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Friday, April 13, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photo by CHRIS CANNELLA
Daniel Bell Speaks in the Vickers Lecture Series
... professor of sociology at Harvard University.
Association of Profs Elects New Officers
By PETE RONSSE Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) elected officers for the fall 2018 right. The offices take effect immediately.
Grant Goodman, professor of history and East Asian Studies, is the group's new president. He automatically became president after being vice president this year.
Frances Ingemann, professor of linguistics, was elected vice president
linguistics, was elected vice president.
George Griffin, associate reference librarian.
Anna Condit, library systems specialist,
was re-electedreasurer for next year.
Two members were elected to the chapter's six member executive committee. Ken Cogger, assistant professor of business, and Lloyd Spohnbolt, assistant professor of history, will serve three year terms.
THE GROUP also passed measures that strictly defined chapter membership and participation on the executive committee. The action was taken by way of amendments to the chapter's constitution and by laws.
One amendment provides that faculty members whose primary duties are administrative, such as deans and associate deans who are more than half-time deans may attend chapter meetings but may not vote or hold office. Previously, the constitution had no provision for their participation in chapter activities.
A second measure stipulated that executive committee members who are more than half-time administrators must submit resignations to the executive committee. THE COMMITTEE will consider the nature of their work and the subjective suitable conflict of interest would occur in the performance of their duties. After consideration, the committee will move to either accept or reject the resignations.
John Glinka, associate director of Watson Library and outgoing president of the
The Geological Survey Advisory Council of the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) has appointed Alfred Lowenthal Jr., of Colby, to the Geological Survey Council.
J. Bunker Clark, associate professor of music history, is among the nominees for president of the state chapter who will be elected at the meeting.
chapter, announced that the AAUP State Conference would be Saturday at Washburn
A motion was passed to ask the state conference to put on the legislative agenda a mechanism to allow state employees to pay back payroll taxes monthly paychecks at their own request.
This would mean that AAUP chapter members could opt to have chapter dues deducted from their paychecks rather than paying the $24-$40 fee in one hump sum.
Clark, who proposed the idea, said this would encourage more faculty members to be active in the chapter because collective of dues would be more incremental.
Structure of Society Changed, Prof Says
By ERIC MEYER
Kansan Staff Writer
America's social structure has changed fundamentally in the past 25 years, Daniel Bell, professor of sociology at Harvard and the coauthor of 300 at Wooldridge Auditorium Thursday.
"The population of America has been grouping on the rims of society, leaving the rest of us."
"Few societies, if any, are now national societies," he said. "The communications and transportation revolutions in America have allowed changes in one part of the country and have immediate repercussions in other regions. This has created the popular culture."
Bell said America became a national society only in the past quarter century.
Bell, speaking in the Vickera Lecture series, said there had been four basic concepts.
First, he said the population has changed both in number and in distribution. Second, America has become a national society. Third, communal action has replaced individual action. And fourth, America has emerged into a post-industrial era.
"The New Deal established the mechanisms to manage our national economy." Bell said. "What we need now are mechanisms to manage the national society."
"In the past," he said, "the population increased segmentally when new areas become more affluent; changes are incremental, on top of the already existing numbers. This means greater competition between individuals and expenditures for capital infrastructure."
"What this agricultural revolution did was to effectively end sharecropping, leading to high unemployment rates for blacks," he said. "Their plight became mirroring this era because they were now in the urban workforce and were counted."
BELL SAID the mass exodus from rural to urban areas was caused by a dramatic increase in agricultural productivity during the 1940s.
Another trend was the outmigration of whites from central-city areas, Bell said. This caused an erosion of the tax base for state spending in services when they were needed most
He said that old concepts of states, counties, townships and so forth were
"We're living under a Tudor government," Bell said. "We still have sheriffs like the Sheriff of Nottingham from Robin Hood. But there are no more Robin Hoods."
BELL SAID that he was strongly opposed to centralized government but that he saw a need for centralized policy making. He said that the agency's functions were centeredalong of functions.
"When Coxey's army tried to march on Washington in the 1800s," he said, "the great distance diffused it. But when Martin Luther King called for a mass march in the 1960s, 200,000 were in Washington within 48 hours."
He said that groups rather than individuals were performing more and more
"THINGS ARE being 'bought' by the government for public use," Bell said. "Two hundred years ago when an individual went into the army, he took his own musket. Now, the society provides it. In total, this amounts to less consumer choice."
Bell said the number of "free" goods had also declined.
"Air and water were once treated as free," he said. "Now we know they have costs. We must establish a price system for their use. If we must pay to use them, we must regulate it and pollute. Regulation is not the answer, just as it wasn't during Populist times."
He said the nature of citizenship also had changed. This, he said, has resulted in the conflict between group rights and individual rights.
THE FOURTH major change, the emergence of a post-industrial society, means that machines, not people, will produce goods, Bell said.
"Today, 60 per cent of the society is producing services, not goods," he said. This will lead America to a white-collar education will take on added significance."
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