University Daily Kansan, April 15, 1981
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asbestos was uncovered, safety precautions must be taken to protect the area and the workers.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the charges.
HE CLAIMED his company had saved state taxpayers $100,000 by working on the project.
Pecis said the wages his company was paying were in compliance with the law as far as he
"The only thing they're trying to do is put pressure on us to minimize." he said
Pecis said work on the renovation would continue as normal.
DeHoff said the council did not intend, at this time, to try to unionize R.D. Anderan or to take a position with the United Nations.
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"You're lucky in a sense," he said. "Now you get to be a dissident."
After City Clerk Vera Merger swore in the new commissioners, they faced the task of picking a new mayor and vice mayor to replace the outgoing Carter and Schumm.
It was the veteran Clark, who is beginning his third four-year commission term, who put up the first, and only nomination: holdover Commissioner Marci Francisco.
"Well, that fits in pretty well with my nomination," Clark said.
Clark was "helped" in his decision by Richard Kerschenbaum, an East Lawrence Improvement Association member, and Al Wright, Kerschenbaum's housemate. As Clark began his nominating speech, the pair unfurried a six-foot banner proclaiming, "Marci for Mayor."
Francisco, who was approved 4-1 with only Blims offering a muttered dissent, accepted the invitation.
"I'm real pleased to accept this honor, par-
icularly," I vote," she said, drew an emer-
gent's smile.
"We couldn't start off with a 5-0." he said.
Francisco's election touched off prolonged applause from the audience. She and Carter had, in past weeks, gotten into sometimes heated debates, and then moved to in presenting Carter with a souvenir vague.
"I didn't give it to you last time because I was afraid you would use it ..." she said, as she made a sweeping motion with her right hand to the laughing Carter, "to keep me quiet."
Students,profs disagree on review
By JANE FORMAN CIGARD Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-Students and professors at the University of Kansas college health sciences disagree on the college's session sessions students studying for the national board exams.
The Medical Students Assembly had planned to hire professors to conduct reviews this year because the school's anatomy department was conducting a consecutive year to hold a review session.
But, Terry J. Wall, MSA president, said Monday that Marvin Dunn, College dean, promised Wall that he would provide a faculty member for a review session.
"The dean's feeling about the review session was the same as ours," Wall said. "If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have."
for graduation, then the faculty should help us prepare for it."
Howard Matzke, anatomy department chairman, said the department began holding reviews in the early 1970s because students were time to review for the exam themselves.
The anatomy review sessions ended in 1979 because the department taught the students expected to learn everything they needed to know for the exam from the review alone, and didn't study enough on their own, Matzke said.
He said that the students wanted to be "spoon-fed," and that they were misguided if they thought they would learn all they needed to know from an hour of review.
Matake said student exam performance had been six or seven percent higher without the test.
Wall said earlier that $400 had been appropriated by MSA to hire professors from
outside the anatomy department to conduct reviews if volunteers could not be found.
Last year, the assembly hired professors to conduct the reviews, he said.
The national board exams, which cover most of the basic sciences, including anatomy, physiology, histology, pathology and biochemistry, are required for graduation. The exams will be given June 10 and 11.
Lee C. Arensberg, a second-year student from Kansas City, Kan., said he had been very disappointed that the department was at first not holding review sessions.
"I feel the academic faculty should do all it can to help students study for boards, if they are going to require them for graduation," he said.
Mark S. Austenfeld, a second-year student from Emporia, arreed with Arensberg.
"Since they do require (the exam), I think they have an obligation to help students in the exam."
Faculty is reminded to give finals only during test period
By DAN BOWERS Staff Reporter
A letter reminding faculty members to schedule finals only during the final examination period will be sent to department chairmen and vice chancellor. Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
Cobb said that faculty members were reminded of the importance of every year in order to keep the campus safe.
"If somebody wishes to change the time of a final, there are procedures available through the University Calendar Committee," he said. "I would not should take unilateral exception to the policy."
James B. Carothers, associate professor of English and chairman of the Calendar Committee, said his committee accepted petitions for changes to change the scheduled dates of their finals.
THE MOST IMPORTANT consideration the committee makes, he said, was whether the request was accompanied by the unanimous consent of the class involved.
"In many cases, especially on exams scheduled on the last day of finals, the professor wants the exam rescheduled just to get out of town soon," he said.
This semester, the Calendar Committee has received only one request to change the date of a notification.
On a campus the size of KU, there is obviously more than one case of final exam rescheduling. Carothers said, but he said it was difficult to get the classroom on campus to enforce the schedule.
"However, every student affected by this kind of change has the right to complain to the university."
WILLIAM M. BALFOUR, university ombushed, said he would consider each complaint individually, keeping the individual's identity confidential and ensuring the case was on track with the faculty member involved.
If there was a flugant violation, Balfour said the case would be referred to the chairman of the FIA.
There was only one complaint against the
recheduled of a final last semester, and only about three in the last three years, he said.
Balfour said the low reporting rate was due, in part, to a concern by students that their grade in the course might be threatened if their identity were revealed.
According to Cobb, the regulations were developed to protect all students in a class, and not just the majority who may be in favor of rescheduling a final earlier.
WHILE MANY STUDENTS would be pleased with the rescheduling, suppose there are several who are not, Cobb asked. "What situation does that put them in?"
"If we decided when finals were to be held by
referendum, then we wouldn't have a policy," he
The regulations of the University Senate outline the final examination policy and call for strict adherence to the schedule developed by the Calendar Committee.
The regulation states that "No final examination shall be given on the last scheduled day of classes or six calendar days prior to the last day of regularly scheduled classes."
The section also disallows the scheduling of last unit examinations during that six-day period unless there is also a comprehensive final required in the course.
"Infractions of these rules are regarded seriously by the Calendar Committee, SenEx and the administration," a section in the Faculty Handbook warms.
COBB WOULD NOT say what action might be taken against a faculty member who violated the policy, and said such a problem "should be handled in the confines of the department."
The Senate Executive Committee discussed the issue at their meeting last Friday. Members agreed that they would support any action taken by the administration against a faculty member who was in "deliberate defiance" of the regulations.
"Final examinations are fixed on a schedule to protect the students, allowing them to study for (other) finals," George J. Worth, SenEx chairman, said after the meeting.
Worth said he was aware that the rescheduling of finals to an earlier time was popular among many students, but unfair to those students who were against the change.
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