CAMPUS AND AREA
November 26,1984 Page 3
The University Dail KANSAN
Perlman to perform at KU as part of concert series
Itzhak Perlman, the virtuoso of the violin, will perform at 8 p.m. Dec. 1 in Hoch Auditorium as part of the University Concert Series.
The renowned violinist will perform with pianist Samuel Sanders in the last performance of the concert series for the fall semester.
Perlman, born in Israel in 1945, has won numerous Grammy Awards. He is a past recipient of the Musician of the Year Award presented by the group Musical America.
Reserved tickets, on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office, are $16 and $20 for the public; $8 and $10 for KL students; and $15 for other students and senior citizens
Menninger suffers mild stroke
TOPEKA — Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, 91, suffered a "mild stroke" yesterday and was hospitalized in stable condition, a nursing supervisor said.
An ambulance was dispatched to Menninger's home at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday and he was taken to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center.
Menninger is a co-founder and board chairman of the Menninger Foundation.
"He's been admitted for a mild stroke," said nursing supervisor Gerri Long. "He appears stable at this point and we're doing further tests."
On March 27 he entered Colmery O'Neil V.A. Medical Center in Topeka with bronchial pneumonia. He was discharged four days later.
Menninger, along with his father, C.F.
Menninger, and his brother, Will, founded
the Menninger Clinic in 1925 in a converted
room in the old Jewish school. Kartt
Menniger is the only survivor
Bits of 'Tartuffe' to be played
A French theatrical company will perform scenes from Jean Baptiste Moliere's comedy "Tartuffe" at 8 tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The company, Compagnie Claude Beauclaire, was formed in 1970 to acquaint non-French audiences with Famous French plays. The company will perform the scenes from "Tartuffe" in French and purchase at the Murphy Hall, Box Office
Novelist Harry Crews will be on campus today through Wednesday as a writer in residence with the English department
Crews, a former Esquire columnist, will conduct seminars with English students and give a reading from his works at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Crews, a professor of English at the University of Florida, has won awards for his writing from the American Academy of Arts. Much of his writing draws upon his experiences as a poor child in Georgia and Florida.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy. The high will be in the low 50s and winds will be from the southwest at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy and colder with a 29 percent chance of light snow or flurries. The low will be in the mid-20s. Tomorrow will be cloudy and the high will be in the mid-30s.
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Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Report says schools neglect humanities
From Staff and Wire Reports
The chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a candidate for the nation's top post in education, released a report yesterday that blames college teachers for shortchanging students in the humanities.
However, two KU professors said yesterday that such conditions did not exist at the University of Kansas. Neither professor had seen the report.
William Bennett, chairman of the endowment, wrote the report titled "To Reclaim a Legacy," which found that most college students were "shortchanged in the humanities, lacking even the most rudimentary knowledge about the history, art, and philosophical foundations of their nation and their civilization."
JAMES SEAVER, PROFESSOR of history and former director of the Western Civilization program said, "That would apply at KU. That may apply to other places."
J. Michael Young, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of philosophy, said, "I do think that KU has strong programs in the humanities and probably stronger requirements in humanities than many universities do."
In an interview with United Press International, Bennett, a former professor of law and philosophy at several colleges and universities and a top contender to replace Education Secretary Terrell Bell, said the "fault lies principally with those
A conservative Democrat, Bennett was one of several candidates for the education post who presented credentials to conservative groups that disapproved of Bell's performance. Bell announced his resignation Nov. 8. It becomes effective Dec. 31.
of us whose business it is to educate these students."
"We HAVE BLAMED others, but the responsibility is ours." Bennett wrote. "Not by our words, but by our actions, by our choice, we have brought about this condition."
Too often, Bennett wrote, teaching can be "lifeless or tendentious, mechanical or ideological. On too many campuses the curriculum has become a self-service cafeteria through which students pass without being nourished."
cheapening their degrees, KU held the line pretty well."
Seaver said, "By and large, we could do better. But I think we're trying."
Young, who heads the Task Force on General Education, said the University recently had attempted to strengthen
We have blamed others, but the responsibility is ours. Not by our words, but by our actions, by our indifference, we have brought about this condition.
William Bennett
The report, drawn the past six months from analyses of 31 top educators, scholars and education administrators, said, "the past twenty years have seen a steady erosion in the place of the humanities in the undergraduate curricu-
In the Early 1960s, young adults, badly weakened humanities requirements.
"At worst, and too often, the humanities are virtually absent," the report stated.
He said, "KU resisted that tendency to a very great extent. I don't think KU ever did succumb to that temptation to relax requirements."
SEAVER SAID. "IN SOME cases, we gave in a bit. But by and large, when other people were around, we did."
programs and requirements. The task force issued a report last month that suggested the upgrading of English, mathematics, oral communication, distribution, Western Civilization and bachelor of general studies requirements.
TO REVERSE THE DECLINE. Bennett's report made several recommendations in keeping with Reagan administration policy. For one, it suggested that colleges and universities reward excellent teaching in hiring, promotion and tenure decisions.
Bennett said such rewards could include merit pay, a proposal opposed by teachers' unions that argue it would benefit only the teachers and would be ripe for abuse.
Young said that KU, compared with
other state universities, already empha-
sized the importance of rewarding teach-
"I think the University is known for its commitment to undergraduate teaching;
Bennett also agreed with the Reagan administration's desire to reduce finance
"IN SOME PLACES, (more money) would help," he said in the interview. "But in most places, what is needed is a reedemption of current funds."
"We don't think the problem is principally financial."
He suggested that the nation's colleges and universities reshape their undergraduate curricula, that school presidents put aside "proud departmentalism" to put aside "grow departmentalism."
The report stated that "some substantial instruction in the humanities should be an integral part of everyone's collegiate education."
It also cited the recent efforts of Brooklyn College, St. Joseph's College in Indiana and Kirkwood Community College in Iowa as "bright spots." There "the drift toward curricular disintegrations has been reversed," the report said.
Family, school keep 'Superwoman' busy
Bennett, 41, presented his credential-two weeks ago at the offices of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, an umbrella organization of about a dozen conservative lobbying groups.
He declined to comment on the meeting or on his possible appointment to head the Education Department.
Staff Reporter
By JOHN REIMRINGER
Margaret Williams sat before the console in the tiny KU police dispatcher's office that is buried in Hoch Auditorium, listening to calls coming over four frequencies. An AM-FM radio played rock 'n' roll in the background.
It was the Saturday night before Thanksgiving and Williams was not that busy. Occasionally she made a notation or stepped outside to micromphone and spoke with KU pilot officers.
On the floor near the foot pedal sat a satchel full of books. If the night stayed quiet Williams might have an opportunity to study a little before she was relieved at 2 a.m.
Margaret Williams works 40 hours a week as a KU police dispatcher, besides taking 12 hours of classes.
WILLIAMS IS TAKING 12 hours of classes as well as working four 10-hour shifts a week as a dispatcher, and she takes advantage of every opportunity to study.
Williams, 38, will graduate from the University of Kansas in May with a B.G.S. degree in communications and human sciences from the speech and drama department.
For the past two years she has worked as a KU police dispatcher, a job that Williams says is ideal because it allows her to work at night and study during the day.
As if that were not enough, this fall Welling began studying law kweon do and working with it.
Williams graduated from Eudora High School in 1964 and married her high school sweetheart, Larry Williams, in October of that year.
They have three children; Julie, 18;
Russell, 15; and Jeff, 12. They also have a
two-year old grandson. Bryan.
WILLIAMS RECEIVED an associate of
arls degree from Haskell Indian Junior
University.
She has been a full-titre student at KU since the spring 1983 semester, but began taking courses at KU shortly after she graduated. She has not missed classes part time, whenever she had the time.
"I always had to work full time, so it depended on the job I had." Williams said.
"Originally, I started back to school to get some skills to get a better job. I really liked getting my education.
"I came from a past where all women were
expected to get married, have children and live happily ever after. And be totally dependent on their husbands. I don't believe that. I had to learn to be an independent person, but I can also be interdependent without giving up who I am."
LARRY WILLIAMS SOMETIMES stops by to visit his wife while she works. On one such night recently he grinned at his wife as she sat at the console.
"I think she thinks she's Superwoman sometimes." he said.
"I don't think that," Williams said. "I told him if there was any way, I was going to have to leave."
She said she wouldn't be able to keep up
"I'm teaching my family to take care of themselves."
"If he wasn't, I wouldn't be able to do all that I do," she said "In traditional marriages the wife is always responsible for the nuturing of her family, husband and
"He's very good at it," she said of her husband. "He can bandage knees and soothe a broken leg."
THE WILLIAMS CLEARED their 20th wedding anniversary Oct. 1.
with her hectic schedule if her children and husband weren't supportive.
"we're very happy," Williams said. "The secret, the main thing is that we make time
After graduation, she is interested in getting a master's degree in either hospital administration or communication studies, she said.
Williams says she is looking forward to her graduation in May.
By that time she might be a KU police patrol officer.
"I'm trying to decide right now," she said.
"I don't make these decisions all by myself,
it's a family decision"
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