University Dalki Kansan. September 16, 1982
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Visiting professor learns by teaching
By VERONICA JONGENELEN
Staff Reporter
Teaching law in foreign countries is a learning experience, Eugene Scales, Visiting Rice Professor of Law, said recently.
"It helps us understand our own country a little bit more," he said. "I found it a stimulating, interesting experience."
Scoles has taught in both Africa and Japan, as well as the United States.
"In the underdeveloped countries, there is such a division of backgrounds. Many are not acquainted with common words and expressions that we take for granted," he said.
ONE DIFFERENCE between American students and those in other countries
States participate more in learning, he said.
"Most places, there is not as much participation by the student," he said.
Students in other countries are seen as sponges for knowledge, he said, resulting in more lecturing and less discussion.
Another difference is that law is not a graduate degree in some countries as it is in others.
Scoles, who will be teaching this fall only, said he decided to accept the professorship because of the high recognition it received throughout the law school world. Collegeuses who had been Rice professors in the past also convinced him to come to the University of Kansas.
HE RECEIVED his master's degree in law from Harvard University.
Scoles also has taught at the University of Oregon School of Law and
will teach at the University of Illinois in
the spring, he said.
The professorship is offered to those selected by the law school faculty, said Sharon Ling.
The Visiting Rice Professor of Law program was started by the law school faculty in 1978. Davis said it is funded by the University and is supported by the Rice Foundation, he said.
"RICE LEFT his home to the University for distinguished visiting professors, with preference given to the law school," he said.
The foundation, named after the late Raymond F. Rice, former law school professor, offers the visiting professor of the Rice home during his stay, he said.
The professor can teach in either the fall or spring semester, he said.
The house is used by another visiting professor during the remaining semester.
Hardage campaigns without Lady's support; Republicans plan to win in Johnson County
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
The chief task of seeking support in Johnson County for the GOP gubernatorial candidate is a political gem that this year went to Kansas House Speaker Wendell Lady, an Overland Park engineer.
But since the August primary, when Lady lost his bid for the party's gubernatorial nomination, he has refused to endorse or campaign for his former opponent, Republican nominee Sam Hardage.
The ongoing snub of Hardage by the man who easily carried Johnson County in the primary has been a supposition Hardage's camp, members said recently.
Republicans admit their task of winning Johnson County is stiffened by Lady's inactivity, but they say they remain confident of defeating incumbent Gov. John Carlin in the strategically important area.
"It would be nice if Wendell would actively campaign, but we already have a lot of his supporters working with him," Carroll Day, Hardage's press secretary.
LADY REFUSED to comment on question would decide whether to enlarge frame.
But Day said, "I think Sam will hold his own in Johnson County. Dave Owen's support will help immensely, and I believe Bennett is very popular in the area."
"During the primary, we didn't place a lot of concern with Johnson County because of Owen and Lady (both from Johnson County). But we will push in the general election and people will be surprised."
Hardage, a Wichita resident, could get only 3,184 Johnson County votes in the primary. Lady captured 15,584. Lanny County and Owen received 9,103.
Owen, who ran a close second to Hardage in the primary, is now
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Bennett's recent appointment as Republican state chairman was viewed by one Carlin assistant as a strategic move.
"I think Bennett's selection as state chairman is an indication they are trying to offset the inactivity of Lady," she said. Carlin's assistant press secretary.
Bennett, who was narrowly defeated by Carlin in the bitter 1978 campaign, said he was not selected as state representative to deliver a particular region for Hardware.
"BENNETT AND LADY have been close in their political beliefs, so it's interesting that Bennett took the party's leadership when he is not philosophically aligned with Hardnge. It's food for thought."
Instead, he said, Republican officials thought he could be an asset to the company.
A KU political science professor said Bennett's return to political active duty was intended to do more than bolster Hardage's position in Johnson County.
"He may draw support from moderate Republicans in Johnson County," said Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science at the group added Bennett to acquire a knowledgeable professional to help in the campaign, for one of the vulnerable
SWENSON SAID that many of Lady's supporters might abandon the Republican party and join Carlin's campaign because of a similarity between the two, who are the most recent speakers in Kansas House of Representatives.
points for Hardage is his lack of experience in government."
The issue that most closely aligned Carlin and Lady — the severance tax has probably been the reason Lady has become involved in his support to Hardage, Day said.
"Certainly those people who voted for Lady will be sympathetic with the party," she said.
Lady piloted Carlin's controversial severance tax through the House during the past two sessions. Both times, the measure was rejected by the Senate. Hardage has campaigned against the tax on oil and natural gas.
"We'RE HOPING the severance tax is not the only issue in the campaign." Day said. "I don't think the major issue is pro-severance tax or anti-severance tax. The major issues are leadership, the fact that Sam is a leader and John Carlin is not and economic development."
Both sides said that they were not pinning all their fortunes on northeast Kansas, but each group admitted that Nebraska County vote could be pivotal.
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
Slides help teach math classes
"There are an exploding number of students and shrinking resources to teach them," said Roitman, who teaches one of two Math 113 sections.
Judith Roitman, associate professor of mathematics, said the department started using the slides instead of blackboards last semester because of limited resources to handle the increasing number of students needing the combination of high school algebra and precalculus.
Slides are helping the department of mathematics cope with the problems of teaching increased numbers of students in 113, a math professor said yesterday.
Sherr, who designed the slides and format for the class, said the slides represented what would normally be placed on a blackboard.
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the department of mathematics, said, "It's the only practical way in a big room. The auditorium is useless for any other method, even though any mathematician prefers a blackboard."
LAWRENCE SHERR, professor of mathematics and business, said, "In Wescott, they have brown blackboards. In Wesson, they have whiteboards. I read anything else written on them."
The number of students taking the course, which was first offered last year, necessities the use of lecture boards and blackboards often are not clearly visible.
Roltman said Math 113 first was offered last year as an alternative to students who had to take Math 102, 115 and 116. Students now can take Math 113 and 114 and finish in two semesters rather than three.
Sheer said the only question about the method was not whether classes with visual presentations should use premade lesson plans by instructors, but whether they should be taught in large lecture rooms in the first place.
Roitman said Sherr was asked to develop the slides because he already used the method to teach business statistics. Sherr said the slide method had worked successfully in his business statistics classes.
Roitman said the increase in students occurred because students were not taking enough mathematics in high school and required requirements for some majors increased.
"Every class should have 20 to 25 students with an experienced faculty member. It's a question of the feasible versus the ideal," Sherr said.
Fred Van Vleck, professor of mathematics, who teaches the second section of Math 113, said about 600 students were enrolled in the course.
"STUDENTS ARE not being guided correctly in high school. Advisers tell them they don't need math to get into KU." Roitman said.
Taking mathematics at an introductory level is a tremendous drawback for the student, Roitman said, because upper level studies for his major are put on hold until he completes the math requirements.
Math 113 has 4,000 slides, Shern said, each of which Shern wrote on paper and then had copied by a graphic artist and then printed. The slides took 12 months to make.
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However, Van Vleck said it was too early to determine the success of the slide method for teaching math. The method could not be changed anyway, he said, both because of money and classroom space.
Van Vleck said he would prefer four sections of 175 students instead of two with 300 students each, but even that was not possible.
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The national failure rate for students in a course like Math 113 was 40 percent. Rottman said, but only one of her section failed the first exam.
ROITMAN SAID she had gotten over her skepticism of the method.
"This course is quite successful. It's working," she said.
THE CONSULTING ROOM is an advantage because students receive the personal attention they cannot receive in class, Roitman said. But the room sometimes is very crowded and students might not receive any help.
"THE UNIVERSITY doesn't have enough large lecture rooms. It would be a real scheduling problem because even moderately sized lecture rooms have always been booked." Van Vleck said.
“There are 11 T.A.'s for 600 students. I would like to have twice as many T.A.'s in a room twice as big,” she said.
Whistle still gives cue after 70 years
When it first blew, the whistle's purpose was to do away with overlapping classes, give regularity to the day's programs and stop the late arrival of students to class, according to early newsmaker accounts.
Although its merits have been debated since 1912, KU's signal whistle turns 70 this year and continues to reshape the area of residents, farmers in the area.
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The whistle has been heard as far as 16 miles away on still days.
Last year a petition circulated to "let the whistle rest on Saturday mornings. After 253 people signed the petition, whistles became a thing of the past.
"Back before there were TVs or radios, people used to set their clocks by it. You knew it 12:00 when the whistle blew," Tome said. "That old thing is as clear as a bell, you can hear it for miles."
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Walt Tome farms six miles southwest of town and said the whistle did not sound.
"I use it a lot simply because if I'm in the Union half asleep reading, it wakes me up to go to class. It also scares the live daylights out of me if I walk past it going off you," Ashlock said. "It has to be loud if you want to hear it everywhere on campus, but I wouldn't stand next to it as a regular occupation."
The whistle's popularity has peaked and ebbed over the years.
But Caroline Anderson, a Lawrence resident since 1924, said, "It runs the town. It wouldn't be Lawrence without me." She placed her yard on the west side of the city.
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