University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 4, 1986
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News Briefs
Student stable after four-car collision
A KU graduate student was in stable condition yesterday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital with cuts and bruises on his head that he received in a four-car collision Friday.
Lawrence police reported that Said Saim, 29, Algers, Algeria, graduate student, was driving west on 12th Street and a stop sign. His car collided with one driven by Vernon Diel, 54, 1024 Iowa St., and another driven by Russell Sizemore, 28, Oskalova, who were driving south on Tennessee Street.
A car driven by Linda Norris, 24,
1505 Rhode Island St., collided with
Diel's car when he broke to avoid
Saim.
Saim was ticketed for a stop sign violation and for driving on an expired license.
Both predict victory
TOPERA — Last minute summing for votes occupied the time of both candidates for Kansas governor at a day of every's general election.
Democrat Tom Docking and Republican Mike Hayden both predicted victory, based on their own public opinion polls, in anticipation of the only poll that matters. More than 400,000 Kansas residents subjected to cast ballots and pick one of them as their new governor.
The winner will succeed Democrat John Carlin, who completes his eight year in office in January.
Brown case halted
TOPEKA — The reopened Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education desegregation case has ground to a halt and may be finished after four weeks, with 11 experts and a parade of Topeka administrators and school administrators as witnesses in the case.
Gary Sebelius, defense attorney for the school district, said yesterday that he doubted that the trial would resume Monday with rebuttal testimony by one of his expert William Clark, a population geographer from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Parents sue teacher
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers ordered attorneys on both sides to submit briefs summarizing their cases within 45 days, and Sebelius said no decision is expected for several months.
BELLEVILLE — The parents of a Belleville teenager have filed a federal lawsuit against a high school teacher who the parents say struck their daughter.
John and Ardith Hallowell filled the suit last week in U.S. District Court in Wichita charging the school with depriving their daughter of her constitutional rights to a free education. School administrators are included in the suit.
The Hallowells contend in the suit that a typing teacher, Larry Kaulman, hit their daughter, Tammy, and knocked her head against a typewriter in an incident last November.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 70 percent chance of rain and a high temperature in the mid-40s. Winds will come from the northeast at 5 to 10 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and a low temperature around 40.
From staff and wire reports.
HOPE award finalists narrowed to three
Michel's teaching allows for mistakes
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
John Michel believes that a classroom can sometimes be an unattainable goal.
So, as a professor of speech, language and hearing in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, he tries to make his classroom a place where a student can make a mistake and not be penalized.
"God help us if we can't make mistakes," he said. "I don't want my students to have a robotic knowledge. I want them to learn the material and use it — memorization has no part in my teaching."
Michel, one of three finalists for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award, teaches speech and voice classes.
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If Michel wins this year's HOPE award, it will be the second time he
has won the award. He first received it in 1972
Michel said that if he won this time, he would have the same "tremendous" feeling he had when he won the award in 1972. But just being named as a finalist is enough recognition for him.
“Getting in the final five was more than I expected,” he said. “Recognition from your students that kind of makes a difference to eldom. Just to be mentioned, that it is.”
Michel is a native of Columbus, Ohio. He received a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University in 1959 in speech audiology and pathology, a master's degree from North Carolina in speech and hearing science, and a doctorate from the University of Florida in speech and hearing science.
John Michel
He became interested in the field of
spread after he received help at Ohio State University to overcome his own troubles.
While he was going to school, Michel said, he never thought he would be a college teacher but rather a speech pathologist.
Michel and his wife Lori, who was
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also a graduate student in speech and hearing sciences at the University of Florida at the time, came to KU in 1965. The first five years, Michel was a researcher, then he became a faculty member in 1970.
Michel said he enjoyed both research and teaching.
Humanity is the bottom line for Carswell
By PATRICIA FEENY
Staff writer
This semester Carswell is teaching one undergraduate design class with 18 students and a graduate-level theory class.
"All students can be taught"
"the proper way of learning"
"the proper method of"
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Carswell's initial nomination for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award was a surprise, he said. He found out he was a finalist the same way he found out he was nominated — the newspaper.
"I thought they were kidding," Carswell said. "When I was invited to teach at KU it never crossed my mind. I'm delighted, eccatate."
He said the teaching profession did not reap immediate awards because the end results were not always seen. But he said some of his students who had graduated wrote to him.
William Carswell
Ireland, which is where he first learned about the University of Kansas.
Carswell was born in Waterford.
"I was particularly impressed with the KU graduates that I was working with."
Carswell worked as a community architect for 10 years. He said he enjoyed urban planning because he was concerned with people and wanted to
help low-income families
He said the majority of the work he did as a community architect was on public housing projects.
He said the job market for architects was good right now but thought KU students were motivated jobs for reasons other than money.
Carswell said he had been interested in architecture since childhood and had parents who encouraged him.
"Money is not by the bottom line even though it is very close," he said. "It’s huge."
"I have always been interested in space," Carlswell said. "As a child I was always making buildings out of shoe boxes and cereal boxes."
Carswell came to the United States in 1978 and graduated from KU in 1981.
He said he enjoyed teaching at KU and that the School of Architecture and Urban Design had excellent faculty and students. But he said the mission could be in serious trouble if teacher salaries were not increased.
Students' attitudes important to Chen
Staff writer
By NANCY BARRE
Zuohua Chen, associate professor of music and University Symphony Orchestra conductor, said he didn't expect members of the senior class to select him as a finalist for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award.
...and to the tie... 'Chief Man'
The finalists were announced last Friday.
"I didn't even know I was a finalist until this morning when some students brought the paper in and showed the article to me." Chen said.
"I really doubt I deserve this award." Chen said.
Owen, a citizen of the People's Republic of China, has been teaching at the University of Kansas for only three semesters and said he thought the award should go to a professor for a longer time at the University.
Chen was nevertheless happy to receive the nomination, he said.
"It's a way for my students to tell me that they have learned from my teaching," Chen said. "And that is why we want to capturing moments for any teacher."
"I require a professional attitude from my students," Chen said. "They have to do their best so that their music is accepted by the audience. I've never believed that music is a purely personal thing. It doesn't make sense if it isn't accepted."
He said that although he was stricter with his students, he thought that his students respected him and that to demand hard work and dedication was the best way to prepare students for the real world.
Chen, who worked for four years in a Chinese labor camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, knows what it's like to endure hardship.
While he was in the camp, he tediously recapped musical scores by Western composers that were illegal for him to possess. At the camp, he taught himself self discipline as well as music theory.
Since his arrival at KU in the fall of 1985, both orchestral membership and the number of concerts performed each year have increased. The University Symphony Orchestra also has started making regular appearances in Kansas City, Mo.
But Chen, who is the only conductor from mainland China to have a doctorate, is leaving this summer to become the conductor of the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of Beijing, the capital of China.
Chen originally planned to teach at KU for one year but extended his stay to two other University officials made appeals to the Chinese government.
Zuohuang Chen
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Professor withdraws as HOPE finalist
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
Louis Michel, professor of architecture and urban design, withdrew his name as a HOPE award finalist this weekend
The number of candidates for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award has dropped to three, the award committee announced yesterday.
Michel, who has taught at the University for 16 years, said he withdrew because he didn't want to ask architecture seniors to choose between himself and Bill Carswell, professor of architecture and urban design, who also was named a finalist.
"Bill is a teacher for whom I have the greatest respect," Michel said. "Winning the HOFE award would be excellent enhancement to Bill's careers."
Michel said he had thought about withdrawing last week, but made the decision.
"I called the dean and told him I wanted to withdraw," he said. "The decision was very difficult. I was concerned that a withdrawal does not reflect a lack of appreciation to this year's seniors."
Michel has been a semi-finalist for the HOPE award 10 times and a finalist for the BBC award.
"I'm very pleased with seniors who have graduated over the years who have thanked me in that way," he said. "Maybe someday there will be another chance at the HOPE award."
"This withdraws his name while giving him the recognition he desired."
Lynn Waltz, chairman of the HOPE award committee, said Michel will remain a finalist, but his name will not be on the voting ballot.
John Fevrily, senior class president and member of the award committee, said that Michel's withdrawal was an unusual request at such a late stage.
"I see his point of view," Fevulry said. "It's a special case and I admire him for it."
Both Waltz and Feverly said some professors refused nominations because they had won before and thought other professors should have the chance to winning.
No rules exist about who may be nominated, Waltz said.
Students can nominate any three teachers in any school. Everyone nominated is put on a balloos to become a semi-finalist the professor to become a semi-finalist
The committee, which consists of 11 seniors, then tallies the votes and, following a bell curve like ones used in grading, names the semi-finalists.
The HOPE committee interviews each candidate and narrows them to five finalists then voted on by seniors. This year, only four were named because the committee had only nine semi-finalists to choose from.
Waltz, Leavenworth senior, said trends show that more candidates for the HOPE award came from the pro-sector industry. He is a professor of College of Liberal Arts and Science.
"Students spend more time in the building and they get to know their teachers."
Fevurly, however, said many professors from the college were nominated. Since the college is larger than the professional schools, the votes are scattered throughout different departments
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