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OPINION
October 1, 1984 Page 4
The University Daily KANSAN
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Second term
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No KU student body president has run for re-election
That's not to say that there hasn't been a president who didn't deserve a second term. The idea just seemed inconsistent with the University's nature of educating as many people as possible.
Now a former student has mounted a petition asking the present student body president, Carla Vogel, to consider running for re-election. Vogel hasn't rued out a second term, though she said last week that running for re-election would be contradictory to the philosophy that anyone can be president.
In most cases - and in most years - that concern would be justified.
However, this year, remember, is the Student Senate's asterisk year. This year, the student body president will have served only eight months before her term expires.
(Vogel was elected student body president almost two months after Chancellor Gene A. Budig on Jan. 5 invalidated the Senate's November election. Budig concurred with the University Judicial Board, which concluded that the election was "fraught with ambiguities and inconsistencies.")
Perhaps a re-election campaign for student body president isn't ordinarily appropriate. Perhaps it is inconsistent with some unwritten University policy.
Nevertheless, Vogel deserves the chance to serve at least the same one-year term that is granted to other students elected student body president.
This is not to say that Vogel should be re-elected, but above all, she shouldn't be denied the right to run again.
Royal success
As partisans of the Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers and San Diego Padres enjoy the thrill of divisional victory, fans of the Kansas City Royals can look forward to their sixth year of playoff action.
The 1984 Royals, however, differ greatly from the titans of past years. Paul Splitttorff has retired; Hal McRae and Larry Gura have frequently sat on the bench; Dennis Leonard is recovering from surgery.
Willie Wilson and George Brett contributed. Wilson returning from a drug suspension and Brett fighting off injury.
However, names such as Motley, Sheridan, Gubicza and Black played leading roles in the struggle for success.
Drab conformity?
George Orwell was not so hot as a forecaster. For example, 1984 was supposed to be the year in which the state bureaucracy was supreme, having pushed out capitalism.
Yet as the Year of Orwell draws to a close, millions of Americans are receiving the annual Sears Christmas wish book, featuring a 5-foot, 6-inch executive rocking pony, at $999.99 per horsey.
This was reported by the Wall Street Journal, the ultimate authority on all things executive. Perhaps a sizable market exists of either very wealthy children or very childish capitalists.
One thing that it doesn't portend: the reign of drab conformity.
A prominent professor left a prestigious government post and returned to his alma mater, the University of Kansas, to try to transform its radiation biophysics program into one of the best in the
Future of some professors in question
After a year and a half of effort, the professor decided that "there wasn't enough administrative support to continue." and he packed his bags
The future of both the program and the prominent professors who were attracted to KU by his efforts were left in question.
At the end of a year's leave with the U.S. Department of Energy, John Zimbrick, a KU graduate and a KU professor for 13 years, was offered a chance to return to KU to revitalize the radiation biophysics program.
Also in question is the University's treatment of some radiation biophysics professors.
The program deals with radiation safety and cancer research and treatment.
Zimbrick said recently that he initially had been reluctant to return. After assurances of support from representatives of the office of academic affairs and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, he decided to accept the task. He became chairman of the program in August 1982
The first step to revitalize the program was to solicit two professors renowned for their radiation biophysics research. Those selected were Ken Wheeler, a KU graduate, and C. Anne Wallen. Both are recognized for their cancer and aging-related research.
Zimbrick wrote a proposal for a new unit within the radiation biophysics program; the proposal told how additional faculty could be attracted through grant money and a minimum KU expenditure. He also requested laboratory renovation and some new equipment.
By mid-August 1983, the proposal was approved, and KU allocated about $30,000 for new equipment and $21,000 for lab renovation.
In June 1983, Zimbrick submitted this proposal to the University.
Wheeler and Wallen had agreed to come to KU as "courtesy professors" if the proposal was accepted, and, by
CHARLES
BARNES
Staff Columnist
late January of this year, both had arrived at KU.
Wheeler purchased $120,000 worth of new equipment with private grant money, and brought $150,000 worth of his own equipment to KU.
Lab renovation began in February, and, to help economize, Wheeler, other professors and students donated their time on weekends. The effort trimmed $5,000 in renovation costs.
However, all was not going well during the first months of this year.
Zimbrick said. "I didn't get a response for weeks. I didn't get very far."
As a follow-up to his June 1983 proposal, Zimbrick requested in a February letter to Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, that the radiation department be added to two department status and that two tenure-track positions be added by July 1987.
Lineberry said recently that he had told Zimbrick that KU funds were limited, that no tenured positions had been added to other programs in recent years and that the college could not meet his request.
He and Lineberry eventually met several times.
Zimbrick said, "It got to the point that it was so discouraging, the future didn't look bright, and there wasn't an administrative support to continue.
Lineberry said that he had agreed to allow the program to hire one more tenure-track faculty.
Zimbrick said that Lineberry made that concession only after Zimbrick had announced his resignation.
"When I said I was going to resign, they panicked." Zimbrik said. "They agreed to appoint one tenure-track position and to replace them." (Louis Mhlavekas, a professor who denied tenure during the spring).
"But it had been such a battle, it was too little too late.
"You lose that spark you need." Zimbirak resigned in April and took a position with the National Imagery Health as coordinator of committees that review radiation-related grant programs worth about $2 million.
Wheeler, Wallen and other program professors continued to do research and to help revive
After Zimbrick left, Lineberry formed a committee to study the program.
In a report released in May, the committee said, "The majority of the committee believes that the program, on the balance, has sufficient merit to warrant its continuation, primarily as a graduate program."
In July, the month in which lab renovation was essentially complete. Wheeler received a letter from the company and the program might be eliminated.
Despite the committee's recommendation, the program-elimination ball began to roll
Several weeks ago, Lineberry sent a memo to Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, in which he recommended that the department hire an office administration assistant to Tacha, said last week that Tacha
hadn't taken any action on the memo
haven't taken any action on the menu.
In his Sept. 13 memo to Tacha, Lineberry wrote that the program should be discontinued because of "instability" in the number of faculty, a lack of student demand, a lack of "research-oriented" staff remaining, a doubt whether the program belonged in the college's curriculum, and other reasons.
In Lineberry's July letter, he asked Wheeler, who was not yet on the KU payroll, to relocate six students to programs at other universities.
Wheeler also was told that no professors would be hired to replace the vacated tenure-track positions of Zimbrick and Milavickas.
Wheeler and Wallen were hired on a part-time basis in August to teach, and are also doing research in the division of biological sciences. They were not guaranteed future employment.
Wheeler, Wallen and another radiation biophysics professor, Gregg Claycamp, have $643,579 in grant money this year; in accordance with normal procedure for grants, additional money, in this case about $191,000, will go to KU for indirect expenses.
The professors, however, are uncertain about their future. Wheeler said.
The two "courtesy professors" who came to KU within the last year to rebuild the program might conclude that they have no alternative but to leave and take their grant money and equipment with them.
Lineberry said, "I think that the courtesy professors have been treated very fairly. We never promised them much."
Given the treatment of radiation biophysics professors, it is no wonder that a prominent professor has become discouraged and left KU other prominent professors who have rebuilt the program may follow.
In the end, the real loser is the University community.
Attitude behind 'Fagbusters' harmful
GLSOK is the apparent victim of a
nasty little game of political
deception.
I'm never going to endorse the aims of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas. I was reared to believe that homosexuality is wrong But damned I'm going to press that point in the book "Fagbusters." T-shirt controversy.
Aside from suffering a few ignorant insults and a little lost pride, GLOSK probably is going to come out stronger than the peddler of the shirts.
I have words for Steve Imber's selling of the T shirts. Well, at least I'll have words, probably four letter names. But I'm still illness of the whole bloody mess.
His blunder almost killed his pet project — a petition aimed at bringing to a vote the question of whether the Student Senate should finance homosexual groups. The petition should be dead, and the Senate would have stopped it out instead of letting it smolder onto the Senate floor.
After all this, how it is going to survive in an angry and skeptical Senate led by a president strongly in favor of standing for GLSOK is way beyond me.
gladly selling one to a Kansan staff member.
He had said that he had nothing to do with the "Fagbusters" shirts, according to the Kansan. However, less than two weeks later he was
BRUCE F
HONOMICHL
Staff Columnist
Spadefold of earth should be turning in its honor.
The question in this case is credibility Imber has pushed the petition—and pushed for it faithfully—while he has insisted that the referendum would be purely a financial matter not a moral one.
Come on, folks. If you were fervently pushing a petition that was
Of course not — unless you were Steve Imber.
aimed only at the elimination of student financing of a group that could be self-supporting, would you support a charter school or hurt bearing the name "Faqbusters?"
It's bad enough that a registered, legitimately established student organization, regardless of its aims, has to take this kind of abuse. The GLSOK issues has always stunk enough to repel an alley cat.
None of this is to mention the reflection that Imber's actions will have on the many fine young men in his fraternity and those who signed his petition truly believing that GLSOK can stand on its own.
We are all poorer in this case. Petition or no petition, I suspect that I would have been offended by the shirts because they reflect a prejudicial attitude that is far too prevalent in our society. The promotion of those attitudes is contrary to the purpose of any university.
I don't care about other people-old people, so-called poor people, any people. I don't give a damn about hunger or deficits, the environment or what happens in a nuclear war.
I don't care about history or books or learning or censorship. I don't care about what's getting killed or why. I don't care about the Constitution, religious hypocrites scropies or the truth.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Both sides in controversy over funding of GLSOK obscuring issues
For any and all to whom it was not previously clear, the Sept. 25 Kansan made evident the idiocy of the debate on both sides concerning the Gay & Lesbian Services of Kansas referendum.
To the editor:
Steve Imber from the beginning has insulted the intelligence of both his followers and his opponents by his claim that this issue is "purely financial." The issue at hand, financially speaking, is a paltry $500. If Imber thinks that he has become the financial watchdog for the Student Senate. I have no doubt that with even slight research he can, turn up far more extravagant expenses incurred with far less reason.
With the new light cast on the issue by Imber's participation in the sale of the "Fagbusters" T-shirts, he has discredited not only himself but the whole movement for a referendum. This gaffe on his part is perhaps comparable to President Reagan's bombing in five minutes joke before a scheduled summit meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
On the other hand is Carla Vogel's far more subtle deception in referring to the proposed referendum as "discrimination" against homosexuals, citing as the basis that "a large percentage of GLSOK's membership is gay". Since when is it considered cruelty to animals not to be a target of the Prevention Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals? Or racism not to bankroll the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
I seem to remember, however, that the right to choose what happens to one's own money was once called democracy. The right of freedom of speech most definitely must include
If Vogel chooses to define discrimination as reluctance to fund a project exclusively devoted to the maintenance of the way of life of a very small minority, then yes, this is discrimination.
Furthermore, the idea that this discrimination is aimed at GLSOK because "a large percentage of GLSOK's members are gay" is like saying that blacks would be less opposed to the Ku Klux Klan if it had a large black membership. GLSOK is an organization dedicated to the maintenance of a homosexual way of life, an attitude that is opposed as perverse and un-Christian by vast numbers of people and organizations who do not receive money from the University.
the right not to support with required funds an organization that is in opposition to the main beliefs of a large number of KU students.
Should Vogel and the members of GLSOK be required to fund those groups that oppose them? According to their own logic, for them not to do so would be discrimination.
That the question of a referendum has even come up is reason enough to
conduct a vote in order to find out the opinion of the student body. That is democracy. Should Vogel be opposed to such a vote, she is opposing the will of the same student body whose members placed her in office. Does this rest well on her conscience?
Let our Senate not fall prey to the word games and twisted logic of those who refuse to admit their true goals, or who aspire to personal benefits by the screams of discrimination whenever their wishes are not met. In all cases, let the Senate attempt to make decisions on facts, not rigoramake.
David Klassen Scandia junior
To the editor:
Honoring Nigeria
to the author
I wish to congratulate the entire Nigerian student population at the
University of Kansas on the happy occasion of the 24th independence anniversary of our motherland — the most populous black African country
Your waters alone meet our needs.
Hall Niger and Benue
Prime rivers of our territory
Though you are neither Nile nor
Mississippi
Hall Benue and Niger
Beloved waters of Nigeria
Though of diverse rises
Tufted you run for power and plenty
Soar High Nigeria
Soar high Nigeria
Into the sky of plenty
With wings of sacrifice and duty,
Go with strength and courage
Like the eagle in the air
And bring to your children the best
Soar high Nigeria Into the sky of wisdom. With wings of unity and freedom, Give to time and posterity Reasons for great pride and dignity In why we too have lived
A.A. Alya
Ewohimi, Nigeria
graduate student
T-shirt proposal
To the editor:
I have a suggestion that might help Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas to be self-sufficient. I think they would like a large number of T-shirts with the logo "Bigtobsters."
Tom Rodenberg
Tom Rodenberg New Ulm, Minn., senior