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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 28, 1992
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KU starts critique required by board
By Jenny Martin
Kansan staff writer
Departments at the University of Kansas have begin to wade through thick packets of material they received last week signifying the beginning of a program review required by the Board of Regents.
The departments will conduct self-reviews that will be forwarded to their school or college for assessment by the dean and a review committee.
The dean of each school then will send the evaluated information to a University-wide review committee, evaluations and complete a final report.
Final program reviews, along with final mission statement,
firm's mission statement,
finish the project.
Frances Ingemann, presiding officer of University Council, told Council members yesterday that although assessment procedures would not be approved by the Regents until March, the university had begun the assessment using the proposed procedures.
The procedures probably will not change much after Regen's consideration.
In a letter distributed to Council, Chancellor Gene Budig and Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, addressed campus concerns regarding a recent letter from Jack Sampson, head of the Board of Regents.
Sampson's letter to Budig included
questions that the Regents would like to see answered in individual university mission statements.
Some of the questions posed were how the campus would respond to general-use budget cuts, how the issue of program reduction or elimination would be addressed and what schools, programs and disciplines were candidates for elimination or for a merger.
"We believe that periodic review of our academic programs and support services can be a healthy exercise which can enhance our ability to strengthen areas of critical need to the state and nation and build up areas of existing or potential strength," Budig and Shankel wrote in the letter.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Wednesday the review process was not done solely because of the Regents request.
He said that after a planning session last spring, the University decided it needed to assess its own strengths and weaknesses.
"We're making the review fit the Regents needs as well as our own needs." Brinkman said.
He said that completing the review in such a short time period would add a lot of work to faculty and staff who already were overburdened but that they all realized it must be done.
"I think everyone understands and agrees that this is the best way to go about it, not that everyone is happy about it," Brinkman said.
Faculty fear that review may spur program cuts
By Greg Farmer
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents order that its universities review their programs has sparked concern among professors and department heads in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Some professors and department heads question the Regents goals. But other department heads say the state has a right to make sure its universities are operating as they should.
Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics, said she was concerned that the goal of the program review was to cut some programs.
"There is no question that everyone is taking this review very seriously," she said. "I hear a lot of concern that the goal is to cut programs. I wonder if the Board of Regents will recommend cuts based on these reviews."
Banks said that traditionally 20 percent of the University of Kansas' programs were reviewed each year but that 100 percent of the programs would be reviewed this year.
"The general perception here this year is that some changes, meaning reallocation of funds and reorganization of programs, are going to result from this review," Banks said.
She said the state's financial situation demanded a look at where the state spended its money.
"KU, like other universities, is in a difficult financial situation," she said. "We are going to have to be responsible. We are going to have to justify what we do."
Banks said the program review asked each department to prove that it was a quality program central to the mission of the University.
She said she and other professors were concerned that the programs would be ranked from most important
to the mission of the University to least important.
"We just won't accept that," Banks said. "It's impossible for us to rank programs in that manner."
Maggie Childs, associate professor and head of East Asian languages and culture, said she was concerned that the review process would be time consuming and produce quick-fix solutions.
"I would like to think Regents will be rational about this," Childs said. "But people have said that the Regents would use this as a way to implement cuts. There seems to be this vague urge to save money.
"No department is going to say that it is not an essential part of the University. The University is set up the way it is because we think each department is important to the University's mission."
But William Keel, associate professor and head of German, said KU had an obligation to prove that it was a reasonable endeavor.
"The intention of the program review is to determine whether there are any programs in the Regents system that are not really sustainable given the whole economic picture." Keel said. "I think the answer to that question will be no. I'm just not worried about the outcome."
Charles Krider, associate dean of the School of Business, said the professional schools were required to review their programs, just as departments in the College.
"Ithink the purpose is to have all programs reviewed for efficiency." Krider said. "The review will raise some questions about the allocation of resources and will facilitate and encourage reallocation of some resources."
Kevin Hammers, Prairie Village junior, gets his copy of Playboy magazine autographed at the Trower Cri Bookstore, 930 Massachusetts St., by Kely Harmon, Lawrence freshman, who was featured as one of the "Girls of the Big Eight" in playboys' April issue.
600 meet KU's Playboy entries
Shelly Solon Kansan staff writer
About 600 people greeted three of the women listed as KU students in the Big Eight issue of Playboy yesterday at Lawrence bookstores.
Gretchen Provines, Lawrence senior, Kely Harmon, Lawrence freshman, and Gindy Schuetz, Wichita resident, sign magazines at Town Crier Bookstore, 930 Massachusetts ut, and Hastings Book, Music and Video. 2000 W, 32rd C
One of the four women listed as a KU student in the issue was not at the signing.
Nikki Merle, a pseudonym for the absent woman who appeared in the issue, did not participate in the signings in Topeka or Kansas City, Kan., either.
Merle appeared in the magazine listed as a cheerleader and engineering student at the University of Kansas.
Merle had a personal conflict with the time of the signings and could not participate. Warner Publishers is the national distributor of Plavbo
Phil Wages, district sales manager for Warner Publishers, said
Provines said she had a great experience posing for the magazine.
"It's been a lot of fun," she said.
"I've met a lot of people, and no one has gotten out of line with us."
Her family and boyfriend were supportive of her, Provinssaid.
"My boyfriend preferred I didn't go nude, but even my grandmother is showing the issue to people at her church," she said.
Harmon said her mother was not supportive at first but was getting used to it.
"It's definitely been worth it," she said. "Playboy is a classy company, and they were so professional. It all went great."
However, there were at least two people who were not excited to see Playboy in their town.
Bruce Blanc and Don Knutson
Lawrence residents, picketed outside Town Crier Bookstore. Blanc's
sign said. "Another feminist opposing Playboy dogma. Sex, Lies and Fake KU students."
Both men said they were not against the models.
"Playboy is known for their feminist bashing and accusing feminists of being man-haters and anti-sexuality," Blanc said. "Not only does their editorial stance attack feminists, but they airbrush their models and can't even get the names and schools of the women right."
Women were supposed to qualify for the pictorial only if they were full-time or part-time students when the pictures were taken or by the publication date of the magazine.
Schuetz, who posed but is not enrolled at the University, said she enrolled for this semester but decided to sit out because of personal reasons.
She said she would attend the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita or the University in the fall.
was not sure of what her plans might be.
However. Schuetz said she still
Larry Djerf, midwestern division manager of Playboy Enterprises in Chicago, said the Big Eight and the Big Ten issues always attracted a lot of people.
"They're the two best issues of the year," Diefen said. "That's probably because we're so popular on college campuses."
Djerf said that after the women were done promoting the issue, there were no set plans for them.
He said the women could test to be Playboy playmates if they were interested.
Elizabeth Norris, Playboy representative, said the company never revealed how much money models received but that the students were paid according to the type of posing they did.
She said the nude models received the most, and semi-nude and fully-clothed models received different amounts.
Haitian sanctions needed, professor says
By Erik Bauer
Kansan staff writer
When Bryant Freeman heard that the United States had eased trade sanctions against the provisional government of Haiti, he was appalled.
"In other words, we're letting Hati
hell" said Freeman, of Affinity.
African-American studies
to be allowed into the United States.
Freeman said he had visited Haiti several hundred times since 1957. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Embassys in Haiti.
He also translated Haitian Creole for immigration officials at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba during the semester break. Haitian refugees had to prove personal political danger
The U.S. government lifted the sanctions against the Haitian dictatorship this week. The sanctions had been imposed as a result of a Sept. 30 coup that ousted democratically-elected Jean-Berard Aristide.
"The U.S. is washing its hands of the situation apparently." Freeman said. "I建议你保持清洁。
Freeman said the United States tried to offset the responsibility of the inflow of refugees. He said the Bush administration thought that doing so would curb the number of refugees trying to leave Haiti. But that leaves little hope for Haitians unless a multinational armed force takes over.
the organization of American States could intervene but only at the request of the legitimate Haitian government.
He said the official word of the Bush administration was that the sanctions were hurting workers in Haiti's textile assembly industry.
Freeman said the United Nations or
But according to Freeman, the impoverished Haitian workers said they would suffer toregain democracy in their country.
The United States favors other immigrants over Haitians because Haiti is a predominantly Black country, Freeman said.
"If this was a group of Norwegians, you could be sure that the treatment of them would be radically different," he said.
Freeman said the best solution
would be to offer the refugees temporary protected status until the present year.
After the coup, the United States still allowed U.S. oil tankers to remain in the coastal waters around Haiti, which have been the only occasions mactions may have had, Freeman said.
Deborah Gerner, associate professor of political science, said she agreed the situation in Haiti was becoming worse.
"The human rights situation remains exceedingly bad," Gerner said. "I fear that we're sending the wrong message to Haiti with this decision."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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