KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, March 10, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 113 USPS 650-640
KU donations to Poland blocked
By JAN BOUTTE Staff Reporter
A state law has stalled the transfer of student information to friends. Solidarity from KU residents is needed.
The law, which forbids the use of state money for anything but the purpose for which it was deposited, kept students' donations to the "Have Fun" program from being released from housing accounts.
Under the skip-a-mail program, residents signed up to miss a meal on Valentine's Day, and the cost of their meals was to be donated by the nonprofit CARE for families to sponsor CARE food packages for Poland.
But because of the legal restrictions on housing funds, the Kansas University Endowment Association supplied the amount donated by the residents of the organized living groups from general funds available to the University, the University of the Endowment Association, said yesterday.
Stewart said the Endowment Association was acting on a request from the office of student services and is taking action.
"All we are are the bankers." Stewart said.
"All we are are the bankers," Stewart said. David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the money was paid from downpayment, and the student department, which he said were private donations designated for use by the residence halls.
"The packages are already being delivered to Poland with messages from KU," Lichter said.
Alan Lichter, sponsor of the Friends of Solidarity and associate professor of English, said the check from the Endowment Association had already been turned over to CARE.
Lichter said it had been his understanding that the Endowment Association check was a loan until the funds from the housing department were cleared.
"We all had just assumed since we had done it before and the students supported it, it would go on," he said. "We've got a lot of
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said that similar programs had been implemented in the residence halls during the 70s without any problems.
Student Senate, the Association of University Residence Halls and the office of student affairs all approved the program before students signed up to participate.
In residence halles, 1,449 students skipped the
sport on May 28th, which, at call,
= $1.25 million lodged $2,061.25.
Joyce Cliff, assistant director of residential programs, said the scholarship hails raised $40,000.
Ambler said the interpretation of the state law by the University general counsel's office ruled out programs like skip-a-meal for Poland for the future.
Undergraduate report looks past year 2000
But Amber said that the program wasn't a bad idea.
By ANNE CALOVICH Staff Reporter
"We have not served students if we don't develop that flexible, tolerant, liberal mind."
Staff Reporter
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, told the Student Senate Academic Affairs Committee yesterday that the purpose of a report on the improvement of undergraduate education was to provide training for minds to cope with the year 2000 and beyond.
In response to committee questions on the report, released last fall and containing recommendations for improving undergraduate education, the University will seek to understand the philosophy behind the report.
"I can't tell you what problems we'll have in the year 2000 or 2010. The careers are going to be very different than they are going," said Tacha, commission chairman.
The recommendations in the report would help educate students to be able to use their minds for future problems, whatever they might be, Tacha said.
The report was prepared by a special commission on the improvement of undergraduate
"It is remarkable, and you would be extremely pleased," she said.
Tacha said she hoped courses would be required that would allow students to spend the week in a campus.
She said education had become too specialized at the earlier level, and that such specialization is not appropriate.
Tacha also said she received a report today that indicated many top faculty members were not in attendance.
"No skill will prepare you for 10 to 20 years from now," she said. "We need to have one
The committee questioned the recommendation that a core curriculum be devised for the whole University because degree programs could then take longer and teaching assistants, rather than experienced faculty, might then teach required courses.
She also said teaching assistant training would have to be improved.
The committee asked about a proposed "dedicated hour," an hour set aside each week during which no classes would be held and the students could attend such events as lectures.
Sarah Duckers, committee chairman, said most of her friends would probably use the hour
But Tacha said she did not think students took advantage of outside-of-class activities. This lack of participation showed a lack of encouragement from the administration, she said.
"There'll come a day when you'll regret you didn't take advantage of what you here had."
Duckers suggested that a proposed required course in learning the library be offered through English courses 101 or 102, which already are required for most KU students.
Tacha said that was possible, but that students need to learn to use the library while untrained.
"I can't tell you what you'll have to know in the year 2000, but I can tell you you're going to have a lot of fun."
The committee was interested in knowing that independent study courses were being reviewed and the data from them were being
One way students get to know faculty members, she said, was through the Faculty Associate Program, in which faculty members visit living groups and get to know students.
The committee also said it would be interested in having students act as recruiters for the University, including traveling to high schools and talking to prospective students about KU.
Tacha also said it was important to have closer mentor/student relationships. She said she didn't know how it happened, but somehow, faculty and students had grown apart.
Tacha also said she hoped the committee would tell other students about the report and possible ways for its implementation. She said she would continue to speak to student groups and would print copies of the report for students who would read them.
JON HARDESTY/Kansan Staff
Todd Schweigert takes a tumble at second base in the Jayhawks' season opener yesterday against William Jewel College. KU swept both games of the doubleheader, 9-3 and 8-7. Story on page 10.
Change to prevent age discrimination suggested for faculty dismissal policy
A committee has suggested changing a financial exigency policy that was developed in case economic problems eventually force the University of Kansas into financial exigency. Joel Gold, chairman of the Financial Exigency Board and professor of English, said yesterday.
Financial exigency occurs when funding levels drop so low that tenured faculty members must
The policy outlines steps to be taken if the University declares financial exigency. Such steps include deciding which departments will release faculty and which faculty to release.
the committee suggested changes that would protect faculty members from age discrimination and that would encourage relocating faculty, Gold said.
"EVEN THOUGH we can't foresee everything, we're going to be a lot better off if we don't have to negotiate under the gun," Cold said.
Friday, the University Senate Executive Committee approved the Financial Exigency Committee's suggestions and sent the revised resolution to the Senate for approval its approval at a meeting to be held Thursday.
The policy, developed in 1976, states that a committee must review it every five years.
permissible reasons, such as race or sex, but not specify age as one of those reasons. The reason is that the question is ambiguous.
The original policy forbade dismissing a faculty member for constitutionally im-
Rather than releasing faculty members on these grounds, the University would release those who were judged as poor teachers or researchers or who had expensive skills that the
"We're trying to avoid any class differences here." Gold said.
'At some point, you could reach the moment that you have to start letting tenured faculty members go. It's happened in some states.'
—Joel Gold, chairman of the Financial Exigency Committee
University could not afford under financial exigency, he said.
The revised policy also requires that released faculty be relocated in the University wherever possible. The original policy did not include this requirement.
For example, if someone from the department of history could teach an English class, the administration would relocate him in the university, then dismiss him from the University, Gold said.
"It ought to be appropriate to move that person, rather than to let him go," he said.
The revised policy also limits the time for action, such as voting on departments to be cut, or allowing a department to have more staff.
The original policy did not specify a time limit for acting during financial exigence.
Another policy change is to include more university governance, such as the University Corporation for Community Development.
However, the chancellor would have the ultimate responsibility during financial exigency, Gold said, and the committee did not want to remove any of that responsibility.
A combination of economic problems, such as inflation and unemployment, and reduced enrollment could eventually force the University into financial exigency.
"At some point, you could be the moment that you have to startletten tuended faculty [in] your university."
"It's happened in some states."
Missouri, Washington, Michigan, Wisconsin and Massachusetts have had economic problems that forced universities in those states to release hundreds of tenured faculty members, he said.
Even so, KU is among the first universities in the country to develop a financial exigency policy. Gold said, because other universities lack such a policy, something as unforeseeable as financial exigency.
CIA photos assert Nicaraguan buildup
WASHINGTON—The Deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency made public yesterday aerial photographs that he said were evidence of a massive military buildup in Nicaragua involving Cuban soldiers and Soviet advisers.
"The implications worry us," Adm. Bobby
Irwin reports at a briefing in a State
Department office.
The briefing apparently was part of an administration campaign to convince Americans that an extraordinary concentration of compromises could lead to a threat to friendly governments in the region.
the briefing came amid mounting congressional criticism of the U.S. support for the deal.
Calling the briefing the "first in a series", imman said he was making the previously closed gate.
couple of weeks trying to grapple with the difficulty of conveying information while protecting critical intelligence sources and methods, finding that they're standardly greeted with, how can we believe you unless you show all the detailed evidence" "he said.
Inman showed a series of photographs of Nicaraguan military bases with what was described as standard Soviet and Cuban characteristics.
"I've watched public servants over the past
Photo intelligence specialist John Hughes, the same man who showed the late President John F. Kennedy the aerial evidence of the Soviet buildup in Caucasia in 1962, provided explanations.
Asked who is behind the military buildup in Nicaragua, Iman said, "In my judgment, there was an agreement reached between the Cubans and the American forces 787 time frame" to destabilize Central America.
The CIA experts said that based on the evidence of the new aerial photography and "human intelligence" there were now 6,680 to 7,090 soldiers in Campeche, and 50 to 70 Taylor advisers in Nicaragua.
place for the largest military force in Central America by far.
In addition, they said, Nicaragua has 25,000 to 30,000 of its own regular military personnel in
Before then, he said, there had been a difference of viewpoints about whether the rural guerrilla forces should be built up, as the Cubans believed, or whether the Communist Party structure should be the primary focus, as the Soviets believed.
Hughes said the pictures showed the general destruction of 16 Mosquito villages, including all
Imanan suggested that the villages were destroyed and the Indians driven out, "because if they have any plans for the Cubans, this would be a disaster," he said on Honduras and other countries in the area.
Called 'tasteless'
Candidates apologize for newsletters' articles
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
With the 1982 campaigns just barely under way, the front-running gubernatorial candidates from both parties already have taken on many articles written by their own supporters.
In a letter sent to Gov. John Carlin last week, Dave Owen, the leading GOP candidate for governor, said he did not condone an article written in the Kansas Republican party newsletter that accused Carlin of acting as a security officer at a secret fundraising party in January.
"If the political partisans on both sides are carrying this carried away already, we are in for a repulsive political year," Owen wrote in his letter.
Carlin is the leading Democratic candidate for governor this year.
Earlier this year, Carlin apologized to Kansas Attorney General Stephen Stephan for
an article published in Kandid, the state Democratic Party newsletter, that said, "Bob Stephen tells any group that will listen about Jesus Christ personally cured him of cancer.
playing big-money power politics," the article said.
"It seems clear that Stephan is transparently trying to tell us that the Lord has big plans for him and that we'll be bucking God's will if we don't support him," the article said.
The article called the Republican Stephan a "trendy and shallow politician."
Bell said yesterday that although he had read the article, he had no comment.
"I can't tell others how to run their campaign," said Bell.
The Republican newsletter also implicated a Lawrence man, Dan Watkins, chief counsel
'It's hard to dignify those accusations with a response. Trying to respond to this is kind of like wrestling with a pig—you just get real dirty doing it.'
—Dan Watkins, chief counsel for the Kansas Department of Transportation
Also attacked in the Democratic newsletter was state insurance Adjustor Fletcher Boll, a law firm.
"Fletcher Bell is a charlatan posing as a consumer advocate who can get his jollies
for the Kansas Department of Transportation. The newsletter, Kansas Today, said Watkins had secretly gathered funds for a new highway, construction industry in the state.
"Neither of these articles approaches the level of discussion that we need in Kansas," she said.
"ItIt's hard to dignify those accusations with a response." Watkins said. "Trying to respond to this is kind of like wrestling with a pig—you just get real dirty doing it."
woulds said the articles printed in both newsletters were equally tasteless. With legitimate issues revolving in Kansas politics, the newspapers did not level low-level campaign, Watkins said.
"What we printed in Kansas Today is fact,"
"kay said. "The issues that we have raised are"
"the most important."
But Morris Kay, the Republican state chairman, said the issues raised in Kansas Today were legitimate. Kay, also from Lawrence, said the Republican story concerned public disclosure of campaign funds, a Democratic article attacked personalities.
Although Owen said there was no truth to allegations about Carlin's fund-raising politics, Kay responded, "Dave (Owen) has been campaigning for 14 months. He probably hasn't had the time to do the investigations that we have."
Weather
It will be partly cloudy today with a high near 70, according to the National Weather Station in Topeka. Winds will peak at about 85 mph. Tonight's low will be around 40.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high of about 60. Warm southerly winds will continue.