Faculty and Student Opinion Mixed on CWC Advising
Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part series examining the Colleges-Within-the College at the University of Kansas. The second part will deal with the educational programs offered by the different colleges. The final part will deal with the administrative characteristics of the colleges and with the future of the CWC system.
By S. J. WOHLRABE Kansan Staff Reporter
Eight years after the College-Winith-In-
College (CWC) system was implemented,
the only remaining part of the original
program is academic advising.
CWCs originally were designed to give freshmen and sophomores the advantages of a small college community, and at the university level, they provide the varied resources of a large university.
The program was established in 1968, five years after Chancellor W. Clark Wescoe urged each school in the University to evaluate itself.
Centennial College was set up as the experimental college in 1966, and the four colleges were established.
"The academic advising system has been disappointing in several aspects," Robert Cobb, director of Numeram College, said. "The university would be in pure chare without it."
Faculty advisers are assigned to new freshmen and sophomores in the CWCs to help with enrollment, vocational goals and placement. Dr. John Gold, director of Oliver College, said.
THE WAY students meet their advisers
offers among the CWCs. All CWCs, except
Hawaii and New York, accept the
program.
North College randomly assigns advisers,
Eilid Gillerman, director of North College.
according to a student's major or interest
"I don't think that it makes a difference who a new student is assigned to because they want to be the most important and most students will change their rudges several times before they reach their sophomore year," Gillerman said. "We can, however, allow sophomores to change from freshmen."
Some students don't like random assignments.
Cynthia Greene, Sparta, N.J., freshman in North College, is a declared physical
"If North College must assign advisers she should go along interest lines," she said.
"AS AN INCOMING freshman I found I was really lost, and my adviser knew nothing about physical therapy," Green said. "I just walked in and he signed the card and it made no difference whether I had five or 18 hours on my card."
Although the four other CWCs attempt to assign students to academic advisers according to the students' interests, there are not enough advisers in some areas, Cobb said.
"We must have one-third of the freshmen say they are interested in psychology, and there is a limit to the number of faculty in that department," he said. "The others come into KU with no interests that we can find so they just must take rollout."
Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College or Liberal Arts and Sciences and director of research for the Department of Psychology.
creatively wanted to be advised by faculty members in their areas of interest
Cobb said the lack of advisers in some interest areas had been a major complaint.
"I declared my major as pre-med when I was a freshman and they gave me an advisor from the English department who was proficient in foreign language," Laura Cunningham, Hutchinson sophomore in Pearson College, said. "That advisor didn't know how to advise me in the science requirements that I had so I changed advisers the next semester."
FACULTY ADVISERS often don't like to advise students in interest areas removed
Susan Richardson, assistant professor of English, said, "I would trouble people
through a system where only English majors come to me.
"I don't always enjoy advising people because they are strangers to me and I don't know what they want. So many students don't know what to take and they show no interest so that it becomes exceedingly difficult to advise them."
The problems of faculty advising aren't solved even when students have advisers in their teams.
Gary Aeyers, Mulvane senior, said,
"Professors are so far removed from the
"I was interested in Spanish so they assigned me a linguistics professor for an adviser and he didn't even know the language requirements for undergraduates," Susan Rapp, Overland Park park in Pearson College, said.
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Greg Wenger, Oberlin sophomore, hauls in a touchdown pass against defender Roger Wellington, Wellington junior, in a touch football game
yesterday on a field between Lewis Hall and Hashinger Hall. The unseasonably warm weather brought out bortes of football and basketball players around the campus and Lawrence. More of the same weather is expected today.
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Energy Bill Virtually Killed By Return to Committee
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate voted yesterday to send emergency energy legislation back to conference with the governor to overwind falloffs by the oil industry.
The action, which had been urged by the White House, delays and possibly kills the bill that would have given President Nixon authority to order gasoline rationing and other mandatory energy conservation measures. Before the 57 to 37 vote, Sen. Obama said he was against the bill, warned that if the measure was sent back to conference, “it’s going to die.”
Westday's board meeting was called to determine whether Good Health would be retained to manage whichever project is ultimately approved.
The administrative administrator Donna Lemons is very traditional not to have a second opinion.
Early in the meeting, Anne Ciref of 1000 Sunset Drive asked whether the board would have a second study made by another firm. Ciref said she thought a conflict of interest existed because Good Health had made the origination of the board and now was seeking the job.
In a letter to Hugh Scott, Senate Republican leader, Nixon said, "We have been able to make do without emergency energy legislation thus far, and I urge you and your colleagues to take the additional steps we are developing a truly responsible product."
THE MOTION to recommit was sponsored by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., who claimed that the windfall profits provision would enable the fund to grow and most probably unconstitutional."
The controversial provision would go into effect next year and allow consumers to apply retroactively for refunds on fuel prices that could be proved to have resulted in excess profits. The President would be authorized to set prices on petroleum products to prevent oil companies from earning excess profits.
In other energy developments yesterday:
—Energy officials unveiled new gasoline rationing coupons they have been printing under authority of a different law, Federal
LEEN 52A1 most consultants developed lengage plans and aope that, once an order is approved.
AFTER RECEIVING the report, the board of trustees requested information on the cost of renovating the existing hospital and of building a new "traditional" hospital. In the second report, presented Dec. 12, listed cost estimates for each first estimate for both alternative plans.
Hospital Retains Consulting Firm
THE ADMINISTRATION favors its own tax measure, which it says would channel any excess profits into further exploration and development of oil sources.
-Allow the administration to make
cument voluntary energy conservation
preserve
bit but wanted the measure stripped of the windfall profits provision and others it wanted.
Good Health presented its report to the trustees Nov. 15. The report recommended that a conglomerate of health facilities, including a hospital, diagnostic center, office building and administrative building built at a cost of more than $12 million.
Besides giving the President the legal authority to impose gasoline rationing, the governor also gave the president a
Good Health, a Rochester, Mimm., firm, was originally hired in August to develop a longrange plan for health care in Lawrence and to lead the first two months last July by Dr. John Simons, brother of Dolph C. Simons Jr., publisher of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World and a
The motion to retain Good Health was finally passed "subject to favorable con-
—Create a Federal Emergency Energy Administration;
- Energy Director William E. Simon said it was important for Americans to realize that the shortage wasn't a temporary aberration. Simon said that scarce, expensive energy would be the rule for many years and perhaps indefinitely.
The firm was retained by a 4-1 vote of the trustees after the board and members of the firm were questioned sharply for more than 6 months about 25 Lawrence residents who attended JFK.
energy sources said gasoline rattling was likely to be needed this summer if the Arab countries do not increase oil.
tract negotiations" between the board and Good Health. Dr. Simons said a contract with IBM is one of the biggest contracts.
Good Health, Inc., a hospital consulting firm, was retained yesterday by the board of trustees of Lawrence Memorial Hospital to manage for future expansion of the hospital.
—Require disclosure of oil company data and statistics;
"I think it would be inappropriate to talk about dollars and cents or percentage until we have a very clear understanding."
After the meeting, Dr. Simons refused to estimate what percentage of construction costs Good Health would seek as its fee or cost. The consultant would calculate for a beneficial consulting firm was.
the board of trustees was also criticized by persons at the meeting for not seeing that yesterday's open meeting had been well publicized, and for conducting the meeting at a time when it was difficult for Lawrence residents to attend. All visitors at the office except members of Good Health and the Lawrence City Commission were women.
"The components of Good Health have been in existence for a long time," he said.
SEN. JACKSON and other supporters on the emergency energy bill had anticipated an effort by Republicans and oil-state senators to send the bill back to conference
Also after the meeting, Lawrence Mayor Nancy Hambleton approached members of the press and she said she wanted to assure them that she no longer dubbed the committee "the group." She asserted of interest existed because Dr. Sims was the brother of a hospital trustee.
-Grant a one-year and possibly two-year extension in car exhaust requirements;
A similar coalition had organized a bilibuster that prevented passage of the bill before Christmas. Jackson said he blamed the White House for the failure to block the White House for the efforts to block the bill. But he apparently was surprised that the motion to recommit was offered by Nelson, a Northern liberal known to support oil industry and a windfall profits tax on the oil industry.
"We didn't want to gut hang up on the newness of Good Health as a firm," Lenz
The administration said it needed the rationing and other powers contained in the
Another person at the meeting questioned cool hands on the competence because of the manner in which he handled the task.
—Restrict exports of petroleum products;
Dr. Simona defended his firm's reports and explained the role the firm hoped to hold.
the consulting contract. He said a second firm would prepare a blaset report in hopes of obtaining a settlement.
said. "We wanted to know about the experience of its members."
"What we want to do is to serve as the owner's representative, to serve as project managers, to see deadlines are met, budgets are met, architectural contracts are satisfied," Simons said. "An owner's representative the quarterback who ties it all together."
DR. SIMONS said members of Good Health had been involved with hospitalization.
— Make unemployment benefits available
— Make them lose their jobs as a result of
fuel costs.
—Order the conversion of oil and natural gas burning power plants to coal.
Another major issue will be an increase in salaries for faculty members of state
Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of five interviews with area legislators about the most important issues related to with by the 1974 Kansas Legislature.
Glover Says Benefits, KUSalaries Big Issues
"What we're going to have to come up with is a method where society has to pick up some of the costs of compensation," Glover says.
By ANN GARDNER
Kansan Staff Reporter
Workmen's compensation probably will be the most important issue of the 1974 Kansas Legislature, Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence says.
The legislation would provide compensation for workers not now covered by compensation benefits, he says, including some cases in which the cause of injury makes compensation questionable under existing provisions.
Gov. Robert B. Docking has proposed an 8.3 per cent increase in salaries, but Glover
Gas Rationing Likely if Embargo Continues
The energy office is concerned that predictions of an early end to the embargo may have been too optimistic, the source said.
"We're moving ahead with our standby rationing program," an energy source said. "A lot depends on the embargo. If it isn't lifted, the gasoline price will go up."
Gasoline rationing is a strong likelihood this summer if the Arab oil embargo is neither lifted nor erased, federal energy sources said yesterday.
Post-War Economy Causing Israeli Gloom
Prices for basic commodities are climbing rapidly and strikes are once in place, casting gloom over the joy brought by news that the troops are coming home.
The government, looking for ways to pay the cost of the October war, announced Sunday that it would reduce government price subsidies, increasing the cost of such staples as milk, eggs, sugar and flour by an average of 50 per cent.
Opposition Laboratories joined the British government Tuesday in denouncing the threat they charge, are trying to exploit the nation's national crisis to knock down a nuclear power plant.
British Parliament Denounces Communists
...the move by former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's party came amid reports of secret backstage efforts for a trial that would have led to the dismissal of 290,000 staff.
James Earl Ray to Contest Guilty Plea
James Earl Ray was given a chance yesterday to contest his guilty plea in the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because of allegations that his daughter, Sherry O'Donnell, was killed.
Ray argued that he was not given proper legal advice. He said his lawyers failed to properly investigate his case and their only interest was to collect evidence.
John C. Fisher, manager of General Electric Co.'s energy systems planning, made the suggestion in a speech in Washington.
Fisher said more women in the work force meant greater affluence coming from two jobs per person. He said increased affluence had ac-
"It could happen," Glover says. "If it does, I think it would be a good thing."
says the legislature may increase that figure to 10 per cent.
Although Glover has introduced bills to legalize marijuana in previous legislative efforts, he has not done so.
The legislature won't legalize possession or sale of marijuana. Glever says, and some officials have said that it is unacceptable.
"I feel a little like I've given up," he says,
"but I'm really just being realistic."
A suggestion that the feminist movement is partly to blame for the energy crisis was greeted yesterday with laughter and outrage by women.
Feminism Called Cause in Energy Crisis
Glover says he was shocked when he heard of the indictment of 19 persons including the governor's brother, in connection with recent architectural contracts. He says he has been "told emphatically that the governor had no prior knowledge."
From a personal standpoint, Glover isn't worried.
"I know where the money in my campaign came from and where it went," he says.
Mike Glover
Bills that Glover plans to introduce would place a tax on cigarettes on the basis of nicotine content and provide incentives for joining the Kansas National Guard.
He also will introduce legislation that would provide for formation of city and county day-care centers and the licensing of hatchhiking.