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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 30, 1978
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Staff Writer
Committee seeks federal money for Indian studies
By SUSAN MORGENSTERN
A committee trying to establish a formal Native American Studies program at KU is asking a federal agency for $10,291 to support the program, according to Francis Levier, assistant director of KU's Office of Minority Affairs.
Levier said the request for funding was sent yesterday to the National Endowment for the Humanities, in Washington, D.C., and grants to individuals, groups or institutions.
An Ad Hoc College committee on American Indian Studies, made up of faculty from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, approved the request.
The committee wants to establish an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in Native American Studies, offer more courses and hire a director and faculty for the program, according to Don Stull, cochairman of the committee.
THE PROPOSAL to establish an interdisciplinary major will be submitted in mid-April to a College Assembly Committee of the Studies and Advising for approval. Stale said.
If approved, it would then go to the full College Assembly, made up of students and faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It would then go to the office of Academic Affairs and the Kansas Board of Regents for final approval.
In January, a proposal to establish the program under state guidelines for "new and improved" programs, which would have involved state funding, was abandoned at the advice of Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The committee's request to NEH asks for funding for staff salaries, library acquisitions, films, guest lecturers and other operating expenses. Stuil said.
Courses related to American Indians now are cross-listed and taught by faculty from many institutions.
GROUNDWORK for the Native American Studies program has already laid, he said.
Because no formal program exists, Stull said, faculty members are forced to do administrative work and student advising in a competitive American studies in their secrete time.
"WE WISH that we could move faster, but we realize that these things take time," he said.
Stull said the Ad Hoc committee was formed two years ago to study the possible impacts of teaching a Native American Studies program and to make suggestions for the program.
Rita Napier, co-chairperson of the committee, said departments were reluctant to let faculty members teach courses related to American Indians if enrollment in
Officials encourage knowledge of Canada
By JANET WARD
Napier said the program had proven it deserved formal recognition and funding.
Staff Writer
Canada—to most Americans the name calls to mind Eskimos, fur trappers, Mountains and trees. Few realize, for example, that Canada today is a global urban society and that it is America's largest trading partner, far above Canada.
Enrollment in all courses which contained some materials related to American Indians will be available.
But Canadian officials now are trying to give Americans a much more accurate picture of their neighbor to the north. As a part of this effort Gilles Lemaire, Vice-Consult from the Canadian consulate in Chicago, came to the University of Kansas at Towson UF (the university's educational and research opportunities available to them through the consulate).
"CANADA HAS always been important to the United States," Lemaire said, "and in many areas the relations between Canada and the United States are increasing."
But he said American knowledge about Canada was decreasing and some facts that exist are a result of mutual ignorance of the facts.
"People are interested; the courses are viable; they're strong and they're well-trained."
Lemaire, representing the academic relations program of the consulate, said he was visiting major institutions of the Midwest—including Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri—that are served by the Chicago consulate.
"OUR MAIN purpose is to open channels of communication," he said, "to let people know of the information and resources available to them."
Academic relations deals with colleges, universities and even some high schools. It provides a number of services to faculty members in order to receive a Canadian member in their courses.
Direct services that are provided by the program include films on Canadian history, industry, creative arts and sports and recreation. The service also provides a library of resources, speakers and exhibit programs.
Lamaré said that people who would be interested in this information about Canada were involved in a wide variety of fields including history, international relations and science.
THE PROGRAM also can help to facilitate meetings with Canadians in a faculty member's field, he said, and can provide opportunities such as singers and dancers to campus.
A grant program also is provided by the Canadian Embassy to enable faculty of U.S. universities and colleges to undertake study and research relating to Canada to devise new courses in Canadian studies. The grants are provided by traveling expenses for two to six months.
"THE IDEAL thing, of course, is to have whole courses on Canada," Lemma said. "If we can learn more about each other it will prevent problems that might exist otherwise."
Bell said that as an assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, Haymanm's primary investigative targets will be white collar and organized crime, drug traffic and corruption among public officials.
He cited one situation in which greater
Heymann, 45, was chosen to replace Benjamin Civilotti, whose promotion to deputy attorney general is drawing fire in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bell said he would make the nomination following an updated FI check on Haymann's background.
Hermann, a professor of criminal law at Harvard and a one-time member of the U.S. solicitor general's staff, was an associate judge of the case Arcbaild Cox headed that special force.
Prof nominated for Justice job
WASHINGTON (UPF) - Philip B. Heymann, a law professor who served with the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, will be nominated to head the Justice Department's criminal division, Attorney General Griffin Bell announced yesterday.
The demand for such a program at KU was great, Stull said. From spring semester 1974 through spring semester 1976, total enrollment in the 37 courses devoted entirely to the subject of the American Indian totalled 944 students.
knowledge about Canada would have prevented misunderstanding and bad relationship with the people.
During the extreme cold spell last winter, he said, the western part of the United States was running out of energy resources, and Mr. Zuckerman needed energy exports to help the United States.
Each department's funding is determined by its enrollment, she said, which makes the methods enrollments are counted vital to funding prospects for the program.
perience of other schools could serve as examples..
It was a disappointment to Canadians, he said, to read in newspapers that they were being called the "blue-eyed Arabians of the world" and to take advantage of the American trouble.
such courses could not be counted as part of the department's enrollment.
However, most Americans did not know that eastern Canada must import its oil, he said, because it is cheaper than getting it from western Canada.
LEMAIRE SAID prices were raised not to go gauges Americans but to keep up with the latest tech.
"Canadians are very close to American society," he said. "Our problems are similar and our societies are similar, but there still are differences.
Napier said she didn't know if the NEH would award the grant.
But Levier was not optimistic about getting the money.
"We as Canadians have learned a lot from the United States, but there are a lot of opportunities for the United States to gain our experiences, both good and bad," he said.
"INDIANS JUST AREN'T in 'an anymore,'" he said. "That's sad, because I think they're hard."
But, he said, the advantage of establishing a formal program now was that the ex-
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