University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 24, 1987 3 Campus/Area Local Briefs Position to be redesigned, filled soon A decision will be made within the next several weeks on filling the position of University executive secretary, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said Friday. The executive secretary position has been redesigned and has the new title of governmental affairs specialist. In the past the executive secretary has served as the University's lobbyist in the Kansas legislature. The person selected for the position will work for Marlin Rein, associate director of business and fiscal affairs, on budget matters in the Kansas Legislature. A screening committee reviewed more than 99 applicants, and has reduced the number to 40 people being considered. Baldie said. The position of executive secretary was last held by Richard von Ende, who resigned last fall after pleading guilty to drug charges. Auditions for show are set for Aug.31 Open auditions for this season's Imagination Workshop, KANU-FM's live radio theater show, will take place next weekend. Scripts will be provided, and those wishing to audition will be asked to read a short radio scene either at 2 p.m. Sunday or at 7 p.m. Aug. 31 at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Casts for five shows will be selected. The upcoming Imagination Workshop season, which starts Sept. 19, will feature comedy sketches and plays adapted from stories. Library gives tours to aid effective use Professors named to census board Watson Library is offering guided tours through the library building to inform students about how to use the library and its services effectively. The tours run from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. and 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tours will be offered until September 4. Two KU professors and the director of radio station KANU were named last week to a 15-member advisory committee that will assist in conducting next year's state census. Howard Hill, KANU director and former Lawrence city commissioner; George McCleary, associate professor of geography; and Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science, will work with Secretary of State Bill Graves and his census staff on a plan to count state residents on Census Day which is Jan. 1, 1988. Corrections Because of a reporter's error, the prison that Richard von Ende is in was reported incorrectly in Wednesday's Kansan. He is in the Federal Prison Camp in Big Springs, Texas. Because of a reporter's error, the status of the Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W. 12th St., was incorrectly reported in Wednesday's Kansan. The bar's owner, Lida Martin, said that she would retain ownership of the property but that the present management would lose its lease in January. Beat poets, writers coming to Lawrence River City Reunion planned to give understanding of works of movement By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer From staff and wire reports Many KU students of the 1980s were infants during the heart of the beat movement in the 1960s. But early next month, poets and writers from that movement will be in Lawrence to give students an understanding of some of their key works. Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary and poet and rock musician Jim Carroll are a few of the people scheduled to appear early next month in Lawrence to read or perform their current works and those that were popular during the beat movement of the 1960s. "The beats who are going to be here are ones who have not stopped writing. If it's written now, it's of the '80s," said George Wedge, associate professor of English and the event's co-coordinator. "It's not a nostalgia trip. We want people to be celebrating where things are now." The beat movement was a post-World War II cultural movement that expressed discontent with U.S. values of the time. Ginsberg, who has published more than 24 books of poetry since his poem, "Howl," first became well known in 1955, is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He teaches at Brooklyn College in New York. Leary is an author best known for his LSD experiments in the 1960s. He also is an advocate of expanded consciousness and space exploration. Carroll, the latest addition to the list of expected artists, is author of *"Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973"* and has made "He's a popular one with students." Wedde said. three record albums, including "Catholic Boy." Also expected is Edith Parker Kerouac, first wife of writer Jack Kerouac. "His is probably the name most people think of when they think of a beat author." Wedge said. The department of English, in conjunction with other campus and community groups, is the sponsor of the week-long event, which is billed as the River City Reunion. Also included in the event are keyboard artist Marianne Faithfull, who will perform with rock'n'roll poet Michael McClure, and Danny Sugerman, author of "No One Here Gets Out Alive," which traces the history of the musical group The Doors. Poets Anne Waldman, John Giorno, Andrei Cocresu, Diane DiPirma, Ed Dorn, Ed Sanders, Robert Creeley and filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Robert Frank also are scheduled, in addition to several KU alumni, such as Denise Low, Lawrence poet, and Robert Day, author of "The Last Cattle Drive." Wedge said one reason for inviting alumni to the event was to expose students to alumni careers. "We thought that maybe it would be good for students to see the kinds of careers that have come out of the creative writing program at the University of Kansas," he said. "What are all these people doing now?" It isn't really a beat festival, and it isn't really an attempt to revive the University with the community. It has an educational impact, that's why we're doing it." "What I see this as is a model for getting greater involvement of the Many of the artists have ties with Kansas, including Burroughs, a Lawrence resident; McClure, a Kansas native; and Ginsberg, who often passes through Kansas and has written about the area. The week's events include book signings in the Oread Book Shop, group poetry and fiction readings, open-microphone readings by students and artists, films and a musical performance by the group Husker Du. Wedge said a few of the guest artists also would speak to KU classes during that week. He said that the list of artists included both local and national talent and that two nights of the event were meant to focus on artists in the area. Rockin' the night away John Flynn, lead guitar player for the band Reel Features, entertains at Hug-a-Hawk, the annual party sponsored by the Association of University Residence Halls. Dow Jones and the Industrials also played at the party Saturday night behind Templin Hall. New requirements prepare freshmen for more courses Staff writer Rv RRIAN RARFSCH Freshmen entering the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences this year have less latitude in choosing their courses, but officials say the new core curriculum requirements have caused little confusion. The new requirements, which go into effect this semester for incoming freshmen, are designed to ensure that students are prepared for the courses they take and that they take a diverse course load. Freshmen now have to enroll in an English class in their first semester and continue until they finish English 102 or 105. - They must enroll in a math course by their second semester and continue until done with Math 101 or 102. - Western Civilization is now restricted to sophomores and to freshmen in the college honors program. The option of taking 10 hours of each of two foreign languages is gone. Students must now take 16 hours in one foreign language. Students may now take a logic course to fulfill the oral communication requirement. - A course in non-Western culture is now required for graduation. For instance, some anthropology, African studies, East Asian studies, history, sociology and religion courses meet this requirement. - Distribution courses - three courses in each of the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences - now must be taken from different subgroups in each area, and the number of courses counting for the requirement has dropped from about 1,200 to 130. - Requirements for the bachelor of general studies degree have been strengthened. Students now must declare a major and a minor and take most of the courses required for the bachelor of arts degree. Other University schools are watching the college closely. A proposal for a University-wide core curriculum has been put on hold, partly to take time to see how the new requirements work in practice. University administrators say. James Carothers, associate dean of the college, said that the requirement that all freshmen enroll in English courses had put classroom space and instructors at a premium but that the demand has been filled so far. "The number of available instructors, offices for instructors and classrooms is limited now." Carothers said. "It is possible that late enrollment will be big enough to create demands that we cannot satisfy." Carothers said he thought late enrollment would not be as heavy as last year because an application deadline was in place for the first time this year. In the past, students have been able to apply even after classes have started. Incoming freshmen who attended summer orientation were given suggested schedules and had the new rules explained to them. "The students were generally receptive to these suggestions." Carothers said, and as a result, "More students have solid academic schedules this fall than in the past." Mel Dubnick, presiding officer of the University Senate and associate professor of public administration, said that his freshman advises had little trouble working out their schedules. "It was actually easier to advise incoming freshmen this year, because nobody had any doubts about two courses, English and math." Dubnick said. A proposal for a University-wide curriculum, tabled last year by the University Council, is waiting for the college's core program to be evaluated. Dubnick said the Council tabled the proposal when last year's recision took $3.1 million out of the University's Lawrence campus pocket. Although there were concerns expressed about the content of the University-wide core curriculum, "The real question was whether we could afford to do this," Dubnick said. Dubnick said that the Council might take action again this academic year. The proposal, worked out by a task force, was not debated for its substance because the recieved made the proposal too costly to carry out right away, he said. Carol Prentice, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, agreed that it was most prudent, especially considering those budget problems, to wait until the college's own core curriculum program could be evaluated. Endowment association plans record fund drive Staff writer By MARK TILFORD With a goal of $100 million, the largest fund-raising campaign in the history of the University of Kansas could begin officially by this spring, the president of the Kansas University Endowment Association said Thursday. Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said the fund raiser, billed as Campaign Kansas, was still in the planning stages. Jim Martin, senior vice president of the Endowment Association, said, "It's a big campaign. It's a challenge." Martin is executive director of the campaign. larships, fellowships and professorships. Capital improvements will include new books and magazines for the KU libraries, computer equipment, a new performing arts center and athletic facilities. Proceeds will go to support scho A variety of advertising will be used, including personal, telephone and direct-mail solicitations and requests for corporate support. The first two years of the five-year campaign will involve mostly one-on-one contact. Martin said. In the past two years, 11,000 square feet of office space and 10 staff members have been added to the Endowment Association in anticipation of the campaign. Martin said. He said that four of the new staff members would serve as constituent development officers. They will be available to work with deans of individual schools on raising money for that specific school, Martin said. He said that about 400 volunteers around the country, mostly in Missouri and Kansas, would be participating. The executive board consists of 15 members, with KU graduates Jordan Haines and Robert Riss serving as chairman and associate chairman of the campaign. Haines is chairman of the Fourth Financial Corporation of Wichita. Riss is chairman of the board of Commonwealth Insurance Co. of Kansas City, Mo. The campaign comes in the wake of recent state budget cuts and a troubled state economy. KU's most recent fund drive was in the 1960s. That campaign, Program for Progress, raised $21 million, exceeding its goal by $3 million. Seymour said that the actual amount the campaign would raise could vary. "It could be as low as $60 million; it could be as high as $150 million," he said. He said the cost of the campaign could range from 2 percent to 10 percent of what is raised. "We certainly hope to be on the low end of that scale," he said. The Endowment Association initiated the campaign at the request of Chancellor Gene A. Budig. 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