University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 25, 1988
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Working for inmates'rights KU law students help Cuban prisoners during INS hearings
By Katy Monk
Kansan staff write
KU law students have begun this semester's efforts to represent a group of inmates at Leavenworth Penitentiary that have no constitutional rights.
The law students represented Cuban detainees in two days of hearings last week. Students will continue the investigation until the appeals process later this fall.
Three weeks of Immigration and Naturalization Service hearings began Oct. 17 at the penitentiary. KU students handled 11 cases Wednesday and Thursday and will return Monday for another set of hearings.
Melissa Manda, Pleasant Hill, Mo., third-year law student and project coordinator, said yesterday that the hearings had gone smoothly.
hearing had gone. Immigration officials consider a detainee's complete record and other factors, such as his proficiency in
English and the presence of a relative or sponsor in the community, when deciding whether to release the fetainee. Manda said.
"They're looking at the same things a parole board would be looking for." she said.
About 15 KU law students are involved this semester in Project Due Process, a nationwide effort to provide representation for the detainees. Manda said heavy fall schedules had prevented many first-year law students from joining the effort.
Law students from Washburn University in Topeka and the University of Missouri-Kansas City also are involved.
Manda said the students' presence made a difference in the hearings.
"The INS can see you as a member of the community interested in the outcome of the hearings," she said. "Just the fact that we're there,
looking over the proceedings, will increase the detainees' opportunities."
Al Johnson, Americus second-year law student, agreed.
In some cases, you're basically the only one who knows that person is in existence." he said.
in existence, he said Johnson represented two detainees last week.
"One's chance (for release) is probably fair to slim and the other's is probably slim to none," he said.
is probably on the basis Johnson would not discuss details of either case but said that in general, repeat offenders and violent offenders had a poor chance for release.
For those denied release by the immigration service, the appeals process will begin later this fall, to be handed by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Law students can help the detainees, many of whom face a language
barrier, write their appeals. The appeals process will be handled on paper, not by interview.
The detainees are classified as "excludable aliens" and have no constitutional rights. Thus the immigration service can detain them in prison after they have served their sentences.
Most of the detainees were in prison in Atlanta or Oakdale, La., in November when prison riots erupted. Those detainees were sent to other prisons across the country. Since then, the population has shifted as some have been treated for other diseases and others have entered the system. Leavenworth currently has about 500 Cuban detainees.
About 150 KU students have taken part in Project Due Process since the hearings began in February.
The solar panels between McColum Hall and Stouffer Place apartments were installed by the government and are used to heat apartments and water.
Solar heating serves Stouffer Place
Old test unit saves money
By Jeremy Kohn Kansan staff writer
The solar panels behind McColum Hall may not be part of a government test any longer, but they still help provide heat and hot water to some Stouffer Place apartments.
The $350,000 solar-power unit originally was financed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Energy and Research Development管理局 to conduct a research project. The University of Kansas paid $40,000 to help construct the test site.
Service began in September of 1978, and the power unit was originally supposed to provide air conditioning, hot water and heating to Stouffer Place Building No.1, a 12-unit apartment building.
The system works in this way for heating; Water heated from the solar panels travels directly to hot water coils, where air is then blown through the furnace to the apartments.
However, Dean Milroy, associ
ate director of student housing, said the air conditioning machinery in the unit was removed soon after the installation. Housing assumed control in 1983.
He said that for the solar panels to be efficient in providing air conditioning, they would have had to be operative all the time, instead of just during summer day. He also said that powered electricity to the apartments for air conditioning when enough solar power wasn't available.
An April 1, 1983, letter from J. J. Wilson, the former housing director, to David Ambler, vicechancellor for student affairs, said, "The project has not been economically sound in the opinion of the housing department and is going nowhere."
Although the air conditioning equipment was removed, Don Whipple, assistant director of facilities and planning for architectural services, said the unit still generated power that
heated the apartment building and its hot water. He estimated that the maintenance cost of the unit was $20 a month, about 20 times less than what an electric power source would cost to maintain.
Steve Keel, assistant director of business services for student housing, said that because the city handled utilities for the apartments, he could not estimate the savings for Stouffer Place tenants from the lowest electricity and gas rates.
Student leaders say goals are intact
Kansan staff writer
by Craig Welch
Campaign promises come and go, but the two members of last spring's Top Priority coalition said they were on schedule to accomplish the goals they set for the 1988-1989 Student Senate
Brook Menees, student body president, and Pam Holley, student body vice president, said they were immersed in their three major projects for the year: establishing an off-campus center, increasing financial aid opportunities and working with faculty and staff to improve advising.
"Our campaign platform looks to be in pretty good shape." Holley said.
Diggs said, “A lot of our success at this point is not very tangible, so that kind of obscures it. But we have a solid plan.”
She said they had been working closely with Michael Diggs, off-campus senator, on the plan to develop an off-campus center that would connect interested students with suitable housing.
Holley said the idea was modeled after an Iowa State University program developed four years ago. A computer questionnaire allows students to punch in specific information on the type of
housing they prefer, and the computer shows what is available in those areas.
After speaking with the Lawrence Landlord Association and the Lawrence Tenants Association, Holley said, both organizations had endorsed the idea and were willing to work with Senate.
James Dunn, president of the Lawrence Landlords Association said that he thought the program was a wonderful idea.
"The whole concept is a great idea for students," he said. "We are willing to work with them, but we're just waiting. We haven't heard from them since this summer, and this idea is going to take a lot of time to complete if they hope to have it ready for next year."
Currently, students seeking scholarships must either research available scholarships at a library, through mail-order catalogues or, Menees said, flip through a four- or five-inch book of scholarships in the University of Kansas financial aid office.
Menees and Holley have a similar plan for improving financial aid opportunities.
Menees and Holley's plan is to develop a computer scholarship search program.
Financial aid projects sponsored by Associated Students of Kansas, such as the Educational Opportunity Fund, also are ahead of schedule. ASK has asked for KU students' recommendations on how to spend the quarter of a million dollars the Board of Regents set aside for financial aid.
"All we have to do is meet one more regarding our criteria," Menees said.
Holley said that advising looked good as well. She sent out proposals to faculty, staff members who dealt directly with advising, such as Del Brinkman, vice chairman for academic affairs.
Holley said that advising looked good as well.
"He was extremely cooperative and open to student input." Holley said.
Holley said that their proposals included incorporating peer advisers and supplemental advising for freshmen and sophomores as well establishing better senior checks to prevent students from having to extend their graduation date.
"We're currently checking out the technical aspects and the feasibility of adopting these ideas." Holley said.
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Ronald Hemby, third year law student and a Republican panelist, said Reagan administration policies had led to the exit of some Cuban troops from Angola and would help South Africa end apartheid.
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Bush and Dukakis supporters debate U.S. policy issues
"They (the Republicans) were more realistic in the consequences of their policies. They addressed a lot of issues you don't see in the campaign," said John Noltensmeyer, Paola sophomore.
Nancy Nicos, Lawrence graduate student and panelist for the Republicans, said George Bush had the experience to make foreign policy decisions and that national security was "no place for amateurs."
Three Democrats and three Republicans debated the issues of national security and defense spending, U.S. policy in Central America and South Africa and international human rights.
Richard Felton, Junction City third-year law student, said, "It appears the Bush supporters say Dukakis is avoiding the issues. But they say, 'Dukakis does this; Dukakis does that,' without addressing the issues themselves."
By Daniel Niemi Kansan staff writer
The debate at Green Hall was sponsored by the International Law Society, the KU Honors Students and the College Republicans and the College Republicans.
"There is a close relationship between our military power and our economic power." Hancock said. "Our staggering national debt, budget deficit, and trade deficit pose serious threats to our national security."
Clipsham, an artist and activist for disabled people, was born with achondroplasia, a genetic bone disorder which stunts physical growth and weakens joints. About 40 people attended her lecture yesterday about the portrayal of disabled people in western art. The lecture was at Spencer Museum of Art.
On the issue of Central America, Charles Stansifer, professor of history and chairman of the department of Latin America studies, said the Reagan administration policy in Nicaragua was illegal, immoral and impractical.
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Supporters of George Bush and Michael Dukakis last night did what the candidates have been often criticized for avoiding, debating the issue of foreign policy.
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"There is a lot of negative baggage that society has applied to words that are meant to describe disabled people." Clipsham said, "such as mongoloid, spastic, monor. moron, dwarf and giant."
Chris Beal, political director of the Kansas Republican Party, said the Reagan policy had promoted democracy in Guatemala and El Salvador and blamed the Democratic Confrontation for inconsistent policy in Nicaragua.
"Disabled people have been historically portrayed as a group of people with a certain problem, such as blindness or lameness, and not as individuals. Or they have been pictured as court jesters, bought to provide entertainment."
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"Never has the United States suffered such a consistent, or resounding defeat in foreign policy toward a small country in Central America," he said.
Clipham's lecture was punc tuited with slides of artworks dating from a 6th century Egyptian dynasty to modern works, all depicting people with various die-
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"The things people have written have been hideous, so negative," she said. "More positive information needs to be written."
bilities. She also discussed artists who had disabilities, including Herri de Toulouse-Laurec, Ludwig von Beethoven and Vincent Van Gogh.
Marilyn Stokstad, distinguished professor of art history and a colleague of Clipsham, said she had become aware of the significance of disabled people in art only since hearing about it from Clipsham.
"I have studied art history for years and had never noticed the treatment of disabled people before." Stokstad said. "Most people don't think about the negativity of labels that are put on disabled people because it doesn't affect them."
Clipsham said she started her work about four years ago and noted that even more work needed to be done for disabled people.
In addition to giving lectures, Clipsham is a consultant on accessibility guidelines for disabled people and has worked with several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in adapting facilities for disabled people.
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