University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 9, 1989
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Ex-aide says Willner intimidated her
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
A former anthropology department secretary told the Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems yesterday that she considered filing a grievance against Dorothy Wilner after Willner, professor of anthropology, had begun to intimidate her.
During dismissal hearings for Willner, Cindy Riling, who served in the department from 1981 to 1985, said she did not file a grievance because she was unfamiliar with the procedure and because she doubted filing one would bring the desired effect.
She said her pleasant relationship with Willner began to change about 1883, when Willner asked her to communicate with her in writing when addressing professional matters.
"What I wanted was to have someone to tell her, 'Leave her alone. Just get off her back,' " Riling said.
In 1894, Riling said, Willner called her "an abrasive young woman who was corrupt with power" after she had told Willner that she could not allocate money for a film Willner wanted to show in a class.
Another incident occurred when Riling was helping arrange and promote a lecture Willner was to give after she returned from a 1982 research trip to Israel. Riling said. She said when problems delayed the posting of a flier advertising the lecture, Willner threatened to have her attorney photograph the blank
door the poster was to have been posted on as evidence that department members were undermining her academic and scholarly efforts.
Donald Koster, Willner's representative, asked Riling if Willner had placed extraordinary demands on her. She said that she had not and was waiting and scheduling requests from the professor had been relatively few.
In other testimony, James Mielke, professor of anthropology, told the committee that he had begun avoidance after the death of his wife because he feared being sued by her.
Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, also finished his testimony, and he was invited to research leave granted to Willner in 1882 had been preferential treatment
A search committee headed by Richard Mann, director of information resources, was assigned to review the people who applied for the position or were nominated, Clawson said.
The search for a replacement for Eugene Staples, vice chancellor for hospital administration at the University of Kansas Medical Center, has been narrowed to five people from more than 200 candidates, executive vice chancellor D. Kay Clawson said Tuesday.
Med Center official search narrows to five
By a Kansan reporter
Mann said that all of the candidates were excellent, but he would not release their names until the final candidates were selected.
He said that the search committee would recommend three candidates to Chancellor Gene A. Budig and to Clawson after reviewing all of the applicants.
Clawson said that he was meeting with the search committee on Friday to decide whether the committee was ready to recommend the three candidates.
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