University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 31, 1987 Campus/Area 9 Faculty groups get set for vote By LINDA WARD Staff writer Staff writer Two faculty organizations are gearing up for a November vote that will decide whether KU faculty will have a union. The election was scheduled Tuesday for Nov. 17 and 18 at a joint meeting of representatives from the Kansas National Education Association, the American Association of University Professors, the Board of Regents and the University of Kansas. The election will decide which group will represent KU faculty in collective bargaining activities with KU's administration and the state. A vote for no representation also will appear on the ballot. The issue will be decided by a majority vote. If none of the three options receives a majority, the two highest vote-getters will be Tom Madden, KNEA representative, said about 1,000 faculty members would be eligible to vote. All faculty members who work at least halftime, including professors, instructors, teaching assistants, librarians, counselors and research assistants are eligible. Members of the KNEA met recently at their offices, 2500 W. Sixth St., to discuss plans for the campaign. KNEA national officer Dick LaFrancois met with the 12-member board of KU faculty members to discuss specific campaign strategies. Madden said the group decided its general campaign strategy last spring but intended to make it more specific. KNEA's campaign will be visible, but not flashy, he said. Madden said KNEA representatives planned to use direct mailings, department meetings, faculty forums and one-on-one meetings with KU faculty. Robert Hohn, chairman of the AAUP campaign, said the 10-member AAUP executive committee met last week to discuss campaign plans. It plans to release policy statements, use direct mailings and telephone calls and make personal visits to KU faculty. "We are not going to beat drums and have a parade, but we plan to have an organized and visible campaign." Hohn said. Faculty union campaigns are not regulated by strict statutes, said Paul Dickhoff Jr., senior labor conciliator for the Kansas Public Employee Relations Board, which will oversee the KU campaign. Although no set rules exist for conducting the campaign, good judgment should prevail, Dickhoff said. He said complaints could be directed to the board's offices in Topeka. By JORN E. KAALSTAD Staff writer Staff writer Study abroad celebrates 30th year This year, close to 500 students will leave the security of the University of Kansas and venture to 42 exotic countries around the world as the KU Study Abroad program celebrates its 30th anniversary. Both her mother, Susan Kroenert, and her sister, Kathleen Bahr, went to Costa Rica through KU's Study Many students return from their study abroad with vivid memories. But for one KU student, her study abroad memories are part of a family heritage that began with one of the first KU exchanges. Ann Kroenert, Prairie Village senior, who just returned from a semester in Australia this spring, said she didn't see any wild kangaroos, but she saw several tame ones at the zoos in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. Kroenert, who studied at Deakin University in Jeelong, belongs to a family with a long tradition of study abroad. Abroad office. "My mother was actually among the first six students who went abroad on a KU exchange program," she said. Mary Elizabeth Gwin, director of study abroad, said the first six KU exchange students left for Costa Rica in 1960 as a result of the efforts of then-Chancellor Franklin Murphy. While a member of the Commission on Higher Education in the American Republics, Murphy met in 1968 with the president of the University of Costa Rica, at a conference in Santiago, Chile. Study abroad was born. "We agreed to establish an exchange program, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, between the two universities, mainly based on research," Murphy said. Ann Kroenert said she decided to go to Australia because it was an English-speaking country and because she knew little about it. "I was surprised by the high standard of living in Australia," she said. "They had good welfare programs, low unemployment and a great public transportation system." Jean Silesky, office assistant in the English department, spent three semesters, starting in 1890, at the University of Costa Rica. Silesky, then a Spanish major, said she enjoyed the program in Costa Rica. She had a good background in Spanish, but she said it was hard to compete with Costa Rican students in all subjects, especially during her first semester. 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