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Friday, February 1, 1974
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The Search Begins
Athletic Director Clyde Walker has announced the appointment of a search committee to recommend to the University of Kansas Athletic Board a new blue dust mop pusher for basketball games.
The board authorized Walker to appoint the committee after the former blue mop pusher resigned. The mop pusher was injured when he slipped on a cupful of ice thrown by a KU fan at the last basketball game. Walker has appointed an acting blue dust mop pusher for the remainder of the basketball season.
"I charged the search committee to accept nominations from the University community for 30 days," Walker said. "And I asked the board to submit four names for the board's approval by the end of April."
Appointed to the board were a member of the KU basketball band, a yell leader, a student senator, a prominent faculty member, a member of the ad hoc athletic representative of the Athletic Board.
The names of the committee members weren't announced, Walker said, to assure that outside workers wouldn't be applied to the committee.
"Because of the highly visible nature of this position," Walker said "we felt at this time that a search committee procedure would be the most appropriate means of filling the position to the satisfaction of all members of the University community."
The search committee has become a frequently used method of filling vacancies at KU. In the past year and a half, KU has used similar search committees to find a new chancellor, an executive vice
chancellor, a health director,
ment head and
Walker, himself.
"We have found this to be a good way of sharing administrative decision-making," said one highly placed member of the central administration. "After all, the entire University community has an interest in who is appointed to these positions."
Indeed, Walker discovered recently the amount of interest some members of the University have in reinforcing commitments to secondary positions.
Believing he had been authorized by the Athletic Board to make administrative changes in his department, Walker appointed a new assistant director and three other administrative changes.
some members of the Student Senate objected, however, that Walker was accountable to students because part of the athletic budget comes from the student activity fee. Therefore, they argued, Walker was obligated to consult the Athletic Board about appointments because students are represented on the board.
The Student Senate authorized an investigation of Walker's appointment of the assistant athletic director. The senate was to hear a report on that investigation this week.
Pending the outcome of that controversy, athletic department sources said, Walker decided to appoint a search committee when the new vacancy opened, even though the search process would delay indefinitely the appointment of a new dust mopusher.
Nixon Picked Personnel Carefully
Overzealous Underlings Outnumber Decent Aides
Bob Simison
BY WILLIAM RASPBERRY
The West Midland Post
The Washington Post
By no means were all the overzealous underlings who got the President in such deep trouble unknown to him before he brought them to Washington. When Richard Nixon's 1962 California gubernatorial campaign called for his organization and financing an effort to sabotage his opponent's campaign, the San Francisco County Superior Court found that
WASHINGTON—One of the recurring themes played by Americans who don't want to face the truth about their President is: "I don't believe he's involved, but I admit he made some mistakes in choosing the people to work for him."
The President, that is to say, is the innocent victim of bad luck in the person who received it.
Naturally enough, Mr. Nixon has encouraged the theme. Last August, for instance, while he was accepting "full responsibility" for Watagele, he managed to make clear that the blame belonged to his "overzealous" subordinates.
Maybe you have to start with a premise like that if you insist on arriving at a conference room. But if you're willing to look at what is there, it seems easier to believe that Mr. Nixon had good luck, not bad, in choosing his president. It seems that sense he got what he waslooked for.
the effort was directly authorized and approved by Mr. Nixon and H. R. Haldenman.
This is not to say that Haldenman's implication in that relatively minor scandal proves he was guilty of conceiving, participating in or covering up the Watergate scandals. It is only to say that Richardixonixon lowly was hiring as a White House official.
Look over the list of the President's "overzealous" top aides, and it strains the imagination to suppose that the pattern is accidental: John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin, Charles Colson, John Dean, Herbert Kalmbach, John Mitchell. As a matter of fact, it's easier to assume that the accusers weren't really zealots who weren't kept around for long—men such as Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Finch and precious few others.
The President's "overzealous" subordinates turn out to be indisinguishable from the unawning loyalists and yemen that Mr. Nixon seems so attracted to. The qualities that brought these men to the office included qualities that made Waterate possible.
You have to assume at the very least that the subordinates were free to act only within clearly understood guidelines—that is, the understanding of what is tolerable and what is not.
Of course, there may have been misunderstandings. No administration is without
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every effort to keep us from finding out the depth of water, damages and improprieties in Waters.
And don't look for help from the presidential tapes. The crucial June 20, 1972, conversation with John Mitchell shortly after the Watergate back-in-took place on a phone not hooked into the automatic tapping system. The record of the tapes's conversation that same day with Chuck Griff Haleman was obiterated in the annual erasure. And now it turns out that the President's own taped recollection of the Mitchell call conversation contains a 37-second blank at a critical juncture.
underlings who go off halfcooked and embarrass their chief by doing something that he would never countenance. But to attribute the host of Nixon administration to this scandal, I concur, condemn the President for hiring-and retaining—a boatload of incompetents.
No, the suspicion is that the em-barrassment to Mr. Nixon is not in the fact that his representatives have done some of the work they did that their scandalous acts were found out.
He could have made it easier to believe otherwise if, when the scandals were first exposed, he had swept the perpetrators out of the White House and apologized to the police. He was there anyway. Instead, his response was: Scandal? What scandal? And all the while he has made
There could, of course, be innocent explanations for all these gaps. "Overzealous" subordinates, for instance, or warworms.
Can you imagine the shock one would have if he walked into a classroom on this campus today and was told that it was for blacks only? Shock would not be an adequate word to describe the feeling one has ever felt, yet this is exactly what has happened.
It seems that a lab section of Geography 6 has been labeled, "Blacks Only." Explanations ranged from, "We are trying to accommodate the students," to, "We know that it is illegal, but we feel that it would create a better learning environment."
Readers Respond
Raves and Rantings
To the Editor:
Haves and rentings to Raitt reviewer Bradley! Carelessly calculating this creature, his reader, Bradley boringly belted this writer with rough and ready ersatz examples of abyssal, abominable, and appalling alliteration.
These explanations sound sweet, but what about the problems generated by such a policy? Besides being illegal, it has caused considerable problems for the few white students who had unknowingly enrolled in that course. In addition, the ill treatment of these students and the incident do nothing to further the idea that the law was created for everyone.
Class, Reviewer Criticized
Sparing no sophormic statement, his unrivalled review of said anger Raatt must rank (really) with the great gangling kick buffoon lion tone treatments of all ages.
"Charlie's Love-Imi" is the name that some of the "residents," or inmates, of the federal correctional institution here have met in recent years to conduct a quent experiment in the United States.
To the Editor
Instead, it adds to the growing evidence supporting the policy that the law was created for anyone厉然 enough to obey it. Thus, it adds to the policy the University wishes to expound?
Coed Prison Humane, Successful
Run by Warden Charles F. Campbell, the institution is referred to as the "community," men and women have their "walking partners," and 146 residents
Some new and very dramatic methods are being tried at the institute in order to rehabilitate and prepare residents for their departure into the "free world."
Only those convicts who are within two years of release time are brought to the institute. No male convict with a serious pattern of violent behavior in his background is admitted. The average age is 31, but a surprising number arrive here in prison at 60 and 69's and others after serving five, 10 or 15 years in the traditional institutes.
NICHOLAS C. CHP
The Los Angeles Times
In fact, it is difficult to tell the inmates from the guards on the prison grounds.
Thirteen terribly tedious testaments to the alliterator's art acidily attacked the studied and sensitive sensibilities of this sophomore scholar, seriously stunting several sequential summations of sacred student studies.
It is a unique penal experiment because it continues to operate successfully despite all the traditional opposition to its methods, and is the only one in the opposition as "molly-coddling convicts."
By NICHOLAS C. CHRISS
WT. WORTH—Almost everything about "Charlie's Love-Impr" is different than what you might imagine a federal prison to be, including courses in transactional analysis, and women holding hands, bullethugs to the absence of cell blocks and armed guards.
were given furlongs at Christmas time. Of that number, 145 returned.
"The way prisons are, they're characterized by criminal behavior, assaults, predatory homosexuality, drug traffic, strong arm clocks, racial tension; all of the pathology that characterizes a typical prison," Campbell said.
Stephen Barry K.C., Mo., sophomore
The fact that Charlie's Love-Inm has managed to continue for two years since the Bureau of Prisons took over the site from the National Institute of Mental Health, a federal drug treatment hospital, is looked on by many observers in penology as a near miracle.
"They treat you like a human being, the most common description heard."
Precious pieces of powerful and popular praise may eventually exude from favored faculty, but as for this listener, nearly all teachers no-we no-necissite the neuter nonsense.
It costs a little more to do it. The institute spends an average of $2 per day per inmate compared to the $9 daily for each of the 2,100 inmates jaunted into the penitentiary in July.
Please prepare a pot of purple peas for the particular plasterer of journalistic paper.
Residents are allowed to wear their own clothes, rather than the uniform, and their own kind of hair cuts. So there are plenty of mini-skirts and pantsuits seen among women, and mod knit clothes and hair styling among the men.
The fact that the institute is a coed prison attracts the most attention. "It is only one ingredient, but an essential one," Campbell said.
Part of the institute's success is due to the fact that it is filled with "nickel and diners," inmates who are not considered hardened criminals or who have been convicted of non-violent crimes or the lesser felonies.
Men and women together serve as a humanizing influence within the institution, although having the sexes together in a male-facing in the face of the traditional penal code.
Senator's Report
And allow its access to brave betrayer Bradley.
An alternate plan that provides for a Parkway is also under consideration. This Parkway involves purchase of land and scenic eements along a roadway through
These opponents are also concerned that development of adjoining lands wouldn't be coordinated and could prove destructive if ill-managed. Others believe the federal government has already acquired enough land in Kansas.
Proposals for preservation of part of the prairie have been considered since the 1950s. The Special Committee on Environment has estimated that studies the possibility of using 60,000 acres (less than one-sixth of one per cent of the total prairie land in Kansas) (b) a) preserve native species of plant and animal life, (b) restore wetland habitats tallgrass ecosystem, (c) preserve the
Attempts have been organized since the 1950s to establish such a preservation. However, development of the Turtle Creek Reservoir displaced the project proposals. In 1963, a United States Senate subcommittee held hearings in Manhattan and voted to reject the Prairie Park proposal. In 1969, interest revived in the project, and
Environmental issues have received attention by the Kansas Legislature particularly in the last few years because of greater environmental awareness. Three proposals this year, Prairie Park, Environmental Protection Agency and蓄储 Container Control, are important because they affect the majority of Kansens.
Enviromental Awareness Expands
Many believe the only area left in the country that offers a potential for restoration is the Kansas Flint Hills region. But developers want this park to be a part of the national wilderness system. They do not recognize recreation development such as camping.
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 74, proposed by the Special Committee on Environmental Protection, requests the National Park Service to consider all the national conservation project, concentrating on existing federal land sites, particularly land owned by the government as part of the Fort Riley military reservation. The resolution also asks that the preservation and protection of the tallgrass prairie and Fint Hills region.
Another proposal considered by the environmental committee deals with establishing an Environmental Protection Agency. After much study, creation of a regulatory agency to regulate environment matters was rejected by the committee. Many of the concerns that such an agency would be required to handle, such as air and water pollution, and disposal and radiation, is already conducted by the Department of Health.
the Flint Hills, Greater public access would be allowed in the form of scenic overlooks, picnicking areas and hiking trails. There is also a $120 million investment would be acquired for a Parkway project.
Opponents say that Flint Hills ranchers have preserved the grasslands and in many cases have improved them. They also feel that federal land acquisition of 60,000 acres would reduce tax sources, reduce cattle grazing land and dislocate families.
since 1971 bills have been introduced in Congress to establish a national park in
The committee proposed that the Department of Health be reorganized to the Department of Health and Environment. This reorganization would provide visibility for major environmental functions. It would also provide a better relationship between health and environment. The committee felt that environmental concerns would have less costly impact than reorganization, which would be less costly than a new agency.
Editor's Note: This is the second of a seven-part series by State Senator Paul Hess, R-Wichita, on the 1974 session of the Kansas law student at the University of Kansas.
Ken Stone
prairie heritage and (d) provide an area for educational research.
Ken Stone
Omaha sophomore
Griff and the Unicorn
Another reorganization procedure would be the transfer of Board of Health duties to a Secretary of Health and Environment appointed by the Governor and approved by the senate. This would increase the coercion level against the nurses within the Health Department. It is also a move in the trend toward a cabinet-type structure in the executive branch.
House Bill 1243 was recently rejected by the House Federal and State Affairs Committee. This so-called "Bottle Hill" would have established approval of a collection beverage container collecting beverage containers. This bill would have allowed any person to establish a redemption center with the approval of the State Director of Alcoholic Beverage Control. This bill established the return deposit refund at not less than 5 cents for beverage containers.
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Initial answers to teacher or student questions are often of a cursory nature largely because students have seldom been required to go beyond short answers that fill the gap left after the teacher's questions. Silence after questions is uncomfortable for both teachers and students, but particularly when the students are answering students to stop with cursory answers. Students come to see that this is the only kind of answer that is really required.
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Philip C. McKnight
Probing questions may be open-end or non-directive; that is, the questions should solicit opinions and personal experience and should be as careful reasoning. Further, the teacher must convey to the student the idea that, if you are aware of opinion, his answers will be acceptable.
If an English teacher wishes to help his students learn to write, he must give them the opportunity to write. It is not enough for students to talk about good writing or to teach them how to do it, so they do not give them a chance to write themselves and to receive feedback about their efforts. The need for involvement and practice is most understandable when instructors in educational activities such as writing, or with psycho-motor skills such as tennis and golf.
Perceptive Questions Kev to Good Teaching
The same consideration, however, applies to skills that are not so visible, because it is just as important that students be given the chance to utilize cognitive skills. If a teacher has planned a discussion about other cultures, for example, and his goal is not only to acquaint students with other cultural mobs, but to bring them to a place of opportunity and appreciate these mores, he would find it valuable to get students involved in the discussion as possible. Through involvement comes commitment.
The teacher should not put the student on the spot. Through the use of probing questions, he attempts to get the student to make his assumptions or opinions clearer to the class and clearer to himself. Students' explanations for concepts or phenomena,
Probing questions require students to go beyond initial answers in ways that will help them strengthen their understanding of the concepts being discussed.
In a discussion group, one good way of getting people involved is through the use of questions. There are certain kinds of questions called "probing" questions that are particularly useful in getting students involved in the subject matter.
It is not enough for a student to be aware of his subject matter and its importance. If he is to have a functional understanding of his activities in activities associated with that subject.
Helping students to become actively involved with the school matter is one aspect of affective learning.
especially where there is no right or final answer, must be acceptable.
Evidence for the value of the use of probing questions comes from several sources, including an excellent article by Robert Hess and Virginia Shippman entitled, "Early Experience in the Socialization of Children with Oral Language," which is found in the December, 1968, Development. The authors hypothesize that the structures of the social system and the family shape communication, and language in turn shapes thought in the cognitive styles of problem solving. Without a complex vocabulary, children cannot learn as well, and the home is an important factor in their development. This complexity of language and the ability to reason which are necessary to higher levels of thinking.
The writers say that in many homes there is little or no talking, or talking in nonrational ways (i.e. ordering, incomplete sentences) and that this constitutes a form of cultural deprivation that constricts the range of thoughts they can reflect and to see the rationale behind things. Instead, it leads to impulsive modes dealing with stimuli or problems, and to dealing with the immediate, not the future, or with ideas that are disconnected from the world. The questioning questions is that the verbal interaction in such homes is limited and cursory.
Likewise, in some discussion groups, students may be requested to answer questions, but are expected to answer in short, shallow ways that satisfy the teacher, but do little to enhance the learning of the student.
Probing questions, then, encourage students to go beyond the initial simplistic answers in ways that will enable them to understand their understanding of various concepts.
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