The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 3, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 107 USPS 650-640
Shankel reaffirms academic policy for athletes
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is requiring that academic standards for student athletes match those for other KU students, Acting Chancellor Del Shanahan, yesterday in a letter to the University community.
The letter, which outlines efforts to ensure academic equality, addresses concerns raised by Kansas State Times story and by KU faculty members about the quality of athletics educations. Shankel said.
But the letter did not address the separate administrators were conducting into the Tufts.
"We are taking other steps in looking into a few of the particulars expressed in the Times"
SHAKENL DECLINED to say who was involved in the investigation or how it was being conducted.
Dionysio Kounas, associate professor of history, has not been interviewed. by the investigating team, Shankel said. Kounas was a student and professor who steered athletes into easy courses.
Shankel would not say when the team would issue a report on the Times allegations.
"We will issue one as soon as we're sure of our facts," he said. "We will probably have something to say around the time the Faculty Council wants their report."
SHANKEL SAID he issued the letter to publicize KU's academic standards.
Court, William W.
Last week, the Faculty Council requested that
Shankel respond to the Times allegations by
April 20.
"I think we all have an obligation to all students to make sure that the academic staff
dards at the University are upheld," he said yesterday from Dallas, Texas.
Shankel, also a professor of microbiology, is attending the American Microbiology Society's symposium.
The University has taken five steps to ensure academic quality and equality, according to
The first was to establish the Commission on the Improvement of Undergraduate Education. Formed last fall and headed by Deanell Tacha, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, the commission will review academics and make a report this spring, Shankel said.
"The commission is a general commission charged with the broad responsibility to look at any areas where we can improve the quality of education at the University," Tacha said. "We're looking at the totality of the academic program."
TO REVIEW ATHLETES and academics in particular, the second step has been to form an athletic Academic Standard Review Board, the letter said. Shankel said the board is investigating allegations.
The board was formed by the Office of Academic Affairs last fall, not to review the
See ACADEMICS page 5
Committee keeping quiet on campus investigation
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
The staff of the House Ways and Means Committee has found that only one of the 12 alleged state university athletic fund abuses requires further study, the committee's characterization.
State Rep. Mike Hayden, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and R-Atwood, would not, however, disclose which Kansas city law violated the law had by misusing state funds.
"We ran through a list we were given by our coach, and I saw that looks illegal, so we are still looking into that."
"The rest of the complaints just washed out. Some of them were matters for the NCAA to deal with, some were just bad judgment and some of them were simply not violations of the law."
ALTHOUGH HAYDEN would not say whether an investigation had taken place at the University of Kansas, she took Loewer to the University of Kansas, then carried off a "mimpost-post audit" investigation at KU.
ronman, the minority leader on the committee, said he had found out that Hayden had enlisted the Legislative Post-Audit Office in the investigation through Richard Brown, director of the Post-Audit Office and an associate of Hayden's.
"The fact that this investigation is going on is not very well-known by the members of the committee." Hohman said. "It is something that Mike had asked Dr. Brown to run for him and, other than that, only a few people who Mike has told know what is going on."
State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka and vice
cairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said that he did not know anything about the staff investigations other than what he had read in the newspapers.
Hohman, however, said that he thought Bunten knew more than he admitted.
"Those old boys are not going to say if or even how much they know about the investigations," Hohman said. "They want to be sure that they can make the schools look bad."
KU ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Bob Marcum said that he was unaware of any investigation on campus. He also said that he had never been charged by Hayden's staff on illegal uses of funds.
Most of the impetus behind these investigations, Hohman said, was provided by supporters of a KU budget cut who wanted to further undermine the University's reputation.
"Hell yes, that's what they are doing." Hohman said about Hayden and his supporters. "The more that they can erode the credibility of the University or universities, the easier it will be for them to encourage other legislators to keep or even expand the budget cuts."
Hohman said that by showing that the universities were up to no good, legislators like Hayden could make their peers believe the tools deserved punishment in the form of the cuts.
Hayden said he would not reveal details of the investigation because it was still under way. He said that he did not want to jeopardize his sources by giving out any more information.
Hayden's sources on the KU campus, Hohman said, include a "snitch," or an informant, who has infiltrated the University and is relaying information to Hayden.
There will be increasing cloudiness today with occasional showers by this afternoon, according to the KU Weather Department. Today's high will be 47 degrees.
Tonight, there is a chance of rain possibly mixed with snow with a low near 38 degrees.
Tomorrow it will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of precipitation. The high will be near 40 degrees.
Winds will be out of the east-northeast at 10 to 15 mph.
Tom Gleason, a candidate for Lawrence's City Commission rises to make a point at last night's Oread Neighborhood Association candidate forum, at the South Park recreational Center, 1141 Massachusetts street. Forum
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan self
participants were (left to right): Pat Slick Neissbitt, Nancy Shontz,
Mike Allenbettz, Mike Amy; Nancy Hambleton and Barkley Clark.
See story page 5.
Officials await action on tenure bills
Bv DAN BOWERS
Staff Reporter
As two tenure bills filter through a House Ways and Means subcommittee, officials from groups skirmishing against the bills must be content with an uneasy calm.
Officials from the American Association of University Professors, the Board of Regents and the University of Kansas are awaiting word from the superintendent. All those who were assigned to the subcommittee last week.
“It’s a frustrating situation,” Dave Shulenburger, vice president of the KU chapter of the school district, told me taken away an opportunity we could to present our side. Right now, we just have to sit and wait.”
WILLIAM KAUFFMAN, staff attorney for the Regents, said that the subcommittee had taken no action on the bills that he knew of and that he had asked Harold Dyck, R-Hesston, chairman of the subcommittee, to contact him when action was to be taken.
later in the week to check the bills' progress and that he and others were prepared to provide more information opposing the bills.
The two bills, introduced by Rep. Joseph Hoagland, R-Overland Park, would give the Regents power over final tenure approvals and the disciplining of faculty members
Kauffman said that he planned to contact Dyck
Kaufmann said last night that Hoagland had submitted to the subcommittee a modification in the rule.
UNDER THE PRESENT ON, the Regents would be required to hear any complaints against a faculty or staff member of a Regents school and to take appropriate action. This may take the form of a hearing or a dismissal of the complaint.
with Hoagland's modification, Kauffman said, the Regents would still review all claims, but could refer them to the proper governing bodies on campus.
The University then would make recommendations to the Regents on what action should be taken.
Kauffman said that while the modification
improved the bill's original form, it still "raises considerable concerns."
"The bill would allow any individual to file a claim with the Regents," he said. "It's a position that's rather unique, because the employer (the university) does not receive the complaint."
SHULENBURGER SAID the bills have been developed by a Legislature that misunderstood University actions following a goodwill trip to Sweden in 1978 by Norman Fortner, professor of social welfare.
rre said that some legislators had the "misconception that the faculty blocked action in the Forer matter."
The Faculty Council committee on tenure and related problems acted properly in its refusal to hear the case last spring. In other cases, charges were levied against the faculty member in question.
Sulenburger said he was confused by the motive behind the bill. He said he thought the legislators would be interested in holding someone responsible in cases involving faculty
See AAUP page 5
Wavelengths titanium yield new art form
By ANNIKA NILSSON Staff Reporter
He paints with electric paint brushes on thin metal plates. He produces colors ranging from golden brown to light purple.
The artist, Bill Seeley, Grand Rapids, Mich., graduate student, paints by producing an extremely thin, transparent layer of oxide on titanium metal.
The color phenomenon is much the same as what happens with a thin layer of oil on water or glass. The oil molecules move across the surface.
"There are no colors involved," he said. "It's all done with wavelengths."
Bill Seely, Grand Rapids, Mich., graduate student, creates pieces of art and jewelry by using electrodes to oxidize a titanium片. space-age
in a so-called SEELEY STARTED working with this new technique about a year ago as a master's project in the design department.
metal burn color ranges from gold to purple depending on the amount of metal used. See the image for a close-up of a finished piece of metal in the inset photo. Seen displays a close-up of a finished piece of metal.
Normally titanium is used in the aerospace industry when a light and strong metal is needed. Titanium is almost as light as aluminum and almost as strong as steel.
Seeley calls titanium painting a meeting of art and technology.
SEELEY USEs a painthrub to apply electrolytes to titanium and sodium phosphate and detergents.
"My thesis should be the first one in this country on the metal," he said.
"I make contact with the metal and oxide starts forming," he said. "It starts with a yellow and as the oxide layer gets thicker, it changes the effect on light."
By applying different voltages for different lengths of wires they produces colors from all of the spectrum.
Seeley said he first got interested in using
"I pretty much started to read the Encyclopedia Britannica," he said.
titanium for art when a friend gave him some pieces of the material. At first he didn't know
So far, he has made mostly jewelry but he is starting to experiment with paintings.
ONE OF SEELEY'S problems is that the titanium producing industry is not set up to deal with individuals. He said that when he wanted to buy titanium for his paintings, he had to buy a 19-pound piece that was 1,700 feet long.
seseet has his graduate show in December and is now working on his thesis.
And between making titanium paintings and
workshops, it gives workshops in the
art and design departments.
he said that he was not sure what he was going to do after leaving KU but that he wanted the industry to fund him to set up work shops and produce more paintings and jewelry.
Senate reduces funding requests to fit allocation
Three Student Senate committees last night began the laborious process of cutting $39,511 in funding requests to fit $22,014 the Senate allocates to student organizations.
The three committees hearing last night's
affairs and Cultural commissions Services, Academic
Affairs and Cultural committees Services.
The committees also will hear requests from groups tomorrow and Thursday. Next week they will deliberate on the request to the Senate. The Senate will vote on the recommendations March 24 and 25.
STUDENT SERVICES heard requests from the KU Committee on South Africa, Friends of Headquarters Non-Traditional Student Black Student Union and KU Weather Service.
KU Committee on South Africa requested $220
for photographic photo and rental. In the
nose, the nose is a photographic photo.
Friends of Headquarters a 24-hour crisis intervention center, made the largest request, $13,086.75. Last year, the organization received an additional $3,294.43 in fall supplemental budget hearings.
the group requested the increase to cover
ramping costs and the increased increases for the
director and bookkeeper.
BLACK STUDENT UNION requested
$78,087. 04,144 increase from its last year's
amount.
John Lamb, Student Services Committee mem-
bers wanted $1,100 to pay for film
cut from theaters.
Lamb said that Senate bought two films for BSU last year with the condition that they charge a 50-cent admission. This year they have shown free films.
See HEARINGS page 5