THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.22
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
September 24, 1975
Senate commission alters classroom teaching report
BvSTEWARTBRANN
Staff Writer
Several disputed proposals in the Student Senate's Report on the Quality of Classroom Education were either dropped or revised last night.
The Senate commission that drafted the preliminary report is approaching the Oct. 1 deadline for presenting the final proposals to the Senate.
In an effort to begin the report on a positive note, three proposals concerning teaching awards will be listed first. The two best awards are instructors who win teaching awards; awards of special endowed chairs to distinguish excellence in teaching; and honors for extraordinary instructors, including graduate instructors, who teach
THE PREIMINARY REPORT originally began with six proposals for
improving the Curriculum and Instruction Survey.
Some University of Kansas organizations had voiced criticism recently that the report had a negative tone concerning the quality of instruction at the University.
Chris Iliff, commission chairman, said last night that the report wasn't implying that instruction at KU was poor. The commission wants to make clear that improvement can be made in the quality of instruction, he said.
Four proposals were dropped from the report. Two concern assistant instructors (AIs) and teaching assistants (TAs), one of which was from the university and the other consider student advisers.
THE FIRST TWO PROPOSALS suggested that graduate students maintain a B average to be eligible to teach. The commission decided that an AI's grade was
no indication of how he ranked with other AIS.
The second proposal that was dropped suggested that the University define whether assistant instructors are teachers or students. Hiff said there was no way that a definition could be determined because the functions of both teachers and students.
The third proposal suggested that the Faculty Handbook clearly define the requirements to eliminate subjective evaluation of a faculty member. Iliff said at an earlier meeting, however, that the selection process for faculty and tenure was subjective by nature.
Store owner requests bus stop relocation
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
THE FOURTH PROPOSAL called for the Office of Admissions and Records to hire 10 student advisers for freshman admonishment and recruiting. Iliff said that proposal was dropped because it had no direct bearing on classroom teaching.
Staff Writer
"Here's tonight's refuse," Bob Miller said.
Miller, the owner of Janell's, a women's clothing store at 847 Massachusetts St., last night presented the remains of a dinner table set by a wayward to the Lawrence City Commission.
"Oh, excuse me," Mayor Barkley Clark said as he put his hand over his mouth and made a fake pass toward the door. "I have to leave."
"Would you walk into a store if this was in the doorway?" Miller asked.
Miller was at the commission meeting to
get on top on the side of the
side wall, until she be called.
STUDENTS WHO WAIT for the bus loiter, sit in the store's entrance and leave.
At last week's commission meeting, Miller requested that the bus stop be moved directly across the street, next to the south of the Carpet and Furniture, 846 Massachusetts.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said that moving the bus stop next to Kraft's apartment building would already there. It would mean mopup the taxi company's outdoor phone, he said.
which would cost at least $200 for a new
office, and the costs to install new
underground wiring will be about $50.
ALL DOWNTOWN WRING has been un-
renewed of Massachusetts, sp. in 1973.
Wilden said he had also considered moving the bus stop next to Paul Grace Stainless Steel.
"He didn't want it either." Wildgen said.
"sawn't i want it either" *Wudgen said*.
"I sawn't i want next the station a couple of wagons were there."
Students blocked the gas pumps, and the station provides no protection from the heat.
The bus stop next to Janell's has a canopy and two benches for students.
Miller asked for recommendations to solve the problem.
"I'm entitled to some consideration," he said.
He said his business didn't cater to students and he didn't like their hanging around his store, "especially when they leave their dinners."
Commissioner Marine Arminger suggested putting a business on the corner that would be easier to see.
"Maybe a coke and hamburger stand," she said. "Maybe someone can sell beer."
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The commission also determined which proposals were strictly mechanical ones and which ones would require further research before they could be implemented.
One proposal that will need further research deals with AI and TA evaluation. The commission had originally suggested that graduate instructors be evaluated by such semester by three faculty members within their respective departments.
But the committee decided that further research would be needed to determine how effective such a process would be and what kind of evaluation to implement.
Minor revisions were made in several proposals, including changes from "must" to "should" in some proposals, and adding more details about the issues that couldn't be applied university-wide.
A PROPOSAL THAT no foreign student be allowed to teach during his first year at KU unless he could prove a high proficiency of English. The proposed "foreign" in "innovative English speaker"
Lliff said a note would be added to each proposal explaining to what department or area of the University the suggestions were directed.
The commission was originally planned to dissolve upon presenting the report to the Senate Oct. 1. But hissed the commission with a letter of resignation and to further research some of the proposals.
The commission will have another meeting in a few days to finish the report,
Lliff said the commission still planned to have the final report ready on Oct. 1.
On the Rocks
Architecture students Waltely Sedyo, St. Louis junior, and Nell McCann, Overland Park park senior, search for rocks suitable for sculpturing. Stone remnants from former KU buildings are piled at the west edge of West Campus, and sculpture students recycle
the stone in their class projects. Dave Ruffin, Lenae sophomore, chisels at a project he started two weeks ago. Some architecture students said they found that the sculpture course provided an opportunity to relief from theories and work with actual building materials.
Groups compete for Senate funds
By JIM BATE
Staff Writer
The committee, which has approximately $27,000 to allocate, still must hear presentations from 22 groups requesting the program, scheduled for tonight and for tomorrow night.
Competition for Student Senate funda began in earnest last night as the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee heard a proposal to organize organizations asking for a total of $17,810.64.
The committee will begin making necessary cuts in the groups' requests next week.
committee chairman. All allocations made by the committee will be subject to Senate
Fall funding is done in addition to the regular spring budget process. The extra money becomes available after the end of each fiscal year when the Senate budget no longer needs the emergency financial cushion its contingency funds provide.
APEARING BEFORE the committee last night were the KU Belle Dance Club, Campus Veterans, Friends of Headquarers, Anthropology Undergraduate Black Student Union, Tau Sigma Dance Commune and Undergraduate Philosophy Club.
Students protest pie-thrower trial
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH and ALISON GWINN
It was custard's last stand at Fraser Hall
vesterdav.
Friends of Headquarters is requesting $2,038 in addition to the $3,575 allocated to them last spring. Most of the current budget should be spent on utilities, the group said.
in the past year. The group was allocated $1,156 in the spring, and $2,100 fiscal
About 10 students carrying placards and wearing pin-del 'helmets' paraded in front of the hall and protested a measure taken on November 9, 2015, by Kansas professor against a pitcher throw.
Some committee members said they thought the Anthropology Undergraduate Association's request of $8,857.50 was excessive. The group's request included money for field trips and for furnishing a lounge in Fraser Hall.
Friends of Headquarters and Campus Veterans are members of the Student Services Council, an association of 10 service organizations formed last spring. It was formed, members said, to avoid competition for scarce funds.
Carrying signs reading, "If pies were outlawed, only outlaws would have pies," "Walk softly and carry a big pie" and "Ple On!," the students said they were trying to eat them. James P. Dillard, accused of battery by David Holmes, professor of psychology.
The protesters circulated a petition outside Fraser. They said they were trying to make people aware of the charges against Dillard.
"Apple Pie," "Mincenate," "Cherry Pie"
"and "Uncle Nat."
THE TRIAL STARTS today in the
DINGLE COURT, courthouse 11th and
MASSACHUSETTS UNIVERSITY.
Several of the students said they were friends of Dillard.
The pie-twheeing incident that caused yesterday's protest occurred May 5 when Holmes was hit by a bie after he had finished a morning lecture. The pie twheeer was hit but was caught by Holmes outside the hall. Holmes accused Dillard of throwing the pie.
George Heckman, one of the protesters,
said the marchers were using their right of
He said they were picketing Fraser because it was the scene of the alleged crime and because Holmes's office was in the hall.
BLACKTECTES, WHICH was organized in 1971 to help serve and bring black architecture students to the University, is being used for the first time. The group received $700 in the spring.
peaceful protest to show their support for Dillard.
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE KU BELY Dance Club displayed an old battered record player and said $10 of that group's $150 request would go to a tance deck.
"We're just sort of showing our concern that people can't smile at having a pie thrown in their face," said Siri Hekman, an graduate student and one of the sim carriers.
Gavin Clabaugh, Shawnee Mission senior, said, "I find it very amazing they're trying to prosecute a man for some good, clean work. I can't help it." "You can't have your pie and eat it," he
Members of the committee received a pamphlet from the council itemizing the reasons for the failure.
If Dillard is convicted of the battery charges, he could be sentenced to a maximum of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
At first, the students refused to give their names and used nicknames, which they said would better represent the protested subject. The names included "Pumpkin Pie."
"It really such a ridiculous issue to begin with," he said. "We're just trying to point out the issue."
"I appreciate their support," he said. "I think it's nice."
Iris Heckman said. "We just decided we
Last spring, an organization as the Brotherhood of Pieface Assigns offered to be pie-throwing hitmen for $20 a hit. Lawrence Mayor and Associate Law Dean Bob Heller had been days before Holmes was struck, but Clark didn't press charges against the thrower.
wanted to do this. It was sort of spontaneous."
Members of Campus Veteran, which is requesting $1,000, and they had expired the benefits.
Holmes said he had been told there were protesters in front of Fraser. He said he was in shock.
After the Clark hit, the pie throws said a man about being prosecuted for the acts.
Black Student Union (BSU) is being reformed after disbanding last fall and is requesting $3,750. The BSU will act as a center for the students to relate to black students, the group said.
Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble, which is requesting $800.46, said the money would be given to performers and teachers.
The Undergraduate Philosophy Club is starting an undergraduate philosophy journal and is requesting $40 to supplement a grant from the philosophy department.
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
Pie caper protesters
Supporters of James Dillard, accused of hitting David Holmes, trial yesterday and passed a petition to dismiss the professor of psychology, in the face with a protest, Dillard's charges. Dillard's trial begins today.
2 Lewis residents testify they were struck in fight
Two former Court Hall residents testified in a District Court battery trial yesterday that the defendant struck them during a controversy over a broken alarm clock.
Jennie Denise Wastell and Dele Bra Wastell, Topeka sophomores, testified that the defendant, Karen Raynes, North Hopkins, was charged them on Feb. 24 in the basement of Lewis.
TFCE HILL WILL probably go to the jury today, according to Doug Walker, assistant county attorney. Walker said closing arguments remained, after which Frank Gray, District Court Division I judge, would give his instructions to the jury.
The charges were dismissed Friday against Stuart and Brown after they agreed
The prosecution called six witnesses to testify in the trial.
Two nurses, who were working at Watkins Memorial Hospital when the Wastells were killed.
Walker said he had no way of knowing how long the jury of 10 men and two women could be found.
Mary Stuart, Greenbore, N.C., and Denise Brown, Overland Park park, testified they saw Raynes strike the Wastells during the Feb. 24 incident.
to testify against Raynes, Walker said. They had been convicted of battery in Douglas County Court 10 in connection with the incident.
WALKER ALSO dismissed charges Friday against Helen Pilot, Kansas City, Kan., who had also been convicted of battery in connection with the Lewis Hall incident.
Charges against D'Ann Tombe, Wichita
April. Tombs and April. Tombs had been accused of battery.
Mike Elwell, Douglas County Court judge, dismissed charges March 26 against Taunya Loney, Wichita. Loney was also accused of battery in the incident.
Richard Jones, defense attorney from Topeka, called four witnesses to testify.
Raynes testified on her own behalf.
HELEN KIMBALL, resident director of Lewis, was called by the defense. She was on the investigating committee appointed by Kala Stefan, dean of women, to check a incident after the Wastells signed complaint against seven residents of Lewis last spring.
The Wastells were also residents of Lewis Hall at the time of the incident.
Moly Lafly, who was Lewis resident
rector at the time of the incident, was also
chairman of the board.