Section D
85th Year, No.1
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, August 21, 1974
Section D
Francis Heller Digs into a Pile of Papers in his Office
Inflation Hits Hard KU Programs Altered, Dropped
By KATHLEEN PICKETT
Kansan Staff Reporter
Inflation is hitting everybody. At the University of Kansas, one of the hardest hit
Many departments are finding that they have to create new programs and classes in order to increase enrollment. At times they publicize courses or change requirements.
The college has money taken away from it whenever more is given to a professional school. Because of an increased student interest in the professional schools, the college has been losing enrollment and funds.
Henry P. Lundsgaarde, chairman of the department of anthropology, said that when departments lower their standards, scholarship diminishes.
Gerhard Zuther, professor and scheduling officer of English, said that the reason for loss of interest in the college was that students could find more jobs through professional schools. The saturation of the market scared many students away.
Charles Sidman, chairman of the space history museum in London, and Stephen Regeens, the Room's owner.
BUT HE SAID there was increased interest in the graduate program because it
"We can't plead our case directly to the vice chancellor," he said.
He said the dean had to consider the efficiency and viability of each program in the school. Even if a program is inefficient, it can't be suddenly phased on.
Sidman said a large program in the college had special difficulties because of language barriers.
Sidman said that although history enrollments all over the country were going down, their was going up here. The integrity at the same time, maintaining its integrity at the same time.
THEREFORE, Sidman said, even though the large programs didn't get funds in proportion to enrollment, they had to keep them on program support smaller, less efficient programs.
Truman Memoirs Aided by Heller
Francis H. Heller, professor of law and
President Harry S. Trump's a mentor.
By CARL YOUNG
Because enrollment is counted in the fall, Sidman said, departments might be tempted to offer more popular classes then. He said he was opposed to such a practice.
"It was an absolutely fascinating experience," Heller said, "not only for the daily contact with Truman but also for the people he brought in for interviews—people like Dean Acheson and General (Omar) Bradley. He had a crack at all of them.
"We could play it dishonestly, but we don't." Sidman said.
used encouraged the feeling that programs must be changed.
"The unfair system of allocating funds puts a hardship on all the teaching units."
He said the history department was too many things to keep enrollment increased.
"One of the things that struck me about Truman was very much in keeping with his own nature," he said. Once he garnered people as his friends, he took them at face value. He assumed that I was his friend; therefore any friend of mine was also him. He always showed that kind of openness."
"We're having a lot of fun," he said.
Heller said that he developed a warm friendship with Truman and that he enjoyed
"We're having a lot of fun," he said. The history department has kept basic courses from them, then the department is teaching more general interest toical courses, he said.
Administrative Office Wasn't Dykes' Intent
"The University of Kansas must also stress undergraduate education," he said. We must use our imagination to find ways to help students who excel in undergraduate education."
Dykes said Martin wasn't as troubled now by declining enrollment as were other Tennessee schools that had expanded their graduate programs.
Tennessee where we emphasized undergraduate education," he said.
The history department is also teaching classes at night at Sidman said professionally, but for media more, especially films. He said they were also trying to have more guest experiences.
A proposal written by Dykes to the Ford Foundation resulted in a $250,000 Venture Fund grant for an interdisciplinary studies program.
Lundsgaardsaid the department of anthropology had been losing many of its students in recent years. But he said the department did not do what it did was to try to attract more students.
"Undergraduates were split into groups of 100," Dykes said. "The groups were unstructured. There were no class periods. There was good academic counseling because the students and faculty worked closely."
"There is a dearth of large classrooms," he said.
"How do you sell quality when everything emphasizes quantity?" he asked.
The history department has eliminated most prerequisites for classes. Sidman said that in the history department this could be done without a compromise of standards.
If a class proves unpopular, Sidman said,
it will merely be taught less often.
He said that trying to attract students undoubtedly would lower the quality of courses offered. Degrees will become—and have become—meaningless, because students flock to the courses with the lowest demands, he said.
By RICHARD PAXSON
Kenton Staff Reporter
By RICHARD PAXSON Kansan Staff Reporter
Class sizes are limited only by the size of rooms, Sidman said.
Some departments have resorted to using books, pamphlets and posters to describe the events.
"Essentially it is fair to say that I wrote the first draft, the whole thing, and in some places my first draft is the final version and this is because the human changed it significantly. Delver
Dykes became the chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Martin after he finished his job as chairman.
Archie Reese Dykes, who became the 13th chancellor of the University of Kansas in July 1973, said recently that he never inadvertently became a university administrator.
the heart of what relevance—enduring human interest—is, he said.
Martin was a small school in western
Dykes was a professor of education at the University of Tennessee in 1968 when he was chosen for a postdoctoral fellowship as by the American Council on Education.
A monograph he wrote as a part of the four volume "Faculty Participation Universities," "Faculty, Participation in Academic Decision Making," became the standard work on the role of faculty in university administration.
During his 26 years at the University of Kansas, Heller has been acting provost of the university and has been involved in academic affairs, associate dean of faculty and director of the western civilization, and professor of philosophy.
"These are desperate means in the interest of self-survival in terms of the warfare between departments," Lundgaarde said.
Sidman said the department had tried to develop a whole new approach to history, emphasizing five main topical areas of interest. What they're doing goes more to
Heller was born in Vienna in 1917, and he attended the Vienna Law School before coming to the United States in 1838. He worked his way through the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his law degree and masters degrees in German literature and political science.
World War II interrupted his studies toward his Ph.D. in political science, Heller study.
"I think this was terribly important because I was living with people from a totally different economic and cultural background than I had. My family in Vienna had been strictly upper-middle-class, and I had grown up assuming that chamber music on a Sunday afternoon was the way to spend your Sunday."
“Actually, I've looked back on my military experience as one of the more unfortunate ones,” he said after I finished basic training and been shipped overseas, I found myself in a regular army unit, "Heller said. It was the war we fought in that seriously is, about with the types of people.
"I spent five years in Uncle Sam's army, and all but basic training was overseas," he said. "My standing joke is that when they sent me to New Guinea, I learned languages, they sent me to New Guinea."
He was promoted to an officer in the field.
LUNDSGAARD SAID that the department of anthropology had had an emphasis on graduate studies but that it was trying to get undergraduates again. The department has dropped some prerequisites and created more easy-access classes, Lundsgaard said. New classes intended for pre-graduate students, the Living and the Dead, Law and Warfare in Non-Western Cultures and Magic, Science and Religion.
Rose in Any Office Is Still Content
The department of anthropology has a special funding problem because its students are not well educated. Landscape said. Thus, students enroll in anthropology courses but often take for credit in English, East Asian studies or linguistics. Then the anthropology staff is required to graduate.
ly SHAKON WALSH
Kansan Staff Writer
When asked about his political ambitions, Jack Rose, mayor of Lawrence and business manager of the chemistry department, leaned back in his chair and smiled like a man who was about to share a well-kent secret.
In the spring of 1971, Lawrence was having its first election since the disturbances at the University of Kansas. A self-appointed citizens group asked Rose to run for the city commission.
"I have attained the zenith of my political career" he said. "I am a person practically without ambition."
"Well, I agreed to run, but my wife and I had planned to take a two-week trip to Europe, which happened to fall right at the time of the election. We'd already paid our money and we couldn't get it back.
He said, "I had worked on a campaign or two, but I was interested more in Lawrence than in political matters.
**WE WORKED HARD and I ran four in a field of seven in the primary, so the week before the election, we left the county.**
What he likes about serving as a member of the commission is the non-partisan aspect of the body, Rose said. Everyone runs at the table.
"I did get back in time to take office."
"I happened, for instance, to be assigned as the artillery observer for a battalion that was attacked by a German. Heller said." "It is usually referred to in the history books as the 'lost battalion.'"
"We really don't consider it a political body" he said. "Most people who serve on it have never held office before and most
One good reason for a non-partisan commission, Rose said, is the fact that it allows people affiliated with the University to run. University employees can't run for a partisan political office.
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Three commissioners are elected every two years, and the
The mayor is chosen by the commissioners and, traditionally, anyone who serves a four-year term will be mayor for one of
After the war, Heller became an inthe war, Heiler became an in
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two who receive the highest number of votes serve four-year terms. The number three vote-getter serves a two-year term.
Rose saw quite a bit of the world from a Navy destroyer in the early 1950s. Prior to that time he was living in Lawrence, where he grew up and attended the University of Kansas on an ROTC scholarship.
When he is not taking care of his mayoral duties, Rose could be called a Lawrence loyalist.
After his time in the Navy, Rose worked in Florence, Ala.
After a couple of years, he arranged a transfer to Kansas City,
Missouri.
"I've been half way around the world, and I've got no intention of ever living any place else." he said
"I've had other offers that depend on my leaving Lawrence, but I turned them down," he said. "Nothing could entitle me to leave."
Married to a "local girl" since his Navy days and the father $n$, two Lawrence High girls, Jack Rose seems the picture of midwestern contentment as he leans back in his chair with his short cigar.
IN 1962 ROSE TOOK his present position as business manager for the KU chemistry department.
"I'm just not geographically mobile," he said, "and life is too short to live in a place where you're not happy."
"I've known George Williams (director of public works) for 30 years, and Dick Stanix, the police chief, and I went to high schools in New York and ours in Mesa, heard that Dick was the police chief and I was said, 'Boy, I didn't know Lawrence had deteriorated so much.'"
Jack Leans back and enjoys the joke.
Beisner Came to KU for Education
Politics Make Him More than a Student
"It was gratifying to see that a university such as the University of Kansas existed in your city," she said.
Despite the burning of the Kansas Union and two deaths on the University of Kansas campus in 1970, John Beisner, Salina senior and student body president, decided KU to recruit a full-time education was the major factor in deciding to come to KU. Beisner said recently.
Beisner was born in Salina and attended elementary and high school there. He didn't limit his time to only be a student. When he was in high school, he was student body president, editor of the newspaper and state board of the Future Business Leaders of America
Beinser said that being the student body president of his high school was a lot of stress. He was suffering from financial difficulties, and there was the possibility that it might cease operations, he said. Beinser and other students raised money to help the school
In addition to editing the school newspaper, Beisser won an award given by the International Honorary Society of High School Athletes for the best sports story of the year.
Beisner said Future Business Leaders of America was a club based on academic competition. He attended a national convention of the club but ended up in the midst of political activities as a campaign for people running for club office, he said.
Student Body President John Beisner
Beisner was named a National Merit scholar in his senior year of high school. He was then chosen as a presidential scholar by President Nixon. The 121 presidential scholars are chosen on the basis of their Merit scores and extracurricular activities.
Beaiser said that he made several trips to KU during his senior year of high school and saw that people were getting a good education and that the University was productive. He came to KU in 1971 as a Summerfield scholar.
Beisner's major is political science. He said that he always had an interest in politics and that he planned to go to law school.
Student body president isn't the only office that Beinner has held at the University. During his freshman year he was president of Olive Hall and a senator from Olive College. The following year he was treasurer of the Association of University Senators, and in 1974 was president. In 1974 he was elected student body president.
"I can look back and see some changes
that were made because of the offices that I've held," Beissner said. "You can't accomplish everything that you want to, though."
As student body president, Beiser said, he hopes to improve the quality of student life. He said that he thought more support should be offered to students or students, especially in job placement.
Beiserin said the student senators should get to know people who fill administrative and faculty positions at the University. He said they are not because of a lack of knowledge, he said.
"It takes a number of years to cultivate an understanding and even then you are not fully competent to know how things are run here," he said. "By the time you get to the end of your term and you begin to understand, it is time to move on."
Most of his mornings are taken up by class work and his afternoons are spent talking to students, Beiser said. During the school year, Beiser said, he gets at least two or three students complaints every afternoon on the way things are done at the University.