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University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 2.1991
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Fishing for candles
An exhibit of ceramic fish candle holders draws attention from Lawrenceroused Laurie Mackey at the annual Holiday ArtFair. Forty artists displayed their crafts yesterday at the Lawrence Art Center.
CMSU gear stolen during game
Police suspect man acted alone to take items valued at $14,300
Kansan staff writer
Bv Rochelle Olson
KU police think one man stole and belongings valued at $14,300 from the Central Missouri State University locker room Saturday night, Lieutenant John Mullens said.
The man, whom police have not identified, was said to allen Field House on Saturday, Mullenage and
"The impression was that he belonged with the team and was taking stuff out to the bus," he said.
Mullens said KU police might release a sketch of the suspect today.
He said one assistant coach and 12 players lost items during the theft.
Guards from Manpower Temporary Inc. were standing at the doors to the locker room. But Mullens
said they were acting more as ushers than as security guards.
The windows to the locker room were padlocked. The visiting junior varsity team from Neoasha County Community College had access to the locker room through the showers.
The theft apparently occurred during the second time because the items were there at halftime, Welsh said.
Ralph Olp, assistant director of KU police, said police recovered a stolen jacket at the construction area west of the field house. They also found a set of headphones in the Irving Hill Road area, he said.
Burdel Welsh, KU police representative, said KU police searched the Neosha County team's bus but found none of the stolen items.
Central Missouri State players had planned to shop Sunday at the Plaza for the holidays. Instead, their money was stolen and they wore old Kansas warmup suits back to the hotel.
Eric Thomas, who played 35 minutes during Saturday's game, said he lost more than $300, a diamond earring, a gold rope necklace worth $550, a Louis Vuitton wallet and a Nike bag.
He said he would not be upset as long as KU compensated the team members for their losses.
"We came down, they win the game, and we get robbed," Schufford said.
Bob Frederick, director of athletics, said KU was responsible for allowing the theft to happen.
Ray Schufford, junior guard, had a gold Seiko watch stolen that was a birthday present from his girlfriend.
"We're sick about it," he said. "We're confused because we have had, for many, many years, this kind of security. We can't imagine how someone got in there."
Coach Roy Williams apologized to the team after the game.
"That kind of stuff doesn't happen in Kansas, but it did tonight," he said at his post-game news conference.
Lowden speaks out about Fulcher
By Blaine Kimrey
Kansan staff writer
Student body vice president Alan Lowden has broken his silence concerning Darren Fulcher's presidency.
Because he is the official who presides over Student Senate meetings, Lowden said he had been obligated during the semester to remain impartial about Senate's Sept.12 motion to remove Fulcher.
But Fulcher's request at the Nov. 25 Judicial Board hearing that Lowden resign ignited criticism from the vice president.
"He's trying to perpetuate this neat little political game," Lowden said. "When he talks to me, he contradicts what he says to the press."
Lowden said that in a meeting prior to the hearing, Fulcher told him he
Although his grievance had been amended to include a resignation request. Fulcher had told Lowden the request was not his but his representative James LaSalle's idea, Lowden said.
He said that at the hearing, however, Fulcher did the opposite and argued in favor of Lowden resigning.
Fulcher told Lowden that he would not ask for Lowden's resignation at the Nov. 25 hearing, Lowden said.
Alan Lowden
"I just couldn't understand what he was thinking, why he keeps contradicting himself," Lowden said. "He's
Fulcher said he had never wavered in his request for Lowden's resignation since filing the amendment to the grievance.
trying to put me on the other side of the fence, and he has succeeded."
Although he said he thought Lowden had done the best he could during Senate's seals. 11-12 meeting, he thought Lowden should resign for improperly Senator's Rules of Order, the rule book Senator followed to vote to remove Fulcher.
Fulcher said he would not discuss what he and Lowden had talked about during their private meetings because those meetings were confidential.
However, Fulcher said he never had anticondidional bliss himself.
"I can change my grievance now," he said.
Lowden said Fulcher's resignation request was clouding the issue and
increasing tensions at the Senate office.
"No matter what, things are going to be bad in the office now," Lowden said. "People have burned some big bridges and alienated them selves."
The Judicial Board hearing panel is expected to make a decision about Senate's removal motion later this week.
Senate voted to oust Fulcher after his credibility was questioned. Fulcher was charged with battering his ex-girlfriend, a KU student, in February, according to Lawrence police and court reports. The charge was publicly disclosed early this semester.
A stay has been placed on Fulcher's presidency at least until the hearing panel decides whether Senate foliage proper procedure to remove Fulcher.
More GTAs, fewer professors teaching at KU
Loss of Margin of Excellence blamed for figures that rank KU behind some peer schools
By Alexander Bloemhoor Kansan staff writer
Although KU student enrollment has increased by 11 percent in the last 10 years, the number of full-time faculty has decreased by 7.5 percent.
The number of full-time faculty on the Lawrence campus has declined in the last 10 years from 1,015 in 1981 to 939 in 1991, according to the University of Kansas Profiles, a publication produced by the office of institutional research and planning.
Because graduate classes must be taught by full-time faculty, undergraduate classes more often are taught by graduate teaching assistants, said Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
"What has happened as positions became vacant, they have been filled with graduate teaching assistants," Shulenburger said. "That's the only way available to hire enough teaching power for the classrooms."
Frances Ingemann, professor of linguistics and Faculty Senate of
"People who otherwise would teach undergraduate classes don't because they have to teach graduate courses," Ingemann said. "So undergraduates don't see as much of faculty."
Student-teacher contact also has become more difficult as classes have grown in size, Ingmanm said.
"There is less opportunity to spend time with individual students," she said.
Shulenburger said that one reason for the decrease in faculty was that the University did not have enough faculty to pay competitive salaries.
"That creates problems in getting qualified faculty and retaining qualified faculty," he said. "We always have faculty members who get offers that are startlingly higher."
The average salary at KU is less than 90 percent of the average faculty salary at five universities that serve as cost-study peers, according to University of Kansas Profiles statistics.
Increasing faculty workload
The peer institutions are the universities of Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Oregon. Only Oregon and Oklahoma have lower salaries.
"People, if they get a better salary offer, are likely to leave unless they have specific reasons not to go, such as a two-career family," she said.
Since the state in 1990 discontinued the Margin of Excellence, which was designed to make Kansas universities more competitive, KU has been losing ground to its cost-study peers.
in moving in the wrong direction.
Ingemann agreed.
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"But it's usually difficult to get them here in the first place."
Shulenburger said that GTAs were doing a good job compensating for fewer faculty but that they could not teach all upper-level elective classes.
upper-level electives you offer," he said. "And you have to increase the proportion of freshman and sophomore education done by GTAs."
"You have to reduce the number of
"If we can't pay in cash, we at least ought not to charge tuition," he said.
He said the University should get full fee-waivers for GTAs.
KU club opposes return of Vietnamese refugees
Kansan staff writer
By William Ramsey
Vietnamese refugees waiting in camps to enter Hong Kong sleep with their legs tied together, said Michele Doan, vice president of the KU Vietnamese Club.
That makes it harder for a single refugee from the group to be snatched in the night and returned to Vietnam.
Doan, Independence, Mo., junior, has followed the international news as reports from Hong Kong say that Vietnamese are being sent back to face whatever government action awaits them.
Nam Lam, who left Vietnam in 1981, said the refugees' plight was desperate.
"They risk their own lives to escape from the communists," he said. "When they come back, they have nothing and they starve."
Lam, Topeka junior and president of the club, said the countries that return refugees were acting selfishly. They are worried about the cost and trouble of keeping the refugees.
"You have to live in that situation to know what is going on. They (the Vietnamese government) can do anything they want."
"They don't want to look at what will happen to them," he said.
Doan, Lam and other members
Daan said that she had been in contact with people from Hong Kong and that they think Bush soon may sign a statement supporting Britain and Hong Kong's decision to return refugees to Vietnam.
"We want to stop him before he signs it," she said. "We want this to be more public."
of the KU Vietnamese Club have begun a letter campaign to President Bush asking him to oppose the forced return of the Vietnamese refugees.
More than 100 copies of a letter addressed to the president have been circulated by the club, Doan said. Those interested could sign their name and send the letter.
"No one should be forced or secrected to return to their country of origin if they have been denied a job or if they engage in *efuge state*, the letter states.
"We believe a strong protest from the United States will be effective in preventing this plan of forced repatriation."
Dana said that the 88 members of the club had helped spread the letters around offices on campus and that they might take further action.
She said the letter was part of a campaign by Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American clubs in the Kansas City area. The KU club has not yet received a response from Bush.
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