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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 139 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, April 25, 1985
Johnson tells Senate to seek cooperation
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
Athletic Director Monte Johnson last night told student senators he thought a lack of communication had caused a recent strain between the Student Senate and the Athletic Department.
Johnson said he had attended the Senate meeting to answer any questions the group had concerning department policies and to try to change the Senate's image of the department as close-mouthed about its policies.
"Within the limits of our time that's available, we do try to communicate," he said.
Most of the questions asked by the senators focused on the continued scholarship of KU
The Student Senate had criticized the department's decision to keep the defensive lineman on the team after his conviction last year of sexual battery and had passed a petition asking for his removal from the team.
The petition asking for Timmons' removal was attached to a recommendation to raise the sports fee that students pay every semester from $4.50 to $6.50. After the petition was vetoed by William Easley, student body president, the Senate voted to recommend the reopening of the exercise. However, it received no pass as passed by the Board of Records for its consideration.
The Regests will take final action on the fee increase next month.
In response to the petition, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, suggested last week that a commission be formed to establish standards for participants in student activities, including athletes and elected or appointed student officials.
incidents outside Lawrence private clubs. The players, Bryan F. Howard, Woodland Hills, Calif., junior, and Guy F. O'Gara, Overland Park freshman, were charged with one count each of misdemeanor battery by the Douglas County district attorney.
Johnson said he hoped the Senate was as concerned about the conduct of other members of the campus community as it was about the conduct of athletes.
JOHNSON MADE NO specific mention of charges filed Tuesday against two football players in connection with two separate
"Many times athletes are not considered normal students and should not have problems," he said. "That's hard to do."
Some senators asked why Timmons had not been removed from the team and why his scholarship had not been revoked.
Johnson said decisions dealing with an individual's conduct were hard to make. He said the coach acted as an athlete's parents while the athlete was in college, and it was up to the coach to determine whether the athlete's mistake was irreparable.
The decision is easy to make if all the facts are available, he said. But other times the information is not clear, and emotions prevail.
"THE ONLY PERSON that probably knows the individual athlete best, other than his parents, is the coach," he said. "I do support the coaches in their judgment of the athletes."
Reza Toughi, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, asked Johnson whether he thought athletes should be more responsible in their conduct because the University of Kansas pays for them to come to the University.
Johnson said he agreed that athletes had a responsibility because they projected to the rest of the community an image of the Athletic Department and the University. He said the coaches continually emphasized that responsibility to their players.
"If we make a mistake, we try to deal with it," he said. "We don't always deal with it the way someone else would."
Harvey Boyce, a facilities operations worker, paints the curb behind the Kansas Union. Facilities operations employees worked in the sunshine yesterday repainting curbs around the campus.
Need for foreign language discussed
Core curriculum spurs requirements debate
Staff Reporter
By PATRICIA SKALLA
Faculty members can't agree whether students should have to learn a foreign language, and a proposal designed to please both sides has met with opposition.
The disagreement is between professors who argue that students need to know foreign languages and those who say students' time would be better spent in studies more closely.
Three years ago, University officials formed the University Core Curriculum Committee to develop a curriculum intended to emphasize a traditional liberal arts education. The committee released its report in February.
But now faculty members are debating whether the recommendation related to foreign language is a return to tradition or a break with it.
The recommendation, called second communications systems, would require students in all departments and schools to complete three to four semesters in one of five areas:
music, visual arts, computer science, mathematics or foreign language. Some schools and departments now have a foreign language requirement, but others do not.
Dennis Domer, associate dean of architecture and acting assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, said recently. "This is a recognition that the University is very broad in its interests. It's hard to require the same thing of everybody. We live in such a diverse community that we have to give some choices."
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs and chairman of the committee, said last month that the recommendations had been made to ensure that students would graduate from KU with the best possible education.
but some faculty members, who want to see a foreign language requirement for all students, have said the broader proposal is not a substitute.
for a substitute.
The requirement could add up to 19 hours to students' course loads, depending upon which of the five areas they chose.
*the best possible question*
*the question is, 'Are we producing*
educated people in the most traditional and classical terms?" "Tacha said."
The report, written by the committee, also recommends new requirements in math, English, humanities, social sciences, creative and performing arts, and the natural
Language choices multiply
The new communications requirement is designed to help students develop a capacity to learn, not just to learn another verbal language, Tacha said.
Each of the five communication systems has vocabulary, syntax and grammar that are basic to understanding specialized subjects. Domer said.
Domer said the core curriculum committee had tried to determine what kinds of communication systems existed besides verbal language. The committee decided all knowledge was acquired through the five systems named in the report.
complicated math problem more easily if they understand the language of mathematical symbols than if the problem has to be explained in verbal communication.
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the math department, said math could be as useful a communication system as a foreign language. For example, students can solve a
expanded in Veronica.com.
But foreign language professors question whether other subjects can be substitutes for a foreign language, and some schools wonder how the requirement would affect their current curriculums.
And Michael Young, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the four other communication systems were not acceptable substitutes for language.
Young said he did not understand how knowledge in music theory could satisfy the same requirement as fluency in French or German.
Tacha said, "There has been a lot of discussion about this requirement, and I think there will continue to be. The list of inclusions is without a doubt subject to a lot of interpretation."
or interpretation.
According to the report, learning a foreign language traditionally has been the way students develop a capacity to learn. After
Reagan calls for support from public
See CORE, p. 5, col.1
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Ronald Reagan, warning that the nation's economic future hangs in the balance, appealed to the American people yesterday to rally behind his fiscal policies and force Congress to abandon the "immoral, dead-end course of deficit spending."
"We stand at a crossroad," Reagan told a nationwide television audience in an address from the Oval Office. "The hour is late, the task is large and the stakes are momentous. I ask you to join us in making your voices heard."
Urging Americans to flood Congress with telephone calls and telegraams, Reagan sought support for a Republican plan that would cut the federal deficit by $25 billion in 1986 and almost $300 billion over the next three years.
Reagan, making his seventh nationally broadcast speech to defend his fiscal policies, resorted to one of his favorite political tactics when his proposals are in trouble on Capitol Hill — a personal appeal to voters to rally behind a program.
Going from one legislative topic to another, Reagan tried to rally overnight public support for the budget proposal as Senate Republican leaders fashioned plans to rush the measure to a vote today.
Reagan said the package — a set of painful spending cuts, program eliminations and curbs on Social Security benefit increases — would make the federal government end the addiction to deficit spending and move the nation within reach of a balanced budget by 1990.
STILL LOCKED IN a struggle with Congress over aid to Nicaraguan rebels, Reagan said the deficit-reduction plan was necessary to protect what White House chief of staff Donald Regan called a maturing recovery.
1930. And Reagan, saying he had the votes in Congress to uphold a veto, reiterated his opposition to a tax hike.
"Is it too much to ask the spoilers to give up their hidden agenda to increase taxes, which would only throw people out of work, and yes, make the deficit worse?"
Budget director David Stockman, Senate major leader Robert Dole and Regan said the administration still lacked majority backing in the Senate — where Republicans had a 83-47 edge. However, they all said they were gaining ground.
Despite the large cuts in the federal budget, Reagan pledged to preserve the safety net of programs that provide food, housing, income and support for the needy, who took the brunt of his 1981 budget cuts.
ON THE MOST contentious element of the budget plan – a curb on Social Security benefit increases – Reagan said the 46 million elderly Americans affected were being asked to help carry the load of deficit reduction, but he stressed that the proposal would cause benefits to rise 2 percent in each of the next three years.
Reagan also stood his ground on defense spending, saying he had compromised in the past but portraying his latest concession — cutting in half the 6 percent growth rate he wanted for the Pentagon next year — as his final offer.
Judi Foss, Overland Park freshman, and Greg Fornelli. Hall. The two enjoyed yesterday's warm weather. Today's Roland Park sophomore, talk on the front steps of Corbin weather is expected to be cooler.
Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN
Student Senate completes first phase of allocations
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
The Senate reviewed in a nine-hour meeting recommendations made earlier this month by the Senate Finance Committee. The Senate last night only considered additions to the committee's recommendations.
The Student Senate last night recommended allocations for 32 student groups in the first round of budget deliberations.
Staff Reporter
The Senate plans to meet next week to either trim the first-round budget recommendations or transfer funds from another Senate account to cover the allocations. The Senate recommended about $5,000 more than the $51,180 available for distribution. The money comes from the $28 student activity fee students pay with their tuition each semester.
The Student Senate last night made the following recommendations:
- Catholic Social Services of Lawrence — $2,000. The group requested the same amount.
- Black Student Union — $1,955. The group requested $4,190.
- Commission on the Status of Women
$1,020. The group requested $1,620.
- African Student Association — $223. The group requested $283
- Chinese Student Association — $551. The group request *4,065*.
- Engineering Student Council — $3,158
The council requested $3,519.
- Counseling Students' Organization — $235. The group requested $275.
- Free China Club — $666. The club requested $1,492.
- Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas — $729. The group requested $729.
- Jayhawk Singers — $1,769. The group requested $3,373
- In the Streets = $3,644. The new student newspaper requested $5,586.
- Kaw Valley Songwriters — $469 The group requested $112
- KU Amateur Radio Club — $2,991. The club subscribes $1,904.
- KU Biology Club — $160 The club
repeated $313.
- *KU Crew Club — $5,854. The club requested $9,004.
- KU Cicker Club $718 The club requested $1,388 Club $724 The club
- KU German Club — $274. The club
requested $464.
- KU Volleyball Club - $1,240 The club requested $1,370.
- Latin American Solidarity — $194. The orem request $1,173.
- Latin American Student Association — $145. The group request $450.
- Master's in Public Administration -
$565. The group requested $1,224
See FINANCE, p. 5, col. 5