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University Daily Kansan, October 15, 1981
Similar degrees confuse students KU criminal justice major conflicts with WSU's
By PAM ALLOWAY Staff Reporter
The average KU student could be more than a little confused if he or she chose to major in criminal justice. The student would have the choice of graduating from the University of Kansas or from the University of Kansas without ever leaving the KU campus.
Students can major in crime and delinquency studies through KU or in administrative justice through WSU's Outreach Program on the KU Campus.
The student, however, isn't the only one who's confused.
Crime and delinquency studies was developed and proposed two years ago to the Council of Chief Academic Officers for acceptance as a regular major. The proposal had already been approved by the KU administration.
THE COUNCIL which is made up of the vice president or vice chancellors at all state Regents institutions, and the governor, returning it to special major status.
A special major is one that requires interested students to petition the
appropriate school for permission to major in it.
According to William Arnold, KU professor of sociology, the council said the proposal was rejected because it violated KU's administration of justice major.
Arnold specializes in criminology and the initiator of the crime and delineation.
Arnold said the KU advisory committee for crime and delinquency studies revised the proposal, emphasizing the social services aspect of the police service system, rather than the law enforcement aspect that UWS emphasized.
"Our program is predominantly made up of students who are interested in the social services aspect of crime and delinquency, such as truant and probation officers," Arnold said. "The WSU program is geared more towards training police officers, though, technically, both programs encompass all occupations in the criminal justice system."
THE REVISION was presented to W.U. for review and was again rejected because of the criticism.
In a letter of explanation to Arnold, R.G. Lacovetta, WSU's administrative justice director, wrote that KU's proposal "casts KU and WSU programs in an awkward and competitive relationship."
Lacovetta also disagreed that the law compromisized the law of property aspects.
"WSU also deals with the delinquency aspect of the justice system. However, we don't specialize in this area, but we handle the whole criminal justice system."
Lacovetta said WSU also had a state mandate that specified WSU as the only institution in the state that could offer a criminal justice program. WSU was given that mandate by the Board of Regents in 1973.
James Fagin, coordinator of the administrative justice program at KU, said that until the KU program was shown to be different from WSU's program, it would remain a special major.
FAGIN SAID the reason that WSU offered the major at KU was to reach those individuals who wanted to major in administrative justice in this area.
"If the students won't come to you, you go out and get them," he said.
WSU offers courses in the administration of justice in nine locations
KU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reports that there have been 13 students whose petitions for the crime and delinquency studies major have been approved since January 1961.
Fagin said there were about 25
judges in the administration of justice majors.
According to Jan Sheldon-Wilden, a lawyer specializing in juvenile crime and one of the advisers for the juvenile option of the KU major, it is difficult to tell exactly how many students are majoring in crime and delinquency because many are in the process of petitioning for admittance to the program.
Wildgen said she had advised 35 students since her involvement with the KU major began in the spring of 1978. She has seven students this fall.
Besides the juvenile option, there are other options. The major option is sociology, psychology, political major, sociology, psychology, political
science, speech communications and social welfare. Members in each of these disciplines are on a committee that oversees the program.
Fagin said there were two common fallacies regarding the crime and juvenile studies. The first is that it is the criminals interested in the collection of fields in the KU program, rather than the criminal justice system.
THE SECOND fallacy is that the KU special major doesn't have any core requirements. He said that the administration of justice major required students to take a core of courses and declare an area of specialization. The areas of specialization offered in the KU program are investigation, prevention, correction services, agency and administration and security.
However, KU students seem to be suffering from the confusion the most.
The WSU program was listed for the first time in KU's fall semester Timetable, and the KU special major wasn't listed at all.
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