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Monday, February 18, 1980
University Daily Kansan
Faculty development plan encouraged by task force
A wide range of recommendations for teaching in the University of Kaisa are included in the final report from the chancellor's Task Force on Faculty
The recommendations include a system of assignments for faculty members to develop new professional skills and competencies in the improvement of the University's planning function and the development of ways to improve workshops and faculty-taught seminars.
Currently, University programs to aid faculty development include sabbaticals, grants to support scholarly activities, travel money and a lecture series.
George Worth, Task Force chairman, said
Computers developing proficiency at secretarial and tutorial tasks
Someday a student may be able to read a term paper to a computer and receive a product ready to be handed to a professor.
"Faculty planning and development involves the improvement and assessment of teaching," he said.
faculty development was an important issue at the University that might have been overlooked by the administration.
"It means not having to type, erase, retype and retype. Just write it, edit it, drop it in a slot and have it printed."
The report stated that because of possibly uncertain enrollments in the future, the KU faculty must anticipate changes in their professional roles and that faculty must adapt to new requirements necessary to "sustain and improve the quality and integrity" of academic programs.
Audio and talk-back capabilities are the newest developments in computers, according to Larry Huesy, operations manager of Apple Micro Computer Center, E. Seventh St.
A student now can type and correct a paper and then have a computer put it in its final form, Hayes and last week.
The report, discussed by the Faculty Senate executive council Friday, did not recommend the creation of new administrative positions to implement the new curriculum and development "should be assumed at every level of University administration," it said.
Computers also can be used as a tutoring tool, to help students with everything from spelling to calculus. Hayes said.
Although computers have long been accepted in businesses, they are just beginning to catch on in homes and new features are constantly being added, he said.
"A new sensor unit will twirl your coffee in the morning, turn the furnace off and on and work the lights," said Skip Moon, part owner of AlphaBte.
Alpha Byte offers computer programming classes to encourage the use of computers.
"People are leeches of computers," he said, and we want to show them they're not hard to use at all. The computer tells you what it needs you just type the information in English."
Companies, some of which are priced from $80 to $4,000, have become accessible to everyone in the past 15 years, because of the reduced price and size. Hayes said.
He said a micro-computer desk system that costs $12,000 today cost $1 million and took up two rooms 15 years ago.
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TODAY: The 21st ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC BATTLE at the Murphy Hall. The GRADEHAM WOMEN'S GROUP will have a noon lunch in Cork Room 1 of the Kansas Union. THE RUCKER TEAM will at 3:30 p.m. in the Spencer Research Library and the PSYCHOLOGY CLUB will at 3:30 p.m. in 4 Fraser Hall. The MID-AMERICA SKAPEESHARE CHAUTAUQUA LEC-CHARLES PAULS "Imaging Shakespeare" at 3:30 p.m. in the Spencer Research Library Auditorium. A reception will follow celebrating the "THE SEACOAST OF BOHEMIA" an exhibition in the library's Main Gallery.
TONIGHT: BLACK HISTORY MONTH
LECTURE: Professor John C. Giston will speak on *Communication Between Black
Men and Women* in Hall H3, the ACADEMIC COMPUTER
SUMMER seminar will be at 7:30 in the auditorium.
The facility. The topic will be "an introduction to SCSS" KU-VY and THE KU COM-
PANY." The meeting will be a meeting at Faxer A in the knox
TOMORROW: "A JAPANESE ECCEN-TIC: THE THREE ACTS OF MURASE-THERE: THE TWO ACTS OF MURASE"
in the White Gallery of the Helen Forestman
Spencer Museum of Art. The KU
museum will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Daunford Chapel
CAMPUS CHRISTIANS will meet at 7 in
Pariers A and B of the Union A FORUM:
the Chapel of the University at
7 in Parier C of the Union. Willie
Lenior will be teaching jazz at the TAU
SIGMA DANCE ENSEMBLE meeting at 7
THE ACADEMIC FILM FESTIVAL will 'show Grandure and Obedience' at 7:30 in the CINEMA, GRAND PRINTS, CRATES AND DOUGLAS COUNTY DEMOCRATS will meet at 7:30 in the Pine Room in the Union Dan Walkins, a film director, will speak of Representatives seat, will speak.
Fallen ducts close theatre
By JENNIFER ROBL
Staff Reporter
An air conditioning ventilation system at the Varisity Theatre, 1015 Massachusetts Avenue, Chicago, will be out of session hour after the theatre's afternoon movie. The theatre employees said that no one was in the theater on Friday.
"We don't want to talk about it until we can talk intelligently," Harwood said. He said the firm's supervisor, Chris Kearns, would inspect the damage this morning.
Elden W. Harwood, district manager of the Commonwealth Theatre, said the air conditioning duct system fell through the theatre's north ceiling sometime between 2003 and 2004, in the building. The Varsity Theatre is a member of the Commonwealth Theatre chain.
"We were told we'd be back in business this weekend," she said.
One employee of the theatre, Joyce Lawellin, 234 Michigan St., said the damage had been discovered when employees were working on a set for two evening shows at about 8:30 p.m.
Varsity employees were instructed to remain silent about other details of the incident.
But an employee of the Granada Theatre, which is directly across the street from the Varsity, the damage and said the chair she had been badly bent by a falling douse.
Other Varsity employees said they had heard rumblings in the ceiling during the afternoon show.
Gene Shaunghess, Lawrence's chief inspector, said he was not familiar with the air conditioning system at the Varsity.
When he was contacted at about 9 last night, Shaughnessy said he had not been informed of the incident.
“It’s mainly the responsibility of the owner to correct the situation,” he said.
He said he probably would inspect the building this morning.
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Hiking trails to link parks to riverfront
A large vacant lot marked by a large sign that reads "Tommy Constant Park" is catching some glances at Sixth and Tennessee streets.
By summer, it will form part of a "long green arm" in linking downtown Lawrence to the riverfront area, Fred DeVictor, parks and recreation, said Wednesday.
Also, expenditures for a new student information center and Elkworth Hall roof built by the Wichita College revised architectural program for the renovation of B. B. Allen Hospital in Wichita.
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In other action, the Regents approved final plans for the Watson Library renovation.
Bids on the $6.22 million renovation of Watson Library are expected to be accepted by the state purchasing director in mid-March.
Gateway to a great way of life.
The plans include total renovation of the library's interior, modifications for greater accessibility to handicapped persons and staff; an expansion to the building up to fire and safety standards.
"People think of parks as recreation areas with tennis courts and ball diamonds," Dr Victor said, "but our intention here is different."
Some of the temporarily displaced library departments will be housed in Lappincott Hall, across the street from Watson.
The renovation is the first phase of a long-range plan to solve future library needs, Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning at KU, said.
He said he had not heard of any KU opposition to the "exceptional" label.
An expenditure of $70,000 for a new student information center, approved Friday, will come from the Endowment Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, said.
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Deviorist has his department envisioned a parks project that would link the parks in the district to the city center Park, Robinson Park—between the bridge spain—a park at the new city hall, Central Park.
"At Constant Park we're wrestling with the idea of putting something there to
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All would be tied by their natural geographic progression toward the river and by a series of hiking trails, he said.
The design of all the parks would stress openness rather than development.
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The park was built through a 1975 agreement to the city in which it was placed, a lawyer for Deviasid said. The interim years were spent choosing a site, appraising the land and negotiating with the developer.
Some legislators also said they were concerned about the increased funding costs of the program.
"There's always a chance," State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, said, "but I imagine it be very, very small. I just can't get the Legislature will move on to this year."
Constant Park already has a border sidewalk and a red brick wallway, framed by sections of the old Kansas River bridge, built in 1890. The area will be seeded and landscaped.
THE MAJOR CRITICISM of the bill is that the program would provide voucher cards for students attending private schools as well as those attending state-supported schools.
In 1975 the three-acre park site contained a home, a used car lot, some land owned by the KU Enforcement Association and a gas station. DeVictor said.
But even proponents of such a proposal admit that its chances for passage this session are low. The program doesn't exist elsewhere in the country.
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Winter said, "It'll probably take a few years to get this proposal going."
"The river has been there a long time, but there hasn't been much public access. We're trying to open the view."
"Ever since park construction began, I've seen rabbits bouncing around at me. I said, 'I just hope my rent doesn't up' because I'm on parkfront property."
"Til the snow fell it was like the Sahara there, with the dust blowing." Skipped. "I think the little kids who play there have desert fantasies."
attract people," he said, "but the river really does that.
David Stipp, Lawrence special student,
lives in the house adjoining the new park.
Stipp said that he had watched the park's
development.
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The program would cost the state an additional $6.5 million annually, based on this year's funding figures.
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"I do have some concerns about the financial aspects of our proposal." Hein said we were trying to prove that we are most efficient manner. We don't achieve this if we provide money to private banks.
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