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Friday, January 26, 1973
University Daily Kansan
'Coke Freek'
Kansan Staff Photo by CHRIS CANNELLA
Mark Pierce, Lawrence senior and chairman of SUA Fine Arts, looks at "Coke Freck," an entry in the Faculty Art Exhibit by Roger Shimomura. The annual faculty will open at 3 p.m. today in the painting, printmaking and sculpture will open at 3 p.m. today in the
Gallery of the Kansas Union. The show will be open daily until Feb. 12, according to Gerald Lubensky, assistant professor of painting and sculpture. Most of the members of the painting and sculpture faculty will have their work on display. Lubensky said that the show was only to display the work of the faculty members, and that no judging would take place. Lubensky said the show had been held at irregular intervals since the establishment of the department and had been conducted annually for the past three years.
Student Group Cares, Leffel Says
By LINDA DOHERTY Kansan Staff Writer
Despite some changes, improvement of the University still remains the primary goal for Students Concerned about Higher Education, according to Rusty Leffel, Prairie Village third-year law student and former coordinator for the group.
Lefret initially resigned as coordinator because, he said, he thought the group should move in new directions under new leadership.
"It wasn't an easy decision to resign.",
"Leffell said, "but it isn't as though I plan to divorce myself completely from Concerned Parents. It will participate in counseling capacity."
Students Concerned about Higher Education was formed when the University of Kansas had a budgetary crisis because of a lack of state funds, Leffel said.
"WEDIEN'T KNOW what we could do as students, but we wanted to do the best we could, in our own way. We responsible student involvement using three phases: learning about the University, sharing the learned with peers and then acting upon that information.
Activities of the group still are based on these phases, Leffel said.
Before members presented their case for an increased budget, Leffel said much
research was done on an individual voluntary basis.
Dean Kackley, assistant to the dean of men and a member of Concerned Students, said, "When we presented our demands, we had figures to back them up. Our complaints were reasonable and justified. People were quicker about accepting our suggestions when they learned we'd done our homework."
Although the budget is no longer as pressing an issue as it was when the group formed, Students Concerned about Higher Education should be encouraged to improve the University, Kackley said.
"IN A MATTER of a couple of years, education in Kansas was being eroded because of the low budget, so we jumped to the crisis," Kackley said. "Now that the crisis is over, we can expand our energies in other directions."
Students Concerned about Higher Education is not exclusively a KU institution.
"We've worked with other schools through the student body president association," he said. "Other schools kind of do their own things with it. We introduce our concept to the campuses and then let each one organize a movement on its own, because each campus best knows how to handle the legislators in their area."
Fairly unstructured in its organization.
'Idea Exchange' Studies Bill for Consumers
A consumer protection bill scheduled for discussion today in the Kansas Senate is designed to solve problems of the University of Kansas Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) and similar institutions in enforcing judgments.
Sen. Arden Booth reported on the bill Thursday night during a discussion of CPA at an "Idea Exchange" between Lawrence businessman and University community members. The exchange was sponsored by the Senate and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
THE CLAIMS could not be greater than $300, Booth said, although they could be as low as $5. He said no lawyers would be involved.
The bill would not create a small claims court, Booth said, but a procedure within the county court system that would allow the courts and businesses to resolve complaints.
LANDMAN SAID there were instances in which the news media created and widened barriers between business and consumer. He cited problems the CPA had with editorials as well as with news stories that did not reflect the entire story.
The bill calls for a limit on the number of times a person can file complaints, Booth said. However, if the county judge should become overloaded, he could request that the county commissioners appoint a referee, Booth said.
Bob Landman, Hutchison second-year law student, spoke as representative of the University view and said the only possible consequence of CPA had of enforcement was publicity.
Cross-filing by businesses against con- sumers also is allowed in the bill, Booth 203.
The problems the news media caused, he said, hurt not only the consumer's interests but also the relationship between the Lawrence and University communities.
When it funded the agency, the Student Senate stipulated that the CPA could serve as the legislative counsel.
Consumer complaints encompass the entire Lawrence community, and the 80 complaints that are filed out of each 300 person office reflect the true situation, he said.
although the person who established the CPA would have preferred to serve the CPA.
Pete Whitenight, president of the Downtown Lawrence Association, represented the business community and helped keep consumer protection activities on a local level.
Students Concerned about Higher Education encourages involvement in educational activities.
"There's a role for everyone, not just student leaders," he said. "It's based on a concern and that concern affects everyone in response to provide an action in response to a peep."
LANDMAN SAID the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce or some other Lawrence organization might consider funding the CPA so it could serve the entire community.
"in order to act, you have to take some initiative. To make it easy, we have meetings periodically. All anyone has to do is arrive and listen," he said.
LEFFEL SAID that often other campus organizations work on a project that aids Concerned Students. A recent dinner for area legislators sponsored by the Association of University Residence Hall gave students a chance to discuss problems with the legislators as well as acquaint them with the campus.
"Everything that's been accomplished has resulted from genuine student concern and not from some formalized organization," Kackley said. "The commitment is to an ideal rather than to a structure. It shows that students are putting something done rather than to all the trappings of an organization."
The key to the problem is to educate the consumer, Whitenight said, so he can force manufacturers to better their services if they want to remain competitive.
"We'll be discussing the results of a lobbying effort we made over Christmas. People were assigned to contact newly elected legislators on a person to person basis and help to familiarize them with our causes," Hackney said.
An organizational meeting for second semester is planned for 9 p.m. Monday at the Campus Hideaway Prizeria, according to John Hackney, Wichita senior and member of Students Concerned about Higher Education.
"ANOTHER THING, we'll discuss is leadership of the group," he said. "It will probably consist of a core group of very interested persons."
"There have been a couple of unsuccessful attempts in the last year or so to get something organized in academic research," he said. "We never done this before." Hackney said.
One project Concerned Students plans to tackle is academic reform.
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Sheriff Rex Johnson, representatives from the State Highway Commission and the management of the Cooperative Farm Chemical Assn. (CFCA), will meet soon to formulate a traffic safety plan for Highway 29 and the CFCA plant in times of poor visibility.
Meeting Set To Resolve Safety Issue
Four persons were injured Sunday in a six-car pile-up when a cloud of steam from the plant drifted across the highway. Officers investigating the accident Sunday said the poor visibility on that stretch of K-10 was a major cause of the pile-up.
CFCA general manager Allen Hoffman said the poor visibility was caused by steam clouds that originated in the plant. He said that the cloud over the road was not the emissions, called "the grey cloud," from the plant's exhaust towers.
"We hope to work out some sort of warning sign connected with flashing lights that could be activated in times of poor visibility," he said.
This is the method the conference will probably recommend to control the dangerous driving situations in such times of poor visibility, according to Hoffman.
When plant officials learned of the hazard last Sunday, they adjusted the production load to reduce the steam clouds. Hoffman said CFAF officials were writing operating procedures that would be used to systematically reduce the production capacity when observers noticed the steam cloud problem again.
"If we couldn't get it reduced any other way, we would try to solve our production problem in a different way."
Johnson said that when the conference met, the State Highway Commission would make the decision about what action would be taken to insure that the conditions that contributed to the accidents last Sunday didn't occur again.
The Highway Commission now is doing research to see which Kansas laws apply to this situation, and its decision will be based upon the laws, according to Johnson.
"It was merely a civil dispute," Borkwitz said. "It was a matter of whether the sorority had the right to fire Mrs. Johnston."
Johnston, who is appealing the Douglas County Court conviction to Douglas County District Court, said that Thursday that his defense team's arguments still were locked in the sheriff's office.
CELEBRATION 8 p.m. Feb.1-10
Miss Johnson stayed one night before she was arrested Jan. 10 for criminal trespass. Both mother and son were acquitted Jan. 17 of the criminal trespass charge.
He also said that the contract dispute had not been settled and that there would be a settlement.
He damaged the dog, in a successful effort to move his mother back Jan. 9 after the sorority had told her she was fired, Berkowitz said.
Dell Johnston, son of Helene Johnstone, former Sigma Kappa housemother, was convicted of damaging property when he opened a door in the Sigma Kappa house.
A contract dispute between Sigma Kappa sorority and its housemosher has resulted in the conviction of the housemosher's son of a Douglas County attorney, said Thursday.
Sigma Kappa sorority members would not comment on the incident.
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