Mondav. November 24. 1975
Timetable production takes time
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By FRED STUESSI
The time is spring enrollment. The place is Allen Field House. The person behind the enrolment table says that the class is full. The student asks, "What is the substitute time or, if necessary, a new class."
This relatively simple procedure wouldn't be nearly as easy if it weren't for the work of Pat Elliott and her staff at the Office of Records. Records to produce the class Timetable.
Early in the semester, before classes officially begin, you are preparing the next week's work.
"Each semester," Elliott said yesterday, "the comp center sends us a four-part computer printout of the class schedule for each year for each department at the University."
She keeps one copy and sends the others to dean of each department and the ordained.
The department then makes any necessary corrections or changes, she said, and the staff will do so.
Elliott said, "We take our copy and check it against the list of approved courses for the department."
Her staff, she said, then keypunches the necessary cards for the computation center to produce a new set of printouts listing classes, times and rooms available.
When the printouts are received, Elliott
and, she sends a copy back to each department for additional changes or
While the second printouts are being checked by the departments, she compares the first corrected printout against the reservation book. This book contains a list of the days, times and rooms available for each class, she said.
Elliott said that she then checked for classes that had been assigned to the same room at the same time. There are apples in the classroom, too. The student but, opt about 150 are a problem.
Many classes, Elliott said, are scheduled at the same time intentionally. A class in English might also be credited as a Journals class, but this is not the meet at the same hour in the same room.
"Classes sent me by department that don't list a room," he said, "are com
These classes are grouped with the actual errors in scheduling found by the check in a database, but the errors in modified problems, she said. Each class is then assigned a room and time on a one-to-one basis by consulting with the system until all of the scheduling has been completed.
With only about 175 rooms available on
the campus, these classes are assigned
on a space available.
The number of rooms for classes is actually less than 175, she said, because auditoriums are assigned later, after it has been decided which classes will need that much seating capacity.
Elliott's office handles the class scheduling section of the Timetable. The other sections are done by Gary Thompson, assistant registrar.
His job, Thompson said, is to arrange and check the information found in the Timetable. He said that perhaps there was too much information, but that like a dictionary, the timetable carried information that might be needed.
The alphabetical enrollment schedule for freshmen, sopromores and juniors is arranged by Thompson. He said that it was done on a six-semester rotation basis. This allows each student to enroll at least once during his first three years, he said.
Other schools, Thompson said, sell
tortoises but at KU that hasn't been
released.
The future of collective bargaining at the University of Kansas and William Shockley's recently disrupted speech were two of the topics discussed at Friday's executive committee meeting of the local association of University Professors (AAUP).
AAUP talks of role in faculty bargaining
George Griffin, chapter president, told the committee the AAPU would have to decide whether it wanted to take on the role of faculty bargaining representative.
Russian reflects on life as a poet
By NANCY RICHARDS
To Eugeny Novikovur, Russian poet, the choral poems are endless, as endless as the moves.
Vinokurov, who has been visiting the University of Kansas the past week, spoke Friday of his life as a poet. Gerald Mikelson, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures, translated the poet's words as he spoke.
Vinokurok said he first wrote poems when he was about 9 years old. He said his early poems were very pessimistic lamentations wore them, in imitation of the Russian poet Neset Elsum.
However, it wasn't until 1944, when he was 19 years old, that he began to write poetry.
Many of his colleagues also wrote about their experiences in the war, he said, but they weren't able to write a second book of poetry.
His first book of poetry, "Verses About Duty," was published in 1951. Vinokov raised the book's main theme and mood were the result of his experiences in World War II when he fought at the front as an artillery officer.
"I wasn't an exception at the time," he said. "The thing that made me different was that I continued writing poetry after a first book."
Vinokurov said that "Verses About Duty"
practically wrote itself because his im-
pression was clear.
It was a second book of poetry that caused him difficulties. He said he wasn't certain what he meant, but it was a difficult one.
"The difficulty was that I had to remain in possession of what I had discovered in my first book, but develop further," he said. "I knew what I had discovered about rwseil."
Vinokurov's second book of poems appeared in 1956 and is called "Bleu". Vinokurov said the book's title was from a poem by Nina Sakharov that expresses happiness in a peaceful, postwar life.
Since 1956 Vinokurov has published about one book of poetry each year. His most recent work, "Contrasts," was published a month and a half ago.
About 40 books containing collections and selections of Vinokuro's works have been published and 1.5 million copies of those have been translated into 16 foreign languages.
Vinokurov said that in March of 1976 he would be traveling to England to publish his book *The Science of War*.
Vinokurov graduated from the Literary Institute in Moscow in 1951. He said the Institute helped young writers to develop their writing skills, with a general education in the humanities.
Vinokurov was an associate professor at the Institute for six years. He has also been a member for the past four years of the editorial board of "New World," a Russian literary journal. He heads the poetry section of the magazine.
Douglas County will seek bigger voice in legislature
Douglas County commissioners, who are seeking a greater voice in the Kansas Legislature, may join the Kansas Association of Counties (KAC).
Until the KAC was formed, Kansas
lobbies lobbyists sponsors for
Kansas county interests.
The KAC was formed last week in Wichita at the annual meeting of the Kansas Official Council, a group of county officials. KAC comprise the boards of county commissioners who choose to become members.
Commissioner I.J. Stoneback said yesterday that the Douglas County Commission would consider joining soon. However, he said the commissioners hadn't decided on when they would discuss KAC membership.
The committee agreed to pursue the question of the AAUP's role in collective bargaining at the next meeting, scheduled for the second week in February.
The KAC was formed at the recommendation of a committee of county commissioners, engineers and clerks. The committee has studied ways to increase the efficiency of county government since November 1973.
"We felt they were doing a good job." Stoneback said yesterday, "but there just wasn't enough representation. The counties didn't think they were getting a fair shake." They had to recruit own lobbyists, who would support increased legislative appropriations for the counties.
In its recommendation, the committee suggested that counties "maintain an effective working relationship" with the nursing home staff and that they be warned against duplication of activities.
KAC members' boards will pay $200 annual dues plus one-half cent for each person in the county and the equivalent of 16 mill of the county property valuation. A mill is $1 for each $1,000 of assessed property valuation.
The committee suggested an annual budget of $38,619.35 for office space, research, publications and personnel, including lobbyists.
The faculty now has that right, after last week's ruling by the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) that permitted formation of such a unit at KU.
Vinokurov said he was working on his latest book of poems. He said he had been doing some of the writing during his visit to KU. The poet has been conducting seminars on 20th century Russian poets, including Nikolai Zabolotsky and Marina Tepia.
This is Vinkurov's first trip to the United States and he said his impressions of the trip were still swirling about in his head. He has been very impressed with the University.
Besides the dues, Douglas County would pay $728.12 in half-cent fees and $240.93 for the mill equivalent for a $719.15 annual total.
Mikkelson said he was working on a monograph study of all Vinkovko's poetry. He said Vinokurov had been helping him with the study during his visit.
"The conversations I have had about literature have been very useful to me," he said. "This experience has already inducted me into a great deal, offering me some new horizons."
Committee members decided that some statement of principle supporting freedom of speech was called for in light of the Shockley incident.
Shockley was on campus to discuss his theories of race-intelligence correlation but was prevented from speaking by a group of students.
It was agreed that a statement of the AUAP position would be drawn up, signed by the executive committee and released to chancellor, AUAP members and the public.
The members agree to draft letters urging faculty members not in AUAP to join the chapter, and urging apathetic AAUP students to participate in the chapter's activities.
In other action, the committee appointed Robert Enggass secretary of the chapter. Nominations are still being sought for the position of chapter vice president.
The executive committee also agreed: to include the latest salaries survey in the upcoming AAUP newsletter; on the agenda for its meeting with the chancellor and executive vice chancellor on Nov. 26; to meet with state representatives from Lawrence to discuss legislative goals of the AAUP and to meet again Dec. 9.
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