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Thursday, January 15, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Search committee meets Replacement for Cobb sought
By JENNIFER FORKER Staff writer
The committee searching for a new executive vice chancellor to replace Robert P. Cobb met for the first time Tuesday.
Cobb resigned from the position Dec. 31. He will be on leave this semester and will return in the fall to teach English.
Del Shankel, professor of microbiology, will act as executive vice chancellor until a permanent replacement is selected. Shankel also is the chairman of the replacement committee that was named Dec. 15 by Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Shankel said the search should not last more than six months.
"I think it will definitely be possible to identify a new executive vice chancellor by July 1," he said.
Shankel said that Budig hoped the successor would be able to begin by July, or at least before the fall 1987 semester.
At the meeting, the 11-member committee discussed how to present the job description to prospective applicants. They also discussed the importance of advertisements and the sending of announcements about the position.
Cobb, who was the executive vice chancellor for six $ \frac{3}{2} $ years, will teach English 105 and 209 classes next semester.
Shankel served as executive vice chancellor from Jan. 1974 to July 1, 1980, when Cobb succeeded him.
Members of the search committee are; Shankel; Mel Dubnick, associate professor of public administration and chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee; Neva Entrikin, administrative assistant in the department of art history and representative of classified employees; LaDale George, St. Louis senior; Paul Gillens, professor of chemistry; Ray Hiner, professor of history and of educational policy and administration; Ted Kuwana, professor of chemistry; Carl Locke, dean of the School of Engineering; Ted Valgalis, graduate student and western civilization instructor; Caryl Smith, dean of student life; and Susan Wachter, assistant athletic director.
Robert P. Cobb, former executive vice chancellor, will return from a leave of absence to teach English in the fall.
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Cafeterias shuffled to assist renovation
Staff writer
Major-scramble is a term for a certain cafetaria design, but it also could describe the current food situation in the Kansas Union.
Union Food Service vacated its third floor operations during the semester break to prepare for the $6.5 million Union renovation now underway. Food service also set up a temporary dining room on the fifth level and redesigned its second floor dining areas.
"We are hoping to move back in over the next Christmas break," said Bob Richeson, food service manager.
New signs will guide patrons to the temporary Big Eight Deli/Snack Bar on the fifth level across from Woodruff Auditorium, the Hawk's Nest Cafeteria and the Prairie Room Soup and Salad Bar on the second level.
The entire third level will be gutted in February and renovated to consolidate all food service operations.
The changes mean food service personnel must deal with less kitchen space, the loss of their main dishwashing machine and possible layoffs of part-time employees, Richeson said.
The Hawk's Nest kitchen, now being used for all food service operations in the Union, including banquet catering, is one third the size of the old third-level kitchen, Richeson said. Because of the smaller kitchen, food service cut its offerings by 15 percent.
The loss of the dishwashing machine, which was too large to be moved, has cut dishwashing
capabilities by 75 percent. Richeson said. To adapt, food service has put away all its china and silverware and will now use plastic disposable dining ware.
Richeson said that purchasing the disposable wares would create extra expenses but that it also would reduce the workload. Some time employees may not be needed to bus tables and wash dishes.
Richeson said he hoped that layoffs would not be necessary. That decision won't be made until the new services have been operating for some time, he said.
The food service office has also moved from the third level to the Regionalist Room on the fifth level, next to the Big Eight Room. The Oread Room across the hall now is being used to store kitchen equipment.
The loss of the Big Eight Room, the Regionalist Room, the Oread Room, all the claves in the old cafeteria, and the Council Room, which now houses the Oread Book Shop, has reduced the number of available meeting rooms.
The calendar is filling quickly, said Hallia Nations, reservationist for the Kansas and Burge unions. He said he'd turn to anyone away," she said.
To relieve the situation, the Union has refurbished the Pine and Walnut rooms and opened the east and west Gallery rooms for meetings, said Jim Long, director of the Kansas and Burge unions. A conference room and a dining room alvee have been added in the Burge Union, as well as a new copying center.
Jewelry display adorns museum
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Throughout history, men and women from many cultures have decorated themselves with ornaments, jewelry and body paints. This was often done for the sake of vanity, but sometimes to express wealth, rank, social status or religious beliefs.
Almost 100 representations of this custom, which Smith considers a very human trait, are on display at the museum until Feb 1. The exhibit, "Baubles, Bangles and Beads?" includes jewelry, headgear, beadwork and orate clothing from Africa, the Americas and Australia.
The practice of adorning oneself continues today, said Robert J. Smith, professor of anthropology and curator of the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology.
The museum is open 9 a.m to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Ann Schagler, the exhibit's organizer, has prepared a visitors' reference guide available at the museum to help people understand the displays.
"Virtually everybody in the world orates themselfs, paints themselves or hangs something on themselves," Smith said. "It gives other people a way of summing us up instantaneously."
African artifacts on display include headaddress and metal arm, leg and neck bands. Brass rings from South Africa, which were placed around a girl's neck when she was old enough to be married, communicate marital status just as wedding rings do in our culture, Smith said.
Smith said that the people of the Ache trie in Paraguay, South America, which he studied on a trip there, wear no clothing because of custom and the warm climate. But the men, often hunters, he said, wear monkey necklaces to display their skill and to gain respect.
In societies where little clothing is worn, he said, people still decorate themselves for personal satisfaction or to distinguish personal achievement or societal status.
"A monkey's tooth is not very big and the size of these necklaces was incredible," Smith said.
"They would have had to have killed a lot of monkeys."
Other objects on display are Kansas shell beads from prehistoric America, which Smith said were examples of inter-tribal commerce; carved stone pendants from Mexico that probably represent gods; and a colorful South American design of feathers weaved on bark cloth.
The bark cloth was worn to identify with birds, the creatures that lived between the earth and the sky, Smith said.
Some of the objects, like an Australian ivory-colored flat shell etched with angular designs, have strong religious significance.
"It is probably a churinga, a magical stone with lots of power in it," Smith said. "The pattern suggests it may be a mystical map, an extremely sacred object."
Most of the objects in the exhibit were donated to the museum and were in storage. Smith said. Many of the items date back to prehistoric times.
TV stations might ban Roberts' show
United Press International
TULSA, Okla. — A growing number of television station managers say they will decline to air Oral Roberts' weekly show if it includes pleas for donations to extend the evangelist's life past March.
Roger Roebuck, assignment editor of WAVE-TV in Louisville, Ky., which has carried the Oral Roberts show for 10 years, said Tuesday that he was really appalled by Roberts' fund-raising techniques.
"I intend to screen the program before it goes on for the next three or four episodes, and we will cancel the season," he says. "The does not change." Roebuck said.
Representatives of TV stations in Oklahoma City and Dallas said on Monday that they would cancel the
show or refuse to air segments of the program that included what they considered inappropriate pleas for money.
Sandra Butler, director of broadcast operations for WUSA in the Washington area, said her station did not air last Sunday's broadcast because of the nature of the appeal for money.
On Sunday and Jan. 4, Roberts requested $4.5 million by March to reach his $8 million goal to support a medical missionary program, for which he has already raised $3.5 million since March 1986.
Roberts said that God told him that if he didn't reach the goal, "I'm going to call you home in one year."
"I want to be able to stand on this television program in April, alive, and tell you that I have all I need.
and then be able to tell you that God is going to meet your needs." Roberts told his viewers Sunday.
Others, like WWL-TV in New Orleans, KGSW-TV in Albuquerque, N.M. WIBW-TV in Topeka, and KOTV in Tulsa — Roberts' base city — said the broadcasts had not created any special problems
Officials from other television stations such as WDAF-TV in Kansas City and KHJ-TV in Los Angeles said they were closely monitoring the program but had not decided on any definite action.
Jan Wilson, program coordinator for KOTV, said that "being from Tuba where Oral Roberts is so strong, we're a little bit out of the stations, from the rest of the stations that are taking more drastic actions."
Roberts' spokeswoman Jan Dargaz said that complaints from station managers would not affect the content of the evangelist's weekly television show, which is taped in Tulsa.
"Oral Roberts has consistently done on his television program what he feels he must do." Dargatz said. "He's not a preacher, but his message based on public opinion."
Roberts has received few complaints directly from television stations, and the response from the team has been positive. Dargatz said.
"I have answered dozens of phone calls from the general public," she said. "I have not had any negative response. Most of the questions are if the media is fairly portraying the story."
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