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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav. April 9. 1993
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Regents budget awaits Finney's signature
By Ben Grove
After the 1993 Kansas Legislature reached first adjournment Wednesday night, state lawmakers headed home and a budget bill for the Regents universities headed for Gov. Joan Fennie
The scheduled 90-day session ended in 87 days. Legislators will return to the Statehouse on April 28 for the annual wrap-up session to deal with unfinished business and to
address any bills the governor may veto.
During that time, legislators could decide that the state needs to cut its state general fund dollars to balance the state's budget, Charlton said. The University gets a bulk of its financing from the general fund.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-
Lawrence, a member of the House
Appropriations Committee, said the
Regents bill probably would become
law but still could be affected by
written session action
"We're not home free with that yet." Charlton said.
increase in general operating expenditures
The Regents bill includes a tuition increase for Fall 1983, a 2.5 percent increase in faculty and student employee salaries, and a 3.5 percent
The bill also includes a credit hour fee for law school students. Some legislators feared that provision would not be included in the bill because of bitterness in the Statehouse about a memo written by Bob Jerry, dean of law. The memo criticized Washburn University's law school.
But State Sen. Sandy Prueger, R-Lawrence, said the memo had no effect on how lawmakers voted on University issues.
didn't play petty politics, "Praeger said. "It never became an issue."
"They kind of rose above it and
Charlton and Praeger are Lawrence's incumbent lawmakers, even though it was Praeger's first year as a senator. State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, and State Rep. Forrest Swall, D-Lawrence served as "first-termers." The term "freshman" was dropped this year, Charlton said. Ballard and Swall took leaves of absence from positions at KU to serve
One thing Swall learned, he said,
was that in the Regents fight to preserve a faculty salary increase many lawmakers were a "hard sell."
"But still, they know they are import- to our students and our state." SWA
Ballard agreed with the other Lawrence legislators that the Regents schools had fared pretty well this session, especially considering recent gloomy discussions of the state's economy.
"It was a session I thought went awfully fast," she said.
Ceramics class offers stress relief
By Terrilyn McCormick
Kansan staff writer
Jamey Welch, Dallas junior, scrunches up his face as he firmly presses his muddy hands against a mound of clay, which will eventually form a jug.
Small pieces of clay flip off the mound into the surrounding bowl as he varies the speed of the spinning刀. Welch is attempting to make another jug for his ceramics class assignment after a handle broke off the first one.
Even though he is frustrated by the broken original project, Welch, a student in a Ceramics I class, said taking the class was a definite stress reducer.
"I get a lot of stress out by working with the clay," he said. "It is a great way to deal with any aggressions you might have."
Ceramics is a class offered to all University students, not just fine arts majors. It teaches students the basics of making ceramics by using a lace and their hands.
Tracy Schmidt, Denver senior, said the class wasn't just about playing with clay.
"I really enjoy the class because of the hands-on experience," she said. "But it also is a very technical class because you have to work with the kil."
The students learn to use two different types of kins for firing the clay projects; electric and gas kins. They also learn to use the kins at varying levels of heat.
Even if a project is molded correctly, it can be destroyed in the firing process. Welch's first jug lost one of the handles after being fired.
The personal expression involved in a working with the clay appealed to students, Schmidt said.
"It seems to be a really popular class," she said. "I think there is something very basic about it, but yet it encompasses a lot of other areas of art. It is so personal, and you really can apply yourself to a project."
During the semester the students are required to make four works using the lathe and four works using their hands. A historical project, which is based on existing works of art, and a vessel are other class projects.
Lorel Ranney, Hillsboro junior, displayed her historical project, Australian Aboriginal toot figures, for the class to critique. Ranney, an art education major, said working with clay provided an experience that her other art classes did not offer
"This is the first time I got to work with three-dimensional objects," she said. "I enjoy it because it is something new, and I get to learn some new techniques."
Doug Hesse. / KANSAN
Shannon Robinson, Prairie Village freshman, works on a piece of pottery during her Ceramics I class.
Summer offers chance to earn credits at home
By Vicki Bode
Kansan staff writer
Many students spend their summers working to earn money for the next academic year and consequently do not have time to attend summer school.
But students can both work full time and take classes during the summer if they enroll in independent study courses through KU. The correspondence classes allow students to take courses that, unlike typical campus classes, do not require a regularly scheduled class period.
Nancy Colyer, director of Independent Study, said that summer was the most popular time for students to take correspondence classes.
"The majority of the students want to work, spend their summer away from Lawrence or need just one class to graduate." Colyer said. "It's a good way to spend the summer at home and still get credits."
Independent study courses are self-taught classes. The student must complete assignments, which are mailed to the professor. Professors grade and make comments on the assignments. The student also may contact the professors for further assistance.
Students can sign up for independent study at any time. Colyer said enrollment in independent study would increase dramatically during April and May. Students can complete courses in two or three months, so a course needed as a prerequisite for the fall semester can be completed over the summer.
Correspondence courses should be completed within nine months after enrollment, but students can receive a three-month extension.
The cost of the program is $67 a credit hour plus the cost of the study guides and textbooks. Study guides include assignments and lecture notes.
Barbara Watkins, manager of curriculum and projects for Independent Study, said approximately 2,800 students had been enrolled in correspondence courses each year.
Currently, 120 courses are available through correspondence. The list of courses offered is revised every three years.
Students are limited to 30 credit hours of correspondence, Corley said. If a student has 10 credit hours remaining to graduate, only six of those hours can be taken through independent study.
"We try to parallel what courses are offered on campus," Watkins said.
Watkins said correspondence worked for most but not all students.
"If you are self-disciplined and like to work on your own, then you will like it," Watkins said. "But procrastinators have a difficult time with it."
When KU began offering independent study after the turn of the century, it was one of the first universities in the nation to provide the program, she said.
Group looks at Bible's view of gays
By Carlos Tejada
Special to the Kansan
Greg Anderson, who led the discussion in yesterday's "Pink Triangle and the Cross: Gays and Lesbians Find a Place in the Church" at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, said he was once homophobic.
"I knew who I was," he said, "and one of the ways I would hide that was, well, I would tell the loudest gay jokes."
It helped him deal with his own homosexuality when he was in high school,he said.
But yesterday, Anderson, the coordinator of Outreach for Youth and Young Adults for the United Church of Christ Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Concerns, led a group of about 30 people through parts of the Bible that some religious leaders say prove God's disapproval of homosexuality.
The discussion was part of Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week.
The ECM board decided to have Anderson refute the image that Christianity means being anti-homosexual, an image that is reinforced by religious leaders such as the Rev. Fred
Phelps, said Gretchen Eick,
Lawrence graduate student and
secretary of the ECM board.
"There's a huge amount of pain in people's lives if they think the church has no place for them," she said.
At the "Pink Triangle" discussion, named after the badges homosexuals wore in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Anderson and members of the audience quoted passages from the Old and New Testaments.
"This text nails a or more to do with inhospitality than sexuality," he said. He also said a passage from 1 Corinthians 6:20 that introduces "into male prostitutes," "perverts," and "homosexual perverts," had been translated incorrectly. The original passage in Greek, he said, translates into "soft," referring to morals.
Anderson said the story in judgess of a man who gave his guest's concubine to a crowd of men who wanted to have sex with his male guest was not a condemnation of homosexuality.
"I wouldn't be an advocate of the
"This text has a lot more to do with
inherent than the surrounding it."
Despite these problems, Anderson said, the Bible still is important to him.
GALA Week events
*lecture, 8 p.m., Downs Auditorium in Dyce Hall, Ylyl Lynn Jewell, Jewish laurent author of *Hat Chicken* and *Hat Chicken II*, a program in English Language interpreter will be prophied.
Fridav
Brown bag lunch, noon - 1 p.m., in front of Wescoe Hall.
Saturday
March for Human Rights from Lawrence City Hall to South Park, Lawrence City Hall. Picnic will begin in Lawrence City town; food bewares will be provided
GALA dance, 9 p.m. -1.45 a.m., terrace behind Strong Hall.
Christian church tossing the Bible,
he said, "There's so much in there."
Not every audience member agreed with Anderson. Kim Thornberg, Denver. Colo., senior, said the passage Anderson used from Judges was about sexual abuse, not inhospitation.
"The hospitality seems so insignificant compared to what happened later, the violation of someone," she said.
Greg Anderson, Overland Park graduate student, discusses a passage in the Bible with guests at a Gay and Lesbian Awareness week lecture and dinner. Anderson talked yesterday about the problems associated with being a homosexual Christian.
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