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Forer challenges Hoagland,wants face-to-face debate
by BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Singed by remarks made against him on the House floor last week, Norman Forer challenged his accuser, State Rep. Joseph J. Hogland, R-Iowa, to come out in the open for face debate.
Forer, associate professor of social welfare, said yesterday in a press conference that it was time to "smoke out" Hoagland to see who he was and whom he represented. Forer also announced that he was filing a second lawsuit against the University.
"rnis suit will determine precisely the question of class abandonment, a question that could be evaded by the University of Kansas in the earlier suit it fled." Forer said.
Forer, who was suspended without pay for his December 1979 trip to Iran, said he filled the first suit for slander because there was no basis for the disciplinary action taken against him and because he was denied due process by not being given a hearing.
THE SECOND SUIT, however, is for breach of contract and back pay. Fever was then forced to lie on the ground because of Hoggland's attacks against him. In the second suit would prove the accusations wrong.
"There are many honest and decent people in the administration and my first suit was worded to avoid embarrassing them," he said. "But with all the attacks in the Legislature, I have to prove my innocence. It is time to close the book on this issue once and for all."
Besides calling for Hoagland to stop hiding behind his legislative immunity, Foster also challenged Hoagland to confirm or deny whether he had any involvement in state attorney proceedings before the next election.
generalize the next case to HOAGLAND HAS SAID that after his current term expired he would return to a law practice and business interests in Kansas City, Mo.
FORER CALLED FOR all segments of KU to
change the University and its tenure policy.
"In resisting Joe Hoagland we resist the illegal political control and management of the intellectual process of University life." Forer said. "We must protect this system if there is to be any public institution worth calling a university in the state of Kansas."
the state of affairs said the fact that First Amendment rights were being attacked not surprise the University. He said such attacks historically had been directed at academics and the spread to assault free thought throughout the community.
Forer compared Hoagland's attacks with attacks made by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew.
"Now in the emotionalism of the hostage crisis comes Rep. Hoagland." Forer said. "Can anyone doubt that out of the 444 days of the hostage crisis, his choice of the one day of most intense emotionalism, the day when the hostages had just flown out of Iran, the day when the reports of the hostage abuse had just surfaced—can anyone believe that that one day on which he chose to attack me and the University was not chosen with cold, political calculation?"
counsel with Court.
Forer will testify before Hoagland's Judiciary Committee at 3:30 p.m. today in Room 526-S of the Statehouse.
KU's Darnell Valentine attempts to steal the ball in last night's game against Kansas State University. His attempt was futile, and so was KU's attempt to remain undefeated in the Big Eight. The Jayhawks lost 54-43.
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Kansan asks legislators to adopt new state song
By REBECCA CHANEY
Staff Reporters
Today, on its 1920th birthday, Kansas remains the "home on the Range" state. But amid today's birthday celebrations, one Kansas is hoping that will change soon.
Emil Stairitz, former Shawnee County sheriff and state Senate door keeper, has asked the 1981 Legislature to pass a bill changing the state song, "Home on the Range," to a song his father wrote.
Stawitz's only gripe against the state song is that it never murrens Kansas.
"I don't have too much against the song 'Home on the Range' is a nice song," Stawitz said yesterday. "But I think it's out of place."
"Kansas, Dear Old Kansas," the song Stawitz was written by his father as "Kansas" official song, was written by his father.
HE BEARD THE song often when he was growing up and decided after his father's death in 1973 to approach the House Federal and State Affairs Committee with a proposal to change the
"This song was written for Kansas by a Kansan, and it's all about Kansas," Stawitz said.
When Stawitz went before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee last week to present the song, he said he was doing it for his father, who hadn't known who to approach about his song. After being introduced by Rep. William W. Hines, he played a tape of the song for the legislators:
song for the registries:
"THEERE ARE MANY STATES IN OLD AMERICA AND WE ALL HAVE ONE WE CALL OURHOME."
SOME LIKE NORTH AND WEST, SOME LIKE EAST THE BEST, BUT THERE'S ONE STATE I'LL CLAIM FOR ALL MY OWN.
KANSAS, DEAR OLD KANSAS.
WHERE THE CORN AND PUMPKINS GROW.
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'MID THE GOLDEN WHEATFIELDS WAITS A GRLB WITH HEART SO TRUE.
NOW I'M YEARNING TO BE RETURNING TO KANSAS WHERE SKIES ARE EVER BLUE."
Stairitz, 68 and retired, said he had been busy with his family and children since 1973 and had not had a chance to do anything with his father's song since then.
"This has been the first thing I've done," Stawitt said. "Already quite a few senators and representatives have heard the song and they all seem to like it."
The committee chairman, Rep. Neal D. Whitaker, R-Wichita, said he doubted there would be a committee bill for the proposed song by R-Wichita said he believed the song bind a good chance.
GOV. JOHN CARLIN has said he would seriously consider any bill concerning the song that passed his desk.
it certainly felt, after reading the music and words, that George Stawitz very eloquently expressed the feelings of all Kansans for our president. He then wrote Stawitz after he visited the governor.
"Home on the Range," Stawitz's competition, was written by Brewster Higley, a Smith County doctor, according to the Kansas Historical Society. The society is not certain when the song was written, but it was adopted as the state song in 1947.
"There are going to be other committees that are going to hear about it too," he said.
SINCE THEN, there have been several controversies initiated by Kansans who also thought the song was inappropriate. Some said the song was too mourful. But none of the movements were strong enough to have the state song changed.
"I'm gonna just try, for my Dads' sake," Stawitz said. "I hope as many people can hear it as possible, whether it becomes the state song or not."
Wholesalers sponsor ads in support of beer bill
"I think it belongs to Kansas."
"I just couldn't get around fast enough," he said. "It would be nice to have it sung on Kansas Day."
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Stawitz said he would have liked to had a bill ready to present the Legislature today.
Staff Reporter
MEMBERS OF THE Federal and State Affairs
The Kansas Beer Wholesalers Association wants you to know that if you are under 18, the association is not interested in your business.
That message, conveyed through radio, newspaper and poster advertisements, is part of a strategy the association has formed to ensure that a beer bill now in a Senate committee is
The bill, sponsored by Sen. William Morris, R-Wichita, would keep the drinking age at 18. He also would make it illegal for anyone to drink beer on a state highway and would make a minor subject to punishment if convicted of drinking beer.
Committee will conduct hearings on the bill next week.
"We'll be knocked by some legislators no matter what we do," he said.
The wholesalers, a newly organized retailers organization, the Associated Students of Kansas and the Rev. Richard Taylor's Kansans for Life at its Best support the legislation.
14 Best Support Mark Boranayak, wholesalers association lobbyist, said the bill also had been well received by other lawmakers.
Even though the campaign will not solve the problem of minors drinking beer, it is sincere, Boranvak said.
However, Boranayak said he had not heard any comment from the Statehouse about the situation.
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been out since October, and the radio commercials began earlier this month, but Boranayak said it was too early to determine whether the campaign had had any impact on minors.
Another part of the strategy to pass the Morris out of the debates is raising the drinking age at the debates.
He said the dry forces, led by Taylor, would not try to amend the bill to increase the legal age to 21.
if the bill remains unchanged, Boranyak said,
it probably will pass both houses.
Boranayak said, however, that he expected a bill increasing the legal drinking age to 21 to be introduced and that the association planned to fight it.
Police all over the state have problems enforcing the age limit for liquor sales, and while
good they, they are more "They want to increase the age (for beer) to 21 and they can't even control the sale of liquor and wine." he said.
efforts like the Lawrence police department's random checks of liquor store customers are a good idea, they are ineffective, Boranyak said.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., said he had heard rumors that some lawmakers might offer a compromise bill to increase the age to 19.
Wallace, who is helping form a retailers association, said the retailers would not support that move because many other rights were granted to people when they became 18.
The retailers association, which has not adopted a formal name yet, is actually a new version of one that was formed several years ago.
Ex-hostages say visitors veiled facts
By AMY S. COLLINS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Reports of Iran's torture of the hostages came as a surprise not only to the American people but also to the Rev. Jack Brarner, a Lawrence University professor, that the hostages three times during their captivity.
Brenner said yesterday that he found out about the torture with the rest of the country last week. But yesterday a report struck a personal level when a former hostage, Joseph Hassan Spring, Md., said the clergyman of Djibouti Iran had confessed to the final condition of the hostages and their complainant of torture."
THE REPORT CAME as a suprise to Brener, who said none of the hostages had ever mentioned any kind of torture during his three visits to Iran.
"I saw no evidence, no basis to support the idea that the hostages were being tortured," Bremer said. "We did everything humanly possible to assist them."
Bremer said that he had seen 31 of the hostages nine months ago but that he had never seen Hall.
During the hostages' captivity, Bremer and two other Mid-western clergymen made three trips to Iran. Christian Schroeder in Fowr, representing the Committee for American-Iranian Crisis
Resolution, arranged the clergymen's visit. Forer, associate professor of Social Welfare, made two trips to Iran with the clergymen. Although he saw only two of the hostages in February, he said there was no mention or evidence of torture.
"I did not have a chance to read the note," he said. "As soon as the hostages were ushered out of the room, a student came up and said, 'Give me the note.' He must have seen the hostage give
CHARLES JONES, a former hostage, also criticized the clergymen yesterday. Jones told the Detroit Free Press that on Saturday he and his hostile 'to let America know what was actually going on.
The Rev. Darrell Rupiper of Omaha, Neb., last said night that he probably was the minister who had received the note. Rupiper was one of the three clergymen to make the Easter trip.
"The man immediately turned the note to over
him," he said. "Jones said. He caused a lot of problem."
"He was very smart."
RUPIPER SAID he did not mention the incident to anyone because he feared it would cause apprehension for the parents of the hostage. He declined to say what gave him the
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Said Jones, "Some of the people who came over, especially the clergy, were hypocrites because they came over to aid and comfort the
Weather
It will be cloudy and much colder today with a high in the 30s, according to the National Weather Service in Toneka.
Cloudiness will continue tonight and it will be much cooler with a low in the teens. Winds will be out of the northeast at 5 to 15 mph.
Options available if tenure system ousted
By KATHRYN KASE
The elimination of tenure will not necessarily lead to the elimination of job security, T.P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
"Every social organism has some form of job security, be it tenure or a union." Srinivasan, former president of the KU chapter of the American Association University in London, said "bottom line social organism is going to work without some form of job security."
If KU did not have tenure, it could institute multi-year contracts which would be renewable, June Michal, assistant to the vice chancelor for academic affairs, said.
The KU tenure system has been under attack recently by State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland, R-Overland Park. Hoagland charged that the KU system coddled Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare, after he went to Iran in 1979.
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"If the universities can't discipline those employees who clearly abandon their responsibilities, then why have tenure?" he asked last week.
last week.
But mature does not shield the employee from practice. It protects academic freedom in the search for truth, Arthur Katz, professor of social welfare, said.
"I think tenure is important because there are times in research when the faculty ought to feel free to search for the truth, regardless of the popularity of the findings," he said. "Tenure enables them to publicize those findings without fear of the consequences."
Tenure is also a commitment between the University and the individual after a lengthy and appropriate probation period, Acting
She added that a professor should not be judged incompetent today just because he received tenure in a more lenient era.
Chancellor Del Shankel said Tuesday during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on tenure policy.
"With tenure, the institution says, 'You have demonstrated superior qualities and we wish to retain you on a long-term basis,' Shankel said. "The individual says, 'I accept the responsibilities inherent in this long-term commitment.'"
But tenure opponents charge that it is an almost automatic process that anyone can pass. Although KU's tenure standards are not as lenient, they are stricter today. Michael said.
received tendrils in her hair.
"We gave tenure to some very good ones 10 years ago," she said. "I think there's just more care in the review process today."
would be granted tenure just because he's in the tenure track, as he would have 10 years ago."
"There is more careful review today," she said. "It's not as likely that an individual
Srinivasan agreed and said the problem of incompetent, tenured professors was small at KU but common to all organizations that had tenure.
"There are and there always will be, persons who know matter what is said in the SACTIONS BOOK."
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Tenure confusing to most people
Most people, including university professors, don't understand the meaning and implications of tenure, June Michael, assistant professor in the encyclopedia for academic affairs, said yesterday.
Michal said that the tenure review process usually begins during the fifth or sixth year of
"They think they understand it and they don't, she said. "Most people think anyone is eligible for tenure and that it's easy to get. That's simply not true."
1. Bet's snappy, a faculty member is eligible for tenure, he must be designated as being on the 'tenure track' and serve a seven-year probationary period. This period may include, at the University's discretion, the time the candidate has taught at other schools.
Initially, the candidate prepares a tenure review case, which is presented to the tenure committee in the department or school to which the candidate will work. The candidate may recommend the candidate for tenure, the candidate may request that the case be sent to the next step.
If the candidates pass the review series, they achieve tenure and are usually promoted to the associate professor rank. Michael Scales begins at the assistant professor level.
A review by the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure is the next step. If the committee approves the case it is passed to the offices of the following people, and each office must approve the nominees for the vice mayoral domestic affairs, the executive vice chancellor, the chancellor and then the Board of Regents, which makes the final decision.
Tenured faculty can be dismissed for several reasons, according to the KU Handbook for Faculty and Other Unclassified Staff. They are:
- Failure to meet academic responsibilities.
* An act of moral turpitude that renders the faculty member unit for the job.
faculty member until 10 Unethical behavior.
A fourth reason for dismissal of tenured faculty is financial exigency.