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Wednesday, November 13, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Meditation workshop
The United Ministries Center will offer a workshop in methods of meditation this weekend. Participants can learn a variety of approaches to meditation, and can reflect upon the relationship of the Christian faith to human action. The workshop is offered by the United Ministries Center 124 Orsad Ave. For information and registration, call United Ministries Center at 843-4933 by Thursday.
Week of giving
The Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Kappa sororites participated in a canned food drive for Ballard Center yesterday. The food drive was a philanthropic project for the sororities' centenials. This week is a "week of giving" for all Sigma Kappa chapters, according to Kenna Giffin, a member of the sorority. Various philanthropic projects have been planned for the week.
Pre-med meeting
The Higher Education Pre-Med Forum will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. Speakers scheduled for the program are Martin Wollmann, Clark Bricker, Beverly Goerner and Mark Gilliland. Wollmann, director of Watkins Memorial Hospital, will speak on the practice of medicine and the life of doctors; the member will discuss the role of chemistry; and another member general questions. Goerner and Gilliland, students at the KU Medical Center, will answer questions students may have on what it is like to attend the Med Center.
Fall music recital
Seven University of Kansas students will perform in this fall's Honor Recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall. They were chosen by the Fine Arts Honor Recital Committee after auditioning. The musicians are Marilyn McInduphe, Kan., junior; Renkand Kendall, Leawood senior; Frances Ginsberg, Dallas, Tex., sophomore; Dan McAlexander, Hosington senior; Barbara Bilyeu, Shawne junior; Dean Russell, Topeka senior, and Carla Edwards, Liberty, Mo., freshman.
Grant to professor
WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Larry Winn Jr., R-Kan, announced today that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a fellowship to English Professor Harold Oreal of the University of Kansas. This grant will enable him to pursue his research and further develop his abilities during an uninterrupted period of study. NEH provides grants to graduate students in science, scholars, teachers, writers and other interpreters of the humanities who have produced, or have demonstrated promise of producing significant contributions to humanitarian knowledge.
Women's committee
The Women's Studies Advisory Committee is looking for a new undergraduate representative. Although the representative does not need to have a major in women's studies, he should have an interest in the field. Students who are interested in further information or wish to join the committee should contact Jdan Sharishian, assistant professor of English and coordinator of women studies at 206 Wescoe or 842-4472 or 842-2982.
Also on campus . . .
Tonight, the Higher Education Engineering Forum will meet at 7 in Parlor A of the Kansas Union. Attendance is required; assistant professor of physics and astronomy, will talk on 'Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes' at noon at the faculty forum in the United Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
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Consumerism called business aid
A functioning free enterprise system is an important basis for consumer protection, Max Falkenstien, vice president of Douglas County State Bank, said here yesterday.
Falkenstein spoke at a consumer affairs conference sponsored by the Consumer Protection Association (CPA) and the Center for Economic Education.
Bargaining . . .
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HE STRESSED, however, that the AUAP as a whole hadn't yet expressed any interest in being the bargaining agent for a work unit.
"I certainly feel, if it comes to that," Roy Laird, professor of political science, said, "that I'd strongly favor the AAU over any other unit."
"have very mixed opinions," Laird said
to the idea of a bargaining agent for the
firm.
The bargaining agent, whatever organization it might be, would then "meet and confer in good faith with the ad-hoc committee of the Public Employees Relations Act says.
He said he supported the idea, although reluctantly.
"SOCIETY HAS BEEN increasingly
unwilling to make the kinds of investment I need necessary for maintaining high quality facilities.
J. Bunker Clark, associate professor of music history, and a past president of the Kansas Conference of the AAU, said he helped justify formation for a work unit now.
The unit would be useful if there was no other way to raise faculty salaries or get faculty members involved with the University, he said, but he believes there still are other ways to go about these two goals.
"When the administration and the regents are making efforts to bring our salaries up to what they should be, there seems little reason to fight them," Clark said.
Ingemann didn't voice a personal opinion.
eng曼即不识声 a personal opinion. "I'm perfectly willing to go along with whatever the majority of the faculty would like to do with it," she said.
"An economically literate public will produce economically literate politicians," Falkenstein said. "An informed individual understands, and this in itself discourages deception."
OTHER GUEST speakers at the conference were Lance Burr, chief of the consumer protection division of the attorney general's office; Joe O'Sullivan and Bill Ward, assistant attorneys general; John Reed, associate; associate of curriculum management; Karen Plant, planner of the Committee for Citizens in Education, and Carol Boone. CPA director.
Burr said the movement to protect consumers also involved, business protection
The consumer movement is helping to weed out dishonest merchants, he said, and this will protect both consumers and honest businessmen.
"There's a small percentage of businessmen in every industry that are bent on cheating," he said, "and the honest merchant has just begun to realize that these people are hurting him just as much as the consumer."
Several years ago organizations such as the Better Business Bureau and the Chamber of Commerce were relatively ineffective, Burr said, but in recent years
Award-winning faculty . . .
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organized research activities and creating new programs.
VANLECK SAID he agreed with the priorities because they were probably in the best interest of the long-range goals of the University.
Dennis Quinn, professor of English,
receives $2,725 less than the department of
English average. He said the outstanding
teaching wasn't rewarded at the University.
"My experience in the environment is that they equate all faculty members as being good at teaching and therefore no one is outstanding at teaching." Quinn said.
when the chancellor lists "improvement in teaching" as sixth in a list of University priorities, then department chairmen and deans will not consider teaching as the main goal of the University and will act accordingly, he said.
"It never really has been," Quinn said. **JOW J WOODZO, professor of music theory, said he couldn't speak for anyone but himself." The scores amd $4,780 above the department average.
Alfonso Verdu, professor of philosophy,
said the department didn't promote him
into academia. He said he had to pay in
when he won an Amoco award in
1970. He is paid $4,280 less than the
department average. The department
had published something, Verdu said.
the other hand, I don't believe in awards. An award isn't necessarily a good thing," he said. "There are many excellent teachers who aren't awarded at all."
Verdu said in Europe excellent teaching was rewarded by the number of students that enrolled in a teacher's class and by peer recognition.
A problem with the study is that salaries of faculty members who have resigned or died were used in compiling it, Shankel said. Years in rank, new faculty members became faculty members who aren't listed in the budget also weren't included, he said.
HIS OPINION is a subjective one, Verda said, because he resents the department's staff.
updated with FY 75 budget information, results from the FY 74 calculations indicated that this does, in some cases, explain the differences between winner and loser averages, but doesn't adequately explain the difference overall." The report says.
"The same conclusions are expected to be reached for FY 75." it said.
THE REPORT says that alternative ways of preparing it include excluding terminated or dead faculty member's salaries, teaching hours and members of the same academic rank by salary for their relative salary positions within the department and by comparing percentage increases of winners' salaries to those of similarly ranking department members.
"An award brings many favors, but, on
"Since years-in-rank data haven't been
Robinson delay . . .
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cost estimates from the planning department for several proposals for use of $45,000 in activity fees earmarked for recreation facilities.
The largest proposal was for development of athletic fields at 23rd and Iowa streets. A similar project will improve the improvement of the three existing fields would cost between $2,500 and $4,500.
CASSELMAN SAID he was surprised at the range of the estimate.
they have become much more active in the business community.
"I will ask the planning department what would be included in the $45,000 estimate that wouldn't be included in the one for $25,000," he said. The major cost involved is levelling, grading and filling with top soil, he said.
No decision was reached at last night's meeting on the allocation of the funds. Gasselman said the committee would have to consider the budget and Student Senate at its December meeting.
BURR SAID he encouraged local groups to lobby for consumer legislation because there were no paid lobbyists for consumers in the state.
Landlord-tenant and auto repair acts will require the session of the state legislature, he said.
"Now more than ever, I think people want government to be responsive to their needs. Burns
In order for the attorney general's office to investigate a situation, he said, proof of deliberate fraud and deception must be shown.
The Consumer Protection Act of 1974 was a progressive piece of legislation that discouraged fraudulent businessman and night-operators in Kansas, O'Sullivan said.
"The act stipulates that goods that are sold must be of a particular quality or standard. Sullivan said, the matter in question is the manner the man-in-a-bag about a product is illegal under the act."
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S office handles about 6,000 consumer cases a year and has fled about 100 lawsuits in its skier operation. Burr said.
"We've never lost a case," he said, "but then every one we take is pretty clear-cut. It's very important that we know that we can win the case in court. If we don't, it may appear that we've unjustifiably damaged the firm's reputation."
Ward discussed some of the energy problems related to consumerism. He mentioned energy conservation, the development of solar energy and the use of wind power as possible solutions to the energy crisis.
"Energy is too important to all of us to allow it to be controlled by just a few companies," he said. "We must have alternatives."
Ward said nuclear power presented real dangers of nuclear waste and radiation.
"We must recognize that nuclear waste is an international problem and international responsibility."
ANOTHER IMPORTANT factor of the consumer movement is the general need for information about consumerism, Guenther said.
A center for economic and consumer education is being planned by the Center for Economic Education and the Kansas Council on Education, he said. He said the center would be funded at $10,000 a year by the KU Endowment Association and the KU Endowment Association.
Boone said consumer programs could be most effective at the local level.
“It's important to work your program into the entire community,” she said, “and cooperation and mediation is the most effective way to do this.”
The three major functions of the CPA, Boone said, are handling complaints, serving as a referral agency and providing information to the community.