University Daily Kansan, January 28, 1983
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Curriculum panel may miss deadline
By ELLEN WALTERSCHIED Staff Reporter
If you were worried about the impending core curriculum report requiring all undergraduates to take a standard batch of rigorous courses, you can rest easy — for a little while, anyway.
The special committee formed to draft the curriculum has found the task so difficult that it might not meet its April report deadline. At Johnson, assistant to the vice president, an academic affairs, said yesterday.
Johnson said the committee, composed of faculty, students and administrators, had been working since last fall to decide which kinds of courses should be included in the new curriculum.
"WE HAVE BEEN struggling, I mean really struggling." Johnson said. "The discussions have been long, lively and intensive."
The 17-member committee, which meets about every three weeks, met Tuesday for about two hours.
"We talk until people are just worn out," Johnson said. "But the discussion is basically still very theoretical."
report on inadequacies in under graduate education.
In addition to a core curriculum, the report recommended improvements, including a better advising team and a better focus on freshman and sophomore courses.
"THE CORE CURRICULUM is simply a piece of it, but hardly a simple piece." Johnson said.
Although the committee has not yet decided on specific changes, members seem to agree that a strong dose of English and writing courses must be included, Johnson said.
He also said that the committee basically agreed on the importance of increasing mathematics skills, but had not decided the amount or type of courses that should be required.
Margaret Schadler, associate professor of psychology and a member of the committee, said he is interested in providing curriculum to fewer than 30 hours.
"WE MAKE TWO steps forward and one step back," Schadler said. "But I do think we're making progress."
Another committee member, Michael Young, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said he would appoint a committee from the College next week to work with the curriculum committee.
Prof says KU equipment outdated
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A KU professor yesterday told a House committee on high technology that money needs to be invested in research equipment for Kansas Board of Regents schools to complement private industry research.
Ron Borchardt, Summerfield professor of biochemistry, said that biochemical research equipment at the University of Kansas had not kept pace with advances in private industry research techniques.
He said that KU in the late '60s and early '70s had been equipped with instruments that were comparable to those used by industries.
"My students come back to me now and they say 'Boy, are we poorly
BUT BORCHARDT said that some science programs were still among the best in the country and that strong institutions and retain good faculty members.
equipped," " he said, "And I think that's disastrous."
"The bottom line is the people. If you don't have the leaders in the field, you aren't going to attract high technology," he said.
Borchard and three other Regents representatives testified before the House Committee on Communication, Computers and High Technology about resources that are available at Regents offices. The committee plans to visit KU Monday.
Borchardt and the others also described the possibilities of attracting private industries to Kansas that could pour research money into the state's
three largest universities: KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.
"UNIVERSITIES IN this nation have an exceedingly critical role in high technology. It's the ideas that are generated in our universities." Kruth
Robert Kruth, dean of the Graduate School at K-State, said that more than $50 million last year was pumped into the university's research and private industry research grants.
Stanley Koplik, executive director for the Regents, told the committee that one beneficial spinoff from a high technology push would be more jobs.
Koplik said that Kansas' production slowdown in recent years was partially attributed to the fact that the state is a step behind in high technology business, the nation's strongest job producer.
"One of the problems for the state of Kansas is that we are an importer of students and an exporter of graduates," he said.
Graduates from Kansas universities are forced to find jobs in parts of the country that had recruited high tech employers through established programs, he said.
"I DON'T THINK we're all at once going to create fabulous research parks overnight. That happens over generations," he said.
Gov. John Carlin has asked the Kansas Legislature to distribute $1.5 million to Regents schools. That money would have to be matched by private industries.
New bill would expand rape prosecution
The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony yesterday in favor of a bill that would allow charges of rape to be filed against spouses.
"Hape is rape, as far as we are concerned," said Elizabeth Taylor, representing the Young Women's Topiapta. The topiapta battered Women's Task Force.
"We support the bill because we know it does happen," she said.
The bill would allow a spouse to be prosecuted for rape if it occurred when the couple were living together, living in separate residences or when either
JOAN HAMILTON, Shawnee County assistant district attorney, said interspousal rape was as psychologically and physically damaging as other
Retired Judge John Brookers said he favored the bill, but he warned the judge that the state was
"It is difficult to prove rape," he said.
"It more difficult if it can be shown that the two people know each other and that they are difficult if the two people are married."
Clark Owens, Sedgwick County district attorney, said in an interview last week that he thought it would be hard to convince in cases of marital rape.
THE EXISTING law defines rape as the act of sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman who is not his wife. Sexual assault is resistance is overcome by force or fear.
In addition to placing limits on the spousal exemption, the bill also eliminates the victim's need to prove resistance in order to obtain a conviction.
The bill also creates the offenses of sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery, makes women as well as men subject to the provisions of the rape statute, applies the rage shield statute to sex-related crimes other than rape and expands the definition of rape to include rape with an object.
The existing rape shield law provides that evidence of the victim's previous sexual conduct is not admissible in the prosecution of rape cases unless a special finding of relevance is made by the trial court.
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A KU STUDENT was treated and released yesterday from Lawrence Memorial Hospital after she was injured in a sledding accident, a hospital official said.
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