University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 1. 1989
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Council rejects 2 parking recommendations
By Kate Lee
Kansan staff writer
The University. Council yesterday voted against two of the six changes in parking regulations recommended by the Parking Board.
A discussion of the Parking Department budget was delayed until next week because a quorum was not present. The votes on the parking regulations were valid
because because a count for the quorum was not called until the budget discussion at the end of the meeting.
One of the defeated changes would have extended the hours of faculty blue spaces to 8:30 p.m. in the lot west of Learned Hall. The other would have opened the lot north of Summerfield Hall at night and changed Lot 35, west of the Military Science building, to faculty and staff
until 8:30 p.m.
The Council approved changes that would add spaces to the lot behind the Spencer Museum of Art, make the lots of Alumni Place tow-away zones for no permit and wrong zone violators, make the lot to the east of Learned a loading zone, and eliminate the requirement for full-time staff enrolled in classes to buy a yellow permit.
The resolution changes were
approved in their entirety by SenEx on Monday.
Morris Faisman, chairman of the Parking Board, said the changes were proposed primarily to alleviate the problems faculty and staff members had in finding parking spaces in those lots at night.
"There are faculty and staff who work until 5:30 or 6, and then by the time they get home and come back, can't find a place to park," he said.
William Sanders, a Student Senate representative to the Council, said there were students, particularly graduate students, who used campus buildings to study at night.
"With this, they would not be able to park anywhere near until 8:30, which is fairly late," he said.
The Parking Board is composed of faculty, students and staff.
"The board tries to make recommendations based on what is good for
the university as a whole," Falman said.
Ray Moore, presiding officer of the Council, said the final decision on the regulations would not be made until after the board made its final recommendations to Chancellor Gene A. Budig next semester.
Anyone who wanted to could send comments to the chancellor, he said, and there would be time for the Council to review final changes.
Class publishes poetry magazine
By Anita Meyer
Kansan staff writer
In most classes, collaboration on a paper is considered cheating. In Alan Lichter's poetry-writing classes, collaboration produced Kado, a publication Lichter thinks is KU's first student poetry magazine.
Lichter, associate professor of English, said he had not suggested the idea of a poetry magazine to any other class.
"I suggested it to this class, and "I took it upon themselves to get it together," he said. "With other classes, I just never felt the energy. I've never been encouraged as I have with this class."
The editors of Kado are Ellen Bannister, Leavenworth junior and last year's Caruth Poetry Award winner; Christine Biller, Lawrence Perrin; Mary O'Neill, Manchester senior; and Giles Scott, Manchester, England, graduate student.
The magazine will be sold Monday through Wednesday for $1 a copy in front of Wescoe Hall and the Kansas Union.
Biller said she thought it was important to publish a student poetry magazine.
"I think it's important to have an outlet for student poets," she said. "I also think it's important for people to be exposed to poetry."
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I suggested it to this class, and they took it upon themselves to get it together. With other classes, I just never felt the energy. I've never been as encouraged as I have with this class.'
- Alan Lichter associate professor of English
The 28-page magazine will contain
21 poems by 14 poets.
"the potential for Kado was always there," Scott said. "The poetry was good, and we wanted to do it."
Rendezvous was a fiction magazine produced by Lichter's fiction-writing classes in Fall 1988.
Lichter said Rendezvous sold about 700 copies at 50 cents each.
Molman said copies not sold Mon-
throught Wednesday would be
sold.
If 500 of the 600 books printed are not sold, the editors will have to pay for publishing costs themselves.
"All along we've been working on a budget of zero," Molmain said. "We got the printers to let us pay 10 days after publishing. Considering the publication and the quality of poetry, we should be able to do it."
Julia James/KANSAI
Sandy Praeger congratulates division leaders on a great job
Donations exceed United Way goals
By Holly Lawton Kansan staff writer
The United Way of Douglas County celebrated victory yesterday at the Adams Alumni Center when about 200 participants in the 1989-90 campaign were told that the goal of $768,000 in donations had been exceeded.
The United Way raised $74,839 for financing of 26 local agencies in 1990, said Sandra Praeger, chairman of the campaign. The University of Kansas was the third-highest contributor with a total of $120,427, exceeding its goal by nearly 10 percent.
"KU has done such a tremendous job that all the Jayhawk signs on campus were colored in early and then stolen." Prazeer said.
Another $10,000 to $15,000 could be donated in the next few weeks, as pledges continue to come in, she said.
Praeger praised the efforts of the United Way volunteers in surpassing the goal of the campaign.
"This says so much about our community," Praeger said. "We're able to work together and show teamwork. It makes me very proud of Lawrence and the community.
"This couldn't have been done by just a few people. All the volunteer effort is what made it work," she said. "It shows that if everyone gives a little, no one has to give a lot."
Andy Contreras, United Way volunteer, told a story at the celebration about the role that the Boys and Girls Club, a service financed by the United Way, played in his life.
The division with the largest contribution was the business and industry division, which provided 46% of the overall goal with $465.146.
Mike Kautsch, division leader for KU, made a surprise presentation to Paeera as he named her an assistant for her work with the United Way.
"When those kids walk in the door, always smiling, they make all my troubles seem to disappear," he said. "The United Way is always there behind these agencies' success stories."
"The way we do this is to give a Kansas sweatshirt. Our goal was to get you a sweatshirt that fits, but as we all know, we exceeded our goal," Kautsch said as he gave Praeger an extra-large sweatshirt.
Willner adviser specializes in helping college faculty
Bv Doug Fishback
Kansan staff writer
Donald Koster uses his to help college and university faculty face charges brought against them by adminis-
Some people use their retirement years to move to a lake-side home, fish from pontoon boats and barbecue steaks.
Koster, who retired in 1978 from an English professorship at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., is acting as academic adviser to Dorothy Willner, professor of anthropology, during dismissal hearings. The hearings, which are open to the public, began in October and are scheduled to continue through Dec. 22.
Willner said that Koster had shown dedication to the principles of academic freedom and tenure by taking the past two months to help her with her case.
Koster, 79, came to Lawrence from his home near
"I believe that I'm very fortunate in having Dr. Koster," she said.
Whitney Point, N.Y., after Willner chose him from a list of potential representatives that was provided by the American Association of University Professors. He said he had attended the University of Kansas in an official AAUP capacity.
Jonathan Knight, associate secretary of the national office of the AAUP, said that the lists were composed on a case-by-case basis from faculty members whose abilities and experience seemed well-suited to the conditions.
in the course of our business, we get to know lots of faculty members. We try to use our best judgment in these cases.
His first case came at Adelphi in 1965, he said, when university officials suspended a non-tenured faculty member without a hearing.
Koster, who was a charter member of the Adelphi AAUP chapter in the late 1940s, said that most of the cases he had been involved in had been in the East.
Koster was one of two representatives recommended to the faculty member
"He chose me. and that's how I got started in this
sometimes grisly business." he said.
Koster won that case and went on to serve as a representative or witness in 15 or 20 others, he said, including a tenure revocation hearing for Kansas State University professor Bem Mahaffey five years ago. Koster served as an expert witness in the K-State case, which Mahaffey won.
Koster said that he had expected the Willner case, which is in its seventh week, to be a long and challenging event.
"'t took the precaution of bringing my wife with me,' he said.
Koster and his wife are living in a Lawrence apartment during the hearing. He said Willner was paying his expenses.
Although his expenses are paid, he said, money was not the issue when he decided to take on a case.
"There's not enough money in the world to make me do anything," he said. "I don't think there's a principle involved." Kester said.
Donald Koster
Compliance with AAUP policies is what Koster said he
looked for in a case, but the issue of academic freedom is behind the policies. He described it as freedom, both in and out of the classroom, for faculty members to express themselves without fear of reprisal.
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