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University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 23, 1989
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Colleague burned complaints about tenured professor
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
Robert Squier, former chairman of anthropology, told the Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems Friday that he had complied faculty complaints against Dorothy Wilmer in an April 25, 1988, court. Dora Wilmer was later lor for academic affairs, before burning the originals.
Speaking on the third day of dismissal hearings for Willner, professor of anthropology, Squier said that Brinkman had requested that the extracted complaints remain anonymous and that Brinkman had agreed with Squier's decision to destroy the signed originals.
Squirer said that he and Brinkman had decided on anonymity because they knew the authors of the complaints could "be summoned to account for their contributions" during future developments in the Willner case. Anonymity was "to protect the individuals up to that point when they had to come forward. This may be convoluted thinking, but it was the thinking I had at the time," Squirer said.
Donald Koster, Willner's representative during the hearings, repeated his Wednesday request to Squier to attribute each of the complaints to its author. Squier was unsure of the source of some of the statements.
Koster asked Squier why he had destroyed the original statements faculty had given to him.
"I was determined that these should not lie around anywhere." Squier said. "I thought the safest thing to do was to burn them, which I did."
He said he had sent Brinkman records of Willner's courses and enrollments from the Fall 1976
through Spring 1988 semesters in an
April 21, 1988, letter.
An adviser in another department also sent letters to Squier that complained about Willner. Squier said.
He said Willner had not been told about any of the correspondence.
Willner was notified, however, of a scheduled March 4, 1977, meeting of anthropology faculty to discuss Willner's assertion that David Frayer, a professor at the University, had smoked marjuana in his Fraser Hall office. Snail said.
He said the meeting was to have discussed, among other things, a letter that Willner had written to be sent back as an安装件 file and "used against him."
Squier said that Michael Davis, then the University general counsel, had told him the meeting would not violate Willner's rights.
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"He told me I was in no way violating any rule or Constitutional right," Squier said. "I know she did. And I claimed this, but I disagree violently."
Koster's final two questions for Squier were whether Willner had opposed the promotions of James Mielle or Akira Yamamoto, both professors of anthropology. Squier said she had not, to his knowledge.
He said he did cancel the meeting, however, because Davis had discouraged that approach.
Frances Ingemann, chairman of the hearing committee, asked Squier if a grievance had been filed against Wilner. He said that grievance filing procedures existed for students, but not for faculty in the department of anthropology, and that, to his knowledge, no student had filed against Wilner.
Hearings resume at 2 p.m. today in the English Room at the Kansas Union.
Rick Roberts, Topea freshman, Julie Box (center), Augusta freshman, and Becky Swaykus, St. Louis freshman, prepare their cars.
Watch out mice: It's a car trap
By Beth Behrens Kansan staff writer
Cars made of cardboard, old records, broken toys and tin can lids all sat on the starting line.
All members of the motley crew of cars had one common element: they were powered by a mousetran.
The mousetrap design competition was part of Friday's third annual High School Engineering Course. Awarded by the University of Kansas.
Tom Mulinazzi, associate dean of engineering, said the conference was to promote engineering and the KU engineering program.
Chemistry 105 and Physics 114.
Scores on tests were tabulated by the school, and the top three schools in the academic and design competition won commemorative awards.
He said that about 320 high school students from 27 high schools in Kansas and Missouri came to take tests in Math 101,
In the academic competition,
Leavenworth High School took first place, Manhattan took second and Shawnee Mission South took third. In design, Cheney High School took first, Lincoln College Preparatory took second, and Wichita South took third.
Mulinazzi 'said the mousetrap competition was conducted to stimulate the students' imaginations. The objective was to build a mousetrap-powered contraption that would carry a full can of pop 25 feet. The cars were judged on distance and speed.
from Cheney High School, said he required his physics class to build a mousetrap-powered car as part of its grade. He said the assignment brought fun into the science program.
The winning car, with a time of 9.3 seconds, was built by Jason Gish, Cheney, the night before the competition.
Dale Kauffman, physics teacher
"Last year I made a deal with my students." Kaufman said. "I told them if they made a 27 or higher on their ACTS, I'd buy them a pizza. I ended up buying 13 pizzas out of a class of 15 kids. The scores have been skyrocketing."
Terry Holmes, Shawnee Heights math and computer science teacher, said that one of the greatest benefits of the conference was the academic competition.
University mouths off to send relief to victims of Hurricane Hugo
By a Kansan reporter
Emulation was the password Friday night as contestants in "Fantasy-Lip Sync Jam '89" mimicked their favorite stars to help the victims of Hurricane Hugo.
The contest, sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, feature lip synchs of Guy, Edy
die Murphy, Karyn White, Janet Jackson and several other music stars. It was conducted in the Kansas Union.
Tonya Shivers, AKA representative, said that proceeds from the contest would be distributed among the sorority's chapters in the Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix, and in South Carolina. The chapters then will
use the money to help the victims of the hurricane, which struck the Carribean and the East Coast of the United States several weeks ago.
About 300 people came to watch the seven contestants compete for prizes ranging from $50 for first place to $15 for third.
and Her Pose, who did Janet Jackson's "Miss You Much."
The first place group was Barbara Foster
Foster, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, said she planned to wash clothes with her share of the prize money that she split with the rest of her group. The group included LaCher Lollie, Kansas City, Mo., junior and Angie Franklin, Wichita sophomore.
Students aren't enrolling in leading languages
By Anita Meyer Kansan staff writer
University officials said more KU students are choosing languages spoken by a relatively small number of people.
Even though more people worldwide are speaking languages such as Chinese and Arabic, those increases are not reflected in the number of KU students enrolled in foreign languages.
The University offers 27 foreign languages and 20 are being taught this semester.
One of the languages, Chinese, is spoken by 1.02 billion people worldwide. Although Chinese leads in the number of people speaking it, it ranks eight at the University with an enrollment of 74.
Chinese is one of the official languages of the United Nations. The others are Japanese, Spanish, English and Russian.
Ranking second to Chinese in the number of people who speak it worldwide, Spanish is spoken by 320 million people and has the largest enrollment of University languages. More than 2,500 people are enrolled in Spanish classes.
Robert Spires, chairman of the department of Spanish and Portuguese, said the number indicated a number of students enrolled in Spanish.
"I think it reflects a growing Spanish-speaking culture," he said. "We're becoming a bilingual society. I think that when Florida and California made laws declaring English the language they really admitted that it is not."
French follows Spanish with 1,573 students enrolled in classes. The World Almanac and Book of Facts cover 117 million people speak French.
Anjum Akhtar, Topeka sophomore,
said she was interested in French
because she wanted to pursue a career in foreign relations.
"I'ts a beautiful language, and I
lind need to know it if I'm going to
play."
O. U.N. languages, Japanese ranked lowest in enrollment at KU and usage worldwide. Enrollment for Japanese is 124. According to the Almanac, 124 million people speak Japanese.
Although the Slavic language department would not release enrollment figures, Stephen Parker, department chairman, said he estimated 300 people were enrolled in Russian.
At KU, Arabic is the foreign language with the smallest enrollment: Six people are enrolled in Arabic classes.
Although class enrollment is low Arabic is spoken by 187 million people.
are enrolled in the class.
Latin is not the official language of any country, but at KU, 163 students
Renee Marrel, Pittsburgh junior,
has taken Latin for four semesters.
has taken Latin for four semesters.
He was raised Catholic, and so of
course, that plays in," she said. "I think it should be taught in grade school to teach vocabulary and help you learn English."
Number of people worldwide who speak each language compared to KU students enrolled in each
Speaking Enrolled
1,021 billion 74
320 million 2,586
187 million 6
117 million 1,573
124 million 124
63 million 255
--semester, said Wendy Rubin, a friend of Dawes.
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Troubles plagued student
Friends say Dawes disappeared in debt
By Jennifer Metz Kansan staff writer
John Schmidt, one of Dawes' roommates, said that Dawes was behind on his payment of utility bills at their house, and that Dawes owed money to a former roommate.
On the Saturday when Dawes disappeared, Dawes received disenrolment information from the University of Kansas because of nonpayment of fees, Schmidt said.
Cecil Dawes Jr., a recently disenrolled KU student who was last seen on Oct. 14 in North Lawrence, might have had many problems preceding his disappearance.
Dawes, who had attended KU since January 1989, also was on academic probation after the Spring 1989
H,
He really wanted to go back to West Point. He really wanted to be an Army officer.'
— George Bearse
Dawes' former roommate
George Bearse, Dawes' roommate from August 1888 to August 1898, said he had known Dawes since they both had attended Lawrence High School.
"When he was in high school, he was a really quiet, reserved man," Bearse said. He said Dawes was active in track and was very religious.
"He's changed 180 degrees since high school." Bearse said.
Dawes attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., after high school, he said. He returned home to Lawrence after one and a half years at the academy, and he began to take classes at Haskell Indian Junior College to complete his sophomore year.
Bearse said he and Dawes started having problems after living together only a few months.
"He really wanted to go back to West Point," Bearsse said. "He really wanted to be an Army officer."
"He had a really strict honor code when he moved in, and at West Point, the worst you could do was lie," he said. "His honor code seemed to have slipped after a while."
But Tim Ballew, director of Lawrence Security Inc., where Dawes was employed, never suspected Dawes of having troubles.
Ballew, who had been Dawes' boss for nearly two years, said Dawes worked about 30 hours a week. Part of Dawes' responsibilities included security at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
"He is a very good worker, conscientious and concerned," Ballew said.
He said he had received several compliments about Dawes' performance at the hospital.
"I spoke with him once or twice a week on the phone, and in no way did he indicate that he was stressed or depressed," Ballew said. "There is nothing at all that would have tipped me off that there was a problem."
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