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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102.NO.74
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1992
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Brinkman to resign in July 1993
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Richard Devinki / KANSAN
Administrator will fill role of teacher again
By KC Trauer Kansan staff writer
Del Brinkman doesn't want to be a prisoner of the calendar anymore.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, plans a return to teaching journalism next year.
The vice chancellor for academic affairs would like to watch more basketball games or play a round of golf without worrying about making that next meeting at the office.
And he wants to return to research and teaching, roles he deems important in University life. Yet, ironically, he has had little time for them.
That's why, after 20 years as a KU administrator, Brinkman has decided to resign as vice chancellor and return to the teaching ranks.
The University officially announced yesterday that Brinkman, 55, would not return to the academic affairs office after taking his spring semester sabbatical to study the private papers of William Allen White.
Brinkman said that he had given his best efforts to a demanding job and that it was time for him to move on.
"It's such a total commitment that you really don't wind up getting to do the things that you get into university life to do in the first place," he said.
One of those activities is teaching, a job that Brinkman left soon after arriving at KU.
Brinkman joined the University as faculty adviser for the Kansan in 1970. Two
years later he became associate dean and in 1975 began a 11-year career as dean of the journalism school.
When Brinkman wanted to research the famous Kansas editor White, he found his job in academic affairs consumed too much of his time and hindered his research.
"I blocked out research times on the calendar, but rarely did I have time to do," he said. "I knew that if I wanted to get serious about it, I'd have to change careers."
During his tenure, Brinkman helped
kU through three budget cutbacks.
an unexpected enrollment boom and the recent program review.
Through it all, Brinkman's management abilities helped lead KU through rough times, said Joe Bauman, School of Business dean.
"In my 30 years in industry, I have seen a lot of managers," Bauman said. "He was the most effective manager I have ever seen in getting a lot of people with different opinions to work together efficiently."
Mary Wallace, journalism school assistant dean, said Brinkman was respected at the University partly because of his ability
"That's very rare for someone in his position to have," she said. "In fact, if you make anybody happy, that's very rare."
to keep everyone happy.
Though Brinkman does not think it's possible to keep everybody happy, he does try to get everybody involved in achieving KU's goals, he said.
"I always feel good when things work," he said. "And you can't make things work here unless you get a lot of people involved. The big job of the administrator is getting people to work together and make them feel like they're contributing."
Sabbatical gives time for study
By Brady Prauser Special to the Kansan
Del Brinkman soon will rekindle his relationship with a rich journalism heritage.
Brinkman, who resigned his post as KU's chief academic officer, will take a six-month leave from the University to study the private papers of legendary Kansas journalist William Allen White. He will research the personal writings of the famed editor of the Emoria Gazette.
The private writings of Kansas most famous journalist have long interested Brinkman, who has been studying them for the past two years.
"A historian that I talked to at the Library of Congress said this collection is one of their most important." Brinkman said. "They rank it as among the papers that they have, along with some presidential papers.
"They consider it important because he's commenting on and corresponding with people across a wide perception of areas who were important in the 1980s. So it's significant to the history of this country."
The research will be a homecoming of sorts for Brinkman. In addition to the Library of Congress, his quest for the papers will take him to the same Emporia Gazette office where he started his career as a journalist during the 1950s.
He also will study materials at his alma mater, Emporia State University, and items retained by White's granddaughter, Barbara White Walker, curator of the museum, Paul David Walker, is publisher of the paper.
Brinkman never knew White, who died in 1944, but worked closely with his son, William Lindsay White, at the Gazette. He also will review materials at KU's Spencer Research Library, the Kansas State Historical Society, and the Lyon and Butler County Museums.
Brinkman said he will select representative samples of White's private letters to be compiled in a book format, reproducing the letters as they were originally written.
JRP could spell relief for overcrowded Bailev Hall
School of Education eyes residence hall looks for new home
By Stacy Morford
Kansan staff writer
Someone has been watering the seven tiny plants that line the sill of a first-floor window in Joseph R. Pearson Hall. A key occasionally rattles in a lock, and different lights appear in the basement — sometimes on, some times off. But beyond these faint glimmers of life, JR Hall is an empty shell.
Last winter, groggy freshmen dragged towels down these now-desolate hallways the same way young men had 32 years before. But life in JRP stopped last May when Student Housing chained the doors of the former men's residence hall.
Now caretakers come and go throughout the day. There are rumors that people roam JRP's halls at night. Jonathan Long, assistant director for staffing for student housing told the
Empty residence halls and full classrooms
Lawrence Journal-World that a couple staff members still live in the hall as night caretakers, but Ken Stoneer, student housing director, will not confirm their presence.
"I have made the appropriate arrangements with the police, with caretakers, and perhaps with staff I may have in JRP, but I cannot in good faith discuss those arrangements," Stoner says. "I just want to make sure we have eyes and ears keeping track of the place."
What housing personnel are keeping track of is eighty-two thousand square feet of space on seven floors that perch unused on the rim of campus. Meanwhile, Bailey and Wescoe Halls are nearly bursting at the seams, barely able to hold all the classes, offices and laboratories the University needs.
Hiltop Child Development Center has been filled to capacity for years and cannot find places to put more toddlers. Offices in Wescoe are stuffed with three, four, even five teaching assistants. The School of Education has classes and offices spread from Robinson Center to a
Source: Kansan staff research
Hanbe's trade reminder department:
"They can here for 19 years and
have a serious problem, said Eid Meyen,
executive vice chancellor. 'It's a
question of resources — if you're
going to have space, you have to have
Quonset hut behind Bailey.
But JRP's fate remains undecided
the money to acquire that space."
Meyen, former dean of Education,
moved his office out of Bailey and into Strong Hall just last June, so he has had first-hand experience with the school's space problems.
Education's request for more space was among the dozen reviewed by the
University space committee. Bob Bearse, head of the committee, says that Education's proposal has the most benefit for the University. But although Education seems to be on the inside track when it comes to taking over JRP, its request still has to be approved by facilities planning, the executive vice chancellor, the Board of Regents and finally, the Kansas Legislature.
A project as immense as the overhaul Education has planned for JRP will take years to evolve, university officials say. Not only will the University need to secure money for architectural planning and construction, but also it will have to decided whether to purchase JRP, which is owned and operated by Student Housing, or to lease the building the way it leases JRP's neighbor, Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
Carruth-O'Leary, another former residence hall, shows clearly what may lie ahead. It was emptied of students in 1965 and sat empty for six years before general accounting became the first department to move into the remodeled offices.
"We can't just walk in and take over the building." Meyen says. "The University doesn't ...n it in the same sense that it owns Strong Hall. I think a lot of people just don't understand that."
Even if every stage of the process went smoothly and exactly as Education planned, Meyen says, the building still would not be ready for use until three to four years after financing was approved and that financing may not be approved this year or next year.
Meanwhile, the faculty and staff in the School of Education are on hold.
Today, about 3,000 students in the School of Education cram into Bailey Hall daily, and the 1900 vintage building labors under the strain.
"Education has needed space for years and years," said Richard Whelan, acting dean of Education. "We have people on top of one another, and there's no room to expand."
JRP is the second oldest structure on campus, just a decade younger than Spooner Hall. Like most build-
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Towers residents export car parts to Czechoslovakia
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
And unlike most export trading companies that have offices in trade centers or other commercial buildings, Leader International Trade Company Inc. operates out of an apartment on the KU campus.
Revolution and democratization in Eastern Europe have opened the door for two KU students to establish a trading company in Lawrence.
The Lawrence senior said he formed the company last June after his roommate, Lee Cabbell, asked Janushek to help locate automobile parts in the United States for his uncle's wholesale business in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is a Lawrence graduate student originally from Brno, which is located about 125 miles southeast of Prague.
Export trading companies arrange transactions by linking manufacturers with overseas buyers, said Dan Janousek, Leader International president.
Janousek said he was serious about making the company a successful long-term venture.
"At first I thought, Yeah, let's just make a few quick dollars and get it done," he said. "But then I found out that a lot of people are interested in doing this. It's a long-term commitment."
Jamusek said the company was only temporarily operating out of his apartment in Jayhawker Towers. He said he hoped to get together with two or three other trading
companies and lease office space in Kansas City.
"We operate from here out of necessity," he said. "The dorm room is definitely a short-term thing."
Cabell said trading opportunities with Czechoslovakia opened up after that country's 1989 revolution that led to the privatization of business. Cabell acts as an adviser and liaison between the company and Czechoslovakian importers.
"My part is that I do contracts with Czechoslovakian companies," he said. "That means translation, making phone calls, and making sure the companies get the products. I try to give Dan ideas of which products might work and which products might not work in Czechoslovakia."
Cabell's uncle asked Cabell to locate catalytic converters for his Prague business because the converters, which reduce auto emissions, are not available in Czechoslovakia.
"The pollution is at quite a high level in Czechoslovakia and all eastern European countries," he said. "Beginning in 1993, it will be a law that this must be reduced."
Janousek said that once the Czechoslovakian manufacturer had tested the converters supplied by Leader International, the manufacturer would place an order for a large number of the converters through the company.
"At this point we have no speciality," he said. "We can do anything except amnesis and drugs. But I'm sure as time goes
Although the car parts deal got the company started, Cabell said Leader International was not limited to exporting any certain types of products.
Lee Cabell, left, Prague, Czechoslovakia, graduate student, and Dan Janusek, right, Leader International Trade Company Inc. president (right), examine their car part trading notes and discuss their plans.
by we will get narrowed down to a few specific products." Janusek agreed it would be a few years until Leader
"I think industrial products is where we're going to specialize," he said. "I would like to do that because we want to promote U.S. manufactured goods throughout the world as well."