When Larry talks . . .
The KU Students Against Multiple Sclerosis are using head men's basketball coach Larry Brown as a spokesman for their cause in a new public service announcement they taped this weekend.
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in a game nightmares are made of, KU lost to Nebraska, 70-0, on Saturday. Records fell right and left on a very long afternoon.
Still seeing red
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Last week's biting cold left most people thinking of winter, but apparently autumn has returned. Today, temperatures will be in the mid 50s under partly cloudy skies.
Fall is not lost
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 61 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
November 17, 1986
N. Korea's leader assassinated
From Kansan wires
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean President Kim II-Sung, who ruled for more than 40 years and led his nation against United Nations forces in the Korean War, was assassinated, the South Korean Defense Ministry said today.
The Defense Ministry said the 74-year-old president had been shot to death. It quoted an announcement broadcast by North Korean military loudspeakers, which are along the 155-mile Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.
Ministry spokesman Lee Hung-shik said there was no official confirmation from any North Korean information outlets about the broadcast, which was made yesterday. He did not say why South Korea waited to release the news.
South Korean police officials announced that the entire national police force was placed on full alert in North Korea to block possible subversive attempts.
The Seoul government announcement came after rumors in Tokyo that Kim was assassinated by a group of disenchanted military men.
A Seoul newspaper report from Tokyo said the rumors claimed that Kim was the target of an assassination attempt early last month.
Most of those involved in the plot fled to China, but others who stayed behind finally killed Kim while the North Korean government pressed China to return the other would-be assassins, the report said.
U. S. military authorities in South Korea said they could not comment on the situation.
Kim ruled North Korea since the founding of the communist state in 1945, at the end of World War II.
Kim led the northern half of the divided Korean peninsula through the 1950-53 Korean War against South Korea and the U.N. forces led by troops from the United States.
He also was the world's longest-ruling communist leader, but his ambition to unite the two
koreas uner communist rule was unfulfilled. Throughout his long career he regarded the United States as his worst enemy.
Kim was the focal point of one of the most intense personality cults in the entire communist bloc. North Korea's 19.6 million people were trained to regard him as a father figure and a demigod.
In North Korea, Kim was president, commander-in-chief of the armed forces and chairman of the Korean Workers' Party, North Korea's version of the Communist Party.
Kim's greatest political achievement was to shake off Soviet domination and make North Korea an independent communist country, modeling after Romania and Yugoslavia. He accomplished this by playing the Soviet Union against China while getting economic aid from both countries.
With the aid, Kim turned North Korea into an industrial country. Farming was mechanized, and illiteracy was wiped out. The capital, Pyongyang, was rebuilt after being destroyed during the Korean War.
Group auctions reptilian objects
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Joe Collins held up a green pillow with a stitched picture of a frog, described as Douglas County write-in candidate Agnes T. Frog, on the front and asked that the bidding begin.
Monday morning
"If you want to bid, just scream or something." said Collins, KU zoologist and Kansas Wildlife Federation Conservationist of the Year.
Collins was playing auctioneer Saturday night to about 50 people in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union during the Kansas Herpetological Society's annual auction and social. The society raised $824 from the auction.
The society, a non-profit organization, held the auction in conjunction with its annual meeting to raise money for newsletters, joint publications with the Kansas Fish and Game Commission, and other miscellaneous items. This year was the society's 13th annual meeting.
A variety of donated objects
See AUCTION, p. 5, col. 1
Joe Collins, KU zoologist, auctions what he called an Agnes T. Frog commemorative pillow. The pillow sold for $4 at the 13th annual Kansas Herpetological Society auction Saturday night in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
David Brandt/Special to the KANSAN
Women hindered by job perception, KU survey reports
Non-tenured female faculty at Midwestern universities view their jobs differently than male faculty do, and this may hinder a woman's ability to move to better jobs, a recent KU survey reported.
By BILL RAYNOLDS
The survey, conducted by Joan Cesari, assistant professor of counseling psychology, and Lynda Powell, Topeka graduate student, indicates that non-tenured female faculty members publish fewer scholarly articles and teach more classes than their male counterparts.
Staff-writer
The survey indicated that some women were less satisfied with their jobs. It also said that more than one-fourth of the female respondents reported that sexual discrimination had prevented them from being promoted.
Survey results were released in August at the American Psychological Convention in Washington, D.C. They also will be presented in May at a symposium in Nashville, Tenn., where Powell will act as chairman.
Cesari said 230 male assistant professors and 111 female assistant professors responded to the survey, which was financed through a KU New Faculty Research Grant at a cost of about $4,000.
Cesari and Powell mailed questionnaires to assistant professors at six state universities in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Colorado and Nebraska. About 40 percent of those who received the surveys responded to them. Cesari said.
Of the women who responded to the survey, 26.5 percent reported sex discrimination in their universities' handling of salary increases, and 17.9 percent reported discrimination in hiring.
In addition, 10 percent of the women who responded said they taught more classes than their male counterparts. Almost 12 percent reported discrimination in the job promotion process.
Powell said men often had access on how to obtain tenure, because more mentors and role models provided non-tenured male faculty with
advice on how to obtain tenure.
Tenure is granted after a probationary period and ensures job
This may be a subtle form of diserimination, she said.
"Women may be socialized to focus more on teaching instead of focusing on the publish or perish mindset." Powell said. "The lack of female mentors and role models may make it more difficult for women to learn how to gain tenure."
Cesari also said results might indicate that women put too much effort into tasks not rewarded by tenure.
"This is self-defeating behavior for women," she said. "When you teach more, you have less time to publish. Publication is the way to get ahead."
"Women are tugged in different directions, and they're expected to be superwomen."
The purpose of the survey, Cesari said, was to determine how non-tenured female faculty learn the ropes in their jobs.
The survey was based on subjective responses that could reflect trends not indicated by the questions themselves. Cesari said.
For example, women agree to serve on committees or teach extra classes when asked, even if they must take time from other work. Cesari said. Men are more likely to refuse, if they think they already have enough to do, she said.
The different attitudes may be learned in early childhood, Cesari said, because girls might have been taught to be more compliant, while boys might have been taught to make their own decisions.
The study also supports studies indicating that men and women learn professional behavior in different ways, Cesari said.
Men usually learn from a more experienced male worker. Women mentors are scarce, however, particularly in engineering, physics, and other technical and scientific fields. Cesari said.
When female role models are not available, fear of gossip can discourage women from working closely with men, Cesari said.
Solutions to parking problems suggested
Keneipp also said students were not willing to walk great distances to get to their cars.
By PAM MILLER
To conduct the study, Keneipp used
"There's a problem that's got to be solved. If not, the whole University system is going to deteriorate."
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An Illinois consulting firm has recommended several ways to ease KU's parking problems, including building parking garages and making parking spaces smaller.
"The people here perceive that they've got a problem." Keneipp said. "The way to view it is to consider the demand, where the demand is. The main problem is a severe shortage of parking in the central area. There's a concentration of academic centers in the middle."
administrators. Keneipi's consulting firm studied the University's parking habits from the last two semesters until now. His firm has been making regular recommendations since spring, and a final report should be finished by next month, he said.
See PARKING, p. 5, col. 1
Jean M. Keneipp, senior vice president of Barton-Aschman Associates, Inc., Evanston, Ill., was in Lawrence on Thursday and Friday to discuss recommendations with a special committee of staff members and administrators.
Audits reveal Senate coalitions within budgets
By SALLY STREFF
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The two coilitions running in this week's Student Senate elections together have spent almost $2,400 as of Friday, audits filed with the dean of student life indicate.
According to the required audits, neither coalition overspent its spending limit. The audits also indicated that the Cheers coalition had so far outspent the Initiative coalition.
The Cheers coalition listed expenditures of $1,252.97, and the Initiative coalition listed expenditures of $1,142.05.
Four other independent candidates failed to file audits by the deadline and were removed
from the ballot, said Grem Shirtliffe, chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee.
Under Senate rules, a coalition that overspends its limit has all candidates removed from the ballot.
The Senate Elections Committee each year sets spending limits for the presidential and vice presidential races and for individual senatorial candidates. The combined spending limit for each presidential and vice presidential candidate is $400. The combined limit for all senatorial candidates running with each coalition is $979.48.
Seven independent candidates running for Senate seats also filed required audit forms.
Coalitions combine the two amounts and thus have spending limits of $1,379.48.
Final audits from each candidate or coalition are due Thursday. Candidates must spend their own money for campaign expenses.
institutes
Initiate spirit another $106.69 on posters for individual Initiative candidates and $50 for ads to run in the Hall Street Journal, a publication of the Association of University Residence Halls.
Brady Stanton and Kelly Milligan, presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Cheers coalition, said each candidate running with the coalition had been asked to contribute $25 to the campaign. The coalition has 56 candidates.
Stanton and Milligan said they had contributed their own money to make up the $400 that presidential and vice president candidates are allowed to spend.
Betsy Bergman and Stephanie Quincy, presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the Initiative coalition, said each Initiative candidate also had been asked to contribute $25 to the campaign. The coalition has 55 candidates.
Quincy said that any money remaining would be used for an election night party but that they
Initiative spent $111.60 for ads in the Kansan,
$722.60 for 1,500 posters and $254.58 for 1,000
buttons.
didn't expect much to be left because some coalition members couldn't afford to pay.
Martie Aaron, campaign manager for Cheers, also said the coalition did not expect to have any money left because some members could not afford to pay the $25
Some of the expenditures Cheers listed were $463.80 for ads in the Kansan, $366.08 for 2,000 posters and $234.05 for 1,000 buttons
HOPE award goes to Chen
Rv PAMELA SPINGLER
Zuohua Chen, associate professor of music and director of the KU Symphony Orchestra, was honored before 48,000 fans Saturday at the KU-Nebraska football game.
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Chen, the recipient of the 1986 Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator award, was in New York making arrangements for a United States tour next October for the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of Beijing, China. He will conduct the Beijing orchestra after he leaves KU in May.
Chen, when named a finalist for the award, said he had not expected to be a finalist, much less the winner. He said he thought the
But Chen was not in Memorial Stadium for his moment of glory.
award should go to someone who had been at KU longer.
Stanley Shumway, chairman of the music and dance departments, accepted the award for Chen.
"He is a very modest person. It is a very natural response that is characteristic of him," Shumway said. "I'm very pleased for him and the music department because it is quite a honor. I'm sure the students, especially the students in the orchestra, are very pleased."
Chen came to the University of Kansas in fall 1985 after earning his doctorate degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Chen, a citizen of the People's Republic of China, was expected to stay only one year, but KU officials made a special request to the Chinese government, which
agreed to let him continue teaching this year.
Chen worked in a Chinese labor camp for four years during the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1970s.
His government now supports his study of Western music and sponsored his trip to the United States, so he could bring Western musical interpretations and styles to China.
The other finalists for the HOPE award were Bill Carswell, assistant professor of architecture and urban design. John Michel, professor of speech-language hearing, and Louis Michel, professor of architecture and urban design. Michel had withdrawn his name from consideration for the award.
Zuohuang Chen