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Friday, November 9, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Architecture curriculum discussed
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
Faculty members need to prepare for the next century by evaluating the 100-year-old ideas about architecture education that are used today, said William McMinn, dean of the School of Architecture, Art and Planning.
"If we don't deal with where we are going, later we will have a problem with where we find ourselves," McMinn told about 125 people last night at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. "The architecture curriculum has to be continually reviewed, modified and supported."
MeMinn gave the keynote speech of a two-day symposium, titled "The Liberal Education of Architects," that was organized by the KU School of Architecture and Urban Design. The symposium will continue today with an afternoon discussion and a debate at the Eldridge Hotel, 102 Massachusetts St.
The symposium focuses on whether architecture students should
have a broad liberal arts education in addition to professional and practical training.
Kent Spreekelmeyer, co-director of the symposium, said about 75 designers, educators and students from the region would attend today's activities.
"Many faculty would say architecture is a professional field and is distinctive from a liberal arts education," he said. "But other people might argue that architecture is too technical to require just a professional degree."
He said some administrators thought an architect needed a good understanding of history and culture in how to design in certain situations.
The symposium is one step in a long process of reviewing the architecture school's curriculum.
McMinn said relationships between students and faculty could help provide a liberal arts education.
"Design instructors can touch students' lives personally." McMinn
said. "I don't think those relationships can come from a classroom lecture. A liberal arts education also takes in the contexts and discourse in coffee shops."
Spreckelmeyer said one of the symposium's purposes was to hear educators and students' opinions as they developed a master's program in architecture.
"I want to emphasize that there is not a specific plan to cut out the undergraduate professional degree," he said. "If changes were made, we would need to modify our professional program and add the master's professional architecture program."
Chad Foster, fourth-year architecture student, said he thought more experimentation and more symp-
tomization help improve architecture education.
"I think it is good that different schools are getting together to share different approaches." Foster said. "I don't know if there is a need for a drastic change — maybe just a small one."
College sets salary guidelines
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences set several guidelines last month to try to discourage faculty members from using offers from other institutions as bargaining tools to raise their salaries at KU.
Kansan staff writer
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He said that each year, at least a couple of faculty members in the college requested counter salary offers from KU after receiving offers from another college or university.
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, said that in the past, there had been no written guidelines for departmental chairpersons to consult before they made recommendations concerning counter offers to the dean.
"We want to discourage people from seeking an offer solely to affect a raise in their current salary." Carothers says.
The guidelines state that if a faculty member decides to negotiate for a counter offer, he cannot make another.
James Sherman, chairperson of the department of human development and family life, said that in the past there had been a few professors who requested counter offers.
Because there were no written guidelines, each request was dealt with case by case, he said.
He would not make any predictions as to whether the
guidelines would make dealing with counter offers easier.
Anthony Walton, chairperson of the geology department, said that the college needed written guidelines for
But some faculty members did not clearly understand how to deal with counter offers.
There has been an informal agreement between faculty members and chairpersons stating that better salary offers from institutions that do not have as strong of a reputation as KU does, would not be considered.
Carothers said that before the Margin of Excellence was financed, five faculty members in humanities had left for other institutions because they were offered better salaries.
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 45 percent of their peer schools and to bring the total financing of the nine colleges in the Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Carothers said that the Margin helped the college keep good faculty members from leaving the University. Last year, not one faculty member from humanities departments left the University seeking a better salary.
"We are apprehending that the loss of the Margin of Excellence might encourage faculty to go on the job
Professor, students angry after Hoch bomb threat affects test
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
When David Katzman, professor of history and American studies, drafted the syllabus for his History of the United States Since the Civil War class, he scheduled an in-class essay for yesterday.
Katzman cancelled the 12:30 p.m. class of about 550 students and assigned the essay as a take-home
But his plans changed when a man, whom Katzman thinks is a student in the class, called Lawrence police about noon yesterday and said that a bomb would go off by 1 p.m in Hoche Auditorium, the class meets.
test due Tuesday.
"The ground rules were changed because some arrogant S.O.B. took upon himself the right to change those ground rules." Katzman said. "A lot of students really felt that they had been taught that however cow- student did that."
Katzman said he changed the test because he did not want to risk anyone's life in case the bomb threat was not a prank.
Lt. John Mullens of KU police said KU police was notified about the bomb threat by Lawrence police at the building where the bomb was found and five or six facilities operations
workers searched the building and monitored it until 1 p.m.
Mike Smith, Hutchinson freshman,
said he stayed up all night studying
for the test.
"It kind of sucks because you've done all that studying. And then you go there and don't have it," Smith said. "It's unfair to the people that studied, but if you weren't it, it's obviously going to help you."
Katzan said the threat angered him because he planned the exam for a time in the semester when students could learn the most from it.
He said that the students' first
reaction was to cheer but that they sobered up after they realized the take-home test would be graded with a 70. The test would have had more time to work on it.
Teri Pham, Wichita freshman, said she was angry after the test was changed because she had awakened at 6 a.m. yesterday to study.
She said she thought the way Katz man handled the situation was unfair to the students not involved in making the bomb threat.
"It's not fair to punish everyone for one person, but I guess he acted on emotion rather than thinking about it because he was really mad." Pham
said.
Smith said Katzman did the only thing he could do under the circumstances.
"He was really in kind of a bird." Smith said. "There was nothing he could do. He was pretty angry, and I can understand that."
Danny Kaiser, assistant dean of student life, said Katzman's action was commendable.
"I empathize for the other students of the class having to take the exam under different circumstances than they prepared for. But Professor Katzman has sent out a very strong statement, "Do not do this to me"
again,' And I commend him for that," Kaiser said.
He said that a student caught making a bomb threat could be punished by the University as well as by law enforcement officials.
"I think it's safe to say when it comes to bomb threats, suspension on the first offense would not be out of the realm of possibility," Kaiser said.
Michele Kessler, Legal Services for Students attorney, said making a terroristic threat was punishable by fine and five years imprisonment.
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