The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 93, No. 158 USPS 650-640
Friday, July 15, 1983
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high in the low to mid 90s, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph.
Tonight will be fair with lows from 70 to 75.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny, with highs in low 90s.
Jo Jo White fired; team stunned
By ED GROM Staff Reporter
Nearly four months after the firing of head Coach Ted Owens, members of the KU basketball team were stunned yet again, this time by the firing of Assistant Coach Jo Je
Head Coach Larry Brown fired White yesterday from the coaching staff for what he called "philosophical differences" between the two men.
"I MADE MY DECISION based on philosophical differences and you can read into that what you want," said Brown, who was hired in April to replace Owens.
"I know a lot of people around liked Jo Jo and I was hoping that he would be around for a few months," he said.
White, 36, who was hired as assistant coach in July 1961, has an unidentified phone number and an address on file.
A few of the players had already learned about the firing as early as Tuesday morning when White shocked forward Kerry Boagin, Gardena, Calif., sophomore, with the news.
Jo Jo White
"IT WAS A SHOCK. I couldn't believe it. I still can't believe it."
"I so called the morning after he was fired and told me," said Bogni, a prize recruiter of
"I was very close to Jo. He was a tremendous figure in my life, but Coach Brown must have thought that the move was for the benefit of the team or he wouldn't have made it.
"I will always hold Jo White in the greatest respect and I still feel the same about Coach Woodson."
Sophomore guard Ron Kellogg, Omaha, Neb., sophomore, once who said he could play at KU because of White's impressive recruiting pitch, said that he, too, was shocked by the firing.
"I was deeply hurt when Coach Owens was fired and this hurts just as badly," Kellogg said. "I don't think the news will hit me until the season starts.
"YOU HAVE TO MOVE on, though. This is something every player in this game has to get."
Brown, who returned to Lawrence Monday from a three-week vacation in Europe, said that he talked to Athlete Director Monte Johnson on Monday. Johnson told Monday and then notified White that evening.
Johnson said that he did not want to comment on the firing of White, but he did confirm that Brown had talked with him before the decision was made.
"I have nothing to do with the hiring and firing of assistant coaches," Johnson said. "That is in line with our policy."
Brown said that he would retain Assistant Coach Bob Hill on his staff and that part-time assistant Jim Haney would assume White's duties until a replacement was named.
HANEY, FORMER HEAD COACH at the University of Oregon, was hired by Brown in May.
"I just found out about it this morning when I called the office," said Hill, who is in Pittsburgh.
"I have been gone for two and one-half weeks, so I don't know the details. I haven't had a chance to talk to either Larry or Jo at length about the situation, so I am not going to say too much."
Carl Henry, Oklahoma City senior, said that he had heard rumors that White was going to be fired as early as Monday and that he still could not believe the news.
"I heard a rumor going around the last few days and I heard the news two days ago from another player. Henry said. "I was hoping the rumor was false. I don't know when the news will sink."
"LARRY BROWN is the coach and you have to respect any decision he makes. He is a great coach and I don't think he would make any move if it wouldn't help the team."
Tim Banks, Long Island City, N.Y., senior,
said that White was the person responsible for
Amy Brown, concession clerk at Varsity Theatre, 1015 Massachusetts St., stirs through a giant mound of popcorn. Although many people think movie prices are high, theaters make most of their profit from concession sales. See related story, page 3.
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Some professors dissatisfied by delay in salary increases
Rv ANN REGAN
Staff Reporter
Last Friday the Board of Regents gave final approval for a 4.5 percent salary increase for faculty members at the University of Kansas, but it will not go into effect until the first of the year. And for some faculty members it was too little and too late.
"Most of the faculty is somewhat less pleased than the administration with the 4.5 percent raise, especially in light of the fact that it doesn't even take effect until next year," Cameron Hurst, co-director of East Asian studies, said yesterday.
"IT IS TRUE that KU fared better this year than some other institutions, but we certainly didn't improve our miserable ranking in national surveys of average salary rankings." he said.
In salaries of associate and assistant profes-
sors, KI1 enlisted last of the 24 institutions.
In March the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors released figures showing that during the 1981-82 academic year faculty salaries at KU ranked 21st out of 24 institutions the AAUP used for comparison.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said that he thought the Legislature approved the six-month delay because of uncertainties last spring about the revenue that would be available
THE FIRST TIME faculty members will receive their merit pay increases will be Feb. 1, 1984, Cobb said.
Bill Hopkins, professor of human development, said that the fact that the increase was 4.5 percent rather than zero was good but that the delay hurt.
he also said that since he came to KU in 1970 he calculated that because of low pay increases and inflation the buying power of his take-home pay had decreased by 45 percent.
The $1.3 million KU has been allocated to pay for merit increases will be forwarded through KU vice chancellors to school and department heads who will distribute the money to faculty members based on merit evaluations. Warderman, KU budget director, said yesterday.
Merit salary increases are determined and recommended on the basis of an evaluation of a faculty member's performance in teaching, supervisory activities,VICE, vice chancellor of academic affairs, said.
Serving on a committee for a government agency would be an example of service, she
agency would be an example of service, she said. In fiscal year 1984 there are 1,357 full-time faculty members eligible for merit pay increases. Zimmerman said.
To be eligible for merit increases, faculty members must be full time and continuing in the
OF THOSE, 1,077, or nearly 80 percent, will receive an annual increase from 0.1 percent to 3 percent, he said. The remaining faculty will receive from 3 percent to 20 percent.
In fiscal year 1983 KU faculty received a 7.5 percent increase in merit pay. Of 1,364 faculty members eligible, 1,300 were recommended for merit increases.
Despite policy, few report harassment
By GUELMA ANDERSON Staff Reporter
Last year the University Council and Chancellor Gene A. Budig approved a policy dealing with sexual harassment, but some KU officials say that students and employees still are reluctant to make formal complaints alleging sexual harassment.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Wednesday that people were either ignoring the problem of sexual harassment or dealing with it themselves.
"PEOPLE ARE FEARFUL that making a formal charge will give them visibility." Ambler said.
"I hear people tell me that it's a widespread problem, but in the six years that I have been here, only one or two cases have been directed to me."
The KU policy defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature made toward students or employees and used as a condition of employment or academic decisions.
Roberta Ferrera, director of the KU affirmative action office, said that three formal complaints had been made this year — two cases that there had been about 12 informal complaints.
"Students and employees don't want to make an issue," she said.
In clear-cut cases of harassment, informal complaints were not effective, she said.
"WE'RE TIED BECAUSE we can't put the person accused of harassment on the defensive and we can't make an official charge," she said.
Ferron said she could not directly approach a person accused of sexual harassment in an informal complaint but she could indirectly make contact with the person by suggesting harassment counseling to the entire staff of the company, who would be responsible for the harasser, who could be male or female, worked.
The office of affirmative action investigates formal complaints in accordance with affirmative action grievance procedures. If mediation is not successful, the case will be heard by the
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Uncle Sam going after unpaid loans
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — About 41,000 federal workers will get final notice soon warning that unless they start repaying their student loans, Uncle Sam will take up to 15 percent of their paychecks, a government official said yesterday.
Frank Krebs, a member of the Education Department's Student Loan Collection Task Force, said the "offsetting" of federal wages could begin within 60 days of receipt of the
KREERS, A TASK force management analyst,
said the warnings would be issued after a
meeting next month between the task force and representatives of each federal department.
The collection program was given new muscle last year by the Debt Collection Act of 1982, which authorized the government to offset student loans and pensions to repay defaulted student loans.
Unlike garnishing wages, which requires a court order, offsetting wages merely requires the government to have a legal document stipulating the debt — in this case the student debt.
In addition to final notices to 41,000 federal workers, similar warnings will be sent to about 200 retired federal employees who also have defaulted on student loans.
UNLESS THEY AGREE on a repayment plan with the government within 60 days of receipt of the notice, the government could take up to 15 percent of the loan and accumulate interest are settled.
The offset program is just one part of an effort by the federal government to collect $2.7 billion in defaulted student loans from an estimated 850,000 persons.
Last August, while several U.S. Attorney's offices filed suit against defaulters outside the government, a computer check identified 40,000 federal workers who had not repaid student loans.
LETTERS TO THEM resulted in 5,000 debtors making payments totaling $2.3 million.
Foreign students say learning English at center is tough, but is rewarding
By ALBERTO SALDARRIAGA
Russ Elliott-Hodge, assistant instructor at the Applied English Center, and Chong Ho Lee Seoul, South Korea, discuss the grammar in Lee's writing. Lee must finish classes at the Center before he may enroll in the department of computer science.
Staff Writer
The first week Pedro Hidalgo stayed in Lawrence, he had to eat hot dogs and hamburgers because that was all he knew how to order in English.
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"One day I tried to switch to a ham and cheese sandwich but when the guy asked me in a laser-speed speaking if I wanted white, brown, wheat, garlic or rye bread, and asked me what kind of sandwich it was, told him. "I give me a hot dog." "Hildag, a Santiago Chile, graduate student, said."
A YEAR AND A half later, he remembers that anecdote with a touch of humor.
"But I really had a hard time catching the English," he said. "I had to spend two semesters at the Applied English Center before beginning my research." He said he would have problems understanding some professors.'
Learning the English language can be tough, cumbersome, embarrassing, boring but always useful *t ad* - warding, according to several authors. We are here with those who are attending AEC courses this summer.
KAREN PEARSON, AEC teacher, said that learning English was important for academic success and equally important to enhance the quality of the time spent in this country.
in fact, the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors, NAFSA, has identified financial and English problems as the two main troubles of foreign students in the United States.
Sharing everyday experiences with English-speaking people, she said, cannot be accomplished without the help of someone familiar.
This summer there are 134 students enrolled at the AEC. Pearson said.
In a regular semester the figure varies from 325 to 400, said O. Dean Gregory, associate director of the AEC and associate professor of linguistics.
LAST FALL THERE were 371 students from more than 30 countries, he said. About 100 of them were from Hispanic countries, particularly Venezuela.
Tao Ming, who was an electronics instructor in
the people's Republic of China, said that for people from the Far East, speaking and understanding was the hardest part of the English language.
"I want to get my Ph.D. in electronic engineering," he said.
"I studied English by myself for five years in my country. I can read and write but I can't speak fluently." He caught me to catch less than 50 percent of what people say or what I listen from the TV," he said.
ALTHOUGH PEOPLE FROM the Far East have to learn the Latin alphabet and learn to write horizontally from left to right, he said. They are easier than learning the oral part of English.
“Besides, the use of slang makes it harder to understand.” he said.
Ata Alajoffi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, special student who graduated in Arabic language in Saudi Arabia, has studied English one year at the AEC
He said that the structure of the English language gave Arabs a lot of trouble.
"Constructions in Arabic are totally different from English. We use first the verb, after, the subject, and finally the object," Aloufi said.
"THE ARAB STUDENT naturally tries to change the sentence from Arabic to English and of course the result is an awkward construction.
"We also have problems with the vocabulary I try to learn 10 words every day, but after a week we get stuck."
"In addition, sometimes the dictionary shows how to pronounce a word and you hear it pronounced."
"The Arab culture has a strong emphasis in the oral language," Scott said.
Robert Scott, AEC teacher, said that though writing was the hardest task for every foreign student, it was one of the easiest.
'Of course, there are students who do it very
"We have to begin helping them to organize their ideas, to get used to writing in paragraphs from left to right and to write keeping on the paper lines.
**WE FIND THAT Arab students have little experience writing and we have to teach them**
Clemente Chica, AEC counselor, said that Hispanic people could manage speaking English in English classrooms.
well but usually writing is tough for Arab people."
"Writing is usually tough because in Spanish we are used to writing in the same way the word sounds," Chica, Bogota Colombi, Colombia, said.
FOREIGN STUDENTS spend an average of two semesters as full-time AEC students before switching to any KU school, according to Pearson, AEC instructor.
She said that after two or three semesters of English, foreign students could attend KU classes, but a lot still needed advanced composition courses.
Gregory, associate director of the AEC, said that they did not keep people in the English program longer than necessary.
"We are happy to say hello and happy to say good-bye," he said.
He also said that he knew five students who in one semester jumped from the introductory class to the second.
"THEY REFUSED TO speak their native language and decided to talk only in English," he said. "They became unpopular among their friends but they learned."
The AEC offers four levels of English courses elementary, intermediate, advanced 1 and advanced 2.
Students are placed in one of those levels, Gregory said, according to scores achieved from taking the Michigan examination, a stand-alone test according to recommendations from AEC teachers.
He also said that last spring the AEC had 40
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