University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 2, 1989
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Senate snubs Students For America's bill
By Lara Weber Kansan staff writer
Although it eventually was rejected on a technicality, a Student Senate bill to finance Students For America prompted a lively debate last night at a Senate Finance Committee meeting.
Students For America defines itself as a group organized to provide forums for popular issues, such as the environment, economy and student rights.
The bill, which would have provided the group $325, was ruled in violation of a duplication rule of Senate rules. The ruling was based on the decision by Pat Warren, finance committee chairman, that Students For America served the same purpose as Slightly Older Americans for Freedom, which receives Senate financing.
bill, citing the organization's conservative stance. A brochure with an endorsement from Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., was cited, as well as the organization's distribution of information about "Accuracy in Academia."
Before the ruling some committee members spoke strongly against the
Accuracy in Acadamia works to identify political bias in classrooms and has been scrutinized for its methods. The group sends members to sit in on classes suspected of being taught by politically biased instructors.
John Noltensmeyer, chairman of Students For America and a member of the finance committee, said that by distributing such materials the group was trying to present a view not often heard on campus, and that it did not always support everything in the literature.
"We're not trying to disrupt the academic process in any way." Noltenmeyer said. "But take history, for example. We want to make sure
what's taught is what actually happened and not just one professor's view of it."
Jeff Feist, vice chairman of Students For America, said the committee rejected the bill because it didn't support the group's goals.
"It was totally a front to say that they don't support what we believe," he said. "We have the belief that organizations that are financed by Student Senate are biased toward a radical left-wing agenda."
Former dean claims Willner was abusive
By Doug Fishback
Kansan staff writer
Robert Lineberry testified last night that his efforts to bring Dorothy Willner "back into the fold" of the department of anthropology by granting her a special leave had left other anthrology faculty livid.
Lineberry, former dean of liberal arts, said he wanted to establish good relations with Willner, professor of anthropology, when he began his seven-year stint as dean in August 1981
To do so, he arranged a special leave with pay for Willner in the Fall 1981, he told the Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems. The leave was granted so she could travel to Israel to conduct research.
Lineberry said Willner was allowed to bypass the normal system of application for leave in what is necessary to "an end run around the process."
He said the exceptional treatment angered Willner's colleagues.
He said some of Willner's colleagues thought he had given a special favor "to a faculty member who was, in their opinion, always seeking special favors."
Lineberry said he had wanted to have a good working relationship with Willner because he had been aware of her published work before coming to the University.
Lineberry said that Willner's research ranged from good to very good and that he thought she had been respected among colleagues as a researcher.
"I was absolutely flabbergasted," he said. "It was just flatly bizarre and vulgar."
He said he was shocked when, Oct. 12, 1982, Willner criticized her colleagues in a telephone conversation with him, characterizing them in language ranging from "the vulgar to the contemptible to the obscene."
Lineberry said that one of the office staff feared physical violence and that another said, "My own personal fear is fear of being sued."
Five years later, when Lineberry held a meeting with department of anthropology secretaries, he learned that they were afraid of her, he said.
Lineberry told the committee that Willner had created "a kind of aura of intimidation" with heats of law and pressure to take them and told him, "I'll add you to my list."
In a February 1982 letter to
Lineberry, Willner said she would not submit materials for merit salary review to Robert Squier, then chairman of anthropology, because he had been named in a charge she had filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Donald Koster, Willner's representa- tive, asked Lineberry whether he thought there was merit in the professor's reason for not submitting the materials.
Lineberry said that one of the office staff feared physical violence and that another being sued.
"None whatsoever," Lineberry replied. "She provided me with a reason. I did not accept the reason."
He said that an effort to exclude those involved in disputes from the review process would "make a sham-up of evaluation at the University."
Lineberry said that later in 1982 Willner failed to submit to him student evaluations of her teaching and that she mailed him a list of the students in her class. He said she suggested that he interview some of the students himself.
"That seems to me colossal arrogance, sir," Lineberry said to Koster.
Koster followed up on a statement made by Lineberry that the department of anthropology had suffered from deep fissures. When Koster asked him whether he thought other faculty members besides Willner had been subjects of tension within the department, Lineberry said that one other member of the department had disputed with a majority of colleagues.
Koster had begun yesterday's hearing by lodging an objection with the committee, saying that under hearing procedure rules in the Handbook for Faculty and Other Unclassified Staff, only the charged faculty member could introduce hearsay evidence.
Koster said that John Janzen and Michael Crawford, professors of anthropology, had introduced hear-say during their testimony by referring to complaints they had heard from students.
Frances Ingemann, chairman of the committee, said the committee members would consider Koster's objection.
Daniel Starting/KANSAN
A fresh coat
Facilities Operations maintenance painters Kenny Bateson, above, and Wayne Hathaway finish repairs to the tennis practice courts behind Robinson Center with a final coat of paint.
Favorable response to alcohol awareness
By Holly Lawton Kansan staff writer
KU student response to the activities was extremely favorable, said BACCHUS members Mike Trant, Ballwin, Mo., senior, and Richard Beaman, St. Louis, Mo., senior.
Alcohol Awareness Week organizers enjoyed a successful kick-off yesterday that exceeded their expectations, they said.
"It's going really well," Beaman said. "A lot of people have been really interested."
Trant echoed Beaman's sentiments.
"It's been a great day for us," he said. "I'm really surprised at how many people have been taking our literature and coming up to talk to us."
Watkins Memorial Health Center's health education department sponsored Alcohol Awareness Week for the first time. Members of the Association of University Residence Halls, BACCHUS, Panhellenic, Student Senate and the KU Police Department helped with the activities.
This week's theme is "No Thanks, I'm Driving," intended to promote designated driver programs in Lawrence, said Sue Sadecki, BACCHus president. Coordinators have already convinced 23 local bars to support a designated driver program.
Students agreed that Alcohol Awareness Week had an educational purpose at KU.
Young said he thought the activ-
ity was not enough to think
think before drinking too much.
"I think it's probably helpful," said Steve Young, Lenexa sophomore. "I think alcohol's getting to be a real problem — not just at KU, but all over. I don't drink anymore myself."
Organizers set up several tables outside Wescoe Hall and handed out literature on alcohol awareness, keychains, buttons and cups. Free non-alcoholic cocktails and hot chocolate also were available.
A car wrecked in an alcohol-related accident has been in front of Watson Library since Monday to show students the dangers of drunk driving. Students also were able to ride "The Convincev", a machine that simulated the effects of a car crash.
Clayton Carlson of the Kansas Safety Belt office in Manhattan was running "The Convincer" for about 25 students who felt brave enough to try it. Although it traveled at only 5 mph, he said the effects felt much stronger than it would seem.
"Several students have had a great awakening today," he said.
Sadecki said organizers were trying to make the week as positive as they could.
"It's not prohibition; it's saying be responsible," she said.
Silver Haired Legislature meets to decide lobbying issues
Bv Kate Lee
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Representatives of the more than 450,000 Kansans aged 65 and over met yesterday in Topeka for the start of the research annual Silver Haired Legislature.
will consider 12 pieces of legislation during its session, which will end tomorrow. The group will lobby its decisions to the state Legislature during the 1900 session.
was funded by private donations.
several hundred clerkships
the one-house legislature of 125 members
Garence Arndt, a member of the board of directors and a former Silver Haired Speaker of the House, said the legislature was not sponsored by any governmental body but
was tuberculosis of prince
Orville Voth, Lawrence resident and former director of independent study at the University of Kansas, is the current speaker.
fortunate people.
"After seven years, this is not a culmination but the beginning of an even greater seven years." he said.
University of Kuala Lumpur, the president, president, addressed the group at its open session and told the legislators that this was an opportunity to do good things for themselves as well as less
Eather Wolf, secretary of the Kansas Department on Aging, told the group it had grown during its seven years of existence. "You have matured," she said. "This is the
Wolf said the department used the legislature's work to set priorities.
we take your work seriously," she said. Past Silver Haired Legislatures have passed bills that were approved by the state Legislature.
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"You have matured," she said. "This is the
real work of having issues and listening to what your constituents are saying."
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