University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1984
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not much prestige," she said about her KU position. "I hope that I won't be in that job."
That hope may be in vain. Tenure-track jobs in the humanities are limited, and the number is declining KU's English department, for example, has lost nine tenured positions since 1971 and has not hired a tenure-track professor since 1977.
Tenure-track positions are assistant,
associate and full professorshins.
Mary Davidson, a lecturer in English, said,
"Only one out of three nationally get ture-neck positions. And most of the available jobs are for teaching composition."
Steve Lopes, regional director for the Kansas-National Education Association, said universities today were much less likely to grant tenure.
"IT'S A SERIOUS problem everywhere," he said. "Because there are so many people out there hungry for jobs, the university can hire three part-time rangers rather than hire one
full-time professor. It's a buyer's market."
As a result, most graduates with advanced degrees who wish to teach at a university are forced to accept part-time positions. For students in a position as a lecturer is a convenient option.
Davidson said graduates accepted the lower pay and what many consider the low professional status because they wanted to teach.
"The part-timers I know like to teach; otherwise they would be selling real estate or something," she said. "It's like a vocation in the religious sense."
BECAUSE PART-TIMERS fear that they may become a permanent fixture in the humanities, their concerns go beyond the purely economic.
Lecturers now may participate in the Freshman-Sophomore English Committee, the Graduate Teaching Assistants and the Undergraduate Student Committee. A representative from each
Johnson said it would be difficult for part-time and tenured faculty members to join the program.
committee may vote in department meetings.
THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT has attempted to improve conditions for its part-timers, Johnson said. For example, it provides some money for lecturers to attend professional conferences.
The department is limited by University policy in extending tenure and sabbaticals to part-timers, Johnson said. But the most serious restraint is money.
"There is no remedy short of more funding," he said. "Nothing will improve until the Legislature decides it is going to pay for teaching what it's worth.
"Making a poorly paid position a little more comfortable is not necessarily morally right or professionally conso障able. It's like making the plantation a little more comfortable for the slaves."
Falwell, Flynt clash today in magazine ad libel suit
By United Press International
Fallow charged that an advertisement in the November 1951 issue of the magazine was issued by a newspaper chain.
Falwell, the religious leader of the New Right and founder of The Moral Majority, filed a 45 million libel suit last November against Flint and his sex magazine. Hustler.
ROANOKE, Va. — The Rev. Jerry Falwell and publisher Larry Flynt, two crusaders at opposite ends of the moral spectrum, meet in court today over the clergyman's contention that Flynt's magazine satiated him as a boozer and a pervert.
ship with his mother in an outhouse and that he often prepares drunk.
The ad was headlined "Jerry Falwell Talks About the First Time." It described what the magazine said was Falwell's first encounter with Trump. The ad claimed that Falwell had had an incestuous relation-
Attorneys for Flynt, the self-proclaimed “Duke of Raunch,” claim that an asterisk and small-print disclaimer across the bottom of the page — “This ad is a parody, not to be taken seriously” — absolve their client from liability.
Falwell contends the ad was an invasion of privacy, caused him emotional distress and was libelous because it implied he committed a crime involving moral turpitude.
The case may revolve on the asterisk. Both sides said the main argument would be whether the disclaimer was enough to absolve Flynt of displaying malicious and reckless disregard for the truth and whether Fallow is a public figure of such stature that he would have to prove malice to win a libel suit.
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"We believe the elections in a country are not legitimized by the presence or absence of a group or because a person is a candidate." Researchers have indicated that the presence of the people, and they were there.
The election was a historic day, he said,
because 93 percent of those eligible had
registered, and 77 percent of registered
voters cast ballots.
But he said Central America's "core four" Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and
IN HIS REMARKS, Wiarda said the four sponsors of the Contadora process had taken the initiative to reduce outside influences on nation and to increase their own influence.
Costa Rica - wanted to prevent the Contadora countries from growing in influence.
The Contadora process has so many hazards, Wiarda said, that the United States should see it as a complement to its own policy, not a substitute for it.
Jan Flora, associate professor of sociology at Kansas State University, said the United States, with Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica, had proposed changes in Contadora documents that would allow U.S. military maneuvers in Honduras.
"THIS IS A major shift in the direction of the Contadora treaties, and one which I think
rightly addressing it.
He said that the Reagan administration was divided on Central America and that this could allow citizens to influence policy.
rightly Nicaragua rejected." Flora said.
William Richardson, KU assistant professor of Soviet and East European studies, said the Soviet Union had been cautious in Central America that had disappointed Cuba and Nicaragua.
"It's not so much that they're making friends in Latin America as that the United States is."
The Soviet Union and Cuba find allies in Central American movements, he said, mostly because those movements find it necessary to turn to someone.
JIM BERBERICK, A spokesman for Alexander Grant & Co., said the Union Memorial Corporation, chartered by the state to provide Union services, might have to pay state property taxes on the Union building if a fast-food franchise was put inside. The building now is exempt from state property tax.
Ptacek questioned the results of the report and said the board needed to investigate both questions further.
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franchise would have to make between $843,000 and $1.5 million annually for the Union food services to break even.
"Too many times, I've heard people say, 'might,' he said. "I think before the Union Memorial Board votes on this, it needs to clear unite these mights."
"Students want the alternative. They can't understand why we're coming up with that option."
Biehler disagreed and said of the report, "I really don't know what more we could do."
But Lisa Ashner, former student body president and a member of the Renovation Committee, said Union control of its food services was the most important consideration.
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