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Wednesday, September 22, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Conard good choice
the selection of John Conard as executive officer for the Kansas Board of Regents is welcome news, but hardly surprising.
Conard's name popped up often in newspaper stories speculating about who the Regents might choose to replace Max Bickford, who will retire as the Regents' executive officer in November.
IT'S NO wonder that Conard's name came up so often. A glance at his credentials shows that he is more than qualified to take a position on the board that runs the state colleges and universities.
Conard received his degree in journalism from KU, where he was a Summerfield Scholar; he has a doctorate in international law from the University of Paris; he was Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives; he was the publisher of the Kiowa Press in Cayman Islands; he was director of KU's Office of University Relations and Development; assistant to Chancellor Archie Dykes and executive assistant to Gov. Robert Bennett.
CONARD'S experience at KU should make him sensitive to the needs of the state schools, because while he was here he saw higher education from many viewpoints, including that of student and teacher.
He was appointed director of University Relations and Development by Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers
Jr. in March 1970. That wasn't a particularly good time to be in charge of KU's public image.
For example, one of the announcement's in Conard's file at University Relations is his negative reaction to a story on CBS's "60 Minutes" about the Kansas marijuana harvest.
CONARD WAS protesting that the show dealt mainly with the harvesting of marijuana. He thought it should have tried to include something else about Lawrence and the University, Conard and the mayor of Lawrence sent "staff members" to staff responded by reading the first sentence of their letter on the air.
That one sentence wasn't great public relations, but it was probably more than the University got that whole year from the press in Kansas.
Conard must have had a tough job trying to project a good image of the University in those days. Sutdents were protesting a variety of things, and the situation had been better by having a secret meeting to try to fire Chalmers.
It was a tough spot for Conard to be in, but he came out in good shape.
Conard's association with higher education, his degrees, teaching experience, administrative experience and dealings with college life in turbulent times should make him the right man to carry out the Regents' policies.
By Carl Young
Contributing Writer
In 20 years or so, someone will notice the bronze plaque in the sidewalk on the corner of Eighth and Massachusetts streets and want to know who Leo Beuerman was.
Lawrence's little big man
Chances are, the inquirer will be an able-bodied person equipped with working arms and legs, and the ability to see. He'll be employed somewhere, maybe in an office of a factory, and it may well be someone who is selling trinkets downstreet — let alone wanted to be remembered for it.
WHO WAS this Beauerman character anyway? And what's this? "Remember me—that I'm here and I want to write pencils on the street corner."
Oldtimers around Lawrence will tell him of a dwarf, a deaf paraplegic, who used to maneuver a tiny tractor to his corner where he sold his warres and got a job. In the way he used to eat at the footsteps under luncheonette counters but never seemed to mind. Still others will
No doubt the inquirer will marvel at Beaumerl's courage. He'll probably have a new appreciation of his own abilities, which suddenly will seem limitless. Perhaps his own problems, however weighty
remember his optimism, even after he became blind and had to move to a local nursing home.
Mary Ann Daugherty Contributing Writer
they are, will be diminished for a moment.
students, wouldn't be endorsed by the Lawrence City Commission.
THE INQUIRER might never have known of Beuerman if a small memorial plaque hadn't been placed in the sidewalk at Eighth and Massachusetts streets Sept. 10 or if it had been inscribed with an urgency determination or optimism, as some had wished.
But for a while last spring, it looked as if the plaque, planned by several of Beurerman's friends, including some University of Kansas
Representatives of Concerned Disabled Consumers, led by Joe Greve, executive secretary of the Governor's Committee on Emphasis, fought diligently against the memorial. They especially disputed the wording of the plaque, which they said would "reinforce the handicapped as worthess people who ar
THEOSE WHO fought against the plaque apparently didn't understand the significant contribution Beurerman made to the handicapped by not assuming he was physically disabled or his courage in spite of them. Beurerman accepted his handicaps totally and lived a fruitful life, complete with job, friendship and personal satisfaction. He should understand that he was unlike most people. But that difference didn't
mean a tragedy that couldn't be overcome by optimism.
they also apparently didn't understand how much it meant to Beauleur can be accepted for what he was. Certainly, such a desire is hard to explain, as depicted, as Greve's committee members should have known. But when Beauleur's friends wanted to commemorate his life, using his own words cast in bronze, they were forced to keying on his disabilities.
BEUERMAN'S friends had no intention of doing this. Rather, they hoped to establish a permanent connection with a man many knew, liked and admired. They wanted also to inspire recollection of Beuerman's courage—no, because Beuerman was not as fiery, but because he lives it daily.
Granted, the words on Beuerman's plaque recall a "little man." But to those who knew him, and to those who will now hear of him because of the plague, Beuerman was anything but little.
Female blasts patronizing tone
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To the Editor:
like you. But you make it almost impossible. That editorial had the most condescending, teacher-to-first-grader tone that the Kanan has had in a long time.
The analogy is tired, but still true; what would you have said, Mr. Young; if a black man had been blind and scarsless毫惮lessly . . . I haven't broken into song and dance yet; that's the final weapon"? Would you have "liked" this person, or those of stereotypes, quite so much?
You said, addressing Francine Neff, Treasurer of the United States, "I like you ... I liked it when you said you told me, 'I'm so manhood.' I haven't cried yet; that's the final weapon."
"WH ISHOULD HAVE KNOWN HAD NEVER HOLD STILL FOR ALL THAT JUAN CARLOS DEMOCRACY TAKE!"
"... some of the more radical feminists seem to want to abolish (housework and domestic life). The feminists I read have simply said that this work should be valued as much as other work is valued by society, not understated, simply because women often do it, by such means, to become male editorial writers.
Ah, and the grand old story: "... an example of a woman who can get ahead in the world without being radical" ("It's so nice to see a successful woman who can go on out protesting something . . .") Well, if it hadn't been for radicals like Susan B. Anthony,
Ms. Neff wouldn't even have the vote.
In short, you "wish there were more women like" Ms. Neff. Which means, I assume, that the next woman you'll walk up to him, clap him on the back, and say, "Hey, Carl, I wish there were more blacks like you!" My friend received. The sentence implies a self-satisfied approval, in an area where your self-satisfaction is inappropriate and your approval is super-
If it hadn't been for protestors like Betty Friedan, she might well have been socially pressured to stay in her own town to do some male politician's stamp-licking.
Presumably you meant will in your article, Mr. Young. In for God's sake, watch your tone of voice.
Valerie J. Meyers Overland Park senior
God and creation
To the Editor:
Before attending last Friday's debate, I was open to the creationists' case. Now I am saddened that they could'd find better spokesman Dr. Morris and Mr. Kirk many cute rhetorical tricks and seemed incapable of dealing with alternatives other than crude dialectics ("if you wrong, then we're right." They were wrong). Their position or to consistently admit its limitations.
past may no longer be true. However, talking with Gish after the debate, I found he seemed to think so.
Just how long ago did these fellows receive their degrees anyway? And why do they persist in acting like experts on fossils when their background is not paleontology and it is objectively incorrect to believe the complexities and changing interpretations of taxonomy? They appear to be blithely unaware of plate tectonics or even such common geologic processes as erosion, which might account for gaps in the data from past decades, even been reading the "Scientific American" in the past ten years?
If humans can set aside complex random systems and observe resultant order, then why couldn't an omnipotent God tell us how to explain Why sell God short? I'm sure His mind is capable enough.
Dr. Gish stated that horsekind and dog-kind, etc., have always existed. Then show me a fossil horse from the Cambrian, or the Jurassic for that matter. Then give me another model to answer the models of evolution presented by Dr. Wiley and Dr. Bickford, clinging instead to an attack on out-of-date Darwinism. Only those recent sources that proved their point about human origins found, they use rather ancient sources, even from out-of-date textbooks.
What disturbs me most is that creationists are driving many people of more comprehensive ability away from Christianity. After the debate, Dr. Gish and others who believe in willing to listen to Christians who felt that God could work through evolution.
Their repeated use of the expression, "eminent scientist," as though that should lend them a certain degree of left a bad taste in my mouth. Despite their initial assurances that they would engage in scientific dialogue, they were not permitted to argue in "simplest terms." Intellectual issues must be dealt with in more than simplest terms. Science and reality aren't that simple; neither is it.
teachers in such a short length of time. The money for this endeavor came from the National Science Foundation, published through institutions like the National Science Foundation so that it didn't seem as if it was not a research program.
WASHINGTON seldom dictates. It prefers moneyed persuasion. Thus a generation of math teachers were paid to
To the Editor:
They implied that such persons were not 'real' Christians. Well, I do believe they were not conscious of phasedized moral law and a personal relationship with Him. He didn't say it was necessary to believe every detail of old scriptures or records recorded on nomads with very little scientific knowledge. Though inspired by God, an ancient shepherd would still tell his family about all of his time could understand.
Values needed
Locally guided schools a myth
Recent crime statistics for the Lawrence area have rekindled in our hearts and minds new fear. We will respond by making (or trying to make) more possessions more impervious than ever before. The results won't be encouraging.
what it's cracked up to be and that, contrary to everything Americans have been told for generations, a B.A. doesn't guarantee its possessor a better job and a higher income.
Service and two wasted years on guard duty.
Back-to-school time again. In some places the merchants are offering appropriate specials in steel helmets and earplugs. Senator Bob Dole is contributing to the clatter by calling his vice presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton, whose aspiring to elective office is calling for a return to local control of the schools.
"Scientist!" is not a magic word. Some scientists are mediocre and even what some "enlisted" science said in the
Again, within a relatively short space of time, we have a new national educational policy. Because we're no more able to predict the labor market in 1976 than we were in 1956 necessary engineers, the policy is a highly questionable one. Its quick and wide acceptance, however, serves to show how little policy control local school boards continue to have. Their job is to front for decisions made elsewhere to try to obtain out more resources, and also to convince the taxpayers that those debates about the colors of the high school band uniforms are what is meant by community-controlled education.
It is time that some very serious and profound questions be asked about the increase in lawlessness. What is the reason for this increase? And what elements did American society previously possess that made this country a safe place to live? Some say our police need better equipment and higher security, but what is a simple shortage of police. Many believe that our judicial system lacks the backbone to deal with criminals. These opining journalists have none of them strike at the real problem: why youth don't respect the law.
dardized testing. As colleges and other users of high school graduate们 have insisted on their teachers teaching people on test scores, school systems have had to adjust their course content to help their pupils score high on the tests. Thus tests, which were created for specific purposes, verify whether a student had mastered what his school hoped
Even if they hadn't been pushed and lured into superfluous occupations they might be out of work anyway. But if they hadn't been conscripted into the Cold War battalions, they could at least tell themselves it was they who picked the wrong careers, not the ones who made their distinguished but invisible members of the high-level commissions and committees who made the policy recommendations on such matters.
Creationists are doing us a great injustice if they encourage people to believe there is only a simple dichotomy between Christian faith creatism and atheism - headed off by the biased pseudo-science of creationism, they may be turned off initially by Christianity as well.
The catch was that the calculus was wrong, the Russians weren't ahead of us and, worse, the need for people pushed into a number of these occupations was grossly overused. It is these teachers and engineers who have had to take pay cuts and demotions in this recessionary period.
Better to call for it than to discuss it and run the danger of explaining to the voters that it is an effective control over educational policy long before the judges got it in their heads that a kid learns to read faster on a moving bus than in a stationary car.
Let us recall a time when America was safe. (Perhaps a difficult task.) What was the job of our agents to you? The basic rescript, **you**?
instruction.
School boards have the power to include or exclude sex from the curriculum but they have no say on the core subjects. From Maine to California the same subjects are taught the same way.
Evolution, taught with adaptability and perspective, never decreased by faith in God. Indeed, it was the Sunday schools who turned me against Christianity, with their narrow minds and their ostracism if I brought fossils to show-and-tell. Fortunately, I later met very closely with Christians who helped me overcome my initial aversion. Let us not retrogress.
Their unpopularity aside, the reason HEW guidelines on sexual and racial discrimination have come to symbolize outside interference is that they are visible while the ordinary mechanics of outside, centralized control aren't.
Standardization of curriculum follows automatically from the introduction of stan-
When you could walk the streets confidently, teachers and parents were not accused of "forcing their values on the kids," Mr. Singleton said. "Rules that demanded submission in all areas of living. There was, rather, a marvelously diverse conglomerate of systems sharing a common identity. The many persons, lives and possessions. This has been replaced by a
Nicholas Von Hoffman (c) 1972 King Features Syndicate
CURRICULUM, what is taught, is more central to the policy control of the school than the means by which the pupils are carried to their places of instruction.
When parents and teachers are pressured into abstaining from the transmission of their ideas and ideals, the young are more likely to avoid. This nonvalue vacuum is and will be handed down in place of a tried and true system. Thus, every generation, as it comes of age, must make the difficult decisions without help.
ANY SCHOOL board that elects to try a different way would find its pupils barred from colleges, from the unionized crafts and from a professionally trained technical occupations. When the right mix of outside forces comes together, our independent school systems change with such speed and precision they might as well be run by a Minister of Education.
The do-it-or-use methods used to get compliance on racial matters aren't the usual style employed by the pointy-headed bureau class in HEW's Office of Education. The new math textbooks are part way of catching up with the Russians, who were supposed to have gone ahead of us in space with the launching of Spatnik.
to teach him, now have the function of assuring national uniformity.
SCHOLARSHIP money and other incentives were made available to youths who signed up for national defense vocations, and for those who didn't there was the Selective
Whatever the educational result, it was an achievement in centralization to write and teach. I have guides as well as train the
try a different kind of syllabus by attending summer new math seminars in pleasant places.
That's what happened in the late 50s with the introduction of the new math. Within five years the entire program of instruction was developed, tested and refined across systems across the country.
That whole period saw school systems everywhere in America volunteer to fight the Cold War by producing teachers, scientists, engineers and other personnel who were to be the indispensable front-line troops in the struggle.
SINCE 1972, the beginning of our economic problems, national educational policy has been moving in very different directions. No more hysterical theories or biologists. Now the money and the persuasion is going into vocational education, into guiding young people into service, craft and low-level work. For this reason, for which we now told, there will be an abiding need.
ruita Almond Blum
Lawrence junior
This is analogous to teaching children about the nature of hunger through actual starvation. It should be the essence of what we want experience and make knowledge a treasured heirloom to be passed on to other generations.
In short, we must return to a society that carefully and constantly reissues its values and concretely applies them. This definitely of the essence.
People are running around giving talks saying college isn't
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