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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 27, 1989
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Tutoring program cramped for space
By Bryan Swan Kansan staff writer
Space limitations at the Supportive Educational Services building are making it difficult to tutor hundreds of University students, said Richard Lee, services director.
He said the services' tutoring enrollment figures were increasing, with 35 tutors available to select 40 students in the program.
"There's not enough room here," Lee said. "These rooms are booked all day. We have only seven rooms in this building. Six of them are occupied, and accommodate only two or three students at a time."
The lack of space has forced the services to change some tutoring sessions to evening hours and to different buildings on campus.
Lee said that he had requested more space from the University but that other departments were competing for the same space.
However, a new Athletic Department policy to arrange for other tutoring for athletes has removed more than 200 student athletes from the program.
"Since we no longer have athlete tutoring, things are a lot easier because we are no longer dealing with sports time commitments." Lee said.
Despite this decrease in the number of potential students, space at the services' building remains at a premium. Some of the tutoring rooms are less than 5 feet wide and 10 feet long.
Michele Bamihas, a math and computer sciences tutor, said the small size of the building's rooms made teaching classes of more than three students uncomfortable.
Chris Thomas leads a tutoring session in Chemistry 184 at Supportive Educational Services
"It can get very hot in here," she said. "I think four of the smaller rooms have no kind of ventilation."
Lee said the number of students enrolled in the tutoring program was expected to reach more than by the end of the spring semester.
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"After the first and second exams in classes such as science, math, English or foreign languages, you have a wave of students come in," he said.
KU garners grants totaling $52 million
dents come in, he said.
The University of Kansas has been awarded more than $23 million in grant money for fiscal year 1990, an increase from the previous graduates' study and public service.
Record money to go to research, training
By a Kansan reporter
The amount is a record for the University, said Kim Moreland, associate director of research, support and grants administration.
The Lawrence campus will receive $30.2 million, an 18 percent increase from last year's awards, she said.
Moreland said it was difficult to analyze why the University had received a record amount.
in a statement released Wednesday, Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, attributed the increase to the "talent we have
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he faculty had a good, strong group of proposals, especially in the sciences.'
studies and public service
— Frances Horowitz
"The faculty had a good, strong group of proposals, especially in the sciences."
been able to hire and the talent we have been able to keep.
Award money will be used for grants for the establishment of an early childhood research institute, a national rehabilitation research and training center on families and disabilities, and other research and training programs.
Postal Service to audit association's mailings
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
"We who manage non-profit associations through the years have felt privileged to mail some of our things at a non-profit rate," he said. "Each of the U.S. Post Service's mailings bears the signature of a postal employee who reviewed and approved the mailing."
The University of Kansas Alumni Association's executive director was surprised yesterday to learn of an audit by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
The Alumni Association is being audited to determine if it misused its non-profit mailing status. Other alumni groups nationwide also are being audited.
The inspectors are investigating whether the groups sent mail that advertised special trips and merchandise at a lower rate reserved for non-profit organizations. This mail is classified as non-profit cooperative mailings.
Fred Williams, executive director of the Alumni Association, said he was surprised because all mail that was received from him to these leses was reviewed by the post office.
According to guidelines on non-profit cooperative mailings, each of the organizations involved in the mailing must have non-profit status. Cooperative mailings produced by an organization that is not authorized to mail at the non-profit rate must pay the regular rate.
The Postal Service sent the Alumni Association a letter in April requesting information on all cooperative mailings since January 1988.
Donna Neumer, director of membership services for the Alumni Association, said the Alumni Association had done everything that Postal Services had requested but had not yet received a reply.
► The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Willner case changes usual routine for 35-year-old tenure committee
By Doug Fishback
By Doug Fishbac Kansan staff writer
The Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems traditionally has not been known for dealing with a large number of cases.
"An active year is one (case), at least in my experience," said Sandra Wick, administrative assistant to the University. Senate Executive Committee.
This year, the tenure committee is making KU history by trying to revoke the tenure of Dorothy Wilner, professor of anthropology.
The duties of the committee, as outlined in the University of Kansas Senate Code, include having original jurisdiction over censure, suspension or dismissal actions, and hearing faculty members' charges of tenure rights violations or violations of proper procedure regarding appointments and promotions.
The five-member committee comprises members of the Faculty Senate, who are appointed during the summer by the Faculty Executive Committee according to the Senate Code. The members serve one-year terms, although they are eligible to serve more than once. Wick said.
The members of this year's committee are Frances Ingemann, committee chairman and chairman of linguists; Lois Greene,
associate professor of design; Raymond Moore, professor of civil engineering; Lloyd Sponholtz, associate professor of history; and Ellen Seward, professor of law.
Spohnholtz and Ingemann served on last year's committee, and Ingemann has been chairman of the committee for several years, Wick said.
She said the committee had received two requests for review from faculty members last year. The committee found no violation of the code and did not reach the inquiry stage, Wick said.
The University Handbook for Faculty and Other Unclassified Staff states that FacEx is to implement the findings of the tenure committee.
The two previous years the committee received no review requests, she said.
Francis Heller, emeritus professor of law, said the tenure committee had been formed during the 1954-55 academic year. The chancellor had requested its formal in writing hearing, policies adopted from the American Association of University Professors.
Heller said the committee's duties were to hear cases and to recommend actions but not to implement them.
The handbook also states that "the case shall be deemed closed unless either the chancellor or the faculty member seeks to appeal to the Board of Regents."
Reactions mixed to obscene art bill Compromise legislation approved by National Endowment for the Arts
By Liz Hueben
Kansan staff writer
Taxpayers' dollars will not be used to finance exhibits of art deemed obscene, according to a bill signed Monday by President Bush.
The measure was part of the Department of the Interior spending bill for fiscal 1990 that also prohibits oil and gas drilling on the East Coast, Florida, California and Idaho.
The bill differs from the Helms bill that was killed Sept. 13 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Ken Murphy, spokesman for Rep. Jim Slattery, said the bill was a compromise between the Helms bill, named after its founder, and the Helms, Helms, R.N.C. and no resolution at all.
He said that Slattery did not want artists' creativity to be censored but that there had to be a limit to taxpayer financing of obscene art.
Murphy said that unlike the Helms bill, the wording of the new bill was approved by the National Endowment for the Arts, the agency that is affected most by the legislation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
He said the bill cited the 1973 Supreme Court Miller vs. California case for a clearer definition and test of obscurity than was presented by the Helms bill.
Virginia Falck, public affairs specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts, said the new bill made more sense than the Helms bill. She said the Helms bill was too vague and difficult to enforce.
The legislation calls for a new independent commission to review grant-making procedures for the National Endowment for the Arts.
The bill also outlines the standards to be used by the chairman of the endowment.
According to the bill, art is considered obscene if: "... the work taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest; the work depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct; and if the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious artistic and cultural value."
John Frohmayer, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said in an interview on National Public Radio that the endowment would use better judgment in financing the applications it received.
"I think the primary criteria is artistic
excellence," Frohmmayer said. "But I think on the other hand we have to remember that we're dealing with public monies and there's a public trust here, so it's a balancing act."
Ann Evans, director of the Lawrence Arts Center, said the endowment now had to judge the art's merit.
"Art has to fit endowment standards and those are different from private sector financing and that's not right," she said.
Evans said she was worried that a cut in financing at the national level could "spin off" into Kansas.
"That worries me. I hope it doesn't happen, but it could," she said.
Despite mixed feelings about the issue, Evans said that overall she was optimistic that the commission appointed in the bill would find that the endowment was run well.
She said, "The endowment has done a lot to expand arts in this country and I don't think it should be penalized for a couple of bad judgment calls.
"It's real scary, real scary...
► The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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