Tuesday, February 7, 1978
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Prof explains case
By NANCY DRESSLER
University Daily Kansan
and MARY HOENK
Staff Writers
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—A former pathology department chairman at the University of Kansas Medical Center said yesterday that his effectiveness as a teacher and his working relations with his colleagues had been damaged because of a student complaint charging him with discrimination.
The former Med Center professor, Dante G. Scarpelli, was the sole witness to testify when a civil suit suit in Wyndotton County District Court resumed yesterday after a weekend recess. The trial is in its second week.
Scarpelli had brought the suit against four former medical students and a former Med Center affirmative action officer. The suit alleges that the defendants from each of the five defendants
Scarpelli said that after the complaint was filed, he felt alienated from his studies.
"MY MAJORITY students were surprised but did not become disengaged like my minority students," he explained. "I was tainted."
carpepi said he was not considered for appointment to special Med Center committees, such as the one to search for faculty, after the complaint was filed.
Scarpelli also said that the central administration at the Med Center had become unresponsive to his budget requests for the pathology department for two academic years.
The students filed the complaint in April 1974 with E.B. Brown, who was then dean for faculty and academic affairs. Brown appointed a five-member panel of Med Center faculty to hear the complaint in a May 1974 hearing.
the hearing was adjourned before any evidence was presented because the students walked out and complained that the hearing's procedures were "a stacked deck." The charges against Scarpelli later were dropped.
"IF THE charges would not have been dropped, the chances of being rehired were nil." Scarpelli said. "I would have been finished in academic life."
Scarpell resigned his position at the Med Center in 1975 and is now a professor at Northwestern University's School of Medicine.
After accepting the position at Northwestern, Scarpelli said, university officials there had been initially wary of the previous alleged discrimination charges.
"They received a letter from the Student National Medical Association Executive Committee at Northwestern informing them that I was a racist." he said.
University officials had taken the letter into consideration when deciding whether to appoint Scarpelli to a minority admissions committee at Northwestern.
THE DEMO of the School of Medicine had full knowledge of my background and he told me I had been reviewed and appointed to the job," he said.
Scarpelli admitted, however, that the students allegations apparently had not hit him personally.
stuim, Scarpelli said, the effects of the complaint remained even though it had been dismissed.
"I want to negate each and every one of the charges to clear my name," Scarpelli said. "I wanted my day in court, and now I guess I'm having it."
Scarpell is expected to conclude his testimony today. Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and David Waxman, the Med Cencher, and Chancellor, also are scheduled to testify today.
The trial is expected to continue throughout this week.
Taxi fares could rise if city changes rates
Lawrence residents and University of Kansas students will pay more for taxi service if the Lawrence City Commission approve a requested rate increase.
The request would increase rates from 70 cents for the first 1/6 mile and 10 cents for each additional 1/6 mile to 70 cents for each additional 10 cents for each additional 1/7 mile.
If the commission approves the increase, fares will be $1.30 for a one-mile ride. The present fare is $1.20.
The city received the request in a letter from Ward Thompson, president of the Transportation Corp. The firm owns the U.S. Navy ship, the Union Cab companies of Lawrence.
Transportation Corp. operates under a city charter, and the city commission sets rules.
The commissioners also will discuss another proposal from the Transportation Corp. to provide lower fries for elderly, handicapped and low-income persons.
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