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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 17, 1990
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Past chancellors speak at KU
Chancellor Gene Budig and ex-chancellor Clarke Wescoe watch ex-chancellor Frank Murphy speak.
Bv Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
Franklin Murphy persuaded Clarke Wise to come to KU from Cornell University in New York more than 20 years ago for a specific reason.
"I made the deal, he bought the deal, and Wescoe came to Kansas," Murphy said.
He was looking for someone to take his place as dean of the KU School of Medicine.
About 250 people at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas University listened to former chancellors Wescoe and Murphy speak in the second lecture of the KU Heritage Lecture Series, which was designed to recognize the University of Kansas' 125th anniversary.
The two former chancellors, who oversaw the addition of more than a dozen buildings to the KU campus, the establishment of the KU Endowment Association, the School of Medicine and countless other additions, met on another not at the University, but in a New York bar, Wescoc
cancellor Gene A. Budd said Wesco and Murphy presided over the University from 1951 until 1969. Both were deans of the School of Medicine before becoming chancellors, and the two helped the University emerge as a leading U.S. institution.
"They shared a vision," Budg said. "They extended the University's reach far beyond the borders of Kansas."
Wescoe said he and Murphy shured not only a vision, but also a friendship and an alliance as proponents for the University of Kansas.
"We think alike. We feel alike. I like to think it was destined to be," Wescos said.
Murphy became chancellor when
he was 35. Many faculty members he presided over had taught him as an undergraduate.
As chancellor, he campaigned for improvements in student housing, faculty compensation and the library system, he said.
But one of his biggest challenges was dealing with former Gov. George Docking, who Murphy said had developed a dislike for KU.
"Every year the budget went up; every year he'd slice the budget," Murhv said.
Concern about Docking's attitude toward KU eventually played into
Murphy's decision to leave and accept the presidency of UCLA.
"He couldn't tell the difference between Murphy and KU," Murphy said. "I knew that he had tied his hostility to the university with me."
Murphy wanted his successor to be Wescose, whom he had recruited less than a decade earlier to be dean of the medical school.
Wesco said that one Thursday the Regents announced a national search for chancellor. Before the weekend, a committee had been formed, and by Sunday night Wesco received a telephone call that the Regents were
ready to appoint him, six votes to three, as chancellor of KU.
As chancellor, Wesco served as a bridge between the golden age of student apathy and the turbulent time of student upheaval, he said.
He witnessed an enormous demonstration against ROTC by students opposed to the Vietnam War in what was one of the most intense State University incident, he said.
Although their terms of service differed in many ways, Wescoe said, "We are closer to each other than many of you can really understand."
FBI opens Sallie Mae investigation
Kansan staff writer
By Elicia Hill
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Education have started an investigation of the Student Loan Marketing Association in Lawrence as a result of a lawsuit filed by two former employees of the company.
Sallie Mae buys and administers government-backed student loans.
Max Geiman, spokesperson at the FBJ's Kansas City, Mo., branch, said yesterday that the company, known as Sallie Mae, was being investigated to determine whether it bought canceled student loans to boost its market stock value, as the lawsuit against its investigations began a few weeks ago.
The lawsuit was filed Sep. 12 at the U.S. District Court of Kansas by Diana Crossfield and Brenda
Albright, Lawrence residents and former Sailie Mae employees. Each is asking for $500,000 in damages.
The suit alleges mail fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud and falsification of records. It also alleges sexual discrimination.
Geiman said that the Department of Education was working with the FBI.
"We're investigating the allegation of fraud against the government," he said. "This will be a lengthy investigation because it requires us to review many documents. We haven't seen very far into the investigation yet."
Geiman would not comment specifically on what the investigation would entail.
The lawsuit states that Sallie Mae knowingly purchased bad accounts to
pad its assets and that the loans it purchased, known as void and canceled loans, never had been disbursed to the borrower.
The lawsuit also states that Crossfield and Albright were aware of the illegal activities and participated in them but that they did not disclose the activities because it would have resulted in the loss of their jobs.
As a result of questioning their superiors about the alleged illegal activities, the women were forced to resin, the lawsuit states.
Gisela Vallandigham, spokesperson for Sallie Mae in Washington, D.C., said that the company denied the allegations and that it had not yet heard from the FBI or the Department of Education.
"We looked into the matter, and we are confident that there is no substance to these allegations made by the two disgruntled former employees, she said "We intend to present position firmly in the local courts."
She said Sallie Mae had five branches that had processed $18 billion in school loans as of Sept. 30, 1990. The branches are in Lawrence; Killeen, Panama City, Fla.; Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; and Hernond, Va.
FBI, Department of Education and Sallie Mae officials would not say whether branches other than the Lawrence branch were being investi-
Last year, the Lawrence branch bought 735,000 government-backed student loans. Vallandigham said.
Melody Chathey, attorney for the plaintiffs, said a trial date had not been set.
Ex-Haskell student still in critical state
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
A 1899 Haskell Junior College graduate who was found unconscious about 3:30 a.m. Sunday on a sidewalk behind Strong Hall remained in critical condition yesterday at the University of Chicago Medical Center after suffering a fracture at the top of his skull.
Lt. John Mullens of KU police said it was unknown how Rodney Soldier, 25, received the blow above his left temple.
Mullens said that Soldier had no apparent bruises or injuries other than the head injury and that if Soldier had fallen or been beaten, bruises would have appeared within 48 hours.
Soldier has lived in Lawrence intermittently since 1984 and is employed by E & E Specialties, Inc. 910, E 29th St. Mullens said.
Mullens said that Soldier's
blood-alcohol content Sunday morning was 0.10 percent, which is above the legal limit for driving in Kansas.
Soldier had gone to sleep on a rock wall west of Spencer Research Library, Mullens said. Some friends woke him up, and after breaking up a fight about 1:30 a.m. between an 18-year-old KU student and a former Haskell student, who both were his friends, Soldier again went to sleep on the rock wall.
Soldier last was seen by friends sleeping on the wall about 3:10 a.m., Mullens said.
Mullens said that 12 KU police officers, two Lawrence police officers and two Douglas County sheriff's offices were conducting interviews with people who were in the area near the research library to find out what happened between 3:10 and 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
Student groups discuss Western Civ program
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Student senators and representatives from two student organizations meet last month to discuss integrating them into Western Civilization curriculum.
Rick Pipeer, a Western Civilization graduate teaching assistant, explained to the group at Alcev B in the department that it was happen in the department.
He said the department had formed a committee comprising graduate teaching assistants, faculty members from various departments and at least one undergraduate student. The committee would review and recommend changes to the Western Civilization curriculum.
Piper said many Western Civilization GTAs felt that philosophers like Aristotle, Socrates, Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke had to remain on the reading list but that other changes could help incorporate culturally diverse elements into the course.
Many of the GTAs who were interested in offering a more diverse program to students do not have the training or experience to more diverse topics, he said.
He said it had been suggested that the department provide a teaching program for GPAs or have a pool of students who have expertise on the various topics.
Giles Smith, off-campus senator,
said that the department needed a professor to express diverse ideas and facts in an effective way but that it would be impossible if the teachers did not have the training.
Piper said most GTAs wanted to incorporate different topics into their classroom but did not have the time to review more material.
"GTAs have to read the material for that week's lesson, write lectures, teach and grade assignments every week," he said. "In addition, they are graduate students and have classes of their own."
Representatives from Black Men of Today and Hillel attended the meeting.
Mark Haddleman, Hillel member,
said that many Jewish students were
concerned that the novel "Night" by
Elie Wiesel would be eliminated from
the reading list to make room for
another work.
Liz Mendez, Senate minority affairs chairperson, said that she hoped the meeting would generate ideas to the Western Civiliza- tion.
She also said that she hoped student leaders had heard ideas that would make them more effective in teaching this issue within their groups.
opportunity we are getting a common ground so we are not coming from all different directions" she said.
Computer science faculty begins move to Snow Hall offices
Kansan staff writer
Bv Mike Brassfield
Computer science faculty members will begin to move into their new offices in Snow Hall today as part of a semester-long move of department departments into the renovated building.
The departments of computer science and mathematics are expected to finish moving from Strong Hall to Snow in time for the spring semester.
Jim Modig, campus director of facilities planning, said the $72 million renovation of Snow Hall, which began in Summer 1987, was nearly complete.
The renovation of the six-s story, 61-year-old building included extensive heating, air conditioning and electrical work to accommodate the needs of the departments, Modig
said.
Judy Holloway, administrative assistant in the computer science department, said the department's 14 faculty members would be moved first, and then 50 teaching assistants. The department also uses computer equipment will be moved from labs on the first three floors of Snow.
"We don't expect to be finished moving until Christmas break," she said.
Charles Himmelberg, chairperson of the mathematics department, said the math
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The computer science and math departments have had some classes in Snow but plan even more classes there in the spring, she said.
The computer science department's administrative offices moved Oct. 1 to the
We've been awfully crowded here in Strong. We'll be crowded in Snow too, but the quality of the space will be greatly improved. — Charles Himmelberg
chairperson of the mathematics department
department had used six remodeled classrooms in Snow this semester.
Himmelberg said the department was scheduled to begin moving Nov. 5. The department's 40 faculty members will move to Snow's fifth and six floors, and 55 teaching assistants will move into offices on the third floor.
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"We've been awfully crowded here in
Strong," he said. "We'll be crowded in Snow too, but the quality of the space will be greatly improved. For the first time, all of our faculty will have desirable office space."
Himmelberg the department would have more space in Snow for seminars.
The computer science and mathematics departments will have access to a greatly
improved communications system, he said.
"The Snow Hall computer network will be hooked into the main campus network."
Linda Mullens, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said offices in Strong Hall would be rearranged during the next four months of building space for student services offices.
Mullens is a member of the University Space Committee, which makes recommendations to the executive vice chancellor about the use of building space on campus.
Students in the lounge of Snow's third floor yesterday sat on the new carpeted floor or in the eight classroom desks placed around the room. Students in faculty lounges will arrive later, Moida said.
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