University Daily Kansan, October 26, 1983
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B.G.S. is safe in social sciences and humanities.dean savs
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
The future of KU's bachelor of general studies degree program has not been jeopardized by a decision to drop the degree program from physical sciences, an associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences said Monday.
The Board of Regents voted unanimously last week to eliminate the B.G.S degree in chemistry, physics, radiation biophysics and geology.
"I WOULD EXPECT an entirely different judgment on the degree in the social sciences and humanities," said J. Michael Young, the associate dean.
However, James Carothers, chairman of the University Senate Execu
"I believe that in the future, the Board of Regents will be looking very closely at the academic rationale of the B.G.S." he said last week.
tive Committee, said he thought the Regents' decisions would have serious implications for the B.G.S. degree in the College.
Young said he thought the B.G.S. degree program in the social sciences and humanities would not be threaten- ing for students' needs for students in those disciplines.
Because the B.G.S. degree has fewer general education requirements than a bachelor of arts degree, students can pursue a wider variety of interests or specialize in an area outside their majors, he said.
PAUL SCHUMAKER, chairman of the department of political science.
said that the B.G.S. degree program allowed students to devote their energy to one field instead of fulfilling the additional B.A. requirements.
Jack Weller, assistant professor of sociology, said that many non-traditional students and students at the Regents Center in Overland Park found their studies unfulfilling. The semesters of a foreign language to fulfill the B.A. requirement.
The B.G.S. degree accommodates students who have not had a solid background in a foreign language and who might find studying a foreign language in college particularly difficult. Young said.
six hours of western civilization classes.
The B.G.S. degree has the same requirements as a bachelor of arts degree except that students do not have to take 16 hours of a foreign language or
STUDENTS PURSUING A B.G.S. degree must take four approved world civilization and culture courses, how- to teach the subject, not required to earn a B.A. degree.
Young said that a decision to eliminate the B.G.S. completely would "make life difficult for non-traditional students and at the Regents center."
Weller said transfer and nontraditional students, who may have completed course work at other universities, could obtain a degree more quickly because the B.G.S. requirements were more flexible.
Margaret Schadler, associate professor of psychology, said that the value of the B.G.S. degree had been debated within the College Assembly and that
she thought the assembly would discuss the program again this year.
She said she thought the B.G.S. program was not sufficiently different from a B.A. degree to warrant a separate program.
ALTHOUGH EXTRA FACULTY are not needed to maintain the program, she said, the extra program creates unnecessary paperwork.
The Regents dropped the B.G.S. program in the physical sciences last week because they said the degrees "do not have a utility value, nor do they require them." We criticize rigor within these academic areas to merit their continuance."
Young said that few students in the physical sciences used the B.G.D.ose.
Students report personal checks stolen and forged
By the Kansan Staff
Three KU students reported to KU Police Monday evening that someone had entered their rooms, stole a bag of cash and left it on $25.20 each at the Kansas Union.
The three forgeries occurred at different times within the past month. KU police have no suspects.
The three students live in separate rooms on the first floor of Joseph R. Pearson Hall. One student reported that on Sept. 28 someone had entered his room while he was sleeping and removed a check from his wallet.
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Because, according to one dictionary, a radical" advocates a decided and often extreme change from existing, usual or traditional views, habits, conditions or methods", I consider the Town Center Venture Corporation, which is attempting to become the city's developer of record, a radical organization.
The Town Center Corporation completely ignores the toil and resultant recommendations of the Downtown Improvement Committee, i.e., to exclude from any developmental effort the northernmost portion of Massachusetts Street and the Lawrence National Bank Building and instead concentrate on buttressing the core of downtown, with its (the Town Center Corporation's) radical plan to develop Massachusetts Street's 600 block.
Shopping malls, anchored by department stores which demand special treatment because they fear genuine competition, diminish a community's autonomy by transferring power outside the area. Any belated change in the heretofore accepted rules of the developmental game inspired by a local latercomer's desire to play will only compound the already considerable collective pain caused by this reactionary revolution.
Despite the fact that the Town Center Corporation has never attempted an undertaking of this magnitude, the radicals at its helm want the Commission to forget this inexperience—which immediately would have eliminated it from the earlier developer competition—and help finance this corporation's eagerly anticipated and not inexpensive expansion.
While some have claimed that Lawrence's relative calm in the face of the developmental storm has resulted in the city's gaining a "no-growth" reputation, few seem to be considering the reaction Lawrence will suffer if the Commission makes the Town Center Corporation the developer of record and thus not just overlooks but actually overturns the city's previous requests of Sizeeler.
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