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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Kansan
Some KU dad's reflect on fatherhood and a time-honored dad's day gift, the necktie.
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Basketball camp
Roy Williams' Basketball camp drew 500 boys to campus to learn about achieving goals both on and off the court.
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Wednesday
June 16, 1999
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Vol. 109 • No.150
I spy
The Natural History Museum cultivates avian fascination in children at one of its summer workshops.
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Erin Carlson, Beatrice, Neb. senior, helps incoming freshmen with enrollment during orientation. Carlson works as a student Orientation Assistant for the University. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
Orientation Q and A preps new students
Bv Matthew Friedrichs
Kansan Editor
Mark Bradshaw, a Walnut senior, stood in front of 11 recent high school graduates Saturday morning in the Governor's Room of the Kansas Union.
He had less than half an hour to explain how to use the timetable of classes and academic catalog, review the day's schedule, tell students about filling out the form for basketball tickets and parking passes and administer an alcohol survey.
"Today, we're going to throw a lot of information at you, and we hope that at least a small percentage of it sticks." Bradshaw said.
Emily Foelske, Boulder, Colo., freshman, quietly scanned the booklets and papers as Bradshaw speedily explained their function. Foelske, who plans to study illustration, was one of 156 students on campus to enroll in their first KU classes at New Student Orientation.
Foelski and her mother also were among the thousands of students and their parents who have received or who will get a quick morning overview of KU services and enrollment policies at 22 sessions this summer and fall.
The morning informational sessions are followed by advising and enrollment in the afternoon.
But before students attempt to navigate the KU bureaucracy on their own for the first time, a gaggle of KU students, faculty and staff are on hand to
answer questions and offer advice.
saturday, Gloria Flores, associate director of the freshman-sophomore advising center, spoke to the students and parents about the community at the University of Kansas.
"We want you to know that there's a place for each and every one of you at KU," she said.
James Kitchen, associate vice chancellor and dean of student life, elicited laughs from the parents when he talked about informing his daughter that she would graduate in five years, not six, if she didn't want to pay for the extra year.
But he also addressed their concerns.
"We don't want you to go away from here not having any of your questions answered." Kitchen said.
Parents accepted his challenge, asking about parking, where to sign up for basketball tickets and whether their children should have cars, bicycles and computers.
Students, in turn, asked Bradshaw and the other student Orientation Assistants how their Advanced Placement credits would affect enrollment, which classes to take and when students did for fun when they weren't in class.
Ultimately, the lessons for new students are as simple as the "Ask Me" buttons worn by the Orientation staff.
"We've been through it before," Bradshaw said. "If you have questions, please ask us."
Edited by Derek Prater
Regents plan tuition hike
Many students may seek financial aid in the coming years
By Clint Hooker
Kansan staff writer
KU students will be paying more for an education if the Kansas Board of Regents approves a proposal for tuition and fee increases for the 2000-2001 academic year.
Students will be paying 2.3 percent more this fall than in fall 1998 because of an increase approved last year. If the 2000-01 tuition increase is approved, tuition will have increased by nearly eight percent in four years.
The Regents will review the increases, which would raise tuition 2.5 percent per credit hour for all undergraduate and graduate students, at its June 24 meeting in Topeka.
Mary Burg, executive assistant to the chancellor, said that the tuition increases were an indication that the state was not providing adequate financial support.
"We are asking students to pay for costs that really should be borne by the state," she said. "And because our support by the state has decreased over the years, we've moved from being state supported; now we call ourselves state assisted."
in addition to the tuition hike, the Regents are reviewing plans to retain the technology fee and implement a new library fee, each amounting to $1
per credit hour.
per credit hour:
Korb Maxwell, student body president, said that while the library fee could raise approximately $600,000 to help provide more resources for students, it was not a cost that students should have to pay.
"The libraries are something that need to be funded by the Legislature or the state, not students," he said. "The Legislature needs to step up and solve this problem because student dollars are not the answer."
Maxwell said he hoped the Legislature would provide match funds for the library fee that would increase the amount of money that could be spent on library materials and student resources.
The new fees will also be used to keep at least one KU library, possibly Anschutz Science Library, open for 24 hours during the finals period of the 1999 fall semester.
sensitive. Lindsay Solomon, Arkansas City senior, said she liked the idea of a 24-hour library, even if it meant paving more.
"The that gives people a quiet place to go," she said. "I mean, I don't want to pay the extra amount, but I think in the long run it's probably best for those that are going to be at KU later."
Burg said the technology fee, which was first assessed to students last year and matched by state funds, was used to provide instructional computing for KU students and faculty.
"It goes to computer labs and the kinds of computing equipment that's used by faculty to increase technology in the classroom," she said.
technology in the class room. Solomon said that the increases in tuition and stu
Tuition increase
The Board of Regents has proposed its tuition increase for the 2000-2001 school year. The chart shows the comparison of in-state and out-of-state tuition per credit hour. The lighter-colored bars show in state tuition.
Source: Kansas Board of Regents
dent fees may prompt many more KU students to apply for financial aid over the next couple of years. She said that there were so many opportunities for scholarships that people didn't take advantage of and that this might get them thinking.
Edited by Anjum Aziz
Children's center breaks new ground
Kansan editor
By Matthew Friedrichs
Parents and children who have used Hilltop Child Development Center will break ground for a new building at 1 p.m. on June 27.
Actual construction on the $3.4 million project is scheduled to begin June 28 on the site between Anschutz Sports Pavilion and Stouffer Place.
The new center has been on the drawing board for several years, but plans became reality when Champion Builders Inc. of Topeka was chosen from among five competing companies. The center was designed by Rafael Architects in Fairway.
Grey Montgomery, 1996-97 student body president and now a Salem, Ore., resident, helped finalize the plans that made the new center possible.
"Obviously, I'm really excited that this day has finally come," Montgomery said.
dren. The new center, scheduled to open in August, 2000, will be licensed for about 210 children and will serve from 230 to 240 children — some of whom will use the center only part of the day — Pisanti said.
The new building was something Montgomery and others, including Pat Pisani, Hilltop director, said was needed.
The current center is across from the Kansas Union, behind Smith Hall, and serves from 150 to 160 chil-
"We have people calling before their children are even born," Pisani said.
That early-bird strategy doesn't work because the center won't accept applications until children are three months old.
Pisani said new spots were given first to siblings of current Hilltop
children, second to children of KU students and third to children of KU faculty and staff.
Those groups are financing the new building. A portion of student fees will be used to pay for construction. The KU administration will also contribute to the cost, and Hilltop will pay $81,000 a year for the new building. This is a jump from its current lease of $1 a year.
Dena Podrebac, president of the Hilltop board of directors and public education specialist at the Natural History Museum, said the investment would be worth it. She has two children at Hillon.
Podrebarac said the current center had shortcomings beyond lack of space. The building was not built as a child-care center, and it is not handicapped accessible.
Warren Corman, university architect, said the new center had been designed with children in mind and was completely accessible.
The two wings will have self-contained classrooms that have their own bathrooms and exits to the playgrounds.
The building also will have a Kansas nature and environment theme, Pisani said. The east wing, which will house the one- and two-year-old classrooms, will be the woodland wing while the southwest wing, home of the kindergarten and three-, four-, and five-year-old classrooms, will be the prairie wing.
Pisani envisions a child development center that represents University cooperation. She said she will look for representatives of the art department to paint murals, engineering students to develop a working windmill and botany students to help with the landscaping.
—Edited by Kimberly Erb
A tribute to tradition
Martha Robinson, Tucson, Ariz., graduate student, plays her bagpipes on Wescoe Beach. Robinson was practic- ing for the Scottish Highland Games in Kansas City, Kan. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Civil rights charges mount against KU
The plaintiffs in each case have alleged sexual or racial discrimination and have said that their departments' promotion and tenure processes were not objective.
By Phil Cauthon Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas was slapped with another lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court, marking the third time in four months the University has been accused by current or former faculty members of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
"These suits are aimed to reform the system so that people devoted to KU are not subject to capricious decisions," Marie Aquilino, former assistant professor of art history, said, referring to the process of tenure review. "We're not bitter or mad at the University. We just want to be treated fairly."
Aquilino's suit — the most recent of the three filed — is based on the alleged discrepancy between positive annual evaluations and a tenure evaluation, which the department rejected. In court
Marie Aquilino
"We're not bitter or mad at the University. We just want to be treated fairly."
Aquilino believes tenure was denied her because she didn't fit gender roles on the faculty and because she incorporated gender issues into her classes, she said.
records, the University said Aquilino was denied tenure because she was not meeting the art history department's expectations.
former assistant professor of art history
Sandra Gautt, assistant provost,
said that promotion and tenure
files are confidential once they
leave the department.
By filling a lawsuit, Aquilino and the other plaintiffs will be able to
"External evaluations in the files are written under the assumption of confidentiality, like student evaluations are," she said.
see their files.
"There's really no opportunity for redress without litigation," Aquilino said. "That's why we're here. Believe me, we didn't want this."
When tenure-track professors are hired, they typically undergo a seven-year probationary period and a mandatory review for promotion or tenure during the sixth year. Tenured faculty vote and pass the department's recommendation for or against tenure to the college and University committees.
The final decision regarding tenure is made by the chancellor. Candidates denied promotion and tenure are terminated.
A lawsuit filed jointly by Raymond Pieroitt, tenured professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Cynthia Annett, a former assistant professor in the same department, is now entering the pretrial discovery phase. In the coming weeks, their lawyers will begin to question people such as
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