Profs say sabbaticals valuable to better University
By JEANNE HIERI Staff Reporter
By JEANNE HIERL
Although the procedure for awarding sabbaticals has been a matter of concern in the Faculty Senate, most faculty members said that sabbaticals were a good tool to better teaching and to an improved university.
But there aren't enough sabbaticals available for those who want them at KU and the Faculty Senate is considering proposing changes in the criteria for awarding sabbaticals.
At the University of Kansas, sabbaticals are a one- or two-semester leave of absence from teaching and administrative responsibilities to pursue advanced study in business or gain industrial or professional experience.
The Board of Regents specifies that each year the sabbaticals can be granted to a maximum of 4 per cent of full-time faculty members on regular appointments and have taught continuously for six years or longer.
Faculty members on nine-month appointment who are awarded sabbaticals are paid up to half their
regular salary for a full academic year, or full pay for a one-semester sabbatical.
Faculty members on 12-month appointments—faculty with administrative or service duties that carry through the summer months—are paid up to $300 for each month of leave, or up to full pay for five months of leave.
Faculty members granted sabbaticals must agree to return to KU for at least two years after the sabbatical or pay back their sabbatical salary within two years.
June Michal, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said last week that at KU sabbatical units, considered warm for warfare, a university service was probably not suitable; sabbaticals probably could be criticized as vacation time but that at KU they were used only for professional development and were rarely, if ever,
Jack Landgrebe, chairman of the chemistry department, said that asabaticals were rare operatives.
"I can assure you," he said, "that they are no paid vacations. In chemistry, on sabbatical work
To apply for a sabbatical a faculty member must prepare a summary of his teaching, service and research accomplishments. He also must prepare a proposal that explains his work during his sabbatical and how it will improve his teaching and research at the university. His research evaluations must be included in the application.
hard keeping heavy and tight schedules. Sabbaticals
require time and time. To my knowledge they really
makes use of them.
The summary and proposal should be endorsed by the person's departmental chairman and by the dean of his school before reaching the University Committee on Sabatellian Leaves (UCSL), a committee of nine faculty members and two ex-office members. The committee is for academic affairs is the committee chairman.
The UCSL recommends which proposals should be awarded sabbatical leaves. Its recommendations are sent to the executive vice chancellor and the chancellor, who make final recommendations to the Board
bactical positions available. Too few positions available have caused stiff competition and many complaints about the way sabbaticals were awarded, she said.
The criteria for granting sabbaticals have been studied by the Senate Committee on Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities, which last week approved the Senate Proposed changes in the selection criteria.
T. P. Srinivasan, chairman of the Faculty Rights Committee, said the proposed changes would result in a more equitable distribution of sabbaticals. He said that now the UCSL decided which proposals were most meritorious and that problems arose when several proposals were of equal merit.
"What does the UCSL do when the number of meritorious cases exceeds the number of sabbaticals available?" he asked. "It makes arbitrary decisions based on the personal preferences of the committee."
Srinivasan said the proposed changes would include impartial, general guidelines and would emphasize secondary considerations in cases of equal merit. Such considerations as whether a person has
had a sabbatical before, how long it has been since the last sabbatical and the immediacy of the op-
tion?
Dora Beer, a member of UCSL, said he thought the committee was able to make fair decisions based on
In some parts of the country sabbaticals are the subject of intensive legislative investigation and, in
some cases, also judicial proceedings.
The system in Kansas doesn't draw extra state funds.
Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that such investigations were usually in systems that had "funded sabbatical systems," but that they were also used for sabbaticals and replacement faculty salaries.
Calgaird said he saw no evidence of resistance to the present system and that there were no current pressures on it.
State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, said he hadn't heard any discussion of sabbatical leaves in the race.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87,No.123
Tuesday, April 12, 1977
Students allegedly block other student from class
Royals win home opener
See story page eight
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Staff Renorter
A University of Kansas student has complained that he was detained from entering a classroom by five other students and that the member of SAVAK, the Iranian secret police.
The student filed a report with the KU Police April 6, following an incident that allegedly occurred about 12:35 p.m. that on day the first floor of Marvin Hall. The report doesn't request legal charges against the students.
The student, who was unidentified in the report, said the students blocked his way into the classroom and restrained him by grabbing his arms and hands.
He also said the students said that he was a SAVAK agent and that they wanted him to be there.
THE NAME OF the student wasn't
the name of the Buckley An-
dment's privacy provider.
Mike Hill, KU Police lieutenant, said yesterday that an officer had answered a call by the student. The officer took the name of the person's persons involved, but no arrests were made.
A spokesman for the Iranian Students Association (ISA) said that the group was composed of members and supporters of the ISA.
THE SPOKESMAN said the ISA members told the students not to go into the
"In the past two or three days of class, ISA members went there and talked to the students, teachers and the people in the classrooms at Marvin," the spokesman
Women's sports funding fee raise to be considered
A $1.50 increase in the student activity fee and a resolution calling for an end to Student Senate funding of women's intercollegiate athletics after this year will be considered by the Student Senate when it meets tonight and tomorrow night.
The Senate will also consider final budget allocations to student organizations.
IF PASSED by the Senate, the increase in the activity fee must be submitted to the Board of Regents for approval. If approved, the increase would take effect this fall.
A bill to be considered tonight would recommend that $60,000 in unallocated Senate funds be allocated to the student activity fee, which combined with the additional revenues provided by the recommended increase in the student activity fee would allow Robsonkian Gymnasium to maintain its open and would finance planned improvements.
Steve Leeben, student body president, said last week that without the additional revenues generated by the fee increase, he would not maintain its present number of open hours.
He said the open hours were paid for last year by an emergency allocation from the University of Kansas that would be difficult to repeat this year.
The Senate also is to consider a resolution calling for an end to student funding of women's intercollegiate athletics after this year.
THE RESOLUTION states that it is the duty of the University and state of Kansas to fund the women's program, although the program should continue to be funded by the Senate this year because additional funds would be difficult to find now.
The Sports Committee had earlier applauded the allocation of money to women's intercollegiate program.
classroom when the alleged SAVAK agent attended.
He said the student who filed the report began shouting at the students, and threatened the ISA members while they were talking.
The spokesman said statements that the student had been restrained by the ISA were faxed.
The instructor of the math class meeting in the Marvin classroom, Paik Kee Kim, said that the disruptive students had been in the classroom for a long time, but that they left before it was time to start.
"TECHNICALLY, THEY didn't interrupt my class itself," Kim, assistant professor of math, said. "They didn't interrupt my time."
Caryl Smith, associate dean of women and chairman of the University Events Committee, said that student groups had abstained from speaking outside classrooms.
"If they're not blocking traffic, they can do it," she said. "If they cause a disruption to traffic."
The University Code states that peaceful demonstrations may be held in public areas of the city.
KU POLICE won't follow up on the alleged incident, Hill said. If the victim files charges with Lawrence police, the KU Police will investigate. County attorney for legal consideration.
The ISA spokesman said members of the association were upset because they were unable to learn details of an administrative incident involving two Iranian students.
The Feb. 25 incident involved an ISA member and a student the ISA charged was
AFTER A MONTH-LONG investigation by a committee composed of Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; Mike Davis, university general counsel; and Donald Alderson, acting dean down on what, if any, disciplinary action should have been taken.
The University released a statement March 30, which announced that a decision had been made to end the agreement.
Soviets held for fishing violations
"Mr. Christopher noted the recurring incidents involving Soviet fishing vessels that ratTERated the deep concern of the United States over a week over the continued patterns of
In Washington, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher simulated Vladimir Vasev, minister of the Soviet embassy, and warned him that continued fishing violations could worsen relations between the two countries.
Coast Guard cutters yesterday tied up a Soviet trawler in Boston Harbor and shepherded a Russian refrigerator ship toward port in the first major test of America's new 200-mile fishing limit law. The State Department officially warned the Soviet Union against continued fishing violations.
Bv United Press International
The 725-foot trawler, Taras Shevchenko,
taken on the high seas at l.e. 1m., Sunday,
is the first foreign vessel seized under the 6-
year moratorium to protect and preserve the U.S. J. Fisher.
Coast Guard officials said that 50 tons of fish in the vessel's holds had been confined and that possibly the ship itself would be seized on arrival early today in Boston.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
CUTTERS ALSO escorted the 500-foot refrigerator ship Antnaxes,母子船 of the Soviet fishing fleet off New England, toward nort.
violations of the U.S. fisheries law," a State Department statement said.
VASEV HAD BEEN called to the department last Tuesday after the Soviet Union's fishing vessels had been issued 58 warnings—more than the total issued to all other countries combined—since March 1, the new U.S. fishing limits went into effect
An official from the Soviet embassy in New York was traveling to Boston yesterday to be with the 93 detained crew members of the Taras Shevchenko.
In Boston, U.S. Attorney James Gabriel decided to wait to press charges against the Taras Shevchenko until a review of its logs and fish catch was finished. He said part of the investigation involved a vessel's documents were written in Russian and interpreters would be needed.
A State Department statement said Christopher asked that extraordinary measures be taken by the Soviets to insure that the violations cease so that this situation won't worsen bilateral relations.
The Antanas Snechkus was boarded
GABRIEL SAID "part of the delay was in trying to understand the regulations ourselves." He said they were new statutes that hadn't yet been interpreted.
The federal government can detail the tawker for a reasonable length of time, he added.
SEIZURE OF THE Tars Shevchenko took place without resistance from the Soviet crew, according to Alan Smith, a special forces officer, which escorted the ship into Boston.
Sunday morning by Coast Guard personnel and National Marine Fisheries Service agents about 160 miles east-southeast of Nantucket Island
helping others through the Special Olympics program. Here an athlete in a wheelchair is supported to help him overcome his handicap. See story page 119.
Golden reward
Last year at this time, Robin Matthews, Rochester, N.Y., junior, was running track for the KU women's track team. Although the team ranked fifth in the region, he
Riverfront may be city hall site
By JANE PIPER
Staff Reporter
A University of Kansas professor and his wife, Kathryn, have done preliminary legwork that might place a city hall on the Bowerstock Mill site, east of the Kansas River Bridge at Sixth and Seventh Streets.
Design Build Architects, headed by Robert Gould, assistant professor of architecture and urban design, was one of several local architectural firms asked by the city commission last fall to study potential city hall sites.
According to Gould, Design Build's plan would completely renovate the Bowersock house.
entrance, and would re-establish the historical link to the Kansas River.
See related story, page three
THE BOWERSOCK site is the prime spot being considered by city officials if a new city hall is built, Commissioner Barkley Clark said yesterday. A site between the
county courthouse and the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center was rejected by the County Commission last month.
The city offices are now in the First National Bank Building at Ninth and Massachusetts streets. Two floors are leased by the city and make up city hall.
The firm has predicted that renovation of the building now housing ClosetCarpet Carpet Company is in progress.
WITTENBERG JOINED the Bowersock project team of Gould, Mike Treaner, former KU student, and Tom Williams, Lawrence graduate student, last December and worked on a more detailed estimate of renovation costs.
"The issue is to clean up the mull site." Corton Wittenberg, assistant professor of geography at Columbia University.
Gould's proposal outlining the benefits of a riverfront city hall was first submitted to the City Commission last November. A vote on the proposal did not done and is under consideration now.
Design Build's plans also call for renovation or removal of abandoned buildings and grain elevators on the site and maintenance of the Bowers dock.
the cost of a new building. Could said almost all of the building could be used.
An important part of the design, Gould said, is re-establishing the city's historical identity.
"IT WOULD revitalize the northern end of Massachusetts." he said.
He said the Bowersock site offered a unique point for public access and gathering around the kitchen.
See BOWERSOCK page ten