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Wednesday, August 23, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Shankel is low-profile authority
Although he describes his job as "low profile," Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, is a prime mover at the University of Kansas.
Under the direction of Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, Shankel is responsible for almost every phase of operating the Lawrence campus.
Shankel said his job included authority over everything related to the Lawrence campaise. He said he always conferred with him before making important policy decisions.
"We work together quite well," he said. "It we a working relationship without strain or problems. We meet regularly to review our progress and give of respect for his judgment and leadership."
He said he took a relaxed approach to his job.
"I like to solve problems in a low-key manner whenever possible, and I have a
strong preference for careful planning." Shankel said. "I like working with people and getting them together to solve problems."
The duties of his job, Shankel said,
created long hours.
"I work 60 to 75 hours a week, both in and out of the office," he said. "I work several hours at home before coming into the office about 9 a.m. and usually stay until 6 o'clock p.m. I try to work three to five hours on Saturday and several hours on Sunday."
He described the activities that made his day so long.
"A typical day includes four to eight meetings, most of which are scheduled a week or two in advance," he said. "I generally have a business lunch as well.
"I make four to twelve phone calls to faculty, students and the new media each day, and I try to spend an hour with my staff to email and deciding how it will be handled.
"Two or three times a week, I spend an hour at my research laboratory and one day a week I try to spend an entire morning there."
Shankel, in addition to his administrative duties, is a professor of microbiology and does research on the genetic effects of animals that cause mutations and cancer in cells.
He also teaches an honors course in Western Civilization and a senior lecture in music.
Although it is difficult to combine the two, shanket said he enjoyed both an action and a feeling.
"I think it's very healthy to go to the lab and think about something other than administrative duties once in a while," he said.
"I enjoy the continued contact with students and faculty," he said. "I like to get their perspective and see how they're feeling and reacting."
He said he would someday like to return to teaching.
"I don't anticipate being a University administrator for all my career," he said. "Sometime in the next few years I'll go back and have a lot of classes I'd like to teach again."
Shankel said his heavy work load kept him from spending more time with his family.
"I don't get to spend as much time as I'd like with my family," he said, "and, I hope, not as much time as they'd like to spend with me.
"I try to spend several weeks a week at home doing family things and all day School."
He often turns to the University for spare-time activities.
"I am an avid KU sports fan. I rarely miss a home basketball or basketball game," he said, "My wife and I try to take in as many University plays and concerts as we can."
Not only is she married to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, but she is also a coordinator of special programs at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum.
"We're part of the University and it's hard to separate our lives at the University because we all work together."
Much of her time is devoted not only to her work at the museum, but also to campus
Carol Shankel's involvement with the University of Kansas has grown steadily since she first came to KU as a graduate student almost 19 years ago.
"It depends on the time of the year," she said. "We like going to the theatre and concert series, and there are some terrific lectures we attend. That's first on my list."
"My daughters are ball girls for the
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it's hard to fit in every thing...
that she needs to go to some of the
women's athletic events.
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Her participation in University events
her time of year, she said, with the full and
unscripted narrative.
"We go to what we can," she said. "I try to keep a balance of the different things we attend, but I don't make any master plan. We just go along as well as we can."
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Shankel's position at the art museum reflects her interest in art, especially oriental art. She has written a biography of Sallie Casey Thayer and her art collection.
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women's basketball team," she said. "We try to encourage the girls to be athletic."
Thayer was the founder of Thayer Museum, which later became Spooner Museum.
Llandlord-tenant grips bother both the landlords and the tenants. Students have always been assumed to contribute more than their fair share to the problem.
Landlords say students not bad tenants
"The ordinary students are responsible," Lynch said. "There are just a very small minority who are stupid and just an ignorant in any situation."
"When I find a tenant has been extremely dissatisfied before, I find out why," she
Two of Lawrence's largest rental agencies say that students don't cause any more problems.
Mary Lynch of Lynch Real Estate and Lyn Chance of Lawrence Property Management both said that the majority of students do not cause problems as teenagers.
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Lynch said she tried to avoid tenants that she thought might be problems, but that she
"I told the girls point blank that I felt
She said that occasionally she had bad problems with students who sneaked pets in apartments, parked bicycles in the halls or had property disappear from a unit, but that
According to the consumer affairs office at KU, the biggest gries from students concerning landlords have to do with terracotta walls, withholding deposits and unimade repairs.
damages by student renters were not a major problem.
“BASICALLY they might not understand the lease the way they should.” Chance said.“But I can't give a lecture on it every time someone seizes a lease.”
She said that she remembered some female students who had not left the university.
When she has the time, Shankel enjoys researching interesting people, especially University people, at the University Archives in Spencer Library.
an entire exhibition of Thayer's collection," she said.
sorry for any man who married them and lived in a pig命 all his life," she said.
"I would like to do more research," she said and then maye write another book if there is not enough.
Lynch rents more than 60 rental units that are mostly single family houses or houses
She said it was more expensive to maintain apartments for students who moved yearly than for tenants who stayed three years or more.
Chance said that one problem that Lawrence Property Management had had with the general student population was the high turnover rate.
She said the turnover rate accounted for the higher rents that agencies in a university community might have to charge.
She said that a majority of the renters in duplexes, apartment complexes and houses rented out by Lawrence Property Management are students.
Shankel's other interests include traveling, bicycle riding, reading, collecting books.
"I plan to learn photography," she said. "I will learn to and learn how to do, organize and print my work."
Shankel stays busy enough not to miss teaching. She taught elementary school for six years but stopped teaching so that she could devote more time her family.
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"I have no regrets about not teaching," she said. "I had it right up to there."
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