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Tuesday, April 12, 1977
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From our wire services
Cuba demands embargo lift
WASHINGTON - Cuba has indicated it won't renew the United States-Cuba anti-immigration agreement until the United States completely lifts its 1923 trade embargo.
"President Castro gave the strongest indication that Cuba will not consider agreeing to an extension until the United States ends its economic embargo on
McGovern met with Castro for more than four hours in Hawaiian Saturday. The 1973 agreement on handling blackouts expires Friday.
Husband charged in murder
NEWTON, ran -A *Newton man* mournended yesterday to authorities in neighboring Marton County and was charged with first-degree murder in connection with a killing.
Police Chief Paul Hastings said the shooting apparently was the result of a family argument. He said Mrs. Harris was in the process of filing divorce proceedings and an argument developed after Harris went to her home Sunday night. They had been separated.
Bond was at $10,000 for Dale Harris, 39, who was accused of shooting his wife, Sharon, 34, in their home nightly while their two daughters looked on. A federal judge later ruled that the shooting
38 dead in Pakistan riots
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Police shot and killed three demonstrators and injured hundreds during antigovernment protests across Pakistan yesterday, bringing the tensions to a boil.
In Lahore, the opposition, Pakistan National Alliance, called on Pakistani to stop paying taxes, depositing funds in banks and paying of bank loans. It said the government had not paid taxes for the last five years.
The opposition began its civil disobedience campaign after it lost the March 7 national elections. It has asserted the vote, in which Prime Minister Zulkifil Al-Kurdi won.
The deaths came when police fired into crowd protesting the opening of the Punjab provincial assembly, which the opposition claimed was illegally elected.
Pot bust is state's largest
JETMORE, Kan.-Authorities in southwest Kansas yesterday arrested four men and consoled them to 10 at sea of marijuana from an airplane grounded by authorities.
Officials made the preliminary estimate by the amount that could be carried in the four-engine plane, a DC8 registered in Colombia, South America. An exact figure is not available.
Ten tons of marijuana would have a current value of at least $4.8 million.
School board ends talks
KANSAS CITY (AP)—The president of the Kansas City school board said yesterday that the district won't return to the negotiating table with striking teachers, and that the board's offer of a 7 per cent pay raise was final.
James Lyddon told a news conference that teachers should understand that the pay raise was granted to the teachers by the board, and wasn't an offer to the union.
Nearly 51,000 students have been out of
school the past three weeks. School officials have announced that all schools except some junior highs will resume classes today. High school seniors facing graduation returned to classes at five high schools last week.
Norman Hudson, president of the Kansas City Federation of Teachers, said his officers had instructed his negotiating team to return to the bargaining table without a federal mediator as the union demanded earlier this month.
The district earlier announced that the contracts of 500 teachers wouldn't be renewed next year and yesterday began taking applications for teaching positions. A district spokesman said more than 150 positions were vacant the vacant positions yesterday morning.
Lyddon said the 7 per cent pay raise was decided by the board to fulfill, the statutory deadline of April 15, 1977 when contracts will be issued for the teachers.
Lyddon said the board's decision to forego
her next negotiations was firm and final.
French official says Cuba aiding Katangese invaders
PARIS-A French official just returned from Zaire said Cubans and East Germans are helping Katanagee invaders in the south, and French aid to the government was greater than announced, the Aurore newspaper said yesterday.
Pearson fire could be arson
The University of Kansas Police suspect arson in a fire that caused about $300 damage at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Residence Hall early Saturday morning.
The Lawrence Fire Department
dispatched 79 units from two stations about 45 mi.
from the fire station.
Police said that possibly a flammable liquid and shower curtains were used to start the fire. The fire was contained in the hallway of the fourth floor in the east wing. Damage was confined to the hallway and a rug.
"It's the Cubans who are operating in the south of Zaire, and East Germans," the newspaper quoted the unidentified officials as saying. "I can assure you that all the radio messages we monitored were in Spanish."
The officials said the Cubans helping Katangese rebels who swept in from Angola a month ago were responsible for using sophisticated semeheavy weaponry of Soviet manufacture. He didn't identify the weapons.
"Our military effort has been more important than is thought," he said, "In fact, the 20 Transall transport planes based at only four have been kept in France."
The East Germans in Zaure were military advisers specializing in radio communication.
In announcing the airlift Sunday, French President Valery Giscard d'Estailing's office said only 10 Air Force Transals and one Air Force Sikorsky helicopters would be shuttleing arms, not soldiers.
Several University professors and administrators have said they wanted more sabbaticals granted at KU. KU is the only university offering such a program; more applications than available leaves.
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Elizabeth Schultz, associate professor of English who has been awarded a sabbatical leave for next fall, said, "The sabbatical leaves are the best time to be a member needs time to be replenished."
One professor suggested that KU be allowed to grant additional sabbaticals each year by the same number not used at the other state schools.
But Calgard said such a change in the basis of Regina's policy would be very difficult.
Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business, said that sabbaticals were considered so valuable that certain businesses undergoing sabbaticals for their executives.
Although the criteria for selection of sabbatical recipients may be disputed at KU, most faculty members and ad- hoc students agree that sabbaticals are valuable.
Schulzt said she had tried to be responsive to her students and to serve on University committees, but said that it was very difficult to research and write during the school year.
She said she was looking forward to her
sabatical as uninterrupted time to do necessary research by reading. Teaching is enhanced by research, she said, and the more he has read the more he can convey to the student.
Landgrebe said he thought sabbaticals were so important for professional development and psychological refreshment that people should be forced to take
He said he had noticed people came back not only with new ideas but also with renewed enthusiasm that enabled them to project projects they wouldn't have tried before.
One reason KU has such an excellent reputation, he said, is that its professors are involved in their work and interested in keeping abreast of changes.
This involves research, he said, whether it is reading the latest publications or visiting labs where the latest research techniques and instrumentation are used. "Research makes the difference between our first class job and not doing a first class job."
Landgrebe said he knew of chemistry teachers in other Kansas schools who didn't keep abreast of the latest research and as a teacher's tare aware of idea-designed and theoretical
The students taught by those professors,
In the fine art it is extremely beneficial, Moeser said, for faculty members to take sabbaticals. He said it was important for faculty members to get out into the mainstream of their discipline and to be engaged in the mindset of divided between art and teaching.
A professor on sabbatical hears music he wouldn't be able to hear in Lawrence and makes valuable contact with professional who can help later KU graduates find jobs.
One chemistry professor, Rahm Adams, is now in Europe on a one-semeet sabbatical visiting several laboratories enaged in brain chemistry research.
"It's very easy at KU to get out of the mainstream of culture." Moeser said. "Our faculty needs to be in the mainstream of culture if they are to be of help to students."
Sabbaticals, he said, make faculty members much stronger teachers.
Landgrebe said that the expertise Adams brought back to KU would help produce students who would have a greater chance of contributing to than if Adams hadn't gone.
James Moose, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said a lack of funds for hiring replacements sometimes caused severe hardship to departments in his school. But some of the short-term replacements had been averted because they wouldn't be exposed to otherwise he said.
he said, wouldn't be an well equipped to work as those taught by professors who teach it.
Kick Rickler, a graduate student in Adams' research group, said he thought Adams probably learned a lot of new research ideas that would benefit students and was making important contacts that would also aid in job placement for his
Nearly all of the professors and students questioned said they thought the contacts made during sabbaticals improved job opportunities for students and helped to promote KU.
Keller said the only problem he and other members of his group were having because of Adams' absence, in makingusions to him, and to be made by phone. These decisions
Professors from several departments said that students didn't suffer any major negative effects from a professor's absence but said that the inconvenience caused by a postponed course was the biggest drawback of sabbaticals.
By sending outstanding faculty members around the country and the world, the provincial image of KU is broken down, they said, and often these contacts result in bringing prominent people and outstanding students to KU.
Rv MISSV PETERSON
'Right' education can lead to job
Staff Reporter
The adage, "If you want a good job—get a good education," has worn thin through the years. But the trend is toward a situation aggrivated by the number of college graduates pouring into the job
However, recent studies indicate that having the right kind of education, particularly in business or engineering, draws students who are accompanied by increasing salaries.
College recruiting this year continues at dramatically higher levels than a year ago, according to the results of a survey of 160 schools by the College Placement Council
THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas was one of the schools surveyed. However, Frederick Madua, placement director for the School of Business, recently said he was uncertain whether the results were representative of current recruitment at the University.
"We aren't experiencing the percentage increase that other schools seem to be." Ms.
Although data on recruiting won't be out until May, he said it appeared that the number of companies recruiting on the KU team down from 137 last year to 122 this year.
ACCORDING TO THE CPC survey, employers of business graduates have greatly stepped up their recruiting, making 59 per cent more offers than they did last March.
However, Madaus said, the number of job offered reports this year in the business school seems to be lagging behind last year's count.
Although KU hasn't had a large recruitment increase over last year, he said, the job market still has improved since 1974. Because the economy was tight at that time, many companies put holds on their recruitment programs.
In fact, Madaua said, Ford Motor Co. didn't interview at all during the 1974-75 recruiting season, and Shell Oil Co. cut off its spring recruitment the same year.
NOW IS a catch-up period for several companies similarly affected by the company.
Reid Fordyce, director of personnel for Monsanto, said the company was neither a big employer nor a recruitment programs. The Food and Drug Administration ordered Monsanto to close three plants producing plastic cola bottles, he said. Otherwise, recruitments might be
Wendell Hayes, head of University Relations and recruiting officer for Boeing, said his company would make about 125 more offers this year.
However, the increased demand for engineers hasn't significantly affected job recruitment in the School of Engineering or the Department of Metrology, placement director for the school.
THINGS ARE looking better for Boeing, he said, because the company has more contracts to fill and more airplanes are being built. It also has more mechanical and electrical engineers.
According to the CPC survey, engineering has attracted continuous employer interest, making up 47 per cent of all job offers reported this year.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING student
city Langer, Kansas City, Kan., senior,
aid team member.
"I think that any engineering student who 'i want a job' won't have any problems finding one," he said. According to Linger, the college's engineering department companies a day interviewed at the school.
Wike Mempte, Seneca senior, said that some of the company representatives he had talked with said they were planning to join the Rockwell team as interviewer with the Rockwell Corp. had said
that he intended to boost his staff from 60 to 160 by this time next year. Wempe said
IN A STORY that appeared in a recent Wall Street Journal, a General Motors spokesman said that engineers were in such bad moods that they concerned about getting enough graduates.
Metzler said this was particularly apparent in the branch of petroleum engineering because of the energy shortage and related problems. He said there were relatively few petroleum engineers compared with mechanical, civil and chemical
Increased demand boosted salary offers for petroleum engineers up to $1,500 a month, according to the CPC report, an increase of almost 8 per cent since July 1976. Chemical engineering had the second highest increase in about of about 8 per cent. The largest increase, according to the report, was a 9.7 per cent gain for industrial engineering graduates.
VERNON GEISSLER, University placement director, said salaries offered to KU graduates were close to those reported by the CPC survey.
Although the business school hasn't had the high degree of recruitment that the engineering school has, salary offers for business graduates also are rising.
According to business school records, a student with a bachelor's degree in general business will draw an offer of about $121 a month, up $95 from last year's average offer averaging $1,086 up $91 from last year's average of $995.
MOSES AND AARON (1975)
Joan-Jean-Marie Straub. A top-drawer production of Schoenberg's opera, Classical Film Series.
Wed, April 13; 7:30 p.m., $1
THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN (LULU THE TOOL) (1872)
(1972)
Dir. Elio Petri, With Mariangela
Meloat, Co-Grand Prize winner
1972. (italy/subtilties) Film
Thurs.; April 14, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975)
Dir. Sydney Pollak with Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Plus short films by K.K. students.
Films by K.K. students, April 16, 3:30; 5:10; 9:30 p.m., $1
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