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Computer science chairman resigns, cites insufficient departmental funds
By DONNA WOODS and PAUL SEVART Staff Reporters
Victor Wallace has resigned as chairman of the department of computer science, saying he was frustrated by insufficient department courses to meet increasing demand for courses.
"Faculty members have been stretched too far. It is the largest program in the College by some measures of product, yet one of the numbers of faculty," Wallace said yesterday.
Following his resignation, will take effect Nov 15. Wallace will remain in the department as a professor and concentrate on modeling software which is operating systems and modeling graphics.
IN HIS LETTER of resignation, which was submitted Monday to Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wallace said that demands placed upon senior faculty members were enormous and exhausting.
Wallace said he had become increasingly frustrated in his position because little was being done to keep him on the job.
trends for five years," he said. "Year after year I've been coming up on target, but no one seems to be taking this for real. I just feel that I'm wasting my time."
Victor Wallace
Wallace said he hoped his leaving would jar administrators into realizing the depths to which problems of faculty shortages and limited finances run through the department.
Although undergraduate enrollment in the department has quadrupled since he was hired as chairman seven years ago, Wallace said the new faculty would bring those students has not increased sufficiently.
"I don't want to minimize the problems in other departments," he said, "but I don't think you'll find another department in the University so hard-pressed."
NO NEW FACULTY has been hired since 1861, he said. The faculty member hired then was hired only to replace a professor who had left the university.
In fiscal 1982, Wallace said, the computer science department had 12 faculty members and 733 students majoring in the field. That is the fewest number of faculty members and the second greatest number of students, behind the four highest numbers of any department or school in the University.
he said. "We have a far better department than the university deserves for the money it
"I think we have done about as much as is humanly possible to keep quality from slipping."
LINEBERRY SAID THAT despite budget problems in recent years, KU had one of the best
See WALLACE, p. 5, col.1
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
Donation for memorial approved
The Student Senate last night overwhelmingly approved the donation of $10,000 for construction of a campus Vietnam War memorial, despite the concerns of two senators and a Leawood student who argued that the university sought enough student opinion before voting.
Also, the Student Vietnam Memorial Committee that initiated the project received a $500 donation for the memorial from the 400th Anniversary American Legion Post of Washington.
The building site will be voted on tomorrow by an advisory committee to the executive vice chancellor. If approved, the proposal will approve the Chancellor Gene A. Budig for final approval.
Approval of the Senate's $10,000 donation came after an appearance by John Musgrave, a Baldwin resident and a disabled veteran, who spoke in favor of the donation.
THE PROPOSED MEMORIAL would be a fountain at the Chandler Court adjacent to the Frank R. Burge Union. A final design probably will be selected on Jan. 17 by a committee of faculty, students and community leaders.
"When I served in Indo-China there wasn't
a moment when I thought I wasn't serving my country," said Musgrave, who served along the demilitarized zone between 1967 and 1968.
"When I returned, I was expecting to see the kind of welcome that I had seen the World War II men get in the movies. But when we were there, Vietnam veterans were blamed for the war."
DAVID HUET-VAGHN. Leawood sophomore and an activist during the Vietnam era, also made an appearance before the Senate and said he wasn't opposed to a memorial, as long as it also paid tribute to the Vietnamese soldiers and civilians that died during the war.
He also said he thought the University should not pay tribute to what he called an intentionally violent act.
"We weren't fighting an Adolph Hitler who was threatening to take over the world; we were installing a Hitler in Saigon, "Huet Vaghn said in reference to former South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem. We must stand outside of history. If this prophecy forgets the Asian people who have died, we may as well forget the Holocaust."
Walesa awarded Nobel for leading Solidarity
BUT MUSGRAVE, WHO was invited to speak to the Senate by Lisa Ashner, student body president, said that he would not have assisted the memorial committee unless he was assured that the memorial's meaning would not be political.
By United Press International
OSLO, Norway — Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity labor movement, won the 1863 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for his "considerable personal sacrifice" in fighting for workers' rights in his communist Poland.
Walesa, who learned of his award from a West German radio report while on a mushroom-picking expedition, said he would not try to travel to Norway to receive the prize but would ask the government to let his wife Danuta go in his place.
The Solidarity founder has turned down previous invitations to travel abroad for fear of losing her job.
IHS SELECTION AS Nobel Peace Prize laureate flee in the face of efforts by Poland's government to discredit him through allegations that he is guilty of financial impropriety.
Pope John Paul II, who last saw Walesa in June during a homecoming to Poland, sent him a telegram extending "my cordial congratulations."
The pope said he was gratified that Walesa
See NOBEL, p. 5, col. 1
Polish problems to remain in spite of prize, profs say
Staff Reporter
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL
Staff Reporter
Ana Cienciaial, professor of history, and Jaroslaw Piekiewicz, professor of political science, agreed that Walesa's prize would be worth more than said it would not ease the country's unrest.
Lech Walesa's Nobel Peace Prize will provide little more than pride to Poland unless the now-quiet leaders of the Solidarity labor movement again rise in protest over the country's economic troubles, two KU professors said yesterday.
"The fact that he won the peace prize won't change anything, as far as freedoms are concerned. Why should it?" said Cienciana, who was born in Poland and lived there until she was 10. She spent the 1979-80 school year there teaching history.
She said, "The big questions are. one: Is the government going to let Wafala go to Norway to pick up the prize? No, she just bet that the country it he goes?" The government has a problem on its hands.
"It's a slap in the face of the government, and it has upset both Warsaw and Moscow."
THE NOBEL COMMITTEE, which is based in Oslo, Norway, said yesterday that Wales had undergone "considerable personal sacrifice" in fighting for the rights of Polish resistance. He was detained from prison in 1981, the beginning of martial law, until November 1982.
“It’s more likely, though, that the economic crisis may force the government to eventually liberalize its policies. Things will seethe and it is difficult for the Soviets to control.”
PIEKALKIEWICZ, WHO came to the United States from Poland in 1944, said that the Soviet Union was too set in its ways to immediately change in restrictions in Poland.
Tight budget and enrollment prompt changes in Math 101
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
Students planning to enroll next fall in Math 101 should be prepared to spend the semester working on their own, a KU's director of pre-calculus mathematics said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
The program will be similar to the Math 002 program, which has no formal classes or homework assignments. However, students must participate in a mid-term and a final complete the course.
The format of the algebra course will be changed to self-study because of growing enrollment and tight budget requirements, said the director, Philip Montgomery.
Montgomery, associate professor of mathematics, also said the department hoped to offer new programs.
He said tutors would be available to help students with problems, and sample math problems with answers will be posted for students.
ALTHOUGH THE COURSE will be changed to self-study, Montgomery said, students will have many opportunities to get help.
Students also will have the option of attending a weekly evening lecture that will cover course
Montgomery said the department decided to make the change after demand for Math 101 increased because some professional schools — particularly the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — made it a required course. A total of 1,180 students now are enrolled in the course, an increase of more than 1,000 from last fall, when it became available for the first time.
BUDGET LIMITATIONS ALSO influenced the department to change the format of Math 101 to a self-taught course, Montgomery said. Although the course enrollment has increased substantially, the number remained the same because of a hiring freeze that has been in effect for the past three years.
material for the coming week, Montgomery said.
Himmelberg said that the new format for Math 101 would be half as expensive as the native format.
"It's hard to justify putting senior faculty members on remedial mathematics programs."
"The faculty could be used better in advanced-level courses if they were not involved."
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the mathematics department, agreed.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
See MATH. p. 5. col. 4
OVERLAND PARK — Noder challenged government and business in a speech yesterday at Johnson County College
Nader urges student involvement in politics
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Nader encouraged the students there to organize a student public interest research group similar to those in St. Louis and in New York, and lobby on issues important to their interests.
OVERLAND PARK - Ralph Nader yesterday delivered a healthy dose of his brand of political and consumer activism to an audience at Johnson County Community College.
"That would challenge your analytic skills as well as your value systems." Nader said. "You are not going to get any bored students with that."
Although Nader wore a gray suit and often quoted the Wall Street Journal, his message clearly was to confront and to challenge government and business. He encouraged the men in the group, including man, Larry Winn, R.Kansas, and of events in Washington, D.C., that could affect their lives.
HE SAID WINN had one of the most, and that he needed to be closely watchful.
"We really can't have a daily democracy unless we have a daily citizenship," he said. "It can be fun. The whole point of citizenism is that it's another way to happiness."
"You should look at some of the people your age in other countries who are trying to learn English."
He also criticized the low vote turnout among those 18 years old to 21 years old, which he said
the ramparts to gain rights that you don't even bother to use," he said.
NADER SAID THAT community coalitions in cities such as greater Kansas City could help set the agenda of issues for the 1984 presidential election, based on something other than "political smiles."
"This government was founded as a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.' Now we have government of General Motors, by Exxon, for DuPont."
"What's that got to do with the price of gas? If we could only transcend the political
-Ralph Nader Consumer activist
He said Kansas City should form a coalition to plan what issues would be discussed when presidential candidates made appearances there, rather than allowing them merely to have "photo opportunities and baby-kissing sessions" before electing the election on appearance and not on issues.
smiles and get down to the issues," he said, "we'd greatly increase the influence of the voters in this election. That will determine the quality of the campaign."
During the speech one of Nader's favorite targets was President Reagan, whom he characterized not as a conservative but as "a radical corporatist doing the business of the Fortune 500 at the expense of the interests of the rest of the people."
ALSO, HE SAID, because the airwaves were public, citizens should have access to them through television and radio stations for an hour a day in prime time. Such access also would help set an agenda of issues that the public wants to address with civilians or station managers want to be discussed.
"This government was founded as a government of the people, by the people, for the people," he said. "Now we have government of General Motors, by Exxon, for Du Pont."
Nader said of Reagan, "His favorite mode of relaxation is to sit around with the Southern California multi-millionaires who make up his kitchen cabinet.
"Someone once called Woodrow Wilson 'a man who loved humanities and hatched individuals.' The reason he lost his wife was that he was
HE LISTED SEVERAL examples of Reagan's trying to cut programs that aid the poor, such as the minimum Social Security benefit and federal legal aid. He also said that the administration's inflated defense spending helped cause a federal deficit of $200 billion.
On many issues, Nader said, Democrats in Congress have "saved Reagan from himself" by successfully opposing spending cuts in social programs.
Of the Social Security cuts, which were blocked by Congress, Nader said, "You would think that someone who was elected president at a time of great depression for those people. But that was not to be."