University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1982
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Telephone links professors to classroom
By BRET WALLACE Staff Reporter
The students gather in the classroom, armed with books, notebooks, pencils and scissors.
The lecture begins, but the professor is not in sight. In fact, he is not even in town.
The students are in one of 32 classrooms throughout the state offering a class through the TELENET program, sponsored by the Kansas Board of Regents, Gail Munde, director of the KU program, said yesterday.
Professors from the six Regents universities teach the classes through an open conference phone line. Munde said. Professors usually lecture to at the universities and the lecture is broadcast to the other locations.
A SPEAKER 18 is set up at the front of the classroom, and microphones are at their feet.
present to hand out materials, answer questions about the system and admin-
Wayne Osness, KU professor of health, physical education and recreation who taught his fourth TELENET class this semester, said teaching the courses was harder than teaching a normal class.
Materials have to be prepared at least two weeks in advance to get them to students in time, he said.
"I spend about twice as much time preparing for these classes as regular
"Preparing tests is difficult because you still have two class sessions left before the end of the day."
MUNDE SAID professors had to have personality in their voices or the classes could become boring. Usually, professors lecture, then the class discusses and asks questions. Students are asked to identify themselves and where they are from when they talk, she said.
Oness said he found that generating discussion was difficult, but Munde said she thought discussion in the classes was good.
The system will allow only one person to transmit at a time, so the first person to get to the microphone gets to talk, she said.
"This makes the discussion move pretty fast," Munde said.
More than 7,000 Kansans used the program last year. Many were professionals taking classes to retain their certification, Munde said.
ONNESS SAID MOST of the people taking his classes were professionals, such as teachers, allied health people, physical therapists and hospital personnel, taking the class to supplement their education.
Munde said the program was designed to aid people who were away from a university, but still needed or wanted to take college courses.
Few people use the program in Lawrence because most of the classes
offered also are taught on campus, Munde said.
Munde said she was taking classes to earn a graduate degree from Emporia State University. She has been able to teach all of the classes she needs through TELENET.
"I figure I save about $700 in driving expenses by taking classes through TELENET," she said.
ALTHOUGH STUDENTS do not get the personal touch of having the professor in the classroom. Maude Nebuchadnei would like to drive to Emporia for the classes.
Pictures of the professors are usually posted in the classrooms so students can at least see what they look like, she said. Professors are also encouraged to visit the out-of-town classrooms at least once during the semester.
"Sometimes they surprise you and show up and broadcast the lecture from your classroom," Munde said.
Alum director watches campus' growth
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
Gazing from his Kansas Union office across the sprawling and picturesque campus tinted with autumn shades of brown and yellow, Dick Wintermote has the satisfaction of seeing the results of his decades of work with the University of Kansas Alumni Association.
His 32-year affiliation with the Alumni Association, during which the group has surged to a membership of more than 50. Intermite the organization's patriarch.
"IT HAS BEEN fantastic and fun to
watch the growth." Wintermute said
It also has allowed the soft-spoken KU booster, who has been the Alumni Association's executive director since 2013, to opportunity to watch the University grow.
"When I was a student, the campus consisted of buildings on top of the hill. There wasn't much on the south part of campus and there was nothing on west
campus. And Iowa Street was just a dirt road."
As a 25-year-old graduate of the University in 1961, Wintermote did not envision himself playing a first-hand role in KU's prolonged expansion.
"It all kind of ironic, because I didn't have any particular thoughts about the Alumni Association, and I really didn't know much about it," he
"I was like many other seniors who didn't have any particular idea about what I was going to do."
SO WHEN ALUMNI Association officers approached the political science major about the possibility of his meeting with the group, the suggestion appealed to him.
"I had been involved in several student activities and knew a lot of people," he said.
"It's given me the opportunity to enjoy the university and the community. It also allowed me and my wife to remain close to our families and has allowed us to stay close to classmates here and return for visits."
His wife, Barbara, is also a 1961 KU graduate. She earned a bachelor's degree from the School of Fine Arts.
Wintermorte's office is filled with pictures of friends, including KU administrators and Kansas politicians, who have formed a team that has guided the University through its years of growth.
"IT TAKES involvement from a great number of people, administration officials, faculty; support staff and the Alumni and Endowment Associations.
"If any one thing has been the key, it is the partnership, cooperation and the loyalty of the alumni. I don't know exactly what it is, but when people testimonize than another student about this university than other students feel about their school."
Wintermorte said the arder of KU alumni had been an essential driving force for several projects now under way on campus.
The project Wintermorte pointed to with the most pride was the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center. The $5 million center will provide recreational
and meeting facilities for alumni and will be the organization's headquarters.
THE CENTER, which had been only a dream for several decades, became reality because of the determination of the support of alumni, Wintermute said.
"It had been talked about since 1968, but there were a great many other needs at KU, so it wasn't talked about seriously until 1978," he said.
"There was a great army of volunteers who gave an enormous amount of time and money to make it possible. The Endowment Association was also a foundation in a reality because donated the land and supervised the fund raising."
ABOUT ONE-HALF of the buildings on campus have been either partially or fully paid for with private funds, he said.
"And about 95 percent of the University's land was bought by alumni and then contributed by them to the state. I think if students knew that, it would shock them."
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Med Center meter bill may result in lawsuit
The state faces a possible suit from the Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, Kan., if it does not pay a $3 million electric bill charged to the University of Kansas Medical Center's BPU spokesman said yesterday.
The shortage of funds occurred after the BPU discovered that a faulty meter installed at the Med Center recorded only about half of the electricity used by the center in 1981.
The committee did not act because the 1982 Legislature approved
The meter was owned by the Med Center, and there was an error made in the way the equipment was set, according to BPU official.
However, Jess Rodriquez, BPU spokesman, said that a claim to receive full payment was submitted to the legislative Joint Committee on Special Claims, but the committee ruled, claim was not appropriate.
Rodriquez said, "I'm not at liberty to talk about that and I can't talk about the legal action. This will wind up being an effort in litigation in the very near future."
set, according to B. S. THE STATE HAS paid $133,489 of the bill.
The state took responsibility for payment of the bill when the Med Center's budget could not cover it, she said.
Charles Otten, BPU president,
and Joe Calihan, BPU delinquent
accounts manager, reportedly sig-
nored releases that state officials have
said freed them from further
payment.
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Callahan would not talk about the issue and referred comment to Rodriguez.
KATHRYN PETERS, assistant Kansas City attorney for the BPU, said only that they were looking into alternate ways to collect the money. She said the signed releases did not absolve the debt in the BPU's eyes.
partial payment of the bill, said Legislative counsel Robert Cold snow.
"The committee took the position that in view of Senate Bill 886 (approving partial payment) they could act on the claim," oddly said.
THE BPU CASHED the $133,498 check in mid-June after the releases were signed. Later the BPU tried to return the money to the state, but Patrick Hurley, secretary of administration, sent the money back to the BPU.
Profs given Fulbright grants
Two KU professors and a visiting British professor recently received Fulbright grants to teach and conduct research in Kansas, Poland and Africa.
John Janenz, professor of anthropology, will continue his sabbatical at the University of Chicago.
John Willingham, professor of English, will be the senior lecturer in American literature next semester at the University of Warsaw in Poland.
to conduct anthropological research and will visit Zaire, Tanzania, Botswana and Swaziland.
Richard Rodgers, KU visiting associate professor of history from the University of Leicester, England, is researching urban communities and their intersections between world wars, with emphasis on local administration of New Deal programs.
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