2
Tuesday, April 17, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Survey To Outline Good Teaching
The University of Kansas Office of Instructional Resources is preparing a survey that will highlight characteristics of good college teaching. The results of the survey
News Briefs By the Associated Press Nixon Request
Watergate
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon asked Congress Monday for authority to sell $4.1 billion worth of the government's stockpile of metals and raw materials no longer considered vital to the nation's defense. By selling in the open market supplies of such materials, Nixon said, "we can strike a critical blow for the American consumer."
WASHINGTON - The Senate Watergate investigating committee Monday backed its chairman's insistence that all witnesses, including White House aides, give sworn public testimony. Chairman S J. Ervin, D-N.C., said there had been recent feelers about the White House on a possible compromise but that no deals had been worked out.
Gas Prices
NEW ORLEANS—Prices for one-third of America's natural gas can be increased by the Federal Power Commission to stimulate further exploration, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled here Monday. "If the South Louisiana Area is to continue to supply its share of the national gas production," wrote Chief Justice John R. Brown of Houston, "it must have incentives to encourage development of its resources."
will be put on videotapes and will be made available to interested persons.
H. K. L'Ecuyer, associate professor of business and former HOPE Award nominee, said that he was among many KU professors who questioned whether "the premise of the survey fit enough university level teaching to legitimize use of survey items for evaluation and reward of good teacher."
L'Ecuyer said that in any type of teacher evaluation program, crucial lines should be drawn between different course levels and size of classes. For example, he said, lecture methods are most generally used at the basic course level.
However, McKnight said, he had discovered as a result of the questionnaires that some teachers did not like this approach.
The closure will eliminate 12,172 civilian and 16,640 military jobs, a reliable Senate Finance Committee report said.
McKnight said that the survey had nothing to do with any type of evaluation such as the Feedback program. The survey merely reflect what expert teaching was.
Philip C. McKnight, assistant professor of education and director of the Office of Instructional Resources, recently requested Phi Beta Kappa teachers and former HOPE staff to identify teaching characteristics that are crucial to the classroom learning process.
Pentagon to Cut Back Or Close 274 Bases
The current method of evaluating teachers is a "tyranny of the majority," L'Eucayer said. "It does not tell me what I need to know."
McKnight has been an adviser to Feedback, an evaluation program based on student ratings of their instructors, for two years.
The Army will reportedly suffer separate attacks this summer when the u.S. U.S. Army.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressman say the Pentagon notified them Monday that it close down or cut back 274 military bases in the United States a year in the biggest base cutback since 1970.
The participants were asked to rank each of 77 items describing teaching characteristics on a scale ranging from "No Impertinent" to "Important." McNight said that a consistent teaching characteristics would be substantial in a second part of the survey.
Sen. Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., quoted Pentagon officials as saying the base closings and cutbacks will slice $73 million off military spending the first year.
The Pentagon said the cutback is the biggest since March 6, 1970, when it announced cuts at 371 installations eliminating 80,000 civilian and 35,300 military jobs.
But Fort Dix, N.J.—the major army recruit training center at West Point wisely led the nation to a new policy.
Secretary of Defense Ehlot L. Richardson has so far accepted former defense adviser Kevin R. Laird's estimate of a total long range $1 billion savings from the cutbacks.
A 5-inch thick cutback list obtained by the Associated Press shows that two major shipyards in Boston and San Francisco, two air stations in Chicago and Naval air stations are to be closed down.
The new cuts were reported Monday to congressmen but will not be announced
officially by the Pentagon until Tuesday
officially by the Pentagon until Tuesday. The largest cuts in civilian jobs will result from the shutdown of the Boston Naval Shipyard, eliminating jobs according to the Pentagon list, and the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard near San Francisco, eliminating 5,184.
But the Pentagon list says closing the shipyards and facilities at Chelsea Naval Hospital in Boston will save $41.9 million a year.
The Navy is closing major naval bases including the air station at Long Beach, Calif., and the cruiser-destroyer headquaries at Newport, R.I., for what it calls a "sailor's day." The ships and air squadrons are to be dispersed to other bases up and down the East and West coasts.
The Laredo and Rarney Air Force bases in Texas and Puerto Rico are to be closed along with the Fort Wolters Army helicopter training center in Texas.
Naval air stations to be closed down besides the one at Long Beach include the ones at Imperial Beach, Calif.; Key West, HI; Oyster Creek, Brunswick, Ga.; and Quonset Point, R.I.
Sen. William Proxime, D-Wis., applauded the base closeings as "a painful but necessary first step" to keeping the military budget in line.
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said it was interesting to note that no American bases are being closed overseas while large cuts are being forced at troops.
uts are being forced at home
Base Cut Affects Forbes; Future Uses Investigated
TOPEKA (AP) - Teopka business leaders and government officials were surprised not but stunned by Monday's announcement from Washington that activity at Fores Air services will be sharply curtailed Sept. 1 as part of the U.S. government's military cutback.
The base, which dates back to World War II, was closed in 1946, reopened during the Korean conflict and has been open since. It served as the home base during the Vietnam war for transport planes flying material to Southeast Asia.
Topeka Mayor Bill McCormick was advised by the office of Sen Robert Dole, R-Kan., Sunday of the impending an-
nouncement and appeal to Washington for a briefing about his work with federal officials. McCormick is back today or Wednesday, his office said.
Jim Robert Docking offered the services of a Government Development Department to help make the service from military to commercial and the usual use of the base as smooth as possible.
The Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce announced a 10-point plan it has developed in the past three years for possible uses of the base land and facilities
Dole's office announced Monday a three-man team from the interagency Office of Economic Adjustment will be in Tepape April 27-28 to meet with city and county officials and other interested parties concerning the future use of Forbes facilities
The team will consist of Jone Meis,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
for installation; Eldon Erickson, assistant
director of the Office of Economic Ad-
justment and Col. Cletus Kresse, assistant
to the director of the Office of Economic
Adjustment.
Dole said that he planned to attend the meetings, to be held in McCormick's office.
Among possible uses as envisioned by the chamber are a regional airport to accommodate jet airliners; location of industrial plants; public access to the base recreational facilities, which include swimming pools, a giant gymnasium, golf courses and clubs; integrating the base hospital; location of an MTA's medical care system; location of an airport mail handling post office, moving the mail America Fair from county land inside the Topeka city limits to the base and establishment of a new vocational training school
if the federal government were to turn it over to the city or Shawnee County.
McKnight said the questionnaire was a step in the right direction.
L'Ecuyer questioned the relevance of the partion of the questionnaires concerning the use of a computer.
"The next step is to develop it for differ- inent levels so you're not comparing apples with oranges."
McKnight explained that the questions pertained to a psychological-research concept called "urging the stimulus," which meant keeping people interested.
L'Ecuyer said that everything possible should be done to develop good teachers and that the office of Instructional Resources wished to help.
However, he said, "Let us use this occasion to liberate ourselves from simplistic criteria for evaluating and rewarding good teaching.
"Standardized instructor evaluations do not deal with the subtleties, varieties and complexities of good teaching. We need teachers skilled in handing soft as well as hard skills, skilled in nurturing thinking in process as well as in mastering thinking achieved."
Classic Bunuel Film To Be Shown Today
L'Eucuer said he thought teachers were under pressure to use evaluation procedures based on premises that poorly fit teaching situations.
The film has been called the rarest of the rare, anti-Semitic, scandalous. It was made forty-three years ago and was banned almost immediately.
"Standardized instructional evaluations use criteria that are not valid and not relevant for much of the teaching in the whole university."
"1'Age D'O'c" (The Golden Age) by Lily Bouchie is a film that offended everyone when she opened it.
SUA will present "L'Age D'Ot" at 3:30 p.m. today in the Union Ballroom and at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium.
Paintings by Dali, Miro, Tanguy and Man Rai, which were raided in the theater were slashed. There were cries of "Down." In a new book, *Teach you there are Christians in France!*
"I am more concerned with students become self teachers, than with teaching students. I am a catalyst or coach leading students into discovery of their own potential skills, not primarily a transmitter of knowledge," L'Ecuyer said.
"L'Age D'Or" has been shown only 6 times in the United States.
The copy of the film was offered to SUA by the Em Cee Film Library of Encino, Calif., Murray Glass, the library's manager, considers the film so valuable that he is personally bringing it to Lawrence.
"L'Age D'Or" was shown without incident from Oct. 28 to Dec. 3, 1930. But on the night of the Dec. 3, members of the fascist League of Patriots and the Anti-Semitic League who were in the audience threw stink bombs, splashed purple ink on the screen and destroyed theatre furnishings.
The film applies the theory of 'amour ou', or crazy love, according to Nicole Dupe, a visiting lecturer. Dupe said Bunuel used the theory that love is stronger
(Continued from page 1)
writer of a particular work had written anything else.
Sontag ...
"The notion of the author is not something that you can take for granted, but can be examined alongside many of our notions about accounting for writing," she said.
Sontag suggested that before the idea of the "author" developed, the fact that the reader knew nothing about the writer was important for his disadvantage in understanding the work.
The writer, when not viewed in the paraphrase, is 'author', is secondary in importance to the main argument.
"The fact that the writer uses this thing called 'language' involves the writer in the task of communication as no other artist is involved in an obligation to communicate."
"The personality of the writer is defaced to better serve the subject or to better serve the needs of communication," she said, adding that such work is the interest of the subject.
Sontag said she felt that in an ever-increasingly populated world, the in- author" approach would become increasingly less possible as an approach to writing.
In discussing her approach to literature, Sontag said, "the text is always open. The meaning is changed because of the particular context in which a book is read. The true locus of writing is neither, in fact, in the writer nor the text, but in the reader."
She mentioned group approaches to a single creative work and suggested that "mentors" work might be judged on the basis of their level of understanding. The community in terms of understanding.
SUA FILMS SUA FILMS SUA FILM
Woodruff
THE RED AND THE WHITE
GOLDEN AGE
BUNUEL Film Society
Ballroom 3:30,7:30,9:30
Tues., April 17 75c
CLASHICAL
7:30
9:15
Fly Since
WED
April 18
than anything in effecting the destruction of society;
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
The film is in the surrealistic tradition, attacking religion and the social order. The main subjects of the film, according to Dupre, are a couple who are continually frustrated by society in their attempts to make love.
KU Space Lab To Participate In SKYLAB
Episode Ten of Phantom Empire
Science Fiction Woodruff
The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. has been awarded a $81,680 contract to participate in the NASA LAB space mission to be launched in May.
Tues., April 17
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded the grant for an 18-month research program to be conducted at the NASA laboratory of the Space Technology Center.
Joe Eagleman, associate professor of meteorology and geography, has been assigned to direct the research. He will be assisted by Richard Moore, professor of electrical engineering, and Ernest Pogge, associate professor of civil engineering.
7:36 75c
Popular Films
Woodruff 7:00, 9:30
April 20 & 21 60c
The three SKYLAB missions planned by NAVI will each lengthen a length of any prelaunch mission.
The KU research group will use user collected by SKYLAB to determine the occurrence and severity of droughts in the northern state, an AID data will also be used to determine the amount of snowfall in the northern states and the amount of rain in the desert Southwest.
Three astronauts operating four different sensors will be used during the SKYLAB operation.
sUA FILMs sUA FILMs sUA FILMs sUA FILMs sUA
Grading System To Be Aired
An open seminar to discuss ways of improving the University grading system is being sponsored by the Office of Instruction in the Fine Room of the Kansas Union.
板 members will include David Holmes, associate professor of psychology and chairman of an ad hoc liberal arts and humanities department grading; Herman Lajan, director of the College and Environmental Studies and chairman of an academic policies and procedures committee on grading; and Richard Middaugh, associate professor of chemistry and director of the College Assembly committee on evaluation and advancement of instruction.
L.A.&S. Assistant Herzfeld Awarded Danforth Fellowship
Ana Herzfeld, assistant to the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been a longtime colleague.
Herzfeld is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of Kansas
A native of Buenos Aires, she was an elementary school teacher in Santa Rosa, Argentina, for six years before earning a B.S. from Escuela Normal de Profesoras a B.A. in English from Instituto Superior del Profesorado, both in Buenos Aires.
Herzfeld was a Fulbright Scholar and earned an M.A. in English and linguistics in 1952.
She is currently visiting Costa Rica and will return to Lawrence May 1.
In addition to serving as assistant to the dean, Hertzfeld is a foreign study adviser and an instructor in linguistics. She has taught at Tampa Rica, Germany and Argentina as well.
The Danforth program seeks to find and develop secondary school and college teachers among those who preparation has been interrupted or postponed.
The program also seeks to call attention
to talented college-trained women who are only partially prepared for teaching
The Danforth Foundation was created in 1962 by the late Mr. and Mrs. William H. Danforth.
Put Wings on Your College Degree
AIR FORCE
as a pilot or navigator in the United States
for information
call . . . Sgt. McDonald
843-3000
ATTENTION!!
Come in and register . . .
Try Your Luck!
We're giving away a $25.00 gift certificate each April Saturday afternoon . . . come in, register today . . . You may be this week's lucky winner.
839 Mass.
Downtown
JAYHAWKER TOWERS APARTMENTS
XXXXXXXXXX
300 2 Bedroom Apartments Surrounded by the KU Campus
★ Special Summer Rates ★
NOW LEASING FOR SUMMER AND NEXT FALL
Air Outfits palo
Complete laundry in each building
Outside exposure for each room
Heated swimming pool
Luxurious carpet on all floors
All Utilities paid
Convenience Comfort Safety Extras
tub bath, shower, two lavatories each apartment
lushwashers now available in A & B Towers
Auto parking included
All-brick walls and steel reinforced floors for fire protection and quiet
The Ultimate in KU Campus Housing 843-4993 1603 W. 15th
NOW OPEN SATURDAYS 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
MARANTZ + 4-CHANNEL = 4430
Everyone knows MARANTZ makes the finest stereo components! Now you can enjoy the finest in 4-channel.
MARANTZ! We sound better. (3 years parts and labor on all Marantz components covered by our exclusive 1-day service policy)
Ams electronics (We service what we sell) 10-6 M-
724 Ma