Deans See College-Within-a-College as Good Program
By DEBRA BEACHY
Kansan Staff Writer
The successes and failures of the College-Within-a College system was the subject of recent interviews conducted with deans of all five colleges.
The CWC program was started at KU five years ago with the aid of a $280,000 Carnegie Grant to help the program through the first three years.
Centennial College was the first CWC, followed by the four others, Oliver, North, Nunemaker, and Pearson. One of the original objectives of the CWC was to simplify the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' administrative process which required the development of compliments by the growing number of freshmen and sophomore students.
All of the CWC dews agreed that the CWC had accomplished this.
Jerry Lewis, dean of Centennial College said the goals of the CWC were to decentralize, and simplify the administrative and promote academic innovation.
"FORMERLY, NEW STUDENTS had to figure out a complicated academic bureaucracy, now the academic office is near the students' living area," Lewis said.
He said that the new LAS courses had developed largely through the CWCs work with students.
The major failure of the CWC program, he said, was that it had not been able to allow freshmen and sophomore students to contact with senior faculty members.
Lewis said that the CWC needed more resources and stronger faculty support to develop more academic innovation. He thought things were moving in that direction.
"All over the country people are seeing
that more attention has to be paid to under-
ground workers."
Robert Cobb, dean of Numeraker College, said that the CWC program had made a huge difference.
"The CWC makes the University a little less awesome, a little less formidable for
me."
He said that the CWCs were striving to integrate the academic and the living environments.
To do this, he said, the CWC's place students who are in the same living area in
"AS LONG AS things are carried on by human beings, there will always be room for improvement," Cobb said. "One tries to find common grounds for an educational objective, to not be committed to irreovable action."
One device of Nunenmark College for keeping in touch with its students is a tablet.
Ronald K. Calgaard, dean of Oliver College, agreed that the CWC program had decentralized and personalized the administrative process for the student.
However, he said that the CWC's had little academic autonomy.
Galgaard helped to write the Dundorf
report this summer, which recommended
that the council reduce energy use.
Dennis Quinn, dean of Pearson College,
said that the idea behind the CWC was to
give the student the benefits of both a
college and a university.
—essentially, the accomplishments of the CWC have been the decentralization of administrative offices." Calgaard said. "To decentralize along academic lines too."
"It tries to overcome the feeling of largeness, the feeling that the student is just another number without placing the student in a junior college." Quinn said.
"THE IMPORTANT HOPE," Quinn said, "is that each college will develop a
distinctive academic curriculum of its own."
He said that Pearson College was experimenting along this line with the Pearson Humanities Program, a special program for students of Pearson College.
"The correlation of the residence and classroom is a complicated, time consuming object, and we are not impressed," he said but "but we have made progress." Quinn said.
Quain said that the biggest change the CWC's had made was administrative, and that it had increased the relationship between the teacher and the living experience of the student.
The future development of the CWC's would have a greater impact on KU than
Elliot Gillerman, dean of North College,
said that the CWC's had improved
relations between student's and faculty.
"There is a sense of greater interest
taken in the students." Gillerman said.
He said that the CWC program had also resulted in better advising for students
However, he said that some of the faculty were afraid the CWC's would interfere with the department structure.
resulted in better advising for students. The greatest accomplishment, he said, has been in simplifying administration, and that the CWC's were forward-looking academically. He cited the Pearson College Humanities Program, and Northwestern University students to substitute Eastern Civilization for Western Civilization as examples.
Gillerman said that he had never heard anything negative about the CWC program, and that to his knowledge, nobody had ever proposed another system.
"The future of the CWC depends on whether the University expands." Gillerman said. "The colleges shouldn't get much bigger than their present size. There has been talk of adding a sixth college."
82nd Year. No. 62
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
KU Successful In Cage Opener
Senate OK's Extension Of Controls
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate passed the bill Wednesday extending until April 30, 1973. President Nixon's power to control wages and prices, and also granting retroactively most of the raises baited by the navy freeze.
The vote sent the legislation to the House where the Banking Committee is working.
The result of three days of Senate debate was a mixed bar for Nixon.
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The final Senate bill contained practically all of the authority he asked to carry out Phase 2 of his economic controls program.
BUT IT ALSO included a pay retrace-entity provision originally opposed by the administration and finally accepted, with some reluctance, by the executive branch.
The vote on final passage was 85 to 4.
Sen. John Sparkman, D-Ala., floor manager of the bill, told the Senate Tuesday that the administration would accept the Senate version of retreativity, which applies to many school teachers and others given raises in contracts agreed to before the wage-price freeze started Aug. 15.
The White House declined to go into details on Sparkman's statement except to show that he was not the holder of a stock.
The votes against the bill were cast by Sens. J, W. Fulbright, D-Arr, Barry M, Goldwater, R-Ariz, Fred R, Harris, D-Okla., and William Proxmile, D-Wis.
"I frankly am willing to grant this authority because the President will say we fouled him up if we do not give him what he needs to deal with inflation and the economy," said Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn.
THE KEY SECTION of the bill will permit the President to control wages, prices and rents through April 30, 1973, and permit the President by powers over interest and dividends.
Sen. John G, Tower, R-Tex., said "what we are doing here is harsh. It is an application of government power I dislike with a situation that we must deal with."
Both Republicans and Democrats said they were voting the continuance of sweeping new powers to the President with some reluctance.
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State Sierra Head Urges Nixon to Keep AEC Out
TOPEKA (AP)—Bron Baxter, chairman of the Kansas chapter of the Sierra Club, urged Wednesday that President Nixon intervene to get the Atomic Energy Commission to abandon plans to locate a nuclear waste repository in Kansas.
Gould Will Be Extradited To Face Bomb Charges
Baxter also called on the state's congressional delegation to "band together with state officials, forget their ideas, and get this project moved out of Kansas."
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-Randy Gould, former student senator at the University of Kansas, lost his appeal yesterday against extradition to Kansas, where he charges of bombing the death of a former Douglas County attorney.
By RANDALL BECKER
Voncon Staff Writer
Missouri Pardon Attorney Paul E. Williams said be recommended to M. Gov. Hearnes that Gould be released to the public. Mr. Hearnes released Wednesday, $2 billion in Jefferson City.
Kansan Staff Writer
Gov. Hearnes is expected to send a warrant today to the Jackson County, Mo., sheriff, officially declaring extradition. The warrant, according to Williams, will grant the release of Gould to the Douglas County sheriff
Gould is wanted in Kansas in connection with the May 14, 1970 bombing of the home of Dan Young, former Douglas County attorney. Gould faces charges of felonious
Kansas Gov, Robert Docking asked for extradition when Gould was arrested in Kansas City, Mo. by federal officials on charges of conspiring to make and transport pipe bombs. Gould posted bond but was confirmed to Kansas City.
If Gould is returned to Kansas, he will be confronted with a $50,000 bond. Gould has stated in a letter to the University Daily Kansan that he would have returned to Kansas voluntarily if "a more reasonable bond" were set.
Gould was not present at the hearing Wednesday. He was represented by Ron Clark, a Chicago attorney, and his father, Alan Gould.
Douglas County Att. Mike Elwell said yesterday Gould would be able to appeal for a lower bond after arrest and arraignment.
possession of a bomb, felonious assault
weapon and felonious
protective destruction
The Sierra Club head's call came on the heels of a declaration by Gov. Robert Docking that, "We will do everything possible to prevent the AEC from forcing the Lyons project on the people of Kansas."
Docking recently invited AEC Chairman James Schlesch to visit Kansas to discuss personally with Docking, state officials and Kansas scientists the problems and controversy surrounding the AEC's plan to bury the nation's atomic wastes in the abandoned Carey Salt Core at Livons.
Schlesinger brushed aside Docking's request that the AEC chief come to Kansas, and obviously rankled the governor.
"The Sierra Club, whose Kansas membership is mostly average people," Baxter said, "has consistently viewed the AEC proposal to establish Kansas as the national nuclear waste dump with basic mistrust as to the reason why and the
"It is significant," Baxter said, "that the AEC made its first move to renew its Kansas desires one year after Sen. Andrew Scheephel's death and two years after President Eisenhower left the White House."
Buxter recalled that in 1958, when the AEC proposed to dispose of its nuclear waste in liquid form in beds near Hutchinson that the state's congressional delegation was to then President Dwight Eisenhower and succeeded in getting that project scrapped.
"To say that I am disappointed in your response to my request is putting it mildly." Docking said in a letter his office made public Wednesday.
But How Much?
Restoration of Some Cuts Certain, Says Chalmers
By JOYCE DUNBAR Kansan Staff Writer
A presentation Monday by Paul Wunsch, chairman of the Board of Regents, to State Budget Director James Levin will address the importance of plight of Kansas colleges and universities is considerably more dire than it has been in a decade, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalimers Jr., said.
The impact of his presentation is difficult to assess precisely at this point, Chalmers said, but it is undoubtedly the strongest statement in the last decade.
Chalmers said it seemed clear that some
of the proposed cuts would be restored because presidents of other state schools and Vice Charcelier for Health Affairs which Bibb's of office wanted or needs
"I'm puzzly sure that detail could not have been requested two months ago, instead of being made part of a drastically urgent budget recommendation." Chalpar's said.
THE NEXT MOVE of financing of the institutions will not occur until Gov. Robert Docking makes his recourse to the legislature, and he will come in late January, Chalmers said.
Miller Tells Senate Of KU Funds Woes
Bv MARY WARD
Kansan Staff Writers
and RON WOMBLE Writers
David Miller, student body president, described a bleak financial future for the students. He and his team met meeting Wednesday night and urged the senators to make it their personal concern.
Miller listed cuts made in the University budget by the state Budget Division because of staffing changes.
He said that the University had been required to pay a higher salary to classified civil service employees, but Mr. Miller pointed out that there was no meet that obligation. Miller pointed out that the original request of a 10 per cent salary increase for unclassified staff, mainly faculty members, was cut to 8 per cent and to 2 per cent by the Budget Division.
Another budget cut in Bibb's recommendations that Miller spoke of was the exclusion of funds to staff buildings donated to the University. He was also concerned about the 11 per cent cut in general operating expenditure which has increased in postage rates and expected 10 per cent increases in gasoline and telephone rates.
MILLER ALSO complained of the cut of National Defense Loans for students and cuts in funds for organized research, both on and off campus. The cuts money from federal and private sources.
Miller told the senators that the financial problems of the University were "matters to be ignored."
Plans of the State Council of Student Body Presidents for a state-wide student health insurance program and a state-wide student organization to serve as a "watchdog" and lobby in the state capital were disclosed by Miller.
Brad Smoot, Sterling senior, reiterated Miller's concern over KU's financial problems and urged the senators to work on a grassroots level between semesters to inform citizens about the financial problems of higher education in Kansas.
SMOOT ANNOUNCED that the Senate Executive Committee had sent a letter to Chancellor E. Laurence Chambers Jr., which insisted its concern over "unqualified."
He said that the reasons for the unrest included low faculty salaries, insufficient funding for research and lack of funds for sabbatical leave.
In other action, the Senate rejected a
The group plans to recruit Kansas Chicanos into higher education, but Elizabeth Guiterrez, Kansas City, Mo., senior and spokesman for the group, said the group would also stress campus programs of Chicano culture and problems.
THE SENATE approved a proposed book market which would "enable students to sell their used books to students who wish to buy them." The market would work in cooperation with the Kansas Union Bookstore and would not accept books purchased by the bookstore. The book market would operate on a part-time basis on Dec. 13.
R. L. Bailey, Atchison senior and chairman of the Senate Executive Committee, announced the resignation of Gary Dixon, former chairwoman on the Senate Committee Board, the Student Services Committee, the University Council, the University Council Committee on Academic Procedures and Policies and the Union Operating Com-
Finance and Auditing Committee recommendation to allocate $2,725 to the Association of Mexican-American Students and instead raised the allocation to $4,025. The group had originally requested over $12,000 but revised the request after long discussions with the Finance and Auditing Committee.
JACOBS SAID he was "not getting out" of Senate activities but was planning to devote his time to projects in which it would be more beneficial. Jacobs is the director of the Reclamation Center and he believed a desire to concentrate his time there.
Steve Halebit, Topeka graduate student, submitted his resignation as chairman of the State Board of Respondents Committee. Halebit said he resigned because of lack of time and his committee's inability to move beyond review of legislation because of time
TheSenate meeting was recessed until Sunday night after only one and a half hours because of conflict with the season's first basketball game. Most of the business on last night's agenda will have to be considered Sunday.
Major items include: A proposed activity fee raise, a by-law amendment on the budget process, an annual Student Senate Workshop, Senate subsidy for bus service and charges of discrimination in the School of Engineering.
The budget hearings this week were the first official recommendation on support of the University of Kansas and the other public institutions.
"There's no doubt in my mind that that recommendation will include the restoration of some funds. There's a great deal of concern that it will not be sufficient to stem the tide of other universities' rise in costs of rising costs, and the like," Challenger said.
Docking attended almost all the bearings, and that was most appreciated,
"In my limited experience, this is unusual." Chalmers said. "He has certainly heard the concerns of the public colleges and universities in Kansas."
ONE OF BIBB'S arguments during Chalmers' presentation Tuesday was that the Space Sciences Building, the McCollum laboratories and Nunenaker College were not built with state dollars, but they are maintained by personnel from state funds.
In Chalmers rebuttal, he said that it was tragic that the state of Kansas could not afford to build the necessary classrooms and teaching and research laboratories.
"That's not their fault," he said. "In part, it's our fault. The message has yet to get across that this is not a case where we are asking for the impossible, or where we would like to live a little more comfortable than we do, but that we're at a stage in our development," he added. Badgee is some precipitous fashion, or we recover from the plight of this year."
"I did not see the justification for compounding that tragedy by suggesting that the state did not even have a responsibility to clean up, as a result of the generosity of two alumnae in the case of Numeraker College and McCollum labs, and the ability of our faculty, which attracted one of the relatively new fully paid for Space Sciences buildings from NASA," Chalmer says. "It's a weird form of compensation."
CHALMERS SAID he felt that the budget director's decision did not represent the public will, except insofar as many citizens of Kansas were still unaware of the dilemma. Because of this unwareness, Chalmers said, they might only assured that no increases in funding of any state agency were perfectly all right.
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Chalmers Gives Faculty Backing
William M. Lucas, associate dean of architecture and urban design and SenEx chairman, said that the Chancellor's faculty concerns was encouraging.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
voiced administration recognition and support of faculty conference at a meeting of the University's executive Committee (SenEx) Wednesday.
The Chancellor spoke on several areas of faculty involvement including Sabatical leaves, faculty fringe benefits, research funds, and teaching improvement.
Lucas said the Chancellor's remarks would be sent out in a faculty newsletter by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee soon.