VOL.100, NO.119
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Committee revokes Willner's tenure
Decision makes KU history
By Pam Solliner
Kensan staff writer
For the first time in KU history, a tenured professor has been fired.
The Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Related Problems decided yesterday to dismiss Dorothy Willner, professor of anthropology.
Willner,
dressed in a magenta suit,
calmly leafed
through a book
while radio and
television crews
and photograp-
hers at the
equipment at
the crowded Walnut
Room in the Kansas
Union.
Frances Ingemann, chairman of the committee, led the five-member committee to the front of the room. Members did not take off their coats or put down their umbrellas. They didn't stay long.
"If the chancellor can try to break my tenure, this means that nobody's tenure is exempted from this. Nobody's tenure is safe at the University of Kansas."
"The Committee on Tenure and Related Problems, after careful review of the evidence, finds that Professor Dorothy Willner failed in significant ways to carry out her academic responsibilities, and that she engaged in behavior that violates commonly accepted standards of professional ethics," Ingemann read from a prepared statement.
She said the committee concurred with Chancellor Gene A. Budig's intent to dismiss Willner. During testimony in October, Budig said Willner refused to attend faculty
Dorothy Willner
meetings, serve on committees, participate in reviews of graduate students or meet with colleagues to schedule classes and coordinate curriculum. Budig was not available yesterday for comment.
Prof defines tenure p. 5
Students, professors react p. 12
Throughout the hearings, Donald Koster, Willner's adviser and representative, argued that the charges had nothing to do with teaching or research duties and therefore did not justify dismissal. Koster did not attend the announcement yesterday. She sat expressionless as the
Willner sat expressionless as the decision was read.
Ingemann distributed copies of the report, and the committee members left immediately. They would not comment on the decision.
Willner, 62, said she wasn't surprised. She said she wanted to preserve the role of an educator and the best interests of academic freedom and tenure.
The committee's decision will be implemented by the Faculty Executive Committee, which is expected to meet at its usual time Monday afternoon.
"If the chancellor can try to break my tenure, this means that nobody's tenure is exempted from this," she said. "My tenure is safe at the University of Kansas."
Willner said she would appeal the decision to the Board of Regents, which has ultimate authority about tenure issues. Either party could appeal.
Andrew Morrison/Special to the Kansar
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Board of Regents, said that if Willner appealed the case, the
See WILLNER, p. 5
Dorothy Willner sits motionless as the Committee on Tenure and Related Problems fires her.
Willner's KU career ending
1966 — Willner joined the University of Kansas as an associate professor of anthropology.
■ 1967 — Willner gained tenure.
■ 1970 — Willner gained full professorship.
1882 — Willner, who is Jewish,
filed a $3 million lawsuit against the
University for sex- and race-based
employment discrimination, unequal
pay and denial of free speech.
1883 - Willner filed a motion to amend the suit, naming six additional defendants.
1986 — U.S. District Judge Richard Rogers ruled that there had been no discrimination against Willner.
1988 — Willner was placed on leave with pay and relieved of any duties of teaching, research and service, pending the resolution of her
- Oct. 16, 1989 - The first of 120 hours of dismissal hearings began. The hearings were conducted on Mondays and Wednesdays 2-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. and on Fridays 2-5 p.m.
- Dec. 18, 1989 - The hearings ended with closing arguments from Rose Marino, general counsel for the University, and Donald Koster, Willner's adviser.
Jan. 10, 1990 — The Faculty Executive Committee on Tenure and Related Problems began detailed deliberations.
March 26, 1990 — The committee announced that the report would be issued Wednesday at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union.
March 28, 1990 - The committee presented copies of the report to the individual parties, the Faculty Executive Committee, the American Association of University Professors, and University Archives.
Smuggling attempt stopped
U.S., British agents intercept shipment of nuclear triggers to Iraq
The Associated Press
LONDON — Customs officials here said yesterday that they foiled an attempt to supply Iraq with 40 U.S.-made devices for triggering nuclear weapons. They arrested five people after an 18-month investigation by U.S. and British authorities.
London refused to comment on the situation.
One of those arrested was an Iraqi national who was immediately served with a deportation order, authorities said. Iraq diplomats in
The investigation ended in a freight shed at Heathrow Airport when an attempt was made to put the devices aboard an Iraqi Airways flight to Baghdad, Iraq, British customs officials said.
There were indications that the devices deposited at Heathrow were dummies, substituted for the real hardware as part of the U.S. Customs
Service's investigation.
British Broadcasting Corp. TV said customs officers made the switch after the packages arrived from the United States this week.
Channel 4 TV. News in Britain interviewed the manufacturer of the dummy devices, or krytrons, who said his company had turned dummies over to the U.S. Customs Service late last year.
"We provided about 40 devices . .
to the Customs Service and they were deliberately made to be inoperative," said Don Kerr, president of EG & G in Wellesley, Mass.
Military experts said the devices were available only to a handful of major powers, and that their export was strictly controlled. They recalled two previous smuggling attempts, one involving Israel and the other Pakistan, both of which have nuclear weapons ambitions.
Agreement unwelcomed by contras
The Associated Press
JINOTEGA, Nicaragua — A pact between leaders of the contras and Nicaragua's new United National Opposition government requires that the contra rebels lay down their weapons.
But the rank-and-file rebels have no intention of doing that.
"If they signed that pact, they made an error," said Ivan, whose real name is Monico Gonzalez Rivas. "Here in the mountains you feel things in your own flesh. Here is where we're going to decide."
Ivan and his men see the pact, signed Friday in Honduras, as a death warrant because it makes no mention of what had been a top contra demand: that the Sandinista military also disarm to make way for the formation of a neutral army.
Ivan, 25, has fought the leftist Sandinistas for eight years, seen them sign successive regional peace pacts and enjoyed the unexpected thrashing the Sandinista Front suffered in the Feb. 25 elections.
After a month of meetings, negotiators on Tuesday announced that they had agreed to a protocol for transferring power on April 25, when President-elect Violeta Barrios de Chamaro is to be inaugurated.
Lithuania yields on issue
The document calls on the contrast to respect the demobilization pact and return to civilian life. It also says the Sandistas will turn control of the army and police over to UNO and that the forces will be non-partisan.
Border guard plan dropped
The Associated Press
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. — Lithuania's government backed down yesterday on one of its most points of conflict with the Kremlin, a plan to establish its own border guard, saying it wanted to avoid clashes with Soviet troops.
Red Army troops refrained from occupying Lithuanian buildings and rounding up more Lithuanian military deserters, a day after the first violent confrontations in the stand-off with the republic.
However, the Soviet military stepped up a war of words against Lithuania, complaining of increased attacks on soldiers and accusing it of a campaign to discredit the Soviet army.
It also told citizens not to resist if Soviet officials tried to seize their weapons.
President Vytautas Landbergis of Lithuania said his government suspended its plans for the border guard for fear of sparkling clashes with Soviet troops.
Gorbachev ordered the sign-up for the border guard halted as soon as it began. In the same decree last week, he ordered Lithuanians to turn in their weapons and said those not surrendered yesterday would be confiscated.
Lithuanian officials said they had pushed for the border guards in hopes of winning formal recognition from foreign governments of their March 11 declaration of independence.
Landsbergis said that even discussion of the subject had provoked conflicts with Moscow and that there had been reports of Soviet troops trying to control the roads between Lithuania and Latvia, the neighboring republic.
"At present, establishing border points would be stepping up confrontation," Landsbergis told a news conference in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
Landsbergis said he advised Lithuanians not to resist if Soviet authorities came to seize their hunting guns. At the same time, he said citizens should treat the officials as uninvited guests.
Oklahoma officials vote to discontinue women's basketball
Kansan sportswriter
Oklahoma stunned its players and Big Eight Conference officials yesterday when Assistant Athletic Director Don Dimmerson announced the university's decision to discontinue the women's basketball program.
Oklahoma players were notified of the decision at 10 a.m. yesterday.
By Brent Maycock
freshman forward Sharon Webster, like many of the players, could not believe the decision.
"We put our trust in the athletic director and he stabbed us in the back," Webster said. "All we asked for was a new coach. We are very upset for them to say that they don't have the funds."
Oklahoma coach Valerie Goodwin-Colbert guided the Sooners to a 7-22 record this year, their second straight losing season. Goodwin-Colbert compiled a 32-51 record in her three years at Oklahoma.
"She's a good woman, but she was not getting the job done," Webster said. "We thought the worst that could happen this morning was that we would get our coach back."
"It was an institutional decision," he said. "Obviously the Big Eight didn't want them to drop the sport. You never want to drop a sport. The school just made some financial decisions. The decision was a complete surprise."
Jimerson's announcement makes Oklahoma the only Big Eight school without a women's basketball team.
"It was a huge shock," Kansas assistant women's basketball coach Kevin Cook said. "I think it's a sad day for women's basketball."
Jimerson said that the program had not received enough support from the students and that the decision was the right one.
Jeff Bollig, service bureau director for the conference, said there were no plans find a team to replace Oklahoma in the conference.
Sophomore guard Dana Posey questioned Jimerson's thinking.
lem could be linked to the fact that the women's team did not receive
See OKLAHOMA, D. 9
Misuse of free taxi service by KU students raises questions
By Tracey Chalpin
Special to the Kansan and Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
Abuse of a free taxi service for students has a KU on Wheels official feeling not too secure.
receiving a Secure Cab, which has taken many forms since its inception in 1986, offers rides to students who either are too drunk to drive or do not want to walk alone at night.
Student Senate allocated $43,545.50 in August for two semesters of the service. An estimated 4,500 riders have used Secure Cab this academic year.
But Charles Bryan, KU on Wheels coordinator, said the program had
suffered some abuse. People have been tying up the cabs by excessive use of the service.
Shire Bennett, co-owner of A-1 City Shibut and Shuttle Club, said that on Feb. 17, the service carried 45 people from a Delta Gamma party at Alvamar Country Club, 1809 Crossgate Drive, to the Delta Gamma house, 1015 Emery Road. Two of the four secure cabs in operation that night shuttled people between the party and the Delta Gamma house.
Bryan, who is a member of the KU Transportation Board, said the abuse did not affect the program's budget.
Carol Krekeler, Panhellenic president, and Tom Cartmell, IPC president, said they did not receive Bryan's complaint.
Krekeler said, "If it is a problem in the greek system, we will be the first to try to make some changes. I would rather know that Secure Cab is being over-used by the greek system than under-used and people being careless."
Bryan said that he received a complaint letter from the cab company about a week after the party and that he photocopied the letter
and sent it to the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic.
Shannon Rogers, Delta Gamma president; said the Delta Gamma incident. it occurred because not enough buses were available to take people home from the party. Delta Gamma plans to have adequate busing for future parties.
matter of sex or age.
"Greeks are no more a problem than anyone else," he said. "We've had the problem all over the place."
Bryan said he could not remember any other incidents involving fraternities or sororities.
"It was an isolated incident," she said. "It's the only time it's been a problem, and it won't happen again. We don't want to jeopardize the program because it's an important program to the school."
Jeff Morris, student body vice president, said that A-1 informed him of the incident and that he contacted the sorority. The Delta Gamma incident is the only complaint of Secure Cab abuse Morris has received.
Bryan said one student had used the service every night to transport
himself to and from work before the company asked him to stop.
"It's a delicate situation," Bryan said. "We're not at the point where we would decide who can use it and who can't. It's open to the whole student body."
Bryan said that stricter guidelines might have to be instaled if abuse problems continued.
Sgt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU police department said he thought Secure Cab helped lower the number of DUIs in Lawrence.
He said Driving Under the Influence charges in Lawrence dropped from 50 in 1988 to 20 in 1989.
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