University Dally Kansan
Wednesday, September 7, 1977
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AAUP questions counsel's role
By BRUCE WELLS
Staff Writer
The executive committee of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AUAP) yesterday questioned the role of KU's legal counsel, Mike Davis, in disputes between faculty and administrators.
grant Goodman, professor of history and East Asian studies, said yesterday he was concerned in case of a legal problem with the University. Davis would be in a conflict-of-interest position.
Goodman said Davis was available to the faculty for legal counseling, but pointed out he technically was part of the administration.
Contacted after the meeting yesterday,
IF THE STUDENT body was opposed to the faculty, he said, he would represent the faculty.
Davis said in a case where the faculty was represented, he would represent the administration.
"I represent the executive authority of the University," he said. "I'm on the payroll of the Chancellor. I represent whoever represents the authority."
According to Bill Scott, chapter president of AUAP, committee members questioned Davis' role because of the administration's recent rejection of a proposed sabatical measure.
Scott said an administrator rejected the proposal on legal grounds that it conflicted with the law.
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sports committee chairmanship or keep the seat and voting privilege.
Leben had suggested to Nunley Friday
that he should leave the club, when Nunley
released, he demanded a resignation.
Nunley has scheduled a Sports Committee meeting for Monday. If the members agree with him that there is no conflict, he said, he will ask the KUAC for his voting rights back.
"IF AFTER THAT Sports Committee meeting we only have three voting representatives, I will ask the Senate to remove Bert from the Sports Committee,"
Leben said he would ask the Senate next Wednesday to decide the issue unless Nunley resigned or he asks the committee chairman who could take over the KUAC seat.
The Sports Committee has no power to remove Nunley as its leader. Leben said.
The full Senate meets next Wednesday. A major vote could also keep him in place if he kicks him out.
Leben said that if the Senate failed to vote Nunley out of office, he would ask the StudiEx to remove Nunley. Several StudiEx members discussed about the possible conflict. Leben said.
Nunley defended retaining the seat,
saying, "Given the situation, I think I've
done a good job. Until I feel I'm not doing a
good job. I'm not going to resign."
"I WOULD BE more than happy to take that vote back, but the only way they're
In a recent letter to SenEx, executive vice chancellor Del Shankel said Chancellor Archie Dykes could not accept proposed sabbatical changes because the senator would be part of Regents guidelines, which specify sabbaticals should be granted strict on merit.
THE PROPOSED faculty sabbatical plan would have allowed some sabbatical decisions to be made by considering factors other than merits, such as the length of service to the University and the length of time without a sabbatical.
Nunley and J. Hammond McNish, KUAC chairman, have said the students' votes didn't count for much in the board's deliberations—a point of contention between Nunley and J. Hammond McNish, sports committee chairman and presently an at-large student member of KUAC
The students said maintaining four votes was important, although McNish has said that the voices often were more important than the votes.
going to get that vote is to have me removed," Nunley said.
time without a sabbatum.
AAUP members questioned who faculty members could turn to for counseling services in disputes with administrators.
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T. P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, said the faculty had to face the fact that they needed to have their own legal course.
"The world is 'they against us.' We have to face up to," he said.
However, members decided to postpone the matter. Scott was asked to check possibilities of asking Davis to the Next AAPU chapter meeting.
The committee tentatively set the next meeting for Nov 3, with Davis and William Balfour, KU's recently appointed ombudsman, invited to attend.
Balfour will be asked to more clearly define his position and have an opportunity to "spell things out" for the AAUP, Scott said.
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