University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Tuesday, February 3, 1981
Vol. 91, No. 87 USPS 650-640
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Hearings close; Hoagland wants two tenure bills
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Renorter
After nearly two weeks of accusations, debates, press conferences and demands, the House Judiciary Committee hearings on tenure quietly ended yesterday.
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan staff
After nearly two weeks of intense public, academic, legislative and media interest, all that remains of the controversy is a decision whether or not to draft a bill on tenure.
"There should be a bill vote within the next couple of days," State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland, R-Overland Park and chairman of the committee said. "That is if individual members of the committee decide that there should be a bill drafted."
Hoagland said that he would like to see two separate bills drafted. One bill, he said, would give the state Board of Regents final say in all tenure decisions and the other would give the Regents the role of disciplinary hearing body, replacing the current faculty board.
"I don't envision anything different about the present setup, except for putting in another step in approval of tenure." Hoagland said after the hearing. "Everything on the university level was done with care."
Hoagland said he was uncertain about the future of any legislation on tenure
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he thought it was time for the committee to move
"We should really be looking at the bills before the committee and drop any further action on tenure," Solbach said. "The fact that the committee has been looked at the willen cause the academics to make the adjustments in the system that need to be made."
Sobach said he thought the committee would find tenure increasingly complex if it probed any
Two KU professors, one representing the American Association of University Professors and the other speaking for an informal group of professors, testified at the hearing.
"We actually don't have any business in trying to formulate University policy." Solbach said. "It should be given to the Regents so we can get on to the business we are supposed to handle."
Signs of the winter cold were reflected on the front of Strong Hall yesterday as one of the many lions that decorate the top of the building grows a tooth of ice.
Dennis Quinn, professor of English and director of the integrated humanities program, said he opposed the present tense system because it encouraged the "tenured mind." Such a system, he said, stiffens the teaching aspect of language, thus increasing the importance of the administrative sector.
"The surest road to promotion and tenure is administration, while research runs second. Few people are promoted primarily for excellence in teaching."
"I feel that tenure is a sort of socialist job security that stifles enterprise and favors the status quo," Quinn said. "The official criteria for tenure and promotion are teaching, research and service, in that order; but once again the realities do not correspond to theory."
"When Professor Forer spoke to you last Thursday," Quinn said, "he praised the administrators he is suing. You will hear no such praise from me.
Quinn said that while he worked in the administration, as director of the Integrated Humanities Program, his dean called him a "bad student." He added off from teaching for his administrative duties.
Weather
"Who other than a microbiologist can judge whether another microbiologist is making a contribution to the field and teaching the field adequately to students?" Shulenburger asked. "Members of a profession, by the very nature of that word, are the only persons qualified to judge the competence and contribution of other professionals."
A LITTLE WARMER
It will be sunny today with a high in the 30s and north-west winds of 10 to 20 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
"They are, generally speaking, the representative products of a system that rewards medicity with a lifetime of job security. This is why KU will not reform itself and why I welcome your interest in even one issue such as tenure. I suggest that the legislature itself conduct a serious and thorough study of the actual operations of the universities to ascertain the extent to which they need general reform."
Shulenburger said tenure should remain a peer review system because peers were the only users to be accessed.
David Shulenburger, associate professor of business and vice president of the KU chapter of the AUP, made one final pitch to save tenure in its current form.
Lows tonight will reach 5 to 10 degrees under mostly clear skies. Tomorrow's under more mild weather.
Hoagland gives Forer matter to K U
TOPEKA-State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland, R-Overland Park, yesterday acting Acting Chancellor Del Shenkel to carry out proceedings against Norman Forer, KU associate professor, because, Hoagland said, the Legislature's "hands are tied."
Hagland told Shankel at an informal meeting in the legislator's office that since there was nothing more the Legislature could do about the matter should be pursued by the University.
"I don't think any formal requests were made." Shankel said. "Hoagland has some
One of the possibilities Hoagland had mentioned was to discipline Forer through the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee at the University, but Shankel refused comment on what avenue, if any, the University might take.
concerns about the way the University is handling the Forer matter, and we discussed some of the options the University has open for dealing with it."
Foer has said he would welcome a chance to dress himself before the University through someone else.
Free speech is alive and well-protected at the University of Kansas, according to the Freedom of Expression Committee, which decided not to allow the Board of Regents' political activity policy.
Committee OKs speech policy
By KATHRYN KASE
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Athletic officials deny violations
The committee also decided Friday that prior
restraint would not be used to suppress banners and demonstrations on campus, Bob Frigo, student committee member, said. The committee made its decision after meeting with the White Ribbon Committee of philosophy, who headed the Blue Ribbon Committee on Freedom of Expression last year.
"Dr. Cole told us that to have freedom of speech, we should avoid making restrictive
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
See EXPRESSION page 5
University of Kansas athletic department officials categorically denied knowledge of any activities taking place at KU resembling those in which the University of Nassau, times, have occurred at Wichita State University.
"No violations have been found, even at Wichita State," Phyllis Howlett, assistant athletic director for non-revenue sports, said yesterday.
"These are simply allegations made by a newspaper. Until the NCAA, the IRS or a court of law finds the University guilty of the allegations, I don't see that there are any violations."
THE STORY was the first of five parts concerning university sports programs, which the Times said it had been investigating for more than three months.
The Times reported yesterday that recent basketball players had described recruiting practices and inducements that violated NCAA regulations.
Alleged abuses within the KU athletic department will be covered in another part of the Times' investigation. That story is expected to be published later this week.
Sid Wilson, KU sports information director,
said, "I'm not naive enough to say I'm not aware
of the problems."
"I wouldn't even give these charges the credence to call them allegations," he said. "They're just rumors. I find the whole thing personally distasteful."
"The Times reporters have been here and talked to our players."
However, Wilson said the athletic department would not issue an official statement concerning the situation until the Times story on KU was published.
The Kansan has learned that allegations against the University in the Times story about KU may involve violations, financial inducements including money, cars, homes and jobs given to athletes and their families, or alterations of athletes' grades.
IF THE ALLEGATIONS are substantial, investigations by the NCAA and other agencies in preparation over the athletic department may follow.
"There are systems for monitoring athletics." Howlett said. "If money is floating around unaccounted for, the IRS will be wanting to know about it. If bank loans are being made which are not being paid back, banking regulators are going to look into it."
Howlett said she was not worried about any investigations in KU athletics where she, as a former KU athlete, would be.
Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, also described any allegations against KU as rumors. "Sports is a high profile business," he said. "It's hard to do anything about rumors."
"My coaches don't have the money to get the team into trouble," she said. "They work with extrabuds."
MARCUM SAID he would have to wait to see that the determine whether the "rumors" had any validity.
"There are too many professional people on this campus," he said. "I don't think the admissions committee should have to deal with that."
Marcum acknowledged the possibility of an NCAA investigation into the matter.
"The NCAA has an obligation to its mem-
berees in the situation anytime there
becomes a problem."
Howlett said she did not understand how someone with knowledge of violations could have
"This is an academic institution above all," she said. "I would think somebody would have blown the whistle--professors, assistant coaches, somebody."
SUSAN WACHTER, KUAC business manager, said she had no knowledge of funds being misused within the department or of receipts to be made in those offices or purchases that were never actually bought.
"I don't think such a receipt could have gotten by me because of a policy we have," Wachter said. "We insist on receipts imprinted with the name or a name or with a check approval stamp on the bill."
However, Wachter acknowledged that See K114 page 5
Regents universities need salary raise, Shankel says
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-Board of Regents universities are "dangerously close to becoming second-rate institutions" and desperately need more money, Acting KU Chancellor Del Shankel told members of the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees yesterday.
Sankel and representatives of other state schools said students would suffer if the Legislature failed to restore the estimated $111 million from the Regents budget requests for next year.
A 10 percent salary increase for professors at the universities, but Carlin impressed the pay like never.
SHAKNEL, ASKING for the rotation of the 10 percent increase, said at the joint meeting of the committees that KU and the other universities could barely survive on the 10 percent request.
"We will soon fall critically short of faculty," Shankel said.
He said low pay at state schools was driving teachers to higher paving jobs.
Last year, Shankel said, KU lost 34 professors. Half of them left for better paying jobs, he said.
"We are being pressured by other institutions
that cannot handle this challenge of the younger
faculty holding the committee.
SOON, SHANKEL said, there may not be enough professors to train students in science and technology, which would hurt the entire state's development in the long run.
Shankel pleaded with the committees "to
prevent the erosion of morale and stem the flow of faculty to research and industry."
KU officials said the 10 percent increase would translate to $8 million for teachers on the Lawrence campus, and a similar amount for students of College of Health Sciences at Kansas City, Kan.
The Regents also are fighting for money to hire more teachers, to give pay raises to students who work on campus, to give 100 percent fee waivers and to carry out a major renovation projects.
The Regents schools, which are KU, Kansas State University, Pittsburgh State University, Emporia State University, Wichita State University, Fort Hays State University and the Kansas Technical Institute at Salina, all asked for increases in general operating budgets.
CARLIN PROPOSED cuts in all the operating budgets for next year. KU's $131 million request was cut to around $128 million. The Kansas City office has its $136 million request cut to about $133 million.
The governor also cut all Regents schools' appropriations for new professors, despite unexpected jumps in enrollment at most of the schools.
Total enrollment at the state schools increased from 79,283 to 81,105. KU's enrollment increased from 4,216 to 4,531.
KU asked for 33 more teachers, but Carlin proposed only hiring between 20 and 22.
Regent Glee Smith told the committee that endorsing Carling's recommendations would be important.
See BUDGET page 5
Gun control laws receive little support in Kansas
By DOUG BURSON
Staff Writer
Editor's Note: This is the second of a two part series.
In the dispute over the effectiveness of gun control curbing the growing homicide rate, both sides agree that strengthened handgun laws would reduce homicides.
If Lawrence is an exception to the law of gun supply and murders, Kansas City isn't. There, 60 percent of the 139 people murdered last year were shot to death.
There was only one homicide in Lawrence last
plentiful hearse and where in the United States
it was.
HANDGUNS HAVE been a long-time target of gun legislation in the U.S., but in Kansas, governed by the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, state handgun control is virtually choked-off.
There has been little reverberation here of the national outcry against handguns. State law has not yet been amended.
legislation making it more difficult for people to acquire guns.
Not since 1975, when mandatory sentences were established for crimes involving guns, has any state law been passed to further control gun possession and suffered penalties in cases of handgun misuse.
State Rep. Joseph J. Heagland, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, R-Overland
Analysis
Park, said Kansans should not expect new gun legislation this term.
HOAGLAAND HAS introduced a number of proposals tightening penalties for the use of a gun in premeditated murder and in "crimes of passion."
Among Hoogland's list of defeated gun control legislation was a bill he introduced in 1797 to prohibit the use of machine guns.
The bill required a three-day cooling off period before the purchase of a handgun.
"The whole concept of a waiting period was not opposed," Hoagland said, "but legislators and the National Rifle Association have this idea that they should allow the door it will just lead to further gun control."
"Handguns should be prohibited entirely, but that's unrealistic with the situation the way it is."
"in 1979 I was the only one beating the drum (for more control), Hoagland said, "but no one is now."
HE SAID the Legislature didn't seem interested in gun control and that there were not
Henry Lundsgaarde, KU professor of anthropology and author of "Murder in Space City" a book on homicide in Houston, said Kansas police would only support a 'miracle cure' laws.
"Gun control is being treated like a miracle drug by some of these people," Lundagaarda said. "It looks like a law can't immediately control problem problems then they won't accept it."
"BUT LAWS have to have a chance to be enacted and then molded and reworked. We've got to give life-saving laws a chance because the system is totally wild, totally open."
Mark Brothers, crime analyst for the Lawrence Police Department, said most police had not pushed for more gun laws and were happy with present legislation.
"I am very much against any more gun control
a also that a misconception that police offence
is not being carried out."
CARL HUMPHEY, manager of the JPL Gun Shop in Lawrence and an NRA member, agreed with Brothers and said any new state gun laws might be ignored.
"People will not obey laws that take away their rights and you would overnight a turn of people into criminals and outlaws," Humphrey said.
Lungosarda said Humphrey's statement showed a "garron mentality."
"It's almost as though we were a society of GUINNESS."