UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 3, 1993
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Retirement doesn't put an end to professor's teaching career
By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
When some KU faculty members think of retirement, they may dream of traveling the world, cruising the oceans or spending weekday mornings on the golf course.
But some faculty keep coming to the University every day to teach courses or work on projects they enjoy.
George Byers, professor emeritus of entomology, is one of several retired KU faculty members who continue to teach and work at the University — for no pay.
"I did it for years because I think it's fun," he said, "and I'm still doing it just for that reason.
Byers said he had never really taught just for the money.
"Some professors who teach, I guess they enjoy it, but I'm doing it purely for the fun."
Byers spent his entire career at KU, from 1956 to 1988, teaching classes within the biology department. Most of his classes involved anatomy, and
classification and development of insects.
Since 1988 he has continued teaching one class, medical entomology, and has worked in the Museum of Entomology in Snow Hall.
Before his retirement, he was the director and half-time curator of the Museum of Entomology, head of the entomology department, and he taught six courses a year.
Now that he's retired, he has more time to do the projects he enjoys the most.
"I'm just picking up several loose ends that I couldn't finish during those last few years of my regular employment," he said.
Byers said that he was identifying the species of hundreds of crane flies. Other boxes containing more crane flies from Oregon and scorpion flies from Colorado are waiting for his attention in his office, he said.
Byers said he often got to examine insects that the federal government had found on airplanes arriving from international flights or in produce
imported from other countries.
"Hey, this is fun stuff," he said. "I get to see things from all over the world."
James Orr, head of biological sciences, said the department had no problems with keeping Byers on campus.
"As long as that valuable resource is available to us, I think it's great that he's here," Orr said.
nyers said he continued teaching after retirement mostly for the students' benefit.
"If my chairman wanted me to teach, I'd say, You just want something for free," he said. "But if the students wanted a course that I could teach best, that's a significant difference."
Byers said he enjoyed the contact with students the most.
"The students come from all over the country and all over the world," he said. "These people bring new ideas and information, and that's great."
"And I think working with young folks keeps your mind from getting old."
Grunge rules MTV music awards
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — The grunge sound of Pearl Jam and stylish Evnogue w won honors at the 10th annual MTV Video Music Awards
Madonna set the tone last night with a laccvious opening number.
tions, accepted via videotape from Minneapolis.
En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" won the rhythm and blues trophy, best dance video and choreography. The quartet, which entered the competition with a leading seven nomina-
"Jeremy," Pearl Jam's lament for a teen suicide, earned the band best group video and top metal-hard rock video.
The best rap video was "People Everyday" by the hip-hop group Arrested Development.
Auxuode-clad Madonna opened the show with a gender-bending song-and-dance number with three scantily clad women in a brothel-style atmosphere.
Wearing a Marlene Dietrich-style
tux and top hat, Madonna caressed
"Get the picture?" Madonna teased the audience at the end.
the thigh and slapped the buttocks of a lingerie-clad female dancer.
The Associated Press
"If you're looking for trouble you've definitely come to the right place," said actor Christian Slater, host of the three-hour awards show telecast on the cable network from Universal Amphitheatre.
Pearl Jam's lead singer, Eddie Vedder, was scarcely impressed with the group video trophy.
"We're a group, and I guess it was a video. It just a little piece of art. You can't really put art into a competition," Vedder mumbled.
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