Thursday, Nov. 21, 1985
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Canadian historian to speak at Union
J. L. Granatstein, a Canadian historian and faculty member of York University in Ontario, Canada, will speak at 8 p.m. today about "Canada in the North Atlantic Triangle: Canadian, British and American Relations."
Granatstein's lecture will be in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The speech represents the first in a series, sponsored by KU's Hall Center for the Humanities, about Canada and Canadian-U.S. relations.
Granatstein has published books and articles on Canadian nationalism, foreign policy and education. His most recent book is "The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road to Ruin."
An informal reception will be in the Bruckmiller Room of the Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Ave., after the lecture. Everyone is invited to attend.
Deadline is extended
The College Honors Program and the department of political science will resume accepting applications for spring internships in Washington, D.C.
Deadline for applications is noon Monday. The internships are open to all undergraduates from any major.
Students are asked to submit a paper done for class, a current transcript and two letters of recommendation, which will be accepted until Wednesday.
Internships are not paid but students will recieve 12 hours of credit.
Application materials and questions should be sent to the honors program office in Nunemaker Center or Pete Rowland, spring internship director, 504 Blake Hall.
Music profs honored
Three members of KU's music composition and theory faculty have been selected as recipients of the 1985-86 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awards.
The recipients being recognized for their contributions to contemporary composition are James C. Barnes, associate professor of music theory; Charles Hoag, professor of music theory and John Pozdro, professor of music theory.
The professors were selected by an independent panel of judges whose decisions were based on each composer's catalog and on the performances of the composer's compositions.
Judges were Frank Battisti, New England Conservatory of Music; Ainslee Cox, conductor of the Goldman Memorial Concert Band; Marceau Myers, North Texas State University; Ursula Oppens, a founding member of the Speculum Musicae and Paul Wohlgemugh, Oral Roberts University.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance for mixed freezing rain and snow. The high will be in the mid-30s and winds will be from the east at 10 to 20 mph. There is a chance tonight for freezing rain or snow mixed with rain early, but clearing later. The low tonight will be around 20. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 30s.
From staff and wire reports
Profs say tenure is valuable to KU
This is the last in a series of stories examining tenure at the University.
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
The Carnegie Foundation interviewed 5,000 college and university faculty last year. One-third said they thought abolishing tenure would improve higher education.
While some KU professors and administrators say they can see some advantages in abolishing tenure, most say that abolishing tenure would be detrimental to higher education.
Two-thirds said that receiving tenure on their campuses was more difficult now than five years ago.
Tenure can allow professors to relax,they said.
Tenure, in most cases, provides job security for the duration of a faculty member's life. It protects faculty's freedom of speech and ideas and allows them to work without worrying about their jobs, several faculty members said recently.
Last year at the University of Kansas, 88 percent of faculty instructors in assistant, associate or full professorships had tenure, said June Michal, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs.
On the other hand, some professors said that it could create a "tenured-in" situation in which little room is left for assistant professors and instructors to be hired.
Brower Burchill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the tenure system at KU worked well 95 percent of the time.
"We have it," he said. "We aren't likely to get rid of it. We've got to make it work."
Although relatively few professors become "deadwood," the term Burhill used for those who cease to work after receiving tenure, the University has to reward faculty with tenure carefully, he said.
James Seaver, professor of history, said he thought KU had approached the tenured-in situation, but said tenure.was too valuable to lose.
Tenure allows professors to speak and write unpopular ideas, Seaver said, and not be attacked for their political, religious or social beliefs.
"It tenure is protection," he said. "It shouldn't be taken lightly and shouldn't be given right away."
Many professors say that the six years on tenure track are full of tension, stress and worry.
But Dean Stetler, assistant professor of biological science who has been at KU three months, said, "I don't feel any pressure. I just do everything I can do anyway."
Before coming to KU, Stetler taught at the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine at the University of
"I've been on the other side," he said. "I wasn't on tenure track. You always wonder, 'Will I still be here next year?' "
Pennsylvania, which doesn't give tenure.
A university may not be able to attract good professors if it doesn't offer some security, he said, although some professors may have a tendency to slow down after being tennured.
Professors at universities that don't offer tenure have to keep their eyes on the job market, he said.
David Darwin, professor of civil engineering, said he didn't think abolishing tenure would change the quality of teaching at any university.
"I think faculty would still stay in the same place," he said. "If you lose tenure, I don't think you lose all rights. I don't think there would be a large change in the level of effort of professors."
Doug Houston, assistant professor of business, said the protection tenure offered benefited professors. But the long-term effects could damage the educational system, he said.
"The tenure process potentially can prevent new and challenging voices from entering a university," he said. "A little competition, a little push keeps you going."
The mixture of research, teaching and service doesn't drain professors on tenure track, Houston said. Instead, a lack of support services, such as research assistants, drains professors.
Kartyn Kohrs Campbell, professor of communications studies and director of women's studies, said abolishing tenure wouldn't relieve tension for any faculty member —tenured or not.
Campbell served on the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure in 1975, 1976 and 1977. She also served on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences promotion and tenure committee in 1982, 1983 and 1984.
"If the University had a contract system and reviewed faculty every few years," Campbell said, "the standards would be killing."
She said she thought most KU faculty don't slack off after receiving lenure.
"That's not the norm of this facul-
tv." she said.
Thomas Stidham, associate professor of fine arts and assistant director of bands, said most faculty members would always work hard because of their commitment to research, teaching and service.
"Knowing that I have tenure, I'm not in a panic all the time," he said. "I knew a professor who said, 'To get tenure is everything. To have tenure is nothing.'"
Man robs local bank
By a Kansan reporter
The University State Bank, 2546 Iowa St., was robbed by a lone gunman at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday, police said.
An undisclosed amount of money was taken in the robbery, Lawrence police Sgt. Don Daquest said.
"He came in the bank and had a small silver pistol and robbed two tellers," Dalquest said. "He put the money in his shirt and had them get down on the floor then went out the door."
Dalquest said that the gunman was a white male, 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed 170-180 pounds. He were a black-and-red plaid shirt, blue jeans and a brown full-faced ski mask, Dalquest said. He was still at large last night.
KU police Sgt. John Brothers said that KU police stopped a man who matched the suspect's description at Iowa Street and University Drive about 10 a.m.
The bank robbery was the first in Lawrence since April 1983 when the same University State bank branch was robbed.
In another recent bank robbery, a Kansas City, Mo., man, Eric W. Styles, was given a 12- to 25-year jail sentence in the robbery in January 1983 of First National Bank of Lawrence.
A victim said the man was not the suspect and he was released, Brothers said.
A Gardner man, Larry Leonard Rice, was charged in the 1883 robbery at University State.
Mike Horton/KANSAN
A higher education
Edward Jackson, Topeka sophomore, spent Monday afternoon reading in a tree near Lippincott Hall.
Senate approval pending
Committee considers Tacha
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
A vote is expected today by the U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary on President Reagan's nomination of Deanell Tacha to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the press secretary for Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., said yesterday.
Brent Bahler, the press secretary,
said the committee should make its
decision sometime this afternoon. He
said he thought the committee would
probably approve the nomination of
Tacha, KU vice chancellor for
academic affairs.
The next step in Tacha's confirmation, Bahier said, would be her review by the full Senate before its final approval. He said, however, that it wasn't known how long the Senate would take to make its decision.
Tacha was nominated Oct. 30 by President Reagan to the federal judgeship. She originally was nominated by Dole in June.
If approved by the full Senate, her University position would be vacant.
Pending the Senate's decision, KU administrators are waiting to decide whether to appoint a search committee to replace Tacha or a five-year review committee on Tacha's performance at the University of Kansas.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said that if Tacha became a federal judge, the committee would try to replace he. He said he had a partial list of people who would serve on the 12-member committee if Tacha left her KU post.
"We have a list of names but we're waiting on a list of students from the student elections." he said.
Cobb said he wanted the new student body president to send him names of student candidates for the search committee.
The names will be available after the Student Senate elections, which started yesterday and will end at 5 p.m. today.
The other committee members will be chosen by the University's Faculty.
ty Executive Committee. At the Oct.
30 FacEx meeting, Cobb suggested to
FacEx members possible academic
areas from which to draw nominees
for the search committee.
He told FaeEx that the 12-member committee should consist of four faculty members, one of whom should be knowledgeable about the needs of university libraries.
The committee also should comprise members of the Academic Council, the Council of Directors of University Divisions, the division of student affairs and the Classified Senate Executive Committee, Cobb said.
"If we should have a vacancy in the position of vice chancellor for academic affairs," Cobb said, "we would expect to have a suitable replacement by the end of this fiscal year or by the beginning of the fall semester at the latest."
Fiscal year 1986 ends June 30.
He said that if Tacha was given final approval by the Senate, an acting vice chancellor for academic affairs would be chosen. Cobb said he didn't know who that would be.
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