Friday, Jan. 17, 1986
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Foundation gives grants for KU profs
The Burlington Northern Foundation of Seattle has given a $22,500 grant to the University of Kansas that will pay for nine teaching awards during the next three years.
Three different KU faculty members each year will receive $2,500 awards for the next three years. The Kansas University Endowment Association will distribute the funds.
The Burlington Northern Foundation's Faculty Achievement Award program furnished the money for the award.
KUEA is given funds
Wan, who died in March 1984,
taught at the University of Kansas
from 1966 to 1982. She was chosen
in 1979 as an outstanding teacher
at the University of Kansas, and in
1981 she was designated as an
outstanding woman teacher.
The Kansas University Endowment Association recently received a $13,900 unrestricted bequest from the estate of Grace Wan, a former associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures.
KUEA officials said the University would use the money in the area of greatest need.
A KU professor was assaulted yesterday by her maid at her home, Lawrence police said.
Professor assaulted
Jane Wong, associate professor of design, 1613 Alvamar Drive, returned home at 3 p.m. to care for her sick child, police said. Wong told her maid that she didn't need to stay for the rest of the afternoon.
The maid told Wong that she didn't have a ride home. When Wong told the maid that she couldn't drive her home, the two began arguing.
Wong told police that the maid threatened her and then pushed her. A United Parcel Service employee then assisted Wong in getting the maid out of the house.
Project awaits thaw
Construction of the Vietnam Memorial will begin as soon as weather permits, and it should be completed by May, the chairman of the memorial committee said yesterday.
Tom Berger, the chairman, said that construction would begin when the ground thawed and architect's drawings were completed.
Weather
From staff and wire reports
Today will be mostly sunny with highs around 60 and winds from five to 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows in the low to mid 30s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs in the low- to mid-50s.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, Richard Zinn's name was misspelled in the Lawrence City Commission story that appeared in the Jan. 15 issue of the Kansan,
Because of a reporter's error, it was incorrectly reported that J. Carter Brown would speak Feb. 2.
Correction
Economy needs joint effort,prof savs
Brown will lecture Feb. 17 on "Treasure Houses of Britain: Art and Diplomacy" in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
By Frank Ybarra
Gov. John Carlin has tentatively accepted a proposal by a KU professor to enact long-term changes in the state's economy, State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence said yesterday.
Staff writer
State government, business groups and schools must work together to help the state's sagging economy, said the professor, Anthony Redwood, director of KU's Institute for Public Policy and Business Research.
Redwood presented the institute's recently released Interim Report on the Kansas Economic Development Study to the House and Senate Ways
and Means and Assessment and Taxation committees.
The report emphasizes support for economic growth and increased financing for higher education in Kansas.
Winter, a member of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said committee members were so impressed with the proposal that they immediately began to discuss ways to put the plan into effect.
Some of the revenue that the plan calls for may be raised through a state lottery or betting, he said.
However, he said, the program also could work with the money raised by Carlin's proposed 1 cent sales tax increase. Carlin would have to be
Redwood said the report called for KU and other universities to link their research — especially in science and technology — to Kansas businesses.
It also calls for expansion of financing for the Research Matching Grant Programs on college campuses, he said. The programs, the report said, are designed to encourage university and industry collaboration.
willing to transfer money from some programs into others that the study emphasized, Winter said.
"We feel the Legislature is not sufficiently focused on economic development," Redwood said. "Otherwise, much of this tends to get scattered all over the place."
The report recommends that the Legislature create a joint Committee on Economic Development or separate committees in each chamber.
The report also recommends the formation of a Kansas Science and Technology Authority to oversee some programs, including a new one to provide money in new and innovative businesses and ventures involving undeveloped products.
turing equipment and business computers from its sales tax. Thirty-nine states, he said, have such an exemption.
Redwood also said Kansas must alter its tax structure, not in vain effort to put itself in front of other states, but in an effort to keep up with them.
"The business tax burden is not high, but it is not low, either," Redwood said.
Winter said he thought the most positive point of the proposal was its support of higher education.
The report gives the Legislature some direction to follow in the coming year, he said.
"It suggests the state government can do something." Winter said.
Redwood said that the report's 34 recommendations would take some time to help the economy.
Committee to discuss problems Student deaths lead to concern about well-being
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
Because of incidents that occurred during the past semester in which students died, David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday that he had developed plans to begin a permanent campus committee on mental health.
Ambler said that James Lichtenberg, director of training in the department of counseling psychology, and Linda Keeler, coordinator of the mental health clinic at Watkins Hospital, had been appointed to begin the preparations. He said they would report back to him later this semester.
Deaths of KU students last semester spurred Ambler's decision to create the committee, he said.
"One student was killed playing what was supposed to be a game," Ambler said, referring to the death of Brian E. Lucas, Lawrence sophomore.
On Oct. 16, the body of a 21-year-old KU student from Lawrence was found in Holcom Park. Police said she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Lucas was killed Oct. 27 when he jumped in front of a moving Union Pacific Railroad locomotive. He was participating in a game called "training," in which participants try to see who can come closest to an approaching train without getting hit
Jeanna Marie Carkoski, Omaha, Neb., sophomore, died Nov. 9 from severe head injuries suffered the day before when she fell from a third-story ledge at the Alpha Phi sorority house, 1602 High Dr.
"Another student committed suicide," Ambler said, "and one was killed when she fell out of a window. I'm sure some of these tragedies were accidents, but some of them might also have been related to stress points in the environment."
Lichtenberg said a group of campus professionals with a common interest in mental health met informally last Thursday to discuss referral and treatment trends and problems as well as procedural matters.
The meeting was a resurrection of a group that met monthly during the last school year but hadn't met at all last semester, he said.
Ambler said the committee would explore causes of undue stress for students and provide a service for students experiencing mental health problems.
He said it also would help promote a "healthy and wholesome mental climate for the personal growth and development" of KU students.
Disinterested doa
Gus took advantage of a break in the action of a Jayhawk junior varsity basketball game last night. The JV team defeated Emporia State University,
Brvan Graves/KANSAN
73-60. Gus's owner, Bill Ficke, head coach of the Kansas City Sizzlers basketball team, says he brings Gus to many of the men's basketball practices where Ficke observes coach Larry Brown's methods.
More financial aid requested
Staff writer
Regents receive 5 year teacher report
By Russell Gray
The Board of Regents received a report yesterday from KU's acting dean of education on the five-year teacher education program, which included a plug for greater financial aid for students in their last year.
The Regents meeting in Topeka, the first of this year, was a committee review of the agenda. Actual action is expected today at a formal meeting of the Regents.
The Regents schools are the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Pittsburg State University, Fort Hays State University and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Paul Haack, the acting dean, and Jerry Bailey, associate dean and director of teacher education, presented the report.
The report was given because the first members of the five-year program, begun in 1881, will graduate this year.
Haack said a continuing priority for the school was more money for scholarships and different avenues for loans for fifth-year students.
Some education students have financial problems in their fifth year, Haack said.
They are eligible to receive Pell Grants during the first four years, he said. But because they are classified as graduate students in the fifth year, they cannot receive the funds.
The extra year, which is to certify students as teachers, may be worthwhile, Haack said, because some students can receive higher salaries for hours taken beyond the undergraduate degree, which is received at the end of the fourth year.
"Largely, it thought the attitude of the Regents was very supportive," Haack said. "They want us to be successful. It was a good, supportive exchange."
The Regents also discussed Gov. John Carlin's two budget proposals and deferred action on the preliminary plans for the University of Kansas' $12 million Human Development Center.
Under the bare bone budget proposal, there would be a four-tenths of one percent increase in general use funds for Regents schools. If a 1 cent sales tax increase is approved by the Legislature, the investment budget
would supply $5.3 million to enhance or improve programs at those schools.
Keith Nitcher, director of business affairs, said the meeting was really a briefing on the schools' budget proposals.
"It was simply informational," he said.
Nitcher would not comment on how the Regents felt about Carlin's proposals. But he did say it would be difficult to maintain the status quo at the University under the bare bones proposal.
Nitcher said there was some concern about the use of hospital revenues and student fees rather than general funds to finance parts of the budget.
At the meeting it also was recommended that the University receive $860,000 for capital improvements, Nitcher said. The money is part of a $4 million allocation to the Regents schools, which will become effective July 1.
The money at KU will go towards repairing exterior walls at Summerfield Hall, meeting Environmental Protection Agency electrical regulations in campus buildings and replacing roofs on some of the campus buildings.
The Regents decided to defer consideration of architectural plans for the University's $12 million Human Development Center for a month.
The action was deferred because the Regents needed more development by the architect, said Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning.
The overall project has been approved, but the Regents must now approve the preliminary plans, he said. The next step is approval of construction documents, which will be used in the actual construction, he said.
The building will be built east of Haworth Hall and will service the child development division, the department of human development and family life and the school of education's division of special education, Wiechcott said. The building will be called the Bob Dole Center for Human Development.
Three-fourths of the financing, or $9 million, came from a government grant; the rest has come from private donations. Wiechert said construction should be completed by summer 1988.
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