Take it breezy
The man is playing the saxophone.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday
January 20, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 77
(USPS 650-640)
Above: Eddie Watson, Arkansas City senior and president of Black Student Union, leads a group of students down Jayhawk Boulevard in honor of the late Martin Luther King Jr. Right: Students sing "We Shall Overcome" while marching down the boulevard. After the March yesterday, a program, which included singing and speaking, was held in the Kansas Union. Both the march and the program were sponsored by the office of minority affairs.
KU joins education degree reform group
Bv ROGER COREY
The University of Kansas has joined an organization working to make sweeping changes in teaching and the education of teachers, including eliminating the undergraduate education major.
the organization, known as the Holmes Group, after former Harvard professor George Holmes, includes more than 90 universities.
Each institution is required to pay a $4,000 annual membership fee. The purpose of the Holmes Group is to improve the quality of teaching.
According to a report published by the group, the undergraduate education major has too often become a substitute for learning any one academic subject thoroughly enough to teach it well.
"These teachers are certified to teach all things to all children," the report stated. "But few of them know much about anything because they are required to know a little of
everything. No wonder so many pupils arrive in high school so weak in so many subjects."
"The Holmes Group is part of a national effort to improve teaching." Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education, explained. He said KU joined the group in November because for years, the University had been on the forefront of education.
Edward L. Meyen, dean of education, agreed, "The Holmes Group is taking a very important initiative." The school also has five have put addressed teacher, education
Bailey said some of the smaller colleges were not pleased with the change.
"The smaller schools are worried their enrollments will drop when the big universities implement the five-year education program." he said.
But, he added, a dip in enrollment was to be expected when a new program or curriculum was used. The enrollment for the School of Education dropped slightly in 1981 when a five-year program began. But
after a short time, enrollment increased again.
In the Holmes Group proposal, prospective teachers would be required to major in a liberal arts program for a bachelor's degree and then earn a master's degree in education.
Students who completed the five-year program would receive a professional certificate and be classified as professional teachers. In addition to their studies, they would be required to show competence as teachers through varied teaching demonstrations.
Students with only an undergraduate degree, under the Holmes proposal, would receive a nonrenewable certificate, valid for five years, and be classified as instructors. As instructors, they could work only under the supervision of a fully certified professional.
professional education courses and student teaching, and the fifth year is available for additional professional courses and internships.
In the KU program, students spend two years taking courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The third and fourth years are for
At the end of the five-year program, students receive a teaching certificate and 15 hours toward a master's degree. Although KU has a five-year program, its graduates will not be classified as professionals without curriculum changes.
Teresa Tulipana, Overland Park fifth-year student, said the five-year program was good in theory, but may have been initiated too quickly. When she joined the program there was talk of reduced fees and a stipend for internships.
"I feel very prepared," said Geri Lynn Fenny, Troy fifth-year student.
"The extra experience gives us more knowledge and student teaching and internships."
ter to another
But none of that has happened,
Tulipana said. She said she thought
many students didn't fully understand
the extent of the program and
where it was going from one semes-
The five-year program also changed the student's financial aid status. In the fifth year, students are classified as graduate students and are unable to receive Pell Grants. They are eligible, however, to borrow up to $5,000 in Guaranteed Student Loans.
"But you have to pay that back." Tulipana said.
Meyen plans to attend a conference of the Holmes Group from Jan. 27 to discuss new ideas for improving teaching quality. He said the KU program would be reviewed in three to six months.
"This is an ongoing process." Meyen said. "There are lots of changes in education today, and KU has already made a number of changes."
Other institutions planning to join are the Holmes Group are Kansas State University, the University of Nebraska, the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, the University of Colorado, Colorado State University and the University of Missouri.
Waite delays departure after negotiations
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private negotiations.
BEIRUT. Lebanon — Church of England envoy Terry Waite said yesterday that he met face to face with members of the pro-franian terror group holding two U.S. citizens hostage and prospects for their eventual release were good.
Speaking with reporters at his sisse riveira酒店, Waite said he delayed his departure yesterday because he was still in the middle of
"Until discussions are completed, there is no need for leaving," Waite said.
He said he has had face-to-face contact with the kidnappers of U.S. citizens Terry Anderson, 39, The Associated Press chief Middle East affairs officer for Israel and land, 54, the dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut.
men.
The pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad, or Holy War, has said it is holding both.
Waite refused to disclose whether he had seen any of the hostages, but said, "They are well. I think they were not." He asked their condition is generally good."
Waite said he still needed some convincing that the hostage-takers were controlled by external factors, but he conceded Iran has influence with them, though final control lies with those who are actually holding the hostages.
He said his mission had become more difficult because of the deteriorating security situation in Muslim west Berur. "But the difficulties I have experienced have been totally unconnected with the allegations made about arms to Iran."
Waite said, however, he believed governments should not get into direct discussions with people holding different views; it was to be a humanitarian endeavour.
release of the U.S. citizens, Waite said, "I think that eventually the prospects are good. You cannot ever give an answer in terms of specific time because events change so dramatically."
He said new factors could emerge and change the equation, referring to two Lebanese who were arrested last week in Italy and West Germany.
Waite refused to say whether he had similar contacts with the captors of other Westerners held in Lebanon.
Asked about prospects for the
Reagan's schedule disputed
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Roman Popaduk, assistant White House press secretary, said that Reagan, who is on a light work schedule while recuperating from prostate surgery, will meet with the panel led by former Sen. John Tower. The Republican Popaduk said he requested from the board to meet with Reagan was pending.
WASHINGTON — The White House disputed a report yesterday that President Reagan was ducking a meeting with the special panel he named to investigate the National Security Council, the agency that played midwife to the Iran-contra controversy.
Reagan named the panel to review operations by the NSC, where officials directed the covert operation to sell arms to Iran and coordinated efforts to aid the U.S.-backed Nicaragua rebels.
In setting up the special review board, Reagan pledged full cooperation, but the Washington Post, citing an anonymous source, said yesterday that the panel's requests in the past 10 days to question Reagan had been rebuffed.
Popadnik said that Reagan had offered to meet with the board in mid-December but that the group told him it wasn't ready for such a session at that time.
Asked whether the president was stalling, Popadiuk said, "Absolutely not."
Dale Petrosky, another assistant press secretary, said Reagan would meet with the Tower commission on a date to be set by his scheduling office.
The panel's inquiry is scheduled to finish its work at month's end and issue a report by the end of February. The board expects expiration date would be extended.
When Reagan created the panel Dec. 1, he gave it 60 days to report on changing operations of the NSC.
Vice Adm. John Pondexter, Reagan's national security adviser and head of the NSC, and Lt. Col. Oliver North, an NSC official, were ousted from their White House jobs Nov. 25 when it was revealed that profits from Iran arms sales were being diverted into Swiss bank accounts controlled by contra leaders.
Both North and Pointex refused to testify before congressional investigators, claiming their Fifth Amendment rights. Reagan later called on lawmakers to grant both men immunity so they could tell their stories without fear of going to prison.
But Capitol Hill leaders refused, in part because such a move could jeopardize investigations by a federal special prosecutor and House and Senate select committees investigating the affair.
SecureCab is safe with lower prices at new company
By LISA A. MALONEY Staff writer
The cab company has changed, but the SecureCab program, sponsored by the Student Senate, is still in operation after almost a year.
Under the new contract, Union Cab will charge the Senate $2.50 a ride, instead of the $3.00 charged by City Cab, Bryan said. If several students with separate destinations take the same cab, $1.25 for each additional destination will be billed to the Senate.
In December, when the SecureCab contract came up for renewal, the Union Cab Company, 1045 New Jersey St., underbid the City Cab Company, 338 W. 23rd St., and won the contract, said Charles Bryan, coordinator for KU on Wheels. KU on Wheels manages the SecureCab program for the Senate.
The program, nicknamed the "Tipsy Taxi" because it provides free rides home for drunken students, was proposed in 1965 by David Epstein, then student body president, and was put into operation in March.
The SecureCab program is free to students who show a valid KUID and is available from midnight to 3 a.m. on weekends, and 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. on weekends.
"We encourage everyone who feels unsafe to call SecureCab, whether because they've been drinking, or because they live in a dark part of campus," he said.
Bryan said that last semester the program averaged between 1,500 and 1,700 students a month, or about 800 fares.
Bryan said the Student Senate Transportation Board had increased the program's yearly allocation from $14,000 to $24,000, because the original figure "probably didn't cover last spring and last fall."
Although the majority of students who use the program are picked up at taverns, Bryan said that SecureCab was not just for them.
He added that they had not increased their request for funds from Student Senate The Transposition Board receives $230,000 a year
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See SECURECAB, p. 6, col. 3
Apple of her eye
To express her love for Larry Brown and keep him in Kansas, basketball fan Gloria Sterling designed a Ghostbusters-type t-shirt with a slash through a big apple, symbolic of New York. See page 12.
Player shuffle
Since Wichita State University dropped its football program Dec. 2, three of the team's players have signed with the University of Kansas. See page 9.
Students must change lifestyles when on study abroad programs
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Crisps are potato chips, and chips are French fries. Tea is always hot, and flashy clothes are out.
Staff writer
Last year Erica Tannenbaum,
Overland Park senior, had to get used to these and other changes in her language and her lifestyle when she studied at the University of Stirling in Stirling, Scotland.
"I was an alien," Tannenbaum said.
Every year, about 400 KU students leave the Lawrence campus to study in foreign countries. Students who are not required to or their work at foreign universities.
"Wherever there are good schools, we will send students," said Mary Elizabeth Gwin, director of study abroad.
"Summer programs are alive and well and thriving," she said.
Threats of terrorism kept many students from studying abroad last summer. Gwin said security had been improved, and this year's enrollment for study abroad was back to normal
Stephen Johnson, Lawrence senior, will be at the fair showing slides of an old shepherd's village in the mountains of France, where he practiced painting and photography for a week in the summer.
Students can learn about study abroad from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Travel/Study Abroad Fair in the glass gallery on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
Students who have studied in foreign countries will talk about their adventures and show slides. A Eurailpass, which allows a person to ride trains throughout Europe, will be given as one of several door prizes.
People who had pledged money paid plenty because the pair made it to eight bars. Proceeds went to charity.
It wasn't the first time Johnson studied in France. He spent his junior year studying art, archeology and art history at the Universities of Talence and the Ecole des Beaux in Bordeaux.
"Then you can go to the market in the morning," he said.
Johnson lived in France for three years as a child and is fluent in French.
Both Johnson and Tannenbaum enjoyed the nightlife of their host countries. Johnson said the clubs in France were open from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Tannenbaum enjoyed "drinking for charity" in Scotland, where she ran a three-legged race from bar to bar and received a donation for each bar she drank at. She had one leg tied to a friend's leg, and the pair hopped
to and stopped at the town's hot spots.
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"We went to eight bars in one hour," she said, adding that walking with her partner got easier after the first few stops.
Tamenbaum studied psychology and art history at the university. She said classes were more rewarding at Stirling than they were at KU because lectures were supplemented with successful discussions.
"Students (in Stirling) are more vocal, more knowledgeable about politics. . . Class time was worth a little bit more." she said.
Johnson said that the students he met overseas were, on the average, more intelligent than U.S. students. French grammar schools were tougher than schools in the United States.
"The average person here is quite ignorant compared to a student over there," he said. "It's a really intense atmosphere." He has more of a chance to be a kid.
Students who want to study abroad may need to have their applications in by late January, although some programs have later deadlines.