Wednesday, November 20. 1974
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Student advising studied
By BETTY HAEGELIN
Administrative Reporte
Administrative Reporter
A common source of student dissatisfaction is the present advising system for undergraduates if chapter four is taught in the institutional self-study is any indication.
Robert P. Cobb, acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LA&S), said recently that this dissatisfaction hasn't gone unnoticed. The College Committee on Education has made a call to the problem and plans to present recommendations for improvement soon, he said.
This is the second year the committee has been working on recommendations. A concentrated effort has only been in effect this year, however, said Jerry Lewis, associate dean of LA&S in charge of freshman-sophomore advising.
"I think any time the students are unhappy and voice criticism, then a change is made. We want to improve the system, and the students taking this very seriously. We are really
trying to make the advising work better."
He said that although some minor changes might be made for the spring 1975 semester, the committee was "shooting for major types of revisions" by next fall.
One thing that is certain to be incorporated in the recommendations will be a provision for student evaluation of the advisers, Lewis said. There is a definite need to evaluate a faculty member for advising skills as well as for teaching, he said.
"Advising is the responsibility of every faculty member, just the same as teaching." Lewis said. "This is not something we're adding to their duties. It's a part of their job, part of their professional responsibility."
Since faculty members are supposed to be advisers, another way in which students could be provided better advising is if they were assigned to a faculty member in their area of interest, he said. This would mean the student would be better attuned as to
what the requirements were in that department, he said.
"I'm opposed to professional advisers, as they don't teach and are not involved with the students," Dennis Quinn, director of college教务 said. "However, I'm also opposed to requiring all faculty members to advise students, as many are just not effective."
Although there is often a conflict between advising and teaching and research, Lewis and other college officers opposed the idea of a staff of professional advisers.
County attorney's office weathers controversies
However, some problems in advising are better addressed disinterested or unprepared official advice.
Berkwitz said the county attorney's office had opened more cases this year than last, but he didn't think it was necessarily so. His office had emphasized prosecution.
Berkowitz was reelected to his post Nov. 5 without opposition.
Of the cases opened this year, about 27 percent were dismissed. Mike Francis, statistician for the state judicial administrator, said that of 172 criminal cases in Douglas County in 1974, including misdemeanors and appeal cases, 46 were dismissed. Of the remainder, he said that all 24 entered guilty pleas, and that the final 24 cases were tried in court. Of the 24, 16 were convictions and eight were acquittals.
Although his office has been a subject of controversy in the past, David Berkowitz, Douglas County attorney, said yesterday his office was doing well.
Robert D. Adams, director of Oliver College, said that only a few questionnaires on advising procedures sent to Oliver College students were returned.
One year ago, the county attorney's office was investigated by the Kansas attorney investigation concerning ouster proceedings in the investigation was completed in December, and Vern Miller, attorney general, said, the case is uncovered no basis for ouster proceedings.
Crimes against the public,including drug
cases, jumped from 11 to 36 in 1974, Francis said.
A drug raid last February by the attorney general's office generated several drug cases currently being handled by Berkowitz's office. The county attorney's office participated in the raid but didn't initiate the action.
Berkwitz said his office deemphasized prosecution of marjuana possession.
He said he was pleased with the prosecution of cases resulting from the February drug raid. Some cases are still under review and would be completed by the end of the year.
Crimes against persons are the top priority, Berkowitz said. These include forcible sexual assaults. Next in ranking would be crimes against property, he said.
"We then tried to poll the students in Naismith and Oliver halls to get their opinions on advising, but they didn't want to talk with us and even give that little effort." The difficulties we face are that we're not clear on what they expect through advising.
There haven't been any rape cases since the conviction of Al Johnson, Berkowitz said. Johnson pleaded no contest to a count of the rape of a KU student.
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Molly Laffin, assistant director of Nunemaker College, said that many times a student didn't plan what he wanted to take before seeing his adviser.
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Jennings said he thought that the overhaul should be a community project.
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Cobb said there must be some sort of differentiation between this short-term, semester-by-semester advising and long-term career planning. He said most of KU's graduates are in the first two years. It is then that immediate advising is most important, he said.
"I resent it when a student comes in and says 'tell me what to take.'" Lafflin said. "They've got to think out first at least the type of thing they want to take."
A flower-and vine-covered building would be a vast improvement over the structure's present appearance, Jennings said yesterday.
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"Some institutions solve this problem for freshmen by telling them exactly what to take with no electives offered," Cobb said. "However we disagree with this practice because freshmen as free-thinking individuals from the day one. That's the way it has to be."
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Jennings said he began to consider the flower tower project because he wanted to do something special with the Closeout Carpet building. Jennings had been offered
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However, the city holds the title to the property on which the buildings stand, he said. The property also has a perpetual lease to the land, and continues to produce power for their factory. If Kansas Fiberboard should shut down the plant, they said, they could lose their lease to the land.
Jennings appeared before the city commission about three weeks ago requesting a 40-year secondary lease on the building. Jennings requested to renovate the Closeout Carpet building.
While Jennings was “pondering,” what do with the other building, he said he told a friend in jest. “We ought to just turn it into a greenhouse.”
Jennings said he thought that having the pot would be good publicity for Lawrence.
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