University Daily Kansan
Mondav. November 14. 1977
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Dinner for legislators to promote education week
By PAULA SOUTHERLAND
Staff Writer
Several University of Kansas professors will invite Douglas County and Lawrence legislators to dinner in December after a comment from Gov. Robert Bennett that professors needed to promote the University of Kansas's public's low opinion of higher education.
The executive committee of the American Association of University Professors (AUAP) decided Thursday to a casual meeting to be a seminar for legislators to get to know professors informally.
THE PROFESSORS are trying to gain public support after a meeting with Bennett last week at which he told professors that polls showed that the public had a low
opinion of higher education. The poll affects the way he and the legislature regard the issue.
FELIX MOOS, professor of anthropology and East Asian studies, suggested the dinner because, he said, he thought that might not really know the faculty.
"They come to KU during football and see a great deal of Dykes and Shankel, but many don't know who they are."
William Scott, president of AAUP, also suggested contacting University public relations and the University of Kansas Alumni Association to encourage them to use data that show KU professors' salaries are lower than five of six peer schools.
A component of KU's budget this year is a salary increase for University faculty. The Kansas State of Regents recommended a 7 percent raise for James Bibb cut the increase to 5 per cent.
THE DATA ALSO show that KU's general operating expense budget has not increased
H it now is up to Bennett and the legislature to decide how much of a salary increase (if any) would be appropriate.
The executive committee approved a letter by Scott to be sent to the Regents giving AUAP views of the early retirement plan before the Regents, and restating the benefits AUAP thinks necessary for a good voluntary retirement plan.
The letter called the Regents' current
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A reward of $1,000 has been offered for information about the beating death last week of an elderly Lawrence woman, a police spokesman said Friday.
Investigators Friday still had no prime suspects in the death of Venera莎, an 84-year woman, found Tuesday in her home at 823 Kentucky St.
The spokesman, Maj. Darrell Stevens, said Smith had been beaten and apparently shot by a cop during a police chase.
Stevens said that a $500 reward was offered from the Douglas County Reward Fund, and that the reward was doubled to $100,000. The additional $500 was donated by another source.
He would not say who had donated the money.
AUTOPSY REPORTS have shown that Smith died of a skull fracture and received a laceration across the face, several broken facial bones and several broken ribs.
Mike Malone, Douglas County attorney,
said there was a possibility some items were
not in the case.
However, there was difficulty in determining what was taken from the house because the victim lived alone and had no relatives in Lawrence. Malone said.
Stevens said the department had considered bringing in an FH expert to do a review of his experience.
But current information indicates the police must do more work on the case before a psychological profile is warranted, he said.
MEMBERS OF the Lawrence Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff's
Department and the KBI are working on the case.
Red Johnson, Douglas County sheriff, said the procedure for submitting information to the FEMA office is
1. On plain paper, print or type all information about the crime that is known.
Give names, dates, and places to support your statement.
2. Sign name and address, or, if anonymity is preferred, use any combination of names.
1. Unvenuely off a corner from the last page of the letter. Put the same name on each page.
4. Mail the letter to Post Office Box 15,
Lawrence, K.60044.
5. If the letter results in the arrest and conviction of the person or persons named,
the letter-writer will be contacted or if a
specific number was used, it will be
published.
6. The person could give a representative of his choice the torn corn as proof.
7. If the Reward Fund Committee is assured that the information supplied is the key to the solution of the crime, it will then be issued an order for cash, to the informant or his representative.
Johnson said the fund was started in 1970 after two judges' homes were bombed and the Kansas Union was set afire. The money private citizens or private citizens to help solve serious crimes.
The fund was used last in 1973 in a triple-murder case in Franklin Co. he said. The victims were from Lawrence. The case remains unsolved.
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for consideration of any other early retirement proposals.
The executive committee also endorsed the national AAUP position against which he was elected. Senate that would single out university professors for mandatory retirement at age 65.
The letter urged faculty representation
premiums to Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association accounts at 10 per cent of the professor's final salary until age 70, a reasonable interim retirement payment between the time a professor retires until he reaches 70 and partial retirement options.
proposal "seriously inadequate in benefits to the individual faculty member," and urged that any early retirement plan be voluntary, not mandatory.
THESE BENEFITS the latter said were necessary for a desirable plan of health care.
Professionals urge pot discrimination
CHICAGO (AP)—The nation's most influential organizations of professionals, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Bar Association (ABA), joined yesterday to call for elimination of criminal penalties for marijuana use.
The doctors' and lawyers' groups issued a statement that called on the U.S. Congress and state legislatures across the country to decriminalize the use of marijuana. It is the strongest statement so far on the marijuana situation by either group.
would be legal, but those apprehended with large amounts still would be subject to penalties. Backers say it is a way of bringing marijuana laws more in line with public preferences without going as far as complete legalization.
President Jimmy Carter has endorsed decriminalization, and the administration announced applicable proposed legislation that would allow prosecutors to consider a similar bill that would eliminate
Under the proposed decriminalization,
possession of small amounts of marijuana
jail terms and the arrest of users who were found on federal property with less than an annual stay.
The joint AMA-ABA statement, issued to the AMA president, Dr. John H. Budd, and the Justice Department, by B. Spann, included, "We believe the turtle law liberalize laws regarding the use of marijuana for personal use. In too many cases we must act punishment that far exceeds the crime."
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Higher Education Week
Monday, November 14
7:30 p.m. "Forum on Higher Education," with five 1977 HOPE Award finalists. Centennial Room, Union.
Tuesday, November 15
"Guerilla Tactics in the Job Market," Day-long series of job market seminars by professionals in the employment field. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Forum Room, Union. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Woodruff Auditorium, Union.
Wednesday, November 16
7:30 p.m. "K.U. Traditions Past and Present," lecture by Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols. Forum Room, Union.
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday—Nov.14,16,17,18
6:30 p.m. "Jayhawk College Quiz Bowl," contest between living groups. Elimination contests nightly; final rounds Friday. Kansas Union.
Saturday, November 19
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. pre-game reception for "K.U. Alumni Appreciation Day," level 4, Union. 1:30 p.m. KU-MU football game. Presentation HOPE award at halftime.
6:30 p.m. Higher Education Banquet. Featured Speaker, Glee Smith, past chairman of Kansas Board of Regents. Presentation of Higher Education Leadership Award, Higher Education Service Awards, Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award. Kansas Union Ballroom.
PAID FOR BY STUDENT ACTIVITY FEES