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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, DEC. 6, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 72 (USPS 650-640)
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Tacha gets OK from committee
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
Denean Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, was unanimously recommended for a federal judgeship yesterday by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Tacha, who now must be approved by the full Senate, was recommended to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by Sen. Robert Dole.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously yesterday to recommend that the Senate confirm Deanell Tacha to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Tacha said she was pleased and relieved about the committee's vote. She said her next move would be to find an office from which to work
Brent Bahler, press secretary for Sen. Major Leader Robert Dole said Tacha, KU vice chancellor for academic affairs, would be voted on next by the full Senate.
"It is likely the Senate floor vote will occur next week," Bahler said.
The 10th Circuit Court is based in Denver. Tacha, however, may choose her office site.
"I have told them that my preference is Lawrence," she said. "During the middle part of December some representatives of the 10th Circuit Court and the Judiciary Committee will come to Lawrence and look over possible office sites."
Tacha, 39, was nominated as a finalist for the federal judgeship by President Reagan on Oct. 30. Her name originally had been presented by Dole to Reagan in June.
One obstacle, however, may block Tacha's
quest for a seat on the court.
A spokesman for Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Dohio, said there was a chance that objections by several conservative Democrats might block any vote on judicial nominations, including the one they objection caressed on the nomination of Stanley Sporkim to the U.S. District Court.
Michael Sheehan, press secretary for Sen Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., said the controversy over Sporkin could delay any vote by the Republican conventions until certain rules had been made.
"In this power play that is taking place," he said, "the Democrats have started to complain about the administration."
"Things could be squared away in a week or two, or it could take several months."
Others, however, say the Senate will delay only certain nominations and let others pursue them.
David Bartell, press secretary for Sen. Nancy Landon Kassaeum, said the Senate would
probably vote on Tacha by the end of next week at the latest. He said Sporkim's nomination would probably be set aside so the others could go through.
"Deanell's appointment has not been controversial, and I would assume we could get that cleared through by the end of next week," he said.
A final vote by the Judiciary Committee was expected two weeks ago, but objections over judicial review procedures from Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., D-Del, delayed the vote.
Biden had asked that the committee delay the nomination of Tacha and 9 other judicial nominees because he felt they were being rushed through the review process.
Laurie Westly, chief counsel to Sen. Paul D. Simon, D.-Ill., said that during the delay the committee had come up with a review program that Democrats and Republicans would accept.
The new procedure, Westly said, would make the review process longer. She said the time between the Judiciary Committee's review and a nominee's returning his questionnaire would be three weeks. One week after that, she said, a committee vote would take place.
Westly said the number of nominees to be reviewed had been limited to six. All controversy nominations, she said, would be heard at a separate hearing.
He told the committee that the review procedure, which now takes about 24 days, had taken about 60 days before Reagan took office.
One bump occurred Nov. 6 in the form of a letter sent to Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S-C., opposing Tacha's nomination.
The letter, from Myra Hinman, associate professor of English, said Tacha was not qualified to fill a judgeship.
It stated that while at the University, Tacha had been "adding to the University treating wounded soldiers."
Some faculty dislike research extension
Robb Ferron, director of affirmative action,
opposed Himman's remarks, saying Tacha's support for women and minorities had been exemplary.
This is the last story in a series dealing with classified research at the University.
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Some faculty think proposed changes in the University's policy on classified research would stiff KU in their pursuit of trained pursuit of knowledge.
The proposal, which would lengthen the classification period for the fruits of KU research to three years, was discussed in detail this semester.
Universities will develop things that industry will find useful, Don Marquis, professor of philosophy, said recently. Interaction should continue between them.
However, classification of the researcher's work, preferred by some industries, prevents him in the classroom from discussing his labors, restricting what can be taught. Marquis said.
"Everything in secret research, it seems to me, is antithetical to academic freedom because a professor is using the teach certain skills," Rourd said.
The traditional point of academic freedom was to eliminate restraints on what was taught, be said.
"My duty as a professor is to educate," he said. "Therefore, it absolutely wrong for me to put myself under such an obligation."
Universities have run for centuries without such constraints, he said.
and some continue to do so.
"What is the argument, exactly?" he said. "Is it that KU is a second-rate institution, and you have tokowtow to industry to get funds?"
Proponents of the extension say it would accommodate corporations and government agencies that want information before it is published.
Sponsored research is a fairly recent phenomenon on university campuses in the United States. It grew at an astonishing rate in the 1950s, said Sig Lindenbaum, professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry. Had such growth continued, the entire U.S. gross national product today would be committed to research, he said.
Although its role still is small at the University, private industry has begun to fill the vacuum left in the government's wake.
The government spent money on
research in these Cold War years because of intense competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in the sciences and the space race.
David Paretsky, professor of microbiology, said more classification of research could lead to an environment at KU of closed doors, behind which colleagues could not discuss their work. The dissemination of knowledge could be restrained, he said.
"It was very uncomfortable for us as a nation to see ourselves falling into second or third rank." Lindenbaum said. "You created a situation where it was easy to get research grants, but it could not last. That's the painful process we're going through now."
The federal government has been and still is the chief source of sponsored research contracts at KU. However, much of the government's resources today are committed to defense research, and federal budget cuts also have trimmed the number of contracts available.
"Verily I say unto you, what does it profit a man to acquire knowledge if he does not give of it freely?" he said.
There is a social contract, he said, between the University and its faculty. The University expects the faculty to teach and produce scholarly
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Extra year minus aid spurs plea
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Some frustrated fifth-year education students think they are financially disadvantaged compared to other students who have signed a petition demanding aid.
The students, members of the first class required to take a fifth year, said they felt caught in the transitory stages of the five-year program begun in 1800. The program classifies fifth-year students as graduates, which makes themeligible for the university's course available to undergraduates.
Sally Wilkes, a Ballwin, Mo., fifty-year student, who helped write the petition, said yesterday that more than 170 students signed the petition. But she would not comment on the petition's contents.
Mike Whittington, Lawrence fifth-year education major, said, "We made some specific long-term and short-term investments in fifth year more financial feasible."
The short-term demands, he said, include the options of a fee waiver or a tuition waiver, or a grant from the Kansas University Endowment Association to cover tuition for next semester.
Another option would be a special fee adjustment to take into account that the students would not be on campus for half of the semester.
He said the long-term goals would be to make available to fifth-year students the same kind of financial aid that undergraduates received and to secure their own education for future students through the Endowment Association.
Another long-term goal would be to make low-interest loans or noninterest loans available for the fifth year through local lending institutions.
Whittington said the fifth-year students had a meeting with Paul Haack, acting dean of education, who suggested that they write a petition stating their complaints. The students then held meetings after a class to determine their objectives and to choose petition writers.
Haack said recently that he understood the students' financial difficulties but that the current program was also advantageous for them because salaries were higher for teachers with graduate hours.
Haack could not be reached for comment yesterday. However, a secretary in his office said he had forwarded the petition to Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Tacha was out of town and could not be reached for comment. George
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Stress, all-nighters are common in finals Procastination often leads Stress may be a key factor to nightlong study binges in deciding student health
By Atle Bjorge Special to the Kansan
When the night is cold and sinister,
all good people should be fast asleep.
But a flickering light shines from the
window of a student with a semester's worth of studying to catch up on.
He pumps himself up with coffee and staggers with bloodshot eyes through an endless desert of dry text. The all-nighter is as much a part of academic life as finals, and the two tend to go together.
"I'm stressed out," says Eric Krommenhoek, Overland Park freshman, studying in the cafeteria of Hashinger Hall. "I'm so far behind and I have to go through all these chapters."
He runs his hand through his blond hair and gazes desperately at the books and papers scattered on the table.
"I'm planning on staying up all night and a few more nights. I'm pretty much wired on Coca-Cola and coffee." he says with a grin.
Krommenhoek said he hadn't developed study habits in high school and wasn't prepared for the amount of work that was needed outside of
At another table, Todd Rowlett,
Topeka freshman, says he thinks he
has a 50-50 chance of passing this semester.
"I didn't relax at all during the (Thanksgiving) break," he says.
There is help for the disorganized and the pessimistic. The Student Assistance Center sponsors a workshop a few times a semester on preparing for exams. The last workshop for this semester was Wednesday, but there will be more early next semester.
The important thing is to use time consciously, says Lorna Zinimar, director of staffing at You're paying you less if presented in all your ways you have to make them a priority."
"Everything comes down at the same time. I'm a terrible student and I don't know why I'm here." Rowlett saves half-series.
Students are advised at the workshop to go over material more than once and think about what the main point of a course is. The center also runs short video programs on similar topics.
"There are a few techniques people can use if they are given various kinds of exams," she says, "but they are good at doing good command over the material.
"We see a ground swell of people about this problem at the end of the semester." Zimmer says many who
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By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
The professor, Doug Denney, is planning to conduct a study on whether stress in a student's life can increase susceptibility to illnesses.
Stressful events in a student's life may play an important role in determining whether he catches a cold or the flu, a professor of psychology savs.
"It's a new way of looking at it." Denney said to Tuesday. "In the old way, they thought you're ex-convict. A germ, you'll get that disease."
He said that in a relatively closed environment, such as a residence hall, everyone was exposed to the same germs.
Denney is now preparing a grant proposal for the Office of Naval Research. He said the office was interested in how psychological factors encountered in a closed environment, such as an aircraft carrier or residence hall, might affect the immune system.
"In these situations, then," he said,
"A lot of the prediction of who will get a disease is accounted for by psychological variables that impact on the immune system and enhance susceptibility to disease."
"We want to pick out what people will be in that 25 percent," Denney said.
The Office of Naval Research has found that 25 percent of the sailors on aircraft carriers contract 75 percent of the illnesses on board.
Other researchers have suggested that emotions such as anxiety, apathy and depression have an effect on the immune system.
According to the New York Times, studies at the Ohio State University School of Medicine have indicated that stress surrounding examinations can be correlated with a decline in the ability to produce interferon, a product of the immune system that helps fight off infection and disease.
The immunity decline was associated with an increase in colds and flu.
Denney has completed a study that found a reduction of lymphocytes, which are disease-fighting cells, in severely depressed people who were on chemotherapy. A department of psychiatry at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Other studies have compared a traumatic event to increased mortality rate, cancer and appendicitis.
Donald Goodwin, chairman of the department of psychiatry at the Med
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