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Wednesday. June 27,1973
University Daily Kansan
Catch-22 Finds Summer Home
Incoming freshmen baffled by the campus bureaucracy may find this sign a reassuring, albeit kafkaeus, note of candor in its present state. The summer
Kansan editorial staff is, however,
pleased to opine that the sign does not in
fact reflect accurately the state of
"University Services."
Four committees appointed by Chancellor Raymond Nichols have begun to meet this week to consider what, if any, changes are needed in the University of Kansas's tenure policies.
By NANCY COOK
Correct Styl Writer
Four Committees Scrutinize Tenure
Several members of the committees and other persons at the University have agreed that KU's tenure policy needs to be reviewed.
Nichols has predicted that unless policy is changed, the University may soon find itself "tenured in," a situation in which a large proportion of the faculty has gained tenure.
TENURE IS GIVEN, after review, to faculty members who have been at the University five years. Those who are not with the University must leave the University within one year.
Nicolaas Willems, professor of civil engineering, said the University wouldn't have the tenure problem if this were a time of expansion.
Tenure is designed to protect faculty from being fired except for serious misconduct or incompetence as determined by formal proceedings.
"IN A TIME OF retrenchment, if we try to maintain a certain percentage (of tenured faculty) I think we are going to cut it out from an inflow of fresh blood." Willems said.
Williams is a member of committee A, which was designated by the chancellor to conduct a policy review. Williams pointed out that his opinion was not necessarily that
The chairman of committee A, T.P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, said the committee was in the process of information gathering to get a cross-section of points of view.
SRINASEVAN DECLINED to give his personal opinion on the controversy but said, "We certainly want to do what is best for all units of the University."
"one reason the tenure business has developed," said Samuel Adams, associate professor of journalism, "is to protect the freedom to teach whatever one wishes."
ADAMS, A MEMBER of committee B,
said a faculty member should be retained as long as he produced. Committee B is studying the impact of tenure decisions.
Richard Paxson, Baxter Springs junior and student member of committee A, said he would like to have more student input on the plan. Paxson said he would grant tenure to faculty member now are based on three things: teaching competence, research and service to the community. Paxson said students are qualified to judge teaching competence.
Howard Boyajian, professor of music, said the tenure situation was particularly difficult for small departments. A teacher is just given time to "build up a nice following" when he is either granted tenure or moves to another University within a year. Boyajian said.
When a new person has to learn the same things all over, “it’s sort of like being on a train.”
"ONE REASON THIS HIS comes to pass," Boyajian said, "is that the idea of mobility has changed. People are pulling in their horns and feeling a little less secure. The crux of the problem is that there is a tighter job market."
Boyajian is on committee C, which is concerned with the rights and responsibilities of individuals, departments and schools.
Kelley Considered Best Possible Choice Despite Considerable Criticism from Blacks
By HARRY JONES Jr.
The Los Angeles Times
Clarence, M., Kelley, FBI Director Designate, looks the part. A square-jawed 6-footer, his integrity is unquestioned in Kansas City where he heads the city police.
Only in the black community are reservations expressed over his qualifications, and some black leaders concede that he has a right to be unnamed to black thinking in recent years.
Overall, Kelley's lack of vanity and his radiation of strength and warmth have earned him the solid respect of the city's 1,300-member force.
Taking over as police chief a dozen years ago--after serving the FBI in 10 cities and artfully reorganized the department, all the while shuffling him he thought he could trust into positions held by the old ones with strong political connections.
Kelley rejected improper political pressures. One former police commissioner recalled the time a powerful state senator threatened to stall an important police bill that had been promoted two officers. Kelley told him to go to hell, and the bill died in committee.
An extremely personable man, Kelley has enjoyed excellent relations with the media. He is almost a master at public relations and he often manages the formation from his department about police matters, although the police board, which he cannot control, makes most of its important decisions at secret breakfast meetings and turns its regular meetings into a big party.
Some blacks, therefore, view Kelley with hostility. But the city's weekly newspaper for blacks, the Kansas City Call, reacted ambivalently to Kelley's FELP notification.
The criticisms Kelley has received from blacks and liberal whites have been more often provoked by the conduct of some of his men than by what he has done personally.
Kansas City must draw its recruits from a basically conservative urban population, and from even more conservative and sometimes white ristrict rural communities nearby are 99 blacks on the force—7.5 per cent).
*Nearbelfresh* *i w ish Chief Kelley wll*
*Nearbelfresh* *o w ish Chief Kelley wll*
*Nearbelfresh* *o w ish Chief Kelley wll*
Watson Library will receive a $5,000 grant for the fiscal year beginning July 1 from the College Library Resources Program, Program's assistant library's assistant director said Monday.
Watson Library Receives Grant
year HEW granted over $10 million to 2,044 of the country's colleges and universities.
The money will be used to buy books, periodicals, documents, other printed and published materials, magnetic tapes, graph records and audiovisual materials.
KU has received money for the last several years from the program, which is a division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Helyar said. This
Recipients of the grants are located in every state, the District of Columbia, New York and Washington.
The Kansas City agents say they are confident he will accomplish this because he has experience in the job.
Those Kansas Citians happiest about his nomination are the FBI agents who work in the local office. He pledged in a press conference to restore in all agents the self-esteem some say they have lost since J. Edgar Hoover's death.
grave responsibility. We hope that the encounters he has had with the black citizenry of Kansas City have made him aware of the fact that as FBI chief, he is representing and serving all the people of the nation.
"We feel that he has learned some lessons here in dealing with minority groups which should help him become an FBI director of whom we can all be proud."
Prof Says Water Study Needed for Poor Nations
A symposium on hydrology may have produced some beneficial results for underdeveloped nations, Robert L. Smith, professor of civil engineering, said Monday.
Smith attended the five-day symposium, held June 14 in Madrid. The conference was jointly sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Meteorological Organization.
The symposium's topic was the development of methods for making water resource studies where there is little hydrological data. Smith said that the development of water resources was critical for the economic growth of universities, but these were the countries with the least complete hydrological data.
An understanding of the water resources of an area is necessary before building reservoirs, irrigation systems or hydroelectric plants, Smith said.
Before building an irrigation system, one
needs to have some idea of the extremes, and not just the averages, of water availability to be added. The system must be equipped with sensors during low periods as well as other times.
Smith said that not much was known about stream flows and other hydrological data in underdeveloped countries because nobody had been keeping records. Even in the developed countries, records are not that complete, he said.
"Stream flow records in the United States go back about 40 years and that’s not much different from what we know today."
Smith said that precipitation data might provide some aid in analyzing water resources. He said that even in unprotected areas there were usually some rainfall statistics.
In the paper he presented to the symposium, "Utilizing Climatic Data to Apprise Measures of Water Loss," he discussed possible ways of estimating the extremes of water resources from rainfall statistics. Smith said that his paper was the first in the field of application and some studies in the Caribbean.
Revision to City Plan Proposed
The Lawrence City Commission received a proposal for an update to a comprehensive plan for Lawrence Tuesday from Richard Baldwin, who is planning for the city and Douglas County.
The comprehensive plan for Lawrence is a study of how the community can best utilize its land area for the future. McKinley is the location and injection of the growth of Lawrence to 1995.
According to Smith, the symposium was attended by about 400 scientists and researchers.
The cost of $33,800 for the update would include the study of utilities, buildings, roads and mass transit. City funding of the plan will be $14,800, McClamahan said, with state funds from the Kansas Department of Development providing the remainder.
The original plan was drawn up in 1962, he said, and has not undergone major revision
The commission also approved the use of downtown sidewalks for the annual
The symposium was part of the International Hydrological Decade, a program initiated by UNESCO in the aim to develop and study water resources.
sidewalk bazaar.
Last year's bazaar occurred in the midst of the renovation of Massachusetts Street.
Smith, who was on the U.S. committee for the Decade during 1968-71, said that he was pleased with the degree of international cooperation he had with the Communist and non-Communist nations.
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Although all but 17 of the 163 students accepted for the first year medicine class at the University of Kansas Medical Center attended, the class come from varied backgrounds.
The class includes 53 students who received degrees in biology and 51 in chemistry. Other members' undergraduate majors were pre-medicine, psychology, business administration, electrical engineering, physics and mathematics.
Downtown merchants reported having a good response from the shoppers, despite the dirt street, wooden plank walkways, road grading equipment and dump trucks.
Varied Backgrounds In Med Center Class
Free entertainment was provided by a band that roamed the downtown area.
Refreshment stands were operated by various civic groups.
Occupations of the students' parents include 29 physicians, 25 business executives, 18 business proprietors, 21 skilled tradesmen and 12 farmers.
The students, who were selected from 876 applicants, have an overall grade point average of 3.92, and they pre-medical work at KU. Ten graduated from Kansas State University, seven from Washburn University and 16 from other Kansas schools. Of the 888 applicants in this class, 44% had medical work at KU.
The students will begin classes July 9. They will have the option, now two years old, of taking an accelerated three-year course or taking the chance for 48 weeks each of the three years.
There are 21 women in the class.
JOHN HASLAM, assistant professor of chemistry, said the University should not have tenure, at least not in the sciences. Haslam was denied tenure a year ago and will be leaving the University at the end of July.
"in my particular case I have mixed
the department with the
a difficult position at the
university."
Haslam said many factors besides the formally stated ones enter into a tenure decision. Which way the department wants to go, which way the particular person is going and how people get along are some of the considerations, he said.
"THE IDEA OF indefinite tenure is perhaps past its prime," said Carl Leban, associate professor of Oriental languages and literatures and east Asian studies.
"For certain small departments where all the faculty is tenured, the department becomes stagnant," he said. "It's hard to change, changes because the faculty can't change."
Stanley Shumway, associate professor or music theory, said the problem might be not so much a problem with tenure as with one rule.
"Tenure has been a problem in that not
setting tenure means people have only one
year of experience."
Shunway said tenure problems were more apparent now because staff and management were much busier.
Linda Constable, Salina graduate student,
said she was "pretty much against tenure"
at her job.
Solar Eclipse Draws Thousands to Africa
Mauritania, a bleak land of shifting sand dunes and tough, blue-robed nomads who roam the burning Sahara, is bracing for the shocks.
"If someone is not producing, they shouldn't have a job," she said.
NUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP)—Tourists, amateur astronomers and scientists are flocking into this dusty site for the eclipse, which can be c蔡ionally long eclipse of the sun June 30.
THE TIDE of visitors will overwhelm existing housing facilities, which amount to about 50,000 residents a year.
The influx of about 3,500 stargazers will amount to the biggest tourist boom this poor but hospitable desert nation has experienced.
The abandoned French Foreign Legion post at Atar, the official site for combatants in Afghanistan, is now home to the United States.
The government, already burdened by the effects of a catastrophic drought, is doing all that its meager resources will allow to welcome the visitors.
BUT STILL others will be roughing it in safari across the desert, braving intense heat and sandstorms in jeeps from Morocco and Algeria to the north.
SCHOOL ROOMS and other public buildings in Naunacholt, the capital, are being scrubbed and furnished with bunks while the more adventurous are invited to try a traditional white desert tent staked out on the cinnamon-colored sand.
The square-peaked tents, which virtually all Mauritian live in, are comfortable affairs richly decorated with colorful carpets and leather cushions.
A number of visitors will live in comfort aboard luxury ocean liners and other ships, which will come here for the eclipse and anchor off Mauritania's Atlantic shore.
Officials are warning the visitors to protect themselves from the harsh, blistering sun, which sends temperatures to 115 degrees at this time of year.
THE SOLAR eclipse will last a maximum of 7 minutes, 8 seconds, and one of similar duration will not be seen again for 215 years. The eclipse will be visible to a camper will cast a 100-mile-wide "path of totality".
the condition of total eclipse, beginning off the South American coast moving eastward
IT WILL **first hit** Africa in Mauritania on the west coast and pass across Mali, Algeria, Niger, Chad, the Central African Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and a South Sudan.
The eclipse will end over the Indian Ocean southeast of the Seychelles Islands.
Holiday Blood Drive Falls Short of Goal
The Douglas County chapter of the American Red Cross fell 90 pints short of its Monday goal, according to Jo Amy Byers. The Red Cross had hoped to collect 150 pints of blood.
The chapter has a 450-pint goal for the three-day blood drive which will run from Monday until today. Blood may be donated to the St. Mary's Memorial Hospital from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Observers are particularly interested in studying the corona or gaseous halo around the sun, which can only be seen well when the bright sun is eclipsed by the moon.
Byers said the need for blood was critical because of the July 4 holiday.
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