University Daily Kansan / Wednesdav April 15, 1987
Campus and Area
Local Briefs
Author Wolfe will discuss writing tonight
Tom Wolfe, "new journalism"
writer and author of "The Right
Stuff" and "The Electric Kool-Aid
Acid Test," will talk about his
writing at 8 p.m. today in Hoch
Auditorium.
Wolf's lecture, which is free, is sponsored by the Student Union Activities forums committee and the Student Senate lecture series. He will answer questions from the audience after his speech.
Date, location of concert changed
Retired professor elected to AAAS
The date and location of a concert sponsored by the April 25th March Committee have been changed. The concert will raise money for students to travel to Washington for a march protesting U.S. policies in Central America and South Africa.
A retired KU geography professor has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The concert will be at 8 p.m.
April 21 at the Jazzhaus, $925%
Massachusetts St. The bands Com-
panions will perform Media and
Manna will perform
George F. Jenkens, was one of 306 fellows elected to the association last month at it annual meeting in Chicago. The association describes a fellow as a "member whose efforts on behalf of the committee have resulted in its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished."
Jenks came to KU in 1949 from the University of Arkansas, where he was an assistant professor of rural economics and sociology for one year.
He conducted research at KU and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in computer mapping, map development, symbolization and other topics.
Applications due soon for Kansan
Applications for fall semester news and business staff positions on the Kansan are available in 119 and 200 Staffaur-Flint Hall. The deadline for news applications is 5 p.m. today and the deadline for business applications is 5 p.m. Friday.
Interviews for news staff positions will be conducted tomorrow, Friday and Sunday. Applicants must sign up for interviews in the Kansan newsroom, 111 Stauffer-Flint.
For more information, call the newsroom at 864-4810 or the Kansas business office at 864-4358.
KU leads way with five-year teaching program
A national organization designed to improve teaching may follow the lead of the University of Kansas in teacher education, the KU associate dean of education said yesterday.
By BENIAMIN HALL
Staff writer
KU joined the organization, known as the Holmes Group, in November. The group includes 94 institutions. Each paid $4,000 to belong.
One of the group's goals is to promote five-year programs in education.
From staff and wire reports.
KU already has a five-year program.
Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education,
said yesterday that he expected other institutions to follow KU's lead.
"My hunch is that sometime in the future there'll be a lot of institutions that have programs like ours," he said.
But Bailey said the Holmes Group didn't yet have a specific model for a five-year program. "Practically everybody has his or her own idea of what that model looks like," he said. "The group is so young that it hasn't conceptualized what a program ought to look like."
Edward L. Meyen, dean of education, said last spring's graduates were the first education majors to complete KU's five-year program.
KU education students spend two years taking courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, two years in professional education courses and student teaching, and a fifth year in professional courses and internships
"We're already a step ahead." Meyen said.
KU is one of the very first to go to this model. Messen said we are watching from monitoring their programs.
"We're going to benefit from what they learn," he said. "We're going to be influenced by teacher education reform in general."
pleted a five-year program could be classified as professional teachers.
The Holmes Group's proposal for teacher education reform would require prospective teachers to earn a bachelor's degree in a related field. Teachers must also degree in education. Only students who com-
But Meyen said the group recently had become a little more flexible in its agenda. The group's first meeting was in January.
Bailey said, "People have all kinds of different programs."
Some education schools now require about nine semesters of courses and others require a four-year liberal arts degree and two years of professional education courses. Bailey said.
The University of Florida in Gainesville is the only major institution with a program like the one at KU, Bailey said.
Club helps students organize business
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
Staff writer
Ideas, motivation and contacts are the building blocks for the Association of College Entrepreneurs, a network of students who are interested in starting their own businesses.
ACE, an international organization founded by a Wichita State University professor, gives its members the opportunity to meet people with similar interests.
Josef Schulte, Lawrence senior and treasurer of the KU chapter of ACE, said many of the club's members had joined their group and found its speakers inspiring.
Beth Larson, St. Louis senior and president of the KU chapter, said ACE helped her focus on what she wanted to do, made her aware of aspects of business she'd never considered before and warned her of mistakes she could avoid.
Larson, who has a real estate license and plans to work in real estate after she graduates, said that through ACE she had met people who had taken business risks and come out on top.
"ACE is a good place to hook up with people," said club secretary Diane McGuire.
Schulte said that ACE almost had been more useful than school. He said that he had learned through ACE about applying techniques he had learned in college, such as marketing and promotional skills.
'ACE is a good place to hook up with people.'
E. J. McKenna Lee's Summit junior
Several of the club members have used a new marketing concept to start a firewood business.
Brad Snyder, Hutchinson graduate student, a founder of the KU chapter, said the students who work together have never would have met without ACE.
Schulte said the club started about two years ago, dropped for a while and then rebounded.
Larson, Schulte and McKenna said that they were impressed by the group's speakers, who offered insight into the business world. The speakers of entrepreneurs who have taken risks and succeeded with their business ideas.
Members of ACE meet once a month to listen to guest speakers or participate in round table discussions. Dues are $17.50 a year.
Sharon Calvin, Linwood junior, makes her way up the hill near the Spencer Museum of Art. Calvin needed a raincoat to battle the rainy conditions that Lawrence has had this week. The rains are expected to continue today.
Welfare director says budget shift is key to survival
By CAROLINE REDDICK
Rain lane
Staff writer
The Kansas welfare program can survive budget cuts by cutting the eligibility of some groups and by rearranging existing budget money, a state official said yesterday.
Robert Harder, secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services, spoke to about 100 people in the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union on the effect of current legislation on social programs. His speech was sponsored by the School of Social Welfare.
"I think we actually fared well as far as the Legislature went," Harder said, referring to state legislative committee recommendations on the welfare budget.
“If you break even, you feel as if that’s a relatively good year,” he said. “We do not get enough dollars to pay for services on the social demands are at the time.”
He said that after a thorough examination of the budget, state House and Senate committees recommended transferring $500,000 of transitional general assistance used to support community kitchens. Harder said the department was phasing out transitional assistance.
They also proposed that the state make direct payments to day care centers for children whose parents receive Aid for Dependent Children. Parents now pay the bill and are reimbursed later by the state. Harder said the Legislature wanted to encourage single parents to work by making day care affordable.
"They think that since so many mothers of welfare are working,
mothers on welfare must as well be working too." Harder said.
Harder said the agency wanted to increase family support systems and thereby reduce the number of abused children in institutions.
"We'll be working with more kids in their own home and working to stabilize the family," he said. "But we still don't have enough staff in the field. We have difficulties in getting the Legislature to see that putting additional workers in the field is not just building the bureaucracy."
"We have a problem in our state." Dutton said. "Welfare is low on the priority list. We have to look to social action. We need citizen action."
After Harder's speech, Ed Dutton associate professor of social welfare, told the audience that it needed to get involved in community programs.
The area manager of the Topeka-Lawrence SRS, Faith Spencer, said she thought Topeka and Lawrence wouldn't suffer from budget cuts.
"The budget people have indicated that by switching things around there is enough money, and I feel it's important to know what they're doing," she said.
"It's going to make it a lot harder for people to receive assistance," he said. "I think they ought to reduce spending in some other areas and get more federal money in the programs."
New immigration laws confusing, official says
David Boehnek, Lenexa sophmore in social welfare, said he attended the speech because he was concerned about budget cuts.
Staff writer
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Foreign students who take the advice of other students pretending to be experts on new immigration laws may be playing a dangerous game, the director of foreign student services said yesterday.
"We have some students at KU who perceive themselves as immigration experts, and we've had students burned because of what they've been told," Clark Coan, the director, told about 25 students who attended a workshop on the new immigration laws in the Daisy Hill room at the Burge Union.
Coan said that the changing immigration laws were difficult to understand even for those familiar with them. Students in doubt should consult the foreign student office, he said.
"If you get the wrong information you could get into trouble," Coan said. "And our aim is to keep foreign
students out of trouble."
The new immigration bill was signed by President Reagan November 6 and goes into effect May 6. The bill is designed to stem the flow of illegal aliens into the United States, although parts of it affect foreign students who are in the country legally, Coan said.
The law makes it easier for foreign students to change schools or to undertake a second or third degree, he said.
After May 6, universities' foreign
student offices will be authorized to
guide students.
Previously, students who wanted to transfer to another school or enter another degree program were required to apply to the Immigration and Naturalization Service at least 60 days in advance.
Students learn practical training permits also will have an easier time under the law, Coan said. Practical training opportunities in the United
States now are available for all foreign students who can show that the same opportunities are not available in their countries.
However, the period of training cannot exceed one year, and students who apply for work permits under a practical training visa may not take a job that is unrelated to their field of study, Coan said.
Under the old law, students had to apply to the INS at least 60 days before training began. Now, foreign students offices will be authorized to give that permission, Coan said.
But unless students apply for permission within 30 days after graduation, they may lose their practical training opportunity, he said.
The new law also places some obstacles in the way of students who plan to extend indefinitely their stay in the United States, he said.
Students who receive practical training visas are now obliged to return to their home country after
one year of training. Once they have been on a practical training visa, they will not be able to apply for a temporary work permit, or a H-1 visa, Coan said.
The law also puts a cap on the number of years foreign students can take to finish their studies. Whether they plan to complete a bachelor's or master's degree, doctorate or all three, they must finish within eight years.
Coan said the largest beneficiaries of the immigration law were not students but foreign nationals who had been in the U.S. illegally from before Jan. 1, 1982
"That's an irony of the immigration law," he said. "If you've been legalized, you will be benefits. Some are to five million illegal aliens are going to be made legal."
"Persons who have followed the law and kept their noses clean, they're not going to have that privilege."
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