THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Thursday, September 28, 1978
Lifting weights: women's work
Vol.89,No.24
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SenEx requests pre-enrollment proposal
By MARY ERNST Staff Reporter
After more than a decade of discussion—but little action—the administration is taking steps to inform KU faculty and students about pre-enrollment possibilities.
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
yesterday suggested that a dormant pre-enrollment committee be reactivated to develop a specific plan or set of proposals
Shankel made his proposal to the Senate Executive Committee, which unanimously approved a motion to request the administration to reactivate the committee.
THE MOTION, submitted by T.P.
Srinivasam, professor of mathematics and a member of SenEx, asked that the company's report also be put on a time schedule. The company returned to SenEx by Feb. 1, 1979. The report also should contain an analysis of the funding needed for different systems, he said.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of curriculum and instruction and chairman of SenEx, said, "a time should be set for the report to be completed, because this discussion has been going on for a long time without being told to the students and faculty."
Swartz said she was not aware the administration had been waiting for some indication by the faculty and students that a certain system of pre-enrollment was wanted.
She was alluding to a statement made earlier by Shankel that the administration would make some sort of proposal once it had students and faculty favored pre-enrolment.
"THINK the faculty and the students are ignorant about pre-enrollment," she said. "The faculty and students need more information before they can decide what they want."
Shankel said that the possibility of preenlment had been discussed during the
past several years, but that until a new computer system was installed a couple of years later.
"We now the hardware to handle any kind of system," Shankel said.
He said, however, that KU still lacked a pre-enrollment program for the computer
Such a program could either be bought or borrowed from another school, he said, or one could be developed at KU, but it would be more costly.
Shankel, SenEx members and other administrators at the meeting discussed the pros and cons of pre-enrolment. Other professionals on the panel chancellor for student affairs; Ronald
Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs; Gil Dyk, dean of admissions and records; and Dick Mann, director of institutional resources and information.
MANN, WHO is responsible for coordinating information systems at KU, said that KU had been able to have pre-arrival data sent before the new computer system arrived.
"Most large universities already have pre-enrollment," he said. "But a system like K-State is a bigger problem than not having pre-enrollment."
K-State's system does not allow students to pick the class sections they want, Mann said, and that was not the kind of system KU would want to implement.
Taxi drive
Although it was a losing effort, Harry Chapin and his road crew gave the Kansas University students stiff competition during a softball game yesterday afternoon. Chapin's
team took an early lead but KU rallied, scoring 14 runs in one inning to win the game, 19 to 10.
Staff photo by TRISH LEWIS
Gov.'s wife no 'campaign widow'
The rigors of a political campaign have been known to create "campaign widows," husbands and wives left home while their mates pursue the path to political office.
Staff Reporter
By TIM SHEEHY
"Real restrictions will be placed on the departments," he said. "They'll have to plan ahead and some flexibility will be taken away."
Unless a candidate's wife campaigns alongside her husband, she is likely to be left home alone a good deal of the time, and if she chooses not to do so, the campaign stone that her spouse can't.
Olivia Bennett, of gov. Robert F. Bennett, said yesterday that although her husband's campaign for re-election is one of the biggest successes he sees him only on a haphazard basis.
"If the course schedule fails to be accepted, the student can change it right away. And if he still can't get classes he can drop and add," he said.
"I saw Bob twice last week in the evening," Mrs. Bennett said. "We had dinner on Wednesday or maybe it was Thursday night.
Lately, as the election draws closer, Mrs. Bennett has been stepping up her up-
it has always been a personal challenge, meeting all of the people and such."
MRS. BENNETT said she and her husband tried to spend as much time together as possible, which often means meeting in some Kansas town that has been the site of the day's campaigning, and then going separate ways in the morning.
"I've never thought of myself as a cameraman," Bennett said. "I always really had to be." For me
"I have a schedule handed to me every day, and I live for that day only. If you look any farther ahead, you can't do the day's work effectively."
But, Dyck said, the real question was whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, and if they do, a decision ought to be made.
Mrs. Bennett said she felt fortunate that she had an interest in politics and felt sorry for people who could not take part in their spouses' career.
Mrs. Bennett has been married to Gov. Bennett for eight years, after meeting him at a convention.
Shankel said, however, that some flexibility would also be taken away from him.
"I FEEK, SORRY for those who can't take it and work as a team. It would be terrible."
Mrs. Bennett is a native of England and came to America at age 20.
He said there were basically two kinds of systems, both of which had advantages and disadvantages.
Other proposals were rejected, he said, in 1970, 1974 and 1975.
Her aristocratic appearance and pursuit of cultural activities belie her rural up-
ture.
Administrators have been discussing enrollment since the fall of 1967 when a law was passed to keep children in school.
Her earliest thoughts of America came during World War II when the Germans were bombing London and the surrounding countryside.
Dyck said law students and nursing students were already using a form of pre-
Officials to study defective panels
KANSAS CITY, Kan—Nearly 140 defective construction panels that make up the outer surface of the University of Kansas Medical Center's Bell Memorial Hospital are the subject of concern for state and University officials.
An inspection has been scheduled for Wednesday to determine the exact number of damaged panels that need to be replaced or removed. An inspection will be prepared in two weeks.
By DAN WINTER
Staff Reporter
Vincent Cool, acting state architect, said yesterday that he thought replacement of defective panels would not cause a delay in construction.
Cool announced the inspection after a meeting of the Clinical Executive Facility Committee earlier this week. The committee met with representatives of the
"Unless they were cracked, chipped or broken as they came off the truck, they were put up." Wiechert said. "A lot can happen between the time the panels come off the truck and the time they are put on the building."
Vincent DiCarlo, V.S. DiCarlo General Contractors Inc., Kansas City, Mo., the company that needed the panels, said his company could not be credited because the company had done a good job.
Wiechert, a member of the executive committee, said that when the committee met with the contractors Monday, committee members were told that 90 percent of the panels deemed defective in May had been repaired.
contracting company that installed the panels.
Last May inspectors from the state architects' office discovered that 139 of the 5-by-10-foot panels on the building were chipped, cracked or broken. The majority of the defective panels had very minor chips or cracks that could be easily repaired.
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"IT'S VALUABLE to allow students to drop and add," he said. "Even though we handle more than 30,000 drop and add requests in the first week of classes and even though it is costly in terms of data resources, it is still valuable to students."
"The first system would have a student visit his adviser, submit a class schedule—with options included—and that schedule would then be submitted to the registrar,"
"I don't have any comment because there isn't any problem," DiCarlo said. "We did
"We are pretty well assured that there were no cracks in the panels when they were delivered to the construction site by the contractors."
"I don't want to be locked into a quote by saying how many panels are defective. We'll know for sure after our meeting next Wednesday.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said the panels were inspected as they were unloaded from the truck at the construction site.
"The schedule is then run against a preset timetable, and sets of schedules are produced. At least 30 percent of the students will go through regular enrollment anyway."
MANN SAID the other type of system was similar to one that Oklahoma State University used. That system is a type of dron-add system, he said.
There would be a bank of computer terminals, Mann said, where a student would bring a copy of his schedule and enter it into the terminal.
"I WAS ALWAYS curious about America after that, Kansas in particular made me think of cowboys and Indians. I came to the States by plane and a week or so I
Several people at the meeting said students and faculty should not think pre-enrolment would be a panacea for enrolment problems.
"Everyone kept saying 'the Yanks are coming,' just wait the Yanks will come," and this day the plane appeared in the sky over Washington to appear the blitzing away." Mrs. Bennett said.
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Mark Bernstein, graduate student member of SeleX, has contributed to the implementation in stages.
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KU studies rise in bar failures
By JAKE THOMPSON
Staff Reporter
The KU School of Law wants to find out why recent graduates failed the bar exam and recent graduates failed the law exam.
of the 442 KU graduates who have taken the bar exam in the last three-d-a-half years, only 18 have failed. Law school of medicine in a city was a sharp increase in the latest test.
"The failure rate was significantly higher than in the past and we are concerned about Martin Dickinson." "We're looking at the cases of the failures to see whether there were any problems in their background or in our training that might have caused the failure."
Dickinson said the increase might have been natural and unrelated to any problem.
"I THINK IT did surprise a lot of people," he said. "But there is some thinking that this was an aberration. Our record has been so good for so long."
KU graduates fared better than graduates of Washburn University and other law schools in passing the bar exam in recent years. As a result, all of the KU applicants passed the test.
Forty-one of Washburn's 434 applicants failed the exam during the last three years, according to official records of the Kansas Supreme Court.
In addition, of the 247 applicants who took the Kansas bar exam in July, 36 failed, nearly 15 percent. That figure is 3 percent higher than KU's total of about 12 percent. The total number includes applicants from schools across the United States, Dickinson State.
A sudden change in the number of failures
is not unprecedented, he said, but continuation would indicate a disturbing trend.
"HISTORICALLY THERE have always been ups and downs like that," he said. "If it were to continue then I would be very upset but we do not expect that trend to continue."
Dickinson said he had talked informally with several of the students who failed the test, questioning them about their experience. He said people frequently took the bar exam twice, and in Kansas some had taken it three or four times.
"That is unusual though," he said. "It is a long hard test."
According to officials of the State Board of Law Examiners, no changes in the grading or difficulty of the test had been made before the test. Officials also said the increase in the number failing the test did not change in the way the test was administered.
Dickinson said no changes would be implemented this fall in the law school program as a result of the increase in failures.
'TWO LAW professors agreed and said they would not change anything in their buildings.
One of the professors, William A. Kelly, said, "I concentrate in teaching them to the best of my ability. I always try to give them what they deserve."
George C. Coggins, another professor of law, said that he had received no official word about warning students that a significant number had failed the bar exam and that his teaching method would not be affected.
"The bar is not going to make the slightest difference in the way I teach my course," he
American Party candidate threatens to sue KU dean
By JAKE THOMPSON
Staff Reporter
Frank Shelton, American Party candidate for Governor, said yesterday that unequal political representation at Kansas Editors Day at KU last Saturday might force him to file a $10 million objection against the Republican, Del Bryan, dean of the KU School of Journalism.
Sheton called Brinkman a "dictator who calls himself a dean of a journalism school" and said he would seek compensatory and punitive damages because Brinkman had invited a couple of his puppets to be interviewed by the press."
"A as citizen he used public facilities and state payroll and I want him to pay for it," Shelton said. "I hope we can enjoin upon us the ability to more many lectures or seminars on campus."
Nathan said he would talk to his attorney today to determine whether he could file a lawsuit.
"I'M GOING TO DISCUSS very seriously
Brukman invited Democrat Bill Roy and Republican Nancy Landon Kassbause, candidates for U.S. Senate, to speak at Editors Day, Last week, last June, Maher Mahar, then vice president of Senate, said he was upset because he was not invited to speak at the event.
commitment.
"Whenever you even person this," he said,
"whenever you forget this, like I. This
never remember, none at all."
with him and hope to come up with a reasonable thing that I can win in court," he
Shelton said he would seek a lawsuit demanding about $7,900 for compensatory damages, including "use of public facilities, equipment and all electrical bills from that facility."
When he was asked for a response to Shelton's charge, Brinkman said, "No
THE SECOND PART, he said, would seek to heat 180 million for damaged damages.
"I'm picking that figure out of the air, but
the damage to the mental condition of the editors, students and anyone who reads articles about those candidates should be high." he said.
Shelton said Brinkman had chosen people who represented one persuasion.
"I'm trying to get America back on the right track," he said. "the children and the children," he said.
Shelton also charged that Brinkman had used public funds to bring the candidates to the rally.
As a citizen, Shelton said, he thought he should speak for the persons who were not able to speak in front of Kansas editors in a public meeting.
HE SAID he was not angry because he personally was not invited to the meeting by Brinkman. He said other gubernatorial candidates, even though he did so, he did not easily left out.
"It he did that to me, brother, I'd be comical," said knuckles,"he said." I stand still and I stay still.