THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Wednesday February 8,1978
Vol. 88, No. 88
Lawrence, Kansas
Bogus agent gets his day in local trial
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
By LUCY SMITH
Staff Writer
All charges were filed in 1974 in connection with an alleged fraudulent air travel scheme that supposedly billed University of Kansas and Lawrence bilked of several millions.
Raymond Robinson, 42, Honolulu, will be tired today at 3:30 in Douglas County on two misdemeanor battery charges, three misdemeanor battery charges and an insufficient funds charge check.
Robinson was extradited from Oakland, Calif., last month after Oakland police checked him for a municipal violation and forced him to be detained in Lawrence on criminal charges.
Robinson had been charged with battery in 1974 when he allegedly shoved a woman and threatened to push a man out of a window when they visited Robinson's office. The police requested refusal on plane tickets they had bought for a scheduled trip to Jamaica.
Robinson pleaded not guilty to the battery
in the case and appeared to foray at a trial April
1, 1984, if he could.
Robinson was the operator of Air Jayhawk Tours, which offered a charter flight to Jamaica during spring break. About 45 persons had paid Robinson the full ticket price of $125 and another 25 persons had made a $50 deposit on the trip.
THE TRIP was canceled by the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., after the Federal Aviation Administration determined that Air Jayhawk was not certified by the Civil Aeronautics Board and that the airline to be used by Air Jayhawk to fly the travelers to Jamaica and the Bahamas—National Air Ltd.-did not exist.
The Kansas attorney general's office then fitted it against Robinson and Air Force base. "You can falsely advertising, wasn't properly certified, falsely represented stewardesses and crew as professionally trained, refused to grant promised refunds and was not a blatant lack of hawk tour members."
Douglas County prosecutors filed additional charges against Robinson after unsuccessful attempts had been made to inform him of the attorney general's
Board walk
Three counts of theft by deception were in behalf of persons who paid $120 for the theft.
there had to be a good reason for walking across campus yesterday through the snow gusts. Sharon Sumonia, Prairie
Village sophomore, and Lisa Coffman, Allen sophomore, found that the easiest way to promote the singing valentine Heart Fund FUND
Senate committee to consider repeal of ERA
Staff Writer
By DIRCK STEIMEL
The Equal Rights Amendment breezed through the Kansas Legislature in 1972 making Kansas the seven state to ratify the amendment.
Today, as the ERA still lacks ratification by three of the 38 states needed to make the amendment law and the March 1979 deadline for ratification draws near, a court has struck down a testimony on a proposed resolution to rescind the Kansas ERA ratification.
The resolution, which is being sponsored by State Sen. John Vermillion, R-Independence, is in debate today in the Federal and State Affairs committee.
A resolution requires passage in both houses of the Legislature and has the same basic force as a bill, Vermilion said. However, it does not need to be signed by the governor.
THE RESOLUTION does not call for immediate reckcession of the Kansas ERA ratification, Vermilion said, but "gets it." The eraser fails to the ERA misses its March 1978 deadline.
Vermilion said his resolution would serve the state two ways in dealing with the ERA. First, the ERA automatically would rescind the ERA if the amendment failed to meet its deadline. Secondly, he said, the ERA would have to go through the entire Legislature again to be ratified if the 1979 deadline is not met.
"I think this is a fair approach, giving both sides an opportunity to debate the ERA issue and giving the Legislature adequate time to decide on the amendment." Ver
THE ERA was rushed through the Legislature in a single day by emergency legislation, according to Vernilion. No one were held on the ratification, he said.
For the past few days, Vermillion has been facing a battle from Kansas Attorney General Curt Schneider over the ERA resolution.
"Kansas legislators just jumped on the bandwagon when they passed the ERA in 1972. They didn't realize the ramifications of the ERA." Vernill said.
"I have two daughters and two grand-
daughters, and I don't think they would get
the respect they deserve if the ERA was
passed," Vermilion said.
SCHNEIDER HAS said that the Legislature could rescind its ratification of the ERA but that it was up to the U.S. to determine the validity of the state's recission.
However, Vermillon has said he thought
Karas signature had the authority to
reach U.S. courts.
Yesterday was the deadline for all committee-introduced bills going before the Legislature this session. No more bills will be considered by the Kansas Legislature in 1978.
FCC rule on CBs not definitive
Bv ROBERT BEER
The Federal Communications Commission dealt what it thought was a death blow to 23-channel citizens band radios and regulated outlawing their sales as of Jan. 1.
Staff Writer
However, because of loopholes in the channel CbS are still alive, b wounded.
In Lawrence, a 23-channel CB was sold through the Feb. 4 classified ad section of the Lawrence Journal-World. The FCC may investigate the sale.
In Kansas City, Mo., at least four 28-channel CBs were advertised in the Feb. 5 classified ad section of the Kansas City Star. The owners also are being investigated by
In California, allegedly bogus advertising and sales of outlawed 23-channel CBS are
In Irondeale, Ala., deputy U.S. marshals and members of the FCC secured 350 illegal 23-channel CBS on Jan. 17. Store owners where the CBS were found could be fined $10,000 and sentenced to one year in prison, according to federal law.
Not long ago, C.W. McCall and others were making a lot of money singing CB songs. Hollywood was pumping out CB movies. Manufacturers were producing CBs as fast as they could and even the President's wife had a CB "handle."
being investigated by the FCC. The in-
found in a nationally distributed CB magazine.
What happened between then and now?
Dykes, Waxman go before court
According to George Franklin, radio license examiner for the FCC in Kansas City, Mo., 23-channel CBS that do not meet the specifications in a new Federal Communications Commission regulation cannot be sold, advertised or given away after Jan.
By NANCY DRESSLER
Staff Writer
KANSAZ CITY, Kan.—Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Medical Center, testified yesterday as the first witnesses for the defense in a civil lawsuit against former Med Center students and officials.
However, the regulation has loopholes, Mirell Sorel, FCC engineer in Kansas City,
For instance, a 23-channel CB can be legally sold as parts if the radio frequency generating components are removed from both the receiver and transmitter. Sorell
The radio "must essentially be a bag of must-branded disdain" the radio must be permanently disdained
A former pathology department chairman at the Med Center, Dante G. Scarpell, has brought the suit, in a Wynn clinic, to the former medical students and a former Med Center affirmative action officer. The suit asks $140,000 in damages and other costs from the school.
"THEIR'S NO way to tell at the beginning who will be good," Waxman said. "You need to consider other things, such as a doctor or help people. You can't tell that from a score."
Waxman said several areas were considered in admitting students to the School of Medicine, including recommendations for graduate school and a personal interview with the applicant.
Waxman testified that grades and test scores alone did not indicate what kind of doctor a prospective medical student would make.
But the FCC, he said, does not specify how a radio is to be permanently disabled.
"With some individuals, you can't tell. You have to take the chance they'll make good doctors, and he said. Some are hardworking, and some are not good educational or economic backgrounds."
Scarpelli said Friday that the Med Center had used a double standard for admitting minority students. However, he said the school's programs was the same for all medical students.
See FCC RULE page three
WAXMAN SAID some allowances were made for students who were educationally impaired.
"It don't know at the beginning that anyone can say who will make it and who
Waxman said one of the suit's defendants, Charles Lee, had entered medical school with lower than average grades and was later nationally recognized for his
achievements as a medical student. Lee is now a resident surgeon at the Med Center.
Lee was the recipient of the McClean Lee award in 1952. While Block black middle student in the country,
"You'd not accept someone with those grades ordinarily," he said.
Lee was one of four sigmets to a complaint brought against Scarpell in April 1974 at the Med Center. The other three doctors who now are defendants in the label suit also signed the complaint, which charged Scarpell with discrimination.
THE COMPLAINT was dismissed when the students walked out of a May 1974 hearing at the Med Center before any evidence was presented and said the hearing's procedures were a "stacked deck."
Waxman said he had never seen a copy of the students' complaint before issue.
"I can't answer whether it is true or
he said. From my point of view, I
didn't feel like I was wrong."
Dykes said Scarpelli was known for his high academic standards.
HOWEVER, Dykes, who has taught, said it was not unusual for teaching practices to be perceived as unfit by some students. He said he did not know if this had happened to him.
"With minorities, he felt they should perform at a high level and this could be done through rigorous programs," Dykes said.
Dykes said he had no reason to think other members had lost respect for Scarpett.
"I have not observed him in the classroom and have not seen significantly seen him with a Dykes on his head."
Scaropell left the Med Center in 1975 and is now the dean of the northwestern. University's School of Medicine.
Dykes said he sent a letter to Scarpelli June 23, 1974, which indicated that the University's administration "had complete confidence in his work."
Testimony in the case is expected to continue for the remainder of the week. Scarpelli officially rested his case yesterday.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Miller
UMW heads vote on offer for tentative contract
WASHINGTON—Regional leaders of the United Mine Workers met yesterday with Arnold Miller, UMW president, for a crucial vote on a tentative industry contract offer that could end the coal strike, entering its 60th day today. Approval by the union would be critical to the contract proposal can be put before the 160,000 miners. Even if the counsell-
proves the pact, the union faces a more difficult task of trying to sell the agreement to the rank-and-file. The proposed agreement would give companies an incentive to move on.
Cuban soldiers sent to Ethiopia
MOGADISHO, Somalia - Diplomatic sources reported yesterday that between 3,000 and 6,000 troops left Cuba for Ethiopia sometime last week. The soldiers reportedly on Soviet ships, are expected to double or triple Cuba's numbers. Also, the countries where they are expected to play a major role in Ethiopia's long-expected counteroffensive.
Sadat warns he needs weapons
WASHINGTON—Egyptian President Ahad Sadat gold members of Congress yesterday that he would not be shy in asking the United States for weapons. After a closed meeting with members of the Senate, Sadat had been sheared the last time he asked for weapons but would not be this time and would
"I am not any more shy at all," he said. "I am speaking as a partner, and I am threatening." See story page two.
Another storm hits Northeast
While snow continues in Kansas today, areas of the Northeastern U.S. were digging out from now and winter aftar. From Pennsylvania to New Hampshire, where the winter snows have melted and school closures have begun,
New KPL rates tied to energy
TOPEKA—Kansas Power and Light Co. is proposing new rates that would encourage the use of alternate forms of energy. If approved, the rate would allow a customer to hook his own power system into the company's power grid. See story page two.
Eldredge
Locally . . .
Charles Eldredge, director and chief curator of the Spencer Art Museum usually has a very busy schedule. Eldredge, who came to KU in 1970, has helped in all phases of planning for the new museum in the last five years. Described as one of the main factors museum's success, he conducts research, teaches, seeks new donors and raises funds for the museum. For story and pictures, see WEEKDAY, page six.