VOL. 100, NO.35 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY OCT.13,1989
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KU schedules hearing to fire tenured prof
Proceedings to set precedent
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
KU administrators will set a University precedent Monday when they begin dismissal hearings for a tenured professor.
Dorothy Willner, professor of anthropology, will be the first KU tenured professor to undergo dismis-
sion and leave the university toandra Wick,
administrative assistant.
University officials would not disclose the reason for the dismissal proceedings.
The procedures will begin 2 p.m. Monday, in the English Room at the Kansas Union, when the Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems will hear opening testimony from the parties involved.
Wick said the committee would convene from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, and from 2 to 5 p.m. Fridays for the hearing process all hearings are scheduled for the English Room.
Frances Ingemann, professor and acting chairman of linguistics, will oversee the proceedings.
Ingemann said that the committee had been informed in April of
Chancellor Gene A. Budig's decision to call for Willer's dismissal. Dismissal hearings originally had been planned for the summer, Ingermann said, but were postponed until fall at Willer's request.
According to the Handbook for Faculty and Other Classified Staff, the Chancellor is responsible for faculty incompetence or moral turbulence."
Budig could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Murray Lewin, associate professor of business and former chairman of the University judicial board, said that a mediation committee had been selected from judicial board members to try to settle matters before dismissal hearings were scheduled.
Other members of the Senate committee that will conduct the dismissal hearings are Lloyd Sponholtz, associate professor of history; Ellen Sward, associate professor of law; Loise Greene, associate professor of design; and Raymond Moore, associate professor of civil engineering.
"One of the steps was mediation, and the issue was not solved through mediation."
Willner last night declined to comment on the proceedings.
House votes 371-43 to ban flag burning
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday overwhelmingly approved a federal ban on fire burning, just four months after a Supreme Court decision that allowed destruction of a U.S. flag as a form of political protest.
"This is the least we can do to protect the sanctity of the flag," Rep. Butler Derrick, D-S.C., said before the House voted 371-43, approving the bill.
Still, 154 Republicans joined 217 Democrats in supporting the statutory ban yesterday, while only 18 Republicans and 25 Democrats opposed it. The bill passed the Senate 91-9.
However, President Bush and many Republicans say Congress must do more than pass a statute and have been pressing for a constitutional amendment to outlaw flag destruction or desecration. The Senate will take up that issue next week.
White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the White House had not yet received the bill. When it was revealed, a legal review will be conducted.
Fitzwater declined to say whether Bush would veto or sign the bill. However, administration sources speaking on condition of anonymity, said the president was expected to let it go into effect without his signature.
"The president obviously agrees with its general purpose but feels a constitutional amendment is needed to legal challenges." Fitzwater said.
Bush said last week that a new statute would not be adequate to get
around the Supreme Court decision, which overruled the conviction of a Texas flag burner.
Bush backed earlier congressional proposals for a constitutional amendment, but Congress scrapped them in favor of the legislative approach.
The bill on its way to Bush would revise existing federal law and provide up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for anyone who "knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defies, burns, maintains on the floor or ground or tramples upon any flag of the United States."
Bush joined the call for a constitutional amendment, but Democratic leaders said changing the Constitution would not cause a contraction in response to an isolated case.
"Amending the Constitution, as some would advance, should be a last resort and not a first resort," said Rep. William Hughes, D-N.J. He said the issue "be addressed in a much less dramatic manner."
Supporters of the bill said the wording had been carefully fashioned to withstand court challenges, banning flag defacement regardless of whether it involved political protest.
"It is the act of harming the physical integrity of the flag rather than any message that the action might convey that is to be punished." Judiciary Committee Chairman Jack Brooks, D-Texas, told the House.
As in the Senate, many House lawmakers clearly planned to vote for both the bill and the constitutional amendment, a strategy considered politically safe.
Brooks said the bill had been framed in a "content-neutral manner."
The printing floor at Japanese-owned UARCO is composed of state-of-the-art equipment.
Foreign-run firms set up in Kansas
By Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
Although three Douglas County businesses are owned by foreign companies, employees of each say they don't notice a differ-
"We don't see any changes," said Fat Clarkson, distribution supervisor for Airco Industrial Gases Inc., East K-10 Highway.
He said that the BOC Group, a British company, bought Airco in the late 1970s. Airco, a producer of oxygen, medical gases, employees 17 people.
Paul Conway, production superintendent for Airco, said that foreign ownership had a greater impact on capital expenditures as opposed to management philosophy.
"On the local front, it has meant more dollars to invest," he said. "We've had considerable equipment improvement and machinery maintenance. But the man who running Airco now runs BOC."
Bill Russell, vice president and general manager for Lawrence Technology, 2400 Packer Road, said that he had noticed a different approach to business since Pearson, another British firm, bought the company one year ago.
"The biggest change is the way they look at things," he said.
See FOREIGN, p. 6
Jimmie Henson. left. talks shop with Jerrv Smith. technician.
Lawmakers debate bill on discount Apple sales
By Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The University of Kansas has cornered the Apple computer market in Lawrence, computer merchants say.
But the discount sale of computers on college campuses would end if the Kansas Legislature adopts a bill now in committee.
KU Bookshouses have an agreement with Apple Computers Inc. to sell computers to students and faculty at lower than the prevailing retail price.
For example, KU Bookstores sell the Apple Macintosh plus for $995. Several Lawrence computer retailers said no local stores would handle Apple computers because of competition from the University. However, Lenox International Computer Inc. in Lenexa sells the Macintosh plus for $1.299.
"The number of machines and the volume has just transferred from the private to the public sector," said Myles Schachter, president of Connecting Point Computer Centers, which operates stores in Lawrence and Manhattan. "It shouldn't be that my business should have to go out so the University can provide better services."
Frances Horowitz, KU vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said more education is needed because of the lower University prices.
Apple officials said they promoted the lower-priced university sales because students who learned to use Apple computers would later demand Apples in their workplace.
Some computer manufacturers have similar arrangements at other universities, including Kansas State University, Wichita State University and the University of Kansas Medical Center, according to an audit report by the Legislative Division of Post Audit.
But in Kansas, KU sells more computers than any other university.
The KU Bookstore in the Burge Union sold 1,201 Apple computers, worth more than $2.7 million, during fiscal years 1988-89, according to the audit report. K-State followed with about $725,000 in sales.
Jim Johnson, director of government affairs for Apple Computers Inc., said that by getting computers to more students, Apple was promoting better-educated college gradu-
Senate wades through bulky deficit bill
See COMPUTER. d. 6
Pet projects burden budget-cut proposal
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate began plowing through a $14.1 billion deficit-reduction bill yesterday as Democrats claimed enough votes to block Republicans from tackling on a cut in the capital-gains tax.
Unless Congress completes the action before Monday on the eight-inch-thick bill, which is unlikely, automatic across-the-board reductions in funding for spending programs. But Congress has left itself an out; Even if the
automatic cuts take effect, they can be restored as soon as the bill is enacted.
The sheer size of the bill and the fact that it was put into final form barely two hours before debate began were enough to cause some senators to view the automatic filing cuts as the lesser of two evils.
"If somebody wanted to manufacture a piece of legislation absolutely confirming the worst suspicions they have about the budget process, it would be this piece of legislation," said Sen. William Armstrong, R-
He lodged his complaint as the Senate Budget Committee, voting 9-
concern because the bill was laden with amendments that had nothing to do with reducing the deficit.
Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn., chairman of the Budget Committee, and Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, the senior Republican on the panel, promised an effort on the Senate floor to strip away some of the extraneous provisions.
Members of both parties expressed
Although the major purpose of the spending bill is to reduce the deficit in the current budget year to about $110 billion, most of its bulk can be attributed to hundreds of pet pro-children's care initiative to repeal of a law designed to prevent discrimination in employer-paid health care to scores of tax breaks for various special interests.
More important to the Bush administration and Republican senators, the bill does not contain the capital-gains tax cut that President Bush promised during last year's campaign. The Senate Finance Committee rejected the cut in favor of a Democratic plan to liberalize tax-deductible Individual Retirement Accounts.
Republicans and a handful of Democrats had been considering adding a capital-gains cut to the bill, but there was no certainty they would make the effort. The reason is that while a majority of senators favor some kind of capital gains tax, they apparently cannot muster the 60 votes required under Senate rules to attach the reduction to the deficit bill.
KU's programs raise American Indian enrollment
Bv Corv S. Anderson
Kansan staff writer
A 48 percent boost in American Indian enrollment at the University of Kansas may be the result of several programs, officials say.
Marshall Jackson, interim director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said programs sponsored by the School of Social Welfare and the School of Education might be partially responsible for the increase of American Indian students at KU.
American Indian enrollment increased from 148 students in 1988 to 219 in 1998, according to statistics.
While participating in the School of Social Welfare program, Haskell Indian Junior College students with associate degrees can attend KU and receive tuition assistance and stipends from the University. The student
John Poertner, associate professor of social welfare.
We encourage our students to take as many general education requirements as possible at Haskell. One of the reasons is that the smaller classes at Haskell make for better instruction.'
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associate professor of social welfare
associate professor of social welfare
- John Poertner
said the success of the program might have something to do with the increase in enrollment.
"Part of it is that students at Haskell learn more about social work and see the successful students already in it," he said.
Pouster said that as more financial assistance became available he expects more American students to
The program focuses mainly on juniors and seniors, he
said, because the students are urged to take their first two years at Haskell.
"We encourage our students to take as many general education requirements as possible at Haskell. Poerert said. "One of the reasons is that the smaller classes at Haskell make for better instruction."
The School of Education sponsors a summer institute for teachers of American Indian students. The program involves five different sessions which run through the summer.
Walt Smith, professor of curriculum and instruction at the School of Education, said that one of the programs was an eight-week seminar called "Math And Science Teaching For Reservation Schools." This program involved 38 teachers from seven states and was financed by the National Science Foundation.
"To some extent the changes in enrollment reflect how
The other four programs for reservation teachers were two separate two-week programs in reading, and math and science.
many of these programs the Bureau of Indian Affairs is funding at the time." Smith said.
These programs were attended by 80 to 100 American Indians, Smith said. But no all who enrolled reported the program.
"There were probably a lot more Native Americans in that group than made it known," he said.
Smith said the increased enrollment might not be visible on the Lawrence campus.
"Those numbers include students here in Lawrence, at the Regents Center and even those enrolled by mail," Smith said. "My guess is that anything we are doing is not having a direct effect on the number of students on campus."
Jackson said the programs might be helping the University image among American Indian students. Every year an informational entourage is sent to Haskell to answer student questions. he said.
"More students may be coming as a result of those efforts." Jackson said.
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