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Thursday, June 19, 1975
University Daily Kansan
KU dean dreams of computers
Campus Editor
Bv GLENN MEYER
Friendly, pessimistic, optimistic,
energetic, hard-working, unflappable,
understanding, easy to work with, a tease,
a popular gux and a man with a dream.
That is Gu Dyck, dean of admissions and records, according to three persons who are charged with his murder.
Dyck, 39, is also a sports fan, a church-merchant, and, in his own words, "the old Kan-ken."
He has one overwhelming objective, one dream: a new student records system for the University of Kansas, including computerized early enrollment and fully-computerized storage, retrieval and indexing of all student records.
JD locks admits that he sometimes wonders whether he has ever see the computer and the keyboard.
eccord system Jerry Magnuson, associate director for
PROFILE
Magnuson is a member of the committee, which Dyck heads, that is drawing up a description of the administrative work the team will do. The system will have to be capable of doing.
administrative information services at the KU Computation Center, says of Dyck. "At times he is probably more pessimistic than he should be."
Becky Sapp, enrollment supervisor in Dyck's office, says, "Everytime you go to talk to him about some problem, he says, 'Well, when we get this computer, it's going to solve this problem.' He likes to talk about what it will be like then."
Sapp says Dyck is energetic and William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs and Dyck's immediate superior, calls him "hard working."
"Developing specifications for an administrative computer isn't an easy job," Bailour says, "and it comes in addition to his regular work."
Dyck's "regular work" includes overseeing admissions, enrolment, student records processing, school relations, grade reporting, requests for information about students or for their transcripts, publication of timetables and veterans services.
Dyck says short-term projects—he calls a great deal of his and his staff time.
"Brush fires" have included the modification of the records system to accept plus and minus letter grades for courses and architecture, a campaign to enroll more students in KU's summer session and a system to determine what part of students' fees should go to the KU Medical Center, to transfer campus and to Continuing Education.
Dyck says he usually works at least four
weeks and Saturday in addition to
weekdays.
"He doesn't let problems upset him, but when a problem occurs, he's the type that wants to work at solving that problem, and does it in an organized manner," Magnuson
"He seems to be able to think clearly and handle tough situations," Sapp says. "When you are working under him, he can project that image to you; it helps you."
Balfour says Dyck is "fairly un-
floppable." He also says "Dyck is
"He's very understanding of other
dealing with him," Foulays says.
"If he's over here for a meeting," Magnus say, "he'll stop by one of the programmers' offices, and visit with them how they're getting along with their work."
"I don't think anybody feels they can't
lash at him," says, "even if he is very
busy."
He enjoys teasing people, she says. For him, it's part of being friendly.
Dyck's office seems to reflect his per-*f*om*s* of the *lots*, lots of kidding and lots of activity.
On the wall behind Dyck's desk is a large
cup of water that appears as a needlepoint
dose on jersey.
"It was done by a lad in Belleville," she
said, "and people back in the office
don't like it, but I like it."
As Dyck talks, his face is relaxed, his voice calm, but his body is restless. He changes sitting positions a number of times and his hands are continually in motion: now flicking with a manicure tool, now lifting a weight, now pulling his tie or stroking his mustache.
Dyck says he doesn't have any long range goals for himself.
"I'm so wrapped up in what's going on around here," he says. "I think it causes a lot of problems when people worry too much about them, and don't take care of where they are."
In contrast to his ideas about enrollment, Dyck's ideas about living seem old-fashioned. ("I guess I'm just an old Kansan," he says.)
"Television," he says, "Everyone sits on his fancy and watches television. In the small town where I grew up, if there was a concert, everybody went to the band concert.
"In that kind of atmosphere, you did things together as a family. Even there, though, it's changed. Anymore, people stay home in front of the TV."
"When I grew up I didn't know we were the kind of situation we were being raised the kind of situation we were living."
"Now television brings so much more into everyone's life. They know of an affluent society; they see other people doing things and they want to do them."
Dyck grew up in Lindsborg.
"The thing I always remember about Landberg, he says, "is that everyone knows."
Rhodes scholar from KU modest about his honors
One might think that a person would be proud and excited to talk about his scholastic awards. However, Lewis Wall, a former Rhodes scholar and recent Fulbright Fellowship winner, feels otherwise.
Wall, a special graduate student at KU, said yesterday that his feelings about being a Rhodes scholar had changed considerably since he received the honor.
"I feel a lot different about it now from when I first received it," he said.
"It has opened many doors," he said, "but I am still upset by the image of the Rhodes scholar and I hate to be introduced as a Rhodes scholar."
Wall said he thought this distinction was justified. He insisted it turned him off to certain degrees, but no one could determine.
He said, "Any sacred image I had of a Rhodes scholar has been destroyed."
But Wall said he valued his experiences at Oxford.
The teaching methods were very loose and unstructured compared with the busy work assigned by teachers at KU, Wall said. Oxford enabled him to think about such things as world politics and religion, he said.
"For the first time in my life," he said, "I was really given a chance to think."
trouble, because if you did, everyone would know about it."
Dyck said that until he stopped coaching high school sports, athletics was his life.
The Fulbright Fellowship awarded to Wall on May 13 will enable him to conduct research in Nigeria. His research will deal with the way natives react to foreign doctors, who will probably take the place of the traditional village doctors.
For a "jock," Dyck's list of accomplishments is long. He was a coach and teacher for Waterville public schools, coach and counselor for Riley County High School, director of testing at schools, schools KU admissions counselor, director of records at Kansas State University, and assistant graduate at KU from 1968 to 1972.
In this way, Wall, said he, can combine his two major areas of interest, anthropology and medicine. He will conduct his research in anthropology at the Akademi Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.
He was appointed director of admissions in 1972 and, under the reorganization of the offices of admissions, records and school records, he was responsible for admissions and records in November 1973.
He says he doesn't have much time anymore to go to basketball games or to play tennis, he has of his favorite activities. Dyck wishes he had more time to spend with his wife and three teenagers. He says his free time is spent with them.
Oyck received his doctor of education degree from KU in 1967, his M. S. from K-State in 1963 and his A. B. from Bethany in Lindenburg in 1957.
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Union President C. L. Dennis said railroad management had taken an "adamant and unbending position" in the talks, making it impossible to resolve the
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks said yesterday that it had reached an impasse in contract negotiations with the nation's railroads and expected to begin a nationwide strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday.
The union has refused to go along with an agreement already signed by other railway unions, which represent 80 per cent of the industry's 500,000 employees.
The railway and airline clerks union represents about 117,000 workers.
Mediation provisions under the Railway Labor Act have been exhausted. A 60-day cooling-off period imposed by President O'Rays expires at one minute past midnight
A strike would tie up virtually all of the nation's main railroads and create severe problems for the already hard-pressed economy. However, union sources said bankrupt railroads in the Northeast, including the Penn Central, and the Rock Island in the Midwest may be spared from the threatened shutdown.
Talks fail;rail union to strike Monday
Sunday, leaving the clerks legally free to walk out.
W. J. Usery Jr., chief White House labor troubleshooter, helped the prospect of a nationwide strike a "matter of the deepest concern," he said, to do everything possible to avert a walkout.
William H. Dempsey, the industry's chief negotiator, called the union's demands unreasonable and said the railroads have "no choice but to resist."
With Dennis' statement, it appeared that
only an 11th hour settlement could block a walkout.
However there is a possibility Congress could pass emergency legislation blocking a strike if it was determined that the dispute would create a national emergency.
The presidential board recommended that the clerks union accept the pattern settlement which provided for a 41 per cent boost in wages and benefits over three years, while the industry's first cost-effective escalator clause is in more than a decade.
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