University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 27, 1987
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Four faculty announced as HOPE finalists
Four KU faculty have been named finalists for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award. They are Don Green, professor of chemical ad petroleum engineering; Lois Greene, director of The Arts; Colin Howat, professor of biology and petroleum engineering; and James Seaver, professor of history.
Seniors may vote tomorrow and Thursday in the dean's office of their schools. Ballots will be printed in the Kansan.
SenEx to discuss shorter add-drop
The University Senate executive Committee will discuss a proposal to shorten the add-drop period at its meeting today.
The proposal would shorten both add and drop periods to the first two weeks of classes. This fall, the add period was two weeks, but students could drop courses for the first five weeks of classes without receiving a "W" on their transcripts.
Under the proposal, students dropping courses after the first two weeks of classes would receive grades, depending on the school.
SenEx also plans to discuss early enrollment for athletes at its 4:30 p.m. meeting today in the Regents Room in Strong Hall.
Linkletter to speak dedicate center
Entertainer and author Art Linkletter will be in Lawrence today to dedicate the new Charter Counseling Center of Lawrence, 3210 Mesa Way. He will speak to about 60 invited guests at a luncheon with the graphic artists and be available for autographs from noon to 1 p.m.
Linkletter has campaigned against drug abuse since 1969, when his 19-year-old daughter, Diane, died in a drug-related accident. He has written more than 15 books, including "Kids Say the Darndest Things!", and has been in television shows, such as "People Are Funny" and "Art Linkletter's House Party."
Winners announced in photo ID contest
Twenty-four winners of the "Great Faces, Great Places" contest were announced at halftime of the KU-lowa State football game.
The contest involved identifying the subjects of 80 pictures of KU people and landmarks. The picture was submitted by KU museums and unions.
In the student category, Mark Lee, Independence senior, won first place, and Kari Monson, Kyoshi Yyo, freshman, won second place.
Tied for first among faculty and staff were Shirley Leach and Karen Kitchen, both workers in the department of facilities operations. Among alumni, Christopher Schneider of Kansas City, Kan., won first place; and Jeff Southard of Lawrence won second place.
A complete list of winners and correct answers is available from University Relations.
From staff and wire reports.
Museum to get quilt of plants
By NOEL GERDES
Stan Herd crouched down and plucked an invading weed from the soil in front of the Spencer Museum of Art.
"The main problem with crop art is working winn nature," he said yesterday, clad in blue jeans, cowboy boots and dark sunglasses. Squirrels bury nuts, weeds spring up uninvited and people leave footprints in the soft soil.
Herd, a Lawrence artist, was commissioned by the museum to create "Worked Patch," a 13-by-30-foot plot of crop sculpture in front of the building.
Jon Blum, museum photographer 'and a friend of Herd's', said the work was commissioned for the museum's 10th anniversary in January and because "no one ever really pleased with the area when it was just grass."
In the rectangle, several wooden boards crisscross the soil. The boards divide geometric sections of emerald green winter wheat, rust-colored clay chips, white Arkansas pebbles and dark brown soil.
The total effect, Herd says, suggests a simple quilt pattern. In the spring and summer, the winter wheat will turn golden, and Herd will plant wild flowers in some of the seasons. Then the plot will look like a goosenet craft, he said.
Herd began work on the plot about a month ago and will work for about 12 months.
"Worked Patch." Herd's smallest crop sculpture, can be viewed from the ground, unlike most of his crop art, which is so large that it must be viewed from an airplane.
The artist is best known for his "Sunflower Still Life," a sculpture in a 20-acre field near Eudora. The field received attention from national media, and an aerial photo of the field was reproduced as a poster.
The best part about crop art is the people involved, from farmers and their families to equipment and seed
Herd spent 15 years making a living painting murals before he tried crop art in 1891. Since then, he has done a portrait of Will Rogers; a still life of Midwest produce and vegetables done in a field near Lincoln, Neb. for Farm Aid III.
But he said, "It's been a struggle this last year. This art form is making me go broke. I'm putting all of my dollars back into my art."
Next, he said, he might be commissioned to do a project for a forthcoming bicentennial celebration in Paris, France. Although the prospect of working in Paris was a great draw to en-earth a farm, bovy from Protection, in southern Kursztyn.
"It's really important for me to physically plow the land." he said.
Performing physical work reminds him that the farmer in him is as strong as the artist, he said.
Crop artist Stan Herd of Lawrence plants winter wheat in a section of his latest work, titled "Worked Patch," in front of the Spencer Museum of Art. The piece is designed to resemble a patchwork quilt.
New math guidelines equal more tutors
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
As he got up from the table opposite his math tutor in Strong Hall, Brad Owens smiled. He had just used his flashcard test for Math 101.
that student's test days are Monday
Owens, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, is one of many students enrolled in Math 101 and Math 002 using the math tutorial program at Strong.
Math 101 and 092 courses require students to take tests at their own pace and pass each test with a score of at least 70 percent. No regular classes are required for the courses, but a weekly lecture is offered.
Students take the tests on the day of the week that corresponds to their ID number. For example, if a student's number ends in a zero or one,
that student's test days are Mondays.
After he passed his test, Owens picked up his backpack and made his way down the hall to another tutorial room, past lines of students leaning against the white walls, studying.
"it's kind of like a weekly headache, but once it's over I forget about it." He jumps up.
The Math 101 and 002 program, called SIMPL, has 75 tutors, about 50 percent more than last semester, with Montgomery, associate professor of math, and director of pre-calculus. SIMPL stands for Self Instructed Mastery Plan
This semester, the math department has increased beginning tutor pay to $4.50 an hour. That amounts to about 20 percent of the seminumerous semesters. Montgomery said.
this fall. We're glad to see that, but it means it's costing us more," Montgomery said.
Tom Barrow, Great Bend junior, is tutoring math for the second semester this fall. He said the tutoring load often diminished later in the semester when students decided to drop the courses.
At 2:10 p.m. students crowded to a window down the hall to pick up their graded tests. If they hadn't passed them, they, they had a one-week grace period.
"Students are using tutoring more
Shaking her head and pointing to a green and white computer printout of her math test, Amy Thompson, Deerfield, Ill., freshman, said she had been taught math exams yesterday afternoon because she had not passed the last test.
to tell whether the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' early and continuous math requirement, which went into effect this semester as part of the new core curriculum program. Students in 101 and 02 enrollment significantly.
Spring enrollment will represent more accurately any increase because freshmen are not required to enroll in math until their second semester under the new requirements.
Montgomery said it was too early
Thompson said that if the early and continuous math enrollment requirement had not been in effect this year, students have taken math her first semester.
"I not am good at math at all, and I would rather have waited because I don't know how college works," Thompson said.
Two retiring professors get teaching awards
Staff writer
By VIRGINIA McGRATH Staff writer
The two professors received checks last Thursday from Chancellor
The annual Chancellor's Club Teaching Award recognizes a senior KU faculty member who has taught at KU for at least 15 years and who shows KU's commitment to outstanding teaching.
Two retiring University of Kansas professors have won annual teaching awards for senior faculty members.
Crockett said he was both surprised and pleased that he was
Walter H. Crockett, professor of communication studies and psychology, and Calder M. Pickett, Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of jou-
rors in the field he joined the Chancellor's Club Teaching Award and a $2,500 stipend.
selected for the award.
lor gene A. Budig and Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association. They also were recognized at Saturday's KU-lowa State University football game.
Crockett, acting director of the KU Gerontology Center, has taught at KU for 20 years and has directed the Center for six years. He received his master's degree at KU and his doctorate at the University of Michigan.
Crockett served as acting director of the Gerontology Center from 1978 to 1981 and began his second term in 1985. He has conducted research in impression formation, social cognition and the psychology of aging. He was a visiting fellow at Oxford University from 1981 to 1982.
Coed life to be topic of survey Oliver residents to give opinions
Pickett has taught at KU for 37 years. He received the HOPE award, given annually by the senior class to the most outstanding educator, in his room at the Classroom Teaching academy from the Standard Oil Foundation in 1967.
Pickett has served on 15 KU boards and committees and in five KU administrative positions, including assistant to the dean and acting dean of the school of journalism.
Oliver residents to give opinions
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
Oliver Hall is the only KU residence hall where men and women live on separate floors, but residents soon will have the chance to decide whether they want to be like other coed halls on campus.
If the survey finds that a majority of residents support the change, a formal proposal will be presented at the Association of University Residence Halls general assembly meeting Nov. 10.
Mark Riggs, Seattle, Wash., sophomore and vice president of Oliver, said yesterday that he would begin distributing a survey sometime in the next two weeks that will ask residents whether they want men and women to live on separate wings of the same floor rather than on separate floors.
But three years ago, residents were told to change the floor system,
"I can't see anyone from outside the hall voting against it," Riggs said. "So in effect the survey in will determine if it goes into effect."
"That seems strange for Oliver, considering the hall is so dynamic." Riggs said. "I think it is ironic we are only half hall that is not coed by wing."
A committee o hall residents will be formed to distribute the survey and collect results. Riggs said.
"If the floors were changed it would be a nice change of pace and it would increase hall unity," Riggs said.
Riggs said that the idea for the proposal began when a resident of Oliver had an informal discussion with members of AURH before its Oct 13 general assembly. At the time, the issue was discussed and members of the survey were conducted to determine what residents thought.
Stacy Houston, Lawrence freshman and Oliver resident, said that she thought putting men and women in the same floor might be a bad idea.
"There are usually guys around anyway," Houston said. "Some of the freshmen males aren't very mature, so they might make it hard to study."
Houston said that she liked living in a coed hall but chose Oliver because of its location.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that Oliver had men and women on separate floors because that floor system offered students a different choice in housing arrangements. McCollum, Ellsworth and Hashinger are the other three coed halls on campus.
"We try to provide a variety of facilities and options." Stoner said.
If the proposal is approved by the AURH general assembly, it also would have to be approved by either the housing office or the Residential Programs Advisory Board, Stoner said.
Rob Howard, assistant Olive hall director, said that he was in favor of allowing men and women to live on campus. He might help reduce vandalism in the hall.
"Some people believe females have a calming effect on males, and most of our vandalism is on the all-male floors." he said.
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