University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 5, 1989
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UNITE network links area schools
By Angela Baughman Kansan staff writer
A new communications network that links KU's School of Education with six area school districts will aid both KU's student teachers and educators in the districts, school officials said.
The computerized network, called Project UNITE (Unified Network for Informatics in Teacher Education), is connected to 17 stations in schools in the Lawrence, Eudora, Olathe, Blue Valley, Shawnee Mission and Kansas City, Kan. school districts.
Ronald Aust, the project's coordinator and director of the Instructional Technology Center where the program is based, said the program was established through a $172,500 equipment grant from Apple Computer Inc. of Anaheim, Calif.
Aust said that proposals for the program grants were sent to 57 colleges with schools of education
across the country, and that the University of Kansas was one of seven to win an initial major award.
Aust said the software for the program, which runs on Apple's Macintosh computers, was developed by members of KU's education staff.
"Jim Klayder, a Ph.D candidate in curriculum instruction, has done much of the programming." Aust said. "Over the last couple of weeks, I've been pleased with what Jim has been able to do in constructing an icon base messaging system that makes message sending as intuitive as mailing a letter through the postal system, and a lot faster."
Aust described the system as one that not only provided information for educators, such as lesson plans, computer-assisted instruction and interactive video programs, but one that allowed for idea sharing and building.
"It's both a messaging system and
Tom Jerome, principal of Nottingham Elementary School in Eudora, called the network a fantastic source of information for teachers.
"It it so vast, the variety of curriculum areas and the number of layers of information for the curriculum areas," Jerome said. "We'll have a liaison team working on it between now and September, then we'll work our other staff into it and encourage them to use it."
a navigational window for teachers and our interns here," Aust said.
Jerome said an example of how the system worked would be to call up a certain subject on the computer, such as field trips in the Kansas City area. He said the computer would process data on the chosen location and show the grade levels for which it would be appropriate. The system would evaluate what would be accomplished by going to the given location, list pre- and post-trip activities for the students and provide a
map for the location, which could be printed out.
Jim Jarrett, director of secondary education for the Kansas City, Kan. school district, said UNITE was an excellent tool for sharing information.
"It's very important for sharing with teachers — not only in our district, but with the others that are involved," Jarrett said.
Aust said that all of the districts, except Lawrence, were linked by a satellite computer to the Technology Center. He said Lawrence was directly linked to te system because of its proximity.
Aust said electronic communications such as the UNITE network would eventually become commonplace because of the ease and reasonable cost of such systems. However, he said that the Technology Center would have to seek additional financing to extend the program further.
ASK promotes community work for credit, aid
By Lara Weber Kansan staff writer
As Associated Students of Kansas begins its 16th year as a statewide student lobbying group, one of its top priorities is continuing the Youth Education Service (YES) started last year, said Sherri Sweers, campus AKS director.
rES is a program ASK members developed to provide educational opportunity for college students through community service. At each Regents school, students may apply to receive various forms of financial aid or academic credit for such community work as tutoring elementary through high school students or helping non-English speaking children master their language skills.
"It's been a complete success," Sweeps said. "Students putting them
selves through school through community service and volunteerism seems to be a trend."
YES is only one of ASK's priorities for the fall, however.
"We're really, really going to push for the Margin again this year," Sweers said.
The Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
"We want to focus on the governor's budget, and we'll have a lobby day." Sweers said.
In the past two years, ASK has sponsored student lobby days at the Legislature. Student volunteers from the seven Regents schools met in Topeka to lobby legislators for the Margin proposal.
Bill Moseley, ASK assistant campus director, said the Margin was ranked as the top ASK legislative priority for 1989.
"Our first priority is promotion of the Margin," Moseley said. "That's the key piece of legislation that will have a great impact on the Regents schools. It's a rough budget year, so we'll be working especially hard this year."
ASK has adopted "ASK CARES" as its 1899 theme. CARES stands for "Continued Action to Raise Educational Support" and refers to ASK's plans to continue its actions in the Legislature.
At the University of Kansas, as well as at the other Regents schools, ASK leaders are preparing for the ASK Legislative Assembly, Sept. 8-9 in Emporia.
Each Regents school will be repre-
"We'll have the largest delegation attending." Moseley said.
Moseley is chairman of the legislative assembly.
He said that ASK allocated $7,000 to finance two statewide assemblies and seven policy councils throughout the year.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, and several other KU administrators will attend the assembly. They will join leaders from other Regents schools to speak with student delegates. Also scheduled to speak is Dennis Taylor, chief of staff for Gov. Mike Haven.
"The mainfocus of the assembly is educational." Moseley said.
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In the July 5 University Daily Kansei (UDK), Kathy Walsh is speaking for the UDK editorial board when she inveighs against any "restrictions that take away a woman's control over her own body."
Syndicated columnist Anthony Lewis claims in the July 7 Journal-World that if the states's "interest in potential life" is continuous...it is violated by the prevention of
Yet science has long known both that (1) life begins at conception and (2) pregnant women only give birth to human beings.
ALTHOUGH PROFESSORS PHILIP KISSAM AND PHILLIP PALUDAN TEACH CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, EACH IGNORES THE CONSTITUTION'S ESSENCE
In a letter to the July 3 Journal World, Clark Coan says our country has killed many innocent people while becoming an international power. Yet the usually perceptive Mr. Coan fails to mention the largest group of innocents whose deaths have resulted from a governmental decision. Some twenty-two million members of this group, which consists of unborn babies, have been brutally slaughtered by legal abortionists since the Supreme Court legitimized abortion in 1973.
Court Judge according to the July 5th University Daily Kansan, both Professor Phillip Paludan, who has taught Constitutional Law for 20 years, and Professor Philipp Kissam, who also teaches Constitutional Law, feel the recent Supreme Court ruling which makes it easier for states to regulate and thereby restrict a woman's right to obtain an abortion is, in Professor Kissam's words "an unfortunate decision."
Professor Paludan thinks the ruling will "further disadvantage poor women. They're eroding the right by allowing economic hurdles, by distancing women from excercising the right. If the right exists, but only the wealthy exercise the right, after a while it may cease to exist."
Yet the truth is that each one of us is a genetically unique individual whose first few months of existence are open within someone else's body.
Are those who support legitimized abortion both informed and logical people? We can attempt to answer this question by examining their outpourings on the subject.
A July 5 Wall Street Journal editorial says: "We do not happen to accept the pro-life belief that conception is a magic moment in defining 'life'. In scientific terms, life includes sperm, eggs, frogs, plants, amoebas and maybe viruses. The question is when life becomes human. In religious terms, when does the soul enter the body."
Yet the unborn baby is a material entity which can only be living or non-living. Mr. Lewis also doesn't know the difference between a contraceptive, a device which prevents conception, and an abortifacient, an agent which brings about the fertilized egg's death.
While each of the foregoing three statements can accurately be described as uninformed, the following are expressions of illogic.
1. In the July 8th Kansas City Times, syndicated columnist Donald Kaul confesses to finding "this extravagance reverence for life inside the womb a bit bizarre."
4. The National Organization of Women (NOW) feels that any information about the intrauterine being a rapid development should be suppressed, because it might reduce the number of those willing to enjoy the fruits of "reproductive freedom."
2. In his July 10 Kansas City Times column, Anthony Lewis holds that "The 14th Amendment says . . . no state may deny anyone 'liberty' without due process of law."
5. The Religious Coalition of Abortion Rights (RCAR) is uninterested in the unborn baby's suffering and subsequent death when aborted, because RCAR considers each abortion an expression of religious sentiment.
3. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) considers each grisly mode of abortion liberating because, it claims, life begins at birth.
The preceding five beliefs are illogical because every unborn baby killed by an abortionist has its own blood, brain, circulatory, respiratory and urinary systems during its relatively short life. The Eighth Amendment, which prohibits the infliction of "cruel and unusual punishment" and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which unequivocally protect innocent life, were clearly designed to protect each mangled fetus whose bloody remains are, in the February 2, 1987, Newsweek's words, "pulled from a woman's vagina and reassembled on a table" to ensure that abortion's success.
Before continuing to ignore the Constitution's essence, Professors Kissam and Paludan should reflect on this observation of former Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson:
"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty and property..depend on the outcome of no election."
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