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Thursday, February 19, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
An all-nighter
Ralph Ryan, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, and Christine Kalicic, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, enjoy some popcorn while waiting in line at the entrance to Allen Field House. The two planned to spend all night and toady holding their place in line for seats to tonight's basketball game between the Jayhawks and the Kansas State Wildcats. The popcorn was given to them by Danny Manning.
Panel says challenges, opportunities crucial to future success in education
By CAROLINE REDDICK
Staff writer
The successful future of U.S. educational programs depends on changes in the current system, including recruitment of new teachers, several area educators said last night.
The educators spoke in Nichols
to the panel presentation on 'The
Future of Education.'
Connie Campbell, executive director of the Learning Exchange, Kansas City, Mo., spoke on the panel. Campbell said the teaching profession needed to create new challenges and opportunities for teachers to attract new people to the profession.
"We're not graduating enough
education majors to meet the demand for teachers." Campbell said.
"If I recall correctly, in the early 1970s, over 15 percent of all college graduates were in the field of education. Last year the figure was somewhere between 4 and 5 percent, according to a recent educational research report."
Another panel member, Dan Neuenswander, superintendent of Lawrence Public Schools, said teachers needed to participate more in the development of curriculum and in peer coaching.
He said that in the future educators would be teaching a larger percentage of basic skills courses and a smaller percentage of vocational and
industrial courses.
"We are part of the most important profession in the world — a profession without which there are no other professions." Neuenswander said.
Campbell said, "I think that one of the most important issues in the future will be the changing role we'll take in educating new teachers.
"We'll need to do a better job of preparing teachers so they'll want to stay in the profession longer. If we're going to compete for the top students, then we'll have to make the program challenging and motivating. And we've got to cooperate with the school districts in matching the teachers they want to hire with what's being produced."
Residence hall staff policy to exclude underclassmen Officials want to ensure RAs' maturity
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Officials want to ensure RAs' maturity
Staff writer
A new staffing policy in the office of residential programs may put hall resident assistants' jobs beyond the reach of freshmen and most sophomores.
Only students who had completed 30 credit hours at KU were eligible to apply for the 49 fall RA positions. Sophomores with more than 30 hours who applied won't hold the job until they are juniors, when the job begins.
'By the time people become eligible to apply, they don't want to live in the dorms anymore.'
— Tammy Walch Lenexa sophomore
Morrow said the new policy would help the office guarantee that RAs were mature enough to handle their responsibilities, and a meaningful guidance for residents.
Since the application deadline for fall positions was Jan. 20, new RAs will be mostly junior and seniors, said Jean Morrow, assistant director for staffing at the office of residential programs.
RAs are employed by the office to perform administrative duties and to advise and assist hall residents who are responsible for 40 to 80 residents.
Morrow said the job was usually too demanding for a second semester course.
Previously, when eligibility rules permitted such students to apply, many applied not knowing how much of a commitment the job required. Morrow said.
RAs who had not learned to balance their job with their classwork often found their grade point averages declining, she said.
"First and foremost, we want them to perform well academically," Morrow said. "We want them to be role models to their residents.
"We expect these people to provide a lot of guidance and advice to residents. Someone who's been here two years is more likely to perform better than someone who's been here only a year."
But some students who applied for the job as second semester freshmen and sophomores said they disagreed
with the new policy
"I see why they 're doing it," said Joe Gonzalez. Overland Park junior, who applied as a sophomore last fall, said he know if it's "abutly necessary."
Tammy Walch, Lenexa sophomore and an RA at Oliver Hall, said the relationship between the RA and his president more formal and less friendly.
"If you're younger, residents look at you more as a friend. But when you're older, they look up to you more as an authority figure," she said.
"This is going to cut out a lot of good people. By the time people become eligible to apply, they don't want to live in the dorms anymore."
Gonzalez said, "If you cut down on the number of people who can apply, you cut down on the number of good people you can hire."
Morrow said that if freshmen and sophomores didn't want to stay in the halls long enough to be eligible under the new rules, they probably wouldn't have the commitment that the job required.
"We have a lot of RAS around who are juniors and seniors. That shows they do like the halls enough to want to remain." she said.
Two men arrested for attempted automobile break-in at fraternity
By a Kansan reporter
Lawrence police arrested two Kansas City, Kan., men early Wednesday night in connection with an attempted break-in of an automobile on campus, a police spokesman said yesterday.
The two men, ages 23 and 21, were being held without bond in Douglas County Jail yesterday pending the formal filing of charges.
St., heard glass breaking at about 1 a.m. yesterday. He looked out a window and saw two men leaning into cars parked in the fraternity parking lot.
Members of the fraternity yelled at the men, who ran east to a truck parked by Learned Hall and drove away, police said.
Police said that a member of the Kappa Ppa fraternity, 1602 W. 15th
Although two radar detectors were reported missing from two vehicles in the parking lot, nothing was found in the suspects' truck except an electrical wire that a Phi Kpsi Psi fraternity member identified as belonging to his car, police said.
The fraternity members called the police, who notified an officer in the area. The officer saw the truck near the intersection of 15th and Iowa
streets, and arrested the two men after stopping the vehicle, the said.
The two men each are being held on felony police charges of theft, auto burglary and criminal damage to property, jail records said.
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