Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1985
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Mold cast for next K-State leader
The Associated Press
MANHATTAN — Students, faculty and staff workers at Kansas State University offered their views yesterday on the qualifications a committee should look for in its search for a new K-State president.
The committee, appointed by the Board of Regents, has until April 1 to give the board a list of three to five potential successors to Duane Acker, who is resigning next June.
Few students attended the forum, but two who did said business knowledge and experience were important qualifications for a university president. Tim Fitzgerald, a senior from Salina, told the committee that K-State and its programs needed to be sold to the public.
"I'm proud of K-State, but I want people to know we are more than agriculture," Fitzgerald said. "We are business, engineering, liberal arts. And the people we must really sell the university to are the high school students, because without that group, in a few years, we won't be anywhere."
Classified employees — university employees other than administrators and faculty members — asked search committee members to consider candidates who would listen to their suggestions.
Carey Sharpe, past chairman of the Classified Affairs Committee, said Acker had listened to employees in the past.
"As a result of President Acker, we have served on several important
committees," Sharpe said, "As 1,900 voices strong, we believe we are a viable part of the university."
"Research, teaching, involvement with students, that's where the university is. Administration is not what's important. It's the faculty. That's the engine of the university." he said.
During the faculty time segment, search committee members were told that the next K-State president would have to have demonstrated a strong background in academia and support of research.
David Cox, a professor in biochemistry, offered a summarized group's consensus on the most important qualification for the next presidency.
Kansas doctor investigated
United Press International
COFFEYVILLE — The Kansas Board of Healing Arts Monday filed an emergency order directing a Coffeyville doctor under investigation by the board to stop prescribing habit-forming drugs.
The doctor, John Vakas, is being investigated for the second time in five years for writing a large number of prescriptions for addictive drugs. Board attorney Don Strole said the order called for a public hearing to be conducted within 90 days if Vakas requests one. The board is willing to try to work out an agreement with Vakas
concerning his prescribing privileges, Strole said.
Sally Pokorny, Montgomery county attorney, said she might know by the end of this week whether charges would be filed against Vakas.
Vakas, who has practiced in Coffeyville since being licensed in 1966, is also linked to an investigation by Montgomery County authorities into possible violations of state laws on controlled substances. Vakas' office was searched and his records seized by Coffeyville and Independence police.
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International Year of the Youth Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II To the Youth of the World
The youth of each one of you, dear friends, is a treasure that is manifested precisely in questions such as "What must I do so that my life will have full value and full meaning?"* Man asks himself these questions throughout life. But in time of youth they are particularly urgent, indeed insistent. These questions show the dynamism of the development of human personality. You are sometimes impatient as you ask yourselves these, but please understand that the replies cannot be hurried. The replies concern the whole of life and human existence.
These questions are asked in a special way by those of you whose lives have been weighed down by suffering since childhood. Here, the question about the meaning and value of life becomes more essential and particularly tragic, for it is marked by the pain of existence. How many people there are who feel they are of no use to humanity!
Youth is in itself (independent of any material goods) a special treasure of a young man or woman, and most often is lived as a specific treasure. There are objective reasons for thinking of youth as a special treasure that a person experiences at this particular period of his or her life. It is a period which is certainly distinguished from the period of childhood, just as it is also distinguished from the period of full maturity. For the period of youth is a special time of a particularly intense discovery of the human "I" and the properties and capacities connected with it. During this time, there is gradually revealed a unique potentiality of one's developing personality in which there is inscribed the whole plan of future life. Life presents itself as the carrying out of that plan: as "self-fulfillment."
Is their youth too a treasure? It seems here that Christ alone is the competent one to ask . . . the one whom no one can fully replace. He is the ultimate basis of all values; only he gives the definitive meaning to our human existence.
The treasure of youth reveals itself in discovering and at the same time organizing, choosing, foreseeing and making the first personal decisions. These decisions are pertinent to one's personal future but, at the same time, they have considerable social importance.
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*and "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
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