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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 3. 1988
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Official says Pinochet disliked
The U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Harry Barnes Jr., right, leaves Lippincott Hall with Charles Stansifer, director of Latin American studies. Barnes visited KU yesterday and will leave Lawrence tomorrow to begin a U.S. speaking tour.
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
Only a year before he faces a possible no-confidence vote from his people, Chilean leader Gen. Augusto Pinochet has as little as 20 percent popular support, the U.S. ambassador to Chile said yesterday.
Harry Barnes Jr, spoke after meeting with Latin American Studies students and faculty about the political situation in Chile.
Barnes said in an interview after the meeting that he was in the United States for a speaking tour. He came to Lawrence at the invitation of Charles Stansifer, director of KU's Center for Latin America and Southwest Studies, Jr., editor and publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World.
Current polls show Pinochet to have about 20 to 30 percent support. Barnes said.
This is an important year in Chilean politics, Barnes said. The Constitution of 1980, which now govern Chile, calls for a plebiscite on the issue.
"A no-vote in the plebiscite means a vote against Pinochet and for competitive elections," Barnes said.
Barnes also said that recent allegations by U.S. officials that a Chilean arms manufacturer was supplying bombs for the Sandinista government of Nicaragua had never been proved.
"On the face of it,it doesn't make sense," Barnes said.
Stansier said that there was no pressure for secrecy on the basis of the content of Barnes' talk but that Barnes was more comfortable speaking without the press.
Barnes' meetings with KU faculty and students were closed to the press.
"He was here because he has friends here," Stansifer said.
Barnes may not have wanted to be quoted because of current relations between Chile and the United States. Stansifer said.
Relations are difficult now because the Reagan administration has been critical about Chile's poor human rights records and its delays in democratic reforms.
The Pinochet regime has been defensive about U.S. criticism because it sees parallels between its government and the Marcos and Duvalier regimes in the Philippines and Haiti that the United States helped bring down, Stansifer said.
"This is not the U.S. policy according to Barnes," Stansifer said.
But most of the Chilean people have good feelings about the United States. Barnes said.
Laurence Day, professor of journalism, visited Chile in August to teach investigative reporting at two newspapers and two journalism schools. He met with Barnes in Chile, who told him he would like to visit the KU Latin American Studies department.
Day characterized Barnes as a low-profile career ambassador triving to do his job.
Day said Barnes had been courageous in trying to increase press freedom, which has been heavily controlled by Pinochet.
County caucus has big turnout
By Jill Jess
Kansan staff writer
Approximately 800 Republicans filed through the Lawrence High School cafeteria last night during the Douglas County Republican caucus.
Fourteen delegates at the county level were to be announced last night. They will go to the district caucus Feb. 20.
Although no one would make an official estimate, many of the caucus workers agreed that turnout was much greater than at past caucuses. Usually about 100 people show up at the Douglas County caucus, workers said.
Supporters for both Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and television evangelist Pat Robertson, the only two Republican candidates who filed in Kansas, thought that the large turnout was beneficial for their candidate.
"I'd like to think that it' because the Dole campaign stressed the fact that the Robertson campaign could be a threat," Brett Frazier, chairman of Jayhawks for Dole, said.
Larry Mohr, head of the Douglas County Robertson campaign, said that turnout was high because Dole supporters were worried about Robertson's chances.
He said he was pleased that an estimated 20 to 30 KU students turned out for the caucus. He said that last fall, the program allowed students to carry to the caucus
"They were only expecting about 70 people," Mohr said of the Dole supporters. "But they found out how many people we were expecting and
'There wouldn't be this many people here if people thought Dole was going to take everything.'
Paul Longabach Lawrence resident
they got organized."
He said that about 300 to 400 of the people at the caucus were Robertson supporters.
Paul Longabach, Lawrence resident, was waiting in line to file his ballot. He said he thought the turnout was too high that Dole had a definite challenge.
"There wouldn't be this many people here if people thought Dole was going to take everything," Longabach said.
But Jim Dickinson, Lawrence junior, said that he thought most of the student support was for Dole.
"All the students I've seen are wearing Dole stickers." Dickinson is a fan.
Frazier said that he thought that although the turnout showed a challenge, the Dole delegates would win.
College Assembly to vote on proposal for grading system
Mohr, however, would not make a prediction. He said that he thought the Robertson campaign had enough turnout to give Dole supporters a good fight but he didn't want to guess at the outcome of the caucus.
"I still believe that Jesus is Lord." he said as he went off to talk to more people.
Plan would allow plus/minus grades in college classes
Kansan staff writer
By Brenda Finnell Kansan staff writer
A proposal to adopt a plus/minus grading system for undergraduate and graduate courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be voted on by College Assembly members in a mail ballot.
Robert Lineberry, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the ballots would be sent within the next few weeks.
The proposal was discussed at yesterday's Assembly meeting. Those present decided that all 600 Assembly members should consider the issue. About 40 members attended the meeting.
The proposal called for a plus/ minus grading system but did not
Stephen Shawl, professor of physics and astronomy, proposed a plus/minus system at the December assembly meeting.
The original proposal applied only to undergraduate courses; but today, the Assembly voted to add graduate courses.
Questions raised during discussion included whether a plus/minus system would be mandatory for all professors, whether there would be fewer grade complaints with a new grading system and how students'
grade point averages would be affected.
If the proposal is approved, appropriate college committees would develop specific guidelines. Lineberry said.
The Assembly consists of all college faculty with the rank of instructor and above and about 100 graduate and undergraduate students.
One disadvantage, Shawl said, would be grade compression. Compression means instructors would give fewer F's and A's. In addition, a student who would get an A might get A-under a plus/minus system, Shawl said.
Shankel now in fair condition after heart surgery
At yesterday's meeting, Shawl said a plus/minus system would allow for finer distinctions between grades, allow instructors more flexibility, be useful in large classes where a broad grading scale was necessary and reduce grade inflation.
Shawl said that the schools of Architecture and Urban Design, Education, Fine Arts, Journalism and Social Welfare used plus/minus systems. He said the business school used it for graduate students.
Kristi Heinz, Prairie Village senior, said she would like liberal arts students to be polled about plus/minus grading.
During the discussion, Ross Nigro, Kansas City, Mo. junior, said, "We haven't looked at what the students at this University think."
Some students expressed concern that all students in the college would not have the opportunity to respond to the proposal.
Del Shankel, professor of biochemistry and microbiology, was listed in fair condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center after doctors performed angioplasty surgery on him yesterday morning, said Mary Harrison, director of university relations at the Med Center.
By a Kansan reporter
James Vacek, cardiologist at the Med Center, said that the angioplasty operation went well and that Shankel, 60, would remain in intensive
care indefinitely.
Harrison said, "He is doing very well on all accounts."
Shankel suffered a heart attack Jan. 27 at his Lawrence home.
Shankel's wife, Carol, said that her husband was doing well and that the angioplasty was successful.
"They think that there was no permanent damage to the heart," she said. "He should be
just fine."
She said she talked to her husband after the surgery.
"He's really pleased with how things are going," she said. "He's very optimistic."
Carol Shankel said that her husband probably would spend one more day in intensive care before being moved to the cardiac rehabilitation center, where five to six days there he might come home.
Being angry shouldn't make you mad
Mark Porter KANSAN
Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare,
explains ways to express anger during a workshop yesterday.
Professor says society expects men to express anger openly, and encourages women to suppress theirs
Anger. It doesn't have to be destructive, said Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, at a workshop on how to cope with anger last night in the Kansas Union.
"To own, recognize and express anger is to act upon your individual power." Dailley said to about 45 people in the Pine Room. "Is anger being expressed in a way that is conducive to your self?"
He said people could deal with their anger effectively by using an assertive "T". That involves saying "I feel angry" instead of "You make me angry", he said.
When you respond with "I" statements, focusing the words on yourself, people are less likely to react defensively to your anger, he said.
By Michael Carolan Kansan staff writer
It was calm discussion about a hot topic.
Dailey said that when people thought there was something wrong with being angry, it was an important sign that they were not dealing with it right.
"If anger is a problem, then there's the cause to address it," he said.
Daley said that society encouraged men to express their anger directly and openly and
Kansan staff writer
"Society says to the woman that if you get too angry and out of control, you can destroy the very thing that you're held responsible for: your marriage, a relationship," he said.
"Because they hold in anger and choke on it, they are allowing it to poison them from inside out," he said.
After the lecture, one member of the audience asked about people who apologized all the time for things they weren't responsible for. An example given was someone who apologized when a friend stubbed his toe on the edge of a sofa.
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Dailey answered that the person should not take responsibility for his friend's anger.
Such suppression takes its toll on women.
He said that if women appeared even mildly angry, they would be called out of control.
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