University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1985
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Sociologists hope to clear image
By JOHN RODRIGUEZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Sociology has been given a bad name by the uninitiated, sociology majors decided last night. And those who attended the third meeting of the KU Sociology Club tried to figure out why.
"You're seeking money. I'm seeking knowledge." she said.
Nagla Abdelrazik, Cairo, Egypt, senior, said people had been highly critical about her choice of sociology as a major. But she said she had an answer for them.
The Sociology Club was formed this semester by students majoring in sociology. Club members have met three times for informal discussions, which allows sociology majors and others interested in the field to voice their thoughts about definitions for the inexact science.
Sociologists want to change the nature of society, similar to the wav physical scientists
can change the nature of the physical world,
Amir Kauzizan, Lawrence senior, said.
ABDELRAZIK SAID scientists looked at nature through microscopes, while sociologists tried to look at society in the same manner.
Katuziun said that unlike physical scientists, sociologists were both the subject and object.
Rich Milby, Lawrence senior, said one trait found among sociology majors was a desire to reform the world.
William Arnold, a faculty adviser for the
Some of the sociology students said they had been encouraged to take physical science courses in high school, while humanities courses had been downplayed.
George Grobin, Pittsburg junior, said he had been automatically channels to courses such as chemistry because they led to jobs of higher prestige and salary. Society views worthwhile professions as those in the physical sciences, he said.
MILBY SAID HE also had been pushed toward physical science at the expense of the humanities. He said he had tried majoring in engineering and geophysics, but had abandoned the fields because he found them unsatisfying.
"They're told. 'What's sensible, computer science or sociology?' " he said.
Milby said high school students wanted instant gratification and considered only the monetary rewards of their careers.
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One problem with sociology is its inability to find specific remedies to problems such as poverty and crime, Milby said.
'We can't come up with a set of facts and string them together,' he said.
Sandra Albrecht, another faculty adviser, said, "It's a frustrating field for people who want clear-cut answers."
Because sociology provides more questions than answers to social problems, it is criticized by people interested only in results, Milby said.
would not be required to follow the visitation policy of the other residence halls, Alan Oakes, JRP president, said.
The visitation policy requires guests to be registered during security hours. The other seven residence halls adhere to the policy, which began this year.
McElhenie, director of the office of residential programs, said he received a computer list this week of 43 residence hall students who may not be enrolled. A list will be given today to each resident hall director, who will be listed, in order, listed for proof of enrollment, he said.
McElheney said residence hall contracts state that people must be regularly enrolled
students to live in the halls. Regularly enrolled students include graduate students and part-time students.
Residents who are not enrolled will be asked to move out, McElhenie said, but no legal action will be taken.
Students who are enrolled could have gotten on the list through computer error. McElenie said..
More freedom necessary in research, official says
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By BETH REITER Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas needs to revise its policy on secret research to give researchers academic freedom and the opportunity to pursue their ideas, the vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service said yesterday.
"Complete openness, I believe, is one of the hallmarks of the University," said Frances Horowitz, the vice chancellor, who spoke at the weekly University Forum at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
About 35 people attended the forum.
Secret, or classified, research, is any part of a research project that is kept from public inspection. An example would be an unpatented formula that a company might give to a chemical research project at the university. Computation that the formula be kent secret.
ONE PROBLEM WITH the current policy, Horowitz said, is that it allows the results or process of research to be kept secret for one year but does not make provisions for extending the period of secrecy.
The University has a policy that defines and regulates such research.
The one-year requirement, called "momentary classification", closes public
access to the results or process of a research project for one year after the results are submitted to the organization that finances the grant.
Only primary sources used in the research, such as letters, diaries, formulas or documents, can be classified indefinitely.
Extending the one-year period would allow researchers to accept grants from companies or agencies that wouldn't finance researchers unless the University allowed a longer classification period for the processes or results of grants.
"There are a number of people on our faculty who say this creates problems for us."
HOROWITZ SUGGESTED that the Faculty Senate Research Committee re-submit to the University Council a plan to revise the policy on classified research.
In August 1883, the committee proposed that extensions of the one-year requirement be permitted. The University Senate Executive Committee recommended the proposal be sent to the University Council, which tabled it in the Horowitz said.
The need to change the policy has been discussed periodically, she said. A survey was sent to faculty in September 1981 about changing the policy, and the results indicated that about as many faculty didn't want the policy changed as did.
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