Tenure Given 10 Professors in Administrative Error
By ERIC MEYER
Kansan Staff Reporter
An administrative mistake last spring resulted in the granting of tenure to about 10 professors who had already been refused tenure under University rules.
University Attorney Charles Oldfather said yesterday that the professors automatically received tenure because they weren't considered for tenure at the proper time, even though the University Committee on Promotions and Tenure (UCPT) had considered and refused their tenure requests.
After UCFT refused to grant tenure to the group of professors, Oldfather was called upon to make a ruling based on a special clause in the Faculty Handbook.
The clause established a special five-year probationary period for associate professors, Oldfather said. The normal probationary period is seven years.
Before the last year of his probationary period, a faculty member must be informed that he will not be re-elected.
said. Otherwise, the granting of tenure is automatic.
The professors involved in Oldfather's ruling had been acting assistant professors for part of their years at the University of Kangas.
HOWEVER, THEY weren't considered for tenure at the end of their fourth years, he said. Instead, they were considered in their sixth years.
Although UCFT refused the professors' tenure requests in their six years, Old-father ruled they automatically received the request. They didn't believe they hadn't been notified to the contrary.
Last year's administrative errors and concern that the University might become "tenured in" prompted Chancellor J. Boehner to appoint four committees to study tenure.
their reports, along with comments from the Faculty Senate Committee on Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities and from the University Senate Executive Committee, were forwarded Tuesday to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
KU's first study of tenure shouldn't radically change its tenure policy, T. P. Strimvenius, professor of mathematics, said the department would improve the administration of tenure.
SRINIVASEN, CHAIRMAN of the Committee on Tenure Policy, said his committee had discovered that most of the current criticism and concern surrounding tenure "stains in some measure from the tenure system" and misapplications to the tenure system."
One of the recommendations made by Srinivasan's committee was that tenure decisions should be judgments of individual merit, and not of quotas.
"Right now, KU has no official policy on cutoff points and quotas," Sirrinasen said. "While there is no official policy, however, the committee have quotas in their hands."
However, the Keast Report, a 1971 study by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American College Association (ACA),
recommended quotas as a safeguard against becoming "tenured in."
But the KU Committee on Tendure Policy is firmly against the imposition of any arbitrary restraint.
"QUOTAS SAY, in effect, that even if you are acknowledged to be superior, you will not be invited to remain unless forces are in your favor," he said.
On the other hand, Ambrose Sarices, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said tenure standards must be raised if KU was to avoid becoming "tenured in."
Saricks said KU was nearing a dangerously high percentage of tenured
"Certainly," he said, "we are going in the direction of being over-tempered."
Saricks said faculty retirements and resignations would provide only a "small decrease."
The reports of the four committees should stress the need for care in awarding tenure, he said, but shouldn't radically change the present system.
SARICKS SAID some tenure problems had been caused by ignoring the present system and minor procedural changes. There was no problem if the system was endorsed.
"I hope a qota system isn't initiated," he said. "But I could see the possibility."
AALP is an opponent of tenure quotas,
although the Keat report favored quotas.
"Thephrase 'tendured in' is an overstated, misperceived term," Grant Goodman, professor of history and chairman of the KU chapter of AUPA, said recently. "We are already tired of tenderness in,' and I really don't think that there is such a thing as being tended in."
Goodman said KU's large number of teaching assistants and assistant instructors provided enough flexibility to meet the University from becoming "toured in."
THE TEACHING assistants and assistant instructors, who compose almost 40 per cent of the total faculty, aren't in the "tenure track" and figures indicating a high percentage of faculty members with tenure are, therefore, deceiving, Goodman said. Many tenured faculty members are on leave, he said.
"the present system will work fine," he said. "No major changes need to be made."
Combined with the number of tenured faculty members leaving, dying and retiring, Goodman said, turnover would be able to alleviate any overtime problems.
Goodman said he knew of no university that used a quota system.
"the present system will work time." he said. "No major changes need to be made."
The professor, Stetter, professor of business, "is the question: Can a faculty become tenured in, and if there is such a thing, is it necessarily good or bad for the University, and if it is the University, is the proper way to avoid tenure turned in to go to a quota system?"
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84th Year, No.28
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Nixon Cautions Press on Leaks
Thursday, October 4, 1973
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By GAYLORD SHAW Associated Press Reporter
WASHINGTON—President Nixon acknowledged yesterday that bribery and kickback allegations against Vice President Spiro T. Agnew were "serious and not frivolous" but declared that the vice president should be presumed innocent.
Noting the "rather white-hot atmosphere" swirling around Agnew, Nixon said he hoped Agnew would not be tried and convicted on television or on television by teksa and unarmedness
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He also said he had never asked the vice president to resign.
"IF I DID NOT support Mr. Petersen's handling of the investigation," Nixon said, "and if we didn't discuss it, Nixon discussed other foreign and domestic issues in the half-hour news cycle."
The President defended Asst. Atty. Gen.
Henry Petersen, the chief Agnew target in
the controversy over new leaks concerning
the minor grand jury investigation of
Agnew.
Austrian Charcelon Bruno Kreisley should reconsider his decision to close special transit stops for Jews leaving the Soviet Union because "we cannot have governments, small or large, give in to the blackmail by terrorist groups."
-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will visit Pekin Oct. 26-29 to trade trade and other issues of mutual concern. Kissinger also will visit Japan while in the Far East.
- NIXON WILL TRAVEL to Europe
  - must be on or four months and also to
  - believe before the trip.
On the political scene, he won't endorse
any Republican contender to succeed him in
—Three declarations of principle, rather than one, are being negotiated for signing during his visit to Europe and Japan. One is intended to update the Atlantic Alliance, another deals specifically with economic issues and the third is a more general declaration to "breathe new life and new potential" new spirit" in relations with S. albus.
the White House until "they have been tried in the field of battle" in the presidential
QUESTIONS ABOUT AGNEW dominated the news conference. The President, asked whether he thought a vice president should resign if indicted, said Agnew's response (that he won't resign) "is an altogether proper one."
He said that Agnew had denied to him privately on three occasions that he is guilty of the allegations leveled against him. And he said he is "certainly not" doing any contingency planning in the event Agnew leaves office.
Nixon noted that the allegations "do not relate in any way to his activities as vice president."
"There is nothing really that is more harmful to the rights of an individual than to be tried and convicted in the press before he has an opportunity to present his case and I would urge all of you . . . to make your statement clear and not simply on the basis of a unilateral charge that is made not under oath . . ."
THE PRESIDENT SAID he shared Agnew's concern about the news leaks and said he had spoken in the strongest terms" to Richardson, who is investigating the leaks.
Nixon volunteered that Richardson had assured him that Peterson and his staff were still at large.
Commenting on Nixon's remarks, a spokesman for Agnew said the statement that charges against the vice president are "not consistent with what Agnew himself has been saying."
The Agnew spokesman, J. Marsh Thomson, also said he could understand why the President would back up his assistant attorney general.
"But to say simply that Petersen himself is not the source of the news leaks doesn't quite fill the bill; it hardly solves the problem." Thomson said.
Left, Trees Along Drive Behind Hoch Auditorium, Right, Drive After Trees Are Cut Down
Discovery of Universe Outlined
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Sir Bernard Lovell, famed British radio astronomer, said last night that man's ability to observe the universe by sending radio waves has been added a new dimension to his understanding.
Lovell spoke to about 500 people in Woodruff Auditorium on man's attempts to resist the war.
part of the Kenneth A. Spencer Memorial Lecture Series.
Lovell began his lecture with a brief history of man's search for an understanding of the universe from Ptolemy's early approximations of planetary movement around the earth to today's complex theories of universal organization.
"Taxes paid by the Nixons in 1970-71 are roughly equivalent to taxes paid by someone who earns about $7,000 a year, claims one exemption and does not itemize deductions, according to tax manuals," the report said. The President's annual salary is $200,000.
He said much of today's knowledge had been acquired since the turn of the century.
A Rhode Island paper said Nixon paid $1,670 in income taxes in 1971 and 1972.
The Providence Journal-Bulletin said NIKKO received refunds of $131,500 during the two-year period. The paper said its report was based on interviews with 42 providers.
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"I was taught that our solar system was the center of the galaxy called the Milky Way." Lovell said, "since that time, it has been a very important system and system was not in the center, but in fact holds a very unimportant position on the surface of the Milky Way. It is only one unit of many."
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Keith ordered the firm to pay $4 million in punitive damages after finding it had discriminated in the hiring and promotion of blacks.
Judge warned grand jury to disregard news leaks involving Agnew investigation.
U. S. District Court Judge Walter Hoffman, specially assigned to handle the Agnew probe, summoned the jury yesterday to an extraordinary public hearing after meeting privately for an hour and a half with lawyers for Annew, and the Justice Department.
At the same time, supporting Agnew's efforts to find the sources of news leaks, Hoffman gave the vice president's lawyers broad authority to subpoena Justice Department officials, newsmen and anyone else they think can help them get this information.
Improvement in U. S.-Chinese relationship slowed despite continued cultural exchanges.
The reason seems to be growing Chinese anxiety over democracy in the United States and the Soviet Union to draw closer together, particularly on issues
Alaying Chinese fears presumably will be one of the major objectives of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger when he goes to Pekin later this month. The fears were raised in Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuanhua's speech Tuesday before the U.S. General Assembly.
Chiao's speech came a day before Treasury Secretary George Schultz returned from Moscow after failing to report any change in the Kremlin's policy toward Soviet Jews, an issue blocking Soviet trade legislation in Congress.
Elliott Roosevelt denied he helped plot
assassination attempt of a Bahamian leader.
He urged the Senate government operations subcommittee to prosecute Louis Mastriana and Patsy Lepera for perjury. The two linked Roosevelt to a purported attempt on the life of Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden Pindling,
LOVELLSAID scientists once thought the solar system was created by the moon. They thought that the moon which caused large masses to separate from the sun. These masses then cooled down and settled into an orbit around the moon. The moon, in turn, created the solar system was created by mere chance.
Advanced equipment has since proven that creation of a solar system such as ours is not unique and that new solar systems are beamed constantly, he said.
"With the equipment we have presently, we theorize that solar systems are created by the condensation of gases," Lovell said. "These gases become so dense that they begin to burn as stars like our own sun. Stars are born by the thousands in these clouds that build up gas and water and corona of the gases eventually form the planets around these stars.
"Our own solar system is not unique, all stars are formed with some kind of system that
"The true nature of the universe could be very different from what was put forth tonight," he said. "I've learned from somewhat hard and bitter experience that the universe is far more complex than we can understand right now."
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LOVELL EMPHASIZED that it would be wrong to think that his and other scientists' theories of the nature of the universe were anything more than an understanding.
Trees Downed Behind Hoch For Parking
Bulldozers and chain saws brought 15 trees to the ground behind Hoch Auditorium Tuesday as preparations began for the construction of a 50-space parking lot.
John Conard, director of university relations, said the parking lot was being constructed to provide parking for about 350 Wescoe Hall staff members.
"Removal of the trees is part of planned expansion of Wescoe Hall," he said Tuesday. "For every tree that could be saved, provisions were made to save it."
The decision to remove the trees was made according to a master plan, Keith Lawton, director of facilities and planning operations, said Tuesday.
Conard said he thought about 12 of the trees were diseased elms which would have had to have been removed anyway. The other trees were pines.
"All of us in the administrator love those trees as much as anyone else. We're very much aware of the need to replace them," he said.
"This was the least costly solution to our parking problems. Only the trees that fell directly in the roadway were be cut," he said.
The University has had an extensive tree planting program in the past.
"In some instances, some small trees were planted knowing full-well some of them would have to be removed for expansion," said Lawton.
However, a long-range planting program has been established, he said, and plans for more trees have been sent to the Board of Regents.