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Monday, February 14, 1977
University Dally Kansan
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Sabbaticals simmer
Faculty committee maneuvering, by the Faculty Executive Committee, the University Committee on Sabbaticals and the Faculty Senate Committee on Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities has placed an already boiling University issue on the back burner to simmer for awhile longer.
BEHND THE cumbersome and ambiguous titles of these committees, and their equally cumbersome and ambiguous abbreviations and initials (FacEx, UCS and FRRP, respectively) lie the fundamental centralization of power within the University.
But the issue, the question of who determines the approval of faculty sabbaticals, may sing the hides of some KU professors and administers before a final resolution,
FRPR, in a report suggesting decentralization of the sabbatical decision-making process, charged that UCS procedures were "cumbersome—and in the view of some faculty members who receive sabbaticals, not worthwhile.
T. P. Srinivasan, FRPR chairman, alleged that a change in wording, from "a statement setting forth the objectives of the leave" to "a proposal . . ." had created a situation in which competition was the chief criterion for the approval of faculty sabbaticals.
AT FIRST glance, the two words would seem to mean the same thing; Calgaard, chairman of UCS, has said the change was "a minor, not a substantive point." Yet if the point is minor, why was the wording of the passage, contained in Article VIII of the faculty handbook—also under the control of the Office of Academic Affairs—changed?
The answer can be found in an UCS memorandum, dated Sept. 1, 1976, that says
candidates applying for sabbaticals "should prepare this application as carefully as they would a proposal for any other competitive award."
The memo seems to support Srivasantas' contention that sabbatical approval, under UCS guidelines, lacks sufficient influence from departmental or school levels.
That is precisely what FRPR is attempting to do; it is trying to bring major decision-making powers back to the departmental and school levels of power. We know the people who know about the faculty member and his reasons for requesting a sabbatical.
BUT CALGARD does not see it that way.
He says the decentralization plan will create
a decentralized system.
The underlying assumptions behind Calgard's statement are false. He assumes that additional layers of review will get in the way of his committee's smooth-running operation. The additional review barrier is therefore evil. Wrong on both counts.
FRRP's proposal is based on the premise that lower level decisions are more representative and more accurate assessments of sabbatical requests—at least certainly more accurate and representative by one massive centralized committee.
certain technical conditions. And even if the proposed FRPR move is enacted, UCS still will maintain a power of review.
THE RESULTS of Thursday's Faculty Council meeting proved little; FRPR's plan was sent back to FRPR because the council did not want it. The school will prepare the plan will go on, now is anybody's guess.
One nops the sensibility of the FRPR plan doesn't get lost in the committee shuffle.
On Friday, Feb. 4, 1977, a story headlined "Dose smoking often condoned in KU residence balls" appeared on the front page of the Kansas. The Great Grass Story had been born.
It was, for the most part, a rather innocuous feature story. It said little more than that enforcement of University regulations against marijuana came to light. Some students in residence halls smoked grass, (hardly a revelation). It contained some holes in that it didn't say enough about penalties that might face RAs who less-than-requisite and under-qualified amounts of smoking involved. It may well not have deserved front page play.
This "rather innocuous" feature did, however, quote one RA as saying 80 per cent of Hashinger. I also tried marijuana and another as saying about 50 per cent of the students in his hall smoked pot. There was also a student quoted as saying some lra RAs enforce regulations on the students' pot but put lows under their doors.
THREE LITTLE quotes. No Kansan survey; no Kansan charge; no Kansan poll. Just three little quotes.
On Friday and Saturday,
nothing happened.
The marijuana feature drew no
response to it on any paper in
that day's paper.
But on Sunday—wham!
Pot story criticism misdirected
But on Sunday-wham.
Some unknown employee of Utech Chemical in Kansas City must have found the Kansan in that day's exchange papers. Hm, he must have said, looks like a good little kid. And he picked the three quotes and stuck them together with a little
Dole sets a bad example
Letters
I find it somewhat amusing that Senator Dole would say that the Republican party needs to put forth positive alternatives to the problems of taxes, government spending and energy shortages. Perhaps now be realizes that there is more to do than just comply with some jokes, intolerant criticism and slick advertising.
positive and constructive proposals.
New Senator Dole wants to attract youth and minorities into the Republican party, which during the 1972 campaign made perfectly clear that the party wanted nothing to do with these groups. People in this country have the doors to become Republicans as long as the party has people like Senator Dole in it.
The debate between Vice-President Mondale and Senator Dole brought this out for all to see on a nationwide basis. It appears that when you run against Senator Dole, you don't know who is the winner, you have to do to let Senator Dole do all of the talking.
For the past six years, Senator Dole, along with Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, has represented a conservative many people off to the Republican party. Some of the speeches made by Senator Dole after his appointment as national chairman refereed at a debate, those who dared to disagree with Richard Nixon, while offering little if nothing in terms of
If the Republican party in Kansas wants to acquire a more positive image, it would do well for the leaders of the party to
consider someone else as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator in 1980.
To the editor:
Yes vote for whistle To the editor:
After reading the letters to the editor the past three weeks concerning "The Whistle," I offered my opinion on the issue.
Bill Kirby
Bellingham, Wash.
Graduate student
The whistle is the piece of equipment which keeps the University functioning smoothly, it students are faculty are late in class and late in arriving for their next class. The whistle reminded professors that class was over and that students need to work on their next class to work or to wait needed to be.
I've been a student at KU for the past three and one-half years and I'll vote "yes" on Feb. 16 and 17 for the return of the whistle so the University again function smoothly.
THE THIRD ITEM in the state wire budget received by subscribers was "DOPE LAWRENCE - 40 per person" of state-owned University of Kansas smoke marijuana, according to the
padding and sent them to little papers all over Kansas and beyond.
Bill French Olathe senior
front page of one of the most important papers in the state is even more of a thrill.
SO, FOR THE next couple of hours, we all felt pretty pleased with ourselves. We were confused and amazed that anyone was doing this difficult time recognizing the UFI version as a descendant
Editor's Note
Tim Bates
student newspaper . . .
Hmmm, the various editors have said, looks like an interesting item.
worrying about cracking-down RAs and raiding attorneys general.
No one was more surprised to see that story on the front page of Monday's Topeka Capital Times than the staff of the Kansan.
of our story. But we were all pleased with ourselves nonetheless.
To be perfectly honest, it was sort of thrilling. It's a big bogo toprie for a college newspaper to have anything it publishes picked up by a wire service. And to have it published on the
AND GUESS WHO all these concerned people began blaming? Yes, you guessed it—the Kansan.
Administrators, senators, RAS and students weren't upset because there was pot smoking in the residence halls. All of them either knew about the situation or didn't want to know. They were mad because printing the story meant that some people wouldn't pretend to know couldn't pretend anymore and that some people who they didn't want to know would now know.
And we certainly weren't innocent in that matter. We certainly did run the story. But we certainly didn't create the situation we reported or make in the quotes.
Ah yes, killing the messenger
I WOULD BE nice if the Kansan story would have been some fantastic reporting job against utrageous odds. It
would be nice if the Karsan could beat its collective chest in pride because of the fruits of its dizziness.
FOR A WEEK now, Kansan staffers have been enduring grass jokes from friends and dodging grass attacks from others. So much so that the Kansan has printed, the Great Grass Story probably deserved both. Quite a bit of joking and criticism is justified. It is justified, that is, as long as the criticism is based on the story of the story is self- on its writing, editing and news play.
It would be nice, but unfortunately we can't really do that because of a story based on a few guest-stimulated RAs, a story that was common knowledge or any present or former residence hall resident. I loved the heat and
We really rocked the boat and we weren't even trying.
It is a slightly different matter when the criticism is based on quoting someone or telling the truth.
Conservatives need less purity
WASHINGTON — Several hundred adherents to the conservative faith held their fourth annual revival meeting at the Hyatt Regency last week. They left town full of the news, and a large crowd sawawit trail nawel. I wish them all the luck in the world.
This was the Conservative
Political Action Conference, sponsored by Young Americans for Freedom and the American Conservative Union. Participants ranged in age from those barely old enough to vote to those just about old enough to quit, but they shared a common bond—a total dedication to the conservative point of view.
These are the evangelical members of the holy faith, full-time missionaries in the conservative cause. Their purpose is to elect conservatives to the House and Senate in 1787, and to reclaim the White House in 1980. Theirs is a noble crusade.
RONALD REAGAN spoke to the closing banquet Saturday
night. it was the eve of his 66th birthday, but you wouldn't have guessed it. The former California governor was sun-
seemed to command less support at this conference than they have commanded in the past. Most of the participants
Candidates express intentions
Note: Elections for student body president and vice president are tomorrow and Wednesday. The Kanas has offered space for the three coalitions in them in their own words, their campaign platforms.
James J. Kilpatrick
(1) 177 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Reflection: Steve Leben,
Ralph Munyan
We have a two-part program for improving
instrument and increasing student involvement in it.
WE HAVE SEVERAL new ideas for the future. Polling of students will continue on a regular basis. Time will be made available at Senate meetings for any student to address the group. We will have a special meeting of executive bodies of all living groups about once a month. Just holding open meetings in living groups, we have found, usually fails because one shows up. This way we'll still get a broad audience. In particular, organizations made in these meetings will be printed in the Senate Record, which goes to all senators.
Several new ideas have been implemented this year by the Communications Committee. We surveyed the student body on academic advising and on whether the KU-MU football game should be moved to Kansas City. We also surveyed the Student Body in our publication, and hosted on campus and in living groups.
Part one is communication—the area that has always been our top priority. I am chairperson of the Senate Communications Committee and my colleague, Ralph Munyan, serves on that committee.
WE WILL SEE that you benefit from the $108,000 surplus the Senate has accumulated. You pay a $6.00 activity fee each semester, and you benefit any prospect benefits from it. We'll see that you get them.
Part two of our program is giving each of you tangible benefits from the Sentae and from your fees. If we do that, and you realize that the Senate can protect you, then we think you'll want to get involved.
We would use part of the money to improve recreational services and facilities, which are essential for our children.
aren't used for this, then the only way we could get the money to make these improvements would be by raising your fees. We'll spend the money you've already paid before even considering a fee in advance.
We would use the rest of the surplus to re-institute a published Feedback book, which would include student evaluations of each course and the teaching experience. We would go universities, and it can be successful here, too.
WE HAVE TRIED our best to communicate with you during this campaign. We surveyed 1,185 students on a variety of ideas we have for improving services to you. We visited 27 living groups, held open meetings in 5 apartment complexes, and set up a table in the Union.
Along with the Reflection Senate candidates, we want to reflect your views.
My qualifications include: president, All Scholarship Hall Council (ASHC); student senator; member, Student Senate Student Housing Board; member, Student Satellite Union
Spectrum: Sberri Grey,
Don Green and I deserve your vote. We sincerely believe this, primarily for three reasons. Don and I have had more experience with a wider variety of KU organizations than either of us.
Don Green
DON'T QUALIFICATIONS enhance and expand upon my own, student senator; member, Students Rights, Responsibilities and Privileges Committee; and member, Elections Subcommittee.
We deserve your vote because the Spectrum coalition was formed with broad representation in mind. Consequently, 29 coalition members are from fraternities and sororites, 25 Spectrum candidates live in residence halls, 10 candidates are from scholarship halls and 10 live off-campus.
SPECTRUM'S ISSUE orientations are practical and can be realized:
Our opposition cannot, and does not, boast of this same diversity. The Reflection coalition, for example, is running only 13 residence hall candidates, while running only 9 residence hall candidates out of 79.
We do not approve of giving all of that money to the KU Endowment Association for management and provision of $6,000 worth of scholarships per year. We also do not approve of benefits in other ways. We also do not approve of spending $30,000 for expanding the Feedback program when the creator of Feedback notes that the program has been updated in the past five years, something which might not be workable anyway?
1. Student government and student government: updating the Student Senate structure and reorganizing committees; 2. student government and students: improving library services, revamping Feedback, providing a student center, and graduate student concerns; 3. student government and administration, faculty and staff: involving students in budget allocations and salary levels; 4. student government and community: more student involvement e.g., via social media; 5. student government and the legislature and Board of Regents: implementing public information centers.
The major purpose of student government is to provide student services, via allocations of student activity fees. Last year, the Senate allocated $465,000 for an additional $188,000 will be at our disposal.
SPECTRUM WOULD like to see capital equipment expenditures (e.g. basketballets, etc.) for intramural and recreational services increased with some of these funds. We would also like to discuss advocating monetary incentives to faculty for advising us.
We believe we deserve your vote. Look at the facts. We're proud of ours.
Avanti; Randy McKernan,
Katie Rhoads
I have been a member of the Senate for two years and for those two years have worked hard as a member of the Senate's Finance and Auditing Committee. For the past year I have served as the
Avanti means moving forward. Moving in the sense that as our first goal we need to address ourselves to the major problem that exists in the minds of many students.
co chairman of this integral Senate committee. For most purposes, financing of student organizations is the key to the activities of the Senate. And the $350,000 worth of programs funded ties into the Senate in one vital area—finance and auditing. Katie can also bring a strong sense of response to the finance in this area after having served as an enforcement officer and working member of Finance and Auditing.
KATIE AND I are able to bring an abundance of diverse leadership abilities and tested examples of those important attributes. Our combined experience as student leaders at KU ranges from Katie's presidency of GSP-Corbin Hall; her research on the role of the AURH President's Council and its various committees; her service on the Higher Education Week Steering Committee; and her membership on the Chancellor's Task Force on Enrollment, to my experience with some major areas of University government, including the Senate, the Board of Trustees and membership on the University Council.
I want to provide you with the responsibility that you deserve. The president of the student body is not only an elected official, but is employed by the student body.
It should be mandatory that student senators make effective attempts to seek out student views. We have also proposed a weekly column in the Kansan that would publicize the issues under discussion in the Senate before the Senate decides on them.
In
ONE OF THE MOST controversial issues is the use of the excess money that the Senate will have acquired at the end of this fiscal year. We are not opposed to spending money on worthwhile programs, but we are opposed to the liberal spend it philosophy; we should be able to spend it because our program that will either be discontinued when the money runs out, or one that will require raising additional revenues via the activity fee in the future. Until permanent programs can be started, we would like to see a majority of this excess transferred to the Endowment Association to provide such assistance that must be acquired. One of the first places money should be spent would be in recreational services.
tanned, virile, as handsome as he. Rang him all the old bells: The American people really are scared by his talk, thought; the poll shows a resurgence of conservative attitudes; all that is necessary for victory is to weld this latent weakness into an effective political force.
Former Senator James L. Buckley of New York hit the same note. So did Rush Limbaugh, the publisher of National Review. This is the way it is with revivals. Everybody gets born again, but Mr. Limbaugh will go forth rejoicing, trumping in the sheaves.
BUT HOW? That is the question many of my passionate brothers are unwilling to face realistically. Mr. Rusher, for example, insisted that the Republican party is done for; it has known sin; it cannot be redeemed. Salvation, in his view, lies in a new unblemished Conservative party. Mr. Rusher's evidence shows that the GOP holds barely one-third of the seats in the House and Senate; the party is down to 12 governors; it controls both houses in only 5 state legislatures. As a reaction the Republican party is no more than an aging Edsel.
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AND THIS is where orthodoxy runs aground. The conservative activists have not quite got it through their heads that elections are not ideas; elections are people. It is not attitudes that vote; it is human beings, warm bodies, men and women. Faith alone is not enough. The consensus of voters, in the pact, must motivate a majority of the voters in any given constituency to put ballots in a box.
**THIS IS THE conservatives' dilemma.** They will not compromise with sin. If they had managed to nominate a governor this year, by this time they would be snapping at his heels. You wonder, sometimes, if the conservatives really want to win—want deep to win, truly want to organize an government and govern don't know.
I do know this: Whether they work within the Republican party, or seek to establish their own party, the conservatives have an inference for dissent, a willingness to reach out, an acceptance of political realities. Until they appeal to a broad range of failible internal and exterior darkness, and speaking simply as one true believer, I am getting awfully tired of the cold.
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