University Daily Kansan. April 11, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
AURH will continue boycott of Coors beer
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
The president of the Association of University Residence Halls last night said that the AURH would continue to boycott Coors beer and that he would push to see other KU student groups adopt similar boycots.
James Jeffrey, AURH president, said he might reconsider the AURH boycott, instituted last week in response to racist comments made by Coors officials. If a transcript of Coors speech showed that he had been quoted out of context.
JEFFLEY YESTERDAY discussed the AURI boycott with P. J. McGovern, a Coors Campus representative; Carla Vogel, Student Senate president; and Ladie George, who submitted the report on behalf of Alpha Phi Alba fraternity.
McGovern, a Hutchinson senior, said that he would present copies of Coors' speech to Jeffrey, George and Vogel later this week.
MegGovern said that the transcript would show that Coors' remarks to a Denver minority business group, in which he said the African blacks were quoted out of context in "the interior." had been quoted out of context by a Denver newspaper reporter.
Vogel said that the issue would be raised at tonight's Senate meeting. She invited Jeffrey to speak to senators on the issue and then asking the Senate's five-minute open forum
Coors has since apologized twice for the comments.
MeGovern said that he had seen a videotape of Coors' speech and read the transcript and felt that, in the context of the speech, Coors' comments were
"I KNOW THAT he didn't mean what he said," McGovern said. "I honestly would be agreeing with you if I thought that he said, but that he said, and I know that he didn't."
Jefley said, "I don't care what the hell he meant. He still said it. That's where all right thinking individuals say they want to let him see the error of his ways."
George said that he would wait to
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"I would first like to see a copy of that speech," George said. "I want to read the man's words, understand the speech's context and in that way, give the gentleman a chance."
"We will continue to publicize and try to garner as much support for the campaign as possible."
Jeffley said that the best way to penalize Coors for the remarks, if Coors meant them, would be through a campus-wide bovolt.
"I think that's the ultimate goal of Mr. George, and Alpha Pi Alpha and Allan Doyle."
The AURH boycott prohibits residence halls from using AURH money to buy Coors beer, but it does not keep them on the table with their own money to buy Coors.
GEORGE, WHO IS a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, said he and other members of the fraternity would be visiting KU residence hall governments this week and next to persuade the halls to adopt resolutions boycoting KU residence hall governments from using their own money to buy Coors beer.
The residence hall boycott proposal would also prohibit halls from participating in any "joint gathering" and in any organization by Coors or Coors stores. Coors beer,
A $100 million pact negotiated Monday between Coors and the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that ended a five-day boycott by 1,700 Southern California distributors will not affect the AURH boycott, Jeffley said.
"He made a big mistake and I think he realizes that," Jeffey said. "But I think more importantly he realizes the economic cost of it."
George said, "I feel that Coors programs for economic reasons align."
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LATIN AMERICAN FILM Festival presents two films "Maria" at 4 p.m. and "The Jackal of Nahueltora" at 7 p.m. in Dyce Hall.
CHAMBER MUSIC RECFITAL presents KU Woodward's work without Recital Hall
GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM Series presents "Using Spatial Logic in Landsat Data Apalisys" a. 4.p.m. in 412 Lindley Hall.
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KU WOOD AND SHELD will meet
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LATIN AMERICAN Brown Bag Lunch presents Elise Waltks Clement on 'Effects on Family Structure of Families' and 'Familial Poison to 1:30 p.m. in 109 Ipplecott Hall.
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GRUB STREET. KU's literary magazine, will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union.
CANTERBURY HOUSE will sponsor an Episcopal Eucharist at noon in the chapel.
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ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS On Campus presents "Pascha (Easter)" by Brother James Silver at 7 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Union.
Officials say more TAs needed to uphold KU's research status
The University of Kansas will lose its competitive edge as a center of research if the Kansas Legislature does not work to increase the number of graduate teaching assistant positions, several KU officials said yesterday.
Although the Legislature this year failed to approve a Board of Regents request for funds to support additional graduate teaching assistants, the Legislature could restore the funds it reconvened April 27 to finish business.
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
DURING THE REGULAR session, the House approved 10 full-time equivalent positions but no money to finance them. The Senate added $100,000 to support the positions, but a reference committee denied the allocation.
The Regents had originally requested $21,000 for 21 graduate teaching positions.
state Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said that although the Legislature had not approved the $100,000 for the positions, he was optimistic that the Legislature would restore the money.
"If we don't get this restoration, over the long term, it will have a significant impact on the graduate program," said Jeffrey Rowe, vice president for the KU graduate student council.
"As far as I'm concerned it's only the first stage of the battle," he said.
Winter said that he had been conferring with legislators and that he
would continue to push for the funds in the omnibus bill at the conclusion of this year's session.
Parris said that the University did not want to increase the number of graduate teaching assistants but wanted to restore what was lost after a round of budget cuts were made in 1983 to avoid a state financial crisis.
WITHOUT A SUFFICIENT number of graduate teaching assistants, she said, faculty members would have to increase their teaching load, some class sections would have to be closed and students would be allowed to take courses.
"We're looking at a decrease in teaching capacity," she said.
Because KU relies on graduate students to teach freshman and sophomore classes, Parris said, faculty members would not be able to spend an adequate amount of time on upper-level classes and research.
Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that restoration of the graduate teaching department is a priority in maintaining KU's competitive status.
Research universities depend on strong graduate programs and graduate students to teach freshman and sophomore classes, he said.
Lineberry said additional graduate teaching positions would help alleviate problems of under-staffing in the college, which in recent years had been forced to reduce the number of students. At the same time enrollment had increased
"It's a matter of near-desperation," he said.
He said the need for additional positions existed throughout the college.
THE MATH AND ENGLISH departments rely heavily on graduate teaching assistants for required classes, he said, and the departments of computer science, geology and economics have traditionally been short.
Gerhard Zuther, chairman of the department of English, said that graduate teaching assistants at KU were underpaid and overworked.
Although 10 full-time or 21 part-time teaching assistants might not be enough, Lineberry said, "it would go a long way toward helping our problems."
Although more teaching assistants would help take the stress off crowded classes, he said, the English department would have to give the number of assistants it has had.
Some administrators say that the problem is not in numbers alone, but in the conditions under which graduate teaching assistants must work.
"We're under-funded." Zuther said,
"but we're not in desperate straits."
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the department of mathematics, said that because most KU students were required to take math courses, the college had indicated that the math department would have a sufficient number of teaching assistants.
"What we'd like to do is pay them more money," he said.
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