University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
thursday, December 4, 1980 Vol.91, No.70 USPS 650-640
Chinese educators visit KU
By CINDI CURRIE
Staff Reporter
Five members of a delegation from the People's Republic of China spent last night in Allen Field House watching their first American basketball game.
The Chinese men, one dressed in a traditional gray and black-trimmed Chinese uniform, clapped along with the crowd when it recognized their visit to the University of Kansas.
the delegation, which arrived yesterday morning, include Fan Daoyuan, president of Zhengzhou University in Henan Province, and Tsao Tse-wan, associate professor of mathematics, and Li Yun-lou, lecturer in English from Zhengzhou.
the other members of the delegation are from Henan Medical College. Tu Pai-lian is an associate professor and Ton Min-sheng is a professor and the vice president of the college.
The delegation will stay on the Lawrence campus until Saturday and will spend Sunday and Monday at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
The delegation is here to discuss a possible academic exchange program with the University similar to the one made by a KU delegation that went to China last May.
DURING THAT TRIP, the KU delegation, led by Acting Chancellor Del Shankel, signed an agreement with Nan Kai University and Nan Jing University that included cultural and teaching exchange programs between the two universities.
Fan said through an interpreter that he came to the University "for the bettering of good relations between the two schools."
He said he hoped to make arrangements to allow student and faculty exchanges for teaching, lecturing and studying.
An exchange of library and resource materials between the universities is another part of the arrangement Fan hopes to make.
Shankel said the universities probably would work out a general agreement for cooperation
He said the Henan delegation already had invited students and others to China for an archeological expedition this summer or the next summer.
"We will probably accept that invitation," Shankel said.
Fan said the group came to the University to get in better shape of the University and its educational processes.
"We came to learn and get a better perception of what is going on in American education," he
KU is larger than Zhengzhou University, Fan said.
"I'm happy with the environment, the good air and the good learning atmosphere," he said. "I really want to find out about how American students are learning and how American teachers are." (WK)
"We are going to be here for four or five days. We will have school will have scheduled discussions with staff members."
THE DELEGATION will tour student residence hills, Robinson Center, the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, Malott and Worthhalls both and the computer service facility during the next two days.
On Friday, the group will meet with KU students and faculty members from the People's Republic of China.
Shankel said the arrangements for the delegation's visit began about a month ago when the Chinese sent a telegram to KU asking that arrangements be made.
The University then sent a formal invitation to the group, Shankel said, and completed arrangement for the group to visit the State University of State University and the University of Oregon.
Chae-Jin Lee, professor of political science and coordinator of the Center for East Asian Studies, said the group's visit was part of the sistership program between the Han Province and Kansas began during Gov. John Carlin's trip to the province last year.
"Because of the sisterhood relationship, a delegation headed by Shankel went to China in April to discuss the possibility of academic research at the University and the University of Kansas," Lee said.
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He said the Henan Province was similar to Kansas because it was predominantly agricultural and had an interesting history.
Henan Province has several former dynasty capitals and is a strong cultural province, Lee
There are 20 shopping days left until Christmas and five cramming days left until finals.
Service offers tips for finals studying
Most students vow every semester to develop regular study halters, but according to several studies, they are not effective.
"I know it an idea that most students share," said Lorna Zimmer, director of the Student Assistance Center. "But sometimes it goes by the wavide pretty badly."
Michael Bryant, project coordinator of SES,
said business had picked up this month.
For some of those troubled students, there is the Supportive Educational Services office in the Military Science Annex.
"We have the students coming in at the end of the semester, wanting to be saved," he said. "But by that time, things have built up, and it may be too late."
The SES office, which is partially funded by a federal grant, can assign free tutoring services to students who qualify financially. Students who do not qualify are sent to other tutors.
The Assistance Center, the math and English
departments and an honorary chemistry fraternity also offer free tutoring services.
"We try not to turn students away," Bryant said.
BY NOW, HOWEVER, it is too late to be assigned a tutor for the fall semester.
There is still hope for students who have put off studying until the last days before finals, counselors said.
Both the SES office and the Assistance Center
is located in PINNAGE 5.
See FINALS page 5
LA Yun- lou, lecturer in English at Zhengzhou University in the Henan Province, People's Republic of China, and Carol Shankel, wife of Acting Chancellor Del Shankel, share popcorn during the first half of the KU-Michigan basketball game. Li is visiting KU to discuss an exchange program.
Women believe discrimination still exists at KU
Staff Writer
By DIANE SWANSON
An assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Irene Whertit, was being considered for tenure when she left the University of Kansas three years ago.
three years ago. She never really felt included in department activities, although she was at KU for almost six years, she said.
Wherit was the only woman in the 10-man department.
"It was never anything blank," said the 1977 Commission on the Status of Women teaching award winner. "It was things like hearing comments made behind my back.
"I felt this general underlying attitude that I was the only woman and that I was somehow aware of it," she said.
Wherit said she thought she had the necessary teaching, research and service qualifications for tenure because she had supervised Spanish teaching assistants and directed the summer Spanish program and the guest speakers for off-campus groups.
SENSING OPPOSITION to her tenure appointment, however, she decided to look for another job instead of making waves and losing the support of management that department personnel were offering her.
Wherit said she didn't file a complaint for fear of being labeled a troublemaker.
or being labeled a it obsolete.
"It was a hard six years," she said.
Wherit now teaches Spanish at another Big Eight university in a department with two other
"The atmosphere is very congenial, very relaxed," she said.
According to Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics and former chairman of the Unclassified Women's Advisory Unit for Affirmative Action, Wherit's situation is not unusual but is rarely discussed outside private circles of friends.
"It's a situation where women feel discriminated against but are afraid to complain for fear of losing favorable job recommendations. It is often a good day to-day working environment," she said.
Judith Rotman, associate professor of math, is the only full-time woman tenured faculty
member in the 33-member department. Although she said she had been treated well by the department, she has been lucky—the exception rather than the rule.
"Some people still won't work with me," she said. "Because they are because they face to face, we can communicate."
According to Roitman, who is also national president of the Association of Women in Math, discrimination now takes the form of subtle imucrements rather than blatant attacks.
"For example, there is a woman professor I know whose department colleagues feel uncomfortable going to lunch with her because they are so endowed with the idea that women are sex objects. They think going out with her will make their wives mad," she said.
OSTRACIZING. WOMEN from this informal network of interoffice politics keeps women from learning the survival tricks that Rotman says are necessary for retention and promotion—tricks that let people know what and how well you are doing.
"I was amazed to learn that men bargain for salaries. I never knew that when I was job
hunting," Roitman said. "Women are afraid of not getting jobs, I guess. They'll take whatever salary they can get."
According to statistics compiled for the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, male professors at KU earned an average of $27,400 in 1979, compared with $28,200 for women. Male associate professors earned $20,700 while women earned $19,400, and male assistant professors earned $16,700 while women earned $16,100.
The number of women faculty members has increased at KU, although not to the national
In 1979, 17.5 percent of KU's faculty were women, compared with 16.8 percent in 1975. There were 178 women compared with 641 men and 188 women compared with 898 men in 1977.
Nationally, full-time women faculty increased
by 8 percent of all faculty between
1977 and 1979.
Women in KU executive, administrative and managerial positions fell from a high of 25 percent in 1977 to 18.2 percent in 1979. The number of women in top positions decreased
from 59 to 43 while the number of men in administrative positions increased from 180 to 193.
Nationally, women hold 25.5 percent of university executive, administrative and
"There is no question in my mind that there have been some gains," said Carolyn Hallenbeck, assistant to the vice chancellor of research and graduate studies.
The gaps are continuing to grow wider,
Women in England. In women,
number 5 percent but seven percent.
Charles 'Himmelberg, chairman of the department of math, said a large part of the problem was attributable to the smaller number of women than men available in the employment pool.
IN 1979-80, 819 people received doctorates in the math sciences. Of those, 703 were men and 116 were women, he said.
"Everybody likes to hire women and minorities now, and with the small number to choose from, I think we've done very well," he said.
See DISCRIMINATION page 6
Reiko Hillemeis, a Kansas City, Mo., medical consultant and practitioner of orientis medicine, prepares to apply a mugwort to the leg of Cindy Beers, Kansas City, Kan. The mugwort was demonstrated during a lecture at the Helen Fwenner Spencer Museum of Art.
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan staff
Ancient oriental medical ways should be trusted, expert says
By JANE NEUFELD Staff Reporter
No one understands how oriental medicine works, its practitioners say, but it works.
"The practitioner knows. For 5,000 years, oriental medicine has worked," said Reiko Hilleshein, a Kansas City, Mo., medical consultant and practitioner of oriental medicine.
Hillesheim explained and demonstrated some oriental medical techniques to about 80 people at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art last night.
"The basic approach and philosophy to the human body has not changed in several thousand
years, because the body has not changed." Hillsheim said.
Oriental medicine uses several methods to restore the body's balance, Hillesheim said, including acupuncture and acupressure.
She said Yin and Yang, two opposite dynamic forces, were the basic philosophy behind oriental medicine.
If these forces are out of proportion, she said,
the body does not function properly.
IN ACUPRESSURE, pressure is applied to specific points on the body, she said, while in acupuncture doctors insert thin needles to puncture the points.
Herbs and diet are also used in oriental medicine, Hillesheim said.
See ACUPUNCTURE page 5
Weather
Today will be unseasonally warm with highs near 60, according to the KU Weather Service. Skies will be mostly sunny by noon. Winds will be mild with a slight chance of Toungt will be mostly clear and not as cold with a low around 32.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with temperatures in the mid-60s.