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Monday, March 7. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Local Briefs
DOLE CAMPAIGNS IN MISSORI:
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole
will speak at a campaign rally at 7:30
p.m. in the International Ballroom at
the Alameda Plaza Hotel, 401 Ward
Parkway, in Kansas City, Mo.
FAIR HOUSING CLEAREDATED: Two local groups will sponsor a "Celebration for the Spirit of Fair Housing" from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on April 16 at South Park, 11th and Massachusetts streets.
The Lawrence Tenants Association and the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods will sponsor the event to celebrate National Fair Housing
Gregg Stauffer, president of the Lawrence Tenants Association, said that the day would consist of a
number of speeches and presentations by about 10 citizen groups and community leaders.
The event is being held to raise the community's consciousness about discrimination in housing and what legal rights they have, he said.
SENATE DISCUSSES FORUM:
University Council will hold a special meeting with the Faculty Senate today to discuss the Ku Klux Klan forum, which will be held in Hoch Auditorium tonight, and the add/drop policy.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, will be available for comment and questions at the meeting, which will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium.
KU alum seeks U.S. House seat Eckert claims he will bring government back to people
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
A 1982 KU graduate announced Friday that he would seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat Rep. Jim Slattery for his Second District Congressional seat.
Stanley Eckert, 32, a Lawrence resident, announced at a state news conference in Topeka that he will seek the same nomination he tried for in 1984 and 1986. He picked Friday for his announcement, he said, because on March 4, 1789, the U.S. Constitution took effect.
"In honor of the Constitution, I'm dedicating my campaign to bring government back to the people," Eckert said.
"It will give me more time to get out and about the district earlier," Eckert said. "I think that's a big plus in the overall picture. I think this is a race the Republicans can win."
Eckert also said that getting an early start in the race would improve his prospects.
Eckert said he thought he could improve on his showing in the 1986 two-candidate primary, in which he received 49 percent of the vote and won seven of the district's 13 counties.
If elected, Eckert said he would
like to see the government cut down the amount of paperwork it dealt with. He also said that he wanted the U.S. Government to reveal the whole story about U.S. servicemen listed as missing during the Vietnam War.
Eckert wears a bracelet bearing the name of U.S. Air Force Sgt. Donald Lint, whose plane disappeared over Laos in 1970. Lint's parents told Eckert they had heard reports in the late 1970s that Lint was alive.
"If this is true of one person, there could be more Americans alive over there." Eckert said. "There is a story that needs to be told. The government is sitting on it, and I want it out even if it means going to Asia myself."
Here at home, Eckert said, he also would like to see the government relax its regulation of the farming industry. Too much regulation, he said, keeps farmers from getting their goods to market.
"I want the farmer to be able to control his own destiny," Eckert said. "You have to get the government off his back and give him more freedom to enter the marketplace."
Eckert holds bachelor's degrees in political science and economics from
Police Reports
A 10-speed bicycle valued at $200 was taken Saturday morning from a back yard in the 700 block of Maine Street, Lawrence police reported.
Stereo equipment valued at $600 was taken Friday night from a home in the 600 block of Illinois Street, Lawrence police reported.
valued together at $412 were taken Friday night from a car in the 1300 block of W. 24th Street, Lawrence police reported.
a cellular phone and a radar detector valued together at $2,495 were taken Friday or Saturday from a car in the 1300 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police reported.
A car stereo and other items
Faculty study changing education priorities
Kansan staff writer
By Dayana Yochim
To coincide with a change of priorities in public school systems, the University of Kansas School of Education has begun an 18-month re-evaluation of its curriculum, emphasizing the preparation of school administrators.
Along with faculty from five other universities, five KU education faculty members attended a conference this weekend designed to stimulate thought about what the future of school administration would be like.
The conference. Program for Professors of School Administration, was funded through the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis and took place in Tempe, Ariz.
Howard Ebmeier, associate professor of education policy and administration, said that the conference
brought the different universities together to discuss the development of new programs for teaching school administration.
About 550 graduate students are enrolled in the educational policy and administration program in the school.
"Priorities in education have been changing slightly over the last decade," Ebmeier said. "Seven or eight years ago there was a movement supporting basic skill development. Now, the current emphasis is on developing advanced thinking skills and creativity in children."
Ebmeier said that the School of Education had been reevaluating its program for the past $1\frac{1}{2}$ years, and that the conference helped facilitate the revision process.
"There could be three changes brought about through this process,"
Ebmeier said. "We would modify what we teach, how we deliver the program, such as the sequence of classes, and change the methodology of the way we taught."
Susan Twombly, assistant professor of educational policy and administration, said that school administrators were trained on a model developed in the 1930s.
"The speakers at the conference had very different visions about the schools of the future." Twombly said. "They were there to challenge us to think of what the future would be like. It's not a matter of changing the education administration program, but changing the underlying assumptions."
George Crawford, associate professor of educational policy and administration, said that he did not think that the quality of school
administrators was declining.
"We sometimes get biased reports and biased opinions about what is wrong with the way schools are run," Crawford said.
“It's reasonably obvious that policy makers and the country are not enthusiastic about signing over money to education. Ten years from now administrators will have to be prudent managers of public funds. They will have to be skilled for doing more with less money.”
Crawford said that the University administration and the School of Education monetarily supported the re-evaluation process.
Other universities attending the conference were Arizona State University, Auburn University, Fordham University, Temple University and Miami University of Ohio.
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