University Daily Kansan, April 20, 1984
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Sabbaticals
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proval for their proposals.
Applications outlining the faculty proposals wind their way through KU departments and schools to a KU committee. Committee recommendations are then forwarded to the executive vice chancellor and the chancellor. The Regents have final say.
Joe McFarland, Regents director of academic affairs, said that by the time the Regents reviewed the recommendations, the program was studied thoroughly for their academic merit.
He said he didn't know of any cases in which the Regents had denied a sabbatical request because of merit, although some changes in the length of the leave had been
"As a lay board, you couldn't expect them to be prepared to give the academic scrutiny that is often required."
A LAYMAN MIGHT not know the meaning, for example, of a request "to analyze lacunae and spurious lines characteristic of the b-text" from a document. So let the b-text left Chaucer's hands with gaps.
Beverly Boyd, the professor of English who made that request, said that essentially she would study the possibility that Chaucer had been platinized.
ALTHOUGH MANY FACULTY members travel to places such as England, France and Costa Rica, Leslie Dienes, professor of geography and meteorology, said his research depended on the political situation in the Soviet Union.
Dienes' proposal is "to analyze the diversity of the roles and functional links of major Siberian regions in the spatial economy of the USSR."
10 conduct his research. Dienes said, he will spend time in Japan and the Soviet Union. if Soviet officials allow him to enter.
larcency thefts and a 20 percent decrease in motor vehicle thefts.
"THIS MARVELOUS news proves we are beginning to win the battle against crime with some of the most significant initiatives and efforts," Attorney General William French Smith said.
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Crime
"The public is getting tougher about crime. So are we," he said, "Those who commit crimes are going to be punished for their offenses."
Patrick Murphy, head of the non-profit Police Foundation, called the new crime statistics great news, but noted that more than half the crimes were United States were never reported to police.
"The crime statistics are not 100 percent accurate," the former New York City police commissioner said. "And not every police department accurately reports crime."
The crime decline follows predictions from criminologists who said there would be a drop in the mid-1980s as the post-World War II "baby boomers" outgrew their late teens and early 20s.
MARVIN WOLFGANG, a professor of criminology and criminal law at the University of Pennsylvania, said every administration declared it was cracking down on crime, but added, "I'd hesitate to say this has any effect on the current reduction of offenses."
He predicted that the crime rate would start going up again in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the children of the "baby boom" generation reached the crime-prone ages of 15 to
FBI Director William Webster said that, using 1960 as the base year, there had been no previous two-year period when reported crime decreased.
According to the report, violent crime was down 5 percent compared to 1982. Murder was down 9 percent, rape 1 percent, robbery 9 percent and aggravated assault was down 3 percent.
Overall property crime decreased 7 percent,
and there was a 10 percent decline in burglary.
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