THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 99, NO. 153 (USPS 650-640)
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY JULY 26,1989
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Tomas Stargardter/KANSAN
Grassroots art
Sea Lawyer is one of the many sculptures by Lewis P. Harvey displayed at the Grassroots Art Museum in Vinland, 10 miles south of Lawrence. See related story page 7.
Horowitz meets with Bush
Kansan staff writer
by Dick Lipsey
in a ceremony at the White House yesterday, Frances Horowitz presented President Bush a leather bound copy of "The Psychology magazine of
Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, was editor of the issue devoted to child development.
Horowitz said she talked to Bush for more than five minutes.
"He evinced a quite a bit of interest in it," she said. "I hope the president and his staff will look on this publication, but we do not have date information on child development."
Horowitz was guest editor of the special issue devoted to children, said Marion O'Brien, assistant professor of human development and family life. O'Brien was associate editor of the issue.
"This special issue is intended to help set priorities in policy for the next decade or so," O'Brien said. "We intended to focus each article on some policy issue and for every member of Congress to receive a copy."
"We have a particular interest in child-care legislation and would like to see legislation passed to promote availability and quality of child care."
"Dr. Horowitz was asked by the American Psychological Association to edit this special edition," O'Brien said. "They wanted to update where we are in the field of developmental psychology. She asked me to assist
O'Brien said this was the first such special edition of the journal in about 10 years.
ates with the KU Bureau of Child Research.
Three of the articles were written by KU faculty and research associ-
In the introduction to the issue, Horowitz and O'Brien wrote, "Although we have much more to learn before each child born into this world can be ensured a productive life, the advances in our knowledge give reason for us to make a renewed commitment to care and a better job of influencing the social policies that so affect the lives of children."
The special issue was published in February, 1989. American Psychologist is published by the American Psychological Association.
Senate to hear debate about student aid plan
By DICK Lipsey
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
It's not exactly what Sen. Sam Nunn had in mind, but a Senate committee is expected to complete the formal service bill within the post week.
And many students will be glad Nunn didn't get his way.
Nunn, D-Ga., and Rep. Dave McCurdy, D-Dka., joined introducted bills in Congress that would have guaranteed student loan programs.
The two programs cost around $6 billion each year.
Jerry Rogers, director of the office of student financial aid, said that about 30 percent of KU students depended on such federal financial aid programs. Nunn wanted to replace these programs with a requirement that anyone needing financial aid to attend college would
have to perform military or civilian national service.
The bill now being prepared by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee will not affect current state policies. The department require national service for student aid.
It is based on committee hearings on the Nunn-McCurdy bill, "The Citizenship and National Service Act of 1989," which had been endorsed by the Democratic Leadership Council. The DLC is a group of elected Democratic Party officials from all levels of government.
Nunn and McCurdy said their bill was a response to what they called the student aid dilemma, the combination of high costs to the federal government and high levels of student indebtedness.
Rogers said that around 6,000 KU students a year take out loans, typically amounting to $9,000 or $10,000.
by graduation.
It's not yet clear what will be included in the Senate committee's bill. At least nine national service proposals have been introduced in Congress since the Nunn-McCurdy bill.
Burdett Loomis, chairman of the department of political science, said each of these proposals would draw opposition from various interest groups.
"The established educational interests have things the way they want," he said. "The main problem is tying educational benefits to service. If it does not replace the existing structure, it has a good chance.
"Current educational aid programs have grown up over 30 years. I don't think they'll sweep them out. I see this as an alternative, rather than
Senate appeal is pending
See NATIONAL, p. 5, col. 1
Board's decision to be announced in about a week
by Sharon Chapman
Kansan staff writer
The decision from a Student Senate election appeal heard Friday by the University Judicial Board will not be made for about a week.
The board heard an appeal from members of Certain Impact coalition concerning interpretation of the rules last spring's Student Senate elections.
Certain Impact argued that the winning coalition, Common Cause, should have lost its Senate seats, including those of president and vice-president, because of overexpenditures during the campaign. Common Cause was fined $150 by the election review board in May for exceeding its campaign expense limit by about $300.
"The decision has to be put into its final form and approved by all the board members before it is released," said Reggie Robinson,
associate professor of law and member of the board.
According to University judicial rules, the board is to be made up of five members from a pool of faculty, staff and students. However, no students served because none were by last year's student body president.
"I initially, I was curious as to why there were no students on the board." said B. Jake White, current student body president. "I think that students should be present on every University board, but under these circumstances, I certainly understand why there was not."
The meeting was originally to have been closed to the public, but a decision was made to open it shortly before it began.
"We had to wait until both parties were there to ask them if they wanted to waive their rights to a closed meeting." Robinson said.
Scott Hendrick, Certain Impact presidential candidate, said, "I thought it was an inappropriate thing to do, especially at the last minute. To me, it's one of those funny things I happen regarding Student Senate.
"I had a lot of people who wanted to be there, but thought they couldn't get in," he said. "It was kind of a semi-open meeting, only open to people who thought it might be open and showed up."
William Sanders, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, said it was appropriate to open the meeting.
The board does not have the power to void the election results, but can recommend action to the chancellor's office. The chancellor could have used his power to president Jeff Morris, and the 99 Common Cause senators from office.
Indian teachers study at KU
bv Dick Lipsev
Kansan staff writer
Cleo Charging is an experienced teacher who knows there is always more to learn.
She was selected as North Dakota's outstanding teacher in educational computing this year in a competition sponsored by International Business Machines Corp. and Classroom Computer Learning magazine. She has won 12 of the regional finalists for the national teacher of the year award.
Charging is spending her summer as a student in KU's MASTERS project (Math and Science Teachers for Reservation Schools).
Charging is an enrolled member of the Mandan-Hidatsa tribe, and for the last 16 years has taught math and social studies at White Shield elementary school on the Fort Berkley reservation in North Dakota.
She is one of 38 American Indian reservation teachers studying math and science at KU this summer. Four other teachers are in their second summer.
"We are learning new methods of teaching and new ways of applying things we already know," she said. "We also exchange ideas with other teachers who have come here from Alaska or North Carolina."
The MASTERS project is directed by Walter Smith, chairman of the department of curriculum and instruction of the School of Education, and is a cooperative program of the University and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
"We receive funds from the National Science Foundation to operate," Smith said. "It is a two-year project. We hope to continue in the future."
Smith said he also directed a program which brings about 250 teachers from reservations to KU for a two-week teacher training program.
Charging was selected as an outstanding teacher Less.3 partly on a computer project that her students did.
"They prepared a calendar with each month featuring one of their parents or grandparents," she said. "It was prepared on a Macintosh computer, and the students sold the book to help pay expenses for the school."
During her stay in Kansas, Charging has been able to see some of the local attractions.
Charging said she had enjoyed the program this summer.
“It’s been a worthwhile experience for me,” she said. “KU is very cordial, including everyone from the cooks to the professional staff.”
Manv universities forced to adjust to professor shortages
by Susan Newburger
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas faces a shortage of professors in several schools.
The ACE survey released Sunday said the higher education faculty shortage that had been predicted to occur in mid-1990s had already happened in several fields.
KU is a member of ACE and participated in the survey, said Rosa Hawkins, member of the faculty, thesis and research department.
The sixth annual ACE survey of senior academic administrators at 366 institutions discovered shortages of professors in computer science, business, mathematics and health professions.
This shortage is part of a national trend documented by the American Council on Education.
Shortages can have an immediate effect on the college student. The survey indicated that one
third of the institutions reported an increase in class size.
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of mathematics, said the department of mathematics will offer two fewer sections of a freshman course and will shift other professors' schedules around to cover classes.
KU's mathematics department has first-hand experience with the professor shortage. The department has two job openings, one in statistics and the other in numerical analysis, that will go unfulfilled for the upcoming academic year. Students who are interested applicants. The numerical analysis job has been open all year.
"We're competing against private industry for a smaller pool of mathematicians," said Robert G. associate chairman of mathematics.
He said fewer students were going into science and mathematics to fill the potential openings in the 1990s.
Himmelberg said the shortage was caused by a combination of factors: a lack of money, an
increasing number of retirements and a reduced number of doctoral candidates.
The School of Business also faces unfilled openings in accounting and organizational behavior for the academic year.
John Garland, associate professor of business, said the School of Business has reduced undergraduate course because of the lack of faculty.
"This is a general problem. Schools of business are especially hurting." Garland said. "We're 13 years old, where we were five years ago."
"You can see it in the pipeline," Himmelberg said.
Garland blamed competition with private industry salaries for some of the shortages, especially in the field of accounting.
"The problem is that we don't
have the money to bring in people," he said. "In order to keep faculty, we have had to increase salaries to keep them from leaving. If we did not have to use money to increase the current salaries, we could spend more on new faculty."
Garland said additional financing from Campaign Kansas and the Margin of Excellence was used to make sure money takes time to materialize."
The Margin of Excellence is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 85 percent of their peer schools and to bring the universities to 100 percent of their peers.
The department of computer science had one faculty position to fill this year. One hundred people applied for the job. Only 10 people met the job requirements, which included having a doctorate in computer science, said William Bulgreen, chairman of computer
Bulgen said about 400 doctorsates were granted each year in computer science from 200 institutions in North America. Private industry hired 60 percent of them, he said.
science.
"Of the four doctoral candidates who graduated from KU, two went to teach at universities and two went to private industry." he said.
Sherry Gale, graduate teaching
went to provide industry. Other KU department will be offered a year with unfilled faculty positions. Janet Hiley, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, said there were still openings in journalism, electrical computer engineering, pharmacology, biology, Japanese, public administration, education, French and Italian. She said it would be misleading to believe that we were open because of shortages.
"Our observation is that there arc not enough (applicants) to go around." he said.
assistant of Math 121 and 122, recently completed her doctorate in topology, an area of mathematics which studies continuous functions
She was first attracted to teaching when she finished her undergraduate degree in math education, but she was unhappy with her student teaching experience. She decided to enter private industry as a teacher and compiled a master's degree at Miami (Ohio) University. However, a teaching assistantship in calculus changed her mind.
"I loved it from the first," she said.
Gale decided to look for a teaching job.
"I went to seven interviews," she said, and "I got six offers." She accepted a position at Birmingham Cornell College, Birmingham, Ala.
"I'm really looking forward to teaching," she said.