University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 30, 1986
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News Briefs Agnes T. frog jumps into KU campaign
Agnes T. Frog will make her first public campaign appearance at noon today in front of the Kansas Union.
Agnes, who also plans to hop over to Wescoe Beach, is seeking write-in votes for the 1st District seat on the Douglas County Commission. Nancy Hiebert, the incumbent and commission chairman, has no human opponents.
"I offer voters a clear choice and don't plan to toady up to the big bullfrogs," Agnes said in a prepared statement yesterday.
Agnes' party, the Committee to Elect a True Amphibian, has expressed concern that a proposed highway bypass south of Lawrence could hurt her species, the Northern crawfish frog.
Novelist to speak
William Burroughs, novelist and
Lawrence resident, will give a
reading Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Kansas Union Ballroom.
Burroughs is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the subject of "Burroughs," a recent, feature-length documentary film.
Some of Burrough's most well-known books are "Junky," "Naked Lunch," "Nova Express," "The Soft Machine" and "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz."
The reading is sponsored by the English department and is free and open to the public.
Teacher honored
TOPEKA - The state Department of Education yesterday announced that Hays educator Christine Chalender had been named the Kansas Teacher of the Year for the 1986 academic year.
Chalender, a teacher and director of English as a Second Language for Hays public schools, will be formally recognized at the November meeting of the Kansas Board of Education. A seven-member panel chose her from 66 nominees and seven finalists.
Chalender, 55, who spent the last five years teaching in Hays, has also taught in Valley Falls and Wichita during her 19-year career.
The Teacher of the Year program, which is both a state and national competition, is sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers, Good Housekeeping magazine and the Encyclopaedia Britannica Co.
Retirement reception
A retirement reception is scheduled for L. Martin Jones, KU director of business and fiscal affairs, between 3 and 5 p.m. Nov. 14 in the Watkins Room of the Kansas Union.
Jones, 63, has provided 40 years of service to the University, serving as a member of the School of Business faculty and as an administrator for the University.
Jones also has served as assistant director of the KU executive development program and was assistant dean of business.
The University community is invited.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high temperature in the 80s and southeasterly winds 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the 50s.
From staff and wire reports.
Student Senate to set up officer expense account
By SALLY STREFF
The University of Kansas' student body president and vice president will have $5,000 to spend on expenses during their terms because of a bill the Student Senate passed last night.
Staff writer
The proposal passed without discussion, but several senators were critical of the expense account after the vote.
Luca Jellinek, Milan, Italy, senior and a liberal arts and sciences senator, said he opposed the account on ethical grounds.
"This introduces a concept that should have no place in the nation, and definitely no place in student governance," he said.
He said he also disliked the account because many KU students had to go into debt to pay their way through school.
Last night's meeting was the second time the Senate had debated the proposal.
The Senate had heatedly debated the proposal to set up an expense account at the last meeting, Oct. 8, but eventually passed it. However, after passing it at that meeting, senators voted to table the proposal for reconsideration until last night's meeting.
David Epstein, student body president,
said that senators had attempted to reach a compromise about the account before the meeting.
He said the attempted compromise would
Epstein spoke in favor of the account at the Oct. 8 meeting, saying student officers now spent money from their own pockets while lobbying in Topeka for student concerns.
have increased salaries for the student officers and decreased the amount in the expense account.
The bill passed last night stipulates that all expenditures would have to be approved by the administrative assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs.
Allocate $552 to the students publishing the Disonorientation booklet to print another edition of the booklet this spring. Some Senate members raised questions about drug information included in Disonorientation 2, which was published this fall.
In other action, the Senate passed bills that will:
- Remove any student representative from his or her position on University Council committees after a certain number of absences. Student representatives would be allowed no more than three absences in one semester or no more than four absences in one year before being suspended. They then would have to appeal suspensions to the chairman of the University Council.
KU's interests in the Kansas Legislature should not be affected by changes last week in the University's legislative liaisons, officials said yesterday.
By ALISON YOUNG
Staff writer
University issues not hurt by recent lobbyist change
Last week, Chancellor Gene A. Budig announced that Marlin Rein, associate University hospital administrator and associate budget director, would lobby for the entire University during the 1987 Kansas Legislature.
Budig made the announcement after James Bibb, the other University lobbyist, was hospitalized after a heart attack Oct. 18.
heart attack Oct. 18.
The duties had been split between Rein, for the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and Bibb, associate director of business and fiscal affairs, for the Lawrence campus.
"Early on, Jim Bibb and I ensured that we would both be prepared to provide spur-of-the-moment back-up for the other," Rein said.
Both were responsible for representing the University on issues such as the University budget and program improvement requests.
In addition to meeting often with Bibb, Rein said he already was familiar with many Lawrence campus issues.
Rein said yesterday that KU's legislative programs wouldn't be hurt by changes made last week.
Rein's administrative duties at the Med Center are being decreased to allow him the
time needed to prepare for the Legislative session.
"I would suspect I will spend a fair portion of time on the Lawrence campus between now and January," Rein said.
But Rein is not new to the Legislature or KU's budget.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, agreed that the changes would not have a negative effect.
In 1974, he became the first director of the Legislature's fiscal affairs office. He was in the position for nine years before he went to the Med Center in 1983.
"I hope that Jim Bibb is back and able to play a role of some kind in the session," Winter said. But he said Rein was very capable and would do well without Bibb's assistance.
"Marlin Rein is a man, not only with great knowledge of the Legislature and the budget process, but who has great respect with the legislators." Winter said.
Rein said he would keep Bibb updated during his recovery
"If he can't be on the scene, at least we can
have the benefit of his good advice." Remon-
der.
we can have the benefit of his good advice. Rein said, "Budig assigned Bibb and Rein to the legislative duties of Richard von Ende-former University executive secretary, when Von Ende took sick leave from the University in the spring."
Seminar offers grant-getting tips to faculty,staff
Von Ende resigned last month after pleading guilty on two federal coe关系lared charges
Staff writer
By CRAIG HERRMANN
Some KU faculty and staff members may go back to class themselves - to learn how to get money out of the federal government and corporations.
This semester, the office of research support and grants administration is sponsoring a series of seminars designed to assist faculty and staff who need help getting research grant money.
"The seminar series is like an orientation for staff and faculty on how to prepare themselves for sponsored research activities," Carolyn Cross, assistant to the vice chancellor of research, graduate studies and public service, said last week.
The seminars are designed to help faculty and staff members understand the processes of obtaining grants from corporations and government agencies to sponsor their research, Cross said. The office has been sponsoring the seminars for five or six years as part of its regular duties.
The next seminar, "Grant Proposal and Budget Development," is scheduled for noon Nov. 12 in Alcove D of the Kansas Union.
"The seminars are very useful for getting the education of what is needed to prepare materials for obtaining a grant." Fortin said.
Paul Fortin, professor of engineering management and director of the master's and doctoral programs in engineering, said he thought the seminars were an excellent way of acquainting faculty and staff with the grant process.
Fortin, who was part of a research team that received a grant for more than $50,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said that attending the seminars might not give someone an advantage over another in getting a grant but that they could be helpful in the long run.
"Simply being familiar with the mechanics of grant proposals is a great step toward getting serious grants." Fortin said. "How well you write and present your proposal has a great effect on your success."
Cross said she thought the seminars were important to KU because of the large percentage of staff and faculty who engage in sponsored research.
"I'd say that most of the faculty is doing some kind of research, and probably half of them are doing sponsored research," she said.
Although the seminars are targeted for faculty and staff members, she said some students occasionally sign up for a session.
"We encourage students who may want to get a head start on learning about getting grants to attend the seminars." Cross said.
"I've heard that some of Haskell's staff might be interested, and that's great," she said. The seminars, Cross said, are part of the services her office provides to the academic community.
Cross also said she thought some faculty members of Haskell Indian Junior College might attend some of the seminars in the future.
Another part of the office's duties are to bring representatives of organizations that provide grant financing to the University.
Shadow buddies
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associate professor of anthropology, unlocked his bicycle outside Fraser Hall yesterday
Staff writer
By ATLE BJORGE
Degree cut brings worry for future
Some doctoral students at the University of Kansas are worried that they will be less competitive in the job market in the future
The Board of Regents in November 1983 ordered that the University eliminate the master's of philosophy degree, which had been awarded to doctoral students who had completed all degree requirements except writing a dissertation.
The University gives the degree, which is not related to the philosophy department, in music and 16 programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Students who are close to completing the master of philosophy degree still may receive it in most programs, but new students in the programs will not receive it.
"Let's face it," said Ted Vaiggalis, Lincoln, Neb., graduate student. "Our resume just isn't to look that good."
"The master of philosophy gave us evidence that we had completed all our coursework," said Vallgalski, who is a member of the Graduate Student Executive Committee. "Eliminating the degree makes it really difficult for those of us who are writing dissertations and trying to get jobs at the same time."
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for
"It was done without any consultation," said Anthony Genova, chairman of the department of philosophy "Neither the Regents, nor the administration consulted with the departments. We just heard about it last June.
"Even though the law says the Regents are in charge, the University still operates here."
Officials of several departments that offered the degree and some graduate students charge that a breakdown of communication occurred when the degree was eliminated.
The elimination of the degree is unfair to the students, Genova said.
"Some students were quite unhappy about it," he said. "They received a letter saying they wouldn't get the degree.
"You just can't cut a degree off under them like that."
Valgaitas he thought the Graduate school could have handled the issue better
research, graduate studies and public service and dean of the Graduate School, would not comment other than to say that the degree was being discussed.
School could have handled the issue better. "I think they just assume they don't need to consult anybody." Valgalski said. "All they would have to do was ask."
The program had been eliminated as part of the 1985 academic program review, she said, and it had been discussed with Cancellor Gene A. Budig.
Linda Ford, Midland, Texas, graduate
Hammond said the reviewers wanted to eliminate the degree because it was a non-academic degree that was awarded for a degree in progress.
Martine Hammond, director of academic affairs for the Regents, said that as far as she knew, the departments had been notified.
Jack Porter, chairman of the committee on graduate studies in the college, said that a committee recommendation that the Regents reconsider the decision to scrap the program had passed to the executive committee of the school in October.
Ford said the executive committee nau voted to let Horowitz decide whether to present the recommendation to the Graduate Council. The Graduate Council recently met without considering it. The council meets once a semester.
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