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University Dally Kansan, February 25, 1983
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Profs look at policy for releasing faculty
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID
Staff Reporter
The policy at the University of Kansas for releasing tenured faculty during financial crisis will not be effective unless it is consistently interpreted by KU administrators, a KU professor said last night.
"The document is protection, but it is only as good as the careful scrutiny we give its procedures and interpretation." Joel J. Gold, professor of English, told about 50 faculty members during a presentation sponsored by the American Association of University Professors.
Joel J. Gold
In 1974, Gold helped develop KU's financial exigency policy, which dictates the procedure for firing tenured faculty members at University-wide financial emergency.
ALTHOUGH SUCH a financial emergency has never been declared, Gold said he thought RU was wise to have a book of the Bible before an emergency occurred.
Comparable institutions, such as the University of Iowa and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have no financial exigency policy at all, he
But because present administrators are not the ones who were in power when the policy was conceived nine years ago, Gold said, he feared their interpretation of the policy might be different.
Faculty depend on the administration to declare financial exigency in "good" condition.
But he said that, during a review of the policy, present administrators had worried him by the questions they raised about the policy.
GOLD WOULD not elaborate on those questions but said that they left him worried about the administration's interpretation of the policy.
"good faith is a fragile thing," he said.
For this reason, he said, an organization such as the AAUP was especially necessary. He said that a policy as sensitive as the financial exigency procedures.
"The AAPU is our watchdog, keeping an eye on our administration and our personnel."
wold, who has been an AAUP member for about 20 years, said that other faculty members traditionally thought of professors in the organization as radicals who did not want to work within the University governance
But faculty in the AAUP can serve
the university, especially through their "watchdog" positions, he said.
UNLIKE THE financial exigency policy, a proposed policy for discontinuing academic programs is not contingent on financial emergency, said James Carothers, associate professor of English.
The Board of Regents had asked Regents universities to develop such a program.
Carothers outlined the proposed policy which will probably be brought before the University Council next month.
Under the proposed policy, tenured faculty might be released if a program
Programs will be reviewed under a procedure that has already been approved by the Regents and will be discontinued only if they do not meet certain academic, not financial, criteria. Carothers said.
BUT THE Regents have the final authority over which programs might be discontinued, he said.
He did not want to see the policy become a "hit list" for eliminating a program at whim, he said.
"Program discontinuance ought to be difficult, though not necessarily imposs-
Del Shankel, professor of biochemistry and microbiology and former acting chancellor, outlined the effects the University's reduced budget has had on various programs.
Although many solutions had been offered for coping with less money, Shankel said the faculty's best bet was to invest those involved in the political process.
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Bill would protect couples
Currently, only related people living together are legally allowed to ask the courts for a restraining order in order to prevent physical abuse.
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Natural gas bills studied
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Primary election endorsed
Stephan asked the Legislature to tighten laws governing bingo because a growing number of all-day bingo parlors had begun to overshadow games organized by charitable groups.
The Kansas Secretary of State yesterday said he favored a bill that would continue the use of state funds to purchase residential elections from April 1984 on.
Liquor by drink considered
Stephan also said large bingo casinos could lare organized crime to the state. In 1974, Kansas legalized gambling. But it would also could use the game to raise funds.
Jack Brier, the secretary, said a
presidential primary spurred election interest in the state during 1980 and gave voters more control in determining who should comprise Democratic and Republican delegations at the national conventions.
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reforms in Kansas' bingo laws,
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The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee Tuesday is scheduled to hear testimony on a constituent amendment that would ban riding on horse races.
The horse racing resolution was introduced in January and, if passed, would allow track betting systems in the United States to all stakes with the track management.
Parimutuel betting studied
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee is scheduled to hear testimony on Wednesday on a bill that would allow liquor by the drink.
Panel to tighten bingo laws
Surrogate mothers would have to meet state qualifications before becoming pregnant under a bill rescindible by the Judiciary Committee yesterday.
However, Mike Swenson, Gov. John Carlin's press secretary, said two years would be required to gather enough state momentum to encourage the presidential nominees to come to the state to campaign.
Women who want to agree to a contract to bear another couple's baby would first have to be tested by a psychologist, physician and social worker.
Brier said a record 479,000 voters participated in the 1980 primary, which cost the state nearly $1 million.
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