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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, AUG. 26, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 2 (USPS 650-640)
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Divestment battle to persist
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
The KU committee on South Africa will continue to fight for divestment with demonstrations and protests despite a meeting with representatives of the Kansas University Endowment Association last week.
Seven representatives of the Endowment Association met Wednesday with five students and faculty members, and according to Jane Ungerman, the representative for the Endowment Association, "nothing had changed," although her group had been trying to arrange the meeting since last spring.
The committee, which is a registered student organization, wants the Endowment Association to divest from companies that do business in South Africa because South Africa practices a policy of racial segregation called apartheid.
Ungerman said that the meeting was a reiteration of everything that had been said before.
These attending are meeting with the Endowment Association representatives were Ungerman; William Easley, student body president; Jeff Polack, student body vice president; Arnö Knapper, professor of business, and Robert Jerry, associate professor of law.
Everyone at the meeting was given the chance to make presentations and short statements on the issue, Ungerman said.
Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, told the representatives about the Endowment's plans for its investments does and where its investments are.
Ungerman said the meeting was worth attending, although she said
"It showed me the Endowment Association's true colors," she said. Their purpose is to make money, and they don't care where it comes from.
"They're not willing to give on this issue. We'll have to go back to the school."
Ungerman said Saturday that the committee on South Africa planned to demonstrate at 9:30 a.m. today during convocation.
Polack, however, said he thought the meeting was beneficial and would open the door for future communication between the Endowment Association and groups that have passed resolutions for divestment, such as Student Senate and the University Council.
"The meeting enlightened me on the Endowment Association's position," he said. "State law has set them in their position."
The state law, popularly called the Prudent Man's Rule, states that "... a fiduciary shall exercise the judgment and care under the circumstances then prevailing which men of prudence, discretion and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs ... considering the probable income as well as the probable safety of their capital. ..."
Steve Menaugh, public relations director for the Endowment Association, said, "Because of the law, you couldn't divest even if we wanted to."
However, Chris Bunker, Prairie Village law student and a member of the committee. disagrees.
A prudent man should consider safety and returns of investments, Bunker said, but he also can consider social responsibility.
Bunker said, "I don't see anything in the statute that says that safety and return should be the only things to consider.
"Prudent investments could be made with companies not doing business in South Africa."
Although the Endowment Association won't divest, Menaugh said, the association has a policy where donors can request that their money go to companies that do not do business in South Africa.
Menaugh also said that he hoped the meeting was beneficial, but he said nothing had changed.
The meeting, he said, was a small, private one because the members of the Endowment Association did not want to make it a media event.
But problems arose before the meeting ever started.
Menaugh said that the five people invited were sent letters of invitation.
However, Bunker said that no one from the committee on South Africa received an invitation.
He said the committee knew about the meeting only because David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, called Bunker and told him the committee could send one representative to the meeting.
Bunker said the committee wanted to send a delegation of four members headed by Ungerman
On the day of the meeting, Bunker said, he and Ungerman arrived at the Endowment Association to attend the meeting; however, only Ungerman's name was on a list of those invited.
Bunker said he wasn't allowed into the meeting.
Housing options plentiful Campus, city offer variety to homeless
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
The housing market on and around campus is tight this time of year, but a variety of options still are available to homeless students.
Residence halls are overflowing with students right now, but some spaces will open up when students fail to show up for rooms they claimed last spring and over the summer.
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
"We set the cutoff at noon on the first day of classes, and unless arrangements have been made, those who haven't shown up will forfeit their rooms," said Fred McElhene, director of residential programs.
"You don't have to look good walking down the hall," she said. "And guys think they have a monopoly on locker room conversation. They don't."
Julia Hecht, Topeka sophomore, will be living at GSP-Corbin for the second year.
It's actually the language lab at McColm Hall. But for Lewis Jones, Baldwin City freshman, left, and Joshua Lee, Salina freshman, it's a temporary home as they wait to be assigned to rooms in the residence hall system. Jones and Lee share the lab with two other freshmen.
Arrangements to hold a room past the cutoff are made in advance and are approved for students who report such unavoidable circumstances as being "on the space shuttle and not expected to land." McEhlenie said
Oliver Hall, which houses both men and women, is also one of the favorite dorms and is filled quickly, McElhenie said.
The cost of living in one of the University residence halls varies. The preliminary installments range from $2,121 at Templin and Joseph R. Pearson Halls to $2,222 at Hashinger Hall. The installment payment requires 11 payments of $185.
The differences in cost, McEhlenei said, result from surcharges voted in by residents over the years to defray the cost of equipment and programs.
Hashinger, the fine arts hall,
provides music practice rooms,
dance rooms, pianos and kills for
by the residents in exchange for
the extra money the students pay to live there.
All the halls, McElhenie said, have academic research centers with books and other research materials, computer rooms, typing rooms and exercise rooms.
Residence halls are not the only kind of on-campus housing available, and one alternative that many KU students find is the college hall. Ellenne said, is the scholarship hall.
There are eight scholarship halls at KU, each with a capacity to house about 50 people. The largest residence hall, McCollum, holds as many as to 960 people.
See LIVING, p. 5, col.
Wanted: A place to sleep Study rooms are refuges for students
By Bengt Ljung and Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Sleeping in a language lab or on the couch in a study room might not be the ideal housing arrangement at the beginning of the school year, but that's as good as it will get for about 50 students in overbooked residence halls.
"It beats sleeping in the car," said Louie Jones, Baldwin freshman, who has been staying in the McCollum language lab with three other freshmen since last Monday.
"I would have to commute from Lenexa every day," said John Bayless, Olney, Md., freshman. "That would be a lot of money and time."
Bayless and Joushua Lee, Salina freshman, were accepted to the University late and couldn't arrange housing. The other two students in the lab, Jones and Michael Whitebread, Baldwin freshman, thought they already had a room reserved when they picked up room contracts.
They were in for a surprise Monday morning, opening day for University housing. Because they had not paid $97 when they received the contracts, the rooms were not held for them.
"We're full to overflowing," said Fred McElhenie, director of residential programs. "We have people sleeping in what we call 'end rooms.' These are ironing rooms, activity
See ROOM, p. 5, col. 1
Naioma Waterbury, Tonganocle, browses through odds and ends during a yard sale at 626 Ohio St. on Sunday afternoon. More than 100 such sales went on in Lawrence over the weekend.
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
Garage sales greet returning students
By Nicolete Kondratieff Of the Kansan staff
That's how one of many garage sale advertisements read in newspapers last week as vendors of valuable used goods and downright junk tried to grab the attention of potential customers.
"Bankrupt grad students broke, selling valued possessions."
"We advertised in the paper that we were having a bankruptcy sale so that our ad would be one of the first listed alphabetically and also to catch attention for our garage sale," Brian McNeice, Cambridge, N.Y., graduate student, said Saturday.
McNeice and Sharon Geil,
Cleveland graduate student, stood over a table loaded with a popcorn popper, perfume, an old camera and other odds and ends.
They were involved in the tedious task of separating shiny rocks from cloudy ones in a box of glass that over from their geology clocks.
"Kids have been buying these rocks," McNeice said. "They think they are valuable."
McNeice said that the first things he sold were two pairs of sunglasses. Bigger items, such as backpacks, are in the morning to some students.
McNeice said he and seven friends got together to have the
sale to help pay for school expenses.
Many Lawrence residents were busy last week cleaning out closets, garages and attics in anticipation of the return of students, and despite early morning showers, Saturday proved to be a good day for homes in Lawrence households having garage sales.
But students aren't the only people who attended the sales.
Leesa Duby, 706 Illinois St., said Saturday that she usually had a garage sale once a year. She said that most of her customers were Lawrence residents.
"Fewer students than you would think come to garage sales, and the things I thought would sell haven'it," Duby said. "There is a type of person who frequents garage sales, people who expect to walk away with an armload of stuff for $."
Duly called herself "a reformed pack rat" and said it made her feel great to get rid of old things.
She said she prized her things so they would sell, not necessarily to make money. What she doesn't sell she gives to the Salvation Army or Pennhouse, a Lawrence establishment that gives donated items to the needy.
Sarah Chappell Trulove, 808
See SALES, p. 5, col. 6
Convocation will initiate school year
Chancellor Gene A. Budig is scheduled to deliver the address at the 12th opening conventation on a.m. today in Hoch Auditium.
Convocation is the annual ceremony opening classes for the academic year.
Classes will not meet from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
After Budd's speech, four professors are scheduled to receive Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Awards. The $10,000 awards benefit outstanding KU researchers.
Foreign teachers to take English exams
Three other professors are scheduled to receive Chancellor's Club teaching professorships.
By Heather Fritz Of the Kansan staff
Enrollment in the course will be mandatory for non-native English-speaking graduate teaching assistants and incoming faculty who are potentially deficient on the Test of Spoken English.
"It has been a perceived problem of long-standing," said Gerald Bergen, Board of Regents associate director of academic affairs. "You hear the horror stories that students cannot understand graduate as-
Spoken language often a barrier
Students in the past have complained of difficulty understanding foreign teachers'. But this semester foreign graduate teaching assistants and other instructors who are deficient in spoken English will be required to take an English language course.
istants. If a person has difficulty in a class and has to listen to someone with different speaking habits it is difficult."
In order to ensure that students can understand instructors, the University of Kansas formed a policy last fail that revised English standards for instructors. Under this policy, graduate students and other faculty must score a minimum of 240 out of 350 in the exam to be eligible for a teaching post.
This summer the Regents approved their own policy, which said that teaching assistants and incoming faculty must score 220 on the exam to teach at Regents schools. A
The Regents' faculty also said that all current faculty must have their English competency assessed by the dean or chairman of their department, said Roshann Parris, a graduate Student Council.
native English speaker would score about 300 on the test.
Anyone who scores between 190 and 210 on the exam will be allowed to teach for one year, provided he enrolls in the course Classroom Communications for Prospective TAs. After one year he must retake the exam and score at least 220; Parris said.
Bergen said the Regents reached
According to Parris, there are 850 graduate teaching assistants on campus, and 82 are non-native English speakers.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the University had come up with its figure the same way.
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"We are very much in favor of anything which increases the teaching ability of the GTAs," she said. "But I've been told that the GTAs are
"But an institution can certainly have a higher figure than that," Bergen said.
their figure by listening to test tapes of interviews and decided that 220 was an acceptable level.
being tested on both scores. This year we will have GTAs who technically have varying degrees of proficiency."
Carol Clifford, secretary to Elizabeth Sopselsa, director of the Applied English Center, which conducts the testing, said that because of some initial confusion after the Regents' policy was passed, some instructors may have been tested under the lower score, but that the center now is using the minimum of 240.
According to Tacha, KU has an annual review for faculty that includes a check for English competency. Currently, only incoming teaching assistants and faculty are being tested, unless the department chairman or dean determines that a person already teaching has a communications problem, she said.