University Daily Kansan, March 10, 1983
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Police
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HE SAID THE department would probably be prepared for Hoch only when the building was renovated.
"We'll have to be driven out of Hoch," he said, "and we'll be glad to go."
Denney said a relocation of the police department at Hoch would only temporarily lessen the problem.
"We'll take anything that will allow us to be together under the same roof." he said.
He said the separation of the various sectors of the department made his job more difficult and made him less effective in some instances.
DENNEY SAID THAT during crises he needed to be closer to the dispatcher so that he could keep her.
He said he sometimes had to call the dispatcher to find out the details of crimes or emergencies he had heard about by police scanner.
Denney said the dispatcher did not always have time to keep him informed about what was going on.
Jeanne Longaker, who is in charge of communications, community services, records and crime prevention, said that having dis- separated from their supervisors was a problem.
"Someone has to fill that seat every moment," she said. "If the dispatcher needs a break, then she has to call an officer in from the streets to relieve her."
Budget
give it to Lawrence, and they're sacrificing the education of the students over here.
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"I'm a professor over here. It seems that it's only the professors who care about the details."
Walaszek said he had refused to draw up a contingency budget.
"If they want a 10 percent reduction in my
burden, let them do it themselves," he said.
Kurt Ehner, chairman of the department of biochemistry, said that the faculty, as well as the staff of the department, are very busy.
On the record
HE SAID that he did not go into specifics about the budget he prepared, but that a 10 percent reduction would amount to about $70,000 in salaries in salaries and other operating expenses.
That reduction would force many of his faculty to move to other universities, he said, and would eventually lower the reputation of KU and discourage students from attending the University.
He said that with a lack of good faculty members and fewer students, the reductions would force the University to declare a state of financial crisis.
DEWY ZIEGLER, chairman of the department of neurology, said that if the budget he submitted last week were implemented, he would have to reduce staff and raise patient fees.
Most chairmen refused to speculate on whether the budget would be implemented.
But Ebner said, "I get absolutely depressed every time I think of it."
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"In about 10 years, as the industry becomes saturated with people, there will be more Ph.D. students and things will come back to normal," he said.
and not enough students entering graduate school because of the lucrative job market.
Computer
A VANDAL BROKE the window of a KU student's car parked in a KU lot Tuesday, police said. The loss was estimated at $400.
A CAMERA valued at $50 was stolen
from a KU student's room in
McCormick.
"The industry recognizes the problem and wants to help. Companies are encouraging people to get higher education and are even paying for it. The problem is going through a transient stage right now and will reach equilibrium in the next 10 years."
A CAR STEREO valued at $400 was stolen yesterday from a Lawrence resident's car in Brownsville.
ANOTHER_PROFESSOR agreed that the drain would be temporary.
"I think it's a serious problem, but it will correct itself," said Albert Botheke, assistant professor of computer science. "Articles in journals have expressed alarm at the number of individuals changing from academic to industrial positions."
Universities are under a double strain from students claiming for classes and professors.
Despite a shortage of graduate students, enrollment at the undergraduate level is on the rise. Wallace said. Students are realizing the marketability of computer science, and the fact that, despite the economy, four to five jobs are being for every student who graduates, he said.
away is that the department is forced to spread the remaining faculty more and more thin to meet the demands of high enrollment, Wallace said. Large classes interfere with access to faculty and equipment, leading in turn to other problems.
"The educational quality decreases as the class increases," and Belkishe, who is constantly taking on new responsibilities.
IN THE LAST SIX YEARS, enrollment in computer science has increased by 85 percent overall and 75 percent at the junior-senior level at KU.
Melanie Gray, Kansas City, Kan. junior, has a similar story to tell. She was closed out of CS 510 this semester and last semester she was closed out of CS 410.
MIKE REYNOLDS, Topeka sophomore, said, "You never really get personal attention until you ask questions. I think they need more classes if the environment and the budget can handle it."
A SQUIRREL BIT a Lawrence resident while he was walking in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street Tuesday, police said.
Reynolds was unable to enroll in any computer science course last semester because they were
During the same period, senior-level faculty increased only 3 percent, he said.
Projections by the federal government's National Center for Education Statistics show that the number of students graduating each year with bachelor's degrees in computer and information science have increased from 7,830 in 2015 to 9,460 with yearly increases averaging 5.9 percent.
OTHER STUDENTS THIS semester have been unable to enroll in the same class for the second time, and as a result cannot graduate in May.
She said classes were too large for students to have much contact with their instructors.
"People say you can go and talk to your teacher, but he has only that much time," she said.
The department bulletin board has a poster urging students to write to Gov. John Carlin and the state senate.
A consequence of letting faculty members slip
Although enrollment is rising, the department has been forced to reduce the number of sections of CS 200 from 36 to 33 this semester because of lack of faculty and funds, according to Bethke
The department considered limiting enrollment by raising the grade point average requirement in prerequisite courses to at least a 3.0 on the GPA and Sciences turned down the request, he said.
ANOTHER OPTION would be to cut the budgets of departments in which enrollment is declining and furnel the money into computer science so that more faculty can be hired. he
just does not exist, said Robert Lineberry, dean of the College.
But a department with declining enrollment
"Even if there was one," Lineberry said, "its budget would be too small to make any
"The enrollment is increasing in general and we can't turn any department into an elite department. We have to strike a balance between the demands of a public university and the inevitable pressures of enrollment in a field like computer science."
Higher salaries are not possible either, because the money is not available. However, the number of computer science faculty in these colleges tends to crush proportions yet, Linebar said.
WALLACE SAID THE department had lost three full-time professors in the last six years. There are 14 tenured faculty members in the department now, according to Judy Holloway, administrative assistant. The latest enrollment data show that there will be on Jan. 22 show student enrollment at 2.81.
Bethke said that the supply of top level people was not being replenished, especially in certain areas. The industry will be forced to realize that there is a need for training in academics in its own best interest, he said.
According to a survey by the National Science Foundation, of the employed computer scientists in 1978, only 17,000 were in academics; compared with 46,000 in industry; government and related fields.
Michael Cartella, employment manager at United Telecom Computer Group, Overland Park, said the problem was serious for universities.
"We're as guilty as anyone else. We hired one of the professors at KU," he said.
R. G. HETHERINGTON, associate professor of computer science, works part time for United Information Services, a subsidiary of United Telecom.
In the future, there will be more joint programs between universities and industry.
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