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Thursday morning, October 6, 1983
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, which will take effect Nov. 15, Wallace will remain in the department as a professor and concentrate on teaching research in 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 trrusted in his possession because little was being done to prevent him.
I've been making predictions and showing
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."
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 increase was not enough to those students who 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 1881, 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 group of any department or school in the University.
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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
dy 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 school 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 Veterans Affairs American Legion Post of Lawrence.
The building site will be voted on tomorrow by an advisory committee to the executive vice chancellor. If approved, the proposal will be Chancellor Gene A. Budig for final approval
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
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.
a moment when I thought I wasn't serving my country," said Musgrave who served along with his men.
"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, the Vietnam veterans were blamed for the war."
DAVID HUET-VAGH. 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 may say tribute to what he called an important job.
"We weren't fighting an Adolph Hitler who was threatening to take over the world; we were installing a Hilter in Saigon. "Huet Vaghn said in reference to former South Vietnam President Ngo Dihn Diem. "We cannot pretend that this memorial will stand as a lasting memory. The memorial forgets the Asian people who have died, we may as well forget the Holocaust."
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.
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