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Tuesday, June 12. 1973
University Daily Kansan
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City Managers KU'S Graduate Students Leave for Internships; Most Choose 1-Year Service in Midwest
By EARLYNNDA MEYER
Kansan Staff Writer
A city managers training program, offered by the political science department, provides curricula in four training areas for students in the program.
The two-year program is designed to prepare individuals for employment in municipal administration, state agencies and national administration and public affairs. A foreign student option is also offered. All but the foreign student option provide for one year on-campus work with a subsequent year of internship.
Enrollment in the program remains
unchanged for each year, each
year the program is restricted in size.
part, because of the lack of faculty.
ALTHOUGH THE program is popular with enrollees from throughout the nation, no expansion is now anticipated, according to Nehring, chairman of the department.
Students secure their internship positions and may work anywhere in the United States, although most elect to remain in the Midwest. Approximately one-third of students are selected communities in Kansas. Other Midwestern states were frequently chosen.
Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Oklahoma were each selected by one intern, with two in Colorado and four in Missouri. In addition, one intern is currently em-
played in Alaska, one in California and several in Texas.
DURING THE year of internship students return to campus five or six times for seminars. Following the year of training, they return to campus at least an additional year of employment.
The program is oriented toward fulfilling non-political positions and establishing graduates as permanent members of the community work force.
Emphasis is placed on the relevance of the behavior of the participants and ethical conduct.
Nehring couldn't say how developments in the Watergate affair would effect the attitudes and teaching practices in the program.
City Manager's Training Needs in Transition While KU Program Sets Pace for the Field
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press Writer
Men who go to school to learn how to run city governments still spend most of their time being taught to draft a budget or prepare a bond issue, but dramatic urban problems are becoming an increasing part of their classroom work.
This development emerged over the last two decades as more and more cities switched to the council manager form of management and hired trained city managers.
Another factor was the spread of conflicts over race, education, transportation and housing from the large central cities into the smaller municipalities of the nation.
THERE ARE NOW about 2,200 city managers in the United States. They run two-thirds of the nation's cities over 5,000 buildings and eighty-runners city runs under 25,000 in population.
More and more of these men have graduate school training to do this job and that training is more diverse than ever before.
"What is being taught is quite a variety," said Mark Keane, executive director of the International City Management Association. "It starts from the premise that there is no limit to what a good urban manager ought to know."
KEANE SAID a abbreviated list of what a good manager ought to be familiar with
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included: psychology and sociology, physical sciences, mathematics and quantitative analysis, philosophy, history and ethics. This was in addition to the standard curriculum of public administration.
Currently, 69 per cent of the managers have college degrees or graduate training; 27% have masters or other advanced degrees.
Perhaps the foremost in specific city manager training is the University of Kansas.
"IN THE OLD DAYS, a city council would look for an engineer because so many of the worst problems were in physical construction: sewers, roads, parks," said Keane. "Now they are looking for a broader range of solutions on management and the social sciences."
In 1934, 77 per cent of the city managers with a bachelors degree majored in engineering, usually civil engineering. Today that total is only 33 per cent.
THERE ARE ONLY a few graduate schools where there is specific emphasis on training city managers as opposed to non-managers. This means that move from city to state to federal jobs.
But the model city manager these days, according to Keane, has a masters in public administration and three or more years of management jobs below that of city manager.
Thirty-one per cent of city managers with bachelors degrees have them in liberal arts now and 12 per cent in public administration.
Perhaps the foremost in specific city manager training is the University of Kansas, Others are Howard University, the University of Michigan and the University Arizona, the three are running programs to train community group members for city management.
Public policy schools produce city managers, but that is not their focus. The public administration schools, in turn, have added more policy analysis in recent years.
Whatever the training, most of those who do it agree with a 91-year-old retired businessman, Richard Childs, who dreamed up the council-manager form of government in 1908 and has lived to see it transform American local government.
longer stand up," said Dr. James T. Jones, dean ofhotel school of hospital of the United States.
"A boy coming right out of school at age 24 isn't ready to be a city manager of even 500 people with a $250,000 budget," said Childs, who has fought hundreds of battles beside managers around the country trying to get his form of government adopted.
"Everybody has come to understand that city managers are involved in policy content and implementation, and policy objection is the political process," Jones added.
'THE OLD ATTITUDE that city managers were outside politics can no
“He needs to get more training in the “Field” children on. “After all, the ideal training should give him a capacity to deal with people who are scared and not be a bookish kind of person.”
Volunteers are needed to officiate in the KU summer intramural program, according to Steve Carmichael of the Intramurals Office.
'73 Twisters Set Records
June Is Tornado Time
Anyone interested in officiating should contact Carmichael anytime at the intramurals office located at 108 Robinson Gym. Officials will be paid $1.60 a hour.
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By LAUREL DEFOE
Tornadoes have struck the United States in record number this year and the battering may continue, according to the National Weather Service.
The service said that there were more than 704 tornadoes between Jan. 1 and May 29, with a month remaining in the peak tornado season. The previous high for the five-month period was in 1957, when there were 504 tornadoes.
The prime season for tornadoes in Kansas is May and June. However, tornadoes can occur at any time and in any state. Mike Carrell of the National Weather Service at Topka told the Kansan that tornadoes had occurred all fifty states and in all months of the year.
Kansen Staff Writer
"The tornado is really a thunderstorm in extreme. All tornadoes grow out of thunderstorms, so I guess you can tail off from them and have a tornado are similar to those conditions that produce a thunderstorm," he said. Less than one percent of all thunderstorms produce tornadoes.
CARELIE SAID that no one really knew the reason tornadoes occurred.
Allen Pearson, director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said the abnormal pattern was persisting and would tend to keep tornado activity at a spring-like peak in the southern United States.
THE WEATHER Service blamed the intensive tornado activity on a stronger than normal jet stream flowing into the United States from the southwest.
With the aid of the Civil Defense, the Weather Service has established a system to warn the public of the possible threat of a tornado.
Carelli offered some suggestions to follow if a tornado threatened.
CARELIE SAID the service used both radar and spotter to detect the storms in the area. The search team at Topaka cover the Lawrence area. Spotter are people in the area who call the Weather Service if they spot a tornado. In this way, the service can trace the path of the storm.
In spite of the warning system, many deaths and injuries have occurred. In areas where tornadoes are rare, Carelli said people simply did not know what to do in case of a tornado emergency, and there were many casualties.
In Kansas, however, people fail to take the necessary precautions, not because they don't know what to do, but because they disregard the warnings.
If ONE is in a car and sees a tornado, he should move at right angles to the storm cloud. If three permits, he should get out of the flat, as far away from the car as possible.
Carelli told a man who drove to the side of the road to escape a tornado, got out of the car and hadd down in a ditch beside his wife. He was crushed and lowered it on top of him, crushing him.
"To escape a similar mirabel, I'd advise persons to get away from their cars," he
When in a building, the safest place is in the basement under heavy furniture. Carelli suggested selecting a small room that would offer strong roof support. Large rooms, such as school gymnasiums and auditoriums, are particularly dangerous
because of weak roof support. Many roofs collapse and bury those inside.
IF THE building does not have a basement, one should seek cover in the bathroom and cover himself with a mattress.
Carelli said that students in residence halls should, if possible, go to the lowest floor. If that isn't possible, the next best place is in the hallway, making certain that doors are closed to keep glass from entering the hall.
Carelli said that most injuries occurred from flying debris, tumbling buildings and from cars on the road. Remembering this can prevent injury.
Philadelphia Police Bag Vintage Prey
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—A neighbor noticed that the phi-bracer is going to go somewhere in the future.
Police investigated and on Saturday, Police, 90, was arrested for possession of nut shells.
Police said several women had complained Kelly was selling drugs. They said the arresting officer had to chase Kelly and reach her before she failed in her attempt to climb a wall.
POLICE said the woman dropped three glazed packets containing a white powder filled with baking soda.
We've always liked the light but subtle colorings of India madras and India gauze shirts. They're definitely back and we have them. You'll love them.
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