nd Dis-
Jullanne Peter / KANBAN
See CARLIN, Page 5A
John Carlin is running on the Democratic ticket for the 2nd District of the U.S.
House of Representatives.