University Daily Kansan, August 25, 1983
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Science
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"The problem is one of increasing demand and diminishing resources," he said. "But you can't turn your back on the people who are being affected by our inability to offer sections."
Last fall, the computer science department moved a section of CS 210, a prerequisite for many higher courses, from a classroom into a lecture hall to accommodate about 250 additional students. The class was one of four sections, which each had about 50 students initially.
This semester, however, there are three sections of CS 210 with a total of only about 170 students. Wallace said that, as last year the classes were full, filled two more sections of CS 210 and CS 300.
Students call attention to computer problems
By PAUL SEVART
Staff Reporter
The posters around campus that ask, "Have you been burned by the CS department?" are the work of two KU computer science students who are trying to bring attention to what they say are some serious shortcomings of the computer science department.
Staff Reporter
One of the students, Rod Ogborn, Salina senier, said yesterday that 26 people last week attended a meeting advertised by the poster at the Lawrence Public Library.
"The quality of courses is low." Orbarn said.
"The quantity of material is variable and not
tightly controlled. Professors will often teach what they know, whether it pertains to the course or not. The choice of professors and classroom size seem almost at random."
Victor Wallace, chairman of the computer science department, said that he was at the Thursday meeting and that the complaints articulated by Ogborn and another student, Mark Hall, Wichita senior, did not draw a lot of support there.
"Anyone who believes that our national standing and reputation is not good is out of touch. There is not much basis in fact to what they were saying," Wallace said. "I was quite concerned that there was so much misinformation."
Ogborn said, "We've got problems. Some of the problems are financial, but the financial problems are unsolvable because of the political problems."
Fall said, "We decided we would try to get people together and get some changes in the system."
Ogbarn said he talked with about 200 students while handing out and posting the meeting announcements, and only one of them expressed a high opinion of the quality of his CS 200 class.
He said the quality of CS 20 instruction by teaching assistants was "undersupervised." The problems aren't restricted to the lower level and require higher levels of training of those of the upper level and graduate students.
The poster listed other complaints, including what it said was a lack of research done by department professors, courses "organized at the last minute" and the problem of fewer faculty and an increasing number of students to serve.
Wallace said, "The department enjoys a very good reputation nationally. Look at the companies that recruit KU for some of their best people: Bell Labs, Honewell, NCR, Intel, etc."
Wallace said that those with complaints would be better represented by the KU chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, a professional group, or by appealing directly to the Kansas Legislature for more money for the University.
Softball
bothers this man. He lives in the existential now, the perpetual present."
Behind Hayden, a substitute Old English right fielder lets a ball get past him, and the ball goes through his net.
Between innings, Warders, who has played on teams far worse than this year's squad (which incredibly will go on to win the league because he shakes his head at the right fielder's error.
"A grim reminder of the past," he moans. Valk responds, "Yes, a clarion echo of you."
Warders: "If we have an important game, we can't put that guy in."
Vaik: "But, Don, this is a team in which the past lives. Nothing dies."
After a pause, Warders' eyes widen in sudden enlightenment:
"Tradition incarnate," Valk offers helpfully.
Warders attacks the idea, clenching his fists and thrusting his arms, "That's right!
Tradition incarnate!"
A moment passes as Warders collects
them. Then he earns itself up at the
fellow's hide.
"And that's really why we play, isn't it?" he asks.
Yes, we are a living, unending history.
The statement strikes Warders deeply.
"What a burden! What a burden!" he exclaims "What a responsibility!"
And he turns away in great gales of laughter.
Tony Gowen, former director of the freshman-sophomore English program, was the driving force behind the team almost before he began the early 1980s until his death two years ago.
Through those years, Gowen contributed wisdom, wit and generosity not only to the team, for whom he pitched, but also to the league, which bears his name.
Warders says that, although Gowen is gone,
he remains very much a part of the team and
its tradition, such as in the annual naming of the team.
The original team was called Sir Gowen and the Green Knights, an allusion to both Gowen and the 14th-century verse-romance, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
Between innings, Warders and Hayden discuss the role of intelligence in sports.
Warders, who seems to have read an article on everything and everyone, says, "I once read an article in which Red Grange said he used to think of absolutely nothing between the time he received the football and the time he was tackled."
Hayden, in a moment of self-awareness,
replies, "That's my problem. When I'm
playing, I'm thinking about Spinoza and
ontological realities."
"Then clear your mind, Kelley," Warders advises, "and have a good game."
Valk has also been giving advice during today's game, exhorting the team to be aggressive at the plate on the theory that it is better to err on the side of aggression than
passivity.
With two out and two strikes, he takes a vicious cut and goes down swinging.
Warders, on the way to his position at first, is taken by Valk's response.
But since he has struck out aggressively, he is unconcerned: "That's all right, men, I feel good about that strikeout."
"Say, that's a very Genetian attitude," he calls out, conjuring up a reference to 20th-century playwright Jean Genet.
"We MUST strip ourselves of all pretensions."
His comment may not be strictly jocular. As time creepes slowly and inevitably on, some of the players are beginning to see the team's age in the near future. The team's average age is 39.
The players have naturally thought about un advancing years and vie them differen-
David Dinnen, 52-year-old professor of French and Italian and linguistics, explains by illustration. "I expect to play a couple
more years, but I don't know if I'll be able to
I don't slide anymore, you notice."
The team's catcher, Phil Montgomery,
associate math professor, is stoe at age 47.
"Everybody's getting old at the same rate, so
the quality of play remains related." he says.
Valk, 37, is wisky. “Getting old is a spur to keep at it. My enthusiasm has increased proportionately with my age. Now the game is a private and ultimately sad pursuit of a grace that we may never really have had, but we must be closer to or at least more familiar with.”
Warders, who often wear a green T-shirt emblazoned with "I depart as air," a phrase from Whitman's "Song of Myself," is both romantic and realistic at 46:
"To me, youth was a time of playing ball, so playing softball is a way to recall youth. There is a reluctance to give it up.
He continues: "I try not to think about how I am. I have this image of playing oil."
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