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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 17 (USPS 650-640)
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Officials refute report findings on lack of spirit
Fire warnings about a lack of entrepreneurial spirit and civic involvement in the current crop of college students filled a report issued yesterday by the Carnegie Foundation.
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
However, some members of the KU community disagree with the report, finding the bad news hard to believe.
The report, written by Frank Newman, former president of the University of Rhode Island, said loan burdens assumed by students during their college years diminished their desire to take later financial risks, such as opening their own businesses or buying cars and homes.
John Tollefson, dean of the School of Business, said he didn't agree with the report.
"I would find it hard to believe that anyone knows if that is true," he said. "I deal with students daily, and I don't see any evidence of reduced entrepreneurial spirit."
A 1984 KU graduate who helped start a Lawrence business in 1982 said the school pushed more students into niches in the corporate world, rather than encouraged them to take chances.
"You have a lot of smart people who could go in and make it for themselves rather than working for somebody else," said Kent Houk, the graduate who co-owns K2 Sportswear Ltd. 1023 Massachusetts St.
Tolleison said the business school emphasized its placement program because students who spent some time in the corporate world often were more successful later as businessmen.
"That's where most of our activity is because no one is coming around here to interview people to place
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of student financial aid, agreed it was
possible that the burden of $15 million in Guaranteed Student Loans borne each year by KU students might nip the entrepreneurial spirit in the bud. But some students really had no choice but to take the loans because they bear their financial burdens alone, he said.
Neuman's report, of one many research reports issued by the Carnegie Foundation of Washington, also suggested that the federal government should give financial aid in return for community service.
"Maybe they need to turn the study around and look at the priorities families place on spending their money," he said. "Maybe education is not a priority."
Weinberg said that idea would not work.
"That kind of social engineering has been attempted in the past and hasn't been very successful," he said.
The report also accused students of being materialistic and apathetic toward civic affairs.
"I find it very difficult to accept that most students don't have this sense of civic responsibility. Most do." Weinberg said.
Okie said student response to the apartheid protests has been inspiring at times. This contrasted with the apathy he observed on campus in recent years, he said.
Laird Okie, who received a doctorate in history from the University of Kansas in 1982, is involved with the KU Committee on South Africa.
"There's a segment of the student body, young students, freshmen and sophomores, who I think are open to new ideas, anti-establishment ideas, unlike the students of three or four years ago," he said.
Students who are yearning to scratch an entrepreneurial itch can attend seminars beginning tonight and continuing through Thursday,
See EDUCATE, p. 5, col. 1
Residents of the 10th floor of Ellsworth Hall express their individualism as they pose for their yearbook picture. The residents posed outside yesterday
Say cheese
South Africa forces attack guerrillas
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Troops and warplanes swept into southern Angola yesterday to strike South-West African guerrillas the military said were planning attacks on towns, and military bases in the territory.
Gen. Constand Viljoen, the armed forces commander, said Angola's Marxist government was informed of the strike against guerrillas of the South-West Africa People's Organization and warned "not to interfere." It was the second strike in 10 weeks inside Angola, where about 25,000 Cuban troops are based.
virgen gave no indication of the size of the force, its targets or how
deeply it penetrated, Southern Angola is the base area of SWAPO guerrillas fighting for the independence of South-West Africa, a mineral-rich territory also known as Namibia that South Africa has controlled since World War I.
"One follow up can lead to another. Hopefully it (the strike) will be over within a week." Lt. Gen. Ian Gleason, the army chief of staff, said last night on the government-controlled television.
Racial unrest persisted in South Africa. Hundreds of high school students in Johannesburg's huge black township of Soweto went on a rampage because of rumors that black leader Nelson Mandela had
died in jail. Mandela's wife said the rumors were false.
Pilots were here. Witnesses at Grooofonten, 157 miles south of Angola and South Africa's main Namibian air base, said air force Mirage jets took off at various times during the day.
Viljeno said reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering operations established that guerrillas planned long-range bombardments of military bases and attacks on big towns and residential areas in the northern part of the disputed territory.
SWAPO has not been known to have long-range artillery in its battle for Namibia, which South Africa governs under a League of Nations mandate abrogated by the U.N. General Assembly in 1966.
Gleason said troops were pursuing the guerrillas' Battalion, which he estimated at 400-800 men and said "well-dispersed" in southern Angola. He said it was the unit that was to have made the attacks.
After the last cross-border strike early in July, Viljano said his forces killed 57 guerrillas and lost one man in a two-day operation. The July strike was the first since South Africa completed a negotiated withdrawal of its forces, a year late, from southern Angola.
SWAPO guerrillas have fought a 19-year guerrilla war for Namibia that has killed nearly 10,000 guerrillas and 566 South African troops, by South Africa's official count.
Greek temple is recreated
John Lechtiter/KANSAK
Angela McGrath, Kansas City, Kan., senior, plays the role of the statue of the Greek goddess Athena. Her classmates in Introduction to Art History stood around her yesterday, representing the columns of the Parthenon.
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
One does not find the Parthenon at the stadium every day, but yesterday students in Introduction to Art History, HA 200 and HA 400, set up the outlines of the famous Greek temple for class.
The ruins of the Parthenon stand on a hill overlooking the modern city of Athens, Greece, about 5,000 miles from Lawrence. But yesterday the temple stood within Memorial Stadium.
Each of the 62 members of the class represented large columns, which are actually 34 feet tall. Some students held their hands high above their heads and slightly outward representing Doric columns, while others, holding their hands as high as their heads like waiters carrying platters of food, represented Ionic columns.
Jeanne Stump, associate professor of art history, said she wanted to give her students an amusing way to visualize how large the temple was in reality.
The Parthenon was built, in honor of the Greek goddess Athena, on the Acropolis in Athens during the fifth century B.C. under the rule of Pericles. The work was supervised by Phidias, who also produced some of the sculptures. He created the ivory statue of the goddess Athena. The statue no longer exists. Stump said.
The architects who designed the temple were Ictinus and Calilicates. The actual structure is about 230 feet in length. It took up almost 70 yards of the football field when everyone got in their places.
The class was going to reconstruct the temple in the parking lot behind the Spencer Museum of Art, where the class is held, but the parking lot was not adequate to do the representation, she said.
The statue of Athena, found near the center of the temple, was represented by Angela McGrath, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore.
Lisa Sharp, Overland Park sophomore, said she was surprised how large it actually was.
Salaries for TA's are lower than at similar universities
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
The average salary for half-time graduate teaching assistants at the University of Kansas is 25 percent lower than that of peer institutions, the associate vice chancellor for academic affairs said yesterday.
Brower Burchill, the associate vice chancellor, said the average stipend for half-time graduate teaching assistants at KU for 1984 was $6.394. But the same year peer institutions paid $6.758 to their half-time graduate assistants, he said
Burchall said the University was trying to bring the salaries for KU teaching assistants up to other institutions so KU could be competitive in attracting top quality teaching assistants.
"We're not being very competitive with what our peer institutions are paying their graduates," he said. "When you look at what other institutions are paying and what we're paying, we fall behind."
"We asked for $200,000 that we can use as an addition to our base," Burchill said.
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"One of the criteria by which a graduate student decides where to go is the amount of salary," he said.
He said that the money would be used to raise existing teaching assistant salaries, and that it would take much more money to get the program on the level of other institutions.
"This $200,000 will not bring us up to our peer institutions," he said. "It would take $500,000 to get us caught up."
George Woodyard, associate dean of the graduate school and associate vice chancellor of the Office of Graduate Studies and Public Service, said that because KU teaching
assistants earned less on average than most national schools of equal size, it lost out on some top quality teaching assistants.
"In order to attract the very best graduates, our stipends need to be comparable to other institutions," he said. "You always want to get the best quality people that you can. When we make offers we don't always get our number one choices because of our stipends."
Woodyard said paying KU teaching assistants salaries comparable to those at other institutions would attract top quality teaching assistants and would increase the quality of education throughout the University.
Nancy Johnson, doctoral student in business and former teaching assistant, said that while graduates chose what schools they attended by their academic reputations, salaries were very important.
"I think that it's a combination of both reputation and financial assistance," she said.
Washburn proposal checked
Regents schools oppose plan
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Donald Wilson, president of Pittsburgh State University, said yesterday that if Washburn, located in Topeka, wanted to be a part of the Regents system, they should be governed the same as any Regents school.
Presidents of Regent institutions oppose Washburn University's plan to become a free-standing institution under the control of the Board of Regents.
"Once they're in they should be treated as any Regents institution is." he said.
Wilson said the Council of Presidents of the state's universities opposed Wasburn becoming a Re-
genius school because the existing state schools would lose financing.
Gerald Tomanek, president of Fort Hays State, also said Washburn should look forward to having the
The seven Regents schools are the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburg State and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Last Wednesday the Washburn Board of Regents adopted a resolution asking the state to change the financing relationship it has with Washburn. They went on to request that Washburn be granted the status of an independent free-standing institution under the control of the State Board of Regents.
Regents play a more active role in their affairs if they wanted to join the Regents system.
"Eventually I feel Washburn will be taken into the system," he said. "At the moment I don't feel they should have any more money without the board having some control."
Washburn now receives 23 percent of its financing from the state.
David Monical, Washburn's vice president for planning and governmental relations, said Washburn was looking for a long-term plan to solve its aling financial situation.
"There are a variety of options the state could employ," he said. "Our concern is to find options that will have a long-term effect."
menical said the state already had control of Wallah in several ways.