Wednesday, April 2, 1986
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Faculty wants club to be social center
By Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
Conversation used to flow in the building where University Relations now produces a constant flow of information.
In the 1950's and early sixties, the white building across from the Kansas Union used to be the haven for "faculty club" members who wanted to have a bite to eat or to socialize with colleagues.
Although the faculty club unsure in the mid-sixties, a KU committee recently completed a study that in-depthly wanted the club to be resurrected.
According to the committee's recommendations, the best location for a new club where faculty members could socialize is the Adams Alumni Center — the only campus building other than the chancellor's house where liquour can be served.
Dave Shulenburger, chairman of the faculty club committee, said the five-member committee polled the faculty to see what characteristics faculty thought were necessary to form a club.
A majority of the faculty said liquour served at a bar and with meals was desirable—even essential.
Results of the poll indicated also that faculty wanted noon, evening and weekend meals, membership restricted to faculty members, no dress code, nearby parking and sponsorship for adult functions and cultural events.
"It's difficult for faculty to get together and meet one another from department to department," Shulen-burger said.
The faculty club would be a good place to gather for lunch or dinner, best.
Shulenburger said committee members met with members of the board of directors of the alumni center to discuss the results of the poll and the possibilities for space at the center.
He said members of the alumni board were willing to consider modifications of the center to meet the faculty club's needs.
Jacob Kleinberg, member of the alumni center's board of directors, said he was willing to consider possibilities for a faculty club at the center, but problems would have to be worked out.
"Six hundred faculty members are the alumni center — the
Learned Club is part of that.'
The Learned Club, located in the alumni center, is a gathering place for members of the University of Kansas Alumni Association.
Alumni, faculty and staff gather there to socialize and have meals.
Kevin Carroll, director of the Learned Club who attended the faculty club's meeting with the alumni board, said the possibility of making the Learned Club more attractive to faculty was discussed at the meeting.
Modifications of the Learned Club would make a separate faculty club
Kleinberg said, "It's not as though faculty weren't getting any benefits from it, but maybe we weren't doing it to develop faculty relationships."
Grant Goodman, member of the faculty club committee, said the problem with the Learned Club was that it was not a faculty club.
"The Learned Club requires everyone to join the Alumni Association."
Goodman said he had served the University as a loyal employee since 1962 and shouldn't be required to join the Alumni Association.
He also said he wasn't a graduate of the University, so he wasn't actually an alumnus.
A letter sent to the University Senate Executive Committee yesterday by the faculty club committee listed the committee's recommendations and made a note of support the club had received from Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
According to the committee, the chancellor had shown strong support for the formation of the faculty club, indicated he would provide support in fund-raising endeavors, and would visit with members of the Board of the Adams Alumni Center to urge them to better support the faculty.
However, the committee said Budig had cautioned that state support from tax dollars was not a viable source of revenue for the club.
The committee reported that the alumni center had a moral, not a legal, obligation to support the faculty club.
After all, they said, the alumni center's objective was to provide support for the University.
SenEx approved the motion to appoint a committee that will determine how the alumni center can serve the faculty.
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The medialied to the public about the Vietnam War and destroyed public morale by doing so, ultimately leading to the United States' defeat, a former college professor said last night.
In a presentation sponsored by the KU College Republicans, Leonard Magruder, former assistant professor of psychology at Suffolk County Community College in Long Island, N.Y., said the media portrayed the Tet Offensive as a military defeat, when it was in fact the most significant Allied victory of the Vietnam War.
The Tet Offensive occurred during January and February, 1968, when the Communists attacked Saigon and 30 province capitals in an effort to destroy U.S. forces. The Communists lost more than half their troops, Magruder said, but the media portrayed it as a United States said the United States couldn't hope to win the war.
Magruder said he thought the investigation was important in order to ensure that biased reporting didn't happen in future crises.
In 1981, Magruder resigned from his tenured position at the community college so he could devote his time to protesting media coverage of the war. He has requested a congressional investigation into the reporting of the war.
The investigation hasn't been initiated yet, he said, but veterans call congressmen daily to request it.
One of the things that has sparked so much interest in the cause is a television documentary, "Television's Vietnam: The Impact of Media." The film has never been shown on national television.
The film was made after the Public Broadcasting System ran a 13-part series two years ago on the Vietnam War. Magruder showed the film in the Kansas Union last night.
Magruder said that Truong Nhu Tang, who was the Minister of Justice of the Viet Cong Provisional Revolutionary Government, said that the Communists' losses in the Tet Offensive were so immense that they were unable to replace them with new recruits.
PBS has refused to air the film, he said. But in a letter to Charlton Heston, the film's narrator, President Reagan said," It is great and something all Americans should see."
"The PBS series was obviously biased." Magruder said.
The claims of false reporting made by Magruder are backed up by others.
Magruder cited many other authors and military officers who agreed that the Tet Offensive was not a U.S. loss.
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