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Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1970
University Daily Kansan
New Director Sets Aims
KU-Y Seeks to Link KU to Lawrence
By KATHY KRUGER
Kansan Staff Writer
Establishing links between campus and community and causing students to see themselves as powerful political forces are just two of the objectives Janet Sears has set for herself and KU-Y during her first month as the organization's executive director.
Mrs. Sears began her new job Aug. 17 after being interviewed and hired by an entirely student personnel committee which also sets her salary and will review her performance at six-month intervals. She views her position on the University of Kansas campus as rather unique in this respect
THE NEW DIRECTOR likes KU-Y's financial autonomy on campus and its link with Lawrence through various service projects.
"This is a time when it is especially important to build bridges to the community," she said. It is important for students to "get off the Hill and into the community" and become involved in Lawrence problems and projects, she said.
Mrs. Sears said she would like to see KU-Y move from a buereaucral organization to a movement which could respond quickly to change and varying situations.
"If you can't respond almost immediately," she said, "you've missed your chance." She pointed out that organizations which have remained static and unresponsive to social conditions have declined in number and influence.
MRS. SEARS said she was
hopeful that the KU-Y membership would regard itself as part of a nationwide group and realize that by expanding efforts toward the same change, they were a powerful political force.
New roles for three KU-Y programs are of special interest to the new director, Rock Chalk Revue, she said, projects KU-Y's farthest reaching image. "We need to re-examine what it says about us," she said. The program
Janet Sears
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could become a forum for relevant issues allowing students to express themselves through drama, Mrs. Sears said.
"WITH MORE THAN half the students living off campus," Mrs. Sears said, "it is important to integrate the freshmen into the
academic community and also introduce these students to issues important to Lawrence." She said this could be achieved through the Freshman Encounter program, formerly known as Freshman Camp. She said this program also increased KU-Y's membership and through this students will become involved in community projects.
Faculty Firesides, Mrs. Sears said, has the potential for improving intracampus communication by allowing small groups of students to meet with professors rather than "the growing depersonalization of larger and larger classes."
She said she was enthusiastic at the prospect of an exchange program with Haskell Junior College being implemented as part of the Faculty Firesides program
MRS. SEARS said she foresaw more student involvement in the community. She said she would like to see efforts to bring Lawrence people to the campus to share their expertise and in more than a spectator role.
She said the "Buy Black" program which KU-Y was adopting greatly interested its director. She said she would like to see students mobilize to follow their own political beliefs when making purchases.
"Economic power," she pointed out, "is more influential than standing on a picket line. Money is a powerful political tool and students can affect changes simply by choosing the places they shop with political goals and social changes in mind."
HAVING BEEN in Lawrence only a month, Mrs. Sears said she was still learning much of the community's problems and projects and doing a lot of listening
She said she was enjoying her work as KU-Y's executive director. "I like the flexibility of the job and being back on campus," she said.
1966, she entered the Peace Corps with her husband, Michael, and served two years in Panama. While there, she was involved in the organization of women's community groups.
AFTER RETURNING to the United States, Mrs. Sears attended graduate school for a short time and then became involved
in social work at Kansas City General Hospital.
A 1966 graduate of Kansas State University, she received her degree in sociology. In October,
The Searses came to Lawrence from Leawood, Sears is attending KU and working on his doctorate in human relations.
Nine Outstanding Educators Selected from KU Schools
During the hours she is not busy with KU-Y activities, Mrs. Sears said she enjoyed doing things with her daughter.
ita State University last summer. The professors were nominated last spring by the chancellor and the deans of the schools.
He said that the lectures were concerned with geological, and biological evolution and, once such life had been formed, the ways in which they interacted.
The lectures will be in 264 Lindley Hall.
Sylvester-Bradley said that the lecture given Monday was "General Theory of Evolution." Tuesday's lecture was "Origins of Life" and "Dynamic Factors in Animal Paleogeography" is the topic for today.
Shell Oil Company Research Foundation is sponsoring the lectures, Sylvester-Bradley said.
Evolution is the subject of the last of a series of three lectures to be given today at 4:30 by Peter Sylvester-Bradley, professor of geology at Leicester University in England.
Nine KU professors have been chosen for the 1970 edition of "Outstanding Educators of America," an annual publication recognizing civic and professional achievements of educators in the United States.
Sylvester-Bradley was the Rose Morgan professor at KU in 1955- 56.
The professors are Jerry D. Chaffin, professor of education; Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry; Takeru Haguchi, Regents Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy; James Moeser, associate professor of orgah; Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism; John W. Pozdro, professor of music theory; Mrs. Nita Wyatt Sundbye, professor of education; and Duane Wenzel, professor of pharmacy.
The ninth professor, Ambrose Saricks, was a professor of history at KU last year but became dean of graduate studies at Wich-
Evolution Series To Be Concluded By Geology Prof
300 Participate in Work-Study During 1970 Fall Semester
Almost 300 students are on the Work-Study program this fall the biggest number in the history of the University, Bernard Taylor, assistant director, office of student financial aid said Monday.
The majority of the students, Taylor said, were working about 15 hours each week, but they could possibly work 40 hours per week during vacation time, providing the funds were available through the particular department employing them.
Taylor, who is in charge of the work-study program, said that 57 departments of the University were utilizing work-study students. The students were being employed from September 1 to December 31.
The college work-study program was established to stimulate and promote the part-time employment of students in institutions of higher education who were from low-income families and were in need of the earnings from such employment.
Taylor said the Department or Health, Education and Welfare through which his office works had stated certain conditions which had to be met before students could qualify.
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