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Lawrence Police Officer Operates Teletype
... New communications system links Lawrence to area agencies ...
New System Aids Police
A new computer-teletype communication system is helping Lawrence police, despite long delays in its complete installation, according to LL. Verner Newman III supervisor of the services division of the Lawrence Police Department.
"We expected to have it installed last August, but we found some bugs in the system."
Newman said he had anticipated linkage of the Lawrence system to Kansas City in mid-March but that Kansas City was reprogramming its computer now.
The system now connects Lawrence with the Jefferson, City, Mo., Motor Vehicle
Department, the National Crime Information Center, and the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Motor Vehicle Department in Topeka.
When completed, the communication network will be known as the Missouri Unified Law Enforcement System and also will include Johnson County, St. Louis, Kansas City, Kan, Kansas City, Mo, and the Kansas City, Mo, office of the FBI
Newman said speed was the main advantage of the new system.
"We now have a three-second response from the National Crime Information Center," he said, "where before it took 20 to 30 seconds.
"The old system received about 75 words a minute and the new one is about 80 times as much."
Grade System Alternatives Presented During Seminar
By JEFFREY STINSON Kansan Staff Writer
Alternatives to the present grading system were presented Wednesday in a seminar sponsored by the University of Kansas Office of International Resources.
The alternatives suggested were a descriptive statement of a student's progress, a numbering system from 60 to 100 and a student's self-evaluation.
Herman Lujan, director of the Institute for Social and Environmental Studies and chairman of the Academic Policies and Procedures Committee on grading said. "I rather used a descriptive statement to the transcript than give an A through F grade."
"I give students what I expect during the year, and tell them what they must do." Lajan said. "The evaluation by the teacher is important, so what the student learned in that year."
David Courtwright, Prarie Village sophomore, and "Grades are a symptom of a societal stress on competition. They are also not a significant variable in a society as competitive as ours."
Frances Horowitz, professor of psychology and human development, said "The issue is not grades or no grades, it is the purpose of the university. Is KU here for a differential breakdown in students for other people, or are we to develop the highest level of competency of the student?"
He said he preferred a numbering system from 60 to 100 to eliminate the problem of students receiving one letter grade when only a few points away from a higher one.
The emphasis should not be on grades, she said, but on students reaching a high level of competency with self-confidence enough to make a contribution to society. She said F's tended to destroy a person's self-confidence.
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"We are hooked up to Jefferson City and we get virtually the same information from the city."
Newman said the delay in having the system complex by installing not greatly higher features is minimal.
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Newman said most of the information received from Jefferson City dealt with vehicle registration checks. He said that because of the large number of out-of-state students in the Lawrence area, there was a high frequency of vehicle checks.
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The KU Traffic and Security division has the wireless communication system, Newman sa...
"The main advantage of being connected to Kansas City will be the increased mobility of receiving criminal related information to vehicle information," Newman said.
Newman said Lawrence police would relay information to KU Traffic and Security.
The new system was purchased through a federal funding grants fund of 75 per cent federal and 25 per cent local money. The unit cost $17,873.25.
Commissioner Votes 'No' On Quarry
Approval of a one-year conditional work permit for J. H. J. Rock C, was denied by the negative vote of Douglas County commissioner I. J. Stoneback.
The conditional permit will be reconsidered by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission on April 25 with the option of resubmitting the permit recommendation to the county commissioners on May 9.
The permit required a unanimous vote of approval by the commission because a petition of protest had been signed by at least one-half of the landowners in the immediate vicinity of the proposed quarry site.
The permit would have granted the rock company permission to set up a rock quarry on the property of Elmer Zeeb, three hundred years ago, at waypoint 40 on both sides of county road 192.
Stoneback said he was casting the lone "no" vote in response to numerous phone calls and letters from landowners near the town of Cedar Creek, opposing the query development.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission had recommended the work permit to the county commission on several projects, and it required that the rock company enter a contract with the county to maintain Road 1025 and that it "strictly adhere" to the laws established by the Bureau of Mines and the Environmental Protection Agency.
In a letter received by the county commission Monday, Dean Sanderson, Douglas County public works director, suggested that the rock company be responsible for dust-proofing Road 1025 near dwellings, narrow bridges, intersections and other locations along the road potentially hazardous to traffic.
The dust-proofing would be under the direction of the county public works department, according to Sanderson's letter.
Mrs. Judith Oll, Lawrence resident, has won a $200 award for her entry in the "Kansas Artists Biennial" at the Wichita Art Museum from March 16 to April 25.
Three University of Kansas faculty members in the department of painting and sculpture also had work selected. They are William Richard Dishinger, and Roger Shimura.
Blackwell won the $600 first prize in the recent "30 Miles of Art" Exhibition in Kansas City, Mo., and Shimomura and George Tuton, also of the painting and sculpture department, won honorable mentions.
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