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Monday, September 10, 1990/ University Daily Kansan
Opinion
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Save the Margin
Legislature's failure to boost Kansas education should call into question the nation's priorities
the failure of the 1990 Legislature to finance the third year of the Margin
finance the third year of the Margin of Excellence cast doubt on the prominence of higher education on the state's agenda. Without the money the Margin would have provided the University of Kansas and the other six Board of Regents institutions stand to lose a lot.
The Margin was the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Money still will be provided for faculty salaries and research. However, financing will not be at the increased levels that the Margin would have supplied — levels that are key to building educational excellence at the University. The quality of education the University can provide depends upon the quality of its faculty, but many of the best professors will not teach here without hefty salaries to attract them.
The shortfall in state money puts a burden on tuition payments to make up for the appropriations gap. Since Fall 1987, resident tuition has increased $119.50 to $782, and nonresident rates have risen $596.50 to $2,344. If increased enrollment at the University during those years is proof that students are willing to pay more for their education, then the Legislature ought to match this willingness to improve
the system.
The Regents schools may recapture Margin funds next year.
Next year?
That the fate of Margin financing has not been determined is evidence that, once again, education has been put on the back burner.
History shows that America's rise as a world power resulted from industrial and military might. Japan has foregone the U.S. formula and replaced it with educational might. Its people have shown the rest of the world that a strong educational system is the new foundation of economic superiority.
Japan has made education a top priority. We say we have, but setbacks like the denied Margin tell us we have not, as do national SAT scores. Japan has had declined for the third consecutive year.
If we cannot boost education at the state level, then how can we expect a national educational campaign to work? As long as even one U.S. student cannot find the United States on a world map, we must keep education at the top of our social agenda.
We all have heard the cliché that education is an investment in our future. The more we hear that, the more it rings true.
Let's hope legislators in Topeka do not forget that the next time money for the Margin is at stake.
American Indians
Sally Gibbs for the editorial board
Lawrence arts show is chance to honor culture
A dd one to the must see, must do, must attend list.
The Second Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show will open Friday with a benefit opening, art preview, awards ceremony and reception at the KU Museum of Anthropology
Organizers of the show are excited, as well they should be. Entrants in the juried competition of the show are up 53 percent to 290 from the 131 participants in 1989. About 63 entrants have signed up for the show's Indian Market, a 20-person increase from the 1989 show.
The show is presented by the museum Haskell Indian Junior College and the Law Center.
Maria Martin, museum secretary and one of the show's organizers, attributes the increased participation to the first show's success. About 30 percent of all works displayed at that show were sold, she said. Word-of-mouth spread this information among Indian artists and attracted artists from across the United States.
Five events will highlight this year's show: a juried competition of contemporary American Indian arts at the museum from Sept. 15 to Nov. 4; a two-day Indian Market Sept. 15 and 16 at Haskell, an exhibit of the paintings of Creek Potawatomi Indian artist Woody
Crumbo from Sept. 15 to Nov. 4 at Haskell; an exhibit of the paintings of contemporary Indian artist Jaine Quick-to-See Smith from Sept. 15 to Oct. 11 at the Lawrence Arts Center; and a performance by the American Indian Dance Theater at the New Directions Series on Nov. 3 at The Museum.
Works entered in the juried competition will be for sale. These include paintings, drawings, sculpture, jewelry and beadwork. Artists at the Indian Market will display and sell their works in booths.
So the schedule is planned, the entrants are on their way, and the show starts Friday. All that remains is for the Lawrence community students to plan the show into their schedules.
As a unique opportunity to view works by more than 96 American Indian artists representing 49 tribes and 18 states, this show deserves attention. It also presents a chance for Lawrence to recognize and honor its Indian community.
The Second Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show is a fall "must see."
Mary Neubauer for the editorial board
FROM THE COMPANY THAT BROUGHT YOU THE COMBAT
LUGE, THE V.U. 735 ANTI-PERSONNEL GOLFTBALL AND
THE V.U. 291 POLO SABRE, COMES THE NEWEST IN IN A LINE OF VIOLENT SPORTING GOODS...
Enrollment needs new theories
t's happening again.
It's happening. The students' mad scramble for a limited supply of the coveted closed-class opponents is on.
This is is the time when students realize their tuition, taxes and seniority are not assurances of attending needed classes but simply entry fees in the enrollment lottery. This dreadful display of mismanagement and disorganization by the University of Kansas is only equaled by the students' willingness to accept it as the natural order.
The origin and continuance of the enrollment chaos results from the University's refusal to view education as marketing oriented Marketing is the anticipation, management and satisfaction of consumer demand. To accomplish this process. To begin, let us look at anticipation, rather the lack thereof.
During the spring, David Shulenberger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, referring to the increase by 312 in the number of students enrolled 1040 semester, said, "To a large degree that was not predictable."
Not predictable Student enrollment should be predictable given that the majority
Not predictable?
Russell Henke
Guest columnist
of students come from in-state. In-state students come from in-state high schools with counselors who are readily accessible with information concerning the number of students headed for the University.
Unfortunately, the University has demonstrated that it is impossible to anticipate when you fail to communicate. Consequently, the accounting department is not given enough time to study projected enrollment figures and allocate the revenue earned from an increase in enrollment. Such an increase must be instructors and increase the salaries of existing instructors as classes are added, helping to meet the demands of the growing student population.
Further evidence that education is not marketing-oriented at the University is the administration and faculty's use of the intimacy theory. This theory states that the students desire an intimate environment
between student and teacher through the maintenance of a small class size Consequently, the intimacy students face closed classes
If the University, however, would take the time to research its target market, the students, it would discover that the students will resoundingly accept larger class sizes, knowing that such class sizes augment the probability of attending needed class. The price of intimacy is no more important than a teacher's tuition, moonlighting at a junior college or delaying a career.
... education were marketing oriented at KU, then the University would spend more time listening to its students and less time trying to fashion itself after private East Coast universities. In other words, dump the intimacy theory and use the data from the theory by expanding class sizes and adding teaching assistant positions as needed.
Russell Henke is a Leawood junior majoring in business communications and journalism.
Classes need to be watched to end cheating
Guest columnist
Colleen Zimmerman
Well, today it happened again.
While taking a quiz in an English class,
the (teaching assistant was writing on the chalkboard), the person sitting next to me tried three different times to copy off my paper. I refused to let this student use my answers. Again, the teaching assistant did nothing to assure that cheating would not occur.
Last semester during a calculus final, I observed several students cheating. These students, (the teaching assistant was sitting in the front of the room before class) and the finals with the help of their neighbors and copies of homework and old tests. I thought about reporting the incident to the teaching assistant, but I decided that my job was not to report it on the class. Unfortunately, the teaching assistant never stopped the actions.
I am furious! I attend the University of Kansas to learn. I should not have to assume responsibility for my own success, and I own, I sincerely believe that the sole
responsibility of the classroom one to the person in charge, whether it be a tenured professor or a teaching assistant. My responsibility is to attend class, study and to fulfill all tasks made by the "person in charge."
And remember, most classroom rules state that a person whose paper is being copied from is just as guilty as the person cheating. I will protect myself, but I beg all people who teach classes at KU, please, please keep your eyes on your class. It will help those students who want to learn.
▶ Colleen Zimmerman is a Lawrence sophomore majoring in business and accounting.
LETTERS to the EDITOR
Bye-bye skateboarding
Well, it's official now. Wednesday's Kansan carried the front-page headline "Skateboarding accidents cause restrictions at KU."
So, as a law-abiding Christian, I've been booing it up to class daily since last week, when the "No Skateboarding on Campus" signs first went up. Gone are the days of the Famous Chinese GTA on the Old Skateboard. You've probably seen me: the 'Old Oriental guy who rode the '60s,
narrow skateboard down the sidewalk never doing any tricks, the guy who sometimes said, "excuse me" to the ladle when 'the let' came up behind you.
I guess I should have seen it coming. With the number of people riding new-style skateboards, wearing tie-dyed shirts and jumping the steps on Wesco Beach, sooner or later, someone was bound to run into someone else, and that would be the end of it.
So, I guess it'll take me twice as long to get to Strong Hall now. Sigh, I'll give thanks for the years I had and will walk on in life. Anybody want to lend me a bike 'til I get my thesis done?
lan Chai Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia graduate stud dent
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Student learns hard lesson during hot, harrowing bus trip
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Because it was 2:55 p.m. I was certain my bus would arrive any minute. Much to my chagrin, however, the darn transport did not show up until about 6 p.m. I did not protect me from the searing summer heat.
Until the bus finally showed up, I sat there contemplating whether I had been waiting for the wrong one. Finally it arrived, and I boarded only to be harassed by the elderly gentleman in charge of the behemoth. I headed for an open seat on the bench in the back.
N I learned about this caveat of off-campus living the hard way.
It all started Tuesday when my reporting class let out 40 minutes early. I thought walking home would be detrimental to my health because I live two miles from campus and the temperature felt like, as an overworked clock at a bank later confirmed, 181 degrees.
ever sit at the back of the bus.
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Jeffrey Meesey Guest columnist
There was no window there.
Reading my newspaper, I endured the never-ending journey. The bus driver, ostensibly trying to add to my misery, drove the sputtering, unairconditioned bus slower than I ever had
thought possible.
Without warning, however, he sped down Clinton Parkway, pausing to turn into the apartment complex close to where I live. He toured the entire campus and the apartments on巧妙ly on their respective doorsteps.
All the while, I leaned forward, trying to catch a glimpse of my stop on the nearest window. Then something strange happened. I took two students get off the bus and cross the street. The bus door door opened, and the bus never turned the corner. All of a sudden, my apartment was in plain view, and the bus was inching by it.
I pulled the string once, signaling my desire to bison, hoping we were still close enough to the saddle. I pulled the string again.
vain a second time and a third, but the driver continued on his lethargic journey up the hill.
Hoping to find a ride and then facing reality, I reluctantly headed home, stopping at the strip-mall that was on my way. I asked for a cup of ice water at the yogurt store and accepted it, even though it was in a styrofoam cup. My situation did not allow me to be choosy.
The next stop was eight blocks from my dyeing. The bank on the corner showed the temperature: 181 degrees. Obviously the clock was suffering from the heat as well.
I got off the bus when it finally stopped at a distant apartment complex. I cursed.
With blisters on my feet and a bit more knowl
my bias route, I stepped into my air
conditioned room.
Although I was wearing shorts, my shoes were not good for walking and I soon learned a new meaning for uncomfortable. Not only did my feet feel loose in the warm an-hour thoroughfare that did not have a sidewalk.
Never sit at the back of the bus.
at the back of the bus
= Jeffrey Jennings is a St. Louis junior majoring in journalism.
Three Imaginary Girls
By Tom Avery