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Friday, September 10, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Late professor lauded
Widow, colleagues to honor career in Slavic programs By Kathleen Stollie
By Kathleen Stolle
Kansan staff writer
A plaque commemorating the late KU professor Oswald P. Backus III as the "Father of Slavic Studies at KU" will be unveiled today.
The unveiling will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Slavic alcove of Watson Library's reference room on the third floor. A commemoration program on the library's fifth floor will follow and will feature speeches by his former colleagues, his widow, Barbara Backus-McCorkle and the Slavic collection curator.
Backus is being recognized for his contributions to KU's Slavic literature collection and Slavic programs. Backustaught history, law and Slavic and Soviet area studies during his 22 years at the University of Kansas. He died of a heart attack in 1972 while still an active member of KU's faculty.
guages and literature, said one of Backus's greatest contributions to the library was Nikolai Karamzin's 12-volume "History of the Russian State," published from 1818-1826.
Oswald Backus
Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Slavic lan
"Our University is probably one of the few universities in the United States to have the complete set, no volumes missing." Mikkelson said.
In the 1960s, Backus helped found the Slavic
Backus is credited as having helped Ku's Slavic collection rise to the ranking of 12th in the nation.
and Soviet Area Studies program,now known as the Center for Russian and East European Studies.He later established an exchange program between KU and the University of Poznan in Poland.
"All of us who have been here long enough to know him agree, Ozzie was our leader," Mikkelson said. "He was an inspiration to all of us."
More degrees in jeopardy
By Christoph Fuhrman
By Christoph Fuhrm
Kansan staff writer
The University Senate Executive Committee was notified yesterday that three more degrees were being recommended for elimination by the Office of Academic Affairs.
The bachelor of general studies in atmospheric science and the bachelor of science and general studies degrees in computer science were added to four other degree programs up for discontinuance this fall.
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the decision to propose the elimination of the computer science degrees was made when the merger of the computer science program into the department of engineering was finished.
"It developed over the summer as the departmental merger occurred," he said.
Shulenburger said that the bachelor of science degree could be offered in the department of engineering but that the bachelor of arts and general studies could not.
"There is no desire to have two computer science departments." he said.
The bachelor of general studies in atmospheric science was first recommended for discontinuance along with the bachelor of arts and master's degrees in atmospheric science in Fall 1992. Shulenburger said.
T. P. Srinivasan, head of SenEx, said when the Office of Academic Affairs realized the degree was not being used, they recommended it be discontinued.
In other business:
The Faculty Executive Committee reviewed recommendations on improving the hearing process of firing officials with tenure. The recommendations came from Rutherford Turnbull, professor of special education and former head of the Tenure and Related Problems committee that heard the Tennok Ilonkov hearing.
The recommendations will be sent to the tenure committee for review. The committee's comment then will be sent to the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee for comment. Both committees' recommendations will be sent to FacEx for review with the heads of the tenure committee and faculty rights committee.
Those recommendations will be sent to the Organizational and Administration committee and then to University Council in late Fall 1993 or early Spring 1994.
*FaxEx requested that Dick Himes, professor of biochemistry and biological sciences and head of the Research Policies Committee, present the recommendations of the committee for improving research at KU to University Council at its Oct. 14 meeting.
Whim landed student summer job at MTV
Suppose someone called and said, "Hi, this is Sergio from MTV," and then proceeded to invite you to a job interview in New York.
By Chesley Dohl
Kansan staff writer
Not a very believable situation.
But for Betsy Rate, Leavenworth junior, that is exactly what happened.
Last October, while sitting around with friends watching MTV, Rate began to daydream a little, thinking of excuses to get to New York.
So for fun, Rate jotted down an MTV address that flashed onto the screen and wrote a letter requesting MTV summer internship program information.
"It was all a lark," Rate said, "I really had no idea they would even write
Asit turned out, MTV replied asking
tate to send her resume. She did and waited for a reply. Rate said that she had forgotten about the whole thing until she received a telephone call a few weeks before finals.
"My roommate handed the phone to me, and a guy said, 'Hi, this is Sergio from MTV.' I about died," she said.
KU and took off for a two-month job with MHP. When she said she was in a duo, she said she was sitting on the desk, but that it all began to sink in.
"I was a little nervous, but it was more of an excitement," Rate said. "Even while I was sitting there it seemed like I was in a dream."
Rate said that her living situation was ideal. Her apartment was located in one of the safest neighborhoods in the heart of the city, and it was just a short walk down Park Avenue to Times Square and then to the Viacom Building, where she worked.
Her job consisted of menial work a lot of the time, such as typing, filing, sending faxes and copying, but she said something always kept her job interesting.
Celebrities, such as Paula Abdul, walked in and out of the MTV offices everyday, and she met and worked with MTV on-air personalities.
One of Rate's daily highlights was witnessing the making of "Beavis and Butt-head" because the editing room for the segment was next door to her office.
"It was so funny because everyday at the same time I would hear this laughter from the other room," she said,
Rate said the internship was the greatest experience of her life, and she encouraged anyone who has an interest in anything to try for it.
"This was one of those things that people just don't think happens to them," she said. "I didn't think it could happen to me, but I just spent my summer in New York with MTV."
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