University Daily Kansan, September 28, 1983
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Aussies exuberant in wake of America's Cup triumph
By United Press International
NEWPORT, R.I. — Triumphant Australians kissed the America's Cup trophy yesterday while New York Yacht Club digitizable held the victory, capting the victors wouldn't "keep it for another."
The silver prize, polished and glistening in the sunlight, was presented to Peter Dalziel, commodore of the Royal Perth Yacht Club, who said that "the impossible dream has been achieved."
in ceremonies overlooking Rhode Island Sound, where Australia II beat U.S. defender Liberty for the 33 $\frac{1}{2}$-inch-tall cup, NYYC
THE OFFICIAL END of an era of U.S. yacht racing supremacy came as Stone picked up the bottomless Victorian pitcher and handed it to Dalzie, with Australia II Syndicate head Alan Bond, skipper John Bertrand and keel designer Ben Lexen holding their arms up in triumph.
Commodore Robert Stone said, "We hoped this occasion would never come. Now that it has, we're going to do it in style."
"After 132 years, we turn this over," said Stone. He commended the Australians for their outstanding sportsmanship and seamanship and said they had trained any other country and rather have it to go."
Stone kept the occasion lighthearted, despite
Liberty Syndicate Manager Edward du Moulin solemnly presented the red, white and blue Liberty camp flag to Bertrand "for a job well done."
the absence of defeated Skipper Dennis Conner and his crew.
IF WAS A heartbreaker of a loss for Conner, the 41-year-old San Diego drapery manufacturer who became the first U.S. skiipper to lose the trophy.
Conner, the successful 1980 defender, lled around the first four marks of Monday's unprecedented seventh race of the best-of-seven finals, but couldn't stop Australia II from making up 57-second deficit on the flog leg and finishing ahead.
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than 50 percent of the program's students dropped out of the KU phase, he said. Of the nine students who began in the fall of 1982, three dropped out in the spring semester.
Evans said, "The students who drop out usually drop out because of some kind of problem or illness."
FOR THIS REASON, Evans said, he concentrated on helping the students adjust to the transitional problems they would have in coming to KU from Haskell.
As a KU graduate student in the early 1970s, Evans worked on an Indian reservation and considered his social welfare education at KU helpful to that work.
"It was easy to see the school as a resource for the things I wanted to get done on the reservation." he said.
He said some American Indian students now enrolled at KU did not think of the School of Social Welfare in the same way.
society is here to help."
"The students now separate the school from the Indian community and don't really know what the issues are." he said.
KELLEY DAILY, SEMINOLE, Okla., junior, said that he was shocked when he transferred to KU from Haskell last fall. He says his players here did not have an Indian focus as he had anticipated.
Only one course, Special Topics in Social Welfare: The Indian Experience, which Evans taught last year, was geared toward social work in the American Indian community, he
Furthermore, the social welfare professors often did not know how their topics applied to the American Indian community. Dalley said they were "unfamiliar" with the students to explain how the course was applicable.
BV EUTANS SEEMED to agree with this method of teaching.
"It's somewhat the students' responsibility to bring up issues," he said.
Ontenicia Mendez, Fort Hall, Idaho, graduate student, graduated last year from AIHS and is now doing a practicum at Haskell, counseling the social welfare students there.
She said she wanted the students she counseled to at least earn a bachelor's degree.
She said that without the support of friends
and several people at KU, such as Evans, she would not have finished her degree at KU.
NORMAN FORER, ASSOCIATE professor of social welfare, said he was supportive of the AIHS program.
"Education of Indian social workers to work with Indians is very important," he said.
Evans said, "Most social workers who've had contact with Indians are non-Indians. There are problems because of value differences and language differences.
Forer said, "Indian social work is very sensitive to these differences."
Rachel Weller, social work instructor at Haskell, said that differences among the Indian cultures could create added difficulties for an Indian social worker.
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SHE SAID THAT sometimes American Indian social workers might not want to return to their home reservations to work.
"They come to college and they go on to finish their degree, and then they want to go to work where there are companies that need them to want to work on a reservation where it's poverty stricken."
Valerie Dailey, Parker, Ariz., junior, who has already worked for a summer as a social worker on her home reservation in Arizona, said she would like to return to the reservation.
She said she thought the AIHS program would be more effective if American Indian faculty taught in KU's School of Social Welfare. Errors agreed
"There ought to be Indian faculty here. It's not like the school isn't trying," he said. "They're trying within the resources available. They could do more."
HOWEVER, EVANS SAID, if the American Indian students want something changed or want the School of Social Welfare to listen to them, the students have to speak out.
"The students could be a lot more assertive about things they would want you to be aware about and attention to you."
As a KU student, Evans was an activist, he said, and was one of only two American Indian
students on the KU campus. He joined black activist groups to get more representation for future American Indian students in University governance.
governance.
Dailey agreed that American Indian students should be more outspoken and active on campus.
EVANS SAID HE often noticed that in Indian communities, people did not have the organizational skills to keep activities or groups going...
He said the American Indian students at KU did have one meeting last year, but after that nothing was done to organize a group.
nothing we can do." "I can't get much of a response from the American Indian students," he said. "I'm not sure why that is."
He said one reason that American Indian students at KU had trouble organizing was that the students were not here long enough.
the students Because American Indian students are beginning to stay at KU longer, he said, they might become more responsive and organized.
HASKELL HAS RAIMED its academic standards and its students are better prepared to attend KU, Evans said. As a result, more students attend the University after they transfer from Haskell.
Mendez said American Indians rarely attained a college education.
"out of all my friends, I'm the only one who continued," she said.
Evans said when he advised students at Haskell he emphasized that students had to make good grades to transfer to KU. Haskell students transferring to KU now know what is expected of them, partly as a result of the training program, he said.
MENDEZ SAID THEE efforts of the training program were an example of how other departments at Haskell could encourage students to continue their education.
weier said that if Haskell lost its money for the program, the social welfare students would have to do their sophomore year practicums with them and would not be able to travel to reservations.
"They won't be working with native Americans," she said. "That could be a drawback."
Fire at JRP traps students, but no one injured in blaze
No one was injured in a fire last night that initially trapped two students in their room at Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
By the Kansan Staff
Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McSain said last night that the cause of the fire was still under investigation. However, one of the students who lives in the room, Chris Akhim, Overland Park fire brigade, immediately ignited a plastic container light accidently ignited a plastic container of rubbing alcohol.
we saan the fire burned some towels in the room, burned a poster on a wall near the door and singed the door.
KHALID MEDHAT, OVERLAND Park freshman, said he heard Akhm and his roommate, Dewayne Riddick, Overland Park freshman, shooting "as if they were having a pillow fight." Medhat said that when he opened their door to see what they were doing, flames leaped out.
Medhat said that Akhim and Ridick were ninned in the room by the flames.
pinned in the Room 10. Medhat said that he and Bryan Haster, Garnet freshman, then grabbed some towels to try to smother the flames. He said they were able to reduce the flames to allow Akhim and Ridick to escape.
Akiko Bend and Hassan John Cattaneo, Westwood Hills sophomore, said he grabbed a fire extinguisher and extinguished the flames.
Other students said they filled trash cans with water from the showers in an attempt to extinguish the fire. Phil Dougherty, Leavenworth sophomore, and Jeff Wilson, Garnett freshman, said they were preparing to throw water into the room. That they were told by James Sike, residence hall director, and others to leave the building.
Bill Blake, Roeland Park sophomore, said he knocked on doors on the first floor to warn people of the fire, but that most of the students had already left their rooms.
The fire was confined to the room. No estimate of damage had been made last night.
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sections are being taught by professors and not graduate teaching assistants.
He said that because the faculty was overloaded with undergraduate courses, the quality of instruction in graduate programs was slipping as well.
The inability of the department to offer assistant teaching positions also makes it harder to attract quality graduate students, Davidson said.
Charles Reynolds, chairman of the department of chemistry, said that to bring chemistry graduate students to KU, he needed to provide highly paying teaching assistant positions.
"In order to be competitive we have to recruit them," he said.
TO DO THAT within budget constraints, he said the department could not have as many府事
"You cannot maintain quality without the resources to finance it." Davidson said.
Davidson said the department of physics and astronomy had two choices: to sacrifice the quality of the program, or to limit enrollment to physics or astronomy majors.
The department of geology has already had to reduce the number of sections in entry-level courses and drop off-campus course offerings because there was not available to pay for teaching assistants.
Ernest Angino, chairman of the geology department, said the department had lost nine half-time teaching assistants during the past eight years because of budget shortfalls.
ANGINO SAID BIGGER class loads created low faculty morale and lower-quality instruction.
"I think they're being short-changed — both the faculty and the students," he said.
Enrollment has also increased in the department of mathematics, but the number of teaching assistants has not. Charles Hinmeyer, chairman of the department, said yesterday.
Himmelberg said his department was able to hire enough teaching assistants only by diverting funds from salaries of faculty that were on leave.
However, he said, that solution was only a short-term answer to a long-term problem.
He said the department could use more than half of the number of teaching assistants the University was requesting money for.
ROBERT ADAMS, ASSOCIATE dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the problem was not limited to the sciences.
problem He also said financing teaching assistants was just part of an overall problem of budget shortfalls within the University.
Davidson said the solution was not to reallocate financing from other departments, but to get a budget increase from the Legislature.
"You can't rob Peter to pay Paul." Davidson said.
However, few are optimistic about getting much of an increase for the fiscal year 1985.
"You're always hopeful, but I'm not optimistic." Angino said.
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