Tuesday, March 2, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Networks director leaving KU
Search for successor is not yet underway committee leaders say
By Jennifer Roush
Kansan staff writer
Jan Weller, who has been director at Networking and Telecommunications Services at KU for 10 years, has accepted a position as director of network coordination at Washington University in St. Louis. She will leave campus April 2.
Weller's departure is the second announced this semester in Information Technology Services, which includes Academic Computing Services and Networking and Telecommunications.
Not only is Academic Computing Services getting a new director this fall, but Networking and Telecommunications Services will lose its director in April.
Bill Crowe, vice cancellor for information services, said that although both Academic Computing Services and Networking and
Telecommunications Services were changing leadership, there was no connection between the changes.
He said that because talent was scarce in the information technology field, corporate recruiters were aggressive in seeking potential employees.
Weller considered staying at KU, Crowe said, but ultimately decided to accept Washington University's offer because it would allow her to be close to her aging mother.
Weller earns $72,000 per year as director at KU.
The search committee that will recommend Weller's replacement has not yet been announced, said Marilu Goodyear, associate dean of libraries. She and Richard McKinney, assistant vice chancellor of information technology, are responsible for naming committee members, she said.
The committee is composed of six members, none of whom are students. Goodyear said.
She said that the lack of student involvement was because of the administrative nature of the position.
Goodyear also said that she had discussed interim management with Networking and Telecommunications staff, because the search for Weller's successor would not be finished before Weller left KU.
She said that she expected the search to take between two and three months.
McKinney said he hoped to be able to announce the members of the search committee late this week or early next week.
He said that although the list was final in his mind, the Equal Opportunity Office would have to approve it before it could be made public.
Once the committee is approved, members will search nationally for Weller's replacement. They will place announcements in professional publications and with professional associations, he said.
They will also consult with other faculty and staff members as necessary during the search.
"It is a rather involved process," McKinney said.
Weller could not be reached for comment.
—Edited by Kelli Raybern
Apartment residents file lawsuit
Female residents seek thousands for costs and emotional distress
By Katie Burford
Kansan staff writer
Although police still are investigating peepholes discovered above the bedrooms and bathrooms of several units in Parkway Terrace Apartments, three women who lived in the complex are suing the owners for negligence, according Douglas County court records.
The women, including one University of Kansas student, hired attorneys Michael Maddox and Peter Johnston to represent them in a civil suit against William and Mary Lemesany, Parkway Terrace owners.
According to the court file, the landlords were negligent because they allowed the holes to be drilled without warning the tenants. The landlords also did not attempt to get rid of the holes.
The maintenance hallway entrance, which is between each apartment, usually is locked. A tenant found the door open Jan. 27 and discovered the holes, said Sgt. Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department.
The holes' placement would have allowed a person in the hallway to look into the bedrooms and bathrooms of the female tenants.
"We're about midway through the investigation," he said. "We're still looking at evidence
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Police have collected evidence from the scene for analysis in the lab. Wheeler said
and trying to narrow down the list of possible suspects."
Attorney Peter Jouras, of Johnson County, also is representing a group of women who lived at the complex during the time the holes were discovered.
Jouras said that he would wait until the evidence was returned from the lab to decide what action to take.
"You can tell from the holes that if you were looking through them, your forehead would touch the wall leaving skin stains and possibly drol." he said.
If police were able to match these samples to a specific individual, then this would be ground for criminal charges, he said.
Jouras said he could represent as many as 15 women who lived in the complex. He said that most of them had moved out.
The three residents who Maddox represents also have changed residences. He said that $75,000 in damages he had filed in the suit would cover the cost his clients incurred by relocating. It also covers emotional distress that they said they suffered as a result of the ordeal.
He said that the suit was meant to make a statement.
"We don't want that kind of behavior—especially in a college town," he said.
Both lawyers said that the case was unusual.
"I haven't seen anything this extensive that lasted over such a long period of time and affected so many people," Jouras said.
The Lemesanys were issued summonses in the negligence suit. They could not be reached for comment. They have paid to fix the holes.
Maddox said that it was too early to predict when the case might go to trial.
- Edited by Melody Ard
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