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April 2,1980
Resolve Forer case
"Norman who?"
"Forer. You know, the professor of social welfare who had the University of Kansas administration chasing its own tail for so many months."
That is the way Forer and KU administrators will be remembered in years to come unless the controversies, complexities and questions about the case are immediately considered and quickly resolved.
Friday, the Faculty executive committee will discuss a letter directed toward that end. The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors sent FacEx the letter, which contains four proposed recommendations relating to the Forer case for possible action by FacEx. The KU chapter of AAUP wants FacEx to look into the specific facts of the Forer case in an effort to clear up things by the end of the semester.
First they asked that a study be conducted to determine whether faculty members were meeting their academic responsibilities under the Faculty Code, including attending all assigned classes.
The other recommendations include making specific amendments to and deletions from the Academic Rules and Regulations of the Faculty Handbook to clarify penalties for faculty members who do not meet their objections.
One of the 'proposed amendments would give the University Judiciary jurisdiction over any case carrying a notification of "warning" or "restriction".
It was by power of this rule that Chancellor Archie R. Dykes suspended Forer and Clarence Dillingham without pay during their December trip to Iran, which was an unofficial attempt to help relieve the crisis there.
The letter also recommends the revision of a Kansas Board of Regents rule that allows the chancellor of a Regents school to immediately suspend a faculty member, without a hearing, who is "engaging in activities that are not related to education," do disrupt the normal and ordinary process of education and training."
Although effects of their trip on the crisis in Iran cannot easily be measured, the effects of their trip to the University can-in terms of administrative policy upheaval and continuing heated debate.
It is time for the University of Kansas to move on, to rise above the unsettling events of the past six months. Reasonable recommendations have been made that could redeem this heretofore self-defeating and somewhat embarrassing incident—but only if FacEx accepts the signs of recommendations for consideration and possible implementation.
The University of Kansas should resolutely put the Norman Forer case into an enlightened perspective designed to alleviate present misunderstandings and disagreements and to eliminate future ones. Until then its responsibilities will be held inside within the confines of its own refusal act intelligently.
Inaccessibility ends with touch of a finger
Rv.JAMES KAPLAN
New York Times Special Features
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. - It's time to say a few words in defense of inaccessibility.
I've just received, along with my telephone call, a brochure on international banking for small businesses Easy and inexpensive; it preclaims. "And international telephone call that you dial yourself is fast, convenient and easy," she says. "How, how, how to dial an international call, tips to save you money, time, and on the reverse side." You can dial yourself with the country and city codes.
There is something less miraculous about this than one would have hoped. It’s merely a matter of the way in which you can inexorable proliferation of the fast and the cheap, the inverse ratio of value to accessibility. But if there’s any play left in it, there is a moment, a melanchol the death of the exotic.
Simply by dialing (or buttonting) 011, the brochure brightly informs me, plus a country code, a route code, plus the local number, plus the N button of my phone is equipped. I can talk to places that, not long ago, may be available in my area, maybe, in some cases, unreachable period.
By dialing 011, plus country code 971, plus routing code 69, for instance, I can reach Umm al-Qaiwan. Umm al-Qaiwan! The emirate of Umm al-Qaiwan, which previously had existed neither in my ken nor in my imagination, has suddenly sprung, and very matter-of-factly, into being, through the good offices of the phone company.
it's the names, the names, I mainly
mean: names that once could stir, whose evaporation power is now at best vestibular
The name of a god's precinct, after all,
used to be synonymous with, and just as
strong as the name of the god, Aphrodite.
The name of the city of Paphos,
Paphos (country code 37, city code 61).
Where's the mystery in Eleusis (30, 1)⁷?
the miracle in Lupsis (33, 62)? The romance in
Aphrodite (35, 63)?
Why is it that the places in my travels I remember most vivid are those where I was absolutely unreachable by telephone? Will they vanish, too. If I mention them?
The phoneleon New Karnak Hotel in phoneleon Luxor, where I spent sleepless nights listening to the endless dum of camel bells and prayer music coming through my glassles window. A completely silent island, far to the southeast of Miami, where I read "The Tempest." Their numbers, I'm sure, are coming up.
Perhaps the last great exception is India, conspicuously missing from my brochure, with the only exception being confusion. Friends who have been there tell me that in India, New York City can seem not only迟缓 but negligible. How lovely. How beautiful. How long can India last? My lament grows long.
Let me end with a brief valediction,
permitting mourning:
Goodye, Baghdad (604, 1) So long,
Tippieral (339, 2) Farewell, Pamplona
(34, 48) Popa (675), Pusan (82, 51),
Bucharest (675), Ifahan (82, 51),
and Tralee (338, 2)
Goodbye.
James Kaplan writes short stories and is working on a novel.
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Academic freedom at the University of Kansas belongs on the endangered species list. As each day passes, students have less and less freedom to enroll in classes they want to take. Academic freedom hunting is not a threat. Students are sure the local hunters have made a killing.
Officials open fire on BGS degree
The bachelor of general studies degree is the latest trophy to be placed on the manlets' of KU officials. Once, a BGS degree gave a student the opportunity to enroll in classes he really wanted to take. Now a load of requirements have been unreasonably high, and many courses require. Next KU officials will want a School of General Studies.
The actions of the College Assembly, a body that sets degree requirements, reflect the views of its members on the students' academic choices. If, as expected, the entire assembly approves the BGS degree changes, the decision will echo that view and be occurring at most colleges and universities.
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school. Many such schools require a college degree and the BGS is perfectly suited for this situation.
david lewis
Last, a BGS degree can be sought for enjoyment's sake. There are still those around who obtain a BGS degree for sheer pleasure. They want an education with no strings attached. Adding requirements to the BGS degree thus defeats the purpose of obtaining it. The University is trying to specialize a degree that does not need to be specialized.
S Joe Bartos KANSAN '80
GRANTED, ACADEMIC specialization is the only way many students can obtain the specialized jobs so prevalent in our rapidly advancing society. The job market is tough. Many, if not most students, need to learn how to work as the primary reason most students are here.
THE PROPOSED BGS degree requirements may create other problems.
But specialization is not for all students. It should not be forced on anyone. Increasing the number of fringes on the academic freedom of those who do not want to specialize KU has no impact on the quality of education.
KU's precious enrollment figures could decrease if BGS participants rejected the new requirements. After all, better BGS degree programs would not be difficult to obtain.
A BGS degree can be used in many ways. First, it can be used to obtain a number of skilled job positions that do not require a particular degree. The BGS also can be used for training in some specialties, example, if a student wanted to be a master chef, he could earn a BGS and enter chef's
The University of Kansas is concerning acidic water. And more with everyone's eacching behavior, the university harms extremes. Slowly but surely, KU is becoming an insensitive, academic institution.
Some students use the BGS programs because they cannot decide on a major. Sometimes, students utilize the flexibility of the current BGS program to find a subject they really enjoy, and consequently change degrees. Adding more requirements will improve their quality and students will have less of an opportunity to discover which courses they like.
Students are being molded by the same academic requirements and are being trained in the "efficient, computerized "system." This system now unjustifiably threatens those who do not seek its refuge. And as a robot learns, it does not compute. This does not compare."
Neuharth mixes ideals and big bucks
He who wields power is inherently suspect.
The old maxim that power corrupts ironically goes hand in hand with the Horato Alger archetype. The man who pulled himself up by his humble bootstraps to a position of influence and wealth in our society, which elicits both admiration and hostility.
Such is the case with Al Neubahr, a selfmade mogul who heads the Gannett Co. Inc., a billion-dollar communications conglomerate.
susana COLUMNIST namnum
The wrath that Joe College and John Dose harbor toward power-brokers Fared up momentarily after Chancellor Archie R. Dykes announced last Thursday night in Woodford Auditorium that Neuharth had been sentenced from his therefore coative audience.
After a speech that was peppersed as heavily with loft idealism as with crass commercialism, Neuthar "received" an angry question that decrypted the time-warm and ill-conceived nature of his and the "real world". Neuthar awkwardly added insult to injury by intoning yet another chorus of the hard-line Horatio Alger philosophy. His reply to the inquisitor was that we were busy "earning their bread," while college students were merely "learning."
THE STUDENT PREDICTLY bristled at this bit of redcook rhetoric. "Don't you realize that some of us earn our bread and study at the same time?" he passionately
retorted, sounding as typical and time-worn as the gentle giant he was assaulting.
To both the relief and frustration of some of us in the audience, Neuthar humorously withdrew his original statement. The audience had been embarrassed by embarrassing. Some of us had shifted comfortably in our seats; others had misunderstood or disapproval of either one party or other.
So the impulsive student was silenced, and other proceeded to pose civil, relatively innocuous questions to a man who pumps money into the University of Kansas and gives many of our journalism graduates a earl they earn on their bread Gannett newspapers.
BUT THE FRUSTATION and discomfort that greeted Neathurh's speech, although overshadowed by the near-revenant attitude that followed, were just as predictable as the Gannet executive's packaged remarks. It would have been difficult for a colleague to cement without the sense that it was somehow self-serving and inconsistent.
Practically in the same breath, Neatharck calls himself an "absolute on the First Amendment" and predicts unlimited growth for his corporation.
A journalist's primary obligation, he says, is to "advise the general public that any concerns about media power are intended to the threat of government power."
The real threats to our freedom, he insists, are the Federal Trade Commission's regulatory efforts to "dismember vital parts of our free enterprise system" and the Supreme Court's vindictive determination that the Bill of Rights into a Bill of Restraints."
THE NECESSARY EVILS of FTC regulations and anti-trust laws are, as they
stand, more than adequate curbs on potential monopolies in industry, he says. In the wake of violent bloody shirt of communications monopoly are sadly misdirected. Our country's most pressing problems—which have been brought under control by public alike—are not inflation or international cirses, but attempts by the government to courts to restrict business such as Gamble
Nearthair's arguments are inevitably undercut by the overwhelming size and cost of the military force that government has no right to try to limit the size of Gannett because the First Amendment prohibits such an American activities. It is likely that Mr. Obama himself waves the bloody red shirt of Communism to bolster his theory that the United States must be able to power, should be unfeffent and untouched.
NEUHARTH in AN attempt to dispel the sense that he is merely boasting Gannet's right to expand, paints himself as the champion of the little guys—those small newspapers in "Aurora," Beb, Marion, Kan, and Pumpkin Center, S.D. "A free, open book" is primarily in the interest of the underdog, the little guy and the public in general.
Neuthar suggests that the American press needs a benevolent Big Brother to promote and preserve its fragile First-Amendment rights. Perhaps he's right. But the freedom of expression is undeniably more benign than threats to our pocketbooks.
But the bitter aftertaste that Neuharb's remarks elicit in some of us is a result of more than our natural curiosity of a big guy who likes to play with the little guy, bigger is definitely better.
NEUHARTHA'S REFERENCES to high ideals and the public good are consistently overshadowed by references to big bucks, salesmanship and corporate growth.
A journalist's first duty, he says, is to "sell" to the people the notion that press freedom is synonymous with public opinion. Mr. Garnett engaged in an "extensive and expensive" advertising campaign. Newspapers and magazines across the country are running huge Gannet ads that call the corporation "the different Voices Where Freedom Speaks."
Neatharth proudly touts the "local autonomy" of Gannett publishers and uses his power to hire his papers for political purposes. He introduces Gannett's legal bills for 1979—well over $1 million—as evidence of the corporation's generous, unfailing efforts to provide books to the public.
"WE'RE WILLING to spend the money." he savs. "the money doesn't matter."
Of course the money matters. Neuthar preaches a precarious philosophy—a strange marriage of corporate expansionism and idealistic individualism. And it must be greedy, dependent on your point of view."
Regardless of the First Amendment, big business is big business. A corporate executive who presides over nearly 82 daily newspapers, seven television stations, 12 radio stations, one of the largest billboard companies in the country and the Lou Gehrig Award recipient he be treated with kid gloves because he deals in communication rather than catfood.
And those of us who refuse to espouse the notion that bigger is always better should listen to Neuarth's lofty proclamations with several grains of salt.
To the Editor:
Anderson column trashy, unfounded
Regarding Dave Lewis' column about John Anderson:
Dave, this letter is in reaction to the editorial "Anderson's stands, record conflict" printed Monday. I cannot recall a single detail of it, but the dangerous editorial published in the University Daily Kansan. I am amazed that this piece could have ever found its way past the editor's trashcan, much less into the day before the presidential primary!
The article is so full of analytical mistakes, lack of proof and near-criminal immuno that I hardly know where to begin criticism and how to contain it to 500 words.
Your editorial begins by likening John Anderson to Steve Martin because, Martin's views are too narrow for anyone saying things anyone could say. "No doubt, anyone who is capable of speech could say the things that Anderson says, but this is not what he is interested in. Interestingly, Anders says the exact opposite of what most of his Republican candidates know about him. So what shall we do? Muzzle all the candidates." Lots of candidates may preach a "new politics," but, in this, hardly
Not only does Anderson dare to open his mouth, but he has "white hair!" But so do God knows how many other people. Could it be that she is a "collure" form? This is a nice phrase to
threw around, but is there any proof that the "nullible" masses worship Anderson?
And poor John! Two months ago a virtual unknown and now even an outcast liberal in a conservative party, his phenomenal success has made him a "dismal failure"!
This "dismal failure" has the support of "gullible" college students, who also like Steve Martin. Why? Because "students simply do not want to support any other candidate." I really don't know how much they understand of the selection process my understanding of the selection process.
Like Steve Martin's record, Anderson's is "laughable." You write that Anderson is against further "development" of nuclear energy until it can be made safe. But Anderson has been advocating licensing of nuclear plant-nots "nuclear development"-until safety can be improved. That he favored an experimental breeder reactor project hardy still shows lack of knowledge in how to operate other bids, why did Anderson vote as he did? Was he really unconcerned about safety or did other circumstances account for his? Dave, you are ready to condemn Anderson; but without reason. Nice facts do not convince you to oppose divorce from circumstance?
In the House, Anderson favored SALT II, the neutron bomb and the B-1 bomber, but these positions are not necessarily inconsistent.
Finally, you label Anderson "pro-abortion." This is not true. He is "pro-choice." There is a "catacall" difference. How can this position be a "catacall" when it offends
so many people? You did not prove that it was a "catchall," Dave, and not simply a reasonable position in line with principles.
PLEASE PROVE what you say, Dave! You give no evidence that Anderson has changed his opinions during the campaign. The only reason for this is that he was recorded. Even if Anderson has been inconsistent, does the man not have a right to change his mind? Do you ever change your view?
How could Brenda Watson, editorial editor, let this editorial appear the day before an election, notwithstanding its lack of quality. Surely there should be a grace period of a week between editorials about how to respond to an allowance response.
Henry Couchman Overland Park senior
Americans may be cynical about presidential candidates, but reading trash like this can hardly promote faith in the press, 1. for one, am not laughing.
To the Editor:
Anderson misquoted by Kansan reporter
evident that Gumprech misquoted John Anderson 10 times in his front-page article; every time a full quote was used.
Having thoroughly checked notes and recordings of Wednesday's speech, it is
Blake Gumprecht's article last week, covering John Anderson's speech, has left the reporters in awe. The reporters and the integrity of the editorial staff of the University Daily
Reporter are human, and even seasoned professionals are prone to mistakes, but when a speaker is misquoted in every single sentence, we believe that the writer intended it that way.
I believe, Mr. Gumprecht, that one of the cardinal tenets of using quotes is that they be the exact words of the speaker.
Not only does Gumprep thoroughly mishapu Anderson, but he also succeeds in dumping a stable load of his opinion on the rebellion. He is confident that last two weeks have been some of the worst in the campaign. Anderson I'm sure also knows that he is now a 'cult figure' thrilled to know that he is now a 'cult figure'.
In paragraph 19, Gumprecht (with a direct quote) credits Anderson with saying that 25,000 people are below the poverty line in this country. If Gumprecht would check his notes, or any other space for that, it could be made clear that the figure quoted by Anderson was 25 million.
As the editors of a newspaper representing "one of the great universities of this country" (Anderson's own words), I should think you would check more carefully the work of your reporters, and be more concerned with validity and integrity of your publication.
Theodore M. Berstein wrote a book called The Careful Writer. I suggest you and your staff read it.
R. Lee Brecheisen
R. Lee Breckeisen
Lawrence junior in journalism
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