The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 24, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 117 USPS 650-640
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan staff
'Hawks miss Final Four
Some KU students took their spring break to New Orleans' Louisiana Superdome last week for KU's seminal game of the NCAA tournament's Midwest Regional with Wichita State (above). Those fans saw guard Darnell Valentine (above left with KU Coach Ted Owens) play his last game for KU, a game ironically lost to a team from his hometown at Wichita. The Cleveland Cavaliers High School teammate Antoine Carr. Junior guard Tony Guy (left) drives past Wichita State's Mike Jones (32) but Jones came back against KU with a 30-foot jump shot with two seconds left to win the game for Wichita State, 66-65.
By TIM SHARF
Staff Reporter
Attorneys for former Chancellor Archie Dykes, Acting Chancellor Del Shankel and the University yesterday filed a motion for dismissal of all complaints against them in a multihundred dollar slander suit filed Dec. 31 by Norman Forner, associate professor of social welfare, and Clarence Dillingham, former instructor of social welfare.
The suit alleges that statements made by Dykes and Shankel to the media were contrary to company policy.
malicious intrusion upon Forer's and Dillingham's rights to privacy and inaccurate about whether Forer and Dillingham were given due process.
THE MOTION RAISED what it called several "issues" that the court must decide. Among the issues was whether Dykes and Shankel were subject to a right of privacy claims, based on absolute privilege.
The 32-pseudonotion for dismissal, filed in toughe court on October 18, was sent to the Court as specified.
Absolute privilege protects public officials from libel in statements made in the capacity of a public official.
Another issue to be decided is whether the suit's allegations warranted the award of jurisdiction.
THE ALLEGATIONS in the suit stem from disciplinary action taken by the University against Forer and Dillingham after their 1979 trip to Iran concerning the hostage crisis.
The motion also claims KU is immune to punitive or exemplary damages.
Forer and Dillingham were suspended without pay for the time they spent in Iran. During the time they were away the two alleged that their families received threatening phone calls and
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Hoagland ends efforts to push for tenure bills
Staff Reporter
Bv BRAD STERTZ
After State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland took a look at the Kansas Board of Regents draft of proposed internal changes of tenure policy yesterday, he promptly called off all efforts to push his two tenure bills through the Legislature this session.
According to Hoagland, who saw the confidential draft, the changes that the Regents had suggested were similar to the changes implicit in the two bills.
Those changes would have given the Regents final say on all tenure decisions and would have allowed anyone to make a complaint against a tenured faculty member, with the Regents acting as the final hearing body in all dismissal cases.
Haagland, R-Overland Park, said that after he learned of the Regents plans, he no longer planned to stay in Haagland.
"I am definitely in favor of the changes that the Board of Regents has suggested," Hoagland, the main spark behind the bills, said. "From what I have seen, it is so pretty much what the bills would have done."
Hoa land's quick switch in position on the bills included calling off several political maneuvers that would have freed the bills from a logjam in a house in *The Way Ways* and *Means subcommittee*.
Chief among those efforts was the plan to have Chief Amongst Games, D-Augusta, introduce the libel in the book.
"Because the board is planning to take the stems that they showed me." Hoadland said, "I
save told Frank not to bring up the issue in the Senate. "
Gaines said that after he heard about the recent changes, he thought that no evidence was needed.
"The Regents said that they were going to handle the problem," Gaines said. "Another reason why I changed my mind was because the Senate President, Ross Dodd, told me to hold off on the bills until the Regents had completed their study."
Doyen, R-Cordonia, was not available yesterday for comment on the bills.
"They won't formally adapt the changes until
they're ready to do that, but by time the
lawsuit is out of session."
One problem that Hoagland foreashed, was that if the Regents decided in their next meeting not to adopt the changes, it would be too late for the Legislature to act.
Hoagland, however, said the House Ways and Means Committee probably would keep the bills on hold for easy access next year if no changes were made.
"I really don't expect too much trouble from the Regents in regard to the changes." Hoagland said. "The Board has pretty much indicated its support to make changes and I am content with them."
John Conard, executive officer of the Regents,
said the next step for the proposed changes was a
migration to a new campus.
When the changes were first brought up, Conard said, the Regents sent them to the Council of Presidents and the Council of Chief Academic Officers. Although some recom-
mendations for the proposed discussion, Conard said, the two boards could add further recommendations to the proposals.
Consulting jobs minor source of faculty income,officials say
By DAN BOWERS Staff Reporter
Despite recent reports and state legislative claims, KU officials say that outside consulting is not a widespread source of additional income for KU faculty.
"Out of 1,300 faculty at KU, I would say fewer than 100 are involved in consulting over an extended period of time," Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor said recently.
Cobb said his estimate was based on faculty members who might be consulting during the interview.
"I would estimate that an overwhelming preponderance of consulting is done during the summer."
FACULTY MEMBERS teaching only during the academic school year are not considered to be on the University payroll during the summer, so students free to make any outside arrangements.
Cobb pointed out that the University had a strict policy on consulting, allowing a maximum of seven faculty members per semester.
"It is, therefore, considered inappropriate to engage in gainful employment outside the University that is incompatible with University commitments," a section in the Faculty Handbook.
But outside consulting has become a factor in the faculty pay raise decisions in the [left].
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, chairman of
the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said at a dinner with the American Association of University Professors last month that the Legislature was raising salaries by only 7 percent instead of the 10 percent requested by Regents schools partly because of consulting.
HE CITED a Nov. 17 report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, which said the average professor supplemented his income by 21 percent on salary tables through extra professional earnings.
The types of extra income reported were consulting, payments from the faculty member's own school for research and additional teaching and in-depth research work and support at other schools.
The report surveyed 2,400 faculty members.
In a follow-up report, the Chronicle said nine out of 10 professors in business and economics reported extra earnings during the past year, with an average of $11.57 in extra pay.
The report also listed 85 percent of the faculty members in engineering and computer science fields as reporting outside income averaging $10.91 above their base salaries.
AT THE OTHER END of the scale, those professors reporting extra income in the humanities averaged only $3,590 above their base salaries.
Joseph McFarlane, academic officer for the Board of Regents, said none of the Regents schools approached the high numbers of faculty outside consulting cited in the Chronicle's report.
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University convocation time changed
The time of the University-wide convocation this Thursday has been changed from 4 to 4:15 p.m., according to Jim Scaly, administrative assistant to the Chancellor.
The convocation time has been changed so that University Council members, who will meet at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, can attend, Sally said yesterday.
Weather
Scheduled for the Kansas Union's Woodruff Auditorium, the convolution was called by Acting Chancellor Del Shanker to address major issues facing the University of Kansas.
When Shankel announced the convocation he declined to say what issues would be addressed. Scally said Shankel probably would not reveal the convocation program before Thursday.
It will be sunny today with a high of 64 and variable winds, according to the KU Weather Service. The low tonight will be 35.
Tomorrow will be sunny with light winds and a high near 70.
At 89, Whitcomb to obtain doctorate now will work on career memoirs
By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
In 1910, Philip Whitcomb received his bachelor's degree from Washburn University
Now, 71 years later, he will receive his doctorate in philosophy and will walk down the Hill at the KU commencement in May.
Whitcomb, 89, returned to Kansas in 1978 after a career as a foreign correspondent that spanned 64 years, 17 countries and two world wars. Now that the pressure of daily deadlines is gone from his life, Whitcomb said that he still valued his journalism experiences.
"The work of a journalist—a real journalist—requires intense alertness, an almost instantaneous realization of what points, facts or ideas are essential to a particular story, and a need for quick thinking in minutes or hours," Whitcomb said. "The work of a Ph.D. candidate is about the same."
Whitcomb is an Olin Tempelin Fellow in KU's department of philosophy. His doctoral dissertation, "The Distinctions Between Existence and Essence in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome and Francisco Suarze," centers on the works of Suarez.
Whitcomb said he chose the University of Kansas to complete his graduate work because Watson Library had the complete 28-volume set of Suarez's work.
Michael Young, associate professor of philosophy, has worked closely with Whitcomb, and said that the department was shocked when the former Toekan sent a letter of application.
He said he was also attracted to KU because Alfonso Verdu, professor of philosophy and one of two U.S. authorities on Suarez, was on the staff.
"We didn't really believe it," Young said. "He almost seemed over-qualified: a Rhodes scholar.
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Phillip Whitcomb
BOB GREENSPAN Kanaan a staff