University Life
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 24, 1977
The 53-bell carillon in the Campanile was constructed in 1851 as a memorial to University of Kansas veterans of World War II and particularly to the 277 who died.
Vol. 88, No.1
The bells were cast in England and the doors were designed by Bernard "Poec" Frazier, for years KU's sculptor in residence.
The bells chime automatically every quarter hour from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m., and the University Carillonneur, Albert Gerken, associate professor of music theory, plays recitals at 7 p.m. Wednesday and at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Dykes says research is important
Research and scholarship are very important to the University of Kansas and to research on human evolution.
Dykes said that the numerous opportunities for working in a primary research project at KU were in sharp contrast to other universities in the United States.
At some universities, students will only have knowledge of a textbook and an instructor's interpretation of that book, Dykes said.
"In many departments and schools i.e., students have the opportunity to be in on the cutting edge of creating new knowledge," Dokes said.
KU has 75 per cent of all the PhD students in the state of Kansas, Dykes said.
DYKES SAID THAT graduate and faculty research programs have improved the quality of educational programs.
He said that the faculty involved undergraduates in their research through internships.
"It is at the undergraduate level that the capacity of the student begins to mature."
Dykes said that graduate education is one of the most expensive programs a university offers.
"The fortunes of the University rise and fall with the opinions of the people of the state. It is very important that we enjoy public confidence and support," he said.
He said that it was also important for the people of Kansas to understand the complexity and diversity of the entire University.
DYKES SAID THAT because KU was so visible as a public university, it was important for him to work for a better public understanding of the University's activities. Dykes also he works at explaining why higher education is important.
"It is indirectly a tribute," Dykes said,
"that everything the University does is
good."
Dykes said funding for the University's
New student affairs administrator feels comfortable in his KU role
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David Ambler, now in his second month as vice chancellor for student affairs, says he feels at home in his role in the University of Kansas ad-
Staff Writer
Ambler said recently that he felt comfortable with his understanding of the various offices in his division as well as how those offices operate.
He said he hoped to take a special perspective on student needs, wants and desires into the entire University decision-making process.
"Faculty members get to know students in terms of their disciplines." Amber said. "In this office, we'll get to know students in the whole context. It is outside of class, in residence halls, and sororites and fraternities, for example, that we get to know the student best."
AMBLER SAID THAT decisions would be made in the best interests of the University.
However, if disagreement can be done in an open manner, Ambler said, there should be no problems working with student representatives.
the University.
"I'm sure there will be times when student leaders and I will disagree."
Ambler said that Steve Leben, student body president, will be his primary student spokesman.
Ambler said he planned to attend Student Senate meetings periodically, although he didn't want to give the appearance of being an interfering
"SOME STUDENT MEETINGS remind me of our own," he said.
Amber said he had not found the same sense of cynicism among students at KU, as reflected by student leaders, as he had found in other institutions.
"Some students have the attitude that you can't trust anyone over 30," he said. "I'm pleased not to find that attitude here. If you're too cynical,
Ambler said that communication between students and administrators was a problem that would have to be worked on constantly. Part of his responsibilities in communication with students will be to help them understand how the University administration operates, he said.
HOWEVER, STUDENTS need to understand which offices to go to.
seek answers to their problems.
"A lot of my job will be to provide resources to the staff so other offices can operate."
A lot of people like that group of students felt that a particular office won't respond to their needs, he would try to solve the problem. However, he said that all the administrators he had
In fact, when he was on campus last March, Ambler said, one of the main problems many people on his staff said they had faced had been how to get students to know the offices were.
TRYING TO GET students to be aware of and use the services that the University offers, will he one of the most difficult problems he will face, he said.
Ambler said that it could take him a full year to become fully acquainted with the University and his job.
Iverson, and his job is to mentor new faculty members in order to help them become more familiar with the University. These task for ce committees are assigned to study various aspects of the office of Finance and Management.
student affairs division will also develop ideas on how to determine if the student affairs division of the administration is doing its job well and whether changes in personnel policies could be made.
he would hate that. However Ambler said he had made a personal commitment to stay on at Kent State for a
years, and no student protest nurgles in 1670.
Ambler said he decided several years ago that if the right opportunity for change came alone, he would make the move. KU just happened to be one of those right opportunities.
programs was effected by the school's visibility.
"Change is good. I can recharge my professional batteries," he said.
AMBLER SAID HIS decision to leave a previous position at Kent State University was purely professional.
new year.
"I loved it to the University," he said. "They were in the middle of building a good program in the student services division."
"SOCIETY LEARNED something about itself at Kent State. We learned about violence and its hookupcy.
ire said it would be possible for state appropriations from the Kansas Legislature to be affected by adverse publicity of the University's activities.
Dykes said that the main improvement in the university that has been made since he arrived was better financial support from the legislature to provide improved
HOWEVER, FROM FISCAL year 1974, when Dykes first came to KU, to fiscal year 1987, legislative funding for the operating budget has increased by about 69 per cent.
There is currently about $100 million in construction being done on the Lawrence campus and at the Medical Center in Kansas City.
Dykes said the new computer center being built next to Robinson Hall is an example of construction that will benefit KU students.
DYKES SAID THAT along with wooing on improving the quality of the University, he has spent a lot of time meeting people from all over the country and programs that would respond to their needs.
Dykes and his wife live in the Chancellor's house on Lilac Lane. The University has provided this home for its chancellors since 1839, with the University in 1839 by Elizabeth Watkins.
Dykes said that the University had developed many outreach programs, including the Linwood center in Kansas City, Mo., which has a masters' program in public administration.
The University also has a branch of the Med Center in Wichita.
DVKES SAID THAT his family uses the upstairs portion of the house for their private home and the downstairs for University-related entertaining.
Keeping track of all these programs keeps Dykes busy. He said he usually divides his time between the main Lawrence campus and the Med Center, although he is also responsible for the Webite branch.
Dykes said that one of his current projects is to try to determine how to keep more KU students on campus.
DVKESHA A typical day begins at 7:30 a.m. and ends about 10 p.m.
"About one-half of the graduates don't stay in the state. But we used to lose more."
Before he came to KU in 1973, Dykes was the chancellor of the University of Tennessee.
While keeping graduated doctors in Kansas might be a problem, Dykes does not think that KU will have a significant decline in undergraduate enrollment.
the University and its quality of under-
graduate teaching," Dykes said.
"IT'S CLEAR THAT enrollment will be up against this fall," he said, after reviewing the numbers.
Dykes has said that he thinks parents and students are becoming more sophisticated in their selection of where to enroll in college.
He said however, that he didn't think students at KU were really any different from students at other universities across the United States.
The extent of the decline will depend on
Leben assesses Senate program
was something I could do—and could do well."
If you were to ask Student Senate President Steve Leben why he ran for office, he might not be able to give you all the reasons he's had.
"The question of why you ran is something you always expect to be asked during the campaign but you don't afterwards," he said recently.
"For one thing you think you can do as well or better job than the person you are working with."
Leben said that anyone who ran for office usually saw some areas that he thought needed improvement. A prospective candidate, Leben said, also saw in himself abilities to address certain issues and proposals.
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capabilities and some persuasive
tips to reach your target audience.
Governing bodies serve students, faculty
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The governance system at the University of Kansas is a network of faculty and students that provides medium of communication with university authority.
Though all legal authority is ultimately invested in the chancellor, the government branches play a vital role in the decision-making that directly affects those at KU.
The senate code, drafted and approved by students in 1969 partly as a result of the massive demonstrations here in the late '60s, created four major governmental bodies: the Student Senate, the Faculty Senate, the University Senate and the University Council.
The additional bodies—the Student Executive Committee and various committees and boards make the University government a strong ally.
Yet University government isn't that hard to understand. All one has to do is follow the flow chart while reading this article.
The first branch of the government is that which belongs to the students. It begins with the Student Senate, which consists of one student senator for every 200 students in each school of the University, the student body president and vice president, the vice chancellor for student affairs, the dean of women and the dean of men and one representative from each organized living group.
Steve Leben is the president and Ralph Munyan the vice president for this year's 115 member body.
The senate has the power to act on all matters which directly and primarily affect students. The student rights, privileges, organizations and housing are some of the matters the Student Senate addresses itself to.
Each student senator is a member of at least one of the seven senate committees, which are student rights, academic affairs, communications, cultural affairs, finance and auditing, student services and sports.
Students also serve on various governing boards, such as the Parking and Traffic Board, which decides who can pay fees and how much he'll have to pay. The Athletic Section Board, in Kansas City, organizes athletic events and the University of Auburn Athletic Association.
The Student Senate also has the power to allocate student activity fees.
The chairmen of the student senate committees, along with three student members elected by the Student Senate from the student members on the University Council, Leben, Murray and Ann chairman, communicate to the 13 members of the Student Senate Executive (StudEx).
Leben, who is a senior from El Dorado,
will probably get ample opportunity to
exercise his areas of interest this year when
the Senate begins its session.
"adapted, both at the student level and with the administration," Leiben said. "I felt like I had the capabilities to do that type of job and that I would enjoy it."
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Leben said the top-priority item according to a survey of student interests conducted last year, would be to reinstate the student Curriculum and Interest survey, commonly called "feedback," which was discontinued at KU in 1974.
TWO REASONS THAT Feedback failed, Leben said, were that it didn't evaluate enough courses and didn't contain the kind of course knowledge to know about a course or an instructor.
"If we want it to last over a long period of time," he said, "we've got to make our first edition good. We can't have a halfway good edition because people are going to lose interest in it just as they did a few years ago when it was last put out."
A publication that students will want to read should utilize the statistical data gathered from the computer survey and the students' comments, Leben said.
The comment sheets students filled out, he said, would probably be edited and compiled to have the students "saying their own words about the class and instructor."
"THE ONLY ADVICE that students really thought was good about courses or instructors was advice they got from other students." he said.
"I've been told by people who've been working on the summer orientation board
Administrators to be available to aid students
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Bill Hogan Associate executive vice chancellor
The office of the executive vice chancellor for the Lawrence campus coordinates all University activities that are held in Lawrence, Bill Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor said.
Working with other administrative offices at KU to plan activities for the campus is also a part of the duties of the executive vice chancellor, Hoasan said.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, was on vacation and couldn't be reached for comment.
If problems can't be solved through other University channels, Hogan said students should come to his office in 231 Strong Hall.
"We would hope students would always feel free to come in if they really need help." Haan said.
Ron Calgaard Vice chancellor
for academic affairs
The office of academic affairs is mainly a research department in various universities within the University that report to the office, Ron Calgard said.
He said, however, that when serious grading practice conflicts arose between students and faculty or when there had been evidence of inadequate student performance, they might be involved in the grievance procedure. He fairly rare that students come to
Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that the deans of schools and the libraries division reported to his office.
be involved in the governance procedure.
"It's fairly rare that students come to us," Calgaard said.
"The best place to start is obviously with the individual department," he said.
The office of academic affairs is in 127 Strong Hall.
W.J. Argersinger Vice chancellor
for graduate studies
Argersinger's office is in 214 Strong Hall.
for graduate
the office of five trust chancellor for
graduate research studies doesn't
have a lot of contact with students,
William Argersinger said.
"We do whatever has to be done," he said.
Arsinger, the viceancellor for that office, said that his responsibilities mainly dealt with fellowship awards and orienting the new graduate students to graduate studies and the KU campus.
Arsinger said he liked to think that the official policies of his office would have some long range effect on the University, although graduate admissions are handled by individual schools at KU.
Kala Stroup Dean of women
Working as listeners and assisting students with their individual concerns and personal growth are two of the goals of the office, Siroup said.
"Please come in and get aquainted," she said.
Staff members from the dean of women's office advise the Panhellenic Association and the Commission on the Status of Women.
The office, 220 Strong Hall, also houses the Women's Resource Center, which provides materials, programs and personal assistance related to the school.
The office of the dean of women works with students as living group advisers and as resources for several student organizations, Kala Stroup, dean of women said.
Don Alderson Dean of men
The office of the dean of men has regular contact with students because of its advisory role with various living groups on campus, Dan Adelson, senior.
The office advises fraternities, scholarship halls and some of the University residence halls.
Aderson said that the office offered several special programs in coordination with the office of the dean of the faculty as beneficial and of interest to students.
Included in these special programs is a reading and study skills course.
"We have staff members that have special areas of concern and interests in the needs of students on campus," Alderson said.
The office of the dean of men is in 228 Strong Hall.