BLAZING
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
No.163
Med technicians training course coming to city
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Thursday, July 17, 1975
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Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Choral struggle
Brenda Ellison, Rising City, Neb., mulls an upcoming passage while pretending to "Touch" the band's open place will be performed Sunday afternoon at 2 by members of the Midwestern Women's Association.
Hawklet shifts; joins ROTC
BY ALISON GWINN
Kapan Staff Reporter
The Hawklet will close July 30.
But its spirit will live on, as a result of a compromise reached at a meeting among administrators, representatives of the computer center, representatives of the department of military science and a student representative.
The participants in the meeting agreed that the Hawklet would close, but that the military science annex would be used as a student lounge, concessions area and study.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said a couple of computer terminals and
a keypunch machine might be moved into the
anex, along with vending machines.
Shankel characterized the move into the office as a “challenge,” and opens in options we didn't have before."
He said some vending machines might remain in Summerfield.
Jon Josserand, student representative at the meeting, said, "Given the lateness of the time and the complexity of remodeling on campus, there is nothing else we can do.
"I see no reason why the Hawklet couldn't have been saved had certain options been considered by the administration. But no one could blame me. That's the thing I want to emphasize."
Shankel said, "Over a year ago, we had requests signed by the undergraduate and graduate business associations pressing the need for more library space. There has been quite a bit of student involvement in this for a couple of years."
He said a lack of information on Josserand's part had prompted him to say that options to the Hawklet closing hadn't been considered.
"About six months ago we had people all over campus looking for other places to put them."
"If you want to check that, go talk to the people in Spencer Research Library who were upset when we had the business school campus." It was an obvious joke for space to put the computers.
Joosandar was he upset with the way the administrators kept changing their arguments.
"We rebutted all their earlier arguments
then they came up with this accretion."
Shankel said the business school accreditation report wasn't received until a couple of weeks ago, so that it couldn't be used as an argument recently.
Commission studies KU teaching
By CONNIE BRUCE
Kansas Staff Demonstrator
Results of a study being done by the Commission on the Quality of Classroom Instruction will be available by Sept. 1, Ed student student body president, said yesterday.
The commission's purpose is to do research and recommend ways to improve classroom teaching at the University of Kansas. Research continuing the community with Bruce Woner, Hutchinson senior, and Dave Shapiro, Clayton, Mo., sophomore.
KU gives out bid descriptions for computers
Bid specifications for new computer systems for the University of Kansas were released yesterday to vendors by the Kansas State Division of Purchasing.
Bob Adams, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, headed the team that drafted specifications for the new research. Gil Dyck, deam of admissions and records, was in charge of the team that put together the administrative computer system.
The specifications, prepared over the past 40 weeks by two teams at KU, detail KU's needs for the computers it plans to purchase by early 1976.
The bid specifications were released to computer vendors at the division office in Topeka. Vendors will have until Aug. 1 to study the specifications.
On Aug. 22, vendors will be required to submit a monetary guarantee to the division if they plan to bid, Paul Wolfhe, head of KU's commutation center, said yesterday.
On Aug. 1, in Topeka, venders will have the opportunity to meet with division and KU administrators to ask any questions that may arise from the specifications.
Shankel said vendors may bid on either system or may submit proposals for an agreement.
The researchers will submit a report to Rolfs on their summer's work by Aug. 8.
Dil Shankar, executive vice chancellor,
said bids probably would be returned in 60 days, although extensions might be granted
for the future. He said he would be in
by the first week of October, he said.
A survey sent to faculty members last spring, to which 60 per cent responded, indicated that quantity of research ranks number one in importance at KU. Won said, Quality of research ranked second, quality of undergraduate teaching fourth, quality of undergraduate teaching fourth.
The majority of teachers who responded indicated that these four things should be reintroduced.
Two kinds of research were defined by the commission. Rofs said these were research conducted on the subject of the disease.
Woner said there had been a misinterpretation by many people who thought the commission placed teaching above research. He said there should be a balance of teaching, research and service for good teaching.
Excellence in classroom teaching needs to be a fundamental criterion when considering promotion and tenure. Woner said, not just quantity of publication.
"Research for publishing isn't necessarily secondary but it is not above teaching," Woner said. "We need to make the deal of emphasis is put on teaching."
The major discovery of the commission, Rofs said, is that research and teaching are not mutually exclusive functions. The commission found that research was a necessary end for excellent teaching, he said.
About 40 departmental heads, school dews, award-winning teachers and outstanding faculty members have been interviewed this summer. Shapiro said. Many of the students asked for a face on how to improve teaching at KU have been obtained from the interviews, he said.
Rfoa said a "publish or perish syndrome" had flourished at KU and attempts to achieve a balance between teaching and publishing would take a long time.
"It's the research for publication that we feel has been overemphasized." Rolfs said.
To compile further data, a survey was sent to a cross-section of the country's universities asking questions about faculty selection procedures, information on larger versus research, and instructors' selection and training. Shapira said.
Chris Iliff, Prairie Village senior and chairman of the seven-member commission, gave Wonet and Shapiro two main tasks: the development of a new instrument for teacher evaluation and the organization classroom on classroom teaching, Shapiro said.
"Right now we are searching for three outstanding classroom educators from across the country and we are in the process of finding information on various people," Sparrow said.
The Curriculum and Instruction Survey and ways to make it a better evaluative instrument for all teaching situations and departments are being studied, he said.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said, "The whole thing's unfortunate. We tried as bard as we could and there isn't much more we can do. The only thing we can do now is pursue student representation in other matters."
The commission's proposals will be open to review by faculty, administrators and students before going to the Senate, Rolfs said. After they are processed by the committee, they will be chaired by Chancellor Dykes will officially approve or disapprove him, he said.
to place food and refreshment services where it's feasible, based on a real need. I think it's been ably demonstrated that there is a real need down there."
The educators will lecture in their teaching fields and evaluate the commission's proposals to improve classroom instruction. Education Week, Nov. 12, Shapiro said.
The educators are being sought to highlight the symposium on teaching.
Jossandier said, "It's a refreshing change to have someone say, 'What can we do for you?'
Joosserand said the lauge space in the annen was 842 square feet in area, as compared to 2,790 square feet of total usable area in the Hawklet.
Both Shankel and Josserand said the ROTO commanders were extremely comfortable.
"They're cutting us down extremely," he said. "The University promised to furnish air conditioning, drainage and water service in the future."
Shankel said plumbing would be available
this summer, and air-conditioning would be installed in the fall if it was needed.
Air Force personnel offices will be removed from the annex and built in the basement of the military science building, in what is now a garage.
Walter Wondrack, professor of Air Force ROTC, said, "It's a little inconvenient, but it's something that needs to be done. I think we can adapt."
Wendrick said no trace of the military science personnel would remain in the
"I think we should get out completely if they're going to use it for something else. If we've got to give up something and consider doing the military science building," he said.
Frank Burger, director of the Kansas Union, said. "It has always been our policy
He said there was a high probability that the union would respond quickly to the threat. "It was a very high chance."
The loss of operating time would be minimal, he said, if that move could be avoided.
NDSL shortage possible
By JENIFER OTWELL
Wondrack said he hadn't been told when personnel would have to move out of the lounge area in the annex, but they could move out by Aug. 30 if asked to do so.
For the first time in four years, not all eligible students who have applied for National Direct Student Loans (NDSL) may get them, Jerry Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, said yesterday.
In the past few years any eligible student who applied for an NDSL was able to receive one at almost any time during the year, he said. This year anyone who applied for an NDSL would not receive a loan because lss money is available and more students have applied.
By June 1 last year, 3,560 applications for financial aid had been received, he said. As of June 27 this year, 4,134 applications have been filed, they then after the February 14 priority date.
The NDSL fund consists of a contribution from the federal government; plus one-ninth of this amount, which is provided by the Kansas Legislature through the University; and collections from students paying back old loans.
three per cent of the total is used for expenses and the rest is available for leisure.
Last year KU received $769,248 from the federal government. This year only $679,172 from the federal government.
KU received less this year because the U.S. Office of Education Regional Panel in Kansas City, Mo., reduced the amount that Roofers had estimated they would need, Rogers said.
The panel said that KU should make better use of the amount available through
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Apollo—Soyuz docking plans:
11:11 a.m. -Wit television camera in action. Anello starts approaching Sowu.
12:49 p.m. - Seven-ninute Apollo telecast.
12:50 p.m. - Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Donald K. Slayton open hatch and enter Annoi docking module.
11:15 p.m. - Apollo docks with Soyuz while
136 miles above West Germany.
2:17 p.m.—In the first of four crew transfers between the two spacecraft, Stafford and Slayton move from the docking module to join cosmonauts Alexel A. Leonov and Valerian N. Kubasov in Soyuz for official missions, exchange of flags and letters. Teledvised.
4:31 p.m. -- Stafford and Slayton end first
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loan collection to increase its total funds, Rogers said. They said that all collections could be used except those collected during the last quarter of the year.
Rogers said there was a delay between the time the money was collected and the time it was available for use. Money collected at the beginning wouldn't be available for a loan at the beginning of the spring semester because the money must be on hand before it could be deposited.
The panel also reduced KU's estimated net need for each student, Rogers said. For the past 10 years they have allotted only $150 for books and supplies and $400 for personal expenses for a school year. KU had asked for more money in both categories.
There are several ways that this reduction of funds can be eased, Rogers said. There are always some students who cannot receive loans and those who have received loans who don't enroll.
One solution would be to disperse some of the loans at enrollment and the rest at the bank.
becomes available through loan collections, Rogers said.
Another possibility is that the amount of some loans may be reduced, and the student will become eligible for work-study money instead. he said.
Some students whose grade point is below a 2.0 will have their loans denied, Rogers
"The money has to go to the people who are making the best use of it," he said.
Although less money has been received for NDSL and for Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants in conjunction with the loans, more money is available through the Federal College Work-Study Program, Rogers said.
About $555,000 will be a 'available for work'
study next year. This is about $200,000 more
than the cost of a Master's degree.
However, Rogers said, he thought that KU students would rather borrow money and have more time to study than work while they are in school.
"The administration felt we should build a master work-study programs, so we applied for the program."
BY LYNN PEARSON
Kentan Staf Register
Commission ratifies park, treatment plant
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission decided last night that a park planned to be positioned north of the proposed city maintenance garage site at 12th St. and Haskell Ave, was in compliance with the existing city comprehensive plan.
A new water treatment plant for Rural Water District No. 13 to be located north of U.S. 24-40 was also said to conform to the comprehensive plan.
The park area was part of a plan approved by the East Lawrence Improvement Association last month when it voted to endorse the city garage site.
Dick McClinanathan, city-county planner, told the commission that the park would contain a non-league baseball diamond, a few parking spaces and wooded areas and two small parking lots.
"The proposed Haskell Loop project will remove the park at the East Lawrence Recreation Center," McClanathan said. "There probably isn't any other use that can be made of this land as long as it is owned by the city."
The city is currently considering an ordinance condemning part of the park land and the land for the garage in order to acquire it from Orville Road, 918 E. 12th St.
In approving the water treatment plant for Rural Water District No. 13, the planning commission asked that the treatment building be landscaped. The plant will serve parts of Jefferson, Leavenworth and Douglas Counties.
The heavily wooded part of the proposed park belongs to Park Hetzel, Rt. 5, who has agreed to sell the land to the city.
The system will have two wells, a water
planet planar, an aeration basin and a re-
carbonation basin.
Representatives from the water district said the plant would cause no noise or odor problems and the building wouldn't intrude on traffic. Some workers left off from the Lawrence Municipal Airport.
The commission gave approval to the tentative 1976 Capital Improvement Program, which contains a plan for 1976 and a six-year plan extending through 1981. It also includes projects, construction of the Clinton Parkway and construction of the Haskell Loop.
The completion of Clinton Parkway is scheduled for 1977 at an estimated cost of $2,651,300. Haskell Loop, also scheduled for 1977, is estimated to cost about $2,544,000.
College associate dean appointed
By JACK McNEELY
Kansan Staff Reporte
Frances Horowitz, chairman of the department of human development and family life, yesterday was named an author of the College of the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Robert Cobb, dean of the College, in announcing Horowitz' appointment said, "Professor Horowitz will bring to the College an impressive array of abilities and skills that are especially needed at this stage in the life of the College and the University."
After the summer session Horowitz will no longer be chairman of the department of human development and family life but she must continue to teach and research, Cobb said.
Her appointment is effective im-
mediately, but she will not fully assume her
role.
Howartz, who was a candidate for the deanship to which Cobb was recently appointed, said she was pleased with her success. "I am confident we plan to seek a higher administrative office."
She said she liked having a job that made her combination of professors and administrators.
Her duties as an associate dean will include faculty recruitment, generation of resources and development of the educational programs of the College.
Cobb said Horowitz would be taking over duties that had been shared last year by her husband, who is a doctor. Her appointment doesn't mean that one of the other associate deans will leave, Cobb
The department of human development and family life has been highly successful in getting federal grants and other money, Horowitz said.
It developed from a department of home economics under her leadership.
"A lot of good things go on at this
place. 'Don't have adequate support'
she said."
The search for financial resources, which will be one of her duties, is more than just asking for money. Horowitz said. It is generating ideas for new programs and improving existing programs to eye to attracting outside support, she said.
Howritz will develop the responsibilities of her job according to Jobb's expectations, her own interests and problems that arise, she said.
One of her interests is experimental education, which she defined as "opportunities or undergraduates who are not students they usually aren't." She named independent study,
work study and cooperative study programs as examples of experimental education.
"There are problems with regard to the whole concept of a liberal arts education in the United States."
She said she would seek ways to involve students in the process of education and to keep the faculty involved and satisfied with the University.
"A college of liberal arts ought to be a setting in which one can have exciting educational experiences," she said. "That is largely dependent on the quality of the faculty, but is also dependent on the atmosphere administrators create, she said.
Howell came to KU in 1981 after earning a BS in Physics from Ohio University Yellow Springs, Ohio, a masters degree in education from Goucher College, Towson, Md., and a PhD from Iowa State University.
Horowitz has attained renown for her work as a research scientist, Cobb said.