THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, July 24, 1975
Children's home seeks approval from county
No.167
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Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Kool-Aid recession
SenEx challenges validity of Senate teaching report
Rusty Allen Mort's Kool-Aid stand suffered a slight recession yesterday afternoon as the clouds rolled in and the temperature started drooping.
By ALISON GWINN Kansan Staff Reporter
SenEx yesterday passed a resolution urging the Student Senate to submit to them a draft of the final report of the Commission before it is released.
"There are extremely uncomfortable and potentially dangerous things in this report," she said.
Zather said he thought the resolution might "jar the Student Senate to police its actions."
Adrienne Hyle, student member of SenEx, questioned whether the study shouldn't be done by a professional group, rather than by student senators. She said that senators had been unable to give in and that the commission should regard the commission and its work.
However, Dave Shapiro, research assistant for the commission, said Tuesday that inadequate selection, training and removal policies for assistant instructors and teaching assistants had resulted in some low quality teaching.
Robert Casad, professor of law, said the atmosphere of learning had been totally transformed.
"Money is the primary problem," Shapiro said. "There's no way we can expect qualified graduate students to come to KU. We have to be willing to pay for A.I.s. When we stop hiring graduate students with teaching ability, we retard the main
A telephone report from the state toxicology laboratory indicated that the body of Mrs. Thea Lynch Clark, an assistant instructor of English, had unbound morphine in the blood, J. A. Sanders, assistant county coroner, said yesterday.
Sanders said unbound hormone indicated an injection had taken place shortly before death. He said the report also indicated alcohol was in the blood.
He said the telephone report was only a partial report. The official cause of death will be determined later when the written report is received, he said.
priority of the University, which is to teach undergraduates."
Mrs. Clark's body was found July 12 in a pickup truck on a county road north of Lawrence. Sheriff's officers indicated that drug paraphernalia had been found in the
Morphine tied to A. I.'s death
Mrs. Clark was arrested June 10 after a friend called police because Mrs. Clark had passed out after an injection. Police obtained a warrant and arrested her after she was revived for possession of heroin and cocaine.
Shapiro said a balance between qualified and unqualified graduate students should be maintained.
"Some departments use these A.1. positions to subsidize graduate programs, so graduate students will teach, despite their qualifications," he said. "I'm not saying graduate students shouldn't be used, but there can't be a total subsidization."
Shapiro has concentrated his study in six departments, psychology, English history,
Western Civilization, business and math. The project began as a political plank on which Shapiro ran for Student Senate in the spring.
After conducting more than 25 hours of interviews and extensive research into the problem, Shapiro said, he wanted to see the project through to a final report, which he plans to submit to Chancellor Archie Dykes by the end of the summer.
Shapiro said he thought most problems with poor graduate student teaching assistants evolved out of the poor selection processes.
"Probably the number one priority should be an interview with the applicant," he said.
"Some kind of personal contact must be made."
Only one department which Shapiro studied, the Western Civilization department, requires a personal interview, Shapiro said. Many departments have no personal contact with the T.A.s and A.L.s before they are hired.
Tom Donaldson, senior instructor in the
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Minimum code inspection of city houses is clarified
By LYNN PEARSON Kansan Staff Reporter
But, Clark said, this procedure probably will be used in only one out of every 100
The city recently determined that it had authority to seek warrants for the authority to seek warrants.
This decision ended a dispute between Clark and city attorney Milton Allen. Allen had said that the city must show probable cause before seeking a warrant even in a designated inspection area. Clark had said the fact that a house was in the inspection area could have led to Clark's opinion was adopted by the city after several weeks of debate.
"Once we adopt the housing code that Commissioner Carl Mibec has been working on, we have to enforce it with all means available," Clark said. "That is a really difficult task." The district court order to enter a house in the designated inspection area."
Mibek's new housing code will be presented to the commission at next week's meeting and will probably be adopted within the next few weeks, Clark said.
"The primary reason for seeking
The only designated housing inspection area in the city is east of campus and has been occupied since 1972. To date about 150 of these houses have been brought within the city's code. Thirteen owners have resided there, no inspection has been made on their housing.
Radio club future sound for fall
By KELLY SCOTT
Kansas Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Amateur Radio Club will resume operations this fall from its new headquarters in the Learned Hall addition, Richard K. Moore, professor of electrical engineering and trustee of the club, said yesterday.
The club was told in May that it would have to remove its equipment from its
present site in the Center for Research, Inc. (CRES) building on West Campus to make room for the Endowment Association of Southern California to renovate the building and move in October 1.
The radio club's equipment includes a 100-volt battery, power recently erected at the GRES building.
promise, Eric Hardman, Salina senior and president of the club, said.
The agreement between the radio club and the school of engineering was a com-
Hardman said that Martin Henry, director of property management for the Endowment Association, had at first told him to vacate the premises immediately.
SenEx discusses financial topics
"I wrote letters, had conversations with him, but I got nowhere," Hardman said. "I wasn't there."
By ALISON GWINN
The University of Kansas is the "leader in our own system, and fairly advanced national institution," said the Exigency Report, Gerhard Zuther, chairman of SenEx, said at the SenEx
He said that the national American Association of University Professors office's reaction to KU's Financial Exigency Report was sour, but said that they were possibly arguing from principle, since the report was fairly new in its field.
Zuther talked about a meeting he had with senate chairmen from other Kansas Regents Schools. Emporia Kansas State College, Kansas State University and Wichita State University were the other three schools represented.
In addition to the exigency report, the chairman at the meeting discussed salary increases in the first year of a three-year program aimed at 10 per cent salary increases for faculty
The Wichita State representative said he could probably get the 19 per cent increase,
Zuther said it occurred to all four
Zather talked about a regular Senate committee on salaries which exists at K-State. He said he thought the processes of that salary committee were flowing through the University of Kansas system, without being connected with governance.
chairman at the meeting that they didn't know legislators outside of their geographic regions and that they had to depend on the staff of the state office and colleagues to get hold of the legislators.
He suggested that the Planning and
career committee examine
possibilities of the organization.
As usual, Zuther said, a lot of proposals would dwindle upon the price of wheat.
People Breipohl, professor of electrical
people will believe is a major undertaking.
Will believe is a major undertaking.
Zuther also said that KU's decision on the Public Employer-Employee Relations Board (PERB) bearings would be the beacon that the people on the PERB board would follow.
At K-State, Zuther said, every faculty must fill out a slip each month saying how many days of annual vacation and how many days of sick leave he took.
Sick-leave for faculty members was also discussed at the meeting.
Zuther said he and the Wichita State representative argued strongly against that procedure, and he said that KU had more of an honor system.
He said the Chancellor's office was preparing a statement, which a faculty member would tell out after a certain deadline, years ago, and at what time that faculty member had worked, that gave his entitled sick student many days of sick leave he had used.
Zuther reported on a meeting with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, in which the fact that the Financial Exigency Board had been involved in the faculty handbook was reiterated.
He also said the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities committee wouldn't be able to act quickly enough to include the report on faculty tenure in the faculty handbook, which he said might be delayed.
SenEx members also discussed possible cover letters to committees concerning additions to the committee's charges for the fall. The SenEx members decided to send the charges to committee members before the University Council approves them.
Henry denied that he changed his mind and said that the club was welcome to keep its equipment in the CRES building until the arrival to begin renovation of the building.
Hardman said Henry had now modified his original directive and would allow the club to keep its equipment in the building until it found a place to move.
Moore said he didn't think there was any problem in making arrangements with the teachers.
He said the association was just interested in working out an arrangement so there wouldn't be any damage to the club's equipment while construction was going on.
The Endowment Association will occupy the entire building after it is remodeled.
Moving the radio club from the GRES building to Learned will be expensive and time-consuming. Hardman said, because he had attached antenna will have to be disarranged.
Hardman said Moore was in favor of moving the club because he thought the club would be more accessible to the main campus.
Moore said it hadn't been determined which rooms in Learned the club would occupy, but there was a firm agreement that they would move to Engineering that they would locate there.
"I agree with him on that part." Hardman said, where we are now is a better place.
The 25-member club serves a large number of students from foreign countries by making phone patches that enable them to speak with relatives, Hardman said.
There is space at Learned for the tower and antennae, Moore said.
The club wanted to remain in the GRES building, but the Endowment Association, which owns the building, was afraid that it would be a security couldn't be maintained, Hardman said.
warrants is for comprehensive code enforcement in the Hill area," Clark said. "No complaint is necessary in these houses, Probable cause is satisfied by the fact that it is within a comprehensive code enforcement area."
Clark said the city would focus on tenant occupied housing. This is a reasonable line to draw, he said, because when there is danger to an individual who lives in his own house it involves only himself.
But, Clark said, when it is a commercial setting with a third party endangered, the city must protect the safety of that individual through forced housing inspection. The emphasis on landlord-tenant situations is also a practical one. Clark said.
Inspection in the remainder of the city will be on a command basis, he said.
"Almost all the refusals for inspection from landlords rather than from individual tenants."
Cities must obtain warrants for force inspection because the Fourth Amendment
Contracts awarded for K-10 freeway
TOPEKA (AP)—Contracts totaling $7,025,951 for work on the K-10 freeway east of Lawrence were awarded yesterday by the Kansas Highway Commission.
The 7.3-mile, four-lane project will begin 2.5 miles east of Lawrence and extend east to connect with a freeway segment under construction in Johnson County.
One of the contracts awarded was a $362,150 contract for grading which went to Dartmouth College.
Bridge contracts went to L. G. Barcus and Sons Inc, Kane City, Kan., for four construction projects in Iowa, Minnesota, Iowa, $142,037 for two; Construction Contractors Inc., Shawnee Mission, $1,199,177 for five; and Wittower Construction Co., Oksaloa, $160,384 for one.
protects all persons against unreasonable search and seizure. Clark said.
When the housing inspector applies to the district court judge for an inspection warrant, Clark said, he must fill out an affidavit swearing that he is the duly sworn agent of the inspector is in a designated housing inspection area and that the owner has refused him entry.
"The them judge signs the warrant, which is effective immediately. The housing inspector can take the sheriff with him to gain entry if necessary," he said.
Clark said he thought the change of the housing inspection position from the public works department to the community development department was a good structural change in the administration of the housing inspection program.
The commission authorized city manager Infant Watson, to make the change at Tampa.
"There is a close relationship between minimum housing inspection and community development." Clark said. "Many of the housing rehabilitation projects loans and grants requested through community commitment are to bring a house up to code."
watson said that each of the housing rehabilitation projects in Lawrence neighborhoods must be certified in order to be in compliance with the housing code.
"This change will take away the police power emphasis of the inspection program and focus on the affirmative role of the community development project, he said.
Clark said he was especially pleased with the new position created Tuesday by the commission. The position will be filled by a law student who will begin working in August on a part-time basis with the housing inspection program.
"The law student will make sure that all the statutes are followed and the cases are crossed." Clark said he "will make certain that the statutes and ordinances are followed to the letter in the inspection."
Clark said that if the inspection procedures were followed accurately, there would be a much better chance of winning if the city had to go to court.
KU clerical survey to assess workloads
By BILL KATS
Classified clerical workers and faculty of the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences yesterday offered their suggestions for improving a draft of a fictional novel to assess workloads of the 84 full-time Civil Service clerical workers in the College.
The survey, which will be distributed personally to the clerical staff next week, is being initiated by a subcommittee of the steering committee on classified appointments of the College in hopes of improving services and making recommendations for the University Security Commission on the upgrading of positions. The survey isn't mandatory.
The subcommittee has decided that the findings should be kent anonymous.
However, Jim Feldstein, director of central personnel for the University, expressed some concern over how much of the findings should be kept anonymous.
He said that according to University counsel, any specific questions obtained from the questionnaire concerning the efficiency of supervisors and co-workers were legally open to access to those persons as a matter of due process.
This could be especially effective in influencing work conditions in offices
where only one classified worker is employed. he said.
However, Charles Kiesler, professor of psychology and member to the sub-committee of the ABA Research Group, be retrieval in such great detail because of the summarized nature of the results.
Kiesler said that Robert Cobb, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, guaranteed the anonymity of information from the survey.
"We'll burn the questionnaires if necesarvary." Kiesler said.
Disclosure of personal identity on the questionnaire is optional, but the University should protect those persons who do disclose their names. Kiesler said.
Kiesler said he would forward to the subcommittee a suggestion made by Feldstein that Cobb be the only person with knowledge of the plan to prevent unintended use of survey data.
Feldstein, whose office is responsible for classifications, assured the workers that he wouldn't use the survey to ask questions about the downgrading of jobs unless the individual worker asked that his specific situation be treated as such.
Kieler said that the survey's 24-page
the civil service office favored
impress the civil service office.