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Friday. January 30,1976
University Daily Kansan
Faculty says computer essential
By LYNDA SMITH
$faff Writer
The psychology department at the University of Kansas could fall drastically behind other psychology departments unless a research computer is purchased.
That was the conclusion of faculty members of the psychology department yesterday, reacting to the department's inability to obtain funds for a computer.
A computer committee of representatives from the experimental, clinical and social psychology areas in the department have been recruited to assist a mini-computer center to aid research.
Charles Neuering, professor of psychology and a member of the com-mputer department. He said the department hadn't been granted enough funds from the University and that the department had failed to obtain four federal grants. But it still post three years to purchase the computer.
This year, the department submitted a proposal to apply for a grant from the National Science Foundation. University administrators will choose within the next three weeks to submit the grant. Three other schools have submitted proposals for the application.
"We're trying to find a source of funds outside the University. Nearer said, he added, "We don't have any other needs of the department, such as equipment for teaching purposes and training."
The psychology department has requested $173,635 for its proposal, which would cover the cost of a computer and additional operating costs.
Charles Hallenbeck professor of psychology, said the computer would enable faculty members and graduate students to record data in psychological experiments that they couldn't now record, such as electrical impulses used in bf-feedback studies. The research group uses in experiments, be said, such as visual and auditory stimuli.
Hallenbeck also said the computer would save the department time and money in the long run. Now, he said, equipment for experiments is constructed by hand, and each piece of equipment is usually designed exclusively for one experiment.
Edward Morrow, an instructor in psychology who constructs experimental equipment, said experiments that would take only 90 minutes with the computer.
"There are a whole range of experiments that can't be done without a computer." Morrow said. "It's important that a large and active department, such as KU's, with about 40 faculty members and 100 graduate students, has a computer."
Hallenbeck said that the absence of a computer had made attracting and training students more difficult.
"We have about 50 major and 20 Ph.D students a year," he said, "and they wouldn't be well prepared to do research at a university that had such equipment."
Morrow said he didn't know whether the girl in a suit and suffered in past years without a camper.
"It's hard to say because brains and hard work often make up for lack of physical strength."
He said most other universities across the nation had computers for research, such as the University of Colorado, which had an computer-controlled psychological laboratory.
Morrow said the computer wasn't a frivolous request because it was needed to load the app. "It's an extra fee."
The computer could be used to draw other funds to the department, he said, because federal grants for extra equipment for the computer could be more easily obtained.
Minority senators sought
The formation of a coalition of racial minority candidates and their election to the Student Senate is the goal of the Senate Minority Affairs subcommittee.
Rodney Dennis, subcommittee chairman, said the group hoped to elect minority candidates with the support of minority students. He said he had told representatives of a few campus minority representation. He said he had talked to representatives of a few campus minority representation and hoped to visit with more later this week.
Grace Jackson, subcommittee member,
questioned the support of a black student
"If you're going to put up some black candidates for election, you're going to have to consider how much faith black students in that means of representation," she said.
Dennis said he thought the recent districting of freshman and sophomore Senate seats reduced the chances of a governor running in 2014. Hannah, subcommittee member, said she
thought a candidate's success depended on his campaign.
The group decided to contact minority student organizations on campus to try to recruit students for the coalition.
In other action, the subcommittee decided to advertise openings on a Minority Affairs Advisory Board that will channel recommendations to the administration. In a Jan. 22 letter, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, asked Ed Rolfs, student body president, to select about six candidates for the board.
The subcommittee also voted to advertise for a black student to be chosen to serve on the State Colleges Coordinating Committee. Hannah said the committee had representatives from each of the six state-supported schools and that efforts were made to provide a voice for all minority students. The committee wanted to provide channels between students, faculty, the college administrators and the Board of Regents.
The subcommittee will meet again Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
J-school receives grant
The William Allen White School of Journalism will receive a $4,500 grant from the Newspaper Fund for an urban journalism workshop and a high school visitation program for Kansas minority students, it was announced recently.
This is the second year KU has been selected for the grant by the Newspaper Fund, a foundation supported by Dow Jones Industries Inc., to encourage careers in journalism.
The visitation program will receive $2,150 to send minority professional reporters to predominantly minority high schools to give a realistic look at the work of a reporter.
Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism, said yesterday the professional reporters would visit schools whose advertisements displayed the most interest in the program.
The reporters will assist journalism teachers or English teachers who advise the students working on the school papers, Adams said.
He said professional reporters had made 20 visits to high schools last year. Some of the visits were made possible by the support of newspapers in the areas covered by the program and reporters who donated their time, he said.
The workshop program will receive $2,500 to bring students to the University to study news reporting and acquaint them with career opportunities in journalism.
Adams said the grant would be used to pay students' travel expenses to and from the University and their room and board while they were here.
Some of the money will be used to bring guest speakers to the workshop, he said. Adams said George Brown, leutenant governor of Colorado and a graduate of the journalism school, was scheduled to speak at his mentor's workshop, which will be June 12-35.
He said he had been pleased with the success of last summer's program, in which 14 students participated, and any changes would be experimental.
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