University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 2, 1990
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KU must pay $32,000 to Willner
By Pam Solner
Korean staff writes
Kansan staff writer
KU's anthropology department will lack a full-time professor for another year, but the University still will have to pay for one.
The Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems concurred Wednesday with Chancellor Gene A. Budd's charges to fire Dorothy Willner, professor of anthropology.
The Board of Regents has accepted the American Association of University Professors' standards of due notice for terminal appointments. By the standards, Willner will receive a year of severance pay after her retirement as chairman of the Faculty Executive Committee.
The Regents decision means the University
must pay her annual $32,000 salary for a third consecutive year without her service.
Willner has been on paid administrative leave, exempt from teaching, research and service to the University, since August 1988.
In its 103-page report, the committee said Willner had failed to perform academic duties and violated professional ethics.
After the decision, Willner said she would appeal to the Regents. No appeal was filed Thursday or Friday.
David Frayer, chairman of the anthropology department, said the department taught 20 percent of the non-Western courses that were in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
He said the college was strapped to find
enough faculty to teach those courses. Willner's teaching emphasis was in Mediterranean and Latin American studies.
Frayer said the department did not get a replacement faculty member or graduate teaching assistant when Wilner went on leave in August 1988. He said the department probably could not add another faculty member and pay Wilner's severance付 at the same time.
"When she went on leave, we got nothing in return," he said.
But Frayer said the department had beer dealing with this burden even before Willner left. He said she had not helped with advising or kept office hours.
"We got used to the burden because we did cover for her," Frayer said.
The anthropology department now can channel its energy into teaching and research without worrying about potential lawsuits and problems from Willner, he said.
F. Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, said Willner's absence left a gap in political and economic anthropology courses.
"We have not had the coverage of our courses we need to teach," he said.
Frayer said political and economic anthropology was the core of the study of anthropology.
Willner could not be reached for comment.
Greek Week culminates in awards night
By a Kansan reporter
KU Greek Week culminated in the first Greek Awards Night last night in Hoch Auditorium. It was the first all-greek effort to recognize greens at KU, said Carolyn Krekeler, president of Panhellenic Association.
Frank Bustamante. Interfraternity Council secretary, said an estimated 1,500 people attended the event.
Award winners were chosen by various selection committees and a panel of executive officers from Panama and the Interfraternity Council.
Some of those recognized were:
• Outstanding Seniors: Kelly Bradad, Alpha Delta Pi; Jodi Breckenridge, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Mimi Brown, Chi Omega; Trisha Harris, Pti Beta Pi; Jill Lowe, Chi Omega; Todd Fowler, Phi Kappa Pi; Tom Cartmell, Phil Delta Theta; Todd Fowler, Phi Kappa Pi; Mike Heitmann, Pi Kappa Alpha; Jason Lank. Lambda Alpha.
Outstanding Community Service:
Chi Omega, Pi Kanna Alba.
Chi Omega, Pi Kappa Alpha.
Most Improved Scholarship: Chi
**Pearson**
- **Overall Scholarship**: Kappa Alpha Theta, Beta Theta Pl.
- **Mission:**
Outstanding Philanthropy Program Award: Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Upsilon
Intramurals; Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Delta Theta.
Greek Week: Delta Gamma, Delta Chi
Blood Drive: Kappa Delta, Triangle
Iniury accident
Lawrence police officers inspect a utility pole in the yard of 2508 W. Ninth St. A car driven by Brian Kellison of Lawrence struck the pole early Saturday. Kellison was westbound on Ninth St. at a high
rate of speed when he lost control, according to police reports. The car's passenger and owner, Stephen Wilks of Lawrence, was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Bv Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
The bill now will be sent to Gov. Mike Hayden's desk where it will await his signature.
TOPEKA — The Senate unanimously approved a bill Friday that would allow Board of Regents schools to offer American Sign Language courses for foreign language credit.
Martine Hammond, director of academic affairs for the Regents, said they had been working for more than two years with the deaf community to get the legislation to this point.
"This is a bill the deaf community has been very interested in," she said.
Hammond said the deaf community in Kansas wanted its language, American Sign Language, to be recognized as a foreign language.
"A number of institutions nationally have recognized American Sign
Language in this wav." she said.
The bill, if signed into law, would give Regents schools the option to offer American Sign Language for foreign language credit. The decision would be left to the individual institutions.
The University of Kansas offers two American Sign Language courses through the department of art and music education and music therapy and the department of speech-language-hearing. George Duerkens, chairman of the department of arts and music education and music therapy, said the courses were offered through the department because they were useful to students.
Duerksen said the first section was an introductory course designed to teach the language. Thirty to 50 students are enrolled in the second is an arts course for students who have a knowledge of sign language.
KU thefts, crime on the rise
By Curtis Knapp
Kansan staff writer
Christy Green went out to her car March 23 prepared to drive to work. She had to walk.
Green, Blanchard, Okla., sophomore, found her 1986 Escort sitting on cinder blocks with the tires and rims missing. Her car was parked in an alley between Louisiana and Ohio streets in a University parking zone.
Green is one of a growing number of KU students who are victims of campus crime.
For more than five years, theft has been the most reported crime on campus, according to the report. It remained at the top in 1989 with 640 reported cases. Burglary and criminal damage were the second and third most reported crimes with 224 and 186 cases respectively.
Theft was a major contributor to a 9.18 percent increase in crime on the KU campus from 1988 to 1989, according to an annual report from the KU police.
Parking lots were the most common places where crimes occurred in 1989 with 305 crimes in campus lots. Residences were the second most common places with 255.
Green said she thought crime could be prevented
better in parking lots by increased police patrol and better lighting.
"I think something should be done if we're going to pay to park down there," she said.
Lt. John Mullens said police would patrol parking lots more often because of the frequency of crime in those locations.
Mullens said that many of the reported thefts were of unattended backpacks and purses.
"People are not being responsible for their own items." Mullens said.
He said students needed to stop leaving their belongings where wives could easily steal them.
KU police reported 1,231 crimes in 1988 and 1,344 in 1989
Sgt. Schuyler Bailey attributed the crime increase to a larger student population in 1989. The population increased from 26,020 to 26,320.
Despite more female students than male in 1989, men continued to be the most frequent victims with 472 crimes reported. Women were second with 439 crimes reported. The third most frequent crime, with 188 incidents, occurred to state-owned property.
University lacks help for blind, group says
By Ines Shuk
Kansan staff writer
A group of visually impaired KU students met Friday with Student Assistance Center directors to suggest changes to improve student services.
Lorna Zimmer, director of the center, and Laura Smedley, assistant director, heard grievances presented by a group of six visually-impaired students led by Art Moyer, a graduate research assistant.
Turner said the center had offered more efficient services until 1984 when Paulette Strong, then assistant director, left the center. He suggested improving the services through one-to-one communication between the center and visually-impaired users.
The center provides free assistance and equipment for 108 learning disabled and physically impaired students, Smedley said. Among these, 21 visually-impaired students use the center's books on tape, readers, note takers and books in braille.
Jim Neeley, head of the reference department at Watson Library, said Watson had two pieces of equipment available for the visually impaired. A reading machine, or Kurzweil, reads aloud to the user through a voice synthesis computer. An image enlarger magnifies text on a television screen.
However, Neeley said the Kurzwil machine, which is an old model, was not working. In addition, it lacks a collection of books on tape.
Turner said that visually-impaired students could not stop their academic activities because of the broken machine. In the meantime, they have had to seek other reading assistance.
Neeley said that the library was planning to buy a new voice synthesis computer to be used with the on-line catalogue. Smedley is熟于 creating utility of acquiring a new reading machine to be used in Watson.
Although the center encourages people to use books on tapes rather than readers, Zimmer said it needed to differentiate which system would work more efficiently for individual users.
Zimmer said, "We are happy to reassign readers if they don't meet the student's expectations. But we are also concerned about the reader feeling comfortable and for the gift assignment did this service."
Turner also raised the issue of lack of assistance for the visually impaired during enrollment. He said he spent more time than an average student going through enrollment.
Turner said it was difficult to pick up enrollment materials at Hoch Auditorium because the lines of people were confusing. The process at the Kansas Union also is confusing because the setting is inappropriate for visually impaired students.
Turner said the students would meet with Zimmer and Smedley again this week to talk about other issues that were not discussed Friday.
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