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Minority
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The lack of jobs and low pay are important reasons that KU doesn't have many minority faculty members, Ballard said, but there are other reasons.
"IT'S DIFFICULT TO ATTRACT minority faculty for many reasons," she said. "It's hard to get people in general to the Midwest. When you look at most minorities' populations, they are urban, on the West Coast and the East Coast. The Midwest might represent somewhere they hadn't thought about living before."
She said that Lawrence's relatively small minority population might have had an effect on recruitment, but that other factors weighed heavily, also.
"I think it's a combination of things," she said. "It depends on what they're looking for. It's the same as recruiting other faculty members. They might be leery of coming to Lawrence, but in the sense of coming to the Midwest or maybe the specific programs we have. Maybe other people are doing better selling their jobs.
"SOME PLACES ARE just more attractive than others," she said. "It's like sports."
Places like Oklahoma and Nebraska don't really have to recruit. People just go there because of the reputation. And then some places are not as much in demand. You have to go out and find people and let them know you're there."
Cobb said he would rather report the University's efforts than assess them.
"I really believe that our minority colleagues on the faculty and staff are not interested in other people's assessments of us we're doing, but what has happened," he said.
Cobb said the University was trying to increase awareness of the need to attract larger numbers of able, minority faculty members and students. The affirmative action office has regular workshops for people involved in searches for faculty members.
"I THINK OUR DEANS and chairpersons are educating themselves in the processes of affirmative action," Cobb said. "They are learning to effectively identify pools of prospective minority faculty members. They are learning the caucasus and groups within
professionals that are available to help enlarge their knowledge of the issues. "
KU also is working to increase the pool of future minority faculty members by seeking out minority graduate students.
A group called Faculty Affiliates works with the offices of graduate studies and minority affairs to bring minority graduate students to KU, he said.
ADMINISTRATORS ARE working with small, undergraduate, predominantly minority schools to recruit graduate students. Cobb said.
KU is also a member of the Mid-America State Universities Association and participates in the Graduate Minority Opportunity Program. Students want to qualified minority graduate students.
Administrators recently have visited Rust College and Jackson State University in Mississippi. Trips to Southern and Dillard universities and Xavier University of Louisiana are planned. KU also is seeking Hispanic and American Indian graduate students at schools in New Mexico and Arizona, he said.
Politics continued from p. 1
Reagan, in a wide-ranging interview with U.S. News & World Report published yesterday, defended his "Star Wars" proposal - Strategic Defense Initiative He said it would be "a marvelous thing" to develop an active space defense against a nuclear attack.
He also said he would not immediately return to a hard unyielding line with the force of gravity.
"NO. NO. NO WAY," Reagan said.
"Because I happen to believe that if there's any common sense in the world at all, we will eliminate nuclear weapons, we should eliminate them."
Reagan, who has taken a more conciliatory tone towards the Soviet Union in recent weeks as he campaigns for re-election, also said his administration had made it plain that it was not seeking to change the Soviets' system.
In a pair of TV talk shows, the heads of the Reagan and Mondale camps sparred over the issues in the waning weeks of the contest. A
key concern for the 73-year-old Reagan's aides is the question of his age.
Neither Mondale nor his top aides directly have raised the issue, but other Democrats have. James Johnson, Mondale campaign manager, told ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley."
"I DON'T THINK (AGE) is going to be an issue." Johnson said. "We've got so many other issues, war and peace...who will stand up for the average family."
Robert Beckel, manager of the Mondale-Ferraro effort, on CBS's "Face the Nation," said. "The question is whether he is able to lead the country. I would rather talk about what he wants to say — and in his case, that's not much."
Also on CBS, Ed Rolls, Reagan-Bush campaign director, dismissed suggestions that Reagan's sometimes fumbling delivery in the debate had exposed a fundamental weakness. "The trouble is everybody expects him to hit a home run every time he comes to bat," he said.
Richard Wirthin, Reagan-Push polling director, said on ABC that he did not believe that age would be any more a factor than it was in 1980.
WIRTHILIN ASSERTED THE first debate had little impact on voters, saying that nationwide. "We show at a 16 point lead today that it was the Saturday night into the debate."
"It's highly probable this president will get 400 electors," the pollster said. Four hundred electors would represent a landslide of historic proportions.
Arguing that debates are overrated by the media, Wirthlin said, "People go into that polling booth... with perceptions that have been set for some time."
Beckel said that despite Reagan's hefty lead, "There is no question that, in this year of a volatile electorate, we can beat him. Yes indeed."
"We're running 12, 13 points behind, and we're making up ground," Johnson said.
KU a welcome change for member of faculty
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
For one new minority member of the KU faculty, the decision to come to Lawrence was a lifestyle choice.
Brenda Crawley came because she wanted to return to the Midwest.
"It was a combination of being ready to get back into education and being sad," she
Crawley was working with the National Council on Aging in Washington, D.C., when she was contacted by a faculty member from the School of Social Welfare.
I HAD BEEN DOING post-doctoral work for about $3^{1/2}$ years, and I hadn't had any ideas about leaving," she said. "But after visiting, being interviewed and talking with people, I decided to come."
Crawley said few of her colleagues in Washington were surprised at her decision to move to Kansas.
"They said, 'Congratulations,' because they knew how much I wanted to get back to the Midwest," she said.
Crawley grew up in Illinois and taught at the University of Illinois and Western Michigan University before moving to Washington.
"I'm a Midwestern," she said. "That might help to explain my comfortableness."
here, I've lived most of my life in the Midwest. Kalamazoo has a population of about 100,000 and so does Champaign, which is to be added to get back to a town of 50,000 to 100,000.
"A SMALL CITY OR a large city is a reflection of the larger society. You're as likely to find gracious, kind, sensitive people here as in a larger city.
"It's a lifestyle preference. If you talked to 22 minority faculty members, you'd probably discover 22 sets of reasons for being here. They are simply individuals who come to desire certain elements in their lifestyles and use them as tools for supporting populations and are comfortable in a slower pace. If you like it, Midwestern college towns, you can't do much better than KU."
Crawley said she sensed that KU was committed to the professional growth of its staff.
"Hiring faculty is almost like admitting students," she said. "Once you review them and see that they meet your criteria, your basic stance is supportive."
She said she had been pleased with her experiences in Lawrence and at KU, but said she wanted to wait before assessing the city and the University.
"Oh, ask me in a year," she said. "So far, I am comfortable. I think the opportunities that new faculty members get are nice. But I need time to get the lay of the land."
ON THE RECORD
A LAWRENCE WOMAN was robbed of $878 at 10:45 p.m. Saturday outside of her home in the 2000 block of Hillview Road, Lawrence police reported. An assailant knocked the woman to the ground and took her purse, which contained the money, police said.
A STUDENT reported that a man exposed himself to her in the 800 block of Highland Drive at 10:50 p.m. Friday, police said. He was wearing a white shirt and himself to her in the 2200 block of Harvard
Road at 11:45 p.m. Friday. Police said yesterday that they did not have enough evidence to determine whether the same man was involved in both incidents.
A STUDENT reported that her bicycle, valued at $200, was stolen between 5 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday from the 1600 block of High Drive, police said.
HAND TOOLS valued at $200 were taken from a student's car in the 1200 block of Mississippi Street sometime between Thursday and Saturday, police said.
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