Friday, September 14, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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AAUP, LA&S to refute handout
By DAVID LEWIS Staff Reporter
The Association of American University Professors voted yesterday to compose a joint statement with the College of Liberal Arts to "hand criticizing a humanities course."
The handout, anonymously distributed at Wescoe Hall on the first day of classes, urged students enrolled in Humanities 104 to drop the course because students allegedly asked for questions, take notes or assume a critical approach to what they were taught in class.
The handout also said, "last year the faculty voted 114 to 0 change this course to a 'balanced humanities program' . . . but nothing has changed."
T. P. Srinivasan, chapter president of AAUP, said yesterday that many parts of the handout were untrue.
"The circulator was guilty of factual errors, misleading implicit claims, unfair rhetoric and innocuences, which can only be snide," Srinivasan said.
SRINIVASAN SAID the College Assembly did not vote to change the course.
"The College Assembly did not rule to change the conduct of this course or any other course. All it did was to recommend the change in the administrative setup.
"The assembly wanted to have a program run by the Humanities Committee instead of just a sole director."
The change was made last year, he said. "The handout was mistaken in respect to the content of the course," he said. "The pamphlet suggested that rather than learn by rote about the course, literature, what one learned from this course was only the professor's personal
views on truth, values and the meaning of life.
"The professors who taught the course had all been instructors in the teaching included the own views on the meaning of the text and on the general place and significance of the ideas they were taught."
DENNIS QUINN, professor of English and an instructor of the course, said it was the University's responsibility to handle the problem.
"It is their responsibility to take the appropriate action about this kind of acclimatization on campus and Quinn, former president of the University, insisted in the Program. "It is the responsibility of the University to defend academic freedom and prevent faculty from this kind of slanderous attack."
Srinivasan said activities like this one threatened academic freedom.
"If this kind of activity continues, it will wolf up the climate for academic freedom," he said. "The basis of this pamphlet is mistrust and intolerance."
The AAUP will meet with Richard Hardin, director of IHP, and Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to up the resolution refuting the handout.
Hardin said yesterday that the course's enrollment had increased by five to 10 students since the distribution of the pamphets.
"It 's defamentary and really fortunate." Hardin said, "'d not amorege at all."
A week after the incident, the HP voted to write a strong response to Cobb. Cobb then sent a letter to the University Senate executive committee and the AAUP.
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