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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 14, 1991
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KU professors discuss gulf war in class
Educators use war as real example to illustrate their teachings to students
- By Patricia Rojas
Kansan staff writer
In many departments, KU professors and graduate teaching assistants have incorporated the Persian Gulf War into their class discussions.
Norman Yetman, professor of sociology, teaches American Racial and Ethnic Relations.
He said that although the gulf war had not been a recurring subject in his classroom, there had been one instance in which the war dominated
the discussion.
"I raised the issue of the minority disproportion in the troops," Yetman said. "This was a springboard for a discussion of the issues in the gulf."
For other teachers, the war has become a real-life example to illustrate how government officials can
Michael Bath, political science GTA, said he had referred to the war repeatedly during his class discussions.
"It it relates to so many aspects of government," Bath said. "You're never at a loss talking about the war."
Richard Kay, professor of history,
said the gulf war had stimulated
these countries to join the war.
Kay, who teaches Medieval History, said he had not specifically discussed the war in class. However, he had talked about several historical events that were closely related to the gulf, such as the rise of Islam.
"The students were more interested in that lecture because of the gulf war than in other years," he said.
Students also found a special interest in Kay's discussion on Persia before it was Muslim.
David Fredrick, who teaches Greek and Roman mythology, said that he had not introduced the gulf war into his class discussions yet but that he was planning to do so. He said the topic would become relevant
after the class started discussing "The Iliad," one of the readings for his class.
Robert Antonio, professor of sociology, said he had talked about the war several times. Some of his lectures have dealt with militarization during the Reagan years, World War II and the current U.S. recession.
Although the situation now is very different than it was during World War II, the gulf war is still relevant, he said.
"I guess one of the issues I've talked about is how, in the hysteria
that goes about in mobilizing the troops, people don't think about the consequences of the war," Antonio said.
However, he said that because he had such strong feelings about the war and opposed the way the United States got involved in it, he tried not to make it the topic of his lectures.
"I'm careful as to how I approach it," he said. "I don't want to bombard them with my own ideologies. But, on their own hand, I want them to 'think.'"
Special ed. staff in high demand
But study of educators in Kansas shows threat of general shortage has dissipated
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Special education teachers are in demand in Kansas, according to a study presented today to the State Board of Education.
The demand for special education teachers comes from all areas of Kansas and all sizes of school districts, the report stated.
Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education, said the demand for special education teachers was the only necessity in the teaching field in Kansas.
"It is close to being a shortage as there can be in the state," he said. "Relatively speaking, there is no shortage of teachers in Kansas."
The study indicated that there was a surplus of elementary, physical education and social science teachers.
Jack Skillett, dean of the teachers college at Emporia State University, told the board that there was a slight shortage of junior high, middle school and senior high teachers in foreign language, music, computer science, counseling, library science, journalism and science.
"It appears that the storm clouds looming over Kansas in the form of potential teacher shortage have disrupted school operations, evidently emerge once again." he said.
The study measured by geographic region, school district, school size and subject the actual number of teachers for each supplementary supply of teachers as of Sept. 4.
Skillet said that all 304 of the state's school districts responded to the annual survey on teacher supply and demand in public schools.
In special education, there were 137 vacancies statewide, while there
'It appears that the storm clouds looming over Kansas in the form of potential teacher shortage have dissipated, but they could suddenly emerge once again.'
Jack Skillet
were 41 vacancies in elementary education.
Jacob Skimt
Dean of the teachers college
Feminia State University
The greatest job opportunities at the elementary level are in special education, counseling, library science, reading, and music and art, the report said. Physical education and regular classroom positions provide the least employment opportunities at this level.
At the secondary level, computer science and language disciplines, particularly any combination of English, journalism and foreign languages, offer excellent employment opportunities, the report said. Music, science and counseling also provide some of the best job opportunities.
In high school, the areas of physical education, industrial arts and social sciences appear to offer the least employment opportunities.
In 1990, there was a 0.4 percent decline from the number of education graduates in 1989.
In 1990, the seven Board of Regents institutions graduated 1,306 people qualified to teach, the study indicated. Kansas' 17 private four-year colleges graduated another 674 education students.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
After delivering his lecture, Edward Beasley talks with Joel Adedeji, professor of African and African-American studies.
African history important, lecturer says
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
Students should realize the importance of African history to all Americans, a Black History Month lecturer said last night.
"It is important to understand the role of Black history," said Edward Beasley, acting dean of instruction at Penn Valley Community College, to about 40 people at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. The speech was sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs.
"Who has heard about Pope Victor?" he asked.
He was an African pope, who was
upon to decide when Easter
should be celebrated.
keeping the Roman Catholic faith pure, he said.
He said students also should read about Garrett Morgan, who invented the traffic signal, and Elijah McCoy. The lubricated cylinder for the car
If people studied African-American history, they would understand why young Blacks call themselves African-Americans he said.
"Where is the country 'Black'?
There is none, he said. "That's
there."
He said the renewed strength of African-American universities had led to a stronger African identity.
Despite its outdated buildings, Xavier College in New Orleans is
providing a fantastic education for its students, he said.
The college of only 2,900 is second to Howard University in turning out the most African-American doctors, he said.
"They also want the students who have failed out of white universities," he said. "Black colleges look upon African history to counter the European view that Africa had nothing."
Africa provided words to the English language, Beasley said.
"Juke box is an African word," he said. "It means a wild time." "Where is Africa?"
"Where is Africa now?" he asked. "Very close to you."
sophomore, said he was not surprised by the connection to an African language. "It's a new language."
"But it does disgust me that we have never been informed about the correlation in our languages," he said.
Very close to you.
Erik Bauer, Kansas City. Mo..
After the speech, in response to a question about whether it was important for white students to study African history, Beasley said he taught more white students than African-American students.
"Many of the white students question what they have been taught," he said. "I've had white students come and tell me they've been lied to about history."
Kansas man has succeeded as writer, photographer, composer and director
Bv Patricia Roias
Kansan staff writer
Gordon Parks learned at an early age to redirect his rage over racism toward success.
"Reflecting now, I realize that, even within the limits of my childhood vision, I was on a search for answers. In the labor of biobiography "Voices in the Mirror."
Parks, who was born in Fort Scott in 1912, has succeeded as a photographer, novelist, film director, poet and composer.
In "Voices in the Mirror," Parks
instructs children to embrace
growing up while world.
"Where could I begin to build pride? In church, God and the saints were always white." Parks wrote. "I was a student of the school, showed my ancestors picking cotton,
dancing jigs or strumming banjos. Africans were always depicted as savages."
Parks' mother died when he was 15. He went to live with his sister in Minnesota. Two months later, his brother-in-law jumped him out of the house.
Parks managed to survive the winter, but not without hunger. He faced difficult years during which he held several jobs.
In 1934, Parks worked as a waiter
for the North Coast Limited express train.
It was there that he toun a passio
lio of photographs that a passenger
had left behind and became interes-
ted in photography.
A few days later he bought a camera. He started taking pictures during layovers in Chicago and eventually earned a yearlong fellowship.
The fellowship was the beginning of a promising career. In 1948, Parks was hired as a photographer for Life where he worked for more than 20 years.
"A collection of photographs I had taken in the impoverished area of the Black belt came to the attention of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a cult organization whose namesake to aid promising Blacks and Southern whites." Parks wrote.
He has written several autobiographies, the latest of which is "Voices in the Mirror." The others are "The Others" and "Born Black" or "Weapons" and "Born Black."
In 1969, Warner Bros. hired Parks to write a screenplay for his novel "The Learning Tree" and direct the film.
In "Voices in the Mirror," Parks described his puzzelment over receiving the offer from Kenneth Hyman, then in charge at Warner Bros. Seven Arts Studio in Burbank, Calif.
"Provided Kenneth Hyman wasn't playing games, Hollywood's impregnable walls of bigtry were crumbling," Parks wrote. "When, a few months earlier, I signed the contract, the impossible no longer seemed impossible."
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