University Daily Kansan, April 29, 1983
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Sen. Winter attends organizational meeting KU professors forming new union
By JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
About 30 KU professors have become charter members of a group that hopes to affiliate with a national teachers union, a professor said yesterday.
But the surprise visit of two people — Sen. Wint Winder Jr., R-Lawrence, and Dale Scannell, dean of the School of Education — at 'at the chapter's organizational meeting Wednesday night provided the biggest lift to the new group, said Art Skidmore, associate professor of philosophy.
SKIDMORE, WHO is one of nine steering committee members for the group, said he thought Winter's app was the most useful part of the meeting.
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"I was very impressed by the levels of his encouragement and support for the K-NEA. He clearly thought it would be a benefit to KU."
KNEA is the state affiliate of the National Education Association, a teachers union composed largely of KNEA or any other group. It is important to get the rank-and file faculty involved."
SCANNELL, WAS also a welcome guest, Skidmore said, because of his knowledge of K-NEA, which has many local chapters in state school districts.
Many of the professors who attended the meeting were curious about the kinds of activities the K/NEA chapter would have on campus, Skidmore said. Many of them wanted to know about the plausibility of the chapter bargaining for faculty salaries and lobbying for university interests in the Legislature.
"I think the net effect of it was that people were encouraged by the discussion," he said. "There were also numerous faculty, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20, who indicated support and interest but were unable to
The consensus of those attending was that the University's K-NEA chapter
ought to concentrate on activities other than becoming the bargaining agent for KU professors, at least for now, Skidmore said.
PROBABLY FEWER than half the KU faculty favor collective bargaining, Skidmore said. Even if they did favor elementary and secondary school teachers, Pittsburgh State University is the only Regents school with a chapter.
The only organization for professors at the University of Kansas now is the American Association of University Professors.
CLIFFORD GRIFFIN, a professor of history who is on the steering committee, said he was also pleased with Winter's comments.
"The most important point he made was that K-NEA has much more presence, influence and lobbying power than the AALP." he said. "That to me is very significant in terms of trying to enhance the relative impact of the organization."
However, Winter said he came to the meeting to answer faculty questions
and to encourage them to improve their voice in the Legislature. He said he neither endorsed nor opposed the formation of a K-NEA chapter at KU
"I certainly did not come to urge them to start or not to start a K-NEA chapter," he said.
For the group to become the KU professors' bargaining unit, 30 percent of the faculty would have to sign a petition to bring the issue to a vote. Then, a majority of the faculty would have to approve the measure.
Skidmore said he was surprised when he saw who came to the meeting.
"They tended to be mostly established, senior faculty, as opposed to a group of hot-headed untenured professors," he said.
Members of the group's steering committee will meet over the summer to plan next fall's activities. Skidmore hopes to be affiliated with the K-NEA
AURH vice president resigns after election
The newly elected vice president of the Association of University Residence Halls said he would resign to show people that complaining about election results may not help the process.
David Walker, a Chicago freshman who won the vice president's seat in the election last night, said he considered resigning two weeks ago.
WALKER, WHO ran on a coalition with Alan Rowe, an Emporia sophomore who won the presidential seat, said yesterday that he would resign "to make a point to futureury campaign complaints following every election."
"I am doing what I think is right," he said. "I realize that my actions may create some apathy, but I hope to also make people realize that we could win, despite any allegations of us having committed any violations. My actions follow two actions."
Walker's actions follow two months of controversy concerning the March 7 and 8 AURH election.
James Jeffrey, Kansas City, Kan,
sophomore and Milton Scott, East St.
Louis, Ill., junior, both filed
suits against the financing
condition of Rowe and Walker.
BECAUSE of the complaints, an election committee found the two in violation on March 25 and decided that there would be another election.
Rowe and Walker appealed the decision, and an appeals board decided about a week later that the committee's finding was invalid.
That board, in turn, assigned the matter to another hearing board, which decided about two weeks ago that another election would be held.
THROUGHOUT THE controversy, both Rowe and Walker maintained their innocence.
Rowe said he was disappointed with Walker's decision to resign, but that he understood why he did it.
Walker said he would remain in office until the end of finals.
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