University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 19, 1988
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Civil rights leader lauded Martin Luther King Jr. remembered on holiday
The Associated Press
Arizona marchers called for the restoration of the Martin Luther King Day holiday and Philadelphia's may-or set churchbells pealing with a tap on the Liberty Bell as Americans paid homage yesterday to King's still-unrealized dream of racial harmony.
In Atlanta, Coretta Scott King and her children laid a wreath at the slain civil rights leader's tomb on the third national holiday in his honor. The graveside ceremony was followed by the traditional ecumenical service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Kirsten served as co-pastor.
"The disease (of racism) . . . is still among us, and it has global implications," said the church's pastor, the Rev. Joseph Roberts, before he was that included Sen. Sum Num, D-Ga, and Atlanta Mayor Young Andrew.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, urged the audience to remember the ideals that King stood
"The holiday honors an individual, but also a struggle." he said.
About 5,000 marchers braved a downpour at the state Capitol in Phoenix at a rally to make Martin Luther King Day a state holiday, despite opposition from that state's embattled governor. Evan Mecham.
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"It is time to stop having the rest of the country think of us as the site of a three-ring circus," said Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard.
he disease (of racism)
... is still among us, and it has global implications.
— the Rev. Joseph Roberts pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church
Federal offices closed on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King's birthday. All but seven states observed a state holiday in King's honor.
Shortly after noon, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode, the great-grandson of a slave, tapped the Liberty Bell with his fist to start the nation's bells ringing in King's honor.
In Oklahoma, more than 1,000 people rallying at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City heard former State Sen. E. Melvin Porter urge a continued fight against racism. Police said there were at least two cross-burnings in the city yesterday as someone tried to mar the holiday.
Officials in Idaho, where the day is not a holiday, laid a wreath at the base of a tree planted several years ago on the Statehouse grounds in honor of King. Marshers braved storms in Colorado and Wyoming.
In New York City, hecklers at a Harlem church prevented Mayor Edward Koch from delivering a speech honoring King, while 3,000 people rallied outside City Hall and tied up traffic throughout lower Manhattan as they marched to the World Trade Center.
43 states honor Dr. Martin Luther King
candlelight march was planned to commemorate "Bloody Sunday," the 1965 demonstration when state troopers confronted civil rights marchers.
King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate's birthday was Friday.
Many of the nation's schoolchildren got a holiday from classes, but
King's daughter, Bernice King, said on CBS "This Morning" program that she thinks most racist actions today result from ignorance.
Lewiston, Me., youngsters studied King's "I Have A Dream" speech and wrote of their own dreams.
"At one time, I think people knew exactly what they were doing," she said.
Leaders moving to oust Mecham
The Associated Press
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Legislative leaders prepared yesterday for impeachment hearings on Gov. Evan Mecham, while county officials turned in petitions aimed at setting an election to recall him from office.
House Speaker Joe Lane, a fellow Republican, was expected to announce the formation of a select committee to start impeachment hearings, possibly as early as today.
Mecham has denied violating any laws and has rejected repeated calls for his resignation, including one last week by the Republican president, and four GOP members of Arizona's U.S. House delegation.
House special counsel William French reported Friday he had found that Mecham violated the law on several grounds, including failure to report a $350,000 campaign loan and borrowing money for personal business from the governor's protocol fund.
Yesterday also was the deadline for county recorders to forward to the secretary of state the last of the petitions gathered by the Mecham Recall Committee. Recorders already had certified 285,963 valid petition signatures, well over the 21,746 required to force Mecham to face a recal election.
If Secretary of State Rose Mofford officially certifies that there
are enough signatures, on Jan. 25 she is required to give Mecham five days to resign. If he does not resign by Feb. 2, she would order a recall election for mid-May.
Mecham also was indicated on Jan. 8 on six felony charges of perjury, fraud and filing false documents for allegedly concealing the $350,000 loan from Tempe developer Barry Wolfson.
"The governor is facing the triple whammy here," said Senate Minority Leader Alan Stephens. "If it's not recall it's impeachment, if it isn't impeachment or recall it could be criminal conviction."
French said Friday that Mecham deliberately concealed the $350,000 loan by using what French termed a phony receipt and a separate bank account.
French also contended that the governor's protocol fund was state money, and thus an $80,000 loan to Mecham Pontiac was improper. The fund was created with funds raised by inaugural events.
And French said the governor had tried to stop the state Department of Public Safety from cooperating with the state attorney general's investigation of an alleged death threat from a Mecham administration official to another aide who had recently resigned.
Scientists strive to help mining
By James Buckman
Kansan staff writer
The mining industry in Kansas may never be the same. At least, that's what a member of the Kansas Geological Survey is booing.
Ralph Knapp, a scientist with the Survey, said he and his colleagues were perfecting an old process of examining the earth's crust, which may have lasting importance to the state's mining and oil industries.
The process is reflection seismology. The scientists shoot sound waves into the ground. The waves, which echo off the surfaces of the rock layers, come back as bundles of energy and allow scientists to determine the types of rock formations underneath.
With reflection seismology, scientists can take the data from one or two holes and determine the makeup of a large area. Knapp said that with the data, he could find bands of coal as little as a foot thick.
That information can be valuable to companies looking for coal or oil.
Knapp said, "Reflection seismology goes back to the 1920s, and has been applied to oil exploration from then on. We're just applying those principles in a different sense. Other people have done it before. We're doing it today because we don't effort into it and we've been a little bit more successful."
Reflection seismology does not replace drilling for companies mining for natural resources, Knapp said. It helps drilling, and possibly reduces the number of holes needed.
Knapp said the process also could help mining companies avoid abonded underground mines. Companies in Kansas are strip mining deeper now than they have in the past and are running into the mines, which poses hazards for workers, he said.
"For a lot of old mines, the records weren't well kept or they might have been lost, or perhaps private farmers might have been out there mining and didn't write down anything at all." he said.
Finding those old mines can be difficult. Currently, companies drill multiple holes to find the mines. They can easily miss them.
"For safety considerations, they have to stay a certain distance away from these old mine works," Knapp said. "If they know where mine works are, they can get closer than if they don't know.
"If we can give them information as to, 'the mine is right here,' they can mine a little bit closer, recover a lot more coal and make more money from it. All that helps Kansas," he said.
"Engineering and mining efforts tend to be low budget." Knapp said. "What we're trying to do is make reflection seismology economically viable for these people.
"Now, it's probably cheaper to drill a well than run a mile or two of seismic data, so people just poke holes in the ground," he said. "Drilling takes a couple of days. Seismic exploration involves a fair amount of work in the field plus computer processing. It's a big operation."
Don Steeple, another scientist working on the project, concentrates largely on those interests. He said the process already had been used at various sites around the country to determine, among other things, the acceptability of sites as hazardous waste dumps.
Beyond oil and coal mining, reflection seismology is used for environ-
Students grade instructors
By Jeff Suggs Kansan staff writer
Semester-end forms help determine merit pay and tenure
When the semester comes to an end, finals aren't the only thing students have to look forward to.
Teacher evaluation forms give students a chance to either praise a good instructor or criticize one who was horrible in the classroom.
"It's important for the faculty to see how the students see their classes," said Norman Saul, chairman of the history department.
But evaluation forms aren't used just to give the instructor tips to improve his teaching. They also help determine merit salary increases and establish tenure for an instructor.
When an instructor receives many bad evaluations from his students, he usually will discuss the problem with his department chairman to determine if the situation can be corrected.
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It's important for the faculty to see how the students see their classes.
Norman Saul
chairman of the history department
A series of bad evaluations could endanger an untenured instructor's job.
"If a faculty member is not tenured," said John Tolletson, dean of business, "he might be let go."
But it's difficult to fire an instructor once he has received tenure. The instructor would have to be really negligent for dismissal, said Howard Baumgartel, dean of liberal arts and arts.
sure," said W. Max Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design. "It would be a last resort."
But student evaluations of instructors are only part of the process that determines whether to raise merit pay or establish tenure for an instructor. Peer evaluations, published research in an instructor's field and service on various academic committees also are considered.
"It would be an extreme mea-
James B. Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said student evaluations often didn't tell the whole story.
"Some students don't fill them out, and some don't take them seriously," he said.
"We seem to dwell on that (poor evaluations) somehow and that's unfortunate. Not all criticism is just, and not all praise is just either," he said.
By a Kansan reporter
The bid date for KU's new $12 million human development center is expected to be in March, a KU official said yesterday.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said that the ground-breaking ceremony would take place about 30 days after the bids were received.
Bid date for center in March
The Board of Regents approved the final plans for the building in December. It will be located east of Haworth Hall.
The building will contain the departments of radio-television-film, speech-language-hearing, special education, and human development and family life; and the institutes for learning disabilities, and human development and aging.
KU business law profs among most cited
Kansan staff writer
By Jill Jess
KU business law faculty were ranked in high citation rate and mean of productivity categories. The mean citation rate is the average
The study, conducted by Lynn Ward, professor of legal studies at Bowling Green State University, and George Siegel, professor of business law at the University of Michigan, received in 1973 a professors' research was cited in other studies and in court proceedings between 1973 and 1984.
Business law professors at the University of Kansas are among the most frequently cited professors in their field, an unpublished national study savs.
I had been aware for a number of years that our faculty was one of the most productive in the nation.'
- John Tollefson dean of business
number of times a professor's work is cited by other researchers and by judges.
KU business law professors also ranked high in total citations and productivity.
Siedel said the rankings would not be definite until an article being
During the 12-year period, KU business law professors had their research cited an average of 13.25 times.
written by Ward was finished.
"When you look at that total, Kansas comes out pretty well," Siedel said.
John Tollefson, dean of business,
said he had not been aware that the KU business law faculty was part of
the study until he heard of the high ranking. But he said he wasn't surprised.
"I had been aware for a number of years that our faculty was one of the most productive in the nation," he said.
Siedel said all accredited business schools in the nation, which number about 240, were included in the study. The years 1973-1984 were chosen, he said, to compare to a previous study of the period from 1961 to 1972.
"We wanted to see whether research increased among business law professors," Siebel said.
He said the earlier study did not focus on schools, so he didn't know how KU would have ranked.
Tolleison said the business law faculty was encouraged to do research and was required to do so to receive tenure.
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