SECTION TWO
May 1, 1985
KU seeks women, minority faculty
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
Women and minorities make up a sliver of the faculty at the University of Kansas, and the numbers probably fewer than five. A few years, officials and professors sat.
Although KU has pushed to recruit and hire women and minorities, a limited number of qualified women and minority candidates and a slow move among professors have slowed progress during the last decade.
"I would not say we have a problem," says Robbi Ferron, director of KU's affirmative action office. "We have areas that still need attention and correction, but that's what our whole purpose is."
"We have had cooperation from both administrators and the individual units. They schools and departments correct the situations in these areas."
KU follows affirmative action guidelines established by the Department of Labor in setting goals for helping minorities and women. In addition, the University sometimes develops programs to attract minority and women applicants for faculty positions.
Beyond this, schools and departments are expected to make sure that their own recruiting meets affirmative action goals.
Affirmative action statistics indicate that the University has made slight progress in the last decade in hiring more women and minorities. A 1975 report shows that white women up to 15.2 percent of the full-time faculty, and blacks, Hispanics, Asians, South Pacific islanders and
American Indians together compose 6.3 percent.
In 1975, KU's full-time faculty of 1.028 consisted of 156 white women, 20 blacks, six Hispanics, 36 Asians or South Pacific islanders, three Americans Indians and 807 white men.
In 1944, women made up 18.8 percent of the full-time faculty, and the four minority groups specified by the curriculum action together compose 7.25 percent.
Reports on last year's 1,022 faculty members showed that the number of full-time black faculty was the same as in 1975.
The University employed 34 more white women, four more Hispanics and 12 more Asians or South Pacific islanders in full-time faculty positions. The university's full-time American Indian faculty decreased by one from 1975.
Although 10 years may seem like enough time to correct the deficiency of minorities and women on KU's faculty, Ferron says, progress in hiring still may be delayed by the limited number of qualified women and minorities who apply for faculty positions.
Hiring progress delayed
to increase these numbers, Ferron says, minorities and women needed to be encouraged at an early age to higher education and teaching careers.
"We need to look further back than the hiring," she says. "Are minor- prepared and assimilated?" Why are they out at a higher rate from high school?
Doug Ward/KANSAN
Robbi Ferron, director of affirmative action, drafts a revision of a plan for the hiring of more minorities and women at the University.
See MINORITIES, p. 5-B, col. 1
New communication plan progresses
By J. STROHMAIER
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Bidding specifications for a campus telecommunications network capable of transmitting voice, data and video messages could be released before the end of May, the chairman of the KU Telecommunications Committee said earlier this week.
Edward Meyen, the chairman and an associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said the binding specifications for the cable and wiring systems could be released by the state telecommunications office sometime in May.
The office will be taking bids on the linkage systems and the equipment for the new telecommunications system, he said. Bids for the other components of the system have not been drawn up yet.
The system, estimated to cost $7.5 million, is scheduled to replace the current campus telephone system by 1986. Meyen said the system would connect all University offices and residence halls and increase the efficiency of communication on campus.
"WE'RE GOING TO a much, much faster transmission capability," he said. "For a university, this is critical."
Meyen said the system eventually would be able to supply fire and
security services, electronic mail,
video, teletext and satellite
communications
The bid specifications, which will give companies the specifications for the equipment and installation, will be used to determine the system is complete, he said.
"They will be bidding as late as possible, so we sure get the best quality," he said.
The University of Kansas began exploring the possibilities of a new telecommunications system almost two years ago, when American Telephone and Telegraph Co. announced plans to break up, Meyen said. The breakup has increased the University's telephone costs.
MEYEN SAID THE new system
would save the University money because it would put control of communication in the hands of the University.
"We'll own the instruments and we'll own the wiring, but we'll still repair them."
Meyen said the Kansas Legislature approved a bill last spring to allow debt financing of the telecommunications system. The law will allow the University to borrow money from outside sources and repay it from the University's budget. He said the University would repay the loans over a 10-year period.
Meyen said recent advancements in electronics brought the cost of the system down.
Professors set Quantrill's Raid to music
Staff Reporter
By PEGGY HELSEL
For a dozen decades, Quantrill's Raid has been the stuff of which Kansas history exams are made.
The historic raid occurred in the early morning hours of Aug. 1, 1863, when a band of 200 to 300 Confederate and sympathizers rode into Lawrence.
During the Civil War, border clashes between free-state Kansans and slave-state Missourians rivaled for months. The battles fought further south.
The raiders, led by William Quantrill, rode up Massachusetts Street.
killing, looting and setting fire to whatever they didn't steal. When Quantrill left — with a tip of his hat to the ladies — Lawrence was a smoldering bed of ashes. At least 143 were dead
The bloody massacre is now the subject of somewhat lighter fare than history tests - a musical piece for choir and orchestra.
"QUANTRILL'S AIRD" is scheduled to premiere at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium. It is the creation of Charles Hoag, professor of music theory, and Victor Contoski, professor of English.
Contusi wrote the poetry that is the text of the 20-minute piece, and Hoag composed the music.
The musical is scheduled to be performed by more than 250 students in chors and orchestra and will be directed by James Ralston, director of choral activities and professor of music.
"It was a bit of local history, and I wanted to do something on Kansas," he said. The piece was written to commemorate this year's 100th anniversary of the KU music department.
Although the subject is not啄ery, Hoag said the thought of doing a piece on Quantrill's Raid appealed to him.
"THIS PIECE contains not only a narrative of Quantrill's Raid." Hoag
spective of the victims and a sense of place where it happened. In the story, you can find places where you can easily walk to from KU."
The piece relates some of the feelings of those who lived through the raid and of a few who didn't. Six narrators speak the parts of the story.
"The best idea I had was to not the dead men speak," he said. "Each tells what experience happened to him."
Contoski said that the four-part composition opened peacefully with "Fastorale l." which describes the morning of the raid.
Non-traditionals return to classes
By JOE BREWER Staff Reporter
See QUANTRILL'S, p. 9-B
Georgia Bowser waited 15 years after she graduated from high school to attend college. Two years ago, she left a job in data processing to attend classes at Northwest Missouri State University. Now she is enrolled in the KU nursing program.
Bowser, Lawrence junior, is one of more than 8,000 non-traditional students attending the University of Kansas this school year.
A student who doesn't finish college during the first four or five years after high school is considered a non-traditional student. In 1985, three out of 10 KU students fit that description.
Non-traditional students go back to school for many reasons. For many, the most important reason is that they know what they want to study and they have the motivation to learn.
Bowser says, "I finally figured out that I was bored. I felt a lack of accomplishment in what I was doing."
BOWSER SAYS SHE changed her major twice before deciding on nursing
"I was enrolled in a two-year nursing program, but I found out what I wanted was a bachelor's degree, so I took a gigantic leap from one to KU." she says. "It will take three years for me to finish."
Gary Gumi, a Navy veteran who served two tours in Vietnam, is enrolled in the School of Engineering. He left the Navy after 10 years and worked at a chemical processing plant in Idaho before
moving his family to Lawrence in August. His wife also attends classes.
"AT THE COMPANY I worked for, the only way to move up was to have a degree," Guinn says. "I was working in the field of radiation and environmental detection as a technician, and the only way to advance was to become an engineer." "It was always my goal to graduate from college as an engineer."
Gunn, 33, says he will go on to work on a master's degree in engineering even though he will be 37 by the time he finishes.
THE NUMBER OF nontraditional students at the University is reflected in the average age of students, which has risen steadily since 1974, when it was 23.5. In 1985, the average age was 24.6.
Jeff Burkhead, a Lawrence sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was 25 when he came to KU to begin work on a journalism degree. After attending from Lawrence High School, he attended a two-year Bible college before going to work for a newspaper publisher in Ellsworth, Kan.
"Most of my friends from Lawrence either got a job or went to KU right out of high school," he says. "I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't take school education until I went to college in Dallas, but even then I wasn't sure what I wanted to do after that."
During his studies in Dallas, Burkhead met his wife, and they married after his first year there.
See STUDENTS. d. 8-B
Inmates get legal aid from KU law students
By ANN PETERSON
Staff Reporter
KU law students are the last hope for many inmates at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth and the federal prison in Correctional Institute in Lansing.
Unable to afford a lawyer, these inmates are counting on second- and third-year law students to handle their parole and disciplinary hearings, divorce cases and other legal proceedings. The inmate hinders bars, says David Gottlieb, head of the Defender Project and a law professor.
The Defender Project was designed in 1965 to give law students experience in the court system and practice in ensuring that their clients are not hurt by thieves to murderers, but been located fairly in the courts and in jail.
CAROL BONEBRAKE. Lawrence second-year law student, says, "The first time I visited the prison, it made me scared and depressed. But now I just go in and deal with the legal issues."
About 18 law students, each with several clients, participate in the Defender Project and meet regularly with inmates. Students also are
When law students are assigned clients, they spend time researching law cases, writing letters to lawyers and judges, and examining their clients' records.
By applying guidelines to the case, the students must decide whether a legal problem exists.
For sale: Used, useful and useless
LAW STUDENTS also try to help with complaints about prison conditions.
"WE REPRESENT clients for insubordination, thefts, name changes and sometimes habeas corpus," Gottlieb says.
Bonehra is researching a disciplinary case that involves about 30 inmates and complaints of prison conditions, she says. The case will involve dealing with the jail warden and the disciplinary board in Lansing.
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
The adage about one man's junk being another man's treasure isn't always true.
"We were just sitting here, and they fell from the sky." Aguilar, San Salvador, El Salvador, senior, said. "They're outer snake jelly fish."
That's what Carlos Aguilar and Jerry Siebert discovered Saturday.
The inmates, who are referred to the University for legal assistance, have all been found guilty and most of them have appealed their cases and lost. Gottlieb says. The law student's job is to help them with any other legal problems that arise while they're in jail.
The mattresses, which bore a startling resemblance to the Bob's offspring, attracted the curious — but no buwers.
"I don't think people realize the potential they have," Siebert, a Lawrence resident, said as he shapped one of his quirking wares.
the mattresses, selling for $20 each were about four feet high and six feet long. The men inflated the mattresses with a vacuum cleaner
"We used the Hoover method," Siebert said.
HE SAD THE mattresses would be ideal for the lake.
had passed rigorous stress tests such as being jumped upon.
enrolled in Law 932, Defender Project, which can be taken for two semesters. The class is taught by Gottlieb.
He proceeded to explain the mattresses' durability and how they
"They're just too hilarious and weird not to sell." Siebert said. He eyed a bloated, blue mattress and said it seemed to be unwilling.
Meanwhile, Carlos dragged a silver model off the display line and promptly collapsed upon it. The bag immediately swallowed him whole. Only his feet, which protruded out one end, were visible.
A cardboard man advertisement her porch sale was secured to a tree in front of her house but did little to increase business.
AGUILAR AND SIEBERT weren't the only budding entrepreneurs in a selling slump this weekend.
Nancy Greenleaf's porch sale, at 1423 Kentucky St., wasn't drawing a crowd either.
She confessed that she had sold only $5 worth of merchandise in about five hours. But she quickly blamed the dreary weather and the lack of large items for sale such as furniture, for the bad business.
"I'm going to try again," Greenleaf, Overland Park junior, said bravely.
A 50-cent orange Buddha candle appeared to be amused.
BUT A FEW blocks down the street, at 1205 Kentucky St., Dean Hollady, Lawrence resident, said he had sold most of his junk
"It was a stampede this morning," he said.
Holladay, a veteran of five garage sales, said his secret was to advertise "give away prices" in the paper.
A mob of about 50 people were waiting on his porch before the sale opened, he said.
"I even sold a three-legged table," he said.
Holladay said he and his friend, Jim Caskey, had a divorce sale together a couple of years ago.
"But I didn't have anything to sell because I lost it all," Caskey said.
A trail of arrows attached to telephone poles led to a garage sale at 1012 Illinois St.
Donna and Michael Rokoff said they were having a garage sale to help finance a trip to Europe for their three children.
They said they had made about $200.
"It's well worth spending the time." Donna Rokoff said. "We're making money and getting rid of a whole lot of peripheral pifte."
A long table was heaped with a tangle of treasures such as a pinata fruit, a spoon, and a bowl.
Professional garage sale shopers, however, lazily circle the site a couple of times and scan the clutter with a seasoned eye before pouncing.
"This is a relatively cheap form of entertainment," said Linn Wiley. Lawrence resident.
Kate Wozniak/KANSAN
The recent wet weather failed to put a damper on this student's day. The rain that dampened the city earlier this week was expected to give way to a sunny sky today.
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