UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 23, 1997
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Speaker Park criticizes professors' lax teaching
Classroom often ignored for research
By Umut Bayramoglu
Kansan staff writer
Peter Park has a problem with instruction in higher education.
"We as professors are not bringing together the curriculum and the students' needs," said Park, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusetts.
Park discussed higher education with a crowd of about 30 people last night at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
His speech was a part of series of programs the Office of Minority Affairs and Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition co-sponsored for the first Annual Graduate Student Professional Development Conference.
Park said that the University of Kansas and University of Massachusetts were known as research universities and that such reputations meant that professors spent more time researching.
"Professors love to buy their
time out to grad students and worry about their research instead of teaching,"he said.
Another problem of higher education today, Park said, was the neutral manner in which professors taught.
He said he thought professors eliminated the human factor in teaching.
"We can't teach without taking the moral context into consideration." he said.
Two secrets to giving an education that works well are encouraging students to go after knowledge and including the social aspect of knowledge, Parksaid.
"Professors need to to get to know students as a human being that has the same rights and emotions," he said. "Not as an object of instruction or manipulation."
Real teaching would not take place, Park said, without creative dialogue. To achieve such a dialogue there had to be trust, respect and caring between the professor and the student.
Gloria Flores, associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said the office had contributed $1,500 to fund half of
professors are not bringing together the curriculum and the students' needs.
Peter Park professoremeritus University of Massachusetts
the presentation. The GTAC provided the final $1,500.
But some students in attendance said that the speech was disappointing.
"I came to this speech to learn about pedagogy in a classroom," said Dan Griffin, Fort Washington, Md., graduate student. "But instead I heard information that anyone that has stayed in a classroom more than 45 minutes knows about."
Former North Korean warns of plotted war
SEOUL, South Korea — A highranking North Korean defector said that North Korea had nuclear and chemical weapons capable of scorching South Korea and Japan, South Korea's intelligence agency revealed yesterday.
The Associated Press
Hwang Jang Yop's reported disclosure is the most credible testimony to date that North Korea has developed tactical nuclear weapons.
The isolated communist nation has denied having a nuclear weapons program.
South Korea's Agency for National Security said Hwang made the allegations in a secret report he wrote in August before his Feb. 12 defection in Beijing.
The agency would not say how it obtained the report.
One of the 1.2 members of the North's highest decision-making body, Hwang is the top North Korean official ever to defect. When he arrived in Seoul on Sunday,
Hwang said he fled to warn the world that North Korea's 1.2 million-member military is preparing to unleash a suicidal war.
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