WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1996
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.102.NO.120
(USPS 650-640)
TODAY KANSAN
SPORTS
It's all in the family
Kansas junior center Scot Pollard comes from a long tall bloodline. Page 1B
FEATURES
Campus women possess power
Seven women share their stories and struggles with local leadership. Page 8A
Discotheque overcrowded
WORLD
A Philippines disco with a capacity of 35 had 400 inside when it burned. Page 6A
Clinton cuts the budget
NATION
The $100-billion budget cut will help the middle class and hurt the wealthy. Page 7A
WEATHER
WARMER
High 50° Low 26°
Weather: Page 2A.
INDEX
World News. . . 6A
National News . . 7A
Features . . 8A
Scoreboard . . 2B
Horoscopes . . 8B
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Students to lose grading privileges
Policy change to start next year
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
KU undergraduates enrolled in liberal arts classes will no longer grade each other's work.
According to the policy, when goes into effect next year, "no undergraduate course should include as a course requirement the grading or writing of exams or quizzes or the grading of papers for students enrolled in any CLAS course."
The College of Liberal Arts Assembly has passed a proposal prohibiting undergraduates from grading exams, quizzes or papers without being paid.
While situations such as students grading their classmates' quizzes in class does fall into the policy change, it was not the main reason for the policy, said Beverly Davenport Sypher, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Sypher said the motivation behind
the policy was to stop students from performing the duties of tutors and graders while receiving college credit for it.
"There are some classes where you get credit to be a teacher, so to speak," she said. "We don't want students to receive credit for grading other students."
Sypher said student privacy also was an issue in developing the proposal. She said students' privacy was violated when other students graded their work.
Students evaluating each other's work will still be acceptable, but
"Never, never have I had any problems with having students grade things," he said. "They're fixing a problem that doesn't exist."
grading the work would not be, she said.
Shawl said large classes had forced some professors to become innovative in using students as tutors.
Sally Frost-Mason, acting dean of the college, said that Shawl had presented a good case for allowing the current system to remain but that the policy still had to be changed.
"This proposal will go a long way
Shawl said that the University did not have a problem with undergraduates as graders as long as they were paid for it. The problem was that they were receiving credit instead of getting paid.
to killing that innovation," he said.
"It isn't fair to other students to be graded by their peers," she said. "But it will limit a type of experience those students receive."
Luby Montano-Laurel / KANSAN
Emily Heath, Oskaloosa sophomore, is the coordinator for Students Tutoring for Literacy. Heath is one of about 90 KU students involved in the program.
Volunteers promote literacy
KU students give time to help children learn
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
Emily Heath spends Tuesday nights batting the effects of poverty and ignorance
Heath, Oksalaoko sophomore, is one of about 90 KU students who dedication time to restoring children's confidence in their abilities to learn and succeed.
Heath coordinates Students Tutoring for Literacy, a Center for Community Outreach program. The six-year-old program sends KU students to tutor students of all ages at 13 community sites in public elementary, middle and high schools and adult educational centers.
Heath spends two hours a week tutoring middle school-age children at Edgewood Homes, a low-income housing community.
"What we're trying to do really is to promote the idea of education and self-empowerment," Heath said.
"A lot of the people we work with have had to drop out of school," she said. "A lot of them are just falling behind. We have fifth graders who read on a first-grade level."
Heath said the children she tutored often weren't encouraged by parents to value education.
"Lack of family involvement, I would say, is the No. 1 problem," she said. "It was never a question that I would go to school. Their parents don't graduate, so it's not stressed in their home."
It is difficult for parents to encourage children to go to college when they can't afford to pay for it without federal aid, Heath said.
"I try to show my elementary-school kids that with an education, you can do everything," Najim said. "It's hard when it's not being reinforced at home."
Jamie Najim, Wichita sophomore,
tutors elementary-school children.
However, education is the key to getting a job and making money, she said.
Fighting that cycle is where Heath and other tutors come in.
Heath said it was easy to get discouraged because the children sometimes were resistant to help.
Education doesn't come easy to them, and it's obvious when they're frustrated, she said.
But Janet Murphy, prevention specialist at Edgewood, said the tutoring did make a difference.
"Education is the real key to moving out of poverty." Murphy said.
Murphy said she had been tracking grades of students who had been tutored.
"Their grades do increase." she said.
Over time, tutors as role models make a difference in the way children view themselves and their abilities to become educated, Heath said.
Getting involved
Students interested in volunteer tutoring can
contact Emily Heath in the Organizations and Activities Center, 400 Kansas Union, or call 864-4861.
Program could keep scholars in Kansas
State would provide tuition for scholarship recipients
By John Collar
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Bringing more outstanding graduate students to Kansas is the goal of a bill that the Kansas House tentatively approved yesterday.
The proposal would create the Kansas distinguished scholarship program. It would provide tuition and fees to a full-time graduate student who has completed any of eight internationally recognized scholarship programs, including the Rhodes, Marshall or Truman scholarship programs.
State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, who carried the bill on the House floor, said the scholarships would help halt the exodus of talented students from Kansas and would give them an incentive to stay here after they graduate.
She said Kansas schools sometimes were at a causalvantage when competing with universities from across the country.
"A lot of universities can offer them so much, and they often go there." Ballard said. "We always want to keep the better students in the state."
State Rep. Jonathan Wells, D-Kansas City, offered an amendment that would have provided the scholarship only to Kansas residents.
"Why would I want my tax dollars to go out of state?" Wells said. He argued that the bill would not guarantee that students would stay in Kansas after graduation.
The measure would expand the Kansas Rhodes scholarship program, which was established in 1988. Only one student has received a scholarship from the program. The current program receives a yearly appropriation from the Legislature, said Ted Ayres, general counsel for the Regents.
Ayres said that no recruiting by the Regents had occurred but that such a program was mentioned by universities who were in contact with such students.
He said that a Rhodes scholar was considering attending the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The bill would put the program in statute and would solve the problem of obtaining a yearly appropriation, Ayres said.
The bill would authorize up to $10,000 to provide scholarships to Kansas residents or students with degrees from Regents institutions. If the funds were not used, they would return to the state general fund, Ballard said.
The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 38-0 in January. It will be up for final action in the House tomorrow.
Filling summer subleases can be stressful
Students should know management policy
By Amanda Traughber Kansan staff writer
As summer approaches, some students and soon-to-be graduates are preparing to leave Lawrence and leave their apartment leases to someone else.
Many students sign leases from August to August, making them responsible for summer rent even if they won't be around. So many students seek someone to sublease
their apartments in the summer.
But finding someone to sublease can be difficult.
Heidi Kaufhold, Aurora, III, sophomore, decided to return to Aurora for the summer. She said it had not been easy to find someone to sublease her apartment from the middle of May until the middle of August.
She and her roommate, who also is going home for the summer, posted fliers around campus advertising their two-bedroom apartment. So far, no one has called.
"I'm not thinking it's going to be too easy," she said. "But I'm trying to stay hopeful because it would save
me and my family a lot of monev."
Kaufhold said she and her roommate would offer to pay a portion of the summer rent to make the sublease more appealing.
Rules regarding subleases differ among property management companies. Some companies require additional fees from the original tenant and require that proposed tenants pass a credit history check before they are allowed to take over the lease. Other companies allow students to signLEASE for less than a year, making it unnecessary to find someone to sublease.
Cindy Kitsmiller, an employee at
Student tenants at Malls Olde English Village, 2411 Louisiana St., have another option. Tenants who plan to return to Lawrence in the fall can choose the apartment's summer storage plan, said Gary Stephenson, manager of the apartments. During the summer, tenants can leave
Kaw Valley Management Inc., said the company charged a $175 sublease fee to tenants who wished to find someone to take over their leases. Tenant must find their own replacements, and the company will approve proposed tenant if they passes a credit history check, Kitsmiller said.
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belongings and pay half of the rent for the months of June and July.
If tenants wish to find a replacement, they have that option, too Stephenson said. Tenants who wish to sublease their apartments pay $60 fee, or a $30 fee if one of two roommates leaves for the summer The replacement tenant must fill or an application, sign a separate lea for the summer months and p down a deposit.
"We do that because if you go someone the keys when you let and tell them to pay the rent and don't, you're still responsible," said.