University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 24, 1992
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KU faculty venture outside their fields
Temporary change of departments adds depth to teachers' knowledge
By Ranjit Arab Kansan staff writer
As members of a faculty reading group, Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, and Peter Schanck, director of the law library, discovered that they shared an interest in postmodern thought.
The two finally will have a chance to work together on the subject next spring in the law school.
Hanson is one of two professors chosen for an intra-University professorship.
Carol Prentice, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the professorship allowed KU professional in departments outside their fields.
The professorship was established in 1979 by a grant from the Exxon Corporation. It originally was created for professors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. But when the grant expired, it was continued by the University of Kansas Endowment Association and offered to professors throughout the University. Prentice said.
"The goal is to increase interdisciplinary activities," she said. "It also allows professors to explore newareas as well as refresh and inspire their teaching."
Prentice said the two recipients would be relieved of their teaching duties next spring while they studied in other departments. Their departments will receive small stipends to hire teaching assistants for the semester.
While in the law school, Hanson said he would teach a seminar with Schanck on recent theories that combine law and social sciences.
"This professorship gives faculty members in different disciplines with similar interests the chance to get together and explore those interests together." Hanson said.
Schanck said the collaboration would be difficult without the professorship because it would have caused an overload of courses for Hanson.
However, because of the professorship, Hanson will be in the law school full time and have an office there, Schanck said.
He said Hanson would not be the only one acquiring new insights from the professorship.
He said he planned to study Greek in the department of classics.
"I expect to gain a lot through his considerable knowledge of social problems."
Richard Hardin, professor of English, was the other recipient of the intra-University professorship.
Hardin said he wanted to read the original Greek version of the novel "Daffines and Chieo," which was the first work by a masterful plains he taught in his courses.
While in the department of classics, Hardin said he also would guest-lecture for the Greek and Roman Mythology class and attend a course about Roman historians.
The professorship will give him deeper insight into the courses he teaches. Hardin said.
"I will feel a lot more confident about my scholarship and my knowledge of the texts I am teaching once I have a better understanding of the Greek language," he said.
Business program focuses on women entrepreneurs
Kansan staff writer
By Janet Rorholm
The University of Kansas school of business sponsored a conference this weekend that focused on women as entrepreneurs.
Fran Raglin, winner of the 1991 Avon Woman Enterprise Award and president of a travel service in Cincinnati, said women wanted to be respected and be competitors.
Raglin was a guest speaker at "The Challenge to Grow," a conference on women and business.
The Small Business Development Center, an outreach program of the KU school of business, sponsored the conference Saturday at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive. About 80 people attended, some of whom had their own businesses or
were contemplating starting one.
Topics at the conference ranged from knowing a business to exploring financing
Shirley Davis, Lawrence graduate student, said she planned to start a museum.
"I have no sense of what it takes to open a business," she said.
Davis said there was a thrust to make music therapy more marketable because so many people could benefit from it.
"I'm the type of person to go with the flow," she said. "But now I realize that is no longer enough. I need to open my own doors."
Becky Kasenberg, business graduate student, and her mother, Elizabeth Kasenberg, said they were considering going into the antique business together.
The two attended the conference to get an overview of what that might entail and to see what they would need to do.
Dee Ann DeRoin, physician at Watkins Health Center, said she attended the conference because working for federal or state programs had isolated her from the business side of medicine.
DeRino said there was an increasing segment of the population that could not afford the basics in health care. She said it was difficult for her to require those people to pay for her services and so she had shunned private practice.
But because she might move into an administrative position sometime in the future, she wanted to learn basic business concepts.
Julie Dietrich, Wichita senior, (right) jousts Michalene Kloster, Kansas City, Mo., in the American Gladiators tour tryouts Saturday.
KU student chosen for competition during American Gladiators tryouts
By Michelle Betts
Kansan staff writer
The line of American Gladiato hopefuls was about 1,500 strong and stretched around the parking lot into the street.
Seven of the hopefuls were members of the KU women's rowing team who wanted to see if they were Gladiator material.
The tryouts Saturday at the All American Indoor Sports Inc. building in Lenexa were for a national tour that will not be televised. The competitors have a chance to win prizes, and are eligible for a spot on the "American Gladiators" television show.
Julie Dietrich, Wichita senior and crew member, said she was on a mission to prove something.
And she did.
Dietrich was one of four women chosen to compete March 10 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. Four men and two men's and women's alternates also were chosen.
Tami Odell, women's crew captain, tried out during winter break in Oklahoma City.
At the tryouts, women were required to do 30 push-ups in one minute. They had to maintain a flat back, touch the floor with their chests, and fully extend their arms at the end of each push-up.
"I only did 12 push-ups out of 30 last time," said Odell, Norman, Okla., junior.
she completed about 20 saturday.
*I'm seriously going to keep doing this until I make it past the pushups, "Odell said.
The men were required to do 50 finger-tip push-ups in one minute, also maintaining a flat back, coming within a palm's thickness of the floor and fully extending their arms at the end of the push-up.
Stacey Neren, tryout coordinator for the American Gladiators tour, said about 80 percent of men and 50 percent of women were eliminated during the push-ups.
"Everyone out there in line thinks they can do 50 finger-tip push-ups." Neren said. "They wouldn't be out here if they didn't."
Ditrich, who is 5 feet 8 inches and weighs 135 pounds, was the only woman of the seven KU rowing team members that completed the push-ups.
After completing the push-ups, Dietrich had to run 40 yards in 5.5 seconds, go 10 feet hanging from a hand-bicycle attached to a beam
and do 10 chin-ups in one minute.
The men had to run 49 yards in 4.8 seconds, go 10 feet on the hand-bicycle and do 18 wide-grip, behind-the-shoulders pull-ups in one minute.
Dietrich had some trouble with the chin-ups. She couldn't do any.
Because there were few women, Dietrich advanced to powerball and joust despite not completing any chin-ups.
Powerball, which has the same rules for men and women, requires a person to try to put a soccer ball in a trash-can shaped goal, while opponents try to block the goal. Contestants are required to play 30 seconds on both defense and offense.
In the joust, two competitors stand on separate pedestals and try to knock each other down in 30 seconds with staffs that are padded on each end and look like giant cotton swabs.
After a short interview, Gladiator officials chose Dietrich for the tour.
Dietrich knocked her opponent off the pedestal.
She said she was surprised and nervous about the competition.
"I have to go up against those Gladiator women, and they're going to pulverize me," she said.
Enrollment figures respond to University planning
Undergraduate numbers remain stable number of graduate students increases
By Jenny Martin
Kansan staff writer
Ten-year KU enrollment figures show a trend that was encouraged by the University administration.
Undergraduate student enrollment is leveling off while the number of graduate students has grown since 1987.
After undergraduate enrollment jumped by almost 1,500 students from 1985 to 1987, it has leveled off to a number slightly lower than the peak enrollment of 19.407 undergraduates in 1987.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, in a report he gave to the University Senate Executive Committee Friday said that it had been difficult to handle such a large influx of undergraduate students.
"It was felt then that we ought to stabilize undergraduate enrollment and try to develop graduate enrollment," Amber said.
After the 1897 enrollment peak, the University decided it needed to develop some control that would enable it to better predict the number of incoming students.
He said that many of the graduate programs had the capacity to grow and accept new students without additional resources, whereas the majority of undergraduate programs were saturated and had no room to expand.
"We're still in a position where
growth is valued," he said. "We can't afford to let it drop, but we want it to level off."
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said that after 1987 the University implemented an enrollment stability plan that has been successful in leveling off undergraduate enrollment.
The stability plan included an early application deadline for in-state students and an even earlier one for out-of-state students along with higher admission standards.
"It's basically a lack-of-resource problem. We are maxed out at the undergraduate level while some of the graduate programs still have capacity that they could utilize." Shankel said.
Ambler, in speaking with candidates for vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
"We can't afford to let it drop,but we want it to level off."
David Ambler vice chancellor for student affairs
has been asking them what their attitudes are about central planning.
"We have to be more deliberate in our planning for graduate growth," he said. "The office of research and graduate studies needs to take a look at
what programs can grow without significant increases in operational costs.
"We must systematically go through and find graduate programs that are able to handle more and give them incentives to take more students," he said.
Ambler said that the increase in graduate enrollment could not be easily explained, but that he was glad that it had increased.
Shankel said the primary reason for the rise in graduate enrollment was that more and more students were realizing that graduate degrees could lead to success.
Howard Mossberg, interim vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said, "We have tried to manage the enrollment so we can meet the needs of the students we have."
Undergraduate enrollment Graduate enrollment
Source: Division of Student Affairs
Graduate student numbers have increased since 1987. After a jump in undergraduates from 1985 to 1987, enrollment has grown and diversity has been trying to stabilize undergraduate levels.
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