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Tuesday. May 7. 1974
University Daily Kansan
Urban Program May Encounter StateOpposition
Duplicity of academic programs will be the major objection to starting a master's degree program in urban planning at the University of Kansas, Bernd Foerster, dean of the Kansas State University School of Architecture and Design, said Friday.
Foerster said instructions had come down from the legislature and the Board of Regents, to reduce duplication.
"We are being told to cut back in programs where duplication exists and here we are asking for a new program at KU that is our program at K-Slate, Forerster said.
The proposal under consideration will come before the Council of Presidents of Schools for approval this month before going to the Board of Regents.
The KU School of Architecture and Urban Design developed the program, which will include cooperative courses with the Schools of Law, Social Welfare, Business and the public administration program in a department, which transs city managers.
The program's curriculum would emphasize three major areas of urban planning; urban development policies; natural environmental policies; and the behavior and perceptual problems in urban and environmental design.
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Ambrose Saricks, vice-chancellor for academic affairs, said part of the program at KU would duplicate basic courses offered at K-State. However, he said, KU had not been able to draw than K-State such as the Schools of Law and Social Welfare.
the building was undergoing minor renovations and that major repairs would be made to the roof and ceiling later. He will need a window and glass still will be used for classroom space.
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The theme of this year's Social Work Day was, "Social Work Practice 1984: The Shape of Things to Come." Speakers included Werner Bohmer, former Dean of the Rutgers University School of Social Work; Robert Harder, secretary of the Kansas State Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services; and Kenton Williams, of the Kansas City, Mo. Office of Child Development under HEW.
Arthur Katz, dean of the School of Social Welfare, was honored during morning ceremonies. Katz is stepping down from the position of Dean, which he has held since 1968. He will enter full time teaching and research.
Minorities' Enrollment In Engineering Grows
Enrollment of minority students in the School of Engineering has increased more than 800 per cent in the last three years, according to William E. Hogan II, assistant dean of the School of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering.
Hogan said recently that although there were only about 50 minority students out of the 850 students enrolled in engineering, that number was a substantial increase from the six minority students enrolled three years ago.
One of the most important reasons behind this increase, Hogan said, was the formation of the Student Council for Recruiting, a program to Educate Black Engineers (SKOMBEE).
It was formed three years ago to help further opportunities in the engineering field for blacks and minority students, he said.
SCORMEBE sponsored an honors banquet May 4 in the Kansan Room of the Kansas Union to recognize the success of the program and those who have helped develop career opportunities for minority students in engineering.
This counseling program was originally conceived, organized and, until recently,
SIEIRA CLUB will meet at 7:30 tonight in South Park Recreation Center. Philip Brimble, science writer for the Kansas City Journal, spoke on oil ship development in Oklahoma.
MORTAR BOARD will have a brown bag picnic at 5:30 tonight at Potter Lake.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COLLEGE ORGANIZATION will meet at 7:30 tonight in Danforth Chapel.
COLLEGE ASSEMBLY will meet at 4 p.m. today in Woodruff Auditorium.
RUTH ELLIOTT, a student of the supernatural from Ottawa, will speak today at 1 p.m. Room 111 Blake Hall on religion and
amost entirely funded through student efforts, Hogan said. He said it was rated one of the top five counseling programs of its kind in the nation.
The program is located in the office of William P. Smith, dean of engineering, at 11 Marvin Hall, and it provides financial assistance to its courses and counseling to minority students.
Receiving awards for their help in establishing SCORMBEE were: James M. Russer, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs; Smith, Hogan; Floyd W. Preston, professor of petroleum engineering and adviser to SCORMBEE; Don W. Green, chairman of the department of chemical engineering and adviser to SCORMBEE; and Willie J. Nunnery, founder of SCORMBEE.
Woodlawn Protest Likely Parents Expected to Appeal to School Board
Some form of formal protest against the decision to discontinue the behavior analysis Follow Through program at Woodlawn Elementary School is expected to become an official requirement of the Lawrence Board of Education, according to Jim Salyer, a lawrence attorney.
Salyer, the attorney representing a group of parents supporting the program, said Sunday that the group was "contemplating how to be able to be to be a formal appeal to the school board.
Salyer said there was a 10-day appeal limitation after the final decision had been made, which he said he assumed was at last Wednesday's meeting of administration officials and parents supporting the program.
At that meeting, Harold Siegier, Woodawn principal, rested his reasons
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for discontinuing the program, and Carl Knox, school superintendent, reaffirmed that the decision was Siegrist's to make and that he would give give "complete support," Siegrist's answer.
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Salyer said he knew of no legal actions that had been planned to fight the decision but that possible litigation could be the answer. "I don't know," she said by the group of parents he represented.
parents who had consulted Salyer about possible litigation, said that Salyer had been retained to determine "what legal recourse the parents, have to keep a program that we like."
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The group has three possible choices, according to Brown. The group could work with the study committee, which could be used to implement favorable aspects of the behavior analysis program into conventional classrooms. Knox suggested that the student would be a faculty protest to the school board. Or they could either individually or as a group, seek legal recourse to hopefully force reinstatement of the program.
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Carolyn Hutchins of RFD 3 Lawrence, who spoke for the parents at the Wednesday meeting, said the group was still "at a rising stage" in considering possible actions.
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1974 COMMENCEMENT
Monday, May 20
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Private receptions, open houses. (A number of schools, departments, and honorary organizations will be holding special activities during these hours. Students will be notified by their respective organizations and academic divisions.)
10:00 a.m. School of Medicine Hooding Ceremony, Battenfeld Auditorium, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas.
1:00 p.m.
School of Law Hooding Ceremony, Woodruff Auditorium,
Kansas Union.
2:00 p.m.
Graduate School Hooding Ceremony, University Theatre,
Murphy Hall.
Senior-Parent Supper, Kansas Union Ballroom.
5:00 p.m.
Post-Graduates Buffet. Continuous buffet service to 7:00 p.m.,
Wescoe Hall Cafeteria and Patio.
5:00 p.m.
3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Chancellor's Reception for Graduates and their Guests with Chancellor and Mrs. Archie Dykes at their residence, 1532 Lilac Lane.
Commencement, Memorial Stadium. (Graduates to be in front of Strong Hall at 7:30 p.m. If it is raining or threatening bad weather, the ceremonies will be held in Allen Field House. Graduates should then report to the main east entrance at Allen Field House.)
8:00 p.m.
DIPLOMAS
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BUSINESS 4019
LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES 4023,4025,4033,4034
ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN 4067
EDUCATION 4057,4058
ENGINEERING 4071
FINE ARTS 4040
JOURNALISM 4001
SOCIAL WELFARE (UG & Grad.) 4035
LAW 4076
MEDICINE 4041
NURSING 4043
PHARMACY 4065
MASTERS DEGREES 4002, 4007
DOCTORAL DEGREES 4008