University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 31, 1978
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Sales of papers at K.U. an issue
By SAM VAN LEEUWEN
Staff Writer
The lack of specific guidelines covering the location of periodicals on campus has caused confusion for the University Events Committee, and at least one local publisher.
At Wednesday's meeting, the committee renewed a request by Roger Martin, the local co-publisher of the City Moon, allowing him to sell his paper outside the Kansas Union.
The committee also approved a request allowing another local paper, Public Notice, to be published.
Although Martin has had his permit approved twice by the committee, the three other newspapers that are sold in front of the Union never have been approved. The Times (Chicago) and the Chicago City Star and Times, The Topica Capital Journal and the Lawrence Journal-World.
CARYL SMITH, chairman of the committee, said that she had been under the impression that those three newspapers were exempt from committee approval
because they were sold on consignment through the Kansas Union Concessions.
However, according to Frank Burge, director of the Union, the papers are not sold on consignment. In the near future, Burge said, he would seek the committee's approval to bring the newspapers into compliance with the rules.
Currently, the only guidelines used in determining the placement of newspaper vending machines stated: "If the proposed event or activity may be classified as a sale, benefit, solicitation of funds or promotional venture, committee approval is required.
Lack of more specific standards has caused problems for Martin since he first obtained permission to sell his yearly tablol outside the Union in 1975.
HE SAID YESTERDAY that his new newspaper vending machine was removed in May 1977 from where it was chained to a fence at the south end of the Union's portico. He later found out that he had been placed on the roof because he had not renewed his permit.
my permit at the beginning of each semester, "Martin said.
Martin said he thought the main reason the stand had been removed was because University officials thought it was shoddy. And on two separate occasions, he said he was asked by Burge to move the stand to some other location.
BURGE SAID THAT it was part of the unit's remodeling to make the area look more comfortable.
In the future, Burge said, the University would provide whatever facilities officials decided were necessary to house students. The university also dailies that are now sold in front of the Union are enclosed by a pebbled stone case provided by the Union when the outside was remodeled last summer. The newspapers on the metal vending machines that fit inside.
According to Smith, the committee will be working to establish new guidelines to deal with future requests by individuals wanting to sell newspapers on campus.
Board will devise legal aid plan
By GENELINN Staff Writer
Future University of Kansas students with legal problems probably can get legal advice.
The newly-formed Legal Services Board of the Student Senate was told Wednesday night by the student body president to devise a plan for helping students help using money from student activity fees.
"If you can make your recommendations before January then, by God, take advantage of the opportunity," Mike Harper, student body president, told the board.
One major obstacle the board faces is deciding what the scope of the legal services must be.
This decision can be divided into three main parts, Lonny Rose, associate
"First we've got to decide what kind of course the program will handle." Rose said.
Llandorf-tenant and consumer affairs cases will definitely be taken, he said, but it was hard to tell.
Also, he said, some cases, such as student versus student litigation, might lead to a court order against him.
"Another thing we have to decide is whether the program will take court cases or whether it will just advise students and handle out-of-court settlements." Rose said.
The third problem is whether to charge a fee for cases that take a long time to handle.
"ONE STUDENT MAY take up 20
minutes of an attorney's time and the next may take up 20 hours." Rose said. "Should they both get the attorney's services for them, the program takes out of their activity (fee)?"
The board decided to investigate the legal services that have been set up at other universities to see whether these schools have limited the scope of their programs.
Figures Harper provided at the meeting showed that one school spent about $50,000 during one school year to have two full-time students give help to more than 5,000 students.
He said KU's program would be financed by about $4,000 from student activity fees. He said the program could be abused if it was designed to handle too many cases because this would overwork the program's attorneys.
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