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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 committee on South Africa, "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 does not segregate a civil segregation called apartheid.
Ungerman said that the meeting was a reiteration of everything that had been said before.
Those attending the meeting with the Endowment Association representatives were Ungerman; William Easley, student body president; Jeff Polack, student body vice president; Arno 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 Association, including what it does and where its investments are.
Ungerman said the meeting was worth attending, although she said nothing was accomplished.
"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 streets."
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, 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.
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
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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.
"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 be left their rooms," said Fred McEhenn, director of residential programs.
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"You don't have to look good walking down the hall," she said. "And guys think they have a monopoly on locker room conver-
Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, an all-female residence hall, is always the first hall to fill, McElhene said.
Onver Hall, which houses both men and women, is also one of the favorite dorms and is filled quickly. McElhenie said.
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." McElhenie said.
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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.
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The differences in cost, McElhennie said, result from surcharges voted in by residents over the years to defray the cost of equipment and programs.
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Naioma Waterbury, Tonganoxie, 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.
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Garage sales greet returning students
By Nicolette Kondratieff Of the Kansan staff
"Bankrupt grad students broke, selling valued possessions."
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.
"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 stones left over from their geology classes.
McNeice said that the first things he sold were two pairs of sunglasses. Bigger items, such as bed and table, were sold 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 more than 100 households who have 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't," Duby said. "There is a type of person who frequents garage sales, people who expect to walk away with an armload of stuff for $5."
Duby 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 he gives to the Salvation Army or Pennhouse a Lawrence establishment 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 120th opening convocation at 9:30 a.m. today in Hoch Auditorium.
Foreign teachers to take English exams
Classes will not meet from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Convocation is the annual ceremony opening classes for the academic year.
After Budd's speech, four professors are scheduled to receive Higuchi/Endowment Research Achievement Awards. The $10,000 awards benefit outstanding KU researchers.
Three other professors are scheduled to receive Chancellor's Club teaching professorships.
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.
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
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 fall that revised English standards for instructors. Under this policy, graduate students and other faculty must pass a minimum of 240 out of 300 on 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 Regens school. A
native English speaker would score about 300 on the test.
The Regents' policy also said that all current faculty must have their English competency assessed by the dean or chairman of their department. The university's executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council.
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.
"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," Bergman said.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the University had come up with its figure the same way.
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."
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Carol Clifford, secretary to Elizabeth Soppeka, 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.