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Faculty sees no attraction in administrative positions
By Rebecca J. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
Developing administrative leadership within the University of Kansas is difficult because of competing demands on the time of faculty, members of the Faculty Executive Committee said yesterday.
FacEx met in the Regents Room of Strong Hall.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, asked for suggestions to attract faculty members who might have an interest in leadership roles, including positions as chairmen of departments and deans of schools.
Ron Francisco, associate professor of political science, said administrative positions could cause problems in the careers of faculty members because the positions didn't allow enough time for teaching and research needed to gain tenure.
He said it was especially difficult to find faculty members to be department chairmen.
Jim Seaver, professor of history, agreed with Francisco. He said he was concerned with how the committee on promotion and tenure would view administrative service to the University.
Mel Dubnick, associate professor of public administration, said that many people did not want to be chairmen because there was little financial compensation for the job. He said chairmen might receive an extra two months' salary and possibly stipend, but they had to work during two summer months.
Sharon Bass, associate professor of journalism, said conflicting demands on faculty members' time prevented them from accomplishing much in leadership positions.
"We want people to do something, but we ask people to do more and more in terms of quantity and quality." she said.
To bring more faculty members into leadership positions, Ramaley
suggested part-time administrative positions, internship programs so faculty members could try out leadership positions and internal sabbaticals in administrative positions.
Bass 'said KU might consider developing leadership appreciation programs and programs to prepare quality members for leadership positions.
Gary Shapiro, professor of philosophy, said administrative positions could be made academically challenging by allowing faculty members to integrate their own research into the responsibilities of the position.
But Evelyn Swartz, FacEx chairman, said, "There has to be an attitude change about administrators."
She said that faculty members sometimes saw administrators as adversaries and looked down upon faculty members who wanted to be administrators.
Bands play to help humane society
By Michael Carolan Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 24, 1988
"Scruffy" the cat needs a home. She has lived at the Outhouse, a single-story building four miles east of Lawrence that is used for bands to perform in, for about six months. She listens to the loud music with the rush of people on weekends and cleans up the mice all by herself on weekdays.
The yellow, brown and white cat looked kind of scruffy so she is called "Scruffy," said Bill Rich, who brought her Saturday to the Lawrence Humane Society.
Although Scruffy the cat since has been bathed, groomed and cared for by the Lawrence
Humane Society, another Scruffy the Cat, a notated rockabilly-influenced band from Boston, will play Sunday night at the Outhouse, four miles east of Lawrence on 15th Street. The band is playing to raise money for the humane society and homeless cats like Scruffy.
"The ideas kind of fell together at the same time," said Rich, whose record label "Fresh Sounds," along with KJHK and others, helped produce the show. "Scruffy the Cat is a good band that's popular in town that people wanted to hear. It all happened around the same time."
The $1 raffle ticket for the show, which also features the Manhattan-based band Moving Van Goghs and the band Big Toe, from Lawrence, will be put in a drawing to win a pair of seasonal passes to the Outhouse, one season pass to the Outhouse, and one pass for April shows at the Outhouse.
There will be 20 drawings for Scruffy the Cat records and tapes and four drawings for six packs of non-alcoholic beer. The raffie ticket is good for $1 off the admission charge, and all raffie-ticket money collected will go to the Lawrence Humane Society.
Tickets for the show, which starts at 9 p.m. on March 27, are available at Pennylane Records, 844 Massachusetts St., and at the SUA box office for $5.
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