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Bricker receives 3rd HOPE award
Representatives of the 1929 senior class awarded Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, his third HOPE award for Outstanding Progressive Educators.
Bricker, who won the award in 1966 and 1969, received this year's HOPE award before the KU-Nebraska football game.
Other HOPE award finalists were:
Allan Glien, associate professor of
political science; Joyce Jones, assistant
professor of occupational therapy;
David W. Dahl, associate professor of journalism; and Lee Young,
professor of journalism.
Although it was Bricker's third win, he said he was touched that his students would honor him with the award.
"THE IS one of the highest honors the University of Kansas can bestow on its teachers," Bricker said. "To have students remember me from their freshman and sophomore years is wonderful."
Bricker, 60, reportedly told his family, when asked if he would win a fourth HOPE award, "No, I don't think so. I'll be retired by then."
At a reception in the Kansas Union following the football game, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes offered Bricker his congratulations.
"This has been a wonderful, wonderful day for you," Dykes told Bricker. "And Dr. Bricker did all he could at the game. He called all the plays."
Bricker said he always played a hard game in the stands.
Bricker also seems to work hard at being one of the University's finest teachers. He is well known for his magic tricks, which uses to illustrate chemical principles.
"YOUVE GOT to keep the students interested," Bricker said. "There are probably better chemists than I. But I'm really enthusiastic about what I do. If you lose students their first years, forget the last ones."
Bricker said his work in industry was an asset when he began teaching in 1945.
"I think my experience in industry was most helpful in seeing the practical side to chemistry." Bricker said.
"I look back on the years I have been gainfully employed and realize I've been fortunate," he said. "I've been in this academic life for 33 years. I tell students what comes in and is discouraged, it took me 17 years to find out where I was suited."
BRICKER SAID he liked the University, and KU students seem to like Bricker. However, he is not the type of person who is easily satisfied, especially with his job.
"Now that I have arrived, so to speak,
I'm going to do my best to justify the confidence and the award this seniors received. This is a very humbling honor."
"To me, this is a very humbling honor."
Gov. Robert F. Bennett told Chancellor Archie R. Dykes Friday he would propose to the Kansas Legislature in January an additional funding allocation so that student emplem ent would receive the federal minimum $25,000, which increases to $29, Jan. 1.
Staff Writer
Increase in student wages sought
Board of Regents student employees on hourly wage receive $2.65 an hour the current minimum wage.
In June, the Regents decided not to ask the Legislature to increase its allocation for wages for the six Regents.
AS A RESULT of the Regents decision, student employees will continue to receive $2.65 an hour after the federal minimum wage increases, unless they allocate the additional funds.
To provide the higher federal minimum wage to the number of student employees now working at the six schools, the Legislature would have to allocate $400,000 to $600,000.
Public state institutions are not required to pay the federal minimum wage. States can establish their own minimum wage.
Bennett has said he supports paying students the federal
minimum wage because it would help them pay for their education and given them work experience.
John Carlin, Bennett's Democratic opponent in the governor's race, is opposed to giving minimum wage to teachers.
Last month, KU's Student Senate passed a resolution supporting federal minimum wage for student employees.
Mike Harper, student body president, wrote a letter on Oct. 26 to 32 Kansas legislators. The letter asked that they vote for him, and he declined. A group of employees. The letter also said the lack of minimum wages for employees would impose a hardship on students and the
The letter said, "The hardship is already being felt by the University of Kansas. Many necessary positions cannot be filled because the University cannot compete with the wages of the private sector."
HARPER SAID in the letter that the hours of work KU could offer each student had decreased 20.7 percent since 1975. However, in the same two-year period, in state tuition increased 19.6 percent and the cost of off-campus apartments increased 22.7 percent and residence hall living 15 percent, he said.
The letter said, "I believe the decision will mean that students who would have to work to finance their education while attending school will either not go to college, or they will not go to college in the state of Kansas. I believe this is a serious mistake in judgment at a time when educational duties are forced to compete for every additional students."
Michael Flores, associate coordinator for the student employment center, wrote to Harper to support the Student
"MY OFFICE has experienced several new employment trends that lend support to the theory that students are desirable of off-campus employment rather than those available on campus," Flores said. "The college work-study program experienced trouble in filling its many job openings this semester as did several other departments on campus. Off-campus part-time employment, however, is a growing trend and the number of students who applied for those jobs."
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the administration supported giving student employees federal minimum wage, even though it did not think there had been problems in filling jobs for students.
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KANSAN
Vol. 89, No.51 Monday, November 6, 1978
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
Fieru crash
A collision on the Kansas turnpike, four miles east of Lawrence, claimed six lives yesterday morning during a fiery head-on crash. The only survivor of the accident was Ulysses Brinston, 5, who was pulled from the wreckage by a Kansas Highway Patrolman.
Higher education praised
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Renorter
Although he said higher education was in "a high state of anxiety," Stephen Bailey, featured speaker at the KU Higher Education Week banquet, last night urged students and educators to commonize their support of American colleges and universities.
Bailey, president of the National Academy of Education, said in his speech at the Kansas Union that inflation, low faculty morale, a growing trend toward consumerism, falling educational standards and bureaucratic overregulation were having detrimental effects on higher education. However, he said that without
Stephen Bailev Staff photo by BRUCE BANDL
higher education, "the scaffolding of the nation would come tumbling down."
For students to get the most from their education, Bailey said, they need to "fix on what university life is all about—on what they buy with their tuition money.
"Education's main purpose is not to make your pocketbook rich, it is to make you rich.
Bailey said the most important function of a university was to look after a person's inner and outer needs. To illustrate his point, he told a story about a small child who interrupted her father as he was reading a magazine.
Bailey said, "Finally, to gain an hour of peace, he tore a map of the world from his magazine, tore it into pieces and gave it to her to put back together.
*COLLEGE OFFERS you the knowledge of how to cope with the hazards and risks involved in your work.*
"In three minutes, she completed the puzzle and tugged on his sleeve. He asked her how she'd finished so fast and she replied, "It was easy, on the other side of the map was a person. I put the person together and the world came out all right."
Both Miller and the task force members said their actions were the result of the administration's decision to drop Jonathan R. Dykes from the state education, as the keynote speaker and to substitute Bailey, Kozol had been the choice of a student steering committee. Chancellor Archie R. Dykes had said Kozol was not as good as Jonathan R. Dykes in a lecture Saturday night at the Kansas Union.
BEFORE THE banquet began, Tim Miller, assistant professor of religious studies, and several students representing the Academic Freedom Task Force passed out literature protesting Bailey's selection as the banquet's featured speaker.
Several awards were presented at the banquet. Reggie Robinson, student body vice president, received the Rusty Leffel Outstanding Student Award. Kenneth Armigate, professor of biology; Lorna Grunn, director of the student assistance center; Joan Sherwood, assistant vice chancellor; Marc Tolman and Mary Tompkins, assistant professor of psychology, received Higher Education Service Awards, James Baasham, a member of the Kansas Board of Regents, received the Higher Education Leadership Award.
Educator criticizes Dykes
By MARY ERNST
Staff Reporter
For the first 30 seconds that he stood behind the lectern Saturday night, Jonathan Kozol appeared to be just another soft-spoken Boston educator about to begin a routine speech on the crisis in education.
But for the next hour and 15 minutes, Kowal delivered a speech that was anything but routine to 200 people in the Kansas Union.
Kozal's speech, part of Higher Education Week, Oct. 39-Nov. 5,
was sponsored by the Student Senate.
Korol began with a blast against Chancellor Archie R. Dykes for allegedly not explaining the he was asked to speak at Saturday's forum instead of last night's banquet. Then he moved up to the US Supreme Court, where he argued quietly, why it is based on a similar campaign in Cuba.
KOZOL. A maverick educator, had been invited by a student committee several weeks ago to be the key speaker at the conference in which he was presented to administrators, who chose another speaker, Stephen Balley, a Harvard professor. Kozol was then invited to speak at an open forum.
Dykes had said earlier that he chose Bailey because he was better known nationally than Kozol.
But it was not to be arrived in Lawrence Saturday, Kozol said, that he was informed of the reason he was asked to speak.
"I'm EVERY BIT as patriotic as the chancellor." Kozel said, "but we can learn something from Cuba."
Kozol spent two years in Cuba while writing his latest book, "Children of the Revolution," which describes the Cuban program in which high school and college students volunteered for six months to teach illiterate adults to read. That campaign reduced the illiteracy rate, in one year, from 45 percent to five percent, he said.
"That figure is much lower than the United States, where 20 percent of adults are illiterate," he said. "But even more alarming is that 44 percent of black adults and 56 percent of Spanish-surnamed adults are illiterate."
Kuzol, who won the 1968 National Book Award for "Death at an Early Age. The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools," said too much emphasis and attention on studying the problems of education instead of dealing with them.
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"The truth is, the chancellor of this University is scared stiff he'll lose money from state legislators," Koziol said. "Newweek magazine had no fear at all this week in saying what the positive points of Castro's Cuba were, but the chancellor here is."
Voters to decide fates of judges
BvROBERT BEER
Staff Writer
Koziol was referring to a story last week in Newsweek that described a one-year campaign in Cuba that greatly reduced adult illiteracy. The story also discussed a similar campaign enronosed by Koziol and Sen. George McGovern, D-SC. Dak.
Kansas voters will decide tomorrow a question about which there has been no political advertising or promises.
*Amy will decide whether three Kansas Supreme Court justices and three Kansas Court of Appeals judges should be retained in the appellate court.*
The Supreme Court justices are Kay MacFarland, Richard W. Holmes and Perry J. Clements. The Court of Appeals judges are James G. Murray and William R. Layton.
According to James R. James, judicial administrator, the practice of asking voters whether judges should be retained forces justice to "run on their record." Also, he said, retention elections prevent a justice from being politically indebted to anyone.
HOWEVER, ONE of the major drawbacks to the system, according to Supreme Court Justice Holmes, is that voters do not
"You're not out campaigning and telling people how great you are," he said. "But judges don't belong in the political arena."
Holmes said he expected to be retained. No jacobs have been rejected by the voters since the procedure's inception.
effects of the vote make the process more difficult.
Results from past elections have shown that most of the justices
receive about 70 percent to 80 percent "yes" votes. However, only about 70 percent of all voters vote on the judicial ballot.
JAMES SAID the amendment was a direct result of what has become known as the "triple play."
In 1954, Frederick L. Hall was elected governor. He was defeated in the Republican primary in 1956.
Eleven days before Hall's term expired, Supreme Court Justice William A. Smith resigned. Hall was assigned as governor and Lt. Gov. John B. McGush was appointed governor. McGush appointed Hall as a Supreme Court Justice.
The resignations and appointments all occurred at one ceremony.
In the November general election of that year, the amendment for nonpartisan selection of judges passed 289,159 to 186,884.
Hall resigned as justice in 1958 to run again for governor and was overwhelmedly defeated in the party by Clyde M. Reed Jr.
THE AMENDMENT provides that the governor appoint the judges from a list of three names submitted by a nominating committee.
The committee consists of lawyers and non-lawyers.
James said that the Supreme Court should be free from public pressure in emotional cases.
"After all, Pontius Pilate gave the people what they wanted," he said.