CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 9, 1984
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AAUP panel will study idea of proposed forum
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors yesterday appointed a subcommittee to chair the conference for a forum on athletics and academics.
The group has discussed sponsoring the forum in its last two meetings after receiving letters from head basketball coaches and a KU professor suggesting the idea.
Group members ruled out the possibility of having any form of a debate between Brown and David Katzman, the professor. The members also said a forum would address the broader issues concerning athletics and academics.
ONE POSSIBLE TOPIC would be the effect of state, alumni and athletic department pressure on the academic environment. Goodman, the chapter's president.
The subcommittee, which meets Tuesday, might also decide to have a forum not dealing with the question of whether the committee should have a different question. Goodman said.
Brown and Katzman became embroiled in controversy after a Jan. 8 meeting between the two and point guard Cedric Hunter.
In letters exchanged after the meeting, Brown accused Katzman of failing to show compassion for Hunter. Katzman, a professor of history and an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, charged that Brown had asked him to raise the failure grade that Hunter received in Katzman's
American history class.
SOME AAUP MEMBERS said that they were leery of the forum because of the emotionally charged atmosphere the controversy had produced.
Goodman said someone close to the controversy had advised him not to have a forum until the controversy passed.
Goodman also said that because Chancellor Gene A. Budig had ruled on the issue, it might be inappropriate for the AAUP to hold a forum.
Yesterday Budig released a statement endorsing a new Athletic Department policy requiring coaches to set up meetings with instructors through the office of academic affairs. The statement also said that the administration considered the incident between Brown and Katzman closed.
Anthony Smith, professor of psychology, said he opposed the idea of a forum, despite the controversy. If the letters hadn't been sent, he said, the forum never would have been proposed.
Richard Cole, professor of philosophy, was more enthusiastic about a forum, although he said the incident occurred in him and Katzan had not been serious.
"I'ts not anything that goes that deep," he said. "I see this as a particular, little incident. It's a tempest in a teapot."
Cole said, however, that other problems in college athletics needed to be discussed.
"It's very hard to stay squeak clean in amateur athletics when you have big knees."
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K-NEA says Carlin proposal falls short of schools' needs
TOPEKA — Gov John Carlin's plan for financing public education falls far short of adequately improving teacher salaries and does not give school districts enough budget authority, education spokesman testified yesterday.
By United Press International
In the second day of hearings on two school finance proposals, spokesmen for the Kansas-National Education Association told the Senate Education Committee that this was the year the state should take big steps to bring Kansas teacher salaries in line with the national average.
Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, has requested that the committee ask Attorney General Robert Stephens' constitutionality of the second bill today.
The bill, requested by some Senate Republicans, would eliminate state-set budget controls under the School District Equalization Act.
Craig Grant, a K-NEA lobbyist who
opposes Carlin's proposal, said, "Kansas-NEA believes that if we are to make strides toward the national average salary, teachers will need to receive increases in the 12 to 12.5 percent each year for the next three years."
"IF THE SALARY increases are not forthcoming, we will find even fewer entrants into our schools of education more teachers exiting into other fields."
Wade Anderson, also speaking for K-NEA, said that the estimated average teacher salary nationally next school year was $21,950 but that the Kansas estimate was $19,600 — $2,350 below the national average.
Carlin's proposal would allow school districts to increase their budgets next year by between 4 percent and 8 percent, with poorer districts given greater budget authority than wealthier districts.
The two school finance proposals considered by the Senate panel were prompted by vastly different philosophies.
PRAY FOR ME
That request is often addressed to ministers *
because the petitioner doesn't feel capable or worthy
because that's what friends are for
because words come hard before an important person
because the problem is so deep, so difficult.
So we join others in petitioning.
That request is often addressed to ministers *
So we join others in petitioning.
Still it is proper to pray alone
to go directly
to appeal one's cause personally.
let's pray—and pray for one another.
We do not have to have someone intercede for us
PS. We are with you, Cedric, David, and Larry.
- A minister is anyone who serves another.
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