THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No.116
Tuesday March 28,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
New fine policy weighed
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
The chairman of KU's Parking and Traffic Board said Friday that he would like to withhold paychecks from faculty and staff, who have not paid their parking fines.
However, such a policy probably would not affect about 80 percent of the $36,000 owed in parking fines because most faculty work at the University and owe fines no longer work at the University.
Andrew Torres, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, said he would like to see a parking fine policy established at KU that could be one to one used at Kansas State University.
But Torres said he was not interested in trying to collect money from people who were poor.
He said a lot of employees worked a year or two and then left the University. Torres said he did not think those people could be made to pay their parking fines.
HOWEVER, faculty and staff members still at KU one about $7,000 in parking fees, Torres said, and the Parking and Traffic Services department asks these persons, asking them to pay their fines.
In addition, Torres said he would like to withhold faculty paychecks until the fines are over.
According to Lt. Alfred Simmons, acting police chief at K-State, send a list of persons who owe money on parking fines at K-State to the university's president each spring. The faculty members' June 1 payment are checked when withheld until the fines are paid.
Paul Young, K-State vice president for university facilities, said the policy had
existed for at least seven years and had been very effective.
YOUNG, WHO IS in charge of K-State's security and traffic, said he had received some complaints, but usually only from those who were directly affected by the policy.
"It's one of those things that when it happens to you, you get excited. If the temperature goes up, you're scared."
Young said that statements of fines were sent each month to all persons who had been convicted.
He said that K-State tried to give persons plenty of time and enough notice to pay their tickets before withholding paychecks so that customers still owed money on tickets by June.
Young said K-State's policy had been operated through its parking and traffic
Torres said KU has had other parking fine policies but that a more effective policy was
Although KU cannot force faculty members to pay parking tickets, it does have the authority to make students pay fines, Tortes said. If students do not pay parking fees, the University can withhold grades, transcripts and diplomas.
IN A REPORT to the University Senate Executive Committee three weeks ago, Torres said that students were upset with the lack of action that could be taken against faculty.
Torres said the traffic board was sympathetic to the students' views and the board recommended that the University Council needed to enforce faculty parking fines.
Under current policy, Torres said, all fines must be paid before a faculty member can renew a parking permit. A permit is required by members who owe money from previous years.
The owner cannot retrieve his car until he pays his parking fines.
Also, Torres said, a car can be towed any time it is parked on campus if its owner owes money on at least five tickets, even if the car is parked legally.
IN ADDITION TO the parking board's current policies, Mike Davis, University general counsel, said that because campus parking violations could be considered misdemeanors, KU probably could own the building and probably a lot of money from parking fines.
But to be considered by the Douglas County Court, such action would have to be approved by Mike Malone, Douglas County attorney.
Malone said that KU could prosecute the persons but that he would not approve of her.
Under prosecution, each ticket would have to be dealt with separately, Malone said, and he had neither the time nor the staff to deal with separate violations.
Another action the parking board had considered was deducting parking fines
HOWEVER, DAVIS SAID that unless a bill was passed by the Kansas Legislature, KU did not have the authority to deduct unpaid fines from paychecks.
Davis said he would not comment on whether KU could adopt a specific proposal to withhold paychecks unless one was drawn up by the University.
College to devise advisers' plan
BvSUSANWOODARD
Staff Writer
A College of Liberal Arts and Science's committee will present its plan that may show that advisers can do more for hisomas students than sign enrollment cards.
The committee, formed last fall to study the problems of the advising program in the College will have an open forum at 4 p.m. today in 314 Wescrose. A three-person panel from the committee will make a presentation on other questions and read discussion on the plan.
Warner Morse, chairman of the committee, said last week that the present advising system often succeedes only one student at a time and to students filling out their enrollment cards.
"THE RELATIONSHIP between the students and the adviser is hapazward," he said. "Typically, the student does not see the same adviser twice."
Morse said some students might not need more advising than just getting a signature on their enrollment cards. However, he said, most new students are genuinely unmused or confused about course offerings and the goals of a liberal education.
He said the advising system should be able to meet whatever students need may be.
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
The committee's report suggests the creation of a "first contact adviser," whose primary function would be to act as a source of information for the students in planning their education, not to oversee the main aspects of enrollment and registration.
MORSE SAID that it was important for the students to have some sort of tentative schedule worked out before meeting with the first adviser so that advising could be more than just getting a workable number of courses on a card in time for enrollment.
Concrete cosmetics
Richard Higgins, Lawrence, concentrated on cutting out a section of concrete in the east end of Memorial Stadium yesterday morning. All of the seats have been removed, and construction crews are now working to repair deterioration of the concrete. According to Clayton Kieflafen, project manager, the concrete should be rebuilt, sealed and painted in the stadium without deterioration through deterioration the concrete is greater than the University expected, the $1.8 million renovation of the stadium should be completed by the contracted date, Aug. 15.
According to the report, the students should meet with their first contact advisers at least three times during their first semester; during enrollment to discuss the needs of the students for classes to troubleshoot and at the end of the semester to plan for the next semester.
After the first semester, according to the report, the students would need less advising. Eventually they would be trained in a subject or major or in one of the professional schools.
The mechanics of working out a course schedule would be handled by auxiliary staff.
According to Jerry Lewis, associate dean of liberal arts, students applying to KU list their academic interests on their applications and on their ACT data sheets. On the basis of that information, he said, the College assigns students to departments or schools for advising. The departments and schools are possible for matching students with advisers.
THE REPORT also suggests that all income students receive, in a lecture format, a survey of College requirements and a study of information about the College's divisions.
Lewis said students in the College were not required to see advisers or have an adviser's signature on their enrollment form. Some students do not have the students in the College do see an adviser.
"THE STUDENT has the option whether to see an adviser or not to see an adviser," Lewis said. "If he chooses not to see an adviser, he just signs his card himself."
Under the present advising system, in-
See ADVISING page five
Staff Photo hv DONALD WALLER
Burned up
Pete Houston, Baldwin senior, lives in a room in Hashinger Hall that was paneled with approximately 800 wooden shingles three
years ago. Houston has been told now that he must tear down the shingles because they are fire hazard. He says he has no plans to replace them.
Decor creates fire code problem
Rv DENISE RUPP
Staff Writer
Hashinger Hall is likely to lose his swamp" if the state fire marshal gets his
The swamp is the nickname of the room where Pete Houston, Baldwin senior, lives. It has been cited for violation of the state fire code because of its decor.
Three years ago the room was paneled with approximately 800 wooden shingles. No one objected until last December when all the windows were inspected by the state fire marshal.
At that time Clark Brubaker, deputy state fire marshal, told Houston he would have to remove all of the shingles and restore the room to its original condition.
Nothing more was said about the matter,
until Houston returned from spring break
and received a letter March 29 from the
school principal. "You've had the bad
week to remove all the shirts."
"It's absurd that they expect me to do anything," Houston said, "but it's especially absurd that they expect me to do it in one week."
HOUSTON SAID he had no plans to tear down the shinches.
"Even if I did take them down," he said, "the job would take at least two months if I did it while I was going to school. I'd have to tear out the shingles and the lattice they're attached to, patch the holes in the walls and repaint."
Houston did not deny that the shingles would burn readily if ignited, but he said he didn't see how a fire could start unless someone put a match to them.
"There's never an open flame in this room," he said. "I don't smoke and I have had a fire extinguisher and a smoke detector all year. I even put all the electrical outlets back in the wall so they're not exposed."
However, all these precautions and even
an offer to paint the shingles with fire proof material were not enough to satisfy the fire protection.
BUBAKER SAID last week that spraying the shingles with fireproof paint would not be adequate because the back sides of the shingles would not be covered. When you want to apply fireproof paint, be said, would be to take them all down and dip each one in fire-resistant material.
Houston said he didn't think the shingles were his responsibility because he did not paint them.
"If the room violates the fire code now, it did three years ago," he said. "They had no business letting me contract for the room in its present condition if it was a fire hazard.
"I have no doubt that if they decide they want them down, housing will come in and rip them down this summer. I can't stop them from making me do it."
TWO OTHER ROOMS on the same floor also have been cited for fire violations because the beds rest on platforms that the students were told were 3 to 4 inches too tight. The firefighters sent letters that said they had one week to bring the beds into compliance with the fire code.
Brubaker said the height of a regular bunk bed was the standard used for the room.
"We're only trying to protect the students in case of fire," he said, "because heat and smoke can be deadly."
Jay Treib, Shawnee Mission senior, said he spent $120 to build the platform in his room and he didn't intend to take it down until the end of the year.
His roommate Forrest Coleman, Dodge City senior, said a maintenance man in the building had told him a regulation bunk was 60 inches high. Coleman said the top of the mattress in their room was only 59 inches high.
"PERSONALLY, I DON'T THINK the fire inspector measured the bed," he said.
Todd Walters, Topeka junior, also said he was not planning to lower his bed and he thought arguing about 3 or 4 inches was stunid.
"If there's a fire, it's almost always in one room," he said. "The damage doesn't come from smoke. It comes from all the water they snurt."
How the fire code will actually be enforced remains to be seen.
"Enforcement is in the hands of the residence hall association," Paul Markley, technical adviser to the state fire marshal, said. "Our department will come back to check, but it probably won't be this semester."
CARYL SMITH, associate dean of women, who sent the letters to the students on behalf of the housing board, said the method of enforcement was determined by the board after reading the fire marshal's report.
Smith, who worked with the housing board only temporarily, said she did not know what further action would be taken if the students failed to comply with the letters.
All of the letters stated that Mary Stabb, Hashinger Hall director, would check the rooms after one week to make sure all rooms were checked and used to comment on the situation last week.
BUT THE STUDENTS said yesterday that she had contacted them as the letters said she would. They all said that Stabb they did not do but only asked what they planned to do.
"I told her that I hadn't made any decisions and that I wasn't ready to make one yet," Houston said. "When I get ready, I'll handle it through the door of women's rights. I'll be inside. I'm within my rights, and for now, I've got many other things to do to worry about it."
Man files racial complaint after incident on KU bus
BvTOM RAMSTACK
Staff Writer
Tony Slaughter, who was bound over for trial yesterday for allegedly assaulting a bus driver, has filed a complaint with the Kansas Civil Rights Commission that states he was racially discriminated against by the Lawrence Bus Co.
Slaughter said in his complaint to the Civil Rights Commission, "I hereby charge the Lawrence Bus Co. and its representatives with a violation of the Kansas Act Against Trucking," he said me that I would have to get off the bus, which I feel is because I am a Black American."
Slaughter, Salina freshman, allegedly hit Weson Iceberg, 141 Pennsylvania St., a driver for the Lawrence Bus Co., when iceangoled him at a station driving on Feb. 17. Iceangoled that he told Slaughter to get off the bus because he had been pushing客车 at a bus front in of step 8.
SLAUGHTER ALSO SAID in his complaint, "When I finally got on the bus, the bus driver stated that I would have to get off of the bus because I had been pushing. I stated that everyone had been pushing. He then tried to push me off and then I hit him."
Iceonogel denied that he had pushed Slaughter and said, "I did not see anyone else push. The fact that he was black had nothing to do with it."
Duane Ogle, owner of the Lawrence Buis
sideline, said, "nobody discriminated against him"
in his 2015 campaign.
Jim Dorsay, compliance supervisor for the commission, said that the commission would investigate Slaughter's complaint, but would represent only the state of
The results of the investigation would be reported to a commissioner for the Civil Rights Commission who would decide whether Shaughter's complaint was valid.
If the commission decided that it was a valid complaint, the commission would first try to negotiate an agreement between Slaughter and the Lawrence Bus Co. The agreement could possibly involve financial redress to Slaughter. Dorsay said.
Slaughter's trial is scheduled for May 11 in municipal court. He pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of simple battery, a charge of manslaughter, and penalty of $1,500 or one year in jail or both.
IF NO AGREEMENT was reached between Shaughter and the Lawrence Bus Co., all seven commissioners of the Civil Rights Commission could order a public hearing in which both parties of the complaint would be represented by attorneys.
If the commissioners determined that the Lawrence Bus Co. discriminated against Shaughter, they would order the company to pay back the debt and reposition and also could order financial redress.
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