Thursday, March 6. 1980
Leben says faculty running scared on Forer issue
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By BILL MENEZES Staff Reporter
Faculty members at the University of
Kansas at Chandler, Ariz. Dyps for fear they
will be punished. Carl Leban, associate
professor of East Asian studies, said
these measures were necessary.
Leban petitioned the University Judiciary Tuesday to examine it charges alleged that the Justice Department prejudicially in actions against Norman Foster; associate professor of social welfare at the Lebanon Institute.
social welfare, for their trips to Iran in the past three months.
"The faculty are terrorized," he said. "They're all hunkering down in their foxholes."
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Most faculty members contacted for comment on the matter preferred not to make statements until they had seen Leban's charges.
However, Dave Willer, professor of sociology and a member of Forer's American-Iranian Crisis Resolution Committee, said that all members of the
AURH has ashtray glut
University should operate under University rules.
A few ashtrays have already been handed out piecemeal, but no plan for mass distribution has been approved, he said.
Give or take a few.
Dahlman said he rejected a proposal to give the ashtrays to students voting in the upcoming AURH elections.
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BUT NO ONE wanted to distribute them, so they were stored in the tunnel under Oliver Hall. Then, along came Bill Dahlman.
"That would be like buying votes," he said. "I don't think one should be rewarded with a present for voting."
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Dahman, as chairman of housing services for the KU Association of University Residence Halls, is in charge of ashtry dispersal for AURH.
Dilhah Dallah has to find homes for a few astrahs. If he puts one on the desk, and, say one on a nightstand, he'll still have 9,646 of them.
"My sentiment is that if anyone has broken University rules," he said, "they should be held accountable."
About a year ago, J.J. Wilson, KU director of housing, took $5,000 in surplus housing funds and bought 10,000 black plastic ashtrays, which had Association of Housing Agencies on hand and "Put Litter in its Place" on halls for placement throughout the halls.
The ashtrays probably will be sent to the approximately 4,600 residents of the halls by
Willer said this included both sides involved in the dispute.
Leban said that by selectively enforcing University faculty regulations against Forer and Dillingham, Dykes had created a "rein of terror" among faculty members.
"Over the years the chancellor has replaced competent school administrators with yes-nin', he said. "We have a tame environment," he said, that's why the chancellor overreacted.
putting one in each room's mailbox. Others will be saved for distribution at an AURH conference at KU this summer.
Dahman said he wanted to make sure residents understood the austrahs were meant to stay in the rooms, and were not gifts to residents.
Both men said they had no fear of being accused of promoting smoking by distributing the ashtrays.
WILSON SAID he was "tickled" that someone was finally doing something about the ashtrays.
"We've been needing AURH a little bit," he said. "I'm delighted that they're going to be distributed."
"I don't see that it's a promoting smoke." Wilson said. "We're simply trying to encourage people who do smoke to take better steps, so we don't do tobacco waste. There is no message intended."
"I am a strong non-smoker."
Dahlman, also a non-smoker, agreed.
"I don't see that we're promoting smoking," he said. "They don't have to use them as an ashrav."
"The cemetery atmosphere was violated."
The ashtrays can be used for small trash or to hold keys, coins or anything else that will fit into a three-inch wide, one-inch deep space, he said.
In all, there are probably 9,648 possible different uses for the ashtrays.
Give or take a few.
University faculty regulations state that instructors who do not meet their class requirements will be considered on leave without pay. Faculty members in this situation must apply to be received.
LEBAN SAID the regulation violated by Forer and Dillingham had been violated "hundreds of times" by faculty members without the enforcement of penalties.
However, Leban said, there are many faculty members, who, for one reason or
another, missed classes and never were penalized.
"It's not right," he said. "The purpose was to find something to punish them for, to single them out because they attracted attention."
"The chancellor is the kind of man who would fire Copernicus because he was a troublemaker."
Dykes will not release a public statement on the matter, according to Jim Scally, administrative assistant to the chancellor.
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However, Vicki Thomas, assistant University general counsel, said the general counsel's office would probably handle the case. The office had not yet been contacted by Dykes.
"RETALATION SUPPRESSES all kinds of dissension," he said. "It produces a very quiet campus.
Leban said that although "a great many people on campus" shared his sentiments, they might be afraid to speak out for fear of retaliation from the administration.
"In 1970 the Legislature punished the faculty by depriving them of a salary increase because some union areburned the Union. That what's people are afraid of now.
"We're in a dangerous time, and it's like a graveyard around here. Nobody asks any questions."
Leban said many faculty members were content to let Forer and Dillingham suffer their punishment as long as they themselves were not affected.
"Some are scared speaking out will make things worse," he said. "More than one person said we have to let them (Forer and Dillingham) be scapegoats.
"I think nothing but contempt for that viewpoint. I think it was discredited at Dachua and Buchenwald."
During their December trip to Iran in an official attempt to help resolve the crisis with Tehran, Mr. Khaled was suspended without pay by Dykes. Forer was granted a leave of absence without pay for the spring semester, and went back to Iran in February. Of the 48 other Americans he renews his efforts.
Forer's son, Robert, said Leban's actions came as no surprise to him.
FORER WAS out of town yesterday and could not be reached for comment.
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"We were aware there would be some action," he said, "My father felt it would not be prudent to engage in action against the University at this time."
DAVID HARDCASTLE, dean of the School of Social Welfare, said he didn't think
Leban's actions deserved comment, but sided with the chancellor's actions.
'My position was then and is now that he acted appropriately.' Hardcaste said.
Leban said he was surprised that no other action had been taken against the chancellor.
Robert Shelton, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at a resolution at today's University Council meeting concerning due process for faculty members who have been punished by the university.
"The chancellor has been lucky," he said. "He hasn't been the target of civil and criminal actions.
"We are going to work this out intramurally. This is a real test of whether the Judiciary can work on its own."
"I think he (Dykes) will try to quash it one way or another," he said.
Leban said he doubted anything would come of his charges.
"If the University attorney is involved, I assume his job is to get his boss off the hook.
"That's not a university up there, it's a corporate boardroom. First they'll try to get you to work on the approach. They could say that only they have the standing to bring these charges."
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