University Daily Kansan, June 9. 1980
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Family files lawsuit over Balagna death
The family of KU football player killed in a July 1978 construction accident in Topeka fitted suit last week in Shawnee County District Court.
Frances Balagna and her son, Joshua, now living in California, are seeking more than $10,000 in damages in the death of Dennis Balagna. She is also working at a sewer construction site when a wall she was checking collapsed.
Ballagna was an offensive guard for Kai when the accident occurred. Another former KU player, John Mascarda, was injured in the accident.
Defendants in the suit are Shawnee County; Shawnee County Sanitary Sewer District No. 33, where the sewer was being built; the Koehring Co., manufacturer of the excavator used in digging the ditch; eight partners in Van Doren-Hard and Stallings, the architects of the project; and Dallas Freeborn, an employee of the firm, who was supervising the project.
The suit alleges the "separate and concurrent negligence of the defendants." It also claims that the ex-conspirator is defective and contributed to the accident.
Dennis Balagna
Although the Student Senate will not meet again until fall, the Student Committee has met twice to consider bidding requests from various organizations.
At its May 14 meeting, StudEx approved a line item change for the Tau Sigma Dance Company and appointed a committee to prepare a report on the Associated Students of Kansas' progress.
Tau Sigma requested that $9.28 be transferred from its Supplies and Expenses account to its Personal Services account. The dance company managed the operations and salaries of five Facilities Operations employees who installed lighting
StudEx studies budget changes, ASK
equipment for the Tau Sigma Dance Concert.
"It bothers me that they've already spent the money and then expect us to pay for it," Matt Davis, student body vice president, said. "The Senate is getting stuck with thousands of dollars in student clubs where college clubs have gone ahead and spent money they didn't have and assumed we're going to pay the bills."
Rob McClellan, StudEx chairman,
said that Tau Sigma had been allocated
money for the FO employees' salaries.
But she added that an unforeseen occurrence, she said.
StudEx's resistance to approve the request was broken down further when
the committee learned that Bren Abbott, Senate treasurer, already had transferred Tau Sigma's money.
"This has all been done rather perforously," McClellan said, "Bren told me today that he did transfer the money to their Personal Services account because he expected us to approve it."
Business School names acting dean
StudEx also appointed four students to prepare a report on ASK'S progress. The report will also be submitted to the Senate, which will then vote next fall whether to continue or discontinue KU's membership in ASK.
Jack Gaumitn, professor of business, was named Friday as acting dean of the School of Business. He will replace Joseph Pichler, who resigned to accept an executive vice presidency of the school. A hutchinson-based grocery firm.
Gaumitza, a KU professor since 1972 and a business finance specialist, was named by Ralph Christofferson, vice
StudEx delayed a decision on budget requests from KU Student Legal Services and the Consumer Affairs Association until its next meeting.
The University will conduct a nationwide search for a permanent dean. Gaumitnz said he had "no aspirations to continue in this position" June 30, 1981. 'the date formally agreed upon when he accepted the position.'
chancellor for academic affairs, to begin a one-year acting deanship July 1.
Gaumnitz, who also is president of an investment management group and has co-authored a book on financial institutions, said he would spend much of his time as acting dean enhancing communication between the faculty and the administration of the School of Business.
"WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" Paalma 2:1 and Acts 4:25
The above question is asked by God Almighty Himself in the second Psalm of His Book, the Blbe. Do you ask God to bless you? In the first Psalm He says that the man is free from all sins, and that he will siting, and "his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." Have we a right to accuse our efforts to meet and fulfil these conditions?
In John 6:44, etc. Jesus said "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent he draw him ... And they shall all be taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, commute unto him." Have we put ourselves in position to be "taught of God"? We put ourselves in position to be "passing the buck"? What we are always "passing the buck" to the Almighty while in reality His Word "passes it to us!" The law is our school-master to bring us to Christ.
The reason our churches are so full of "dead wood and excess baggage" of folks who don't know what is to be needed, we allow them to see their lost condition by the power of the Holy Ghost in church and to Christ, as they think, by the precepts of men, the devices and powers of the devil, and not by the power of the Father; that they are drawn by His power to the Son.
In the second Psalm there is the opposite picture of the
"Blessed Man." It shows us men raging and rebelling against God, and His Anointed, in order to break the bands and cast away the cords of His "Thou shalt nots," His Moral Law and Ten Commandments. So, instead of being blessed and nation we have God's cure for sinners and nationals, he has his wrath, his wrath and displeasure that sorely vexes mankind.
We blame this man and that, this nation and that, but according to God's message here the blame lies at the root of all who refuse to depart from evil but choose to rage against The Almighty. Read Luke 13: 15, and make the application. Elijah, the man taken to heaven without his will, is told in the book that no troubled Israel, but thou, and father's house, in that ye have forsaken the Commandments of God... "1st Kings 18: 18.
"When the mists have rolled away, and we know we are known," see if the reason American is now "riding upon the high places of the earth" is not because our fathers up to about 1920 honored God by a more or less strict observance of The Lord's Day, and we are enjoying wasting and dissipating our rich heritage, "riding for a fall," and "great will be that fall" unless we repent and "bring forth fruit for repentance."
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