THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 87, No.139
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, Mav 4.1977
Bv LEON UNRUH
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas administration has asked the KU police to escort a student to classes to prevent harassment by students in the Iranian Students Association (ISA).
The request was made a week to 10 days ago by Dél Shalman, executive vice chancellor of the University of Kambiz Biziab, Tehran, Iran, special student, to class in Marmun and Strong colleges.
Zibulu did not request the escorts, Shankel said yesterday. Instead, Shankel made the request after watching ISA activities out of classroom, listening to reports from other observers.
Zibaila has been the target of ISA literature since a beating incident February 25 between him and another Iranian student. The ISA has accused him of being a member of SAVAK, the Iranian secret police.
ISA MEMBERS have said they stood outside classrooms in the two halls where Zubai attends class, talking to non-Iranian students. Zubai's alleged association with SAVAK
An ISA spokesman, who asked to remain unidentified out of fear of reprisal, said the police now "guard him (Zbaiti) most of the time when he goes to class."
He said the ISA membership was angry because it thought the University was wrong.
Shankel labeled as 'probably an exaggeration' the statement that KU was being denied access to a program.
"All we have asked the University police department to do is be sure Kumbiz right to enter and leave his classes without being barassed is respected." Shankel said.
THE ISA HAS been told that KU intends to protect students' rights to both attend classes without harassment and to demonstrate peacefully.
Capt, M. E. Hill of the KU police said, "I can't believe we involved in guarding a school."
He said the University was still investigating an April 6 incident in which a student filed a report with the department and received a statement to be maintained from outerline a Marvin classroom.
The student's name was not released because of the Buckley Amendment's
Hill said that plainclothes officers might be around Zibani but that they aren't guarding him. They are a part of the investigation, he said.
The ISA members also apparently believe that policemen are conducting surveillance
A student in a statistics class that meets
in strong, Charlie Erker, St. Louis junior,
said an officer outside the classroom told
him he was there "because Del Shankel
could get in and safety." We sure Zabbi
could get in and safely."
The spokesman said that officers asked the names of students outside the classrooms, and that as many as 15 students complied with the requests.
ANOTHER TIME, an officer tried to find out the identity of an Iranian graduate student who spoke to another Iranian student outside the classroom in Strong, the spokesman said. The officer asked a janitor where the graduate student's office was.
The ISA spokesman said that officers had asked for the KU-1D cards of ISA members who distributed leaflets and displayed a banner outside Marvin last week.
Hill said, "We did get a complaint over in front of Marvin one day and we check ID check him."
Checking ID cards is a standard practice, he said, to determine whether demonstrators are students. The Iranians weren't singled out, he said.
SHANKEL SAID the University wasn't involved in any intelligence-gathering activity.
Similarly, Hill said that "No one is under surveillance."
Senate to consider hockey funds
A bill seeking to grant supplemental funding next year for the women's field hockey program at the University of Kansas will be considered by the Student Senate tonight at its final meeting of the semester.
Also to be considered by the Senate is a bill that would bring the Student Code's regulations for the confidentiality of student records into agreement with the Buckley Amendment and a bill that would give the Senate Elections Committee the power to enforce rules and regulations for any campus group involved in Senate elections.
The women's field hockey bill would provide $4,500 to the program this year. The Senate allocated $4,500 to women's intercollegiate athletic program decided to completely cut its funding for the field hockey program rather than make smaller cuts in several sports.
MEMBERS of the field hockey program have said they would be unable to function because they are not vaccinated.
compliance with the Buckley Amendment, with a few exceptions. The major exception would prohibit parents of dependent students' records without prior consent.
Another bill the Senate will consider tonight would bring the Student Code into
The Buckley amendment allows parents to see their children's student records, in conflict with a section of the Code that allows only parents of unmarried students under age 18 to have free access to the records.
A bill developed by the Elections Committee would change the spending limits for Senate candidates and give the committee more room to regulate elections governing Senate elections.
14 PASSED BY THE Senate, the bill would apply a spending limit for Senate candidates of $3 or 3 cents for each constituent in the candidate's district, whichever is
Candidates for the position of student body president or vice president would have a spending limit of $400 or 7 cents a constituent.
Another provision of the bill would remove the regulation prohibiting a
"carnival air" in the election process. That regulation gained attention during February's student election campaign when a group of candidates for sophomore class officers defended an Electrical Committee vote on a hot-air balloon in front of Strong Hall.
In other business, the Senate is to consider a bill seeking to amend the revenue code to end funding of women's interests in Kansas and to the University of Kansas after this year.
The bill will remove the women's block allocation of $54,406 from the student activity fee. The women's program currently charges $1.50 from each student activity fee.
At its meeting last month the Senate approved a similar resolution. The resolution served as a warning to the mayor of Port Huron to fund the women's program, and considered funding of the program to be the administration's responsibility. The change in the revenue code would officially halt the corporate funding of the program after this year.
School politics, discipline upset new teachers
Staff Reporter
By DONNA KIRK
Handling classroom problems and overcoming a lack of information about the politics of school systems are two unforeseen eye-openers that several 1976 University of Kansas graduates say they faced as first-vehicle teachers.
Lack of job security, handling classroom discipline problems, establishing rapport with students and motivating them to learn. Students often have been influenced their attitudes toward teaching.
The 15 teachers interviewed teach in eastern and central Kansas. Most didn't want their names or the names of their students. So they said they would iconize their jobs.
A high school journalism teacher said that the principal and superintendent in her school could fire teachers because of personality conflicts, classroom behavior or discipline problems and unwillingness to accept extra work for no additional pay.
SHE SAID she had to bow to administration demands to keep her job but couldn't explain the policies because they would reveal her identity.
A speech teacher in another district said the principal favored her because she liked the subject she taught and thus she had privileges not given to other teachers in her
She said she was allowed to choose the subjects she wanted to teach and the principal wanted to keep her on the staff because she was replacing another teacher on leave.
It is important that a first year teacher get to know the principal and superintendent.
"1 spend about twice as much time
for me," she said of the administration as I do
teach," the students."
A GENERAL mathematics teacher said she was denied a contract for next year because the principal said she couldn't control her classes. She had trouble with students at the beginning of the year, she said, but later the situation improved.
The teacher said another reason for her dismissal was that she wore jeans to school, which the principal didn't like, but she preferred them. The teacher planned to get another teaching job.
A choral teacher said his principal was
disorganized and lost records and papers prepared by teachers, and then asked to write them.
Discipline problems are faced by every new teacher, most of those interviewed said, and only experience can resolve the problems.
"HOW DO YOU get a classroom back in order when a couple kids get up and start screaming and running around the room?" a Lawrence fifth grade teacher asked. He said that young teachers didn't have as much control as more experienced teachers.
A Topeka junior high school social studies and English teacher said, "No textbook's going to tell you how to deal with kids who come to class drunk, who come in fighting or how to deal with a pupil who pulls a knife on you.
"There's no way a pro can prepare you for 135 lighthouse grads six hours a day. You must."
A high school speech and drama teacher said that she spent about 85 per cent of her time on speech.
problems to her supervising teacher when she was student teaching and that she wasn't involved much with disciplining students then.
"The principal gets down on my neck if anything goes wrong," she said.
SHE SAID THAT she referred discipline
an eighth grade mathematics teacher said that she had to learn not to take insults
"You can't let yourself get upset when you see your name scribbled in obscene letters."
Getting students to learn has been a problem for a music teacher, a high school English teacher and a natural science teacher. All said that the communities the students lived in influenced their attitudes toward learning.
Students who come from lower noo-
economic backgrounds, they said, generally
have higher IQs.
TO GIVE NEW teachers more experiences in dealing with discipline problems and in motivating students, all teachers interviewed said prospective teachers should get classroom experience before teaching at college, before student teaching as seniors.
"The more exposure you have to working with students, the better able you'll be to
See SCHOOL POLITICS, page 10
Vickers lecture
Staff photo
Luis Rukeycer, host of public television's "Wall Street Week," was the speaker for this year's A. J. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture. Rukeycer, known for his ability to combine technical and artistic skills, was named the Outstanding Teacher in 2015.
Economic policy misses problems, Rukeyser says
Rv.JOHN WHITESIDES
Staff Reporter
President Jimmy Carter's economic stimulus program is more than window dressing. Loving Rukleyer, noted in his book *The Wall Street Week*, said last night,
Rukeyser said the program was a "coup" because it didn't come to grips with any of the country's basic economic conditions, including conventional economic stimulation.
"There's less there than meets the eye," he said of the program. "It contains little that would qualify as an innovative attack on the country's current economic problems."
During the 1977 J. A. Vickers Memorial Lecture, delivered to an overflow audience in Woodruff Auditorium, Rukesey said that wasn't functioning any more.
"INSTEAD OF EXAMINING and treating that sick body, Carter's program settles for one more shot of adrenaline." Rukeyeser said. "That may make it feel better for a while but it's not going to cure it."
He said the biggest problem with Carter's program was that it didn't attack deterents to economic investment. Instead of turning to private investment incentives, Rukesey said, the program turns to public work programs. He also said that inflation or turn the economy around.
Inflation is the biggest problem in the economy, he said, but the government shouldn't attempt to find a quick, easy solution to it.
"The biggest danger is that we will make the mistake of attempting to recover too soon."
inflation and higher unemployment later," he said.
RUKEYSER OUTLINED several changes that he said needed to be made in various areas to control inflation and put the economy on the move again.
He said the government needed to look at all labor-management legislation from the past few years to see whether the pendulum bad swung in favor of unions.
"It's time to stop letting George Meany set all the terms," Rukesay said. "We should be told to workers who don't have his kind of clout."
Another problem is finding the answer to international commodity shortages, the lack of skilled workers and new priorities for increasing its own resources. He said the search needed the intensity and sense of purpose that the Manhattan Project and the 1960s space program sought.
"NOBODY CAN SAY that conservation can solve the problem," he said. "It's a disgrace that we aren't moving to create our own energy supplies. We sure won't get energy from the Social Security Administration."
Rukesyer said that government also needed to remove restrictions built into the economy to protect special interests. He said those restrictions needed to be rooted out of the system so free enterprise could operate free of restraints.
He said, however, the most important reforms were needed in the area of public education to remedy the "perennial state of economic illiteracy."
Presidents need to begin the reforms, uksuser need, by facing economic problems.
See RUKEYSER page 5
Concrete canoe race is sink or swim proposition
Rock bottom
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Applying finishing touches to KU's concrete cement, Dave Glass, Lawrence senior, and Dick Schmidt. Hays sent senior in liquid polyurethane, which will eventually keep the
vessel afloat. KU will have six teams entered in a concrete canoe race which will attract teams from colleges and universities across the nation. The race will be this weekend at KU.
By RENEE TACKETT
Staff Reporter
A concrete canoe may sound about as practical as a lead balloon, but several University of Kansas civil engineering students are building one.
What's more, they plan to race it.
Started in the middle of last semester, the canne needs only to be sanded and painted to be ready, according to David Darwin, assistant professor of civil engineering.
Darwin, adviser for the project, says he’s the father of concrete canoes at the lake.
Before Darwin came to KU three years ago, there were no concrete canoes here. Although KU civil engineering students were invited to the first annual concrete canoe race at Kansas State University in 1974, KU had no canoe and no entry.
The same canoe will be used for four men's teams, two women's teams and one faculty team. Each team will have two canoesists.
The race is conducted under the rules and regulations of the American Concrete Institute and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The chairman of the concrete canoe committee, Richard Schmidt, Hays senior, said seven KU teams had been practicing in aluminium canoes at Lone Star Lake.
TEAMS WILL paddle 250 yards out to a marker on the pond, round it and return to the water.
"That's really a fairly long race," Darwin said. "Concrete canoes are the easiest to sail."
Bends being awkward, this kind of has another drawback—its short lifespan.
Concrete canoes have a life so short that it is best measured in hours, according to Dale Hoehn.
"After the races start," he said, "we can use anything to hold up the-dap taps."
HUNDREDS OF hours of effort went into construction of the rough, glean canoe in the basement of Learned Hall, and it still doesn't look too impressive. It's a metal frame with wire mesh molded to it. Concrete has been hand-packed onto the mesh.
There have been major design changes in this year's canoe, Darwin said. Last year's canoe was made of concrete that was lighter than water—styrofoam beads, like marble or glass, were made into the concrete. The canoe had thick walls, but they were weak.
"This year we want to concrete two times as heavy and twice as strong," Darwin said. "The hull is only one-fourth of an inch thick."
Although the concrete is twice as heavy as the concrete used last year, this year's canoe will weigh only 130 pounds. Last fall, the United States RU concrete weighed 225 pounds.
BECAUSE THE concrete mixture is
See CANOE RACE page 2