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The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, January 28, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 83 USPS 650-640
Tenure policy hearings begin
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A pitch to save the present tenure system made by Board of Regents officials and member school administrators opened the House Chamber meeting hearings on tenure policy yesterday.
The Committee's chairman, Joseph J. Hoagland, R-Overland Park, called the hearings out of anger with a 1979 trip to Iran by Norman Forer, KU professor of social welfare, and William H. Strohmer in social welfare. Hoagland has said the trip led to an abuse of the Recents tenure system.
After the meeting, Hoagland said he expected his committee to soon begin action to revise the tenure process. He favors giving the Regents complete control over tenure matters. Regents school administrators now share in tenure policy-making.
"I think we covered pretty much of what we wanted to," Hoagland said of the hearing, which resumes tomorrow. "But there seemed to be some officials could not answer to my satisfaction."
Hogland said that one unanswered question was why university administrators had nearly no training.
The administrators who spoke before the committee, including Acting Chancellor Del Shankel and Robert Cobbs, executive vice president of the College, also universities had an adequate tenure policy.
"There are occasional problem areas," Shankel said, "but the universities have the mechanisms to deal with those problems." Shankel said that the decision to award tenure was carefully considered and was not taken lightly.
Hoagland, however, demanded to know why the Regents did not exert more control over a process that he said could significantly raise the overhead costs of a university. He said tenure increased costs by assuring yearly salaries for the faculty.
William R. Kauffman, the attorney representing the Regents, said he agreed the tenure policy was significant in the universities' efforts to address climate change and keep the issue in the hands of the administrators.
"The Regents have assumed that there is a conscious delegation running tenure at each university," Kauffman said. "Also, the Regents decided that because of the nature of their laymen's background, the issue of tenure belonged to the academians."
Hogland also questioned whether tenure was necessary to guarantee faculty the freedom of
expression, citing recent Supreme Court decisions that he said strengthen free speech. He wondered if the Regents were sticking too closely to guidelines on tenure made in 1940, long before the Supreme Court decisions were handed down.
Bone Breazeale, vice president for academic affairs at Wichita State University, maintained that those decisions did not ensure all the rights that tenure covered.
"The rights affirmed by the Supreme Court rulings do not adequately protect a teacher from having to fear the need to compromise his subjects." Breatzea said.
Hoagland said one of his concerns about keeping tenure under the universities' control was related to a letter that cited a breakdown in the University's handling of the Forer case.
He said a letter distributed to the committee by William O. Scott, president of the Kansas Conference of the American Association of University Professors and a KU professor of sociology, told the committee with jurisdiction over the Force case committee with jurisdiction over the Force case committee to accept responsibility for the case.
Forer has said he was denied due process by the University.
"There should be some way to strip the Faculty Seminar program from the tenure and see TENURE page 5.
Hoagland says tenure issue not political
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-To many KU faculty members, students and administrators, State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland may appear an ogre holding the university hostage. Yet thousands of Kansas residents may consider him a hero fighting under the Capitol dome to save their tax dollars.
Hoagland, R-Overland Park, is a legislator embroiled in a fight to change the tenure policy at the University of Kansas and other Regents schools.
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It is a fight that began last Wednesday when Hoagland stood on the House floor and used the personal privilege rule to blast KU, its School of Law. The University Forer, associate professor of social welfare.
In doing so Hoagland unleashed a volley of criticism against his motives and against Forer for his alleged negligence of duty in traveling to Iran.
behind the cloak of tenure" to avoid discipline after his 1979 trips to Iran.
Hoagland then announced, as chairman of the judicial Committee, he would hold hearings on
Forer has said that his duty to his classes was taken care of before he left Iran.
"My personal reasons for proceeding with the
nomination are that I have been a good man,
Hongkong and yesterday in his statehouse office."
FORER AND OTHERS have charged that Hoagland acted solely for his own political benefit. Forer has said he "would not be put on theHoagland to further Hoagland's political force."
Hoagland, however, insisted he was not acting for his own political advancement.
"I don't think Forer should have to be put on
trial to further my political career." Hoagland
added, "I'm sure you don't plan to stay much
longer, I think proves that."
Hoagland said he had no ambition to run for office after his current term expired in 1982.
"I doubt that I will run for the Legislature again," Hoagland said. "I have already been here for nine years and I feel that I have to attend to other business interests."
RESIDES PRACTICING law in Wyandotte County, Haagland is the president of the Racket Merchandise Company, an import-export firm. He is also a partner in Overland Oil Investments and president of H and H Electronics, both in Kansas City, Mo.
HOAGLAND SAID he was not concerned about facing Foren when he testifies in the hearing tomorrow. He said Forer seemed willing to cooperate with the committee.
"Forer is going to come in and tell the committee his understanding of the policies and how he thinks be conferred to the policies," Hoagland said.
Committee OKs death penalty, betting
RvGENE GEORGE
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA- The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee capped its speedy action on the 1981 model death penalty bill by voting 8 yesterday to pass the bill onto the Senate floor
The committee also made a surprise move and passed a bill that would initiate a referendum on the issue.
The death penalty bill, similar to one vetoed last year by Gov. John Carlin, was introduced by the committee last week and debated in a public hearing Monday.
IF THE DEATH penalty passes both houses, Carlin has said he would veto it. But Senate leaders said that with the new Republican Party, those needs to override a veto could be rounded up.
state Sen. Nancy Parrish, D-Topeka, who voted against the bill, said the bill's opponents
Steineger said there would be an organized effort to fight the bill, which calls for the death penalty for a person convicted of premeditated homicide and committed during rape, sodomy or kidnapping.
had not yet chosen a senator to lead the expected floor fights.
Jack Steineger, senior minority leader, DACA, helped not only design a Republican-Democrat issue but also a long-term plan.
"There's plenty of time" to organize tactics before debates begin next week, he said.
OPPOSITION WAS more subtle to a referendum resolution proposed by the Kansas Quarterhorse Racing Association, which was passed by a voice vote. According to the vote, the committee was split on the issue, but only two members, Nancy Parrish, D-Topeka, and Elwina Pomeroy, R-Topeka, were officially recorded as voting no.
Members of the committee agreed to introduce the bill after hearing Pete McGill, horse racing
If the referendum passes, individual counties would be given the option of implementing pari-mutum betting. Under pari-mutum betting, the county will be a particular race would share in the total take.
association lobotyst. If the bill is approved by both, the referendum on partitioning bettion would be approved.
HE SAID A poll commissioned by the Association found that 71 percent of voters favored pari-mutel betting if it would reduce taxes. The poll, conducted by Central Research Corp. of Topeka, sampled voters in all five congressional districts last November.
McGill said the selling point of the Association's bill was that the race tracks would be non-profit and the state would take a percentage of the wins, thus reducing taxes.
When hearings on the bill begin, the Rev. Richard Taylor, director of Kansans for Life at its Best, said he would fight the measure with the same fervor he applied to liquor-related issues.
Car and street lights paint the night in this view overlooking Jayhawk Boulevard from Fraser Hall.
Washington hails ex-hostages; Reagan forewarns terrorists
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—President Reagan welcomed the former hostages to a "Celebration of freedom" in the nation's capital yesterday with a speech, which he said would follow, while its citizens are made victims of terrorism.
One week almost to the hour after they ran the gantlet of jeering militants at the Tehran airport, the 50 men and two women rote in triumph down Pennsylvania Avenue in a fleet of 15 red, white and blue chartered city buses. In place of route markings, the buses carried the number
Police estimated that a half million people lined the 12-mile route of the hostages' motorcade from Andrews Air Force Base to the White House, cheering and waving flags.
The front yard of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at 1837 Tennessee looked a lot like a yellow ribbon display for the former hostages yesterday morning. Unfortunately, the "ribbon" was toilet paper, the result of a visit by one or more pranksters the night before. Jeff Freisner, Topeka freshman and ATO member, starts the long cleanup.
According to a White House alide, both the president and Mrs. Reagan had tears in their eyes as they watched the buses rolling into the north portico of the White House.
The president of one week greeted the 52 newly freed hostages and Richard Queen, who was sent home from Iran six months ago because of illness, in a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House. He gave each a miniature American flag in a rosewood box.
Col. Charles Beekwitt, members of the abortive rescue mission he led, and the families of the
Fraternity loses registration
By KATHY MAAG
Staff Reporter
ATO's pre-initiation activities, called Help Week, were documented as hazing in mid-January by the office of student organizations according to Chuck Chapin, assistant director.
Hazing is persecution or harassment with humiliating, difficult or meaningless tasks. The National Interfraternity Council has a bylaw prohibiting hazing and the University will not condone such activity, Jeff Sharp, IFC vice president for membership, said.
Hazing complaints by three Alpha Tau Omega fraternity pledges have risen with the University.
Registration revocation means the fraternity cannot officially affiliate with the University, or use University services, such as intramural athletics.
"Registration status has been revoked for Alpha Tau Omega as a result of a problem within the chapter," Chapin said. "The national department and our office have been involved in the decision."
"All groups involved hope to resolve the problem in the near future."
Sharp said that having was common on KU's campus, but that he did not personally know of
"Until IFC receives a complaint, we can't act," he said. "If we hear something, we'll check
Specific hazing details or the identity of the
three pledges who filed the complaints against ATO were not revealed. An ATTO pledge, who would not remit the damages to a physical or psychologically damaging was done to the pledges. He did not file a complaint.
"It really didn't think of it as having," he said.
"I wasn't nearly as bad as everyone thinks it was."
"We just got caught. I've heard stories from other fraternities' nieces that were lots worse."
The fraternity members had reasons for their actions, he said.
"They were just trying to get our pledge class together, and it was successful," the pledge said. "But national thought we could do it other ways."
Eric Behrens, Olathe senior and ATO president, said his fraternity was working on a new pledge program to comply with University regulations.
"I was surprised to find out we were in violation of the rules," he said. "Now we're in the process of getting rid of all forms of hazing within our pledge program."
Hassen has been a fraternity tradition for many years, but it is gradually dying, he said.
"You really don't think you are abusing
them. You're not making it 'it's for their own
good. We all went through it."
"Along with our national and the University, we're getting rid of the hazing that should have been eliminated long ago," Behrens said. "It will be a good improvement for the house."
Behrains defined hawking as "compelling a person to do something he wouldn't normally want to do."
Several of the hostages appeared reluctant to discuss details of their reported mistreatment. Hostage Moorehead Kennedy had said one of the hostages attempted suicide while in Iran, and the State Department said about a dozen were experiencing severe mental problems.
eight servicemen who died on the mission attended the White House ceremonies. First the president and then Bruce Latten, charge d'affaires, went to watch when the Iranians took it over, thanked them.
While the White House tried to keep the greeting low-key and warm and not a festive celebration, a $25,000 works display rivaling any on stage, a couple of groups planned to climax the Washington celebration.
"I've got a temporary problem," said Col. Tom Schaeffer of Tacoma, Wash. "We all do, but we'll be pretty strong citizens in a few short days."
Before boarding planes for Andrews Air Force Base yesterday morning, some of the hostages participated in their first news conference since coming home Sunday. Forty-one hostages and 300 reporters attended the conference, held in West Point's Eisenhower Hall.
Asked how the intense media coverage was affecting the freed hostages, Laing said, "I can assure you we are prepared to go out and become rank-and-file common citizens again, and not sort of heroes in the whole panoply of press limelight.
Weather
"One day I'm sitting in Iran, wondering what I'm going to eat with my rice, and 48 hours later President Carter is embracing me with tears in his face." "Sure I have problems dealing with that."
The weather today will be mostly sunny with continued cold, according to the KU Weather Service. High temperature will be 27° C and low temperature will be from the east at 18 to 18 mph.
tomorrow will be cloudy and cold, with a chance of rain. High temperatures will be near 40.
There is a chance of precipitation for both Friday and Saturday.