Defendant testifies at libel trial
Friday, February 10, 1978
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By NANCY DRESSLER
Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan—An apparent attempt by a former pathology department chairman at the University of Kansas Medical School to remove a black medical student from school in 1974 was overturned by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, according to testimony yesterday by the student, Charles Floyd.
Floyd is one of five defendants in a civil libel suit in a Wyndottie County District Court brought by Dante G. Scarpelli, the former deartment chairman.
Three other doctors, who are former KU medical students, and a former affirmative action officer for the Med Center are the other defendants in the case. The suit asks $140,000 in damages and costs from each of the five defendants.
Floyd said he had received an unsatisfactory grade in physics. The Med Center's academic committee, which dealt with curriculum, courses and faculty, briefed him on the course, Floyd said.
Scarpell overtured this ruling in a medical faculty meeting and asked for
Floyd's dismissal from school, according to Floyd.
A meeting with Dykes in the office of William Rieke, then vice-chancellor for health affairs, was held in March 1974 after Scarrell's action.
"Dykes said that Dr. Scarpell had overstepped his boundaries," Floyd said. "He said that he would be at the next faculty person to see that this did not happen."
Floyd said he was allowed to repeat the course after that faculty meeting.
Floyd is one of four students who signed a complaint against Scarpelli charging him with acts of discrimination. The other are the three other defendants in the suit.
The complaint, alleged to be libelous by Scarpell, was filed in April 1974 at the Med Center and was received by E.B. Brown, then dean for faculty and academic affairs at the Med Center. A five-member panel of faculty met to hear the complaint in May 1974.
The hearing was dismissed when the students walked out and complained that Mr. Hirsch had been abusive.
Floyd said the students had acted as an executive committee of the Student National Medical Association in filing the complaint.
No evidence had yet been presented at the case charges against Scorpelli later were dropped.
KU's chapter of the association dealt with injustices to minority students at the Med Center, Floyd said. He said Rieke宜谈 put their complaints into writing.
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"If we work to get injustices undone, then we must work within the system," Flood said. "This is the way we were told to do it, going to Dr. Rieke. That's what was done."
Floyd said the students had received assistance in compiling their complaints from Chester Remperson, the former officer. Remperson is now a defendant in the suit.
Floyd said that as a student, he had never asked that academic standards be reduced.
The complaint also charged Scarpelli with trying to systematically eliminate black people.
Strop's address will be sponsored by the SUA Forums Program, State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, and the KU chapter of NORML.
Scarpell textilized last week that the Mad中心 used a double standard in admitting
asked that academic Summarus be reduced.
"I always wanted to be treated like anyone else, to be treated fairly," Floyd said. "That's all I've ever asked."
Floyd is now doing postgraduate work in psychiatry at the Med Center.
Ernest Turner, another of the five defendants in the case, also testified
The trial ended its second week today with Floyd still on the witness stand. Testimony for him was adjourned.
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