University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 1, 1986
News Briefs
Crime victim jailed on city warrants
A 21-year-old Lawrence man, shortly after being the victim of a crime Friday, was booked into the County jail for another crime.
Lawrence police reported that the man was taken to jail after being treated for a stab wound at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
The man was admitted to the hospital after he suffered a $ _{1/2} $ -inch stab wound in his lower back, police reported.
Officers were called to the hospital Friday, where the man told them that he had been stabbed that night somewhere in Lawrence. He would say nothing further about the incident, police said. No arrests had been made concerning the stabbing.
Police ran a routine check on the man and found that he was being sought for two municipal warrants
— one for careless driving and driving with a suspended license and the other for driving with a suspended license.
The man was released Saturday on a $1,000 bond, after receiving a notice to appear in Douglas County District Court.
Actress will speak
Hollywood actress and KU alumna Brady Rubin will meet with students at 3:30 p.m. today in 235 Murphy Hall to discuss her job as staging supervisor for "The Judge," a new CBS Affiliates syndicated television series.
Rubin graduated from the University of Kansas in 1958 as Vera Stough and has since changed her name.
She has performed in the Los Angeles Music Center's production of William Inge's "Picnic," which is based on her children's cable television show, Showtime.
While a student at KU, Rubin had principal roles in such University productions as "Picnic," "Man and Superman," and "Henry IV."
Finals workshop set
The Student Assistance Center will sponsor a study skills workshop from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in 300 Strong Hall to help students prepare for finals.
The program, "Preparing for Finals," is free and will focus on time management, review techniques, motivation and concentration. Registration is not necessary.
German training set
The German Academic Exchange Service and the University of Kansas are offering to train students in areas including natural sciences, engineering and agriculture in West Germany.
Positions will be available at German firms, universities and farms for a minimum of two months, a maximum of three months.
Applications are available at the office of study abroad. 203 Lippincott Hall. They must be submitted with the applicant's official transcript by Friday.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens with at least junior status at KU, one year of college-level German by May 31, 1987, previous practical training and a current driver's license.
Weather
Skies today will be cloudy, and there is a 70 percent chance of rain. The high temperature will be near 40. The winds will come from the north at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight, there is a 30 percent chance of rain, with the low temperature expected to be in the 30s.
Polish prof adds his experiences to classes
By NANCY BARRE
When he was 15 years old, he started his own 100-man underground army in war-torn Poland.
Staff writer
Now, 45 years later, Jaroslav Piekiarekicz is a 60-year-old professor of political science at the University of Kansas who is called Professor P., or Mr. Pickle, by many of his students and colleagues.
"A lot of people think that 'Pickle' is really my name," said Piekalkiewicz. "I know there's a congressman Pickle from Texas. I wonder if we're related."
The sense of humor that Piekalkiewicz expresses about his name is representative of the dry witt that his students say he displays in class. But Piekalkiewicz said he was very serious about his teaching.
Piekalkiewicz speaks fluent English with a Polish accent. He offers a real-life perspective to students who take his Totalitarian Governments and Logic of Political Inquiries classes.
He can share firsthand experiences because he grew up in Poland during World War II.
Born to a wealthy family in prewar Poznan, Poland, in 1926. Piekkaliewicz spent a comfortable childhood with his parents, sister and brother. He spent the summers playing with peasant children on the estate of his maternal grandfather, who was a member of the Polish nobility.
When he was 12 years old, his life, and the life of every Pole, began to change. Piekalkiewicz, who was living in Gdansk with his parents, said that 1938 was the first year he became aware of the Nazis' presence in Poland.
By then, the German army, under Hitler's command, already had moved into parts of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and on Sept. 1, the Germans invaded Poland from the west, while the Soviets invaded from the east.
"1938 was the first time we noticed the Germans' presence," he said. "Everywhere you saw these young fellas in Nazi youth uniforms marching around. It was a frightening experience for me."
In the beginning of 1939. Piewkiewicz noticed an increased Nazi threat when he saw more Ger-
loan cruise ships sailing into the
Gdansk harbor.
The imminent threat of a German invasion and the talk of war intensified during the summer of 1939, but suddenly, on Aug. 20, Piekalkiewicz temporarily lost interest in the war — his father died.
"Finally, by that time, other families were beginning to recognize that the threats of Hitler were not empty threats," he said.
During the next few years, Pieklewicz continued to go to school and tried to lead a normal life. He moved to normal in Poland in the early 1940s.
"On Sept. 1, 1939, the Germans came, but that was not the biggest thing for me, because my father had just died." Piekaliewicz said.
Living despite the Nazis
"One day, I was walking home from school, and I saw the Nazis"
During World War II, the Nazis followed a policy of forcing Jewish people to concentrate themselves in walled ghettoes, he said. Then, the Nazis began shooting or deporting many of the Jews and burning the ghettos.
Piekiewiczized wcis that at times the Germans would rope off a square area of town where an assault was made. A German soldier had occurred
Jan Morris/KANSAN
"They'd already taken most of the people from the ghetto out to the forest and shot them," he said. "But as I was walking by they gathered the rest of them into the marketplace and shot them right there."
"They would just gather a bunch of people together at random, and if the person responsible for the crime didn't speak up, they'd just shoot everyone," he said.
Another time, Piekalkiewicz was sitting in school when the Germans came to arrest the class and deport them to a concentration camp. Piekalkiewicz said he managed to escape by jumping from the classroom window and running.
Although his family is not Jewish, Piekalkiewicz's older brother was sent to a concentration camp. His brother lives in Poland now, where he is an active member of the Communist Party.
"We thought there should be some resistance, and before we knew it, we had about 100 members," he said. He was accompanied militarily and tried to find arms.
decided to form a small resistance movement against the Nazis.
He said that many people who opposed the Nazis in secret, hid weapons often by burying them in the forest.
Piekalkiewicz went on to fight for the British with a Polish army unit. He spent one year as a German prisoner of war. He was awarded the Cross of Valor in 1944.
In 1941, Piekalkiewicz and a friend
Escaping war memories
Looking back on his war expences now, he says he feels better. "I don't think anything has changed."
"If I watch a TV show about the Holocaust, I don't really identify with it," he said. "I'm living a completely different life now and I'm a different person."
He said he felt lucky to have survived, but he didn't live in constant fear during the war.
"You just got used to it, I guess. Also, when you're 16, 17 or 18, you have such a strong belief in yourself, that you never believe you might die," he said.
Nevertheless, the war took its toll on him.
"After the war, it took me 10 years to get back to normal life," he said. "I drank heavily. I had high blood pressure and I had to take a lot of medicine. I finally adjusted psychologically by forgetting and retecting the whole experience."
After the war, he went to Great Britain and Ireland where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics and met his Irish wife, Maura.
After waiting 10 years for a visa, they came to the United States in 1959. Piekalkiewicz then earned his doctorate in political science from Indiana University and started teaching at KU in 1963.
He said he started out in economics but soon tired of it, and switched to political science so that he could study political philosophy.
Roy Laird, professor of political science, said, "He's a superb colleague, and his speciality is political ideologies. He brings with him the vast insights of having been born in Poland."
Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science, recalls his days in the Polish underground during World War II.
Piekalkiewicz said, "I'm very tough and very demanding. I think the grades are there to be used. If I give someone an A, I think that should be a mark of excellence and a sign that they've really worked hard and learned."
Dave McKinney, Leavenworth senior and a student in Pikalekwicz Totalitarian Government, said, "He's tough, but he's fair."
"He also brings a lot of interesting perspectives into the class. He has firsthand experience, it's not just
stuff he read in a book somewhere.
Although he was born in Poland and has visited family members who live there several times since his youth, Piekalkiewicz, a U.S. citizen, has no desire to live in Poland again.
He said he thought his wife Maura, who is the director of KU's Warsaw exchange program, wanted him to live there for a year on an exchange. However, he doesn't want to go, even for a year.
"Poland is like a foreign country to me now," he said. "This is my country now."
Associate art professor dies
Staff writer
By PAM MILLER
An associate professor of art who taught at the University of Kansas for 19 years died last month after a recent illness
Thomas Klaverkamp died Nov. 21 at the age of 43. He had been on sick leave from the department of art since August.
Mr. Klaverkamp would be greatly missed by the faculty
Mr. Klaverkamp was born Nov. 28, 1942, in St. Louis, Mo. He received his bachelor of fine arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1965 and master's degree in 1967 from Indiana University in Bloomington. He came to KU's art department in 1967.
Peter Thompson, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said
Thompson said that Mr. Klaverkamp's area of expertise was figurative painting and drawing and that he especially was interested in drawing and painting the human figure.
"He was an exceptionally gifted painter." Thompson said.
Mr. Klauerkamp displayed his work in many art galleries across the country, including the Charles Campbell Gallery in San Francisco, the Morgan Gallery in Santa Clara City, Mo., and the Allen Stone Gallery in New York.
The Allen Stone Gallery continues to show, place, com mission and oversee the purchases of his works.
Forms let students grade profs
Staff writer
By BETH COPELAND
As the semester ends, most students will be able to grade their teachers with student evaluation forms.
Although some students may not take the evaluations seriously, their comments provide feedback to teachers, and departments often use the responses to determine promotions, tenure and merit pay raises.
Phil McKnight, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, said faculty had requested about 8.000 formation forms for the fall semester.
two parts. The first asks students to rate the effectiveness of the teachen and the course. These responses are tabulated by computer at the curriculum and instruction department.
His office distributes the forms at the request of faculty. The forms are then returned to the curriculum and instruction department for computer tabulation.
The second part allows students to write specific likes and dislikes. These then are returned to the faculty member after the semester grading period is complete.
McKnight said the standardized evaluation form provided consistency among differing departments and classes.
McKnight said the evaluation had
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the mathematics department, said he encouraged faculty to distribute the curriculum and instruction department's student evaluation forms. He added that instructors
"It allows farer comparison of individuals across departments," he said.
seeking tenure were strongly encouraged to submit evaluations.
"Only a few use that form," he said. "Most of us view it as inappropriate because it provides for little verbal feedback, and it's quantitative to the point that it makes some teachers feel uncomfortable."
Michael Johnson, chairman of the English department, said most faculty in his department used student evaluation forms, but seldom used those designed by the curriculum and instruction department.
Instead, the English department provides two standardized evaluation forms. Faculty may use forms designed for freshman and sophomore courses or those designed by individual faculty members.
they're an imperfect instrument, but they're a good indicator of the job the person is doing." Johnson said.
Local boy recovers from severe injuries
Staff write
By RIC ANDERSON
Jeffrey Brothers, a six-year-old Lawrence boy who suffered critical injuries after being hit by a car in September, has made what his father calls a miraculous recovery.
Mark Brothers, Jeffrey's father, said yesterday that Jeffrey would not suffer any long-term physical or psychological effects from the Sept. 24 accident.
"We just got more than our share of miracles." Brothers said. "He's the boy I had before the accident."
Jeffrey suffered both pelvic and skull fractures when he was hit by a car outside the Broken Arrow School on East 27th Street. He was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then to the University of Kansas Medical Center by Life Flight helicopter.
Jeffrey, who faced the possibility of brain damage and paralysis in his legs, was listed in critical condition for 24 hours after the accident.
After that day, his condition was upgraded to serious for another three days.
Mark Brothers, who has been a Lawrence police officer for 15 years, said that during those four days, medical teams were standing by in case Jeffrey needed emergency surgery.
However, he said, surgery was not necessary, who recovered mainly on his own.
"The only things he had during his stay there were two doses of Children's Tylenol and two pints of whole blood," he said. "We just stood by and watched Mother Nature take her course."
Brothers said that as a police officer, he had seen many injuries such as Jeffrey's lead to brain damage.
Because of the possible brain damage, he said, he was glad that Jeffrey was taken to the Med Center.
"I know that neurosurgeons do not practice in small-town hospitals," he said. "When you've got the pros in a very specific category in one place, that's where you've got to go."
He said he was grateful for the support offered by the staff at the Med Center.
"I expected to find a coldly professional atmosphere there." Brothers said. "I did not expect to find the little human touches that we found. The people there went out of their way to make a very traumatic experience a positive one.
The University of Kansas Department of Music and Dance Division of Bands Presents
THE UNIVERSITY BAND-FALL CONCERT
James Barnes, Conductor Paul Cox, Euphonium Solbist and
THE UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE-CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Robert E. Foster, Conductor Charles Oldfather, Guest Narrator
7:30 P.M. TUEDAY
DECEMBER 2, 1986
CRAFTON-PREYER
T THE A T R E
Free and Open to the Public.
This concert is partially funded by the KU Student Activity Fee
PUTT-PUTT x-mas trees! 15% DISCOUNT
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