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Fridav. October 5, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Local Jews accept German unity
By Tatsuya Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
Some members of the Lawrence Jewish community think that although Germany cannot be excused from the responsibility of the Holocaust, a newly united Germany would not repeat such an
Steigfried Lindenbaum, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, said that although he had mixed feelings about German unification, the unification was necessary because there was no alternative to save East Germany from economic collapse.
"I have an emotional feeling that doesn't want to see this happen, because in a way the separation of Germany was the last tangible evidence of what the Germans have done," he said.
Going back to Germany was difficult for him because the memory of the Holocaust was too bitter, he said.
Lindenbaum was born in Germany in 1850 and escaped from the Nazis to England in 1939. His father was a schoolteacher in Hamburg.
When he went back to West Germany about eight years ago, he was upset and disappointed in Germany because the history of the Holocaust virtually was ignored.
But when Lindenbaum visited West Germany this summer as a visiting professor, he said he was amazed at the level of knowledge.
"When I was there, I saw tangible evidence that the young people in West Germany are studying the history, and they are looking at it very seriously," he said.
seriously, he said.
Germans accepted the Holocaust as a national responsibility, and children started to ask parents why it happened, he said.
why it happened, he said.
Lindenbaum said that many West German towns had built memorials for Holocaust victims, and he named his parents' names on one of them.
"I have a feeling that there is a determination of Germany to show to the world that it doesn't want to forget, and it wants to remember what has happened," he said.
Kevin Eberman, president of Hilliell House, 940 Mississippi St., said the unification signaled that Germans finally gained self-determination, and the United States lost the states and the Soviet Union in Germany had ended.
West Germany has a strong democracy and economy, and the rise of Nazism is not likely to occur.
However, Eberman worries that the United States presses Germany to have a strong military. For example, he said the United States wanted Germany to send troops to the Persian Gulf.
Martin Wollmann, a retired Lawrence physician a Jew who was born in Germany but left before the war when he was 12, said he did not see any danger in German unification.
Women faculty scarce despite increases
Kansan staff writer
Although there are more female than male students enrolled at KU, students are about five times as likely to take classes taught by men than women, and women are less likely to be enrolled by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.
tional research institute. From 1975 to 1980, the number of female students at the University of Kansas grew from 43.4 percent to 50.8
percent of the student body, and female faculty members increased from 11.1 percent to 18.1 percent, the office reported.
The number of tenured female faculty members increased from 7.9 percent to 13.8 percent.
Of the 33 tenured faculty members in the mathematics department, three are women, said Margaret associate professor of mathematics.
"I think it's lower than it should be, but I don't think it's low compared with comparable departments," Bayer said.
Female students are not as scarce as in the past, Bayer said. Usually, about 20 percent of doctoral candidates in mathematics are women.
By Yvonne Guzman
Janet Riley, assistant vice chairwoman for academic affairs, said that one reason female faculty were not hired as often as male faculty was
that the number of women candidates in certain fields was low.
The University often looks for talented minority and female faculty members when recruiting for positions, she said. It also advertises in journals that minorities are likely to see.
This year, the university hired 46 new faculty members, she said. Of those, 23 were White men and 22 were either minority members or women.
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