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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, May 4, 1993
President looks ahead to term
Hilltop, Saferide seen as two main priorities
By Brett Riggs
By Brett Riggs Kansan staff writer
Looking to stick with a specific agenda that includes several of this year's key Student Senate issues, John Shoemaker, student body president, said that next year's Senate would not get sidetracked from reaching its objectives.
"If an issue suddenly rises up, we will be prepared to take care of it," he said. "I hate to accomplish a little in a lot of areas. I'd rather accomplish a lot in a few key areas."
For Shoemaker, those key areas are the conuning efforts to expand Hiltop Child Development Center and the financing of Saferide, a Senate-sponsored student cab service.
Schoenmaker said that Senate's goals for Hutop were to find campus spaces that would allow it to expand and to serve the 285 children currently on its waiting list.
He also said that Senate would seek University subsidies to keep costs of the service low for students.
"The first priority is to find a site and renovate it," Shoemaker said. "We want to keep away from privatized child care."
Shoemaker said he recognized the importance of maintaining strong ties with the University and students as the keys to reaching his objectives.
He said that he would attempt to finance the growing Saferide program, whose costs rose to $70,000 this year, by looking into the possibilities of receiving subsidies from national breweries such as Anheuser-Busch Inc. and Adolph
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"We have to realize that most administrators have been here longer than we have," he said. "We need to listen to their advice with a student's ear."
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Tim Dawson, student body vice president, said that a better relationship with students could provide for more student representation on Senate committees.
"This year, we had poor committee atten-
dance" Dawson said. "If we publicized Senate more, we could get more people involved. People don't realize the power they can have on committees."
Snoemaker said that he thought his staff's experience would allow Senate to work well with both the University and students.
"Tim and I have spent the last year or two building those relationships," he said. "I think we provide a unique relationship with the administration because of our experience."
Dawson said that the cohesiveness among Travis Harrod, who heads the student executive committee, Shoemaker and himself would allow the staff to meet its goals.
"We have similar ideologies with different methodologies," Dawson said. "I don't foresee gridlock."
Home for summer means rules again
Readjustment easier for students, parents with early negotiations
By Jess DeHaven
Kansan staff writer
For some students, summer vacation means gaining freedom from homework only to lose another freedom by moving back into their parents' home for the summer.
Readjusting to living with parents can be unbearable for a student who has just spent nine months on their own and making their own decisions.
Frank Desalvo, director of counseling and psychology services at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that although students did not always realize it, moving home was often the root of many problems.
"They don't usually come in here saying that they are worried about moving home," he said. "But oftentimes, through talking, we come to find that is the real issue."
Desalvo said a variety of factors could make going home difficult.
"Some folks are struggling because it wasn't that good at home before they left," he said. "Usually it's around issues of freedom. They realize things are going to be different and that they're changed."
Desalvo said students of all grade levels were affected by the change, not just freshman coming back from
their first year of independence.
"They just have different perspectives on it," he said. "A senior's view is going to be different than a freshman's, but they may both have problems in directing."
Andrea Behrens, Colorado Springs,
Colo., freshman, said she already had
discussed the move home with her
parents.
"I have an older brother, so my parents have some idea what's ahead," she said. "I'll probably live in the basement, which has its own door, so I can come and go as I please."
"Still, I have to be careful about what I do. If I stay out all night! know it will bother them."
Mandy Rubin, Milwaukee freshman, agreed that the move home would take some getting used to.
"It's going to be really weird for me and for them to adjust to me being back," she said. "They really won't have very much say over what I do, and I probably won't have a curfew."
Desalvo said the adjustment to home living could be made easier by setting ground rules before returning home.
Negotiations, not demands, were the best way to work out an agreement. Desalvo said.
"Students are dealing with adult living skills, and they shouldn't go home and insist on complete freedom," he said. "Instead, they should be mature and try to build on what they've learned over the year."
Daron J. Bennett / KANSAN
On the way up
It comes down to one woman against the wall for Gina Camelli, Omaha senior, while she attempts to climb the Jeep Eagle Rock Wall east of Robinson Center. Cameli gets a little assurance from Brad Irwin, wall supervisor. The Jeep Eagle Collegiate Health and Fitness Tour hit campus yesterday. It aims to offer alternatives to drinking and drugs. The events will be set up until about 4 p.m. today. Other attractions include mini-golf challenge, a basketball bankshot challenge and a Velcro wall.
College examines revised core list
By Frank McCleary
Kansan staff writer
The College Assembly will consider and vote on a proposal today that would eliminate the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' policy of allowing each department only four courses as principal courses.
Students pursuing a bachelor of arts degree in the college are required to take at least three classes in each of three broad divisions: humanities; natural sciences and mathematics; and social sciences. Those seeking a bachelor of general science degree must complete six courses, two within each division.
Each department can offer only four classes from which students can choose.
Donald Marquis, professor of philosophy, proposed in December that the four-course limitation be abolished because it hindered students' education.
"It stands in the way of good educational effort," Marquis said. "Any qualitative limit on principal courses is irrational."
He said that broadening the classes offered as principal courses could allow teachers who were doing research to teach principal classes in their areas of expertise.
"What KU ought to provide is the research arm of the University trickling down into freshman and sophomore classes." Marquis said.
The current rule restricts the courses professors are allowed to teach, he said.
Pam Houston, director of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences undergraduate admissions, said there would be no immediate change even if the proposal were passed.
The departments still would have to submit their suggestions for principal courses for approval, she said.
James Carothers, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the four-course limitation was enacted in 1986 to limit the number of courses that would satisfy the college's requirements.
The number of courses was reduced from about 1,700 to about 175, he said.
"We need to focus the students' education," Carothers said.
Long-running Tonkovich hearings near end
Kansan staff writer
By Brady Prauser
After 27 weeks of dismissal hearings for tenured School of Law professor Emil Tonkovich, the end is in sight.
Final arguments, which will occur by May 14, will wrap up the ongoing dispute over alleged sexual harassment, which centered on one primary allegation against the professor and 15 subsequent complaints.
Although no hearings are scheduled for this week, they will convene every day next week. The five-person committee has not said when it will render its decision.
Tonkovich calls his last witness Monday. The University then will conduct direct examination — via telephone — of a witness who is out of the United States. The identity of a witness is not revealed in advance to the public.
Tonkovich is scheduled to be cross-examined for the first time on Monday by University assistant general counsel Rose Marino.
Final arguments will be Wednesday. Thursday or Friday, depending on when the two
sides are finished calling witnesses. Two hours each will be allotted to Tonkovich and the University.
It has been almost 21 months since Tanny McVey, a former student of Tonkovich, told University administrators in August 1991 that Tonkovich pressured her to perform oral sex after a discussion about grades in Summer 1988.
University officials recommended with Chancellor Gene Budd that Tonkovich be dismissed for violating the faculty code of conduct and for moral turpitude.
Tonkovich was placed on paid leave in Fall 1991, and Budig moved for his dismissal in August 1992.
The professor denies that any sex act occurred with McVey. He has accused her of having an ever-changing story. He also has said that she was emotionally unstable and that she was the aggressor.
The University says otherwise. "She was very credible and was revealing something that had affected her a great deal and was part of her life," said Del Brinkman.
The University says otherwise.
vice chancellor for academic affairs, about MrLee's allization.
"I believed it was true, and I will always believe it was true."
Fifteen additional complaints were filed with the University after McVey's complaint. Those allegations came after an October 31, 1991, letter authored by six law professors circulated in the law school encouraging students to come forward if they had experienced any form of sexual harassment.
The additional complaints included allegations that Tonkovich propositioned students for dates by asking them whether they wanted to see his truck and his farm.
Tonkovich called these complaints frivolous and distorted.
"I've never even thought about the administration's witnesses in any kind of sexual way, and furthermore, I didn't even know half of them by name," he said.
Other complaints against the professor say that he lowered a student's grade because she refused to sleep with him, that he told a student he slept with women who beat him at
pool and that he joined in jokes that implied he would trade sex for grades.
The University says the complaints are a pattern of behavior that constitutes moral turpitude.
But the professor says that the administration cannot cite a single allegation that constitutes a violation of the faculty code or is moral turpitude.
Tonkovich claims the University disregarded due process in moving to fire him. The professor said the administration failed to investigate the allegations fully and that law dean Robert Jerry, then-executive vice chancellor Del Shankel and Budig never interviewed many of the complainants.
Shankel defended his decision to recommend Torkovki's dismissal.
"I had extremely high confidence in the judgment and integrity of Vice Chancellor Brinkman," Shankel told Tonkovich. "I know he did not take these matters lightly. I accepted and believed the information he presented to me, and I acted on that."
The professor, 42, graduated summa cum laude from University of Notre Dame Law School and then joined the Justice Department in 1977 and worked as a prosecutor for the federal organized crime strike force in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
ne characterized the University's case against him with a "witch hunt." He said his reputation had been ruined regardless of the committee's eventual decision and that his request for a public hearing might not have been a good idea.
"from what I've been through, no professor would stand up to the University," Tonkovich said. "They could not afford to do it. This hearing is costing me $4,000. If wasn't a lawyer it would cost me $150,000. My life has been ruined by this."
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Tonkovich, who is engaged to a former student, admits he dated students enrolled in his classes but says it was not forbidden by the University until recently.
"I'm still trying to figure out what I'm being charged with," he said.
Sunday, May 16
Kansas Union Ballroom
8 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Program
The Chancellor's Student Awards and the class gift and banner will be presented during the program.
For tickets, return the card from your Commencement packet or contact the Alumni Association, 844-760. Limit 4 tickets per student.
Students are encouraged to wear their caps and gowns.
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