THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
CHILLY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Wednesday May 3,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 88, No.142
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
Truck load
Seven-year-old Erick Rayton finally got his ten-foot aluminum attempts. Erick was playing in a parking lot next to his house at downsweep to balance on his toy truck yesterday after a number of 8th and New Hampshire streets.
Contract offer stalls talks
Bv JAKE THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Angry police negotiators left a tense three-hour meeting yesterday morning saying that they would have to start the investigation after the city made an unexpected request.
Kevin Burt, city employee relations director, made four counterproposals, cut down from 18 delivered last week by the policemen, and asked the policemen whether they would accept the proposals for a two-year contract.
Gary Sampson, chairman of the Lawrence Police Officers' Association, argued at several points with Burt about the proposals and said the two-year contract request was not the city's official request before the meeting.
"We CAME TO the table and they sprug
"We CAME TO the table and they sprug
"we have to start a war again." he said. "We'll
have to start a war again."
The policemen's counsel, State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, emphatically rejected the two-year contract offer because they were not satisfied with a one-year contract were submitted only for a one-year contract.
Berman, who apparently was surprised at Burt's request, said he would have to talk with the policemen and write a new set of messages on Friday week before negotiations could continue.
Relations between the negotiators were strained during the meeting, in which Burt delivered a cost analysis of the 13 proposals representing increases the city would have
According to Burt's figures, the policemen's proposals could cost $450,000 to $760,000 more than this year's $1.25 million police budget.
"We certainly can't fund all of these issues," he said. "I feel their 18 are beyond reason."
State department asks for public's criticism
Staff Writer
The Kansas Department of Transportation is conducting a series of meetings to find out what the public thinks about the department's policies, and according to Peter Whitenight, Douglas County Commission chairman, it's an unprecedented
Policemen asked for reclassification of some policemen and corporals, which Burt estimated would cost $63,648 to $70,512. Classification is based on skills; training, education and training department; education and some men were classified in lower ranks than they should be.
BY JEFF TEVIS
AFTER THAT statement policemen met in a closed half-hour session and returned with what Sampson said were the five preliminary proposals for any agreement with the city.
In a public hearing Monday night at Otawa, the department accepted criticism and took a close look at itself through the average citizen's eyes.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa, said, "The state is interested in who wants to bite the bullet or take the cut if they are going to revise their policies."
THE PURPOSE OF THE task force is to devise an economical, balanced and cost-effective strategy.
The meeting was conducted by a task force appointed by Gov. Robert F. Bennett to gather public opinions on the possible reshaping of the state's transportation
Some of the topics under consideration
were revised methods of taxation and the use of lawmaking rather than the use of common law.
Pla Fleecer, vice chairman of the task force, said, "I guess that one thing we are examining besides our road system and its problems is the DOT itself."
The department was formed in August 1975 to replace the old State Highway Commission. The new organization was to help plan for increased coordination among the different modes of transportation - local and state highways, railways, aviation, waterways
However, Fleecer said there were in dications that highway programs were not keeping pace with the expectations of those officials responsible for planning the
Another request, a 6 percent cost-of-living increase in salary derived from the Kansas
"THE QUESTION arises whether present revenues can sustain the level of highway construction and maintenance that users will demand in the future," he said.
See CONTRACT page 10
It was predicted that the total needs for See TRANSPORTATION page nine
Scheduling problems deny exhibit a spring showing
By JOHN FISCHER Staff Writer
An exhibit of Nazi memorabilia at Kennehigh Spencer Research Library that University of Kansas administrators canceled hours before it opened, April 10 will not be rescheduled this spring, a library official said yesterday.
The official, George Griffin, curator of the Kansas Collection at the Library, said the exhibit would not be displayed this spring because of rescheduling problems.
"It won't be opened this spring," he said.
"It is indefinite as to when it will be opened."
Griffin said there were various reasons for not rescheduling the exhibit. One reason, he noted, was that Griffin had just joined with a history course taught at KU, "Inside Hitler's Germany." Because the course is almost over, he said, displaying the exhibit for that class would not be appropriate.
COURSES DURING the regular 16-week semester and Tuesday.
Griffin said another reason was that there were other exhibits already scheduled for
the upcoming event. He said that the Nazi exhibit was scheduled to end this week and that next week an exhibit on "The Wizard of Oz" was scheduled.
He also said that even if the exhibit could be shown, it would take several weeks to set up.
Currently the exhibit is stored in a safe within the library. It was put there because officials hoped that it would be rescheduled.
Griffin said the library would like to snow with the next spring in conjunction with history museum.
KU administrators released a statement Monday that approved the reopening of the hospital, saying it is "investigating" the matter.
It was to open the day after the conclusion of the "Holocaust," a four-part television special on a Jewish family in Nazi Germany in 1945. It marked the start of the Passover, a Jewish holiday.
Another reason, the statement said, was bad publicity that gave what it called a false impression of the opening ceremony and the exhibit.
MR. AND MRS. KEITH Wilson Jr., Kansas City, Mo., own the majority of the display. Wilson said library officials had not notified him on their decision. He said he had suggested to Griffin that Griffen reopen the exhibit May 8 or June 6. May 8 is the 32nd anniversary of V-E Day and June 6 is the anniversary of D-Day.
Wilson said, however, that he would show it again next spring to show it again next spring.
Wilson said the exhibit had originally been scheduled to open Feb. 6, the 38th annual exhibition.
Wilson said the showing of the Nazi collection was the University's idea. The history department and Spencer Library asked him to show his collection, he said.
He said the exhibit was delayed because graphics and explanations cards of objects in it were made.
Athletic advisers delayed
BY KERRY BARSOTTI
Staff Writer
Plans to create another university advisory board to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation composed of "red-hot 'Hawks" supportive of KU athletics have been indefinitely postponed, Mike Harper, student body president, said yesterday.
athletic director, to form a student group outside of the Senate to advise KUAC.
Harper said he was upset when he heard of the plan by Jerry Waugh, assistant
Citing student representation on the Senate Sports Committee, the Seating Committee and the KUAC board, Harper was unaware of another student board was unnecessary.
Although the work is long and monotonous, all the toughness agree that the money makes it all worthwhile. Melvin Polzin
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
(left) and Gary Pugh take a break from their work as the drill continues its constant search for oil. For story and pictures see WEEKDAY page six.
Rouahnecks
HE SAID he met with Waugh and Clyde Walker, director of men's athletics, last week to discuss his concern about the student board.
"I told him that if he wanted to worsen the relationship between his senators and senate members, he was on the right treaty," he said.
Harper said that he and Waugh agreed to postpone the plan indefinitely and decided that any student appointments would be made by Harper.
In an April 19 address to the President's Council of the Interfraternity Council, Waugh announced plans for the board and requested that each fraternity appoint a "red-hot 'Hawk who wants to see KU teams win."
"We read in the Kansan every day that input is not being sensitive. We want it to be sensitive." Wang
Waugh said the proposed student board was suggested to increase student activity.
"Right now there are four students on the KUA team. We want more student work. We also need to get the job done."
When asked whether he was unhappy with student representation on the KUAC board,
Dave Baker, president of IFC, said he
Baker was a piece of furniture at KUAC to get studs.
"I THINK the athletic council is sincerely interested in what students want and are interested in getting additional input from students. Then they would like to see us," he said.
"The implication was that with only four people's hard to get representation for them."
Reggie Robinson, student body vice president, said student opinion was adequately represented by committee appointments and appointments to the Board.
"They seem to be trying to get around being to deal with students on the board," he said.
"This way, they could pick students as 'you men' and say that they have student opinion."
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Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
WASHINGTON—Demeasle plea by Congress to temporarily withdraw the proposal to sell jets to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, President Jimmy Carter said yesterday that withdrawal of the proposal would question U.S. commitments and that he would not comply with the requests. Congress has about 30 days to disprove any part of the proposal by majority vote of both houses. See story page two.
Weather . . .
Skiers will continue to be partly cloudy today and tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service. The high temperature today and tomorrow should be between 20°F and 35°F.
Congress stuck with jet sale study
Locally...
City commissioners have buckled under to the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce in deciding to scale down an ordinance that regulates large, unsightly signs. At the same time, commissioners want to ban the posting of small notice boards and to increase the number in jail for anyone who posts such notices. 'See today's lead editorial page,' want
Mandatory teaching evaluations are proposed
By GENELINN Staff Writer
If the Student Senate has its way, the time-consuming forms that students fill out to evaluate professors will take more time next spring. However, both students and professors say they think it would be time well spent.
The Senate Academic Affairs Committee will make a report at tonight's Senate meeting on plans to devise a mandatory standard for the evaluation of professors this summer.
The program might begin next spring if the KU administration approves it, Susan Regier, committee chairman, said yesterday.
The program could result in better teaching for students and a fairer system for awarding promotions and tenure to professors, she said.
REGIER'S CONTENTION that a widely used feedback program would make awards more fair is seconded by Phil McKnight, director of the Curriculum and Instruction Survey, KU's current voluntary feedback program.
"I think a mandatory feedback program makes teachers accountable for teaching, and any time people are accountable they do a better job." Regier said.
"Candidates for promotion and tenure are
punished when there is not much information evaluating their teaching ability. McKnight said, "In that case, McKnight would be decided to decide on subjective information."
Despite the possible benefits professors might get from a mandatory evaluation program, McKnight said, there probably would be resistance from some professors on the grounds that their academic freedom would be violated.
William Scott, president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said he had reservations about a mandatory program because it might not be a good way to measure excellence in teaching.
However, Regier said students were qualified to evaluate their professors.
He said that in a recent experiment, students who were taught a certain subject by a professional actor rated their teacher higher than did students who were taught by a teacher who was knowledgeable about the same subject.
SCOTT SAID THE actor received a higher rating because his students thought he was charismatic. He said that students were not able to judge how well a person taught.
"Only students know how well a teacher does his job in the classroom," she said.
"Because the system is voluntary, usually only very good teachers use it, and average or slightly above average teachers who use it come out looking in comparison." "she
The key to having an effective system of evaluation is to make the system fair and mandatory, Regier said. She called the current evaluation program unfair because it penalized professors who were average or slightly above average, she said.
That hurts the average professor, Reger said.
McKnight agreed that the current program was not used by enough professors. He said that last fall he asked instructors of 900 classes selected at random to use the program but that only about 550 teachers complied.
While discussing the importance of student evaluation in the awarding of
REGIER ALSO SAID that of the five choices students had on the current feed-back questionnaire, the top four choices stated that the professor was above average and the top choice stated that the professor was the best the student had ever had.
To develop a more fair questionnaire, the Academic Affairs Committee will examine dozens now used by other universities and colleges to prepare their curriculum programs at other schools, she said.
Michal said there was no set number of classes that had to be evaluated.
promotions and tenure, June Michal, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the University committee on promotions and tenure already took student evaluations into consideration and would not consider a candidate unless a representative number of classes had been evaluated by his students.
She also said it might be difficult to implement a mandatory system.
"DIFFERENT SCHOOLS and departments in a diversified school system," she said. "Their maîtresses," she said.
The deans of the schools of Fine Arts and Engineering both said they schools could not use questionnaires designed for the rest of the University.
"Questions used to rate a teacher's use of reading assignments don't apply to a piano instructor." James Moeser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said.
However, both Moeer and William Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, said they would not object to a mandatory test for their school's coaches could devise their own questionnaires.
Regier said that she understood that some schools and departments had special
See FEEDBACK page 10