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Tuesday, April 24, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Blacks in New Teaching Program
By NANCY COOK
Kansan Staff Writer
Eight black students from three universities are teaching full time in Shawnee Mission schools as part of a new student teaching program.
The program, Suburban Intercultural Teacher Education (SITE), is now in its
twelfth week. It is designed to introduce minority students from urban settings to college-level mathematics.
"Everything has been going beautiful," Madonna Dallas, University of Arkansas senior, said recently. Dallas is teaching fifth grade as part of a team.
The other student teachers are teaching
Union Efforts Foiled Library Staff Says
The University of Kansas administration and the State Department of Administration have been systematically thwarting members of the KU library staff in their efforts to form a collective bargaining unit, employees said Monday in a position paper.
According to Sandy Wilson, a library emplee, the paper was released in an attempt to inform the public of the objection caused by the University administration.
"We have a feeling that the hearing has been decided ahead of time and that therefore our chances are very slim, and this is a violation of our rights to organize."
The report says "proponents of collective bargaining have been butting their heads against a wall of state and University obstructionism for the past four months."
A hearing to determine whether to grant a petition for a labor union of the KU library staff is scheduled for Thursday before the Kansas Public Employee Relations Board in opake. The library staff has requested an extension to communication Workers of America (CWA).
The paper charges that Chancellor Nichols refused to meet with members of the library staff to give more information on the university's academic programs and their case. Members had attempted to persuade the University administration to withdraw its objections and thus eliminate the university.
The University rejected in February the proposal to affiliate with the CWA. The basic issues are the size of the unit, which is required by law, and the classification that should be included.
Charles Oldfather, University attorney,
said that the question of this particular case
was resolved in a court hearing.
too small and that the University would prefer a collective effort from all clerical workers on campus. This would eliminate much bargaining with many small groups, he said.
The idea to include a campus-wide unit was not appropriate and would not allow for sufficient organization. Wilson said. She suggested that the campus did not have the same problems.
Wilson said that because the library had a separate budget and its own organizations within, the personnel should have the right to organize and be publicly recognized as
Rather than split up their group into different units, she said, it would be more practical for the library group to work as a team to solve its problems efficiently and effectively.
kindergarten, second grade, seventh grade mathematics, eightth grade social studies, high school mathematics, high school American government and junior high typing, according to Rosalind Autenrieth, program director.
They come from Langston University, Langton, Okla., the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, and Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo.
AUTENRETH SAID the students were experience the normal problems in learning.
The first seven weeks of the program were spent in preparation for teaching, she said. The student teachers studied the sociological characteristics of Johnson County, instruction methods for suburban families, establishment of credibility as an authority figure.
May Wilson, Langton University senior,
said the preparation was helpful.
"Moi of the information I got was from people who live here (in Johnson County),"
Wilson is teaching seventh grade mathematics.
Of 1,100 students, there are four blacks in the junior high school in which Wilson teaches. She said that she had had no racial problems.
"The students treat me as a person," Wilson said.
DALLAS SAID the only racial problems she had experienced were with her dialect.
"I'm just accepted as a teacher and as a person," she said.
Teaching Awards Given At Math Honors Dinner
Paul McCarthy, professor of mathematics, received the Mathematics Graduate Student Association award for his work on a project in mathematics honors dinner Monday.
The award is presented by the graduate students to the mathematics faculty member who displays the greatest ability in effectiveness in teaching graduate students.
The dinner is held annually to recognize mathematics students and faculty members who have won scholarships and awards during the year.
Other award winners were William Gillies and Catherine Gates, both Lawrence
graduate students and assistant instructors in mathematics. They received the Florence Black Award for outstanding work by mathematics graduate students.
Undergraduate honors went to the competitors in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. William Lowell competed in the U.G. Mitchell prize for the highest rank made by a junior or senior on the Putnam Exam. Carl Vonfong, Overland Park sophomore, received the U.G. Mitchell prize made by a freshman or sophomore.
Sheriff Gets Fourth Letter About Murders in Ottawa
A letter offering information about the murder of three persons found shot to death near Ottawa was received Saturday by the Rex办公室, according to Sheriff Rex Johnson.
The investigation has gone on three weeks and now is concentrated in Douglas and Jefferson counties. Investigators now are bringing friends and relatives of the victims.
The letter was the fourth received by the sheriff's office since April 10, when the Douglas County Reward Steering Committee offered a $1,000 cash reward for information leading to a solution of the murders.
Hazel Avery, 620 Alabama St., Lawrence;
Gary Longfellow, 101 Michigan St.,
Joseph Mulligan
Lawrence, and Avery's son Steven, Iola were found shot to death in March 2012 in a car
Attempts are being made to identify the body of a young man found near Garnett last week to determine whether there is a homicide. The police are sending to the Anderson County sheriff's office.
Johnson sided Monday that he could not specify the information in the four letters. He said that all had been sent anonymously but contained a six-digit code.
The Kansas section of the Mathematical Association of America awarded prizes to the top four contestants in the Putnam Math Tournament, which has the highest score in Kansas and Thomas Rudkin, Wichita senior, won third prize. Rudkin also received the Paul B. Lawson Award, given to the college student with the highest academic record for his first three
By this method, informants keep a corner of their letter and write a six-digit number on it. The number is also sent with the rest to a person who is verification should a reward be forcoming.
The mathematics department awarded summer fellowships to two assistant instructors, G. Otis Kenny, Lawrence graduate student, and Gates.
Marlow Anderson, Lawrence graduate student, was awarded a graduate school honors fellowship in September. The fellowship consists of study the first year, teaching assistants for the second and third year, and a dissertation fellowship for the fourth year.
The dinner ended after William Argersinger jr., vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, spoke on "The Golden Age--The Golden Apples." He said that the federal cubs in high school subsidies would seriously harm higher education.
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She said there were only a "handful of male students" of 800 students in the school.
Most of the student teachers are living with Shawnee Mission families. Wilson said the situation was "rough at first, but that was understandable."
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"I know it was harder on them," she said. "It is hard to live with relatives, let alone a friend."
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Dallas said that her living situation wasn't what she had expected but that it was "very easily handled and very profitable."
Dallas said that her Shawnee Mission teaching experience made her confident that she could adjust to any situation. Her school is a small, all white town in Oklahoma.
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