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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No.42
City Not Told Of Action Against Gaslight
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Wednesday, October 27, 1971
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Poll Returns Are Enigma To Senate
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee began to deal with the returns from the student opinion poll on Tuesday. Too complicated to finish in one meeting.
The major problem the committee deals with was the ability and responsibility of student opinion to make general inferences about student body opinion from the results of the survey.
Jerry Slaughter, Salina senior, said the poll was "a complete failure."
"You can't determine policy with only 18 per cent of the student body," he noted.
Slaughter said it would be a disaster if the committee tried to assess student opinion from the poll because there were different ways the results could be interpreted.
John House, Raytown, Mo., senior,
disagreed with Slaughter and said that he
thought the senate followed the com-
munity's expectations as much as 70 per cent of the time.
Slaughter also said that the Student Senate would act regardless of the recommendation submitted by the Finance and Auditing Committee.
A problem Slaughter saw in the poll results was that 24 per cent of those voting were freshmen. Slaughter said that the freshmen did not know as much about how activity fee money was spent as did the rest of the student body.
Bill O'Neill, senate treasurer, argued
their request to fund fees funds
affected the freshest man.
O'Neill also said that the senate was lucky that the recent controversy over recognition of the Gay Liberation Front occurred when it did. He said that the Gay Liberation Front made students more knowledgeable about the way activity fee money was spent.
Aid Comes to Cairo
Dan Savage, left, and John Musgrave help unload grocery boxes in front of the
headquarters of the Black United Front in Cairo, III. Ill. See related story on page 8.
Chinese Seat Unoccupied; U.N. Awaits Communists
UNTIED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) - The United Nations made ready Tuesday to welcome Red China and to fly its red flag with five yellow stars from the Chinese flagship. With the outer of Nationalist wear, the seat remained vacant for the moment.
Reports circulated in U.N. corridors that representatives from Tibet China would address the issue to Chou En-lai. A similar report came from the Tokyo lai. A similar correspondent of the Tokyo lai.
Seven days of China debate were climaxed by Monday night's General Assembly decision to expel the Chinese Nationalists and to seat Peking.
The Chinese Nationalists walked out before the vote and President Chang Kai-shek on his island fortress of Taiwan voiced his defiance.
In an address to the nation, Chang
called the decision to oust his regime
"infamous" and declared "The destiny of
our nation will be destroyed."
Nations. It is灵敏 in our own hands."
A U.N. spokesman said no response had been received so far to Secretary-General U Thant's message notifying the Peking government of the assembly's action.
He said, however, that preparations for a Chinese Communist delegation were under way, including an order for a flag to be raised in front of the headquarters members in front of U.N. headquarters.
U. S. AMBASSADOR George Bush, although deeply disappointed by the expulsion of the Nationalist delegation, and resisted assured him of continued U.S. cooperation.
Flora Wyatt from Teaching Family
Flora Wyatt
A U.S. spokesman, in disclosing Bush's assurances, did not mention moves in Washington to cut U.S. financial contributions to the United Nations. But this was a topic of widespread comment at the United Nations.
Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series interviews with the 10 HOPE Award filmmakers.
BY REES OLANDER Kansan Staff Writer
Like other HOPE finalists, Mrs. Wyatt is dissatisfied with the present grading
One of the 10 finalists for this year's HBO Award almost didn't become a teammate.
Flora Wyatt, teaching associate in education, said she decided early in life to work with people, but that she chose education over nursing only after a great persuasion by her family, which has made many mothers. She has never revered her decision
Mrs. Wyatt said that she enjoyed teaching in the School of Education at KU
"I don't want to stop teaching," she said.
"I can't imagine ever doing anything else."
One of her most fascinating experiences, said Mrs. Wyatt, was the opportunity to spend two summers with 20 other students from the United States and Africans and Britons in West Africa. The program, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the National Education Association, and only transportation was paid for.
system at the University of Kansas. Although she would like to remove the pressures of the letter grade from students, Mrs. Wyatt said that a simple pass-fail system would be unfair to outstanding students. With teaching jobs so crowded in, she explained, excellent students deserve a special rank to single out their abilities.
Because education combines skill as well as factual knowledge, Mrs Wyatt
"Knowledge of facts is not the most important part of education," she said. "And a knowledge of people, children and how to plan activities, which are also important, are not represented on an exam."
To provide an evaluation of students, Mrs. Wyatt requires each student to teach a unit of language arts to his peers. This helps them, she said, to experience lesson planning adjustments in the class room. She is based on class exercises and experience.
because of the academic freedom in creative planning with a minimum of red tape in course construction. This allows for a high degree of experimentation, she said, but it does offer the disadvantage of omission and repetition.
One of the greatest difficulties in education is the gap between theory and practice which has bothered many students, Mrs. Wyaatt said. Teacher's Aide Rohan was student into the classroom earlier, make a theory much more meaningful, she said.
Before coming to KU, Mrs. Wytta taught in elementary schools in Wyoming, Kansas and Missouri. She also worked as a beginning teacher's adviser in Raytown, Missouri and then taught classes at Central Missouri State College where she obtained her master's degree.
She received her B.S.E. at Southwest,
Missouri State College. Her future plans
include completing work for her Ph.D. and
teaching at KU.
Besides her teaching position, Mrs. wavitt keeps busy with her two children, a girl and an older boy.
Lists Money, Teaching Curbs
Koevenig Tells Why He's Leaving
(Editor's Note: James Koewenig, winner of the HOPE Award last year, is leaving the University. In this article he tells why.)
By JAMES L. KOEVENIG
Over the past several weeks a number of articles, editorsials and letters have appeared in the Lawrence Journal World and the University Daily Kansas on the financial problems besetting the University of Kansas and the possibility of widespread faculty resignation. Since my name has been mentioned several times and various statements have been addressed, I am surprised why I have resigned from the University of Kansas to accept a position at Florida Technological University.
Associate Professor of Biology
My family and I leave Lawrence and the University with mixed emotions. We love our home, our many friends, my students, and certain things about Lawrence and KU. We think Lawrence is a pleasant place to live, although it has serious problems and is neither a utopia or hades (as implore by some people). Our future location is favorably with Lawrence, with many advantages and some disadvantages.
FLORIDA TECNIOLOGICAL University is not as prestigious as KU; it has a highly physical plant.
but it is young and has not had time to build up a rigid power structure or set of regulations. I am not accepting a depart- mentary role in the research because I be giving up a great deal in terms of research space and equipment and will have a heavier teaching load, but I will be gaining more freedom in experimental research because of better funding.
But these considerations are not the major reasons why I am leaving, although they certainly are involved. There is no reason to believe that students finance and what I have interpreted (perhaps mistakenly) as a lack of support by the administration at KU for what I want to do—devote most all my attention to undergraduate teaching and student problems.
Like most faculty members at KU, I have been approached several times by different schools over the years and have been offered positions at higher salaries. In each case I weighed the advantages and disadvantages and decided to remain at KU. In recent years, however, the decision to stay has become more difficult because of the lack of research Lawrence have become fewer and less convincing. Still, some unexplained loyalty to KU and its students won out. Finally, the financial crisis at KU and its
accompanying inhibition on quality
creative undergraduate teaching tipped
Most faculty members are smart and talented enough to go out into the "real world" and make much more money than they are making at KU. They have chosen to be associated with a university because of their work, teaching, working with young people, the academic environment and the ability to set up their own working hours (which usually exceed 50 or 60 a week, counting the time making up exams, reading, grading papers, attending seminars and meetings, giving talks and doing research).
WHEN THE SUBJECT of money is mentioned every gets upsight, for the reasons that are similar in considering such a major factor. When interviewed, leaving faculty mention new challenges, special facilities, and pressing issues which will defy仕 aside the range of opportunities.
STILL, IF OFFERED two reasonably comparable positions, most faculty members would accept the one that offered the best salary and operating budget. In the past several years the salaries and operating budgets at KU have drastically declined in comparison with those at many other schools. Couple this
with the great disparity among salaries at KU (with the lowest salaries usually going to women, older faculty who have been here a long time, and to those who have devoted most of their attention to teaching and have neglected their publications) and have different levels of experience you have an ideal situation for losing faculty members to other schools.
In my own case, I watched colleagues who had chosen to put most of their energy into research, grantsmanship or administration get promotions and raises in the job, but sometimes abilities and wonder if I was doing a good job (until last year no one except students ever said so), or if my goal of quality undergraduate teaching was really harmonious with KU's goals (which I don't believe include adequate funding of external education) or what undergraduate education in spite of statements to the contrary).
I decided to actively seek employment elsewhere, at a time when there are hundreds of applicants for each vacancy. I (am told there were 800 applicants for the position I accepted). My confidence was restored when I was fortunate enough to receive two teaching awards, be overweight for $40,000 more than I make at KU.
See KOEVENIG. Page 2
A British spokesman said: "The financial predicament of the organization is grave indeed, and we certainly hope that the circumstances of changes in stationation of members should not include a further worsening of the financial situation."
The United Nations already is prepared to take a huge loss through the expulsion of the Chinese Nationalists because of unpaid deficits in that government's assessments.
The Taiwan government, according to a U.N. spokesman, will $11.9 million for the U.S. embassy in Taipei.
year, and an additional $12.2 million for unpaid assessments on the peace keeping operations in the Middle East and the Congo.
Tuesday's wind-up session of the assembly on China consisted of explanations of votes by members who participated in the vote because of the late bour of Monday might be held.
U. S. spokesman Nicholas King, said the American defeat was due largely to last-minute defections of countries that had committed themselves to support the U.S. plan for "dual representation" with both Peking and Taiwan in the United Nations.
Kansan Board Urges Sound Financial Basis
The Senate cut the funds last Wednesday in an attempt to force change in the composition of the University Daily Kansas Board.
The Student Senate will meet at 6:30 p.m. today in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union to reconsider the cut in appropriations for the Kansas.
The board met Monday and released this statement:
"If, however, KU students want to turn over the operation of the University newspaper to a tiny political faction, the board will immediately oblige.
"in the light of recent actions by the Student Senate, the University Daily Kansan Board seriously doubts the claim that the University represents the thinking of KU students."
"Even if the Student Senate at its meeting today should lift its suspension of Kansan funding, the board would still be in good hands. The present system of funding the Kansan."
"Meanwhile, the University should take a hard look at the recent history of the U.S. campus press, which shows the perils of non-professional publication and the benefits of abandoning professional student journalism for political pamphlereing.
"Last year, no money at all was given but the board published in good faith on senate assurance that funds would be restored this year; the Kansan wound up paying $100,000 for a reserve to $7,600. This year, the allocation was cut to $40,000 and the board continued to publish in good faith, but now these funds have been suspended; the Kansan stands to lose $60,000 this year and reduce the capital reserve to $16,000. Next year, if the Senate allocates some money on a Student Senate allocation, the same kind of unilateral suspension could occur.
"The Karans Board cannot be expected to approach the Student Senate every day."
"If the University wants the Kansas Board, with the cooperation of the School of Journalism, to publish a newspaper, the University should now do something to put the newspaper on a sound permanent base. The University has given $ of a few. An annual fee of at least $3 a student, allocated by the University, would do this. (The fee two years ago, before the Student Senate took over appropriations and before printing costs soared and national advertising dipped, was $2.90. That cost is due to the fee in universities similar to KU.)
"The Kansan Board also vigorously rejects the accusation that the faculty of the School of Journalism and the members of the board have been 'dragging their feet' on changing the composition of the board.
"Here are the facts:
"APRIL 28. The Student Senate passed by one vote an enactment to change the composition of the University Daily Kansan Board. The Constitution of the Kansan states the composition of the board thus: the dean of the School of Journalism, or a representative appointed by him, who shall be chairman, the two members of the School of Journalism, and the business adviser and news-editorial adviser; the two students who are the heads of the two departments of the University Daily Kansan, namely, the business manager and the editor; and one representative from the Student Senate. The April 28 Student Senate enactment resolved that the student senate and editor as voting members; eliminate the Student Senate representative; add four students, three of them non-
See KANSAN BOARD, Page 7
Koevenig Talks with Students
... Wants to try new ways of teaching ...
Kansan Phot