University Daily Kansan / Friday, August 28, 1987
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Services will be held tomorrow for professor
A memorial service for Barbara M. Craig, a long-time KU faculty member and former chairman of the department of French and Italian, will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St.
Miss Craig died Aug. 11 near Toronto, Canada, where she was visiting her sister. She was 73.
Miss Craig joined the faculty at KU in 1947 as a French professor. From 1976 to 1978, she was chairman of the department. She retired in 1984 but continued work in the department as professor emeritus.
While she taught at the University, she wrote several books and was given the Chancellor's Club award for distinguished teaching in 1982. She also has been inducted with the KU Women's Hall of Fame.
Jan Kozma-Southall, chairman of the department of French and Italian, said the department's student-faculty room would be renamed in Miss Craig's honor.
The family suggests memorials to the KU Endowment Association or Trinity Episcopal Church.
Med Center names facilities director
Richard L. Gulley has been appointed director of facilities operations at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Gulley received his bachelor of science degree in marine engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in 1976. He most recently has been manager of technical operations at the University of Houston.
Gulley replaces Robert Brought, who resigned in April. Robert Wheeler served as acting director during the search for a replacement.
Interviews to begin for police chief post
Lawrence's city manager should receive names of the people he will interview for chief of police within a week, said Ray Hummert, administrative services director.
Hummert is sifting through the 112 applications for the job that the city received. He said three to five of those would be interviewed by City Manager Buford Watson. The current police chief, Richard Stanwix, announced his retirement in June and is serving until a replacement can be found.
Hummert said applications had been received from across the nation, with about 40 percent coming from the Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma area.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, information in a story on the Lawrence Humane Society shelter in the Aug. 19 Kansan was incorrect. Not all animals are destroyed 72 hours after they are brought to the shelter; healthy, friendly animals stay as long as space permits. Shelter workers photograph the premises of a cruelty investigation in case they need to use the photographs as evidence in court. The $10 fee charged when an owner retrieves a lost pet goes to the city.
From staff and wire reports.
Full classes bring problems to students
Professors, departments worry about education quality in packed sections
By JULIE McMAHON
Staff writer
As the students filed in on the first day of class, the room became fuller and fuller. It was cramped when the professor arrived and closed the door. But the door opened again and another student came in. He looked around nervously and took the last available seat.
That was the scene in classrooms all over the University of Kansas this week. Students are trying to add classes that are already full.
"There were tons and tons of people," Lisa Howell, Pittsburg freshman, said of her Economics 104 class. "The professor added 25 people."
Jamie Brooks, Pittsburgh freshman, said the professor in her history of art class said he would continue to add people to his class until he reached the fire-code level at 90.
But Gary Thompson, director of the office of student records, said it usually wasn't easy for students to enroll in a full class. The enrollment center will not exceed the size limits set by academic departments.
The departments set the limits after considering the type of class and the space available. In the department of economics, for instance, the chairman consults with members of the faculty to decide on class sizes. The advisory committee of the department of English, which is made of English faculty members, decides on English class limits.
"The department tells us the maximum size of a class is 30, and when 30 comes up on the computer, the class is closed." Thompson said.
Students can ask professors or departments for closed-class opener cards. And teachers can choose to exceed the limits set by the departments if they wish. But Thompson said most requests were not approved. Professors and officials are sympathetic, but they can't help all students.
David Shulenburger, associate dean of academic affairs for the School of Business, said, "How many people can you serve with a pot of soup?"
The business school has experienced for 10 years the crowded classes that the whole University has now, he said.
Shulenburger said the school's faculty-to-student ratio was one-third higher than that at business schools of peer institutions. Forty percent of junior- and senior-level business classes are taught by graduate teaching assistants.
"That seems to unacceptably hain for junior-senior classes," he said.
The department of communication studies is also packed.
"We badly need more faculty," said Will Linkugel, chairman of the department. "It's really very frustrating. I've enrolled a few seniors in directed studies with me just so they can complete their studies and graduate."
To meet student demand, communication classes now hold from 60 to 70.
"What we've done is pack the room," he said. That hurts the students' chance to get attention from professors.
In foreign language classes, individual attention from professors is particularly important, according to a foreign language professor.
"In a foreign language, the big disadvantage of big classes is that it doesn't permit as much oral work with the individual as we ought to
do," said Michael Doudoroff, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese. "It's not ideal, but it's the best we can do."
The limit for first-year Spanish classes is now 24 students, but some classes are allowing 28 students, depending on the room size.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said full classes in the college resulted from an enrollment increase this fall, a backlog of students unable to enroll in needed classes in previous semesters and a new college core curriculum. The new core curriculum requires enrollment in English and math early in academic careers.
Carothers said the University's physical restraints also were a problem. On top of not having enough money, the University doesn't have enough teachers, available classrooms and office spaces, he said.
Parking rezoning irks JRP residents
By JAVAN OWENS
Staff writer
Joseph R. Pearson Hall residents paid $3 more to park behind their home away from home this year, but many of the residents are finding it difficult to find a parking place there.
More than 100 spots have recently been designated for yellow permits only.
Now, JRP residents can only park on west and north portions of the lot, and yellow stickers are only good in the east section. Last year, both yellow permits and JRP permits were good throughout the lot.
Ray Moore, chairman of the KU parking board, said the board decided to rezone the area to give some relief to residents who lived there.
"Before, there was more yellow parking on that lot." Moore said. "We tried to move the majority of the parking designated for yellow stickers down to other areas by the Union."
Bryan Ryckman, Lakewood, Colo.
sophomore and JRP resident, said the change put a hardship on the residents because of overcrowding. In addition, the parking board didn't explain the change to residents. Although there were signs designating a yellow zone behind the hall, many residents received tickets this week because they were unsure of the boundaries of the yellow zone.
"I wouldn't have parked there if I knew," said Ryckman, who received a ticket. "I wasn't told when I got my
permit, and the parking lot looked the same as last year.
"They should have clarified the change — it wouldn't have hurt to give us a warning."
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, said the rezoning left about 200 spaces for JRP residents — the number of residents with cars last semester.
Hultine said two factors could have caused the crunch in parking behind the hall. She said she thought one cause for the lack of space was the increased number of JRP residents with cars this semester.
Also, some off-campus students may be parking on the lot illegally, Hultine said. Because of miscommunication with the student housing department, there was no list to verify whether students who asked for residence hall permits lived in the residence hall system. Students who apply for such a permit now must show a hall I.D.
"If you had written the JRP address on your application, you could have gotten a permit for there." Hutline said. "There was no way for us to verify if you lived there or not."
Hultine said many students with yellow permits parked in the lot behind JRP because they did not know about lot 59, which is down the hill from JRP on the east side of Memorial Stadium.
"That lot sits two-thirds empty almost all the time," Hultine said.
Mutual Life must pay children of dead man
TOPEKA — A federal court jury found after only 1/2 hours of deliberation yesterday that a Boston-based insurance company must pay the children of the late Martin K. Anderson under an insurance policy he bought six months before he was murdered in November 1983.
The jury of five men and three women held that Lorna Anderson Eldridge, his wife at the time he was killed, did not procure the policy on her husband's life, so the policy could not have been obtained by fraud as New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. claimed in suing to avoid payment. Eldridge has been charged
The Associated Press
with first-degree murder in the case
Their mother, who is serving time in Kansas Correctional Institution at Lansing after pleading guilty to criminal solicitation to commit murder two years ago, originally filed a claim for the insurance proceeds for herself. But last November, she asked that it be paid to the four girls.
In Hutchinson, Loren Slater, the grandfather of the four girls, said, "I think the jury did what was right. The children are the real victims of this whole tragic event."
The four Anderson girls, who range in age from six to 13, will share in the proceeds of the policy unless the jury's verdict is overturned.
Still on the Kool-Aid wagon
Matthew Hochstetler, 8, front, is able to sell his Kool-Aid again. KU police reversed an earlier decision that he must stop sales because of sanitation restrictions and traffic dangers. Hochstetler and his partner, Zachary Huston, 9, were selling refreshments yesterday on Sunnyside Avenue near Sunflower Road.
By JAMES LARSON Special to the Kansan
Matthew Hochstetter is back in business after a little misunderstanding between his Kool-Aid concern and the KU police.
Eight-year-old Matthew usually works the corner of Sunflower Road and Sunyside Avenue, just south of the University of Kansas' power plant. He can be seen hustling back and forth from his nearby house with thermoshes almost as big as his 9-foot-3-inch body. His partner and friend, Zachary Huston, 9, watches the stand and keeps the merchandise moving. They operate out of a red Radio Flyer wagon.
Students walking to and from classes are their biggest customers.
"It's standard Kool-Aid," said Bill Kennedy, Sallina freshman. "It's kind of warm, but not bad."
Two weeks ago KU police told Matthew that he needed a license to operate his stand. When he called the station, the police told him he couldn't get one because his Kool-Aid wasn't prepared on campus.
Matthew fired a letter to the editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World.
He and his grandfather, Ed Dutton, professor of social welfare, went to talk with KU police.
"When Matthew told me we were going to see the chief of police I was sort of antsy," Dutton said.
"I hope there's a difference between Girl Scouts and eight-year-old boys selling cookies and lemonade, and refrigerator vendors setting up business on campus," Denney said.
Chief of police James Denney then conceded that the regulation did not apply to Matthew.
Staff writer
Students chill out in cool weather
By BRAD ADDINGTON
Cool air and rainy skies have brightened the attitudes of some KU students as usually swampy August weather turned more pleasant recentlv.
"It did get cooler than I expected," said Philip Mason, Prairie Village junior, "and I was expecting the first few weeks of school to be like summer — hot and humid."
Richard Brummer, Osborne graduate student, said the cooler weather made studying easier.
Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping at facilities operations, said the rainy weather caused people to drag mud into buildings.
Mud even reaches the eighth story of Haworth Hall because people's shoes are muddy when they take the elevator, he said.
"We're very much in favor of warm, dry days," Endacott said.
Janine Demo, coordinator of the health education department at Watkins Hospital, said people could possibly suffer from hypothermia in the recent weather.
"Some people think this only happens in freezing temperatures, but that is not necessarily true," she said.
Although it is August, people should be wearing jackets because their bodies are not adjusted to the cold weather. Demo said.
Jamie Zahara of the KU Weather Service said the weather should change soon.
"We'll see an eventual warm-up. I think by the weekend we might have some 80 degree weather," he said.
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