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Monday, November 13, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Leaders of ASK gather to discuss Regents issues
By Lara Weber Kansan staff writer
While other students may have been trying to keep their minds off school this weekend, student leaders from the seven Board of Regents schools spent Friday night discussing various issues including the Margin of Excellence and admission policies.
Each month, Associated Students of Kansas members meet at a Regents school for a policy council meeting. Policy council is designed to give students from all the schools a role in the legislature. ASK lobbies the Legislature for, ASK is a statewide lobby group for the Regents schools.
On Friday, about 30 students, including six from the University of Kansas, met at KU.
Christine Stanek, one of the KU representatives, said that the discussion was important but that it was not very productive this month.
"We ended up arguing more because all the schools are so diverse." she said.
B. Jake White, KU student body president, agreed.
"I thought it went really well," he said. "A lot of people are having different problems, but the Margin is still our main priority."
The Margin is the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
Willner's colleague says rights threatened
Qualified admissions also was a topic that prompted debate.
Qualified admissions is a proposal being discussed throughout the state that would require entering freshmen to meet certain requirements before being admitted to a Regents school. Currently, students are admitted to a Kansas high school to be admitted to a Regents school.
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
A colleague of Dorothy Willner told a Faculty Senate committee Friday that the rights of Willner's colleagues, not her own freedoms, were at issue in the dismissal actions being taken against her.
"I believe that this case is not ong involving Professor Willner's academic freedom," said Felix Moos, professor of anthropology. He told the Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems that Willner's demands for special treatment had constituted "willful obstruction of her colleagues' academic freedom and their rights as American citizens."
Moss said that Williner, professor of anthropology, had learned that "vexatious litigation is a most powerful tool of intimidation."
He said that in 1982, he was served a summons to appear in court. The summons, which was related to a lawsuit Willner had
filed against the University, was served to him in front of a class of 200 students two minutes before he was to start his lecture. he said.
"If that is not intimidation, I do not know what is." Moos said.
He also said that Willner had exhibited what he would not call "average functional behavior."
"There have been, from time to time, incidences that I would describe as less than normal functional behavior," Moes said. "Certainly when someone waves arms and shouts in a class of 200 people certainly I would not classify that as normal behavior."
During cross examination,
Donald Koster, Willner's representative,
asked Moos whether he thought that principles outlined in the KU Handbook for Faculty and Other Unclassified Staff contradicted tenure and dismissal principles set forth by the American Association of University Professors.
"I don't see that there is any
contradiction." Moos said.
When Koster followed up by citing an AAUF statement that appeared in a 1984 policy publication, Rose Marino, who represents the administration, objected. She said that the University had not adopted the statement and that it was irrelevant.
Frances Ingemann, chairman of the committee, allowed Koster to ask Moos about the statement, which holds that incompetence as a teather or as a researcher is adequate grounds for dismissal of a tenured faculty member.
Moos, who is president of the Kansas conference of the AAUP, produced his own documents to interpret AAUP policy. He read from an article that had appeared in 1897 in the AAUP publication, Academy. That article states that dismissal must be based upon "incompetence or inability to perform."
When Koster asked Moos whether he thought that the
charges against Wilner related to her fitness as a teacher or researcher, Moos said he could not answer the question because he had not been given full access to the documentation of her case.
In other testimony, a former student of Willner told the committee that during the Fall 1986 semester, he had sought further explanation from Willner after he came on a mid-term paper for her class.
John Clark, graduate student in the School of Education, said that Willner had not written enough remarks on his paper for him to understand why he had received a low grade.
He said that when he went to speak with Willner, she told him that he was an "F" student and that he would be writing feedback in her written comments.
"This affected my grade, and besides that it didn't help me learn the material, it really upset me," Clark said.
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