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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, May 1, 1991
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Word change upsets group Bible fellowship president prefers 'sexual preference'
Bible fellowship president prefers 'sexual preference'
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
A student organization president voiced concerns yesterday to the interim executive vice chancellor about the word change from "sexual preference" to "sexual orientation" in KU's anti-discrimination clause.
"There wasn't enough thought given to it," said Deborah Lockwood, president of the Christian Bible Fellowship.
She said many people thought being gay or lesbian was a choice and
not an innate characteristic, so the wording should not have been changed.
"They are distancing themselves from God," she said. "I am very upset about the change."
Last week, Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said the wording of the anti-discrimination clause in future University publications would be changed from "sexual preference" to "sexual orientation."
He said that if a group of students wanted to be referred to a certain way, the wishes of the students should be honored.
Paul Hahn, a KU graduate and former member of the fellowship, said it was disconcerting that the University would change the wording when so much controversy existed between the Pakistani was an orientation or a choice.
He said there was not enough scientific evidence to substantiate the claims.
being gay or lesbian as an orientation.
Shankel disagreed
"I don't think the scientific evidence proves either case," he said. "I prefer to honor the wishes of the people involved."
Mike Sullivan, co-director of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said the word change was not a moral issue.
"The choice comes from whether or not we accept our sexual orientation," he said.
Model student
Randy Riveland, Topeka senior, puts the finishing touches on a group project he plans to enter in a Boca Raton student design competition. Architecture students from across the country will submit drawings and photographs of scale models to The College of
Boca Raton in Boca Raton, Fla. The winning entry, to be announced May 13, will be built on the Boca Raton campus and will house a special education program for training high school dropouts to be teachers.
Seniors routinely drop, survey says
Class 'loading' blamed for drop frequency
Bv Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
Despite the fact that they enroll first, seniors drop classes with more frequency than other KU students, according to a recent study conducted by the office of academic affairs.
This and other trends were discovered with the office's drop survey last semester. Results were compiled in an institutional planning and research
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the results were taken from 22,462 drop surveys. The forms, which were distributed by dropping a class, were filled out by all students who dropped courses.
Schulenburger said one figure jumped out at him: the number of seniors dropping courses.
The study revealed that 5,915 seniors had dropped courses, compared to 3,787 freshmen.
"The frustrating thing is seniors are first in line for enrollment," Shulenbur said.
He used a picnic table analogy to describe the KU system. He said sensors were first in line at enrolling students, and then only lefteners for the upclassroom.
"I think it's a learned behavior," slunburen said.
He said freshmen learn that when they are seniors, they will have the opportunity to load their plates. So they do.
The number of seniors who said they dropped a course after over-enrolling in hours to shop around was 6.3 percent, compared with freshmen and 8.8 percent overall.
Shulenburger said other universities were combating the drop problem. The University of Iowa plans to install a program in which, after students' freshman year, they are allowed to drop only five classes.
W. Wes Williams, dean of educational services, said some universities charge students a fine for each drop, while others limit the number of hours available to students until all students have enrolled, he said.
Williams said he was unsure whether these types of solutions would be right for KU. Many students enroll in a full schedule, even though the classes are full, and then switch when the classes they need become available.
Number of Students Dropping Classes
Freshmen 3,787
Sophomore 5,337
Junior 5,303
Senior 5,915
Graduate 1,735
Changes in Hours Enrolled After Drop
After first 10 -0.82 class days credit hours
Balance first -3.03 five weeks credit hours
Last 10 weeks -3.66 credit hours
Total semester -1.82 credit hours
'The frustrating thing is seniors are first in line for enrollment.'
- Dave Shulenburger associate vice chancellor for academic affairs
"In doing so, it becomes a vicious cycle," Williams said.
Shulenburger also was concerned about the number of spaces left vacant after drops. With enrollment up and financing of programs down, every space available should be used.
19. 3 percent of students surveyed said they dropped a class because the meeting time was inconvenient. About 14.3 percent said they dropped because their course schedules were too hard, and 16.6 percent dropped because the course was harder than they thought it would be.
Horowitz to leave KU, take post at NY school
Students dropping because they feared failing numbered 11.9 percent.
Kansan staff writer
Shulenburger said the report would be distributed for input and ideas to University governance. Student and the office of academic affairs.
Bv Vanessa Fuhrmans
'We will miss her and her valuable insights. But we rejoice in the fact that the University of Kansas is much better today because of her many achievements.'
After more than 30 years at KU, Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, will be president of the graduate school at City University of New York. KU officials announced yesterday.
Gene Budig Chancellor
Horowitz, vice chancellor since 1978 and a specialist in child development, was selected as president of City University's graduate school after a year-long search. She will start her new position Sept. 1.
Chancellor Gene Budig said in a statement yesterday that although Horowitz would be missed at KU, her appointment gave her a wonderful opportunity to continue making contributions to graduate studies and
research.
"We will miss you and her valuable insights," he said. "But we rejoice in the fact that the University of Kansas has supported us because of her many achievements."
For Horowitz, who first came to KU in 1960 as a guest research associate with the KU Bureau of Research, he was forced to leave the University was a hard one.
"It's going to be very difficult to
leave the University and Lawrence," she said.
Jim Sherman, chairperson of the department of human development and family life, said Horwitz's departure would create a void in the academic and administrative spheres of the University.
"She was wonderful colleague and a superb teacher and a dynamic administrator," he said. "Anyone with all of those qualities would be
sorely missed. She's not even gone, and I already feel the pain."
Horowitz became an assistant professor of home economics at KU in 1961 while continuing to teach and research in both the psychology department and the Bureau of Child Research in the human development and family life department.
She was named associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1975 before becoming vice chancellor in 1978.
Sherman said that Horowitz, whose research in child development is nationally recognized, was responsible for building the department's reputation and hiring much of the current faculty.
"She basically founded the department and transformed it from a home economics department to a human development department," he said.
Chancellor Ann Reynolds of City University, who recommended Horowitz for the position, said Horowitz's record of administrative efficiency has contributed to the university, the largest urban university in the United States.
"Her appointment adds new huster to the graduate school's excellent reputation," she said.
Horowitz will succeed Harold Prinsonshank, who died in December 1990 after 18 years as president of the graduate school.
Frances Horowitz
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