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Friday, February 5, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Organizing KU planning
Expert lists approaches
By a Kansan reporter
The University of Kansas should take a more organized approach to planning, according to an expert in the field.
Raymond M. Haas, vice president of administration at the University of Virginia, spoke to about 50 people yesterday at an all-day conference in
Academic deans, faculty members and members of the administration and University governance were invited.
the Kansas Union's Jayhawk Room. He has been involved in planning since 1969.
Haas said that he wanted to present the ways different institutions do their planning so KU could develop its own approach.
Judith Ramaley, KU executive vice chancellor, said that in the past, there had been planning on many levels, such as within departments and schools, but that the planning
had not been tied together. The seminar helped to create a more clear direction for KU.
Ramaley said that she wanted to create University-wide planning guidelines. She said that a summary of the seminar would be produced and a study group would then be appointed to oversee the guidelines for planning.
The seminar reflects the beginning of a new approach towards planning, she said.
"We will listen to each other more, and we will talk to each other more," Ramaley said.
AIDS will raise taxes, study says
Bv Jeff Suggs
Kansan staff writer
A former member of a local AIDS task force and an assistant director of an AIDS support group agreed with a study published today that acquired immune deficiency syndrome would result in higher taxes and an eventual dent in the national economy.
due to the study, which was published in this month's Science magazine, said the AIDS epidemic would cause residents of large metropolitan areas such as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco to have higher tax bills and lower housing prices.
lower housing prices. The study, conducted by two economists, Geoffrey Carliner and David Bloom, predicted that the lifetime cost of treating 270,000 AIDS cases, the projected U.S. total between 1981 and 1991, would be about $22 billion, or about $80,000 a patient.
However, the study said that in the near future, the overall effect on the national economy would be slight.
Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, said AIDS would affect the national economy.
"I don't think there's any question," Dailey said. "If the drama of AIDS played itself out as predicted, there would be some major economic consequences."
Dailey, a former member of the Lawrence campus AIDS task force, said that as more people got infected with AIDS, large cities would have to raise taxes to take care of them.
Jeanie Zinn, assistant director of the Good Samaritan Project in Kansas City, Mo., said the effect of AIDS on the national economy would be greater than what the study predicted.
"It's going to affect every town, city and state. Financially, personally — everybody."
Geographical literates wanted for travel field, speaker says
Kansan staff writer
By Brenda Finnell
Charles Dodds wants his students to become more aware of the world, whether they learn about Nicaraguan rain forests or cities in Alaska.
Dodds, who teaches world geography at Platt College in Overland Park, spoke to about 30 people yesterday at a geography department colloquium in Lindley Hall.
Dodds' course is in Platt College's travel and tourism program and is designed for people entering the travel industry. He provides them with a basic knowledge of physical, historical and cultural aspects of countries throughout the world.
"When we're teaching travel agents, we have to make sure they develop some feel for the area they are going to be selling," he said.
Dodds said he was discouraged by how little geographical knowledge students had. He said society was paying the price for allowing students of the 1960s to set the curriculum in schools.
Charles Dodds
Jeff Klein/KANSAT
He said those students did not want to take geography because they thought such courses were boring or irrelevant.
"We simply not only didn't teach geography to them, but because they didn't learn geography, they don't teach any geography in the public school system," Dodds said. Dodds said he was applaled by a study showing that 25 percent of Dallas high school seniors could not name the country south of the Texas border.
"We've cussed and discussed the problem forever," Dodds said.
Lodds, who earned his master's degree in geography from the University of Kansas in 1966 and his doctorate in 1975, said travel agencies now were demanding people who had geographical knowledge.
"The people who do the hiring in the travel industry are coming out of the closet," he said.
To illustrate his point, Dodds read from a recent American Express advertisement that said potential employees should have a good working knowledge of geography.
Dodds has been teaching travel geography since 1978. He uses brochures from airlines and tour companies, maps and the Pan American World Guide as teaching materials.
During his presentation, Dodds showed slides, videotapes and a travel film. He also distributed about a dozen brochures to the audience.
Students can become bored with learning only geography, so Dodds tries to teach cultural and historical background as well, he said.
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