Tuesday, February 19.1974
University Daily Kansan
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3 Emporia Teachers Protest Firing
Exegesis is defined by Webster as "a state of affairs that makes urgent demands."
The definition of financial exigency reached Friday by the Kansas Board of Regents is unjust, according to an Emperor of Mexico on grounds of financial exigency last spring.
The faculty member, R. Dale Hogan, associate professor of industrial education, and two other Emporia State faculty members have protested that financial exigency didn't exist when they were dismissed.
All three had tenure. The other two were John F. Crouch, assistant professor of mathematics, and Terry L. Purcell, assistant professor of physical science.
THE REGENTS' STATEMENT Friday was in response to the faculty members' grievances filed against John E. Visser, president of Emproria State.
The regents told the Emporia State administration last spring that they would have to delete 50 teaching positions from their salary requests for next year because of a decreased rate of 100 in enrolment there. They held 50 positions were held by tenured faculty.
HOGAN SAID he thought tenure wasn't a guarantee of employment if the tenured person wasn't doing satisfactory work, but that he had been informed by the Emporia administration that his dismissal had to do with anything he had or hadn't done.
In the statement they issued Friday, the regents declared that financial exigency occurred when, because of declining enrolments, the legislature deleted salary money for faculty positions from the appropriations for a school.
SPECIAL CONSIDERATION is given to tenure faculty in deciding whom to terminate. Visser said, unless there is someone who has special expertise in his field, but not with special expertise in his field.
He said one of the tenured professors who was protesting his dismissal taught the same subject as two others in his department, but that a non-tenured faculty member was still given further area. He said this was why the tenured position, which could be taught by
others, was relinquished. This allowed the non-tenured position to be retained, he said.
Hogan said that last Wednesday the Emperor State Faculty Senate recommended the removal of two members who had been dismissed by renounce if the legislature approved a recommendation by Gov. Robert Docking to estimate some of the positions deleted last fall.
Office of Relations to Reorganize
Three new departments of the Office of University Relations and Development will be formed when the office is reorganized in the Managing director David Dary, said yesterday.
The new departments are the Division of Publications, the Division of Special Events, and the Division of Information, which will replace the News Bureau.
"Under the reorganization the Office of University Relations will be better able to serve the needs of the University," Dary said. "There has long been the need for a central publications office as well as an event to coordinate the numerous special events to occur on the Lawrence campus. The reorganization is a move in that direction."
The graphics portion of the present Photo and Graphic Arts Bureau will become a part of the Division of Publications. The graphics portion of the division is a part of the Division of Information Services.
The reorganization will enable the Office of University Relations and Development to improve the dissemination of information from all areas on radio and television stations, Dary said.
Dary said the reorganization wouldn't affect the services that have been provided in the past by the Photo and Graphics Arts Bureau.
The photographic services will continue to be available to the University community
from the photo labs in the basement of Watson Library," Dary said. "Graphic services will move to Carruth-O'Leary in March."
The Division of Publications will be directed by Tom Yoe, who is now editor of the Faculty Newsletter. This division will publish all University catalogues, the Faculty Newsletter and other campus publications.
Edward Julian, present director of the
Photo and Graphic Arts bureau, will direct the Division of Special Events, which will coordinate dedications, commencements, and other special activities on campus.
Larry Kunphy, present director of the National Research Council, the director of the Department of Information
All offices of University Relations and Development will be moved to new quarters in Carruth-O'Leary in early March, Dary said.
Two New Courses Offer Western Civ Comp Choice
An alternative to the standard Western Civilization comprehensive final examination has been devised, Mike Ducey, a director in Western Civilization, said yesterday.
20-31 hour lecture and discussion courses may be taken instead of the usual 2-hour courses and comprehensive exam to fill the required curriculum for most KU schools, Deenay said.
Any student who takes Western Civilization 134 and 135, the 3-hour courses and receives a passing grade on the final exam, can then take to take the comprehensive exam, be said.
Ducey said that all liberal arts and sciences students who were enrolled in Western Civilization 105, the second 2-hour course, must take the comprehensive examination the same semester they were enrolled in the course. Any student who fails the examination will be enrolled in the same semester will be enrolled in it automatically, he said.
Ducey said that students who fail the comprehensive exam would be given an incomplete for the course and must reenroll to take the exam the next semester or a grade of "F" will be recorded in his permanent file.
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After the statement was issued by the regents the three professors who complained turned to the American Association of University Professors (AUP) for help. AUP has consistently supported the rights of tenured faculty.
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Student Union Activities presents a satirical, joke-rock, mock-concert, musical comedy, semi-revue, theatrical production. Sounds confusing? National Lampoon LEMMINGS will be presented in Hoch Auditorium on Saturday, February 23, 1974, at 8:00 p.m. LEMMINGS, an off-Broadway production now touring the college circuit, contains the wit, humor, parody, and satire that is associated with the National Lampoo Magazine. Much of the original cast has been retained for this road engagement and their "... wicked parody of the world of rock, spoofing the talented along with the pretenders, their absurdities, conceits, and affectations ... goes straight for the satirical jugular vein on many fronts, much in the reckless manner of the late Lenny Bruce."
All seats are reserved and priced at $2.50 and $3.50.
Earl Robrigh, president of the AUP
Earl carpent at Emporia, said it was unfortunate
but expected that the regents wouldn't want
involved in a campus matter like this one.
Ribbaugh said he didn't think the term "financial exigency" was applicable to Emperor State because the amount of budget had been going up in recent years.
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