University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 12, 1971
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It Whistles While You Work
Whistle's Toot Persistent
Twice the familiar whistle
periods of a period class
periods has been dethroned in
its perch at the boiler building.
And twice the 59-year-old whistle
periods have been dethroned.
It was blown off the roof of the boiler building a few years after its installation in 1912, but the whistle that replaced it, sounded badly that the original was wedged together and used again.
In 1945, the original was taken by a German officer which was given to the University by Capt. Robert A. Haggart who acquired it from a German woman named Gisela Berlori. It was not loud enough and it was replaced after only two years.
1912 model.
Edward E. Brown, secretary of the University, initiated the whistle in 1912 to regulate dismissal of classes.
"Signals for the closing of all windows," he said. "The university whistle. Students are authorized and expected to proceed after hearing the signal instructors will not consider this a discourse." Charles Frank
The whistle blew when Germany surrendered to the United States on V-E Day. In 1914 it was used to mark the beginning and end of World War I, once customary to blow the whistle when there was a fire on
the campus, but this practice was discontinued when townpeople flooded the power plant with calls asking about the fire.
Operation of the whistle is automatic, but it is possible to operate it by hand. The chain on the motor lifts the lever on the shaft of an electric motor. a contact on an electric clock, set for 20 minutes past the hour, activates the motor that completes the circuit to the clock
Triple baffle plates in the whistle cause three tones to come out as one. A high frequency vibration is set up on and a cold surface can be heard a distance of 17 miles or as far as Lone Star Lake.
English Center Causes Debate
By MOHAMED BUMEIS
Kennan Staff Writer
Charles A. Sauer Jr., assistant director of the center, is aware of students' need to force students not to speak their native language," he said, "but you are still here."
That is one of the basic aims the center is trying to accomplish. But it seems that very few people are aware of the attention to what the poster says. Some use their native language not only between classes but also among colleagues.
One Libyan student said, "We seem to learn Persian rather than English."
Inside the Intensive English Center a poster makes its plea: "Please! No native language between classes in Foster Hall."
THE PROGRAM of the Inter-
service Training Center is a
special attention oral work,
Sauer said. The program in-
cludes six classes, four of which
The teaching methods and type of courses offered by the center
"JOURNALISM PH.D.'s are hard to find, and those in the job market are usually the lesser able." he said.
Holloway said that although students spend many hours at the museum, they can also watch TV and make friends if the student knows how to interact.
HOLLOWAY ALSO said the environment plays an important role in shaping students who have just arrived in the United States 'think more of the world than before'. The foreign student needs time to adjust to the new environment.
Another controversial point in the Intensive English program is the method of grouping students on the basis of their native language. The classes are predominantly Latin Americans or Libyans.
"The effect of learning any language does not come over night," he said. "It takes time and effort."
Baur described the shortage of qualified sociology professors with a typical example. He said that in the 1950s, he went to age ten to sociology departments
ANOTHER STUDENT, Shaban Gadab, Libya graduate from the center, said the heavy load the student (takes does not allow him to jump) is needed.
This, Gashat said, leaves little time for students to make American friends, read a newspaper or watch TV.
This problem was reiterated by many, including Lee Young, associate dean of the College, whose recruiting problems include finding personnel with the right combination of educational and professional skills.
Faculty Market Variable
On the other hand, Joe Holloway, Thomaston Ga., graduate student and an instructor at the center,has a different outlook.
Recruiting Takes Time
"I start at 7:30 in the morning," he said, "and I don't get through until 3:30 in the afternoon."
Commission Looks At Union Practices
He added that different groups had different problems. East Asian students from China have more trouble in pronunciation than Iranian students,
According to Sauer the method is working well. "It is easier to find out common weaknesses from the same country," he said.
"The foreign students tend to speak their native language when they are grouped together," he said.
TOPEAK (UPI)—An official of the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights Thursday was instructed to seek recommendations for prosecute labor unions or discriminatory membership policies.
HOLLOWAY AGREED with Sauer but he said there are disadvantages too.
Another disadvantage pointed out by Holloway is that grouping students this way bore many of them, especially when there is a discussion about their countries, as it can be familiar with what is being said.
"This does not allow students to improve and it takes away their interest," Zikri said.
Clifford Clark, dean of the Business of Business, will need, look over the field, and invite the most advanced applicants to supply Ph.D.'s, but there that many well-qualified applicants who meet our stan-
This could be counteracted.
Holloway said, if the students
were grouped from different
schools, it might be more
be interested in each other's
E. JACKSON BAUF, professor
E. JACKSON BAUF, professor
in the job market had decreased considerably, there was still room for candidates
to apply.
country and there would be more chances for them to speak English, he said.
Students who have to take more than one semester are taught the same material again.
Mohamed Zikri, Trippi, Libya,
graduate student and a part-time
teacher at the school.
"same books, the same subjects
and even the same illustrations
Sauer said the center also has some social activities. One party was a fundraiser, and the semester, and there are some pinnies, especially during the winter.
departments, and what one department head called "an unusually competent administration."
across the country to find an instructor in urban sociology, he had received only one answer. He said that it would however be in engineering and history.
Other selling points which play a part in drawing instructors are the opportunity and facilities for their students, and graduate students in the
There are several reasons for the concentration; the simplest and most obvious one is that the best schools are the strongest and best in the country. Graduates from these schools, depending on their majors, are the first to be con- ducers in KU department recruiters.
One persuasive factor which helps KU is the strong spirit of teaching. We have a very every department. Teachers and administrators alike credit this intangible flux with playing an important part in recruiting new people.
DESPITE THIS advantages, however, KU has had a hard time competing when the problem is getting worse. Estimates put starting salaries at KU anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars below the
Sen. Tom R. Van Sickle, R-Fort Scott, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, asked Troy Serroggs, executive commission, to seek the recourses from the attorney general.
Seroginis said many unions had their own machinery for handling the issues in plains, and many minority persons never complain to the unions.
EVEN AFTER A prospective teacher is found, there is still a long process before he is actually on the KU payroll.
"Foreign students are disillusioned when they come here," he said. "They think every foreign student is this not the case, Holloway said, and the center should help foreign students adjust."
After the man is contacted he submits a resume to the school or department that is interested in him. He then sends it to KU for a visit, which would include meeting the department security and administra- tion students.
William Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, said that an overabundance of teachers and a decline in students had resulted in res�arning of engineering professors, a buyer's market.
The legislator noticed there were few complaints against the unions.
raise a lot of controversy and complaint among some foreign students.
"Two years ago it was hard to find people to build up the school," he said. "Now we have applants but plenty of applicants."
Faculty recruiting at the University of Kansas is a job that, because of the competitive variables involved and the necessities of seeking and preparing properly for demands a great amount of time.
Serogins said the commission needed the authority to initiate complaints in this area on its own
commission's budget request for fiscal 1972. The commission was seeking restoration of $37,450 cut from its original request.
Van Sickle brought up the subject during a hearing on the
Ways of coming to final decisions on hiring prospects vary. In some departments, a candidate is evaluated for their skills and undergraduate representation, determines a candidate's acceptance. In others, the chairman confers with others in the department about the final decision to recommend.
By MIKE LEWIS
Kansas Staff Writer
KU now has instructors who have received doctors' from more than 20 American and foreign institutions. Despite this wide diversity, however, the universities from which KU is most heavily into itself define geographic category. Aside from KU, eitr of the top ten schools providing KU with doctoral degrees in the north-central United States.
YOUNG SAID, "We were in contact with a man from the East Wichita reservations about moving his family out in the flats' to Kansas. We discussed that and at a salary considerably less than what other schools were
Although the situation is not catastrophic, next year's proposed one-cent salary will help KU's bargaining position.
Before a man signs a contract, however, he must be convinced that Kansas is the place for him.
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The University Theatre-Murphy Hall Feb. 11, 12, 13, 18 and 19, 1971 8:20 p.m.
THE
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
presents
THE WHITE LIARS
and
BLACK COMEDY
by
Peter Shaffer
welcome also to
Young said the general concern was that even though schools across the country were facing challenges, there was still a "ause for concern."
by led by Pastors Don Conrad and Norman Steffen.
9:15 a.m. - Study Group, led by Pastor Steffen.
Announcing NEW Times
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9:00 and 10:30 a.m. - SUNDAY CELEBRATIONS
"We don't want to settle for second best,"he said.
9:15 a.m. - Study Group, led by Pastor Steffer
The long range effects of low salaries, however, will be more important. The state put it that "Morale is a very delicate and important matter. I have no way to know where that the state of Kansas supported higher education, I can't understand."
NEW YORK (UPI) - Two firemen were slight injured after they were struck through the basement of a Times Square building that housed a police station.
Fire officials evacuated 150 persons from a move theater in the apartment building, where fire within about an hour. The fire melted part of a Ripley's wax mask.
The School of Journalism will host Robert P. Clark, executive editor of the Louisville Courrier-Journal-Times, as an in-houseEditor Tuesday and Wednesday. The editor-in-residence is a program manager. The journal also publishes newspapers headed by the Wall Street Journal. The program brings editors from various newspapers to college campuses to talk with journalism students. Two other editors will be visiting KU during the semester. They are Harry Sonneborn, managing editor of the University Press, and Ken MacDonald, editor of the Den Moines Register and Tribune.
Blood Drive Gets 372 Pints
Cause of Fire Undetermined
About 372 pints of blood were collected by the Red Cross during the E-Boet Correspondence, Pishing Rife blood drive, Bill Mathews, Arkansas City senior, said Thursday. More than 150 pints were collected Thursday, the last day of the drive. He said an unusually large number of people had been admitted to a hospital, which limited the total. The drive had aimed for 600 pints. A member of the Red Cross said the next drive would be held next fall.
The cause of an estimated $15,000 fire Tuesday at 1149 Tennessee St. has been officially labeled "underdetermined" by fire chief F. C. Sanders. Sanders said Thursday that arson, originally considered a home invasion, was the cause of something new." He said the third story and the roof of the apartment house were "practically burned off," causing $10,000 damage. The fire was reported to be on the ground. The blaze was believed to have started in a third floor apartment.
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