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THE UNIVE KAN
KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104, NO.51
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2,1994
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SenEx votes to limit frivolous faculty grievances
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
Time is running out for KU faculty members who file frivolous grievances against other faculty members.
The University Senate Executive Committee voted yesterday to give vice chancellors the power to revoke a faculty member's right to file a grievance if that faculty member had been found to file grievances to harass colleagues.
SenEx members declined to say which faculty members had prompted the change but did say that frivolous grievances were a problem.
"The have been two or three instances when some idiot has brought forward one frivolous thing after another," said John Davidson, professor of physics and astronomy. "The University has got better things to spend its time on."
Grievances filed through University Governance, no matter how trivial, must be considered by the Judicial Board, said Ken Martin, student senator.
"That hogs down the process." he said.
that goes down the process; he stated.
The text of the change to Senate Rules and Regulations reads: "Whenever someone establishes a pattern of repeatedly filing frivolous grievances that harass colleagues and/or abuse the grievance system, the Chair of the Judicial Board should ask that person to desist."
If the person doesn't desist, the textsays, the appropriate administrator "may impose an appropriate sanction including, but not limited to, loss of the right to file grievances for a specified period of time."
SenEx voted for the change after an evaluation by the Organization and Administration committee of University Council.
Dan Hare, student senator and member of the committee, said there wasn't a limit on the number of grievances a faculty member could file.
"You could file as many as your little heart desired," he said.
Hare said the change was aimed at groundless grievances and wasn't meant to limit the number of legitimate grievances.
Hector Clark, associate professor of mechanical engineering, said he disagreed with SenEx's decision.
In the past, Clark has accused colleagues at the school of engineering of plagiarism. He declined to say whether he had filed grievances against those colleagues.
University Council must approve SenEx's decision at its meeting tomorrow afternoon.
RAPE: Life after the verdict
"There will probably be a grievance filed on this," Davidson said.
Tan sorry for not being the kind of man in this team ship that I should have been," he read, as his voice cracked. Then, the 27-year-old former KU graduate assistant football coach turned to the Kansas City, Kan., woman he had been convicted of raping.
"Please forgive me." he said.
She said nothing but gently shook her head in misbelief. On one side of the courtroom sat Shanks' parents. On the other, sat the victim and her parents. Neither exchanged looks nor words.
Shanks, claiming he was not guilty, had been tried on two counts of rape. The jury of nine men and three woman had found him not guilty on one count. But a guilty verdict on the second count means that his home for the next six years will be a federal penitentiary.
Almost a month has passed since the sentencip but the lives of those sucked into Shanks' crime will be forever changed.
woman he
was convicted of raping will not talk to the media. Shanks also is silent as his lawyers consider filing an appeal.
But the Lawrence woman whom Shanks was found not guilty of raping and a juror from Wellsville who helped deliver that not guilty verdict both said their lives changed drastically during the rape trial. Breaking their silence for the first time since the trial, the two agreed in separate interviews that they never will forget what they endured.
See RAPE, Page 6A.
Story by Manny Lopez Illustration by Matt Hood
Crash cause still eludes investigators
The Associated Press
ROSELAWN, Ind. — Crews built a gravel road across a soggy soybean field yesterday to help investigators reach bodies and clues in a commuter plane crash that killed all 68 people on board.
American Eagle Flight 4184 gave off a high-pitched whine of engines at high throttle as it streaked to the ground in a driving rain Monday, witnesses said. The plane was en route to Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz refused to speculate on the cause of the crash. One witness said he saw the almost new twin-engine propjlunge toward the ground with a wing sheared off. Lopatkiewicz said he had no comment on that report.
Searchers found the plane's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. Both were sent to Washington for analysis.
The conversation between the cockpit crew and the control tower in Aurora, Ill., didn't indicate anything abnormal, WLS-TV in Chicago reported, citing sources with the NTSB and the Federal Aviation Administration.
The pilot confirmed an order to descend to 8,000 feet, then the radio went silent, the station reported.
Yesterday, the sun came out after a night of heavy rain, and crews brought in truckloads of gravel to build a road. Investigators needed the 200-yard trail to overcome mud that was too deep for four-wheel drive vehicles to traverse.
The barrens field where the plane went down "smelled like a butcher shop," said Les Smith, who lives nearby. Searchers who made it through the muck on foot soon after the crash described small chunks of smashed airplane and pieces of bodies. The largest piece of plane was a 6-to-8 foot section of the tail.
"There's not one body that's intact," said firefighter, Jerry Cramer.
Gov. Evan Bayh stammered as he described what he saw from a helicopter. "There is a small crater there
The gymnasium of the North Newton High School, 15 miles from the crash site, was at first designated a morgue, and officials planned to cancel classes for at least a week. They later decided to use a National Guard armory as the morgue to avoid disrupting the students' lives.
Officials hadn't begun removing bodies by evening.
It could take from a week to a month to recover all bodies and debris, state police Sgt. Jerry Parker said.
The flight from Indianapolis to Chicago had been in a holding pattern about 60 miles southeast of O'Hare and was descending from 10,000 feet when it crashed.
The French- and Italian-built Super ATR plane was registered in March and had experienced no problems through September, except a broken floor light, according to FAA records.
Wind gusted to 49 mph in Gary, 30 miles north, at the time of the crash, but NTBS chairman Jim Hall said the weather alone would not explain it.
"Airplanes operate every day in this type of weather," he told ABC. "We'll have to look to see whether there were any unusual weather occurrences that might have caused the result."
Bob Spitler, director of operations for Indianapolis International Airport, said the weather was "moderate," with visibility about 2/12 miles.
"Those don't appear to be horrible conditions," said Spitler, a private pilot. "It's not a nice, clear day, but it's certainly the kind of thing that any pilot would typically fly right into."
JoAnn Hankins, a cashier at a book and candy store at Indianapolis International Airport, said some of the passengers had been worried about the flight before they boarded.
"There were about three or four people in here and they said they were afraid to fly in this small plane," she said. "And I said, 'You'll be fine, you'll be fine.' It makes me real sad."
Knocking at the Devil's Door The devil didn't show up at Stull Monday night. But there's always next year.
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Candidate would make life hard for convicts
Prosecutor wants tough penalties for first-time offenders
Editor's note: This is the second of two stories profiling the Republican and Democratic candidates for Kansas' attorney general. The Kansan will be profiling all the candidates and issues on the Nov. 8 ballot.
Richard Schodorf, Democratic candidate for Kansas attorney general, is tired of apologizing.
By Shannon Newton Kansan staff writer
That is why he decided to run for the office. "As a prosecutor, I spent most of my time apologizing to victims," he said. "The system is wrong, and it needs to be changed."
Schodorf, 46, said the problem stemmed
Schodorf said that he thought first-time offenders should be forced to work on projects such as picking up trash along highway. He said that if he were elected attorney general he would implement programs that would change the meaning of a drive by.
"We should put the criminals in orange jumpsuits and make them do community service," he said. "The victims would be able to drive by the criminals."
from the state not punishing people severely enough
"We're not punishing people, and we're growing our own criminals," he said. "We are sending the wrong message."
Schodorf, who never has run for political
Schodorf said crime was so rampant because society did not challenge children.
"The answer is not building more prisons and imposing longer sentences," he said. "The answer is making first-time offenders pay back the community for the crimes that they committed."
office before, said that he was most qualified for the attorney general position because he had plans that were reliable and inexpensive to decrease crime in the state.
Schodorf said he thought the state should have much of the same authority as the Internal Revenue Service.
He said he began a boxing, martial arts and competitive dance program for 500 at-risk children in Wichita this year.
"We should have the power to collect restitution like the IRS does," he said. "If someone steals from the IRS they have to pay it back, but if something is stolen from an individual it is not paid back."
See SCHODORF, Page 7A.
Submitted photo / KANSAN
Richard Schodorf is the Democratic candidate for Kansas attorney general.
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