University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 12, 1988
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Lineberry not chosen for UTEP presidency
By a Kansan reporter
Robert Lineberry, dean of liberal arts and sciences, was not selected as the new president of the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Texas system Board of Regents announced yesterday.
Lineberry had been confirmed last month by a selection committee member as one of five finalists for the position.
Lineberry announced his resignation as dean in September. His resignation is effective this summer.
Diana Natalicio will be introduced as the new president at a press conference at UTEP this morning, said Debbie Ray, executive assistant
If a wonderful opportunity came along, I'd look at it, but . . . I love teaching political science.'
- Robert Lineberr
dean of liberal arts and sciences
to James Duncan, chairman of the selection committee. Natalicio is currently interim president at UTEP. Duncan is executive vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Texas system.
Lineberry said yesterday that the selection process had been professional and fair. He said he had
enjoyed the visits to the UTEP campus and the El Paso community.
"We're obviously sorry we're not going there," he said.
Lineberry said when he announced his resignation in September that he hoped to stay at KU to teach political science.
"If a wonderful opportunity came along, I'd look at it, but I meant what I said." Lineberry "I love teaching political science."
Lineberry said it was time for someone new to be dean of the college.
"It's someone else's turn to manage enrollment increases with fewer dollars," he said.
Charles Reynolds, associate chairman of the department of chemistry, illustrates an overvoltage reaction on the overhead projector during his Chemistry 188 lecture. The class met in Hoch Auditorium.
Diplomat calls for peace
The big picture
Kansan staff write:
In order for Costa Rica to survive as a democracy, peace in Central America is crucial, the Costa Rican ambassador to the United States said yesterday afternoon in the Kansas Union.
By Kathleen Faddis
Guido Fernandez, the Costa Rican ambassador since November 1986 and a close adviser to President Oscar Arias Sanchez, who wrote the Central American peace accord, spoke to about 200 people in Woodruff Auditorium.
The effort toward peace in Central America is too urgent and critical to waste any more time, he said.
Fernandez has been working to promote the Central American peace plan that was signed by the leaders of Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica on Aug. 7. Arias was awarded Peace Prize Dec. 10 for his efforts toward peace in Central America.
Since the agreement was signed in August, more than 10,000 people have been killed in conflicts in Central America, Fernandez said.
"Every day that passes means 10 more people killed," he said.
The agreement called for a cease-fire with all rebel groups by Nov. 7.
Costa Rica has had no army since 1948, when the army was dissolved. Fernandez said the country, with a small and dispersed population, had long been isolated from the rest of Central America. But it is now caught between the war in Nicaragua and the unrest in Panama.
"Costa Rica has been an oasis of freedom and tranquility in a region torn apart by war, violence, and conflicts." Fernandez said.
"Now, we feel we are part of the area and suffering from the consequences of being there," Fernandez said.
Fernandez was optimistic about the recent decision in Congress to deny further aid to the contrains in Nicaragua. He saw it as an opportunity for the United States to seize the initiative in promoting peace.
"For the first time in eight years, at the end of the tunnel there is light that is not coming from another train," he said.
He continued. "In 1990, Costa
Rica will celebrate 100 years of democracy and thus becomes the oldest democracy in the Third World."
Costa Rica became an independent republic in 1848.
"We firmly believe that unless there is peace in Central America, then development, equality, freedom, individual well-being and the fruits of civilization will be only an unrealized dream for the people of our region." Fernandez said.
The next round of peace talks are scheduled to begin Thursday.
Guido Fernandez
Local residents trade trades
Teachers, businessmen spend a day in each other's shoes
By Stacy Foster
Kansan staff writer
Anne Leaf doesn't always share exercise and lunch with fourth-grade students, but yesterday was not her typical work day.
Leaf, an administrator for Charlton Manley Inc., an insurance company at 211 E. Eighth St., was one of 26 businessmen and teachers who participated in the ninth annual Teacher/Business Exchange Day.
The exchange day, sponsored by the Education Committee of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, was to promote better relations between Lawrence businesses and schools.
Participants were paired. In the morning, the businessmen were involved in classroom activities. Some graded papers and helped with reading assignments.
Debi Moore, the chamber's director of small business and community affairship, said the day was a way to offer advice on how to handle business matters.
Terri Pippent, assistant vice president at the First National Bank of Lawrence, 900 Massachusetts St., observed Keith Gilliland, an algebra teacher at West Junior High School, 2700 Harvard Road.
watched Gilliland teach.
Pippert said she learned a lot about students as she
"Keith relates so well to the kids. He can pick up on their personalities and know how to deal with them," she said.
"They got to see the skills I teach can be applied in the business world," Gilliam said. "Banking is something all the kids will have to deal with because the first thing a car is a car. That means they will have to take out a car loan."
In the afternoon, teachers observed their partners in the business environment while substitute teachers took over their classes.
Bob LeGresley from Strong's Office System, 1040 Vermont St., visited Kathy Duffer's fifth and sixth grade class at St. John's School, 1280 Kentucky St.
Gilland watched Pippert handle loans. He said that Pippert's job was similar to his because it involved teaching. Pippert had to explain things to customers, such as interest rates.
Gleesley said he was glad to see that the classroom atmosphere had changed since the time he was in school.
"I didn't remember classrooms having such a relaxed atmosphere. I think in that respect, learning has got to be easier." LeGresley said.
Battered spouses need special attention, law students told
Bv Davana Yochim
Kansan staff writer
Jeannie Blankenship, community facilitator of Women's Transitional Care Services, spoke to 15 law students in Green Hall about their responsibilities when representing a lawyer.
The lecture was sponsored by the Student Bar Association of the University of Kansas.
said. "When you are representing a battered woman, you are probably representing her in a divorce."
"What I want you to know as attorneys are ways you can help women," Blankenship
Blankenship said that lawyers made many mistakes when representing a battered
"The worst assumption that an attorney can make is that the violence will stop after a fight."
Blankenship said it was misleading to tell a client that abuse would end once the hearings were over, something she said many attorneys do.
al relationships. As long as she has to deal with him, the control won't stop."
"Violence is about control," she said.
"That's why there is violence in interperson-
Lawyers assume a woman is safe from an abusive spouse when she has a protection order or the spouse has a restraining order, Blankenship said.
"The woman needs to know that it's just a piece of paper." Blankenship said. "Encourage her not to take chances and to call the police if her spouse breaks the order."
Blankenship told the law students to be compassionate to their clients and encouraged them to participate in crisis counseling training.
She said that Women's Transitional Care
Services referred many clients to the Legal Aid Clinic at the KU School of Law.
Blankenship said that lawyers commonly represented more batterers than battered women because males usually had more money for legal counsel.
"You have the opportunity to make a real difference," Blankenship said. "We don't have a perfect court system, it's based on old white supremacy."
"This unbalances your education and your perception, so you must stay on top of these issues. Learn about people causes. Offer your services free," she said.
Battered women make bad witnesses
because they have been ignored or not believed for a long time, Blankenship said.
"Her lawyer most likely is her only sup-
person," she said. "She hasn't been con-
vinced that she's right and he's wrong."
Guy Krause, Warrensburg, Mo., law student, said that he attended the lecture to gain insight into what he called a little-reported crime.
"I want psychological insight into the victims' feelings," Krause said. "I want to know the best way to approach this in a client situation."