New dean is named
SINCE 1889
Carl E. Locke,
OU professor,
is dean of School
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, DEC. 5, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 71 (USPS 650-640)
STATE TROPHY
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Senate unveils lighting study at last session
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
The former student body president and vice president unveiled the results of their $4,600 campus lighting study, one of their campaign promises, during the last official Student Senate meeting last night.
The study concluded that Jayhawk Boulevard should have the first priority for additional lighting. The study said the second priority should be making sidewalks safer between central campus and housing and nighttime parking areas.
At the beginning of the combined meeting of the old and newly elected Senate, William Easley, former student body president, and Jeff Polack, former student body vice president, distributed the study to senators.
Polack asked the new student body leaders, David Epstein, president, and Amy Brown, vice president, to use the study results to "make good on what we've done so far."
Last spring the Senate allocated $10,000 for the study, which was directed by Ron Helms, director of architectural engineering.
Epstein said that he had not read the study yet, but that he and Brown might follow up on the issue by lobbying in the Kansas Legislature. He also said he did not know what would be done with the leftover money.
The last thing the old Senate did was elect three holdover senators — senators who were not re-elected but who will stay in Senate to help make a smooth transition.
Those senators are Clarissa Birch, Atchison graduate student, Ruth Lichtward, Lawrence junior, and Gordon Woods, Ulysses senior.
Epstein began his address to the new Senate by saying, "We are not the Common Sense family. We are not the Chrysalis family. We are now the Student Senate family."
He proposed action and unity by requiring every senator to keep office hours in the Senate office and by inviting every senator to "President's Club" at the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St., after every Senate meeting
As an added incentive, Epstein promised to name a fish in his office aquarium after every senator who came to talk with him and Brown.
The first order of business for the new Senate was appointing officers: Jennifer Balzer, El Dorado junior, is executive secretary; Stephanie Quinley, Iola sophomore, is chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee; and Tim Henderson, Pratt graduate student, is treasurer.
Polack ended the old Senate's half of the combined meeting, saving, "This Senate is history." The old Senate ended with 33 members, less than half the number it began with.
Easley said many senators simply weren't committed to Senate. Many of those who were no longer senators were removed from the Senate for missing too many meetings.
The year was one of dominant personalities and diverse philosophies of government, Easley said, but the senate "constantly got things done."
"We had people who had a lot to say," he said. "They wanted to make sure their constituency was being beard."
Polack gave specific charges to Einstein. Brown and the new Senate.
He asked them to rework the financing process to try to reduce the student activity fee. He also asked them not to allow Associated Students of Kansas, a non-partisan, student lobbying organization, to become a political issue in Senate.
Polack also told them to revise elections procedures and make policies on conflicts of interest within the Senate.
"Learn from our mistakes," he said. "Do what you think is right, but do something."
It's all behind us now
As both hall and the semester wind down, the shadows grow longer and the days grow shorter and there seems to be less and less time to study for finals. This student walked yesterday on the stairs below Wescoe Hall.
Attendant wounded in holdup
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
A gas station night manager was shot during an armed robbery at 9:20 p.m. yesterday at University Phillips 66, 2434 Iowa St., Lawrence police said.
The manager, Scott Lucas, 17, 3090 Tomahawk Drive, was in serious condition last night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he was being operated on for gunshot wounds in the abdomen.
Two witnesses, Ed Reed, owner of City Cab Co., 538 W. 23rd St., and Randall Barnes, driver for City Cah, said they heard two or three shots in close succession from a small-caliber weapon as they were parked across the street at 7 Eleven Food Store, 2500 Iowa St.
Reed said he saw a man running down the alley behind the gas station toward 24th Street. Reed described him as having an average build.
"Then I saw the attendant coming across the street," Reed said. "He staggered over here, clasping his stomach.
"I got robbed," he said. 'Did you get shot?' I said. He said 'no,' but I could tell that he was."
Reed said he helped Lucas into 7 Eleven and made him lie down to wait for an ambulance.
Barnes said, "I didn't see any wound until we looked under his clothes. It was about 4 inches below the belly button."
Lt. Michael Reeves of the Lawrence Police Department said Lucas had closed the gas station for the night and was confronted at his car by the robber. The robber escaped with an unknown amount of money from the cash register, which Lucas was to deposit.
Lucas' brother, Brian, who was a Lawrence sophomore, was killed on Oct. 27 by a train while playing a game known as "training" on a railroad bridge in Leavenworth County.
Work puts professor at frontier Shelly called controversial ahead of time
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Maynard Shelly, professor of psychology, stands with two of the paintings he made and keeps in his office. 611 Fraser Hall. Shelly is considered by some of his colleagues to be one of KU's most creative and controversial professors.
Maynard Shelly — a professor of psychology, possibly a modern-day Freud or Jung, probably a genius, almost always controversial.
Like Freud or Jung, Shelly explores rarely acknowledged frontiers of psychology and, in the process, has developed a totally new concept of personality behavior that is visible in the courses he teaches.
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This new theory, Complexism, is the study of the ways in which people are motivated to become more complex and the ways complexity is achieved. Shelly said recently. It is based on the hypothesis that people are complex and naturally grow more complex.
"It's degrading to human beings to categorize them as simply as behaviorists do," he said. "I'm opposed to it both intellectually and morally."
His theory has yet to attract national attention, but at the University of Kansas, colleagues call him "brilliant" and "probhetic."
They also brand him "unorthodox" and "controversial."
"If he ever breaks through, he will be known as one of the more intellectually creative minds of our time — at least in the context that I know," said Felix Moos, professor of anthropology who taught a controversial course on terrorism with Shelly.
Howard Baumgartel, chairman of psychology, calls Shelly a "visionary and a prophet in the biblical sense."
Charles Hallenbeck, professor of psychology, said, "He's about 10 to 20 years old."
Moos said Shelly devoted all his creative impulses to relating his research in Complexism to new teaching methods, sometimes working more than 90 hours a week. Consequently, this 'shy, monklike' professor leads a very private life.
years ahead of his time. This often leads him to face periods of intense controversy from people who do not fully accept his theory."
His seclusion results in creative enterprises, however. Last spring, he created seven board games to help students learn the theories of Complexism in one of his courses, Psychology of Satisfaction, PSVC
In previous semesters of the
The games, including the Unhappiness Game, Catch the Fugitive Game, the Dynamic Person Game and the Liking Game, all help students learn the concepts of Complexism and reflect the ideas that the goal of living is to move toward complexity.
574. This summer, he computerized two of the board games and created four more computer games.
Shelly's interest in computerized methods of teaching has earned him much respect in nast years.
See SHELLY, p. 5, col. 1
Classified research Private industry gives key financing
This is the first in a two-part series dealing with classified research at the University of Kansas.
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Because the federal government has become more interested in defense research in recent years, KU faculty members now rely more heavily on alternative sources — especially private industry — to finance their classified research.
But industry likes its research kept private, and that has spurred a campuswide controversy over a proposal to keep results secret longer.
During fiscal year 1985, KU faculty members received more than $22 million in contracts, for sponsored
Those sources included the state and federal government, private agencies and industry. About 70 percent of that total, roughly $15 million, came from the federal government, Carolyn Cross, assistant to the vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said recently.
research from sources outside the University of Kansas.
The largest chunk of the remainder. $1.5 million, came from the state of Kansas. The rest came from private sources, including industry.
Industry has begun to account for an increasing slice of the research pie at universities nationwide.
Industry's role at KU is growing, too, said Robert Bearse, associate vice chancellor for research.
The policy on classification now allows the products of KU research to be classified, or withheld from public scrutiny, for as long as one year from the date of their development.
On Nov. 25, the executive committee of the Corporation for Research Inc. (CRINC) announced its decision that the proposal should be considered and voted on by the entire KU faculty. CRINC is a privately inco-
See RESEARCH. p. 7. col. 1
graduate studies and public service, and his office hopes it will continue to grow. This increased emphasis on industry has forced the consideration of a controversial proposal that would lengthen the permissible classification period for research to three years.
Companies lure faculty from KU
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
After 15 years at the University of Kansas, Gerald Maggiora, former KU professor of chemistry and biochemistry, decided he needed new career challenges.
As a researcher, Maggiora said recently, he was finding that the search for government research contracts was getting tough.
"We ended up spending an enormous amount of time in getting grants, writing proposals." he said.
So Maggiora left the University this summer and accepted a position with the Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, Mich.
"Here I can spend three hours of work writing things up," he said, while at the University he often spent weeks trying to get projects approved.
"I don't know if that can ever change at the University."
Maggiora's wife, Linda, also has a position at Upljob.
When he was at the University, the chief source of research money for Maggiora was the Department of Energy, he said, but the department's support was diminishing.
"As the grant situation gets worse, and worse, you have to look in more and more places for funding," he said.
Robert Weaver, chairman of biochemistry, said Houston was doing research for Cetus to develop an immunotoxin — a drug that works against tumors. Cetus invited Houston to come talk about his work, then offered him a job, Weaver said.
Weaver said it was tiresome to spend years scraping for money.
Houston did not want to comment about his reasons for leaving the University.
"It takes time to look in more and more places."
The department of biochemistry lost another professor in the past year. Lou Houston now works for the Cetus Corp. Emeryville, Calif.
"Lots of people have had it," he
"I think Gerry and Lou both went for the programs as much as the money," he said.
said. "They see in industry an unlimited source of funds. They don't have to ask for money. It's there."
There are exciting programs in industry to work for, he said.
Maggiora is associate director of computational chemistry at Ujohn. He works in molecular modeling, which involves displaying molecular models on a graphic screen to examine their properties.
He also is involved with high-speed computation, which is the modeling of complex molecular systems.
Maggiora said he thought interaction through research would continue between universities and industry. Upiho supports a number of university research programs, he said.
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"The general strategy seems to be that information can be published," he said.