University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Tuesday, September 16, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 17 USPS 650-640
School to add requirements
By VANESSA HERRON Staff Reporter
The School of Education next fall will expand its undergraduate program from four to five years Dale Scannell, dean of the school, said yesterday.
staff Reporter
The new program, which will require 160 rather than about 130 hours for graduation, will be mandatory for students who will be freshmen in 1981 and optional for sophomores in the school.
"It was clear to us that teachers need to be professionally educated before being certified to teach," Scannell said. "And you can't do that with only 20 hours of experience."
THE SCHOOL DECIDED to expand its undergraduate program last year in response to a rash of new federal and state regulations, Scannell said.
As a result of the regulations, all teachers must now be qualified to instruct handicapped students and every school should be prepared to teach bilingual students, he said.
There was concern about how reading, 'riting
and 'rilticism were being taught', he said.
In the same way, the director was
To comply with the laws, Scannell said, the school had to decide either to extend its program, or cut back on its liberal arts requirements.
THE NEW FIVE-YEAR program is the result of that decision.
"There'll be a lot more practical experience," Scannell said. "Students will do some observing, some aiding and some tutoring. But overall, much more time will be spent in the schools."
The early exposure to schools will help
become teachers, they really want to
become teachers, be trained.
The program also will require that students specialize in one subject. At the end of the program, students will have accumulated 4 1/2 years of undergraduate credit and one-half year of graduate credit, Scannell said, and they will have a strong foundation in educational levels—grade, middle and high school. Students in the present program are only certified to teach at one level, he said.
ALTHOUGH THE school's faculty and administration have been working on the new program since December, Scannell said, education students will not be told of changes in the program until it reaches its final form this winter.
However, several students said yesterday that they were not going to the program from advisors or from other sites.
"I'm kind of leery of it," said Deb Lewis, Winfield junior. "I don't know all the details, but I don't think it would be fair to make students take classes they're not interested in."
The School of Education Assembly has not filled in the basic outline of the program yet, but one member said students probably would spend some of the extra year in paid teaching positions.
OTHER STUDENTS like what they had heard about the five-year program.
"Personally, I think the program is a good idea," said Tina Hanna. Topkappa sophomore. "When you see the program you'll look at your resume and say, Wow, she's got a lot of experience. It makes the students look good."
Although the extended program will be optional for her, Cora Stagner, Towanda junior, said she probably would stay for five years.
Several of the faculty members said they also were sold on the new program.
"I'm very supportive," Nita Sundybe, professor of curriculum and instruction, said. The students will be more marketable because the curriculum is more contextual background and greater field experience."
SCANNELL SAID graduates of the KU program probably would be highly recruited and have higher starting salaries than other graduates.
"If students consider that, the fifth year won't loom as large as it sounds," he said.
Several faculty members said that they had high hopes for the program's future, but that they would not have been part of it.
Scannell said the assembly was not sure how junior transfer students could get freshman and sophomore field experience. One graduate student in education, who asked not to be identified, said students could be drawn away to college with less stringent four-year programs.
"Some of the older people heard about the five
students who they were glad they were graduating,
"he said.
On the other hand, students also could be attracted to the KU program because it offers more detailed training, said Thomas Erb, professor of curriculum and instruction.
Basketball game in conflict with finals
"If you've got a quality program, it will attract people," he said.
Staff Reporter
By CINDI CURRIE
The date of the KU-Morehead State Men's basketball game has been bounced around the month of December because of University rules restricting final-week basketball games to
The Morehead State game is Tuesday, Dec. 9,
which is the stop day, a scheduled study of study for
the state's sports teams.
The University Senate calendar committee had told the athletic department in December 1978 that the game was in violation of University Law and that 3.7 and could not be approved by the committee.
The rule states, "The only intercollegiate athletic contests that may be scheduled during a final examination period shall be conference and national tournament events, the scheduling of which cannot be controlled by the University, and contests that are scheduled at home on a Saturday. Exceptions to this rule may be made only with permission of the calendar committee."
THE RULE WAS adopted in 1970 and amended in Aniir 1978.
Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, said the rule made it difficult to schedule games around exam schedules because negotiations for game contracts begin four years in advance.
"The December schedule is tough to guess
on because of the time schedules on the
exams until about a month in yearly
calendar."
"It's just difficult to get the necessary 25 games in with the limitations."
Robert L. Hohn, former chairman of the committee, said yesterday that the Morehead State game and two games scheduled for the fall 2015 season not approved by the committee two years ago.
BOTH THE ARIZONA game scheduled for Monday, Dec. 7, 1981 and the Bowling Green game scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1981 may be in violation of rule 1.3.7.
In 1978, the calendar committee told the athletic department that the Morehead State game violated the rule and should be rescheduled.
The game was rescheduled from Dec. 10 to Dec. 9.
Last week, the calendar committee recommended that the date be changed again and sent its recommendation to Marcum and George L. Gorsky of the University Senate executive committee.
However, the calendar committee later changed the date of stop day to Dec. 9, and the Morehead game was again in violation of the rule.
WORTH SAID THAT if the Morehead game was again in violation of University rules, SenEx
would recommend that the chancellor and Marcum cancel the game.
Marcum said he would try to get the game rescheduled for Monday Dec. 8, after the Dec. 6
The date change would depend on whether Morehead State can also move. Marcum said. He said he would consider playing the game on a Sunday rather than canceling it.
Marcum said that he had thought all the scheduling conflicts in this season's schedule had been resolved.
"It was brought to our attention some time ago and it thought it been resolved," he said.
IF THE MOREHEAD State game is canceled,
it could cost the University $27,000, Susan
Wachter, assistant business manager of inter-
collegiate athletics, said.
"If the game had to be canceled," she said, we would lose the guarantee on Morehead State and at least one of its opponents.
She said that the guarantee KU paid moreheal
State was $4,000 and that the project revenue
was $2,800.
James B. C. Carothers, calendar committee chairman, said the reason for the rule was to provide as few distractions as possible for students during finals week.
"I think the aim is essentially for the benefit of the student body rather than the basketball team."
Former President Gerald R. Ford and former Missouri Gov. Christopher "Kit" Bond answer questions at a press conference in Kansas City, Mo.
Former president attacks Carter's economic policies
Bv BILL VOGRIN
KANSAS CITY, Mo--Former President Gerald R. Ford strongly criticized President Carter's economic policy last night, labeling it "unnecessary" and saying that Carter "has screwed it up."
Ford's remarks came at an evening press conference that preceded a $100-a-plate fundraising dinner for former Missouri Republican Governor Christopher "Kiit" Bond. Bond is challenging Democratic Gov. Joe Teasdale for that office.
Staff Reporter
FORD SAID THAT Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan had the issues on his side in the presidential race, and that he believed the issues, and not "off-the-cuff" remarks would decide the election in November.
"President Carter's economic policy has been a disaster, a catastrophy." Ford said. "Carter and his staff are better politically aware and are at managing the country, and that bad."
"President Carter has really screwed it up. The rate of inflation is now about 13 percent, the prime interest rate is at 12.13 percent and unemployment is high. The farmers and working people of America are going to remember that on Nov. 4th.
"When Carter took office the rate of inflation was 4.8 percent, the prime interest rate was at 6.14 percent, jobs were going up," said Mr. Ford. "And now everything is just the reverse."
Ford said that he thought independent presidential candidate John Anderson should
"They've blown it."
be allowed to debate Reagan and Carter and speculated that Carter's refusal to debate was because "he doesn't want to try to defend a record that would be hard to defend."
"I think it was a mistake for many reasons for President Carter not to participate in the debate," he said. "Anderson has a right to be president and the American people need to know his ideas."
THE FORMER PRESIDENT also said it was a mistake by the Carter administration to release information last month about the experimental 'Stealth' aircraft.
"The Carter administration has made the defense department a political instrument. The decision by the Carter administration to allow the Obama administration to reason was a serious mistake." Ford said.
Ford refused to comment directly on the hostage crisis in Iran, now in its 318th day, but implied that he thought action should have been taken. The failed helicopter rescue mission last April.
Although he agreed that the coming election was important, Ford said he did not see the benefit of his decision.
"I did support the action taken by President Caitlin. It had both fun and tragedy, it was really too bad."
Ford mentioned that military experts later said that there had not been enough preparation or equipment for a successful mission.
I have a lot of faith in the election process, our form of government and the judgement of the American people. I am not a pessimist. We have had crises before, and, despite all the problems Carter has created, the next four years can turn it around."
candy Lasserter, 22, from Hebron, Ky, urges KU students to repent their sins. She says she is a displeaser of Jed Smock, an evangelist who was at KU two weeks ago. See story page 5.
STEVE DICK/Jansan
Afghans evade Soviet grip,prof says
By PATRICIA WEEMS
Staff Reporter
Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviets have found it hard to control the Afghanis, said an African native who was guest lecturer in James Pearson's political science class last night.
Afghan rebels are making life so miserable for the Soviets that they may not try an invasion, said Darwool Farahi, assistant professor of politics at the University of Minnesota administration at Axelh College in Kawasan City, Mo.
Farahi recently visited Afghanistan and was able to talk with rebels in the provinces and Kabul, the capital, where much of the fighting is taking place.
"The Soviet Union is having a job to do," he said.
"This is not like Czechoslovakia where the came rollin in and nobody objected." Farina
"Some of the tricks the Afghan are using are driving the Soviets bananas," he said.
He cited one example in which magnet-topped pumpkins filled with dynamite are floated down the streams where the Soviets have built steel bridges.
Although the Soviets rule many of the major cities and paved roads during the day, the M3A was not used.
"At night, the Soviets control nothing but their garrisons." he said.
Many of the rebels he talked to had an unrealistic view of the United States, he said.
Farahi estimated that it would take 400,000 Soviet troops, considerably more than the estimated 100,000 troops there now, to stop Russia from coming across the Pakistan border.
Many were disappointed that the United States had no military aid because they were fighting the Soviets.
Afghanistan, considered a non-aligned buffer state since achieving its independence in 1917 from the British, was invaded earlier this year by the Soviets after President Hafzallah Amin, ruler of the Soviet supported government, was attacked by a Soviet choice, President Babak Karmal.
Farahi is a KU graduate with a doctorate in political science and is a graduate of Kabul University.
Hay fever victims seek relief
By KATHY MAAG
Staff Reporter
Record high pollen counts in Lawrence last week have caused an increase in the number of students seeking treatment for hay fever. Martin Monger, a researcher at Watkins Memorial Hospital, said yesterday.
"Hay fever has been particularly noticeable and persistent this year," Wollmann said. "The pollen count is among the highest in recent decades, probably because of the extreme heat this summer."
The pollen count is a relative measure of the quantity of pollen grains in the air. Menorah Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo, is the pollen count center for this area, Wollmann said.
Hay fever season is in full swing, as many sufferers will testify. Usually, from mid-August until the first frost, hay fever victims will suffer runny noses, watery eyes and scratchy throats, said Jean DeForest, a Lawrence allergy technician.
'We thought we had a dry enough summer to
dry up the ragged, but we had just enough rain that it came out in all its glory." `DeForest` said.
"The worst times of the day for hafy fever victims are the mornings, when the pollen rises into the air, and the evenings, when it settles back down."
"This week has been pretty miserable, but there's nothing I can do about it," Huber said.
Ann Huber, Boca Raton, Fla., sophomore, is a life-long hay fever sufferer who must take precautions to avoid the symptoms.
Antihistamines and decongestants also are prescribed, or in more persistent cases, allergy medication.
For relief of hay fever symptoms, allergy specialists suggest staying indoors in airconditioning and sleeping in a room with the windows closed.
Chewing on a honey comb is a cure suggested by Shelly Maizalish, Prairie Village senior.
But hay fever symptoms vary and different cures must be used for different patients, DD.
"Maybe it an old wives' tale, but it works for
some people in the jar come with cob and salt, and just chutney."
Weather
It should be partly cloudy and warm today, with a high in the mid 90s, and a slight chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be out of the north at 10-20 mph.
Toulight's low should be in the upper 50s under partly cloudy skies.