University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 9, 1988
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KU recruits professors anticipating relief funds
By Stacy Foster
Kansan staff writer
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has begun hiring new professors to help alleviate overcrowding in areas that have experienced rapid growth in the last year.
As many as 25 new faculty positions could be created in the college if the University of Kansas receives a $1.7 million faculty funding increase recommended to the Legislature by Gov. Mike Hayden.
But even as legislators debate the merits of such an allocation, the college has begun screening and hiring some job applicants.
"Of the 16 departments that showed an increase of 100 students or more, we have faculty search going on in 14 departments," Robert Lineberry, dean of the college, said yesterday.
He said that most of the new faculty would fill junior- and senior-level classes because that was where
help was needed most.
Lindy Eakin, assistant to the dean of liberal arts and sciences, said that upper division faculty would help the college's resources by providing it with scholars interested in research and graduate programs.
The philosophy department has just added a new assistant professor to its staff.
to its start.
Anthony Genova, philosophy chairman, said the new position should alleviate some of the strain that had resulted from a dramatic enrollment increase.
increase. "In the last three years, the overall head count has increased 51 percent." Genova said. "Our graduate student population has increased by 30 percent."
He said that salaries should not be a problem in hiring new faculty.
"Lineberry has been very demanding that we hire only the best applicants," Genova said. "Salaries for new applicants are very competitive."
We won't lose a professor because of salary."
re said that of 90 applicants, the department was able to hire one of its top choices.
"We're hoping next year to make another faculty appointment," Kozma-Southall said. "We're always hoping the college will have the commitment to continue our increases, they just don't have the money now."
top choices
Jan Kozma-Southall, chairman of the French and Italian department, said the department had just hired an assistant professor to teach upper-level French courses.
The Spanish department hired two new faculty members. One is a replacement, but the other position is new.
Robert Spires, Spanish and Portuguese department chairman, said that the addition was a response to the 30 percent enrollment increase from last semester.
Vets talk to class studying '60s
By Brenda Finnell
Kansan staff writer
Students gazed at slides of young American soldiers in Vietnam. Pictures of a peaceful countryside contrasted with ones of wounded soldiers.
By viewing such pictures and meeting the people who actually served in Vietnam, students can supplement their classroom readings with a personal sense of history, said Tolene Smith, lecturer in English.
"I think when you come closer to history, you feel more involved," Smith said.
Three Vietnam veterans visited Smith's Literature of the '60s class yesterday. They showed slides and then answered students' questions.
answer to state demands.
Tom Berger, a research assistant for the executive vice chancellor, and Jeff Cocayne and Virginia Hicks, Kansas City, Mo., residents, responded to questions ranging from how they felt about war protesters to how they adjusted when they returned to the United States.
"By the time I got over there, I was seeing things I had heard on the evening news." Hicks said.
Cocayne said it was difficult to adjust to life in the United States after serving in Vietnam. He talked about the sense of isolation many soldiers developed and how difficult it was to explain those feelings to family or friends.
"I was in Vietnam; and then three days later, I was eating dinner at my parents' house," he said.
Berger discussed the war's relationship to current events. He said he saw parallels between Vietnam and conflicts taking place in the Middle East and Central
America.
ART.
"We've got to make the hard, fast decisions before we put lives on the line," Berger said. "If we're not careful, and your generation will have to make the decisions, we're going to be in a lot of trouble."
Hicks, who worked in military intelligence during the Vietnam War, said after the class that she was surprised that many students weren't familiar with facts about Vietnam but that she liked helping them learn more.
"It made me feel like I was a part of history," she said. Cocayne said, "I enjoy being around the young people and saying 'Yes, I'm a Vietnam veteran' and feeling good about it."
Shana Pearlmutter, St. Louis freshman, said she thought talking to veterans would help prevent future wars like Vietnam.
Jennifer Dole, Los Angeles freshman, said that the veterans' visit had been educational.
"It really gives you a better sense of what it was all about," she said.
about This is the second semester Smith has taught the literature class.
literature class.
In addition to Vietnam issues, students discuss subjects such as civil rights, women's rights and the environmental movement.
Many students feel a nostalgia for the '60s, Smith said. They are often eager to participate in protests and express their views but sometimes feel challenged by peers who don't feel the same, he said.
poisoned.
"I try to change that nostalgia into an awareness that you can do things now," she said.
Forrest MacDonald/KANSAN
Screen scene
Pamela Kaulfuss, Northbrook, Ill., junior, works on her silkscreening project for a screenprinting textiles class. Kaulfuss was doing the screening on her project last night in the Art and Design building.
March is start of severe weather season
By Donna Stoke
Kansas staff writer
Be forewarned
Rv Donna Stokes
Committee are part of Gov. Mike Hayden's "Severe Weather Awareness Week," March 6-12
If the sirens signaling severe weather go off today, it probably won't be necessary to dive under the nearest chair. The 12th annual tornado drill for Kansas is scheduled to take place between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. today to test the state communication lines.
State to test warning systems today; awareness clinic set for March 17 to teach identification of tornadoes
During severe weather season, the number of siren tests in Douglas County increases from one to two a month. From March to August, tests of the county's 23 sirens will be held on the first and third Mondays of each month, said Dale Creed, Douglas County emergency preparedness coordinator.
March marks only the beginning of the severe weather season, in which tornadoes and thunderstorms can spring up unexpectedly while you sit, without an umbrella.
through a lecture class.
But local and regional weather services offer students a chance to learn how to avoid surprises.
The National Weather Service and the Douglas County emergency preparedness division will sponsor a meeting at 6:30 p.m. March 17 in the Apollo Room at Nichols Hall. William Barlow, warning and preparedness meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Topeka, will conduct a training session on how to spot tornadoes and watch for developing severe-weather patterns.
"It is ited to help any private individual identify cloud features that are associated with or may lead to tornado development, as opposed to clouds that shouldn't be taken as a threat," Barlow said.
Creed said it was important for everyone to know what to do or how to prepare for bad weather.
"It's obvious that when the weather turns severe, the likelihood for tornadoes increases," Creed said. "Students should listen to local radio and TV stations for special weather reports.
"It's also important to know the difference between watches and warnings, for both tornadoes and severe thunderstorms."
severe thunder, a severe thunderstorm watch encompassed a large area, of 150 to 200 miles, where conditions exist that create the possibility of bad weather.
A severe thunderstorm warning is issued when weather radar indicates that large hail or winds in excess of 60 mph are likely.
if excess of 60 bpm are the
a tornado watch means that the
Creed said that people should take cover in a basement or go to a small room in the interior of a building, such as a closet or a bathroom on the lowest floor, during tornado warnings.
"The average life of a tornado is less than five minutes." Creed said. "You should try to take cover as soon as possible."
It is not a good idea for motorists to try to outrun a tornado, he said.
It is not a good idea to try to outrun a tornado, he said. "Tornadoes have been clocked at up to 70 mph." Creed said. "Even though they average only about 35 mph, they don't have to turn corners like we do. They travel cross-country."
Other precautions students need to take might depend on where they live.
"Students in multiple-floor residence halls should get as low as possible as quick as possible and should watch out for elevators and avoid windows," Creed said.
City OKs taxi service; drivers to begin today
The Lawrence City Commission last night unanimously voted to grant a Lawrence resident a license to run a 24-hour taxi service in the city.
Kansan staff writer
By Christine Martin
The resident, Paul Shackelford,
said at last night's city commission
meeting that he would start his
service at 2 p.m. today.
Shackelford's service will operate three vehicles and will have a dispatch system.
Fares will be $3.50 a person one way and 50 cents for each additional person, Shackeford said. Senior citizens will pay $3.10 a person one way and 50 cents for each additional person.
Shackelford said he was working with city agencies to consider hiring senior citizens as drivers and dispatchers. Also, he said he was working with agencies to train drivers to help handicapped passengers.
In other action, the commission unanimously approved, with conditions, a site plan for the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, 1621 Edgehill Road. The plan calls for removing the present building and replacing it with a 27,300-square-foot building that would house 90 men.
The conditions to the plan were decided in part by Stan Steats, the architect representing the fraternity, and residents who live near the fraternity. The conditions are:
1. Replacing a sanitary sewer.
- Replacing a summary box
- Putting bumper guards at the south end of the fraternity's parking lot to protect a fence there.
Planting a hedge at the west end of the lot.
Building a catch basin to carry
runoff water on the street.
Copr sent paper open during
construction.
■ Making the contractor pay for any damages to Court Street during construction.
Construction will begin in mid-May and will be done by August 1969. Staats said.
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