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Traffic Court Legality To Be Studied Friday
By THOMAS GAUME
Kansan Staff Reporter
A complaint about the legality of the parking and traffic court will be considered at a hearing Friday, Jess McNish, adjunct professor of Law, University of the University Judiciary, said yesterday.
Two law students filed on action against the traffic court Feb 28, charging that the driver had violated a state law.
The students, Tim Boudwyns and Joe Speelman, Lawrence third-year law students, said the court was operating illegally and was impiring the rights of the University community because it had no legal authority to bear misdemeanor cases.
"The traffic court is merely an administrative hearing board of the University and has no jurisdiction to handle the disposition of criminal cases and charges such as misdemeanors under state law." Boudewyn said.
The rights specifically being impaired by the court, he said, are the rights to a full hearing before a court of competent criminal jurisdiction, to confront and cross-examine all witnesses and to a trial by jury when desired.
A spokesman for the University attorney's office said that the University Judiciary shouldn't take any action in the case because it had no jurisdiction over the Board of Regents, which authorized the parking and traffic court.
The spokesman also said the University would ask that no action be taken until after the Student Senate task force completes its investigation and reports findings. Investigations permissions are, considered.
The University takes this position, the spokesman said, partly because Chancellor Archie R. Dykes has decided to wait for the outcome of the investigation before he approves the present parking and traffic system.
John Beissner, Salina junior and student body president, said the task force was considering only financial policy and had no plans to consider traffic and parking policy.
The traffic court is enjoined from considering appeals for tickets issued on or after Feb. 28. An attempt to enjoin the court from demanding appeals bonds, usually an amount equal to the cost of the ticket, was hated by McNish.
"The task force's work should have no effect on the case," Beasner said.
"Under the present system," Bouweyres said, "students are denied equal protection of law, because of the discrepancy in the collection process."
McNah said the question was not worth debating. All appeals on tickets must be made by telephone.
"The only thing we can do to them is issue a tow order after they accumulate five tickets and have their car towed away if it is found on campus, he said. "To claim a car that has been towed away all fines must be paid."
When students receive traffic tickets their transcripts and grades are withheld until the fines are paid. However, when faculty and staff fines aren't paid no action is taken other than withholding stickers for fraudulent tickets. Bonwynne said. Under this system, he said, there is as much as $2,700 in unpaid faculty and staff fines now.
But this doesn't punish who accumulate three or four tickets and never
According to Jeff Lind, second-year law student and security and parking assistant, the University has no recourse against faculty and staff who don't pay fines.
Ian Davis, security and parking office manager, said he couldn't calculate the amount of unpaid faculty and staff fines because available figures were misleading.
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FEDERAL ATTORNEY Roger K. Weatherby of Topeka and county attorney Derek Baykov will speak about criminal justice in San Antonio, tomorrow in the Olive Hlash living room.
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BOB LANDMAN, president of the Consumer Protection Association will discuss consumer fraud and deceptive sales practices, how to avoid them and what can legally be done about them during the association's workshop this week. The workshop will be at 5:38 pm in the International Room of the Knox Union.
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A CAREER PROGRAM dealing with summer travel, volunteer work and job opportunities will be presented by the KU Commission on the Status of Women at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
A FREE YOGA CLASS will be taut at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the United Ministries building at 1204 Oread Ave. Beginners are encouraged that participants should bring a blanket to lie on.
2 Senate Committees Charged by Beisner
THE SHIRE Has Changed
Kansan Staff Reporters
He suggested that the committee focus its efforts on ensuring that there was at least 20 per cent student representation on all committees and key committees of the University of York.
Such representation is called for by the Senate code, but the Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee of last year's senate administration alleged that several
In his charge, Beiser said he thought it was important to have a document that would provide a consistent philosophy for funding. Priority should be given to students who are required to necessary student services and that serve significant numbers of students, he said.
Two of Student Senate's standing committees commenced last night by receiving suggestions from John Beiser, Salina junior and student body president, about what he wants them to do during the next year.
Preparation of guidelines for evaluating funding requests was one of the charges Beisner made to the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee.
Beisner also said that committees shouldn't hesitate to propose holding part of their allocations in reserve if they thought the city's priorities might arise during the fiscal year.
in his second charge to the Finance and Auditing Committee, Beissner suggested that discussions be started on Finance and Audittings' coordinating role and the possibility of appointing a Finance and Auditings liaison to each standing committee.
The liaison, Beinser said, could help interpret the final funding philosophy and the mechanics of the budgeting process. He said the liaison should avoid partisan comment in policy discussions of the committee.
Gregory set up the next meeting of the Finance and Auditing Committee for 8 p.m. Sunday to prepare the document of the funding philosophy. Gregory said he thought the philosophy would be a general, one, following Beaser's suggestions.
Beasner charged the Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee with being
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The committee made recommendations for the Student Executive Committee concerning which organizations' budget requests should be heard by each senate committee. Committee members and they thought the new method of having all senate committees hear the budget requests of the organization provided more diversification of activities.
Lewis Gregory, Wichita junior, who was the appointed temporary chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee, was elected permanent chairman at the 2015 General Assembly as co-chairman, Joel Goldman, Shawnee Mission senior, was elected to that position.
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Beisner also charged the committee with making an investigation of the University Judiciary by working with the Office of Affirmative Action and updating the Student Code of Rights, Privileges and Ks_obligities.
departments of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences weren't complying.
Cindy Burd, Alton, Ill., Junior, was elected chairman of the Rights, Privileges and Elections Commission.
Beisner suggested that the committee draft sections concerning the rights of students in residence halls for inclusion in the Constitution of Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities.
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Passage of the bill meant that the total appropriation for salaries and wages for the KU faculty amounted to 10 per cent more than last year, assisting, on the staff, yesterdays.
Departments Use Merit To Allot 10% Pay Boost
Although the Kansas Legislature passed a 10 per cent faculty pay raise, each faculty member won't necessarily receive a 10 per cent raise in salary.
The college and the professional schools will receive lump sums of the 10 per cent increase from the Office of Academic Affairs. Calgaird said that each of the 34 departments in the college wouldn't receive the same percentage of that lump sum.
"Some individual faculty members might be getting 20 or 25 per cent increases and some may very well be getting 0 per cent increases and will get the same salary next year." Ronald Calgaard, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the criteria for deciding who to receive salary increases are the instructor's condition. If a KU instructor does so, if a KU instructor receives an offer of a higher salary from a competing universi-
KU faculty members receive annual raises according to a merit system. Decisions on individual instructors' salary are made by the departments within each school.
Virtually everyone in the college received a raise of some sort last year, Calgaard said, and the same is expected to occur this year.
sity, his department may offer him a raise of up to 25 per cent to encourage him to stay.
Calgaard he favored the merit basis for increasing faculty salaries because it offers incentive to improve the quality of teaching. He also instructed for merit instead of longevity.
Conard said salary increases were granted primarily on the recommendations of his team.
If the salary increase, which includes the suggested 5.5 per cent cost-of-living increase is approved by Gov. Robert Docking, as is expected, faculty pay raises will go into effect July 1, the first day of fiscal year 1975.
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