Black educator shortage symptom of area problem
Bv DAVID PARRIS
Staff Writer
The small number of minority faculty members at the University of Kansas has created a situation in which present minority faculty are so occupied with committee and board work that they are able to do their professional work, Clarence Dillingham, of the Black Faculty and Staff Council, said Monday.
One reason for the small number of black faculty members, according to the council, is that the Lawrence area, with its lack of black professionals, is not conducive to the recruitment of blacks to the area.
This recruitment problem is evident at KU and results in the tremendous amount of committee work required.
"Minority faculty members are already doing a lot, but we can't meet the growing need of the increasing enrollments and the higher needs by blacks in education," he said.
Of the University's 1,028 full-time faculty members,
anorathematics 20 are black.
MARILYN AINSWORTH, associate professor of law, and a member of the black council, said, "I have done a little inventory and found that I was spending consistently 10 hours a week on committees myself, which is too much. So I wholeheartedly agree with Clarence."
William Hogan, a black faculty member who is KU's associate executive vice chancellor, said. There is a large amount of service that minority faculty need to contribute, which may affect their promotion.
"I have talked with faculty who is a problem for, I myself, enjoy doing it, so I don't worry about
The University has had trouble retaining and recruiting black faculty members. Dillingham said that in the seven years he has been at KU he has seen about 35 black faculty members come and go.
Members of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce's Manufacturers' Council meet two weeks ago to discuss this problem with Hogan and with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor. Manufacturers also have had trouble attracting minorities to the Lawrence area...
GLENN WEST, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, said, "Top quality minority individuals who are well-educated are much in demand today. So quite often a black graduate of KU is more likely to go to Chicago, Houston, New York or somewhere else rather than stay in Lawrence."
Hogan said, "We've got to sell Lawrence. Lawrence for a family is really an attractive place to live. In conjunction with that, we have to look at the social opportunities available in town. One thing going for it
Hogan said that Lawrence offered the opportunity for a lesson to have a community life as well as a profession.
"Now for a single person, that's a different problem," he said.
For example, Hogan said, a single black person might not be interested in settling in a town where the property is on land.
HE SAID HE did not know of any specific ways to attract single blacks to Lawrence.
"That's a much greater problem. It's beyond what the city and University can do. One thing we can do is concentrate on recruiting the family, but not discriminate against the single person." he said.
Hugan said that one way to increase the number of black professionals in the area would be through joint training programs.
Dillingham said it was important that the University and community recognize the contributions of their black members so that persons who have been called to be more aware of blacks in the Lawrence area.
"Right now I think people know how many of us are on campus or what we do," he said.
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HE EMPHASIZED that the University did not have any problem competing with its peer institutions for minority faculty on a "scholarly level," but rather Lawrence has to offer compared with other areas.
"As far as a simple solution to that complex problem, I don't have it." Dilinium said.
West said that this was not a new problem, but one that community leadership has focused on for years, "one people had tried to correct without a lot of fanfare."
"This is not a problem that is quickly remedied, but one that will take a great deal of time to solve, and cooperation with the University and business communities," he said.
"I think the business community very properly pointed out that they'd like to find good people.
KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 63
Lawrence police officer found the body yesterday morning. Norwood was last seen at about 8:45 p.m. Monday afternoon as he left the store with package for his eight-year-old daughter.
Wednesday
November 30,1977
Fire inspectors okay living units
Murder victim
ambulance attendants, a KBI agent and a shiffr' deputy carried the body of Sam C. Norwood, manager of Lawrence's Woolworth's store, away from a wooded area where
By LINDA FINESTONE
A team of five inspectors, led by Bill Shelton, an inspector from Wichita, Monday started a week-long tour to examine the past week's completed yesterday of Ellsworth and Joseph R. Pearson residence halls and Grace Pearson scholarship hall showed that all were in compliance with the requirements.
Staff Writer
A fire inspection of University of Kansas residence and scholarship halls and Stouffer Place Apartments has revealed no violations of the state fire prevention code, fire inspectors from the state fire marshal's office said yesterday.
Inspections of Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin residence hall and Stouffer Place began Monday, but inspectors said that they were not yet complete.
The inspectors returned to KU Monday to inspect running part of an annual induction ceremony.
Buildings that met or almost met the National Fire Protection Association Life Safety Code of 1970, which was adopted by the Kansas Legislature, were Flint, Strong, Green, Nichols, Moore and Fraser houses, Allen Field House, the Kansas Union, Robinson Gymnasium and Watkins Hospital.
BEFORE THANKGIVING VINCATION, the team completed a two-week-long inspection of KU educational buildings. Inspectors found that Hoch Auditorium, Watson North Hall and Memorial Stadium had major deviations from code requirements.
Larry Laubban, fire inspector, said that he had found no problems Monday in his inspection of Grace Pearson scholarship hall.
He said that although he had not completed the report of his findings at Elsworth Hall, he thought the hall had met all provisions of the code.
LUABHUAN SAID the inspectors would not determine violations of the state code from
Rather, the inspectors survey the buildings, Laubhan said, and prepare reports for the state fire marshal on what they find.
"We report what we see and find in the buildings," Laubban said. "The state fire marshal will review the reports and what evidence we can determine whether there's a need for change."
Clark Brubaker, deputy state fire marshal, said that he had completed an inspection of JRP, and that the hall met the state code.
"I checked it from top to bottom."
noble said. "Everything looks really nice."
SHELTON SAID each individual apartment was mainly being checked for proper furnishing.
Shellen and Merton Hickman, another inspector reported 14 of 25 Stouffer an apartment building.
Neither Shelton nor Hickman said they believed that was not in compliance with the code.
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Johnson withdraws as FBI nominee
WASHINGTON - U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson withdrew as a plaintiff in a lawsuit by Johnson's Johnson (former abdominal surgery was slower than he expected).
Announcing Johnson's decision in Washington, Att. Gen. Griffin Bell—who personally chose Johnson—said he would "let the dust settle" for two weeks before a vote on the deal.
South Korea accused of spy plan
WASHINGTON - South Korea intelligence planned to infiltrate the White House, Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department last year in an attempt to influence U.S. policy from the inside, according to a Korean spy brief released by the House of Representatives yesterday.
Accusing Korea of plotting "outright subversion," Rep. Donald Fraser, D-Minn., said Seoul's intelligence agents budgeted more than $750,000 for an operation also aimed at buying friends in the news media and manipulating other public opinion molders. See story page two.
WASHINGTON- The United States formally announced yesterday that it would attend Midexa peace talks in Cairo, but the Soviet Union has rejected them.
Moscow rejects Sadat's invitation
`vstarer called the election 18 months ahead of schedule to seek approval of his plan to introduce a new constitutional system that would give the nation's
In Moscow, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said the Soviet Union could not support Russia's initiatives and that a nation that "departs from the US" would be in danger.
Voters expected to favor Vorster
The nation's 18 million blacks and 3.15 million Asians and colored (people of mixed race) have no vote.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - White South Africans voted yesterday for new ministers, and Mr. Prime Minister John Vorsor's former nominee to run the nation as deputy prime minister.
The United States, in announcing its decision, said Sadat had injected a "new, dynamic element" into Mideast negotiations.
Locally . . .
Bill Lebert has a hand in a burgeoning business; he is a clerk at auctions. More and more people in the Lawrence area are attending small auctions and picking up bargains—and a few white elephants. Some people get so caught up in the fun of bidding that they end up buying merchandise they don't want and can't afford. The Kansas's Every Wednesday page takes a look at auctions and auction-goers on page six.
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Store manager is city's sixth murder victim
By ROBERT BEER Staff Writer
An investigation is continuing in the homicide of a Lawrence store manager, whose body was found by a police officer on a routine patrol yesterday morning.
An autopsy showed that the victim, 30-year-old Sam C. Norwood, died from "several gunshots in the left side of the chest," Douglas County attorney, said last night.
Malone said there were from three to five gunshot wounds from an undetermined bullet.
the body was found at 10:14 a.m.
yesterday at the north end of New York
Street, across the railroad tracks, about 50
feet from the river, police said.
The victim's hands were bound behind his back, police said.
"No identification or money was found on the victim." Malone said.
THE BODY WAS identified by a district manager who was worth the company that worked for it.
Norwood was last seen alive at 5:45 p.m.
Monday as he was leaving the store through a back door with his son's presents, police said.
Norwood, manager of Woolworth's variety store, 911 Massachusetts St., for the past three months, was reported missing Monday evening by his wife, Carolyn, after she to arrive at her home at 235 N. Michigan in her year-old son a birthday party, police said.
They said Norwood moved to Lawrence about three months ago from Grandview,
The victim's car was found Monday night in a parking lot west of the 900 block of Vermont street, police said. The car was locked and no presents were found.
Police said they had no suspects and had
no found no motive. Norwood had deposited the store's receipts in the bank before he left the store.
NORWOOD'S DEATH is the sixth homicide in Lawrence this year. Two of the previous homicides, the Veneer Smith and David Taylor, remain unsolved. Cevin binion death, remain unsolved.
Malone urged anyone who had contact with the victim to notify the police.
Richard Stanwiak, Lawrence police chief, said that the Douglas County Heward Fund passed $50 million.
The reward fund of $1,000 has been offered in the Smith case. One letter has been received in that case, but no reward was issued.
About 20 persons are investigating the Norwood murder, including seven members of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI). Stanwick said.
Besides the KBI, members of the
Lawrence police department, KU police and the Douglas County Sheffield Department are helping with the case. A staffman of federal offense is indicated, he said.
MALONE SAID that the department thought an adequate number of officers were working on the case and that, in fact, the Major Case Squad in Toekena was not needed.
The M-Squad is a group of state law enforcement volunteers that may be called in to help with the investigation of a serious crime.
Services, to be held at the Gish Furnal Home. Frederick, Okla., are pending.
Parking and traffic budget process changed
Responding to recent complaints from the Parking and Traffic Board, SenEx yesterday announced a change in the facilities concerning its yearly budget.
William Westerbeke, SenEx chairman, told SenEx members he would send a letter to inform Andrew Trouser, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, that the Parking Coordinator would present the budget to the University Council beginning next spring.
The Parking and Traffic Coordinator is a member of the Parking and Traffic Office. The office, monitored by the board, monitors parking and Traffic Board's preliminary budget.
In past years, the chairman of the Board presented the budget to the council.
Torres, speaking before SenEx Oct. 25, said it was not the board's responsibility to answer to SenEx about the board's budget. It is the responsibility of the group which prepares the budget request, the Parking and Traffic Office, he said.
TORRES SAID yesterday he thought the
University Council had misunderstood the board's rule in preparing the budget.
"I think the council thinks we are responsible for all aspects of the budget," Torres said. "In actuality, we prepare only a preliminary budget, then the office business affairs takes over. We only amend the budget; we don't determine it."
Torres had a difference between the Parking and traffic Board and the Parking Officer.
WESTERBEKE SAID the board should continue to make recommendations to the Parking and Traffic Coordinator concerning the preliminary budget, but the coordinator would be the one to present the final budget before the council.
The board tells the administration what
"in this manner," Westberke said, "the budget will not be represented as the
policies should be used with regard to changes; the office does all the service work and carries out any recommendations," he said.
board's budget, but the governance system will retain the board's ability to provide advice and guidance.
Torres agreed with Westerbeke's change.
"This way the board does not have to stand before the council and answer raitie complaints about something it has relatively little final say on," Torres said.
Westerbeke said he hoped the new presentation of the budget would provide for a better report and a better knowledge of the budget.
Letters note action on unpaid bill
Staff Writer
Rv MELISSA THOMPSON
Letters detailing final Student Senate action on an uppaid bill from 1972 for rugby uniforms have been sent to the uniform manufacturer and to the 1972 president of rugby union.
Chris Caldwell, former Senate treasurer,
said yesterday that he sent letters to the
manufacturer, Robert Hoder, Rumford, R.I., and to Eugene Roberts, the 1972 club president. Caldwell said the letters, which were dated Nov. 22 and 21, were to notify Hoder of the Senate's demand of his stability for a $75.00 for t-shirts and socks.
Hoder's company, Rugby Imports, Ltd., received an order in February 1972 from the
KU Rugby Club for 30 jerseys and 30 pairs of袜. since they, Hoder said that he had received only a $50 good-faith payment from the club. And when he got at getting payment he had been unsuccessful.
ROBERTS HAS SAIED that even though he had signed the purchase order, he would not be charged with stealing.
See LETTERS page three