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KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY, MARCH 17.1995
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DAVID STEVENS
Candidate for student body president
Year: Junior
Hometown: Wichita
Current Senate Position:
Nunemaker Senator
STEPHANIE GUERIN
Candidate for student body vice president
Year: Senior
Hometown: Lenexa
Current Senate Position:
Finance Committee
Chairwoman
Student Senate race begins
REAL coalition emphasizes diverse student representation
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
REAL coalition candidates want to see increased availability of computers on campus and a reorganized KU On Wheels bus system
REAL, which stands for Responsible Effective Accessible Leadership, is one of two coalitions competing for Student Senate positions this spring. The REAL coalition held its campaign kick-off party Wednesday night in the Kansas Union.
"Welcome to the grandest experiment in strengthening democracy to be laid before the student body at the University of Kansas," said David Stevens, Wichita junior, who is the coalition's candidate for student body president.
KANSAN
Members of the coalition spoke about the need for better
Quality advising, new bus route priorities for United Students
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
The United Students coalition wants to see changes in student advising and a West Campus route for the KU on
See REAL. Page 5A
United Students, which is one of two coalitions competing for Student Senate positions this spring, held its campaign kick-off party Tuesday night in the Kansas Union. Student Senate elections will be April 12 and 13.
Kim Cocks, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior, is United Students' candidate for student body president. She said that a new bus route west of Kasold Drive would serve the needs of students more effectively and that students should not have to pay higher bus fares.
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"We want to make sure that Student Senate's largest
United Students Coalition
KIM COCKS
Candidate for student body president
Year: Senior
Hometown: Lee's Summit,
Mo.
Current Senate Position:
Education Senator
DAN HARE Candidate for student body vice president
Year: Junior
Hometown: Olathe
Current Senate Position:
University Affairs
Committee Chairman
KANSAN
Regents to study time teachers spend in class
By Virginia Marghelm
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents on Wednesday discussed how to ensure faculty at Regents institutions are spending enough time in the classroom.
Regent John Hiebert said that there is a significant public conception that learning is no longer a part of a university education.
Hiebert's assertion was emphasized in a segment from the television show "60 Minutes" that the board viewed.
After viewing the excerpt, the Regents set out to determine whether these perceptions held true at Regents institutions.
The excerpt focused on the University of Arizona. Students there complained about graduate teaching assistants who were not good teachers or whose English was unintelligible. Professors in the video claimed that teaching was not an important part of being a professor.
Regent William Docking said that the key to the issue was finding out what problems were perceived and what problems were real. Then the Regents could decide how to deal with them, Docking said.
Steve Scott, associate professor of education at Pittsburgh State University, said research was fundamental to successful teaching.
Dennis Kuhman, extension agricultural engineer at Kansas State University, agreed.
Kuhman said that research benefited undergraduate education by allowing undergraduate students to be exposed to the most recent discoveries and the professors who made the discoveries.
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Kansas, said that faculty workload depended on the university's mission statement.
For example, at a research university like KU, professors may teach the same number of classes as their peers at non-research universities but teach fewer students. This is because some professors at KU must teach doctoral-level classes, which tend to be small, Shulenburger said.
After the discussion, the Regents decided to create a task force to look into the matter further. The task force will report their findings to the Regents at the May meeting.
Docking said that undergraduate education should not be emphasized to the point of neglecting research.
"It seems to me you could take this too far," he said.
Green day
After months of preparation, the eighth annual St. Patrick's Day parade will take place in North Lawrence today.
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"If we can be ugly and still be happy, as far as our win at the end, I'll be just
as pleased on Saturday as I am right now." Kansas coach Roy Williams
The beginning and the end
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
By Gerry Fey
Men brush off Colgate; Wisconsin upsets women
The men's team, the Midwest region's No. 1 seed, defeated 16th-seeded Colgate, 82-68. However, the Seventh-seeded Kansas women were burned on a last-second shot by Wisconsin and were unset, 73-72.
In a day of close calls and upsets in the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments, the Kansas Jayhawks ended the evening a reluctant 1-1.
Although the Kansas men ran away at the end of the game for a 14-point victory, the game was much closer than Kansas coach Roy Williams would have liked. But Williams said he would take a less-than-perfect victory at this do-or-die point in the season.
Kansan sports editor
"If we can be ugly and still be happy, as far as our win at the end, I'll be just as pleased on Saturday as I am right now," Williams said.
At one point in the second half, Colgate whittled the Jayhawk lead down to four. Kansas continually would pick up its end of the scoring whenever Colgate got close.
The Kansas women were not so lucky last night. Kansas senior forward Angela Aycock helped the Jayhawks lead leads of 13 and 16 points,
JAYHAWKS:
JATHRWS:
Game stories from the men's and women's NCAA tournaments;
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FIRST-ROUND UPSETS:
Oklahoma and Arizona fall surprisingly in the men's tournament.
but Kansas never could put the game away. Eventually, the Badgers came back and ended Aycork's season in a way Kansas coach Marian Washington did not want.
This is obviously a tough loss for us," Washington said. The Badgers' Sharon Johnson hit a shot with 3 seconds remaining, upsetting the Kansas women.
"It was just bad luck of the draw for us that she hit the final shot," Avcock said.
Men's Basketball
Noah Musser, KANSAN
Kansas guard Jacque Vaughn goes for a layup during the Jayhawk's 82-68 victory over Colgate.