THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Vol. 87 No.63
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, November 18, 1976
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KU defends budget today
Staff Writer
Rv RARRARA ROSEWICZ
UK administrators today will defend their operating budget requests for fiscal 1978 in the governor's budget hearings for all Kansas Board of Regents institutions in
Chancellor Archie Dykes last night that the needs for libraries, operating expenses, and scientific and teaching equipment would be stressed.
More hearings will be held tomorrow before Gov. Robert Bennett and James Bibb, state budget director, focusing on public requests for capital improvements.
KU's requests for operating budgets and capital expenditures for both the Lawrence and KU Medical Center campuses were cut short, and we went week from $194,844.21 to $187,427.044.
OPERATING BUDGETS for both KU campuses were sliced $12,936,325. Capital improvement requests for both campuses were cut $9,250,332.
KU's budget has already been approved
by the Regents, but since then has been cut by Bibb. In January, Bennett will make his recommendations—upholding Bibb's cuts, making his own cuts, or partially or fully restoring KU's requests—to the 1977 legislature.
The legislature will then make final appropriations to each of the Regents schools.
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salaries, requested by each Regent school, was cut in each case to 3.5 per cent.
Keith Nitcher, KU director of business and fiscal affairs, said yesterday that a 7 per cent raise would have given an associate professor at KU, for example, an extra $1,276 to his nine-month salary of $18,240.
HOWEVER, HE SAID, each faculty member wouldn't have been guaranteed a 7 per cent increase. Because the raises are distributed on the merit system, he said, some might have received 10 per cent while others would get only 3 per cent.
Academic and patient care programs were cut from the KU Medical Center budget. All increases in hospital programs and the Family Practice and Outreach program, which trains medical postgraduates in state hospitals, were also struck.
The only capital improvement approved at KU was the $1,800,000 for the new computer center. That sum was appropriated for fiscal 1978 by the 1976 Legislature.
DVKES SAID THAT he was hopeful some of the reductions would be restored, but that there was no way to assess what would probably happen.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said he doubted that all cuts would be restored because he'd heard that the state's financial position was a little behind where the governor had hoped it would be at this time.
Large commitments were made last year to primary and secondary education, beyond what the governor had recommended, Shankel said.
Returned check raises questions on paying campus privilege fee
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Staff Writer
Unlike some students who disagree but quietly comply with student teaching fee policies, a School of Education graduate can enroll herself in the program her check for $83 in campus privileges fees.
The student, who asked to remain anonymous, said last week that she didn't think she rightfully owed the fee for a semester she lived andstudent-taught out-of-town while in a KU student teaching program.
Gli Dyck, dean of admissions and records,
said Friday that if an error had been made
in returning the money, the student would
be billed for the amount and a hold would
be placed on her records until payment was
received.
THE STUDENT, in fall 1975, was in the MITEC (Multi-Institutional Teaching Education Center) program, which places KU students in Kansas City and Topaka school district programs for a semester. The students aren't required to return to campus as part of the program.
The program comprises 10 hours in student-teaching credit and six hours in seminar courses, which are taught by KU. The program also offers the regional centers to teach the coarse.
Hardist has declined to comment on the matter
Campus privilege fees are for student health services, use of the Kansas Union, or both.
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health facilities and additions to the Union, campus transportation, and the Student Senate Activity fee. The activity fee includes money for support of campus clubs and organizations and subscriptions to the Kansan.
The student said she had gotten back a separate check she had written for the campus privilege fees after correspondence with the Office of Admissions and Records. She was trying to resolve a problem about a hold on her transcript.
ALTHOUGH SEVERAL students in the MITTEC program said that they questioned paying the fee, none have refused to pay it or tried to get their money back.
Dyck, who wasn't at KU when an option plan allowing MITEC students to pay reduced activity fees was dropped two years ago, said an arrangement had been made so that students could use student health facilities at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., to make health care more accessible to students in the program.
THE CHECK was returned with a letter signed by Kathy Hardister, Dyck's secretary, which stated: "Your bill for fall semester 75 has been cancelled. The hold has been removed from your files and you will not have any more problems."
BILL KELLY, associate dean of admissions and records, said, "Students aren't that far away that they can't take part in University activities."
Student teachers receive resident credit hours as part of their degree program and have such a privilege as purchasing student season football tickets.
penalize students who didn't return to campus by making them pay full fees.
JOEL PRATHER, Lawrence graduate student, recommended a reduced fee for student teachers who lived and worked out of town.
However, students who lived near the school districts where the student taught said they seldom if ever returned to campus during the semester.
Martha Bachand, Lawrence special student, said that she used campus privileges such as student concert and theatre tickets, but that it wasn't fair to
John Stuart, who lived and taught in Overland Park, Kan., said he didn't visit the campus enough to use the campus privileges.
He said that even if one student's fees had been returned, he probably wouldn't try to get his back because of the work and involvement it would take.
didn't know what to do about it," she said. Students who commuted from Lawrence to their jobs also said they thought it was unfair to require all student teachers to pay
The student whose fees were returned said someone had dropped the extra fees at the fee assessment table at enrollment after receiving them. The student was during the semester. Although she *r*
Charlotte Sewell, Lawrence senior, said she hadn't complained about paying the fees, probably because she didn't think there was any way to get out of it.
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"I don't really think it's fair, but I really didn't know what to do about it," she said.
KATHY SHEPHERD, Overland Park senior, said she didn't want to drive 40 miles to the campus privileges she'd paid for.
Credit the rebound to towering center Paul Mokesi, but Kansas was sure to pull the ball down anyway with Jayhawks wearing both white and blue uniforms. Last night in Allen Field House, KU fans got their preseason look at the 'Hawks in the annual Crimson and Blue intrasquad game. See story page eight.
KU board strength
Institute seeks improvements for legislature
Marvin Harder, professor of political science, is director of the institute, to which all Kansas legislators and press have been invited.
About 129 Kansas lawmakers will discuss ways to improve the legislative process in the second Institute of Kansas Legislators on Saturday at the University of Kansas.
One of the goals of the institute is "to help legislators understand the various legislative technologies, to provide ongoing opportunities to assess these technologies and to bring the role of leaders in making the technology work," according to an institute release.
At 1 p.m., Gov. Robert Bennett is scheduled to address a luncheon in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. He will describe the governor's role in the budget process.
This afternoon's session, to be led by Rep. John Carlin, Kansas House minority leader, will examine legislative checks on the executive branch.
Tomorrow's sessions will look at support services and the role of legislative leaders
services and the role of legislative leaders. At a noon luncheon, John Gilligan, former governor of Ohio, will speak to the legislators.
The institute will conclude Saturday morning with a session on legislative ethics.
year's institute, Harder said yesterday. One of the reasons that he is the director of the institute, Harder said, is that he has always been a "student" of the legislative
At 5 p.m. a reception will be at Chancellor
Archie Dewdney, residence, followed by a
workshop on the ethics of the Church.
He is also director of the Capitol Complex Center, a graduate program for state employees in Topska, and Harder was named to Robert Docking when he was governor.
Student say in promotions debated
Staff Writers
By KATHY GANNON
Sentiment should be split as to whether students should be voting members of committees on promotion and tenure within Kansas. A recent survey indicated, of Kansas, a recent survey indicated.
In a survey of 15 heads of departments and schools, all but two said they didn't have student representation because it was too expensive to make promotion and tenure decisions.
A Student Senate resolution passed Nov. 10 recommended that all departments and school committees on promotion and tenure at KU include at least 20 per cent student privileges and the tenured privileges but the final decision is left to each individual department or school.
RECOMMENDATIONS for promotion and tenure are initially made at the
departmental level. The recommendations go to the school committee, then to the University committee that makes Arche Dykes and the Board of Regents.
"Students comments on teaching are helpful only if they have had the candidate as a teacher, and I don't know how students will be served. "E.Joan Handley, a member of the College Assembly on Faculty Appointments, Promotion and Tenure, said yesterday. The Assembly is the governing body of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Paul Rabinovitz, a student Assembly member said, "The argument is that students can't evaluate teacher's performance as well as the faculty can.
*Students have the same ability to read a folder as the faculty does. I know they say
reading and writing skills are dropping but not to the point that we can't read."
TEDDE TASHEFF, student body president and author of the Senate resolution, said, "That isn't to say that students should have a full voice in determining who should be promoted, but students can add integrity to a department by showing the right touch, trouble getting tenure for whom they want because of problems higher up."
Even before the Senate resolution was passed, the College Assembly had considered changing its bylaws to include a requirement that no change on the issue that no change has occurred.
Andrew Debicki, chairman of the committee to review the Assembly bylaws, said arguments in favor of student representation were that students had a right to vote in decisions regarding teaching, students were just as capable as faculty to evaluate
the quality of a candidate, and students could add a new perspective to the decision.
HE SAID THAT reasons against student inclusion were that students couldn't evaluate research and service competently, students' decisions could be made solely through the students' like or dislike for the candidate and students might not have the time for the excessive work involved in the decision.
Rabinowitz said, "Students understand their responsibility and would not evaluate a candidate using only teaching as a criteria. At a university as large as KU most of the faculty do not know each other any way, and the only basis faculty members may have to make decisions is by reading a candidate's folder."
Handley said, "There is too much personal information included in a dossier that could be used for fraud."
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Opinions, emotions vary on Humanities Program
*(Editor's note:* This is the third and final article ON THE KU Integrated Humanities Program. It touches on the diverse opinions that students, and administrators have about the program.
By JERRY SEIB Staff Writer
There is probably no academic program at the University of Kansas on which opinions are so clearly divided—and so emotional—as the Integrated Humanities Program (JHP).
The IHP is a four-semester program for studying great philosophical, literary and historical books of Western civilization. Students study Greek, Roman, medieval and modern thinkers and participate in such supplementary activities as grammar orientation, italic script writing, and an annual walk.
Three professors, Dennis Quinn, professor of English; John Senior, professor of classics; and Robert Wilson, founder and only faculty members the program has had. Quinn said that the program was an alternative for underclassmen, whom he said are more advanced, whatever happens to occur to them at the time."
IN THE MINDS of its opponents, it is also one-dimensional, suppressive and irrelevant. In the minds of its proponents, it is a brave and refreshing way to teach the classics and a bold attempt by a group of reputable teachers to make education meaninful.
Quinn describes the program as a way to study the great books, and he denies that the program is intended to teach.
*WE THINK this is the most relevant course students can take,* he said. "That is, it is relevant course material."
"We do that very deliberately because we must think students get that exposure elsewhere," he said. "We think we're the only ones at the University or elsewhere who make an effort to make students familiar with the classics and medieval literature."
"We say that so far as practicality of a liberal arts education is concerned, that it is not designed to prepare a person for a vocation but to cultivate the mind."
And Quinn doesn't argue with the critics who chide the program for its emphasis on the classics.
"We are grown, intelligent teachers. We can see these views as well as anyone. But we do take sides. We don't take the pluralistic view."
MUCH OF the criticism of the program has grown out of IRP faculty members' refusal to
adopt what Quinn calls the prevailing educational philosophy, in which he says teachers present two sides of an issue and let students choose the side they think is correct.
—Dennis Quinn, director of Integrated Humanities Program.
"We are grown, intelligent teachers," Quinn said. "We can see these views as well as anyone. But we do take sides. We don't take the phuralistic view.
IHP teachers have never been reluctant to take sides.
"We say what they are teaching is skepticism, that one side is as good as another."
that one side is as good as another."
QUINN INSISTS, however, that IHP teachers don't have any philosophy of their own. They follow the traditional philosophy of the great thinkers. And, he says, students aren't graded on whether they agree or disagree but on how well they know the books studied.
But he readily concedes that the opposition to the program from other faculty members still exists.
"They've always been opposed to what we teach and how we teach it," he said. "Our position is that we have as much right to teach as anyone in the University."
James Seaver, professor of history and director of the Western civilization program, has been a longtime critic of the HIP. In the past, Seaver has sat on the program closed minds and was an author.
"I DON'T THINK anything I've heard in the past years has changed my opinion," he said.
Seaver said most critics of the program didn't object to the readings and DP classes but to the teaching methods.
George Worth, professor of English, said he would like to see a more open program.
"It's been run by the same three professors since the program began," he said. "It's not the way I think it ought to be. There are a lot of people at this University involved in the humanities and with an interest in the humanities who ought to be more involved in the program."
KYLE SMITH, Liberty, M. junior, completed
the group's semester abroad in Ireland this
year.
"I think it the (HIP) benefited me a great deal," he said. "It's controversial, but I think I got a lot of joy."
Although he said he had doubted the value of
some readings, Smith said he now thought they were valuable.
"At times, I wondered why I was reading a particular book," he said. "But there an awful lot of good in them. I don't regret any of the books I read."
"THE PROFESSORS have a point of view, but most all professors do." he said.
On the whole, Smith said, criticisms of the IHP are "grossly exaggerated."
It's not the way I think it ought to be. There are a lot of people at this University involved in the humanities . . . who ought to be more involved in the program."
"LOOKING BACK on it. I must admire that they take a stand on things," she said. "I admit they are a little narrow-minded. I still admire them for
—George Worth, professor of English
she found the program's approach "refreshing",
her propblem and have left after a year regardless
of the major malaise.
"I think they need to broaden it," she said. "It's just too limited a view. I think it's great to study Homer and Aristotle, but I don't think that you can stop there.
taking a stand on things instead of leaving it up to you."
Keith Bechh, Park Forest, III., junior, also left the program after his freshman year. He said religious overtones in IHP classes prompted him to leave.
"I got tired of a lot of the stuff," he said. "They started getting really heavy into religion, I thought."
"They didn't come right out and presch religious influence. It was sort of a sub-ap plea."
BECHLY SAID he enrolled in the College Western Civilization Program after leaving the IHP. He said he found more room for varying opinions in Western civilization classes.
"They say a lot of things that are pretty
"But what happens when they eat it?
"But take the things the way you with a grain of salt."
Becky Mumaw, Holton sophomore, is in her second year in the program. Although there isn't much room for a wide diversity of views in the HIP, she said, the program is valuable.
"I THINK the fact that it's a four-semester program makes some difference," she said. "There's a continuity across the four semesters and also have a chance to get to know the professor."
Quinn has expressed doubts about the support of the IHP in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College, described the attitude toward the program at college and, at the same time, best summer up the wide vantage of opinion about the IHP.
"Some favor it more than others, some less than others. Our sales team all know the program and we will do it."
has been a controversial one since day one.