University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 7, 1989
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Source: KU Office of Institutional Research and Planning
GTA numbers on the rise
By Stacy Smith Kansas staff writer
KU students have slightly better than a 50-50 chance of having a professor teach their classes.
The percentage of graduate teaching assistants in the KU teaching staff has increased steadily in the past three years to an all-time high of 32 percent in 1988, according to latest statistics from the office of institutional research and planning.
Tenured faculty, which includes assistant, associate and full professors, constitutes 56 percent of the KU teaching staff. The remaining 12 percent are instructors and teaching staff other than GTAs.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that although the percentage of GTAs was higher than the University would like, it was still at or below that of the University of Kansas' peer institutions.
"We would like to decrease the reliance on part-time faculty and the heavy reliance on GTAs in the future." Brinkman said.
Increased enrollment figures in the
last few years and restrictions on the budget have led the University to turn to more GTAs to teach additional introductory courses, Brinkman said. However, he added that GTAs were still essential to any major research university.
"We still want GTAs teaching. If we didn't support graduate students in this way, we wouldn't be fulfilling our mission," he said. "These are some of the people who are going to be teaching at colleges across the country."
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that the current proportion of professors to GTAs was set at a level the University could economically afford.
"We haven't had sufficient funding to hire faculty as enrollment went up." Shulenburger said. "The cost per section is much less with GTAs."
The cost per class section with GTAs ranges from $1,700 to $4,000,
whereas the average cost with permanent faculty is $8,100, he said.
prepared to teach classes on their own. Shulenburd said.
"There's some extraordinary GTAs out there teaching, but they do have less experience," he said. "You have to expect the average ability to be slightly less than with professors, but I'm happy with the performances of most of our GTAs."
The University is working to ensure that GTAs are adequately
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said that GTAs were used in almost every department in the college. He said that some GTAs assist professors in large lecture classes by teaching discussion or laboratory sections while others have full classroom authority, such as in freshman and sophomore English, philoogy, psychology and foreign language courses.
Carothers said most GTAs in the college were enrolled in two graduate classes while teaching two course sections. He said students must have a bachelor's or master's degree to qualify to be GTAs. If they are foreign, they also must have a passing grade on an English proficiency exam.
State office eases worries about water
By Chris Evans Kansan staff writer
Water Resource Manager Tom Stiles, who spoke at the Topeka presentation, said his department wanted to reassure those who used water from the river that the supply would not run out or be cut off.
The Kansas Water Office yesterday sponsored an informational meeting to clear up misconceptions concerning the possible uses and users of Kansas River water sources, a department official said.
re said members of the central Kansas water district, which includes Salina, Wichita and Hutchinson, were concerned that they would lose out to members of the local district, of which Lawrence is a member.
"Our interest is not in one group or the other," Stiles said. "It's in both. I think we made our point that we can be accommodating to both groups."
Water sources used by both groups are the Milford, Tuttle Creek and Perry reservoirs. Allowances from each source are outlined in the state's water assurance program.
According to a fact sheet from the meeting, the water assurance program originated as part of the Kansas Water Plan and was to manage water supply in the state's reservoirs. The program defines downstream water benefits and rights for eligible users and is the first of its kind in the nation, the fact sheet stated.
Roger Coffey, Lawrence director of utilities, said the meeting was reassuring.
"I think we exchanged a lot of good information about the Kansas River basin and its capacity," he said. "It appears we have enough water to satisfy those who need water from the basin."
By Jim Petterson
By Jim Petterson Kansan staff writer
dence have been released.
The results of an autopsy released yesterday by local law enforcement officials listed the cause of death of a woman whose body was found Friday in a steel culvert near Stull, nine miles west of Lawrence, as strangulation.
Scott Teeselink, press officer for the Capitol Area Major Case Squad, said an autopsy completed Saturday by Douglas County Coroner Carol Moddrell and forensic pathologist Kris Sperry, from New Mexico, determined the cause of death.
No additional details concerning the autosrv or its associated evi-
The M-Squad is made of law enforcement officers from Douglas, Shawnee, Wabausee, Jefferson, Jackson, Osage and Pottawatomi counties. They are called to investigate major crimes in the sevencounty region.
The body of Nilsa Sanchez, 38,1310 Pennsylvania St., was discovered Friday in a 30 to 36-inch steel culvert underneath County Road N1400 by a farmer who noticed a strange odor and went to investigate.
Sanchez was last seen alive walking south of Highway 40 on County Road 13, the paved road to the Clinton Lake dam. Teeselink said M-Squad officers had located
Sanchez's dental records and were 100 percent positive the body found near Stull was that of Sanchez.
Previously, the M-Squad had relied on a physical description, a healed broken nose and a scar on her foot to identify the body, he said.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday that he had filed court documents requesting an inquisition into Sanchez's death.
"The inquisition is an investigative proceeding conducted by the prosecutor," he said. "The inquisition will rattling the police investigation."
Tuesday night, M-Squad officers from the Lawrence Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff's
Office and the Kansas Highway Patrol set up an information check lane at the intersection of Highway 40 and County Road 13, Teesellink said.
"The check lane was used to narrow the envelope in area, time and distance Sanchez was last seen alive," he said. "Earlier we had it narrowed down to days and miles."
"Now, because of what motorists have seen, we have it down to an area of just a few miles and just a few evening hours, a drastic change."
Teeelink said the success of the check lane prompted M-Squad officers to conduct another check lane last night and schedule another check for tonight.
County charges, releases pot-smoking protester
By a Kansan reporter
Mark Creamer was released from the Douglas County jail yesterday after being charged with possession of an illegal substance.
Lawrence police arrested him Tuesday after he smoked a marijuana cigarette in the reception area of the Düggas County Law Enforcement Center, 11th and Massachus-
Creamer must return at 1:30 p.m.
Monday to Douglas County District
Court for a preliminary hearing.
The conditions for his release include a
$5,000 bond to be paid if he misses the
hearing. The bond originally was set at $600 but was increased because he
was found guilty of possession of an
setts streets. Creamer, 312 Indiana St., said he was protesting President Bush's drug enforcement program.
The bond also requires Creamer to report to the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism and stipulates that he cannot use alcohol or drugs, Creamer said. He must return to jail until the hearing if he does not meet these stipulations.
Creamer said he planned to plead not guilty.
illegal substance 18 years ago, Creamer said.
"In my own mind, I feel I'm not guilty," he said.
District Attorney Jim Flory said Creamer's charge was a felony because he was a repeat offender. Creamer faces a minimum sentence of one to three years in prison and a maximum of five to ten years, said Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman. In addition, he may be fined up to $10,000.
Parking policies create confusion
By Lisa Moss
Karen staff write
Kansan staff write
A number of off-campus students employed by KU residence halls are confused about a parking policy regarding their eligibility for purchasing parking stickers.
Off-campus students employed by residence halls cannot purchase white residence hall parking stickers, said Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said white parking stickers can only be purchased by students who live on campus.
Students who live off campus are eligible to purchase yellow parking stickers.
Student employees who have purchased yellow stickers are allowed to park in residence hall parking lots between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. Monday through Friday, but they cannot purchase a white residence hall parking sticker, Hultine told. Residence hall parking hall parks are unrestricted for parking 24 hours a day on weekends.
Students working before 5 p.m. must park on West Campus at Daisy Field Extension, commonly known as "East Topkea", if they have a driveway. Students who work in Strahan, Wichita senior, who works in a residence hall.
Heather Moore, Lawrence junior, works in a residence hall and lives off campus. She said she was told by an employee of Parking Services that she could purchase a residence hall
parking sticker if she had a letter from her supervisor.
Hultine said, "Maybe someone just said, 'Bring me a letter,' but they wouldn't."
Moore said she only needed a work because the apple bus to bus.
She said full-time University employees were told to get letters from their supervisors to park in residence hall lots, but student employees who live off campus could not purchase residence hall stickers.
Student employees would save $17 a year if they were allowed to purchase residence hall stickers, Stoner said. Yellow permits cost $40 a year and residence hall permits cost $23 a year.
Mike Owens, Overland Park
park senior, lives off campus and works in
a residence hall. On Aug. 21, Owens
lives off White residence hall park
permit.
"It shouldn't have happened," Stoner said. "If they sold him a
Hultine said that there might have been some confusion at parking services because of new employees who worked on the first day of registration.
The policy regarding student employees was made by the parking board in conjunction with the housing department, she said.
"We support the policy," Stoner said.
He said it made sense for students to buy the permits.
Tenants battle visitor charge
By Liz Hueben Kansan staff writer
Residents of Stouffer Place are fighting a Parking Services plan that will require visitors to the complex to display permits on their vehicles.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said the plan would go into effect Monday. Under the plan, visitors' permits will cost $40 a year, $23 a semester or $20 for a summer, she said. The plan allows visiting permit good for any visitor parking in lot 114, just east of McCollum and Ellsworth Halls.
Under special circumstances such as a daily babysitter or visiting nurse, a permit for a specific vehicle for lot 114 may be purchased for $23 a year, according to the parking board's plan. A letter to verify circumstances is required from the Stouffer Place manager.
The residents also must pay $2 each year for each of their own vehicles to park in the Stouffer Place lots, said Kimberly Kelly, treasurer of the Stouffer Place Neighborhood Association.
She said that visitors to Stouffe Place could pay per day for a visitor permit. The charges are $2 for full-day passes and $1 for half-day permits, Kelly said.
Last year, visitors parked free at Stouffer Place with a salmon-colored permit issued to residents of the complex.
Fred McEhenie, associate director of student housing, said this system often resulted in the unavailability of space for resident parking.
Hultine said the reason for the
change was that the University maintained the parking lots and that was the main difference between Stouffer Place's situation compared to that of a private residence.
She said the roads at Stouffler Place needed work and that the parking lots at residence halls were on a rotating basis for maintenance. Major work should be done on the lots at Stouffler Place in 1992.
In the past, Huline said, the lots and visitors' parking at Stouffer Place have been subsidized by regular parking permit sales.
The system of paid visitor parking was implemented at the residence halls last year. Each student has to buy a floating visitor pass so his or her visitors will not get ticketed.
Kelly said many residents were irate. She cited three main reasons for the anger.
"There is the issue of money. the reason for Stouffer Place s for low-income housing for families trying to go to school," she said.
Huline said the money collected from visitors' permits would go to maintenance of the lots at Stouffer Place. She said that two motorcycle areas had been added to the lots and patching work was done last spring.
Kelly said she thought the parking charges were too high. She also said she thought the parking lots were in horrible shape as far as maintenance goes.
"The residents told me, 'It's like charging people to park in your driveway.' The difference is that I maintain my own driveway," she said.
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