THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No. 61
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, December 17, 1968
AAUP protests payday
The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) plans to meet with Gov. Robert Docking to ask that the University payroll date be returned to the first of the month.
Roy D. Laird, professor of political science and local AAUP president, said yesterday that although "nothing has yet been arranged" he will attempt to implement the AAUP resolution of Dec. 5 calling for such a meeting.
The State Accounts and Reports Division early this month changed the payroll release date from the first of each month to the fifth to simplify payroll procedures. Laird said faculty and staff members with payments and other obligations due before the 5th of each month were disturbed at the change.
Laird said faculty and staff dissatisfaction with the payroll and other
state-level changes has led to informal suggestions that an employees' union be formed. If the AAUP "fails to meet its responsibilities, a union may have to be created." he said.
"There has been some serious movement in this direction" at other universities, and suggestions of unionization "have come from faculty who by no reasonable definition could be labeled agitators," he said.
Laird said the proposed meeting with the Governor "is a most unusual move by this professional association in a crisis situation." He said he has called the Governor's office "once or twice a day" since the meeting was proposed but has not been able to talk to the Governor or arrange an appointment.
The move is hoped to "under-scoe the serious nature of faculty dissatisfaction," he said.
Profs will be graded by students next term
Starting next semester, KU professors and instructors will be evaluated, along with students.
A group of graduate students are planning to publish a booklet which will contain summaries of instructors' lectures, exams, reading material, special projects and grading procedures.
Although the summaries will be limited to the human development and possibly sociology departments, the evaluation is designed as a pilot project to expand someday to include the University curricula
The evaluations will be taken from students' answers to questionnaires distributed by the group in classes.
Charles Salzburg, New York City graduate student and member of the committee, said the idea originated with the human development faculty.
"It's got to be kept in the hands of the students," he said.
About 750 students in 25 courses would be involved in the evaluation. Questionnaires will be haired
out sometime during the final week of classes.
The purpose of the evaluation "is not to retaliate or punish, but to improve quality of teaching," said Charles Galloway, Mimai graduate student and group co-chairman.
Good instructors are given too little credit—and bad ones, too little discredit, he said.
This evaluation of instructors will differ from past attempts in that all findings will be made public in a booklet to be sold fall semester, 1969. Galloway said this would stimulate instructor improvement and at the sme time warn students of poor instructors or courses.
Galloway said, "There really aren't any inducements to change, with private evaluations."
The group is prepared for instructors who refuse to allow evaluations of their teaching ability.
"If that occurs, we will simply list the instructors who refused to participate," Galloway said, adding that students will presumably draw their own conclusions.
KU Comptroller William P. Hancock said the change of payroll dates was to allow the processing of state employees' checks once or twice a month. Before, the Accounts and Reports Division had made out checks during most of the month, he said.
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The KU AAUP is concered with "a quality gap in higher education that is rooted in lagging staff and faculty salaries," Laird said. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told a budget hearing Friday KU salaries are 25 per cent below the national average.
Laird's organization also objects to the lack of consultation with faculty and staff members in the change last summer in health insurance programs, he said.
The members of the delegation to the Governor will be Laird; Paul Wilson, professor of law; Robert D. Tomasek, professor of political science, and Donald R. McCoy, professor of history, Laird said.
The new procedures apparently will be "more economical and in their mind more efficient," Hancock said. He said the change will not affect the operation of his office.
Weather
Rain lightly all day and turning to snow toward evening.
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS-The United Nations voted yesterday to keep U.S. and other member-nation troops in South Korea for at least another year. The troops were first dispatched with the outbreak of the Korean War 18 years ago.
UN troops to stay
The vote, 72:23 with 26 abstentions, was nine fewer in favor than last year. Approval came on a resolution introduced in the General Assembly political committee by the United States.
About 50,000 troops-mostly American GI's-are stationed in Korea. Their presence must be approved each year.
Hearing in recess
WICHITA—The preliminary hearing for nine black militants including Leonard Harrison, Ballard Community Center director, charged with kidnapping and assaulting two Model Cities program employees was in recess today.
It will reconvene tomorrow.
The recess was called because of conflicting commitments of persons involved.
U.S.-South Viet split widens
PARIS (UPI)—A U.S.-South Vietnam split over the Vietnam talks widened rapidly today. Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky renewed his attacks on Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and Saigon said it would never agree to a purely American-North Vietnamnamese settlement.
Ky, leaving his delegation headquarters after a meeting of almost two hours with Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, said he preferred to work directly with Harriman and Cyrus Vance without comments from American officials in Washington.
Accept Pressure
Sunday statement that Saigon's squabbling was delaying start of the expanded talks.
"I don't know how Mr. Clifford, staying far away in Washington, can make remarks about the progress here," Ky said. This was a reference to Clifford's
"We came here accepting that we have to face a lot of pressure," Ky said. "We are ready."
Pressed to define the kind of pressure he meant. Ky said, "Like Clifford's."
Harriman refused to discuss specifics of the rift between Washington and Saigon and said only he had "a very good talk" with Ky and Ambassador Pham Dang Lam. He called it a "routine meeting," but it came shortly after Lam said Saigon would never accept a settlement dictated
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Grads say they will cheer KU
K-State students commute to Lawrence
K-State commuters
K-State graduate student John W. Dick peers through a microscope as William H. Coil, associate professor of zoology, looks on.
By FRED PARRIS Kansan Staff Writer
They don't wear cowboy hats, chew tobacco or drawl.
But they're from K-State and every week they commute to Lawrence for a special class.
The K-Staters are Sam Zeakes, Randall McKee, and John W. Dick. All graduate students in parasitology, they are studying here under a new graduate school "traveling scholar" program.
The trio, who ride to and from Manhattan in a state library loan car, are on campus each Friday for a Host-Parasite Histology course taught by William H. Coil. associate professor of zoology.
On their trips to Lawrence, the K-Staters are able to observe KU students in their natural habitat.
"There appear to be a lot of hippies on this campus," said Zeakes, "or at least a lot of people that look like hippies."
"We have them at K-State, too," one of them added, "but not so many."
The reason for KU's bountiful hippie population, one K-Stater speculated, is because of its standing as a liberal arts center.
The traditional K-State antipathy towards "Snob Hill" has abated in recent years, Zeakes said.
"Even in the three years I've been there, there has been a change of attitude." Zeakes added.
"We'll be cheering for KU at the Orange Bowl." Randall said.
The traveling scholar program "has virtually doubled the size of our faculty here," Coil said.
This larger pool of academic and scientific specialists, Coil added, will offer graduate students a much wider range of courses.
The Mid-American Universities Traveling Scholar Program began in the spring of 1968. It permits graduate students to pay their fees at one member university and then, without changing their enrollment, to take classes at any of the participating schools.
Grades from the off-campus courses are sent to the registrar at the student's "home" school and placed on his transcript.
Schools participating in the program include all Big Eight schools except for the University of Colorado and the University of Missouri campuses at Kansas City, Rolla and St. Louis.
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