University Daily Kansan, March 29 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
3 faculty awards established
Three new professorships have been established by the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Steve Menaugh, public relations director for the Endowment Association, said yesterday that three Chancellors Club Teaching Professorships would be awarded to two faculty members on the Lawrence campus and one faculty member on either the Kansas City or Wichita campus.
The professorships are financed by the Chancellor Club, whose members donate significant unrestricted money to the University. Each professorship provides a $5,000 stipend toward a faculty member's salary.
Recipients of the professorships are selected for excellent teaching ability, use of innovative materials and recognition by students and colleagues. Nominations can be made at the Office of Academic Affairs, 127强 Hall through Monday.
City reconsiders party request
The Greek houses on Stewart Avenue will make another request before the Lawrence City Commission next Tuesday for their all-court party, April 14.
A similar request was turned down by the City Commission several weeks ago, after neighbors complained about problems with previous parties.
But in a letter to Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, one of the party's organizers indicated that an understanding had been reached between the Greek houses and their neighbors. In their proposal, the houses said the organizer will stay on p.m. and would post off-duty policemen on streets east of Stewart Avenue.
Firm to plan asbestos removal
TOPEKA — The Board of Education decided Wednesday it would pay Hall-Kimbrell Environmental Services of Lawrence and Warren schools from school funds.
The Topeka board has not determined how much it will allocate for the actual removal of asbestos, a substance used for fireproofing and insulation.
Asbestos, which has been linked to cancer, will be removed this summer from around pipes at Topeka High School, Highland Park High School, Avondale West Elementary School and Whitson Elementary School. The removal project is expected to be completed before the start of classes this fall.
An art exhibit, "Art and Life in Ancient Mexico," will open at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall.
The exhibit, organized by Robert Squier, professor of anthropology, will depict Mexican cultures and cultural heritage from about 1,000 B.C. to the 16th century.
The opening of the exhibit will feature a presentation on "Music of Mexico" by Bemal Flores, visiting professor of Latin American studies.
Flores is teaching Latin American music classes.
The exhibit will be displayed until mid-June. The museum is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.
KU to sponsor History Day
"Triumphs and Tragedies" is the theme for tomorrow's History Day at the University of Kansas. Seventy Kansas students in grades 6 through 12 will enter projects and papers in competition, in hopes of advancing to the state competition in Abilene and the national competition in Washington, D.C.
The competition will be at the Burge Union from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy and cooler,
with a high around 50. Winds will be from the
northeast at 10 to 20 mph and gusty.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low in
the mid 30s. Tomorrow will be cloudy and
mixed with the rain of rain. The
both will be in the low 40s.
Author seeks words to convey horror of Holocaust
By DeNEEN BROWN
Across campus, away from the emotion that surrounded Louis Farrakhan's speech, an author on Holocaust literature spoke of the Holocaust as a moral dilemmas that the Holocaust presented.
Staff Reporter
Compiled from Kanean staff and United Press International reports.
Lawrence Langer, an author of various books on Holocaust literature, spoke to about 100 people last night in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
of the Russian Union.
Langer's lecture was sponsored by the Center for Humanistic Studies and the department of English.
Sharon Lowenstein, program associate for the Center for Humanistic Studies, said yesterday that Langer's lecture was not intended to contrast with Parrrakhan's appearance.
LANGER. WHO IS a distinguished professor at Simmons College in Boston and a former staff member of the Holocaust, said he didn't give the scheduling of the two speeches much thought.
"He was scheduled long before anyone ever thought of inviting Farrakhan," she said. "It's one of those ironic coincidences."
"I was invited long before he was," he said. "I think it's a coincidence. I never considered it."
But Langer, who is Jewish, did respond to Farrakhan's past reference to Hitler as a "great — wickedly great man."
"There is nothing about the things that Hitler did that are great," he said. "It seemed like a contradiction in terms, but I don't know if he meant that."
In his lecture, Langer said that the English language was not strong enough to convey the feeling of greatness.
to refer to the murder of about six million Jews in Nazi Germany during World War II.
ONE OF THE empty sayings that has emerged in literature about the Holocaust is "their fate."
"The they are verbal formulations we have invented to comfort ourselves," he said. "You look at their faces and you say 'they had the will to survive.' Those words don't have any meaning. We're talking about people in death camps. You wouldn't say six million people who didn't survive didn't want to stay alive."
No simple words describe the Holocaust, he said. The total tragic impact of it cannot be captured by traditional language.
"The Germans didn't march through the camps and ask those of you who have the will to survive go to the right and those without them stay left. In order to survive, you paid a price."
"Moral situations are not resolved through literary traditions," he said. "As soon as you commit pen to paper, you think of heroic implications that seem to take over."
The stories written about the Holocaust have no happy endings. From the literature, readers can realize the urgency of life, he said.
Langer read a poem written by a woman who had been sealed in a box car on her way to a gas chamber. The poem later was found in the box car.
"I am Eve with my son Abel. If I don't see my other son, Cain, tell him that I . . ."
Langer said the poem reminded readers that Literature was always incomplete.
"It depends on how we interpret the Holocaust and identify Eve's unspoken message to her son," he said. "There are no happy endings to the Holocaust."
Culture firm to learn fate on Monday
By NANCY HANEY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - Culture Farms Inc., a local company, will have to wait until Monday to find out whether it can stay in business.
After hearing testimony from the company and the state securities commission, a Shawnee County District Court judge said yesterday that he would decide Monday whether to allow the commission to proceed in court hailing operations at Culture Farms.
On March 6, Judge James Buchele overturned an attempt by the securities commission to stop Culture Farms from doing business when he issued a temporary restraining order against the commission.
In doing so, Buchele was granting a request by Culture Farms, 2220 Delaware St. and Activator Supply Co. Inc. of Las Vegas. The two companies had filed the complaint against John Wurth, securities commissioner, saying Wurth didn't make a sufficient showing of facts to justify his temporary cease and desist order.
WURTH ISSUED THE order because he said the companies had sold unregistered securities, operated as pyramid-ponzi and made numerous misrepresentations.
Yesterday's hearing resulted from a petition filed by the securities commission in an effort to overturn Buchele's restraining order. Buchele now must determine whether his own order was improper and should be lifted.
Pyramid-ponzi schemes, which violate the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, use funds from new investors to pay returns to previous investors. They demand an endless pool of new investors and don't sell profitable products.
Culture Farms buys grown cultures from consumers who grow the bacteria in their homes with activator kits bought from Activator Supply.
Culture Farms and Activator Supply, which Wurth said had been selling securities in the form of activator kits and contracts to grow and sell milk and cheese bacteria cultures for Culture Farms, were ordered by Wurth to stop promoting the kits.
ACTIVATOR SUPPLY sells the kits to consumers at a minimum cost of $350. Culture Farms, which employs about 120 people buys the bacteria from the consumers and resells it to Cleopatra's Secret, a cosmetics company that manufactures cosmetics.
Larry Christ, general counsel for the securities commission, said if the judge ruled to lift the restraining order, a hearing would be scheduled to determine whether the companies were operating illegally.
At the hearing, David Plinsky, an assistant attorney general, said the securities commission's cease and desist order had been issued to warn the companies that the state planned to take action against them.
THE STATE ALSO could file criminal action through the attorney general's office or a district attorney's office.
Ken Hale, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, takes time to relax on the hill beside Potter Lake. Hale said yesterday that he
would have fallen asleep if he had tried to study, so he gave it up and decided to get some rest in the sun.
Loraine Pai/KANSAN
State panel to discuss KU budget
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Spring is the time of year when the thoughts of university administrators and state legislators turn to budgets.
But this year the budget proposals from the Kansas Legislature have not been warmly received by some local legislators, faculty members and representatives at the University of Kansas.
They say the proposed increases are too small to make the University competitive in attracting new faculty and graduate students.
KU faculty and students will have the chance to air their grievances today, when a subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee holds hearings on campus on the KU budget.
The subcommittee, led by State Rep. Sandy Duncan, R-Wichita, has scheduled meetings with University officials and with staff members and classified employee representatives.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE is likely to hear disagreements with the budget package recommended this week by the House Ways and Means Committee.
The full committee on Tuesday presented its preliminary recommendations for financing the statewide issues for the Board of Regents schools. Its proposal included cuts from the appropriations package approved Monday by the Senate.
The House committee proposed cutting the. Senate's increase in salaries for student and unclassified employees from 5.5 percent to 5 percent. The new faculty and graduate teaching assistants.
Although the final form of the University's budget will probably not take shape until it reaches a joint House and Senate conference committee, some faculty and student representatives have criticized the Legislature's proposals.
JAMES CAROTHERS, professor of English and president of the University Council, said the increase in unclassified salaries proposed by the Legislature was not sufficient to make KU faculty salaries comparable to those of other universities.
"The progress we made on the salary issue last year has stopped." Carothers said.
"It's very discouraging. We needed three or four years last year to bring us in the room."
Last year, unclassified employees received a 7 percent salary increase, he said.
Faculty salaries at KU remain below the average for the other Big Eight schools, said Sidney Shapiro, professor of law and president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
The House committee also proposed a half-percent increase in the state's contribution to the unclassified employees' retirement fund. The Senate had endorsed a 1 percent increase to the fund but needed to pass legislation allowing the increase before it could include the item in the budget package.
State law now provides for a 5 percent contribution to the retirement fund. It is Senate policy to pass legislation to raise that amount, and it appropriates the money for the increase.
THE SENATE ON Monday approved the necessary change in the law. A separate appropriation measure for the increase will be approved later, senators have said.
Executive Vice Chancellor Robert Cobb said the University showed keen interest in the 1 percent increase in the state's retirement fund contribution.
Shapiro said, "Of everything that's happening this year, we like the Regents 3-year plan to increase the state's contribution to retirement by 1 percent a year because we feel it's the most serious weakness in the current compensation package."
COMPENSATION IS salaries and benefits,
such as health insurance and retirement.
But Shapiro said the University's benefit package ours largely responsible for KU's success in training students.
AUAP studies indicated that KU professors ranked fifth in faculty compensation in the Big Eight, associate professors ranked sixth, and assistant professors ranked sixth. Shapiro said.
Also covered by the package for unclassified employees are graduate teaching
The House and the Senate rejected Gov. John Carlin's recommendation to increase GTAs' salaries at Regina at $71,000 would increase the increase they would receive as unclassified employees.
The Senate agreed with Carlin's proposal to raise the fee waivers for GTAs from 60 percent of their tuition to 75 percent. The House committee recommended a 65 percent increase. Fee waivers reduce tuition at a part of their compensation for teaching.
CAROTHERS SAID THE increase in fee and the importance part of the University's budget.
"We compete with universities that offer a full 100 percent fee waiver and substantially higher GTA stipends," he said.
HELP FIGHT CANCER Box in the ATO Boxing Tournament
All proceeds to the American Cancer Society Date: April 11th and 12th Place: Lawrence Opera House
Wt. Divisions
120-129
130-139
140-149
150-159
160-169
170-179
180-199
200-+
- Greek and Independent Divisions Golden Glove Referees
- Strictly novice, no experienced boxers allowed
- Brand new equipment from Tuf-Wear
- Trophies for - Best Boxer, Best Greek/Independent Teams, 1st. and 2nd place individual Boxers
Weigh-in: April 10th 7-10 p.m. ATO House For more Info call: 841-6701 or 842-7714
YOU
. and your enthusiasm are needed to fill Public Relations committee positions. Sign up at the SUA office to help with Open Houses, Madrigal Dinner and More Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations Majors are encouraged to apply.
Applications due by April 2,1985 Student Union Activities—Kansas Union Level Four 864-3477 FUNDED BY THE STUDENT SENATE ACTIVITY FEE