Thursday, December 1, 1977
Students get say in picking profs
Bv LINDAHINEMAN
Staff Writer
Business students now have more say in the recruitment selection of faculty members for the School of Business because they are less likely to fall by the School of Business Assembly.
The proposal added students to faculty candidate-evaluation committees.
Students now can participate in discussions and evaluations of candidates for business faculty positions, and they also have a vote now on the committee that will nominate the dean on offers of appointment. John Toleman, associate dean of business, said.
Before, Tollefson said, students were able
to attend lunches and seminars to meet candidates and to express their preferences to faculty members who would then evaluate the candidates' qualifications.
However, he said, students were not allowed to participate in discussions about the course.
The proposal to allow students to attend these meetings was written by Rick Chambers, Lindenhurst, Ill. senior, the undergraduate student representative on the executive committee of the School of Business.
Although students have been involved in making policy in the School of Business at the University, they are not actively
Chambers said discussions of candidates for faculty positions and discussions of the performances of faculty members considered as faculty personnel matters.
He said that the executive committee had decided that candidate discussions and faculty performance discussions were different matters and that there was no need to exclude students from discussions of candidates for new positions.
were "consciously excluded" from faculty personnel matters.
Under Chambers' proposal, 11 students are eligible to attend discussions of candidates. They are the two students on each team, and the seven students on the recruiting committee and the seven
students in the School of Business Assembly. Tollesfon said these students were by the Kansas Undergraduate Business and by the Graduate Business Council.
Students could then express their candidate preferences to one of the 11 students who would attend the meetings at which candidates were evaluated, she said.
Other students may attend luncheons and workshops to meet candidates, Janet VanCleave, a member of the recruiting committee, said.
He said responsibility for final action in selecting new faculty members rested with the dean of the School of Business, Joseph Pichler, and with the executive committee.
Florida students better at reading than math
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - First scores from the 117 question literacy test that Florida youngsters must pass to get high school diplomas show that a vast majority can read, but that about 40 per cent cannot. The state also required to compare prices of goods on sale.
Results of the two-part basic literacy test
KU seminar to provide fire advice
During a three-day seminar at the University of Kansas, state fire investigators will learn how to properly investigate cities and communities in the United States.
Max Thomas, director of fire service training for KU's Division of Continuing Education, said recently that the seminar would be attended by more than 100 Kansas fire fighters and police officers who are involved in investigating suspicious fires.
The Kansas Arson Detection and Investigation Seminar, beginning on Dec. 14, will benefit Kansans by improving their fire security, increasing efficiency in dealing with Thomas, said Thomas.
KU's training seminar is financed by state funds and is free to all who attend, he said.
"All the seminar is going to cost is time getting here, and their expenses while there."
Firemen often have unknowingly destroyed evidence of arson during their work.
Information presented at the seminar, to be held at KU's Space Technology Center, will include the investigation of arson, theft, and rampage, cup, and methods for preparing court cases.
Thomas said evidence indicating arson often is cleaned up with a fire. Once a fire is under control or out, he said, fireman quickly start the clean-up process.
According to a recent study by the Stanford Research Institute, less than 1 per cent of incendiary fires enriched in convalescence were in fire crews in cleaning up fire damage. Thomas said.
According to Larry Stemmerman, Lawrence fire inspector, about a third of all fires that occur in the United States are related to arson.
The number of incendious fires in the United States from 1975 to 1976 increased by more than 20,000. The estimated loss increased by $243 million.
Stemmerman said that in Lawrence there were 16 arson-related fires out of 747 firefighters on Monday.
He said, however, that there had been more than 100 fires with unknown causes and some of them probably could be added to the arson list.
Stemmerman said three Lawrence fire investigators and other personnel from the Lawrence Fire Department would attend the seminar.
Various items reported stolen in campus thefts
More than $4,000 worth of copper wire, auto parts and clothing, have been reported stolen in various crimes since the beginning of 2016, including holiday break, KU police said yesterday.
Theves removed 20 spools of copper wire, valued at $3,820, from the wire storage area of the Facilities Operations physical plant and transferred them to Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, KU police said.
In another theft, KU police reported that an automobile battery, valued at $40, was removed from a car parked in the southwest parking lot of McCollium Hall sometime between the beginning of the holiday break and Tuesday.
KU police were notified of the theft Tuesday.
Also stolen during the same period was an auto grill, which was removed from a car parked in Oliver Hall parking lot, KU police said. The grill was valued at $75.
KU students playing raquette Tuesday in Robinson Gymnasium discovered, after finishing the game, that $170 worth of clothing had been stolen, police said.
administered to 120,000 high school juniors in Florida last October were released
The stolen clothing consisted of warm-up suits, two ski jackets and a down ski jacket.
Investigations of the thefts are continuing, KU police said.
THIS YEAR'S JUNIORS are the first students who will be denied diplomas unless they pass the test, which covers math and language skills. Students with reflectable ability to solve day-to-day problems.
Those who fail either part will be given remedial training under a special $10-million state program, and will get two more chances to pass the test. If they still fall, they will get only a certificate saying they attended high school.
IN MIAMI, 42 per cent of those who took the test failed the simple math part; the math failure rate in Jacksonville was 45 per cent.
Other Florida communities reported math failure rates ranging from 25 per cent to 36 per cent, about what state education officials who designed the test had expected.
In contrast, on the communications skills part, from 88 per cent to 97 per cent of the teachers.
One math question asked students to calculate the best buy if one store offered one-third off and another had a 30 per cent markdown on an item selling for the same price. Another question asked how many cans of paint it would take to paint a wall 12 feet high and 16 feet long if a gallon of paint covered 10 square yards.
EARLY RETURNS showed the failure on both parts was highest in preheat.
STUDENTS WILL receive test scores during the next few weeks.
Tom Fisher, head of the Florida Department of Education's assessment program, said he was surprised at the low failure rate on the reading part.
"With all the talk about kids who can't
read, I was expecting it to be a little bit
funnier."
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Phyllis Miller of Miami, chairman of the Dade County School Board, said the test might be too hard, but Fisher said he felt it was fair.
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