KU student dies after exercising
A KU junior died Wednesday night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after becoming ill during a karate class in Robinson Gymnasium.
Paul Douglas Boswell, 20, of Kansas City, Mo., reportedly died of "natural causes."
Dr. James Reed, Douglas County Coroner, said this morning the family refused to give permission for an autopsy. However, Dr. Reed said results of tests taken on the body are expected soon.
He was quick to explain that no physical contact had occurred between Boswell and any of the other karate students.
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"I took his pulse and the reading was slow," she said. "Muller administered artificial respiration in an effort to revive him."
Marilyn Parzyboc, Wichita senior and a karate student. said the class was preparing for a promotional routine and had been going through some "rather strenuous exercises."
Max Muller, instructor of the karate class, reported that Boswell was going through routine "light" exercises when he was stricken.
Muller, a Wichita junior, said that before the exercises, Boswell had done some more "extensive calisthenics but no running."
She said Boswell was partially revived before being taken to the hospital by a Citizen's ambulance.
Miss Parzyboc, a nursing student, said that when Boswell fainted, he began to shake as "though he were having convulsions."
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Boswell of 1311 E.59th, Kansas City, Mo.
"He sat down for about a minute and a half." Muller said, "then toppled over in a faint."
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS Thursday, October 26,1967
Wescoe said it is part of an administrator's job to listen to new ideas from the faculty.
Administrators urged to heed subordinates
By Tim Jones Kansan Staff Reporter
One of an administrator's jobs is to keep his mouth shut and his ears open, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said at a meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Wednesday night in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Wescoe's statement came in reply to a question concerning how a faculty member could present an idea to the administration and have it considered.
Faculty asks questions The meeting was in the form of
a panel discussion in which faculty members questioned administrators on "Defining Faculty and Administration Roles in University Government."
Representing the administration were Wescoe; Francis H. Heller, acting provost; George W. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and George J. Worth, chairman of the English department.
Faculty members on the panel were J. Elden Fields, professor of political science; Theodore Bratanow, associate professor of engineering; J. Lawrence Day, associate professor of journalism; James Helyar, assistant director of the library; Frances Ingemann,
professor of linguistics; and Robert Olson, associate professor of business.
In answer to Olson's first question, "What are the administration's feelings on the manner in which the faculty participates in personnel matters?" Waggoner said, "We are not a tightly-run factory."
Good schools run loosely
"The good universities are run a little loosely and things are not so organized as a strict business setup," he said.
The rules pertaining to employing, retaining and recruiting are fairly versatile, he said. "We do have a very good faculty committee for this."
KU grad students pay twice as much
By Beth Gaeddert Kansan Staff Reporter
KU assistant instructors pay almost twice as much per semester
--hour for student fees as Kansas State assistant instructors but are paid less for teaching, according to David Holden, Winona, Minn., graduate student and chairman of the Student Association of Graduates in English (SAGE).
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When the faculty committee may want to promote someone or raise his salary to keep him at the University, the funds may not be available and the administration must try to retain him for
--hour for student fees as Kansas State assistant instructors but are paid less for teaching, according to David Holden, Winona, Minn., graduate student and chairman of the Student Association of Graduates in English (SAGE).
Assistant instructors pay $13.50 per semester hour and receive $2,300 yearly for teaching. K-State assistant instructors pay about $7 per semester hour and receive $2,475 a year.
The situation was brought to the attention of Francis Heller, dean of faculties and acting provost, Wednesday by a group representing the SAGE assistant instructors committee.
Heller gets request The group presented Heller
a memorandum asking for a raise in pay for assistant instructors, a remission of University fees and a reclassification of the internship to make it tax-free.
Heller was "optimistic" only about the possibility of lowering fees by next fall for graduates who teach, Holden said.
Heller could not promise action on the other points of the memorandum because the 1968-69 budget was drawn up last spring and although it will not be voted on by the legislature until January, it already is in the governor's office. Holden said.
He said SAGE would work on a second memorandum with the help of Heller's office which would "better document the crisis facing the assistant instructor."
"The cost of living is going up around 2.5 to 3 per cent annually and we assume that the cost in Lawrence has gone up faster than that," Holden said. "We know rent has gone up an average of $150 a year and real estate agencies indicate the rate of rise will increase."
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The original memorandum said assistant instructors' salaries have risen 15 per cent from 1960 while the fee per credit hour has risen by 175 per cent.
He said another element in the money troubles of the assistant instructor is that National Defense Education Act loans, which graduate students often use, have been cut down because of government use of money for the war in Vietnam.
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WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts showers tonight with northerly winds tonight. Mostly fair skies and continued cool temperatures Friday. The low temperature tonight is expected to be in the 30's. High tomorrow around 60. Precipitation probabilities 30 per cent tonight; 10 per cent Friday.
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