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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20,1985,VOL. 96,NO. 63 (USPS 650-640)
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Leaders plunge into discussion during summit
From Kansan wires
GENEVA — President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, agreeing that they must achieve decisions together, met for the first time yesterday and plunged into a series of "businesslike" discussions behind the curtain of a news blackout.
Arms control issues were on the agenda for the first day of the summit, but there was no public word on developments. The day ended with Reagan and Gorbachev sitting down for an unscheduled 50-minute fireside chat.
"I think we will have a good relationship." Swiss television quoted Gorbache as saying of Reagan. It was one of the few breaks of the blackout, which the White House said underscored the seriousness of negotiations between the superpower leaders.
"We think it's useful to have face to face contact," he replied.
When Reagan was asked whether the pair had made progress during the day, he said with a grin. "We're smiling."
While posing for pictures at the beginning of a private dinner given by the Gorbachev at the Soviet mission, the Soviet leader was asked why he had spent so much time alone with Reagan.
Because both sides agreed at the outset not to talk publicly about the deliberations until after they end, the content of the two leaders' discussions was not revealed. But spokesman for both sides agreed the talks took place in a "good atmosphere" and were "businesslike."
Also yesterday in Geneva, the Rev. Jesse Jackson handed an antinuclear petition signed by more than 1.2 million Americans to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a surprise meeting. He received a lengthy lecture in return.
The Soviet leader gave up much of his lunch break between summit sess-
sions with President Reagan to have the unplanned 40-minute meeting with the civil rights leader and his 50-member American delegation of anti-nuclear activists, feminists and members of Jackson's Rainbow Coalition.
Jackson asked for the meeting to give Gorbachev the massive petition that urges an immediate nuclear arms freeze.
Jackson tried to give Reagan the petition yesterday but had to leave it with officials at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Geneva.
Gorbache accepted the petition and delivered a lengthy lecture on Soviet desires for peace, a lecture one observer called "almost a Pravda editorial."
The summit is scheduled to end today, with the possibility of a "public reporting session" tomorrow morning, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said. The time could be taken up by the signing of any joint agreements, or the leaders could simply use the opportunity to end the blackout with their views of the first superpower summit in six years.
Yesterday, the leaders were scheduled to hold a 15-minute get-acquainted chat in the morning before joining six advisers from each side to begin the formal talks devoted to a two-hour review of U.S.-Soviet relations. Then they were to break for lunch and return for two more hours of discussions with advisers on nuclear arms control.
And in what Speakes called a "clearly unexpected development," Reagan, who played host for the first day, ended the afternoon session by inviting Gorbachev to join him for a walk through the garden down to the shore of Lake Geneva.
He said the two men put on their coats to ward off the near-freezing temperatures and took a five-minute stroll leading to a pool house, which they entered and sat down by a fire burning in the fireplace.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
Cap, Larry Woydziak of the Lawrence Fire Department, left, points to a hole in the roof of Walkins Hospital as firefighters Bill Stark hurries to extinguish a
Hospital fire
fire caused by an overheated standby generator. The fire started yesterday afternoon. See story p. 3.
KU players score academic points
By Liz Maggard Of the Kansan staff
Four KU players were named yesterday to the Big Eight Conference's 32nd annual All-Academic football team.
Senior quarterback Mike Norseth,
majoring in personnel administration
with a 3.08 grade point average,
was named to the offensive squad.
Senior linebacker Willie Pless,
majoring in physical education with a
3.0 GPA, was named to the defensive
team.
Named to the secondary squad were free safeties Kevin Harder, junior in civil engineering with a 3.94 GPA, and Wayne Ziegler, junior in
personnel administration with a 3.36 GPA.
To be selected to the team, a player must have at least a 2.8 GPA on a 4.0 scale and be among the top 44 players on his team.
Richard Lee, assistant athletic director for support services, said yesterday that the players' selection was one indication that the "dumb jock" stereotype was a myth.
"These young men have achieved academic success while making a significant contribution to the team." he said. "This shows the quality of student athlete we have at KU. There's no way a person can be a dumb jock and participate in college football.
and defenses teams use these days, you have to have a fair amount of mental agility.
Norseth, Pless, Harder and Ziegler are among the 97 percent of KU's football players who are in good academic standing with the University but receive few accolades for their classroom achievements. Lee said
"With the complicated offenses
He said the minority, those with academic problems, received the majority of publicity.
"There are many Norseth and Plesses on the football team who go not noticed," he said. "We have players enrolled in pre-med, architecture, business, engineering, education, journalism and fine arts. They aren't taking easy courses."
engineering and academic adviser to four players majoring in engineering, said participating in college athletics while pursuing a degree from a professional school wasn't easy.
The four players Mulnazzi advises are Harder; quarterback Mike Orth, who is redshirted this season, offensive tackle Jim Davis; and offensive tackle Bob Pieper.
Tom Mulinazzi, professor of civil
"As their adviser and as a professor, I'm just amazed that they can handle both," he said. "They're very committed to the School of Engineering. I'm very impressed."
The only way players can handle the tough academic requirements of
See ATHLETES, p. 5, col. 1
Elections for Senate open today
Students vote from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow for student body president, vice president and student senators. Students vote by field of study and must show their KU IDs. The six polling places are listed below, followed by the students who may vote there.
Strong Hall: liberal arts and graduate students.
Summerfield Hall: business students
Learned Hall: engineering students.
Stauffer-Flint Hall: journalism and education students.
Kansas Union: pharmacy, social welfare, liberal arts and graduate students
Source: Kansan news reports
TOPEKA — Attorney General Robert T. Stephan announced yesterday that he had abandoned any plans of seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 1986 because the "pain level and the ugliness" of publicity generated by a sexual harassment lawsuit against him had become unbearable.
Stephan decides not to run
Stephan said during a news conference that he had given up any hope of becoming governor after nearly three years of anguish triggered by the lawsuit, filed against him in December 1982 by former employee Marcia Tomson.
From Kansan wires
"You can't continue to wrestle shadows and prepare for the race for governor." Stephan said.
In a related development, Tonson's lawyer yesterday filed a $5.2 million lawsuit in federal court against Stephan and Bob Storey, a Topea attorney, who confirmed at a news conference last month that he had helped collect $24,000 in cash to settle the first suit.
which Storey and Stephan revealed terms of the out-of-court settlement reached last March with Tomson.
Following that disclosure, Tomson said a confidentiality clause of the settlement had been breached and that she would sue Stephan anew. The new lawsuit seeks $1.3 million in actual damages plus $3.85 million in punitive damages. In her original complaint, Tomson sought $750.000.
The recent lawsuit stems from a news conference two weeks ago in
Stephan refused to comment at his news conference on the new lawsuit except to say he would take "appropriate legal action" in regard to it. He did not elaborate, but implied he has no plans to file a counterSUIT.
Stephan said that he had been unable to address, apparently meaning as a gubernatorial candidate, changes he thought were needed in state government, because of his preoccupation with the suit.
“In the interest of wanting Kansas to achieve its full potential through a discussion of relevant political and philosophical issues, it is best that I remove my name from the 1986 gubernatorial campaign,” he said.
with reporters and sad-faced staff. His wife, Bettie Nell, stood at the back of the room.
The announcement came in Stephan's office, which was packed
Stephan said the lawsuit was blown out of proportion in political circles, but he apologized for the way it and the out-of-court settlement were handled.
"I if I have disappointed some in the manner in which the unfounded and ridiculous lawsuit alleging discrimination and harassment was handled, I apologize. I will be the first to admit that the settlement was a mistake.
"I do question that it should have warranted the unrelenting and ugly attacks on my integrity," he said.
Stephan said he does not intend to discuss the lawsuit again.
He said he planned to finish his term as attorney general and as president of the National Association of Attorneys General. He would not rule out another bid for attorney general, but neither would he say if he is considering it.
"I would like to relax and get back to things I think are important," he said. "You have to take life a day at a time.
Tenure policies differ among faculty
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
This is the first in a series examining tenure at the University.
Assistant professors have six years - six years to prove to the University of Kansas that their performance has reached a level of excellence.
Their lives revolve around teaching, research and service activities as they strive to gain tenure - a virtual job guarantee.
Most faculty and administrators say that the tenure process has been formalized in recent years, and many individual schools and departments have tightened their requirements for tenure and are judging faculty by higher standards.
Karlyn Kohra Campbell, director of women's studies and professor of communications studies, said recently that the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure, departments and the professional schools had tightened their requirements for tenure.
"In the past, if there wasn't great scholarly productivity, but if there was fine teaching and service, I think faculty may have been tenured.
"I think that at the University of Kansas, faculty are being judged by higher standards of scholarship," Campbell said.
Campbell served on the UCPT in 1975, 1976 and 1977 and on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences promotion and tenure committee in 1982, 1983 and 1984.
"Now every single person ought to show evidence of research productivity to receive tenure."
quirements also have been tightened, she said.
Recommendations from schools or departments carry a lot of weight, she said, but the final decisions are made from the faculty members' documentation.
Most assistant professors now take the full six years before allowing their peers to judge their work. In the past, professors at KU had been tenured after two or three years.
Good teaching is still necessary to receive tenure, and teaching re-
June Michal, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that before the UCPT was formed about 20 years ago, faculty were tenured at departmental discretion.
Today faculty submit documentation in three areas: teaching, research and creativity, and service. The three areas are evaluated at the departmental, school and University levels.
After the UCPT studies recommendations from schools or departments, it sends its recommendations to Chancellor Gene A. Budig and the Board of Regents.
An average of 20-40 faculty members receive tenure each year, and zero to five are usually denied tenure, Michal said.
Anyone who doesn't receive tenure can stay at KU for one more year. If the University finds evidence of extraordinary performance in that one year, she said, the person may be able to reapply for tenure.
Individual departments and schools set their own standards for judging work for promotion and tenure, which most professors said were more clearly defined today than in the past.
James Seaver, professor of history and president of the KU chapter of
See TENURE, p. 8, col. 3
Quantity replaces quality for some research writers
Because publications can be judged and counted by peers, faculty and administrators say that numbers sometimes become more important than quality.
This may limit in-depth research that takes a longer time, she said, but the University of Kansas still looks for publications of significant research. The journal that publishes the research also is evaluated during promotion and
"When people have to be frequently evaluated, they may pick projects of a shorter duration." Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said Monday.
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
tenure procedures, she said.
Most KU departments and schools expect high standards in research and teaching for promo- tions. Students include signs of scholarly activity.
The Carnegie Foundation, which has its headquarters in Princeton, N.J., surveyed 5,000 college and university faculty across the nation last year. The survey indicated that 64.8 percent of faculty at two-year colleges had never published a journal article compared to 22.3 percent in four-year schools.
These results were published in the September-October issue of Change magazine.
See PUBLISH, p. 8, col. 1