KANSAN
Friday, March 6, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 110 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By KATHRYN KASE
Staff Reporter
Major issues facing the University of Kansas will be addressed at a University-wide convocation after spring break, Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said yesterday.
Designated as the convocation's feature speaker, Shankel declined to say what issues would be addressed. He said that the convocation was suggested yesterday by KU's chapter of the American Association of University Professors executive board.
"the members of the AAPU executive board felt there were some major issues the University needed to address," he said. "They asked if I should convene an all-University meeting and I agreed."
The AUP was not the first group to express
concern about the issues facing KU. Shankel said various administrators talked to him as well.
But he denied that the convocation would be held as an emergency measure.
"There are just a number of major issues that they wanted me to address," he said.
However, the convocation was the AAUP's idea, Shankel said.
The approach Shankel had planned was a letter of welcome, similar to the letter in the Kansas Welcome.
That letter discussed academic standards for athletes. Those standards have been in question since the Kansas City Times published an article that claimed academic standards were lowered for athletes.
Adverse public reaction to the letter did not motivate his decision to assemble the convocation. Sharon
He said it was too early to tell about reaction to the letter.
"We felt that was the time to bring some of these issues out into the open," she said.
Evelyn Swartz, AAUP president, lauded Shankel's endorsement of the convocation.
these issues out into the open," she said. Swartz would not reveal what the AAUP and
Council were working on.
"I think I have to respect his confidence on that," she said.
No specific date for the convocation has been set, Shankel said, but it will occur after spring break, which ends March 22. He said the date would be announced next week.
The place is also uncertain.
"It depends on whether I think there might be
things that I'm shocked." Shankar thinks that,
alter Field Hope doesn't upset the people.
Neither Shankel nor Swartz could remember the last time such a convocation was held.
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governor to offer an amendment to his recommendations to put back the $188,005 to cover the University's expected deficit in its contributions to the employee retirement fund.
Both houses are facing a March 13 deadline to action on their own, that they can conduct on their own or by the other.
The full committee will finish hearing subcommittee reports today and will take final action on the individual and system-wide budgets.
The KU subcommittee's stand on the Haworth added drew the only debate yesterday.
Subcommittee chairman Ron Hein, R-Topke, said that Snow Hall was inadequate, unsuitable and overcrowded and that steps to alleviate the problem will be the best interest of the University and the state.
"Maybe those are euphemisms for what we saw there," Hein said, referring to the language
"That's correct," Hein answered.
COMMITTEE MEMBER Jack Steiniger, D-Kansas City, interrupted Hein and asked, "But we're not going to do anything about it?"
Steineger told the committee that this was an example of why the public criticized lawmakers.
Hayden shared Steiner's feelings about the Legislature, but for a different reason.
"We in government can't figure out how to work things around," he said. "It would be more important to fix up conditions (at KU) than to have students education) play fields (at Wichita State)."
He said the deep cuts were being made in his proposed budget to avoid a tax increase next year.
"Taking from one area and putting it in another does not mitigate the need for a tax extension."
Hayden said it it was not fair to ask some to office while others were told it was all right go after.
led, prof says
But Stansifer said the reform did not result in reduced violence.
"The right didn't like any form of reform and the left said that it hadn't been enough," he said.
There were an estimated 13,000 people killed in El Salvador in 1980. Stanser said that it was impossible to determine which side, left or right, was doing most of the killing.
But both sides have accused each other of not fully understanding that they are not really involved with the political struggle.
Stansifer said that he had been surprised to find that most of the people he talked with in El Salvador were more upset with the leftist terrorists than with those of the right.
Stanifer joined in El Salvador in August 1987, and called for a general strike against the government.
he said the strike was a failure. The govern-
see EL SALVADRAGE page 5