October 22,1984 Page3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily
KANSAN
Officials break ground for Endowment addition
Kansas University Endowment Association officials broke ground yesterday for an 11,400-square-foot addition to the association's offices.
The new wing will adjoin the north side of existing offices in Youngberg Hall, west of Nichols Hall on West Campus, and is scheduled to be completed by August.
Steve Menaugh, KUEA public relations coordinator, said yesterday that the addition had been planned for about a year. He said the new, two-story structure would include private offices and open work areas
"It's more of what we have now," he said. "I think it's going to come at about the right time. I know we've had to do a lot of that. We have storage rooms in order to fit everybody in."
The KUEA employs about 50 staff members.
Anderson will speak at Union
John Anderson, former Illinois congressman and 1980 independent presidential candidate will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The SUA Forums Committee had announced that Anderson's speech would be at 8 p.m.
Latin American session slated
The KU Center for Latin American Studies sponses. teach in on U.S.Latin America and on U.S.Latin America.
Sessions, which include lectures and slide shows, are scheduled throughout the day in the Kansas University, Barley Hall and the Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
Speakers will be members of Latin American Solidarity, Ben Powers, Prairie Village special student; the Rev. Jack Bremer, adviser to the Ecumenical Christian Ministries student program council.
Local loan office opens Nov. 1
"Sallie Mae," Lawrence's new Student Loan Marketing Association, will celebrate its opening from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at 1919 Delaware St.
Barry Brotman, manager of Sallie Mae, said yesterday that the ceremony would include a ribbon cutting, local speakers and announcements from company executives. Hors d'oeuvres and cocktails will be served.
14 chosen for honor recital
The opening celebration is by invitation only. For additional information, call 841-0234
Fourteen music students will perform in the annual Fine Arts Honor Recital at 8 p.m. Oct. 31 in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The students were nominated by their professors and selected to perform by a committee of music faculty members. The need of will be free to the public.
Poet to read own selections
Ed Dorn, a poet in residence, will read collections of his poetry at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Jayhawk Room of the library, where the reading is free and open to the public.
Dorn, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was a visiting poet here in the late 1960s. While at the University of Kansas, Dorn wrote part of one of his well-known poems, "Gunslinger."
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. The high will be in the low 50s. Winds will be from the northeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. The high will be in the mid-50s. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, and the high will be in the mid-50s.
Correction
Because of an editor's error, the amount of scholarship money awarded by the Miss Lawrence Pageant was stated incorrectly in yesterday's Kansas. The pageant expects to award about $2,600 in scholarships to pageant participants this year.
[Ann Hollinger, left, and Karen Day, both from Baker University in Baldwin City, enjoy sandwiches in front of
Joe Wilkins/KANSAN
Joe's Bakery on Ninth Street. They said they often make the 25-minute trip to Lawrence to stop at the bakery.
Officials say KU in step with trend
From Staff and Wire Reports
A report calling for changes in college education shows that the University of Kansas is in the forefront of national thinking, officials said last night.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said the report's call for two or more years of liberal arts and sciences education in all schools. He also chaired the University's traditional emphasis.
"Generally the University anticipated that, because most of the professional schools have a very strong arts and sciences component," he said.
THE REPORT, RELEASED yesterday in Washington, D.C., by Terrell Bell, secretary of education, contains 27 recommendations to the group of the National Institute of Education.
The report is titled "Involvement in Literature, Benefiting the Potential of American Literature Education"
Cobb said he did not expect the report to have the effect of a Department of Education report 18 months ago that called U.S. public schools mediocre.
That report, "A Nation at Risk," has
provoked changes in high school graduation requirements, teacher certification and emphasis on basic learning in a number of states.
The new report recommends the use of proficiency tests for both general and major requirements, but that is unlikely to come about. Cobb said.
A REALISTIC AND effective grading system already shows proficiency, he said.
Dale Scannell, dean of the School of Education, said the school's change in 1981 to a five-year program had stemmed from the same observations the report made.
He said the study group probably thought some grading systems lacked rigor.
"We couldn't work all the general education we wanted into four years," he said.
The report is consistent with proposals already being considered at the University to establish a new model.
He said the report's recommendation for higher salaries for faculty members was also correct.
"The data speak for themselves," he said. "Higher education purchasing power has gone down faster than for any other segment of population, including public school teachers."
STANLEY SHUMAWAY, chairman of the department of music, said he welcomed the report but that the School of Fine Arts had already set up a bachelor of arts program that allows students to take 60 percent of their classes in general education.
But Universities should not eliminate professional degree programs that have less emphasis on the liberal arts and sciences, he said.
A recommendation for improvement of buildings and equipment is valid regardless of curriculum. Shumway said. But he doesn't want the musicians for KU musicians to disappear overnight.
"I'm optimistic enough to think it will happen, but I'm not sure when," he said.
The report also recommends regula student evaluation of academic programs.
It identifies several areas of trouble, including a decline of test scores among graduate school applicants, the failure of half those who start college to graduate and the decisions not to attend college by one of eight qualified high school seniors.
Kenneth Mortimer of Pennsylvania State University was chairman of the study group, whose six other members also were college or university officials.
Local group sees gains for prisoners
By BENGT LJUNG
Staff Reporter
Both prisoners of conscience that the Lawrence Amnesty International Group 72 has been trying to help have been released this year, the group's coordinator said last
Mitch Kaufman, Galva senior and the coordinator of the group, said Petr Uhl was able to return home to his family in May after five years in Czechoslovakian prisons. In Urgugany, Maria Julia Mintella Sanchez was born early from her six year sentence in August.
"We can't claim responsibility for their rebuses, but we'd like to think we've been wrong."
TODAY, THE GROUP will promote its two-year campaign to abolish torture in the world with a movie and information tables at the Kansas Union.
The Lawrence members have been writing letters to Uhl's and Sanchez's governments pleading for their release since their imprisonment in 1979. Uhl and Sanchez fulfilled the Amnesty requirement — to be adopted prisoners of conscience without advocating violence — after being imprisoned because of their beliefs.
The movie, "Your Neighbour's Son, the Making of a Torturer," will be shown at 3:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Kansas State University Medical Christian Ministries, 1294 Orcad Ave.
"We're not interested in the bomb throwers," Bob Wolff, coordinator for Uhl's case, said Sunday. "We want to protect peoples' human rights."
LAWRENCE AMNESTY IS a student organization started in 1979. The working members have consistently numbered about 15 students and faculty members, Kaufman said. The Amnesty newsletter reaches about 80 people in Lawrence.
Amnesty International is a worldwide human rights organization independent of any government. The group's beliefs are based on the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Amnesty International received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.
"There's always a segment of the student body who has a concern with what's happening out of the country," Kaufman said.
"People who have chosen to work with this organization recognize its rationality. I would not call the organization left or right. Amnesty is as unbiased as an organization can be and is widely respected for that," he said.
DUTCH, FRENCH AND German Amnesty groups also have made pleas for Uhl and Sanchez. Lawrence Amnesty never has received an answer from either government.
But they have had contacts with the prisoners' families. Anna Uhl has responded with letters and Sanchez's mother with telephone calls.
"Sanchez's mother has been extremely happy someone up here cares and was making an effort to get her daughter released," Kaufman said.
"These things make this work gratifying. We're very pleased that the two cases we have been working on for over four years have turned out for the better." he said.
ACCORDING TO AMNESTY research at the International Secretariat in London, both Uhl and Sanchez were convicted of "subversion."
Fall filing for Senate completed
By JOHN HANNA
Staff Reporter
About 200 students, including the chairman of the Senate Elections Committee, will run for 57 Student Senate seats in this fall's election.
Senate officials yesterday locked the doors of the Senate office in the Kansas Union after the 5 p.m. filing deadline for senatorial elections, and on Friday met the deadline for the Nov. 14-15 elections.
Among them was Thom Davidson, chairman of the Elections Committee, who will run the elections. Davidson will run for one of nine seats representing students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
HE IS RUNNING, as an independent,
"He runs with a coalition."
Davidson said yesterday. "Studies show
the next logical step for me as far as campus
politics goes."
Other notable senatorial candidates include Carla Vogel, student body president; Dennis "Boog" Highberger, student body vice president; and Ruth Lichtwardt, a Senate administrative secretary and president of Gav and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
Senate rules do not prohibit the Elections Committee chairman from running for office. Davidson said candidates with complaints about his running could take them to the Elections Committee and the Elections Review Board.
"If people really knew the situation, they would know that there's no way that I can fix my own election." Davidson said. "I guarantee that people will be watching to see that this election is run fairly."
BUT WILLIAM EASLEY, chairman of the Senate University Affairs Committee and a Nunemaker senator, yesterday called Davidson's decision unwise. Easley is also the presidential candidate for the Frontier Coalition.
"In essence, he is involved in a system, and he's supposed to be the mediator of the system, he said 'Not only is he going to monitor it, but he's going to have to monitor the rules."
"I would hope that he would reconsider his decision."
Chris Coffelt, chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee, said she saw nothing wrong with Davidson's running for the eventual candidate for the & Toto Coaition.
"If he conducts himself in a professional manner as Elections Committee chairperson, he should have the option to run for a Senate seat that any other student has," she said, "I don't see that he can favor himself in any way."
DAVIDSON SAID THAT he decided to run for a Senate seat this weekend but that he had the support of his peers.
Vogel and Highberger also filed for Senate seats, which they said ended the possibility of a senate block.
"Over the weekend, several senators called me and asked me if I was going to run," he said. "We just talked about it, and I made the decision to do that."
Vogel will run for one of two special student seats, and Highberger will run for a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences seat. You'll go to Too, too. You helped form this semester.
Vogel said she did not want to run for president again because she thought that it was time for another person to serve in the office.
HIGHBERGER SAID, "It would have totally violated all of my principles."
Vogel and Highberger said that their terms as president and vice president would help them as senators and would give them an advantage in their races.
"Being in the newspaper 'let will do that,'"
"Burger said, "although that might be a
disaster."
Vogel added. "No one can tell us that we don't have any experience any more."
Lichtward will run for a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences seat with & Toto Too.
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The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Chamber Music Series Presents
EMERSON STRING QUARTET
"Something almost magical happens when they perform."
Program
Quartet in G major, Op. 76, No. 1 Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 3 Berg
Quartet in D major, Op. 11 Tchaikovsky
3. 30.p.m. Sunday, October 28, 1984
Crafton-Prever Theatre/Murphy Hall
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office
all seats reserved/For reservations, call 913/864-3982
Public: $8 & $6; Students: $4 & $3; Senior Citizens: $7 & $5
This program is partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee.
Swarthawk Society and the KU Endowment Association
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