Heavy enrollment blamed for persistent IEC faults
By DAVID HAUBER
BY DAVID HAUBER and BILL UYEKI
When Foster Hall, the former location of the Intensive English Center (IEC), was destroyed in August 1974, it was hoped that much of the concession surrounding it since 1972 also would be leveled.
Although the building was removed because its deterioration was a source of controversy, the essence of many of the charges brought by foreign students against IEC continue to crop up.
In February 1975, IEC Director Edward Erazmus resigned after more than 10 years as the center's vice president.
A new director, Michael Henderson, was appointed in September 1975.
Henderson said last week that he was going to speak to the IEC Advisory Committee today regarding some of the center's problems, which he said he thought still existed.
"I don't think it is one of the best," Henderson said of the center. "I think we could improve our
teaching methods and the type of help we give our students in adjusting to American university Life and I know, given ideal conditions, we can certainly teach them well. We are certainly like to have a lower student-teacher rate."
HENDERSON SAID he was going to be speaking to the committee on the subject of allowing IEC students to take University of Kansas courses and about them being admitted to the University.
"The students' problems are important to me," he said. "I'm going to do my best to explain the students how the system works while at the same time I want them to do to upgrade the quality of their instruction."
Foreign students interviewed last week both criticized and oared the IEC.
A group of Iranian students who learned English in Iran said IEC had helped them in their KU classes. But they said that IEC was good for students with no previous education in English.
ANTONIO ESCALONA, a Venetian student in his second semester of IEC courses, said that last
"I hope this (sameer), will be better than the one," he said. "The first day was so bad for me."
semester he had to wait four hours in line at Allen
Field House to enroll in IEC courses.
Escalona said that the majority of IEC instructors were good but that some were bored in the process.
Oswald Rodriguez Venenuela graduate student in business, said the final exam in IEC was difficult because class exercises and the final exam didn't cover the same material.
"If you don't get an American friend," he said, "you would be impossible to get English as a second language."
RODIGHUEZ SAID he thought that improvements in class sizes this semester would make
Some students weren't as optimistic about the center. One student from the Middle East said, "I studied English in my country but because I studied English in my country, if you have American friends, it helps."
He also said that he had a 3.5 GPA in his KU courses.
"In the end, there's no benefit," he said of IEC. An Iranian student said that she had a diploma in England when she came to KU from England. She said she still required to take IEC courses last semester.
KHAIDL AL KHIABIU, Oran second semester IEC student, said, "The main reason it is always they want to keep you in the IEC. They depend that you don't know what's going on."
He said the different classes in the IEC were almost the same in the middle levels. Most students were not interested in it.
"I think those people in the English center are cheating people," she said. "I heard that this English center is not attached to the University and they are charging people much (for tuition)."
Yoko Nagami, Nagano, Japan, senior, said she had taken one semester of IEC courses and that of the students who complained about IEC were the ones who never attended classes.
Last semester there was a mean average of 16 per cent absenteeism in IEC courses, according to the survey.
PARVIZ-FARZANEH, an Iranian student son he had just taken the proficiency entrance exam and gotten a B on it. He said that he was put in an IEC class and that his first homework assignment was to write the alphabet. He said that he had been promised a class change.
Jamshad Saberi, Tehran, Iran, junior, said most Iranian students were engineers and that most could understand formulae and computations without a very extensive vocabulary.
"We came here to study engineering, not English," be said, and added that he thought most Iranian students went home to find jobs after attending education rather than staying in the United States.
"Just as long as we can understand our engineering professors, we don't need to learn all that vocabulary," said Saberi, a civil engineering major.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
See IEC, page 5
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, February 2. 1976
Russian says KU receptive
See page 3
By LYNDASMITH
Legislators from the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee will meet this afternoon with University of Kansas administrators to review budget requests before state budget hearings begin in mid-February.
With few exceptions, Gov. Robert F. Kennedy signed a law requiring legislature KU's staff to 1977 budget requests.
Bennett recommended what Chancellor Archie R. Dykes called Saturday the "top priorities" of the budget: a 10 per cent merit salary increase, a 12 per cent increase in tuition fees and an additional tuition funding and personal need as a result of increased enrollment.
IN A LETTER SENT to Dykes in late December, Bennett said most special students have been given his recommendation 'in keeping with your statement to me that the number one priority for higher education is the com- pletion year of the Regents' three year program.
The salary increase is the third part of Bennett's three-year program to raise KU's faculty salaries to the mean faculty salaries American Association of Universities (AAU)
THE UNIVERSITY has requested 74 new unclassified positions, 24.7 classified positions, and $1,372,071 for the 1,110 more Lawrence campus next year. Nilsson said.
Keith Nicher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said the OOE was all in place. He also included teaching materials and building and maintenance equipment. He said the general base increase of 12 per cent was the result of a boost of inflation and increased enrollment.
The $1,372.07 total will be reduced by $1,321, Nitcher said, to account for 2 per cent shrinkage in classified personnel and 5 per cent shrinkage in unclassified personnel.
Shrinkage, Nitcher said, is a figure representing the amount of money not used when positions remain vacant because of other deaths, retirement or other reasons.
Nichard said $28,400, or $24 for each student, for ODD and also been requested to provide $16,500.
HE SAID he couldn't predict whether the legislature would approve or reject the funds for increased enrollment but he said the requests were realistic.
"The students are here," he said, "and we have to have them ready." He said his arms, shoulders, and armies to handle them.
Nitcher said that if the 10 per cent salary increase weren't granted by the legislature, the University wouldn't be able to reach the median salaries of the AAU.
After two years of the Governor's three-year program, Nilcher said, KU ranks 18th out of North Central AAU universities at the time. He was a professor of professor level, 14th to the assistant
professor level and 11th at the instructor level.
"I if we don't get the 10 per cent increase," Mitcher said. "It will then be more difficult to grow."
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS by the Governor are for $166,000 for library books and journals, the University's share in the Governor's proposal for library improvements in the six regents' institutions, and for $194,874 for increased utilities costs.
Bennett's recommendation is $16,000 more than the Board of Regents' request.
See BUDGET page five
Poll favors death penalty
By JOHN FULLER
Area residents who responded to a recent poll sent out by State Senator Arden Booth (R-Lawrence) favored mandatory prison terms for crimes committed with firearms and restoration of the death penalty. They also opposed removal of penalties for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana.
Booth, who represents Douglas and Leavenworth counties, said last night that he had received more than 600 responses to a newspaper questionnaire he had spent in New York City. He said he took the poll to find out how his constituents felt about 11 important issues.
Both said he concluded from the poll that an overwhelming majority of respondents favored the restoration of the death penalty for specified crimes and mandatory prison sentences for crimes committed with a firearm. Of those polled 71.2 per cent were charged with 69 percent favored mandatory prison terms for crimes committed with a firearm.
Because the poll was released during Christmas breast Booth said he probably would not be a member.
He said there was little indecision on the marjuan issue: 57.4 percent strongly disagreed with the removal of penalties for the marjuan or less and 26.9 per cent agreed.
section of the student population at KU as he could have.
Respondents also reacted strongly to the issue of public employees, including teachers
"They say loud and clear, 'Don't give public employees the right to strike,'" Booth said. About 68 per cent held that opinion while 28.8 per cent favored teacher's right to strike. Only 5.2 per cent were indifferent to the issue.
Booth said the responses he got would definitely influence his decisions in the legislature. Most respondents signed their names.
He said he had checked their addresses and was convinced of the poll's validity.
See POLL page 2
on the closing seconds clicked off, it became apparent that the Jayhawks had a victory over K-State in the bag. Expressing his enjoyment during the final minute is Phil Doyle's signature move.
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
All right
Public views city reports
Lawrence city commissioners will continue discussions at 3: 30 p.m. today on two reports filed last month by a six-man committee that investigated charges of city mismanagement.
Meeting in a public study session, the commissioners are expected to comment on the second report, which was filed last Tuesday by committee members Dennis Smith and Alvin Samuels, both city employees, and Muriel Paul.
The second report, which was read at the regular commission meeting, said two months of interviews with city labor and management substantiated mismanagement charges, including alleged failure to enforce the police department, poor leadership in the court and sanitation departments and irresponsibility by City Manager Buford Watson.
The first report, presented to the commission Jan. 20, was signed by committee members Marnie Ararginger and Donald Bimbs, both city commissioners, and the bims of the City of Samulms, Smith and Paul refused to sign the first report, saying it was unspecified.
At a study session last Tuesday, the
commission examined findings and
gathered recommendations.
Charges of mismanagement have been made by the United Public Employees' Association, which several months ago and the commission to investigate city hall.
Today's study session will be held in the commission meeting room on the fourth floor of the First National Bank of Lawrence, 900 Massachusetts.
Med Center faults linked to inflation, budget
By BILL SNIFFEN
Staff Write
University of Kansas administrators yesterday called a legislative report on the KU Medical Center helpful and useful, attributed the report's negative findings to "unparalleled inflation" and a "severely restrictive budget ceiling."
The report, issued Thursday by the Kansas State Legislative Post Audit
Committee, said managerial improvement was needed in all five areas that the committee studied: housekeeping, laundry, facilities, dietetics and purchasing. The report also criticized the Med Center's record-keening.
The report made recommendations to improve overall efficiency and cut costs at the
"We plan to implement all the recom-
Summer job hunt is starting now
By LIZLEECH Staff Writer
BvLIZLEECH
Staff Writer
Maybe February seems a bit too early to be worrying about summer jobs, especially if one can be obtained through family or friends. But for students who don't have such connections, it might not be too early to start looking.
Many college students interviewed by the Kansas in the past week said they had started applying for summer jobs. Some others had applied but were counted, but who you knew. Others said they relied on employment agencies or University of Kansas services for help. And some businessmen interviewed said they were too early to apply for summer jobs.
It might even be too late.
BRIAN GAUDREAU, Wichita junior, said he got a job working in an oil field near Wichita through both friend and family connections several summers ago.
"That's the only way you can get a job and it's pretty depressing," Gaudreau said. Gaudreau said he was an accounting major, but he is being trying to land a job in a bank. But he said if he couldn't get the bank job, he could easily fall back on his old oil field job.
plication deadline for many summer jobs of interest to students already had passed.
MAX GEAREHART, area manager of U.S. Civil Service in Wichita, said the ap-
"This includes students who are enrolled in a specific area or have had experience in that field," he said. "For example, the Department of Agriculture-Forest Service might hire students for surveying, power control, forestry and recreation."
"Those positions required Civil Service written exams, and also includes tests for engineering and physics, for example," Gearheart said.
For clerical and white collar jobs, including lifeguard duty the application process is complicated.
Gearheart the closing date for federal jobs related to some students'
"Normally, summer jobs are filled by people in that area, and there isn't just that it takes a long time."
He said many students preferred to live at home during the summer because they couldn't afford to live elsewhere on summer salaries.
GARHEART SAID that there always are more applicants than it that it took them all those jobs were
Gearheart said the Civil Service had codes that restricted the hiring of relatives. He said that students should apply early for jobs, and that the Civil Service would
"I have seen a lot of instances of two applicants being pretty even in qualifications, but the one who knew him said, "he said, 'so I think it will help to apply early.'"
start receiving applications for the summer of 1977 in November 1976.
A ST. LOUIS FRESHMAN said she would begin her search for summer employment in two weeks because she didn't have any "connections."
Barbara Jerseen, Osawatamie freshman,
said that she already had applied for jobs at
several businesses, but that she hadn't
received any releges.
"There just aren't many jobs in small towns, and it always seems that Friends and Relatives are the main source of income."
BUT PAUL JACKSON, Wichita
sophomore think such con-
dition were necessary.
"I think anybody can find a job if they try hard," Jackson said. "I got mine after looking for only two days, and I didn't know anyone."
Annie Garretson, Wichita senior, said she had worked at a camp in Colorado for four summers because she had attended the camp as a child.
"Usually people who work there were once camper, because you can't find them," she said.
unless they really had a feeling for the camp." Garrett said.
STUDENTS INTERESTED in obtaining internships in their majors should contact placement directors in their schools in the near future, two deans indicated.
Frederick C. Madaua, placement director for the School of Business, said the school helped arrange internships for accounting majors in the past two years.
Because he hadn't met with students to explain the program yet, Madaus said he didn't know how many students would be placed.
"It's a very limited program and we'd like to expand." he said.
"I haven't gotten any replies yet, but industries usually start surveying their staff before hiring."
MADAU SAID he's just sent letters to 65 employees and helping them to hire accounting
"We are definitely expecting it to be better than last year because of the bad weather," said.
Dana Leibengood, assistant dean of the School of Journalism bandits job placement with the University of Texas too early to tell exactly how many students would be placed, but that they already were.
mendations we can afford." Hospital
administrator Merlin I. Olson said varderas
said he anticipated that between 50 to
see JOB HUNT page 3
Some of the recommendations would cost too much to implement, he said. The restrictive budget was one cause of the outage. It was Med Center's management, Olson said.
BECAUSE THE MED CENTER can't afford to hire need staff people, supervisors have difficulty performing all the jobs assigned to them, he said, including many record-keeping, a process criticized in the Post Audit Committee's report.
"We can't hire the people we need," Olson said.
Another reason for the report's negative findings, according to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, is the Med Center's low expenditures ceiling. That ceiling limits what the Med Center can spend from patient-generated revenues.
Also, he said, the state system of classifying public employees places hospital staff members at too low a salary level, and the email is that the jobs are no longer attractive.
Dykes said a managerial study would provide more depth than the Post Audit Committee's study, and said some private consulting firms had already been consulted on the proposed legislation of Regents and the state legislature is needed before a study can begin. Dykes said.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett said last week he would propose legislation that would appropriate about $200,000 to finance a study of the Med Center by a private firm.
WHILE A PRIVATE HOSPITAL can raise patient fees to support itself, Dykes said, and the same inflationary medical costs. The University requested an increase of $1.1 million in its expenditure ceiling last fall. It may be considered during this legislative term.
funds are available, and until the regents authorize such a study."
MAX BICKFORD, executive officer of the Board of Regents, said the proposed managerial study hadn't yet been completed. "The proposal is the regent's next meeting later this month."
Both Olson and Dykes agreed in general with the Post Audit Committee's findings.
"We feel the study was useful and helpful to the University," Dykes said.
Olson disagreed with three recommendations of the report, he said. One, the increased use of frozen foods would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in freererequipment. Olson said. Another recommendation was to eliminate financial losses by buying frozen foods directly from the Center, Olson said, which basically meant an increase in food prices.
"If that were done," Olson said, "we wouldn't have any customers."
THE THIRD RECOMMENDATION that Olson disagreed with was that the Med Center have all its laundry done by outside workers. The team needed some laundry facilities of its own.
The Post Audit Committee found that the auditory department didn't "meet its goal of reducing errors in data."
The report also said the Med Center is paying more per pound for laundry work and cleaning.
DVKES SAID he'd been aware of most of the problems written in the committee's report for some time. His administrative realignment of Jan. 1, which gave Russell Miles, associate vice chancellor of the Med Center, control of housekeeping duties on campus, led to an increase in problems we'd recognized at the Med Center." Dvkes said.
"The legislature's post auditor (Richard Brown) noted in his report to the committee that the administrative realignment which was underway would be a number of the problems." Dykes said.
The realignment would help solve the managerial shortcomings that the Post has been facing.