The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, February 4, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 88 USPS 650-640
This line was just the beginning of a steady stream of students who returned residence half complete, and it was the first day to turn in their old school year. Students in 18:38-school year. Students in 19:38-school year.
considered for housing space over new residents, after which contracts will be filled as they are received.
Senator fights med student program
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
A state senator from Parsons insists that a state senator had attended school on the side of his tab lounges.
Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, wants to kill the state's program of granting medical students at the College of Health Sciences at Kansas City. He plans to provide for them to stay in Kansas after they graduate.
"It seems to me that that's quite enough for this experiment," he said yesterday.
Johnston said that since the program began in 1978, the Legislature had sourced $17 million into it.
Richard Von Ende, KU executive secretary, said the University of Kansas would oppose the repeal of the program, but would support changes to save money.
He said at least two bills calling for alterations in the program, which was started to ease the burden of high school students.
produced this session. Last year, it was estimated that Kansas faced a shortage of 1,000
But Johnston, who has opposed the program since its inception, said students could get out of practicing in Kansas by just paying back the scholarship with 10 percent interest.
"No one knows if it will work," he said. "No one can predict how many physicians we would have."
Johnston said that if the program were abolished, the money saved could be re-channeled in residence and outreach programs to lure doctors to Kansas.
Last session Johnston and other opponents of the program tried unsuccessfully to raise the interest of the students.
When the proposal was debated in committee last session, Von Ende testified that increasing the interest rate would make the program less cost-effective and thus prevent the easing of the doctor shortage.
Yesterday, however, Von Ende said some changes may improve the program.
"We could more restrictively define the areas where (the students) would serve." he said.
He added that three years ago the interest rate on the open market was about 10 percent, and that since that figure had increased, "it seems like 'infl' to increase the rate on the scholarships.
This year, the program needed an additional $715,000 to operate, State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence said. Eldredge said that she had not yet formed an opinion on the Johnston bill.
She said about 80 percent of the Med Center students, roughly 500, are participating in the program.
The bill was assigned to the Senate Ways and Means Committee the week, but hearings have not been held.
Johnston said the bill had a better chance of passing the committee this year than it did last
"I imagine that there are some physicians who oppose the bill, but this is an important issue of medicine."
Construction delayed on AOPi house
By KATHY MAAG
By KATHY MAAC Staff Reporter
When this semester ends, Alpha Omicron Pi sorority members are promised a move. But it won't be the move they expected.
The women have lived in Grace Sellars Pearson Hall since August, under an agreement that their sorority house would be finished by this fall.
But construction on the屋 has not started, so the University has offered the AOPs 75 spaces in McCollium Hall for next year. However, their house is expected to be ready in January.
FRED McELHENIE, director of resident
programs, said yesterday that he would not issue half-year contracts to the sorority.
"I'm sorry their house is not done, but we're not in a position to compromise the contract," McKenzie said. "Anyone who enters into a contract is not an unscrupulous, unconstraining circumstances, contracted for a full year.
"That will be the case with the AOPis," he said.
McElbenie said he wanted the women to choose McColum.
"I would prefer, if they chose residence hall living, that they select McCollum," he said. "The reason we made the agreement last year was because we were assured by their officers their
MEHLENIE SAID McCollum was chosen because it was the largest hall and could better handle the audience.
"The space in McColm would allow them an opportunity to be in the same vicinity," he said.
houses could be done by this fall. This year we'll
tow to get it together, but it will be on our terrors."
AOI members have not signed contracts yet, Nora Fisher, Teuka junior and AOI president, B.
"It has not been decided whether we're going to take that responsibility," he said. "It between the University and our nation."
Other sorority members refused to comment. Court 0871.
Credit card abuse alleged at K-State
From Staff and Wire Reports
Three track athletes at Kansas State University have used school telephone credit card numbers to make a series of long distance trips and shared a story in this morning's Kansas City Titans.
The Times, in the third installment of a five-part series on college athletics, said the athletes, and several people who K-State officials maintained they had never heard of, ran up long distance charges exceeding $7,000 from August 1978 to July 1980.
The Times' list of athletes included Vince Lombardi, the Big Eight Conference's triple jump champion.
THE FIRST TWO parts of the Times' service focused on alleged athletic violations at Wichita State University. An article later this week is expected to focus on the University of Kansas.
In Monday's installment, the Times imprinted that Jo Ann Carr, mother of a Wichita State basketball star, moved out of a low-income district and into an $82,500 house when her son, Sue, was spending for Wichita State. The Times published three pictures of houses that Mrs. Carr lived in.
But those reports were disputed in a copyright story this morning in the Wichita Eye-Bacon. The Eagle-Beacon reported that Mrs. Carr received money for the houses from her husband, who paid $1 million malpractice settlement in 1979—and not from the university or its athletic boosters.
Mrs. Carr 's boyfriend, Don Florence, received his $1 million malpractice settlement in 1979. the
year that Antoine Carr enrolled at Wichita State. The Eagle-Beacon said that Florence and his former wife had wished for injuries allegedly caused by their son's tostil and hernia surgery in 1978.
THE TWO SUED the Wesley Medical Center,
Wesley Associates, three doctors and two nurses.
Wichita State basketball Coach Gene Smithson, denying allegations made by the Times that players received cash from coaches, told a news conference today to answer the charges.
"They're ridiculous, just ridiculous," Smithson said. "I'll guarantee it (a clean ship). We've got some great men with a lot of character."
The Times reported this morning that Parrattet had received an oil company credit card, which was issued by the State Bank of New York.
A second track athlete, Ardes Lee Gardner JR, who is no longer at KState, allegedly received $114 to help defray travel expenses and the Times said, a $30 student loan—that the head track coach, Mike Ross, allegedly told Gardner he would not have to repay.
The third athlete in the Times' story was Willie Major, a sprinter who allegedly used the school's campus for training.
CREDIT CARD misuse was uncovered at KU last November in a copyright story in the Kansan. Two basketball players and a former player allegedly used the credit card number of an assistant coach to make long distance personal calls.
KU athletic officials said at the time that the money for the calls had been paid back.
Committee bills could change landlord-tenant relationships
Staff Reporter
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Members of the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee are preparing two bills that would drastically alter the relationship between landlords and tenants if they are passed.
The first bill, introduced as an amendment to the Consumer Protection Act, contains a clause that would hold landlords liable for misrepresenting their property.
The second bill, known as the self-help amendment to the existing Landlord-Term Act, includes provisions allowing the
ACCORDING TO legislators working on the draft, the self-help bill would make it easier for tenants to deal with landlords unwilling to make health and safety repairs.
"I've been working on a self-belfill bill with (state) Sen. Paul Feleciano," State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence, said yesterday. "In such a bill, a landlord has a limited period to make repairs before the end of their term and repairs. Then the tenant would be able to seek repayment through small claims court."
Eldredge said she hoped her bill would be passed instead of the consumer protection
"I think the consumer protection bill would still involve deep into the judicial system to get retribution," she said. "Also, the concession codes are codes still new in animals in the Kansas courts."
"There would have to be proof that there has been a lot of willful and malicious
misrepresection. It cannot usually include a landlord who just puts off the matter."
ELDREDGE SAID the self-help bill will allow tenants to work against slow landlords. She said the bill would make the repair process a lot smoother.
smoother.
Feleciano, D-Wichita, said he expected to present the bill to the committee by the end of the week.
"There is a problem with pushing a bill like this," he said. "A lot of legislators will not want to deal with the issue because they think it will affect only students.
"Because of that, they feel it would not be worth the effort to open a new floodgate of problems. I contend, however, that the bill would not pay for the flooding to the elderly and those who cannot afford houses."
Under the consumer protection bill, a landlord is described as a "supplier." Because he is a supplier of a good, the property, the landlord is responsible to represent the condition or style of the property.
THE LANDLORD, as well as any other retailer, also would not be able to claim sponsorships, offer services without intending to fulfill them, give false rebates, conceal or omit a problem or falsely state that repairs were needed.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, who worked extensively with the self-heLP bill in the House, said he thought the consumer protection act might eliminate the need for a self-heLP bill.
"It doesn't give all of the things that self-help does," Solbach said. "What the consumer protection amendment does is to hold a big Land AND LOAN page 5
Arson ruled as cause of deadly fire.
By TIM SHARF
Staff Reporter
Smoke inhalation was ruled the cause of death of Earl Pope, 55, and his wife Audrey, 56, Douglas County Coroner Laurance Price said Monday.
Arson was the cause of Saturday's fire that killed the owner of a local insulation service and his wife, Douglas County Arson Squad investigators said yesterday.
Pope and his wife were found in a rear bedroom adjoining the entryway, the bodies were found after one of the couple's children returned home. The family had firefighters that his parents were inside the house.
The blaze started in a back entryway of the house at 1608 E. 15th St.
the body of her husband was found in the corner near a window.
Mrs. Pope's body bore a few marks and are being studied by the coroner, James McSwain, Lawrence Fire Chief, said. The nature and cause of the marks are still unknown.
The body of Mrs. Pope was found on a bed, and
McSain said a 10-member arson investigation team was continuing to probe the cause of the fire, which started at 10 p.m. Saturday.
He said the squad was following several leads on the fire's origin, but officials refused compassions.
McSain said that the investigation was going in several directions and that no official information beyond the arson ruling was available.
Evidence from the fire is being examined by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation Laboratory in Tampa.
Weather
The high temperature will be around 30 today, and winds will be from the south at 5 to 15 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight's low will be between 10 and 15, and Thursday's high will reach 40.
Board aids Kansas victims of crime
By PENNI CRABTREE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
In most states, the victim of a mugging or a rape who cannot afford medical or psychiatric help has to go without it. The victim of a sexual assault for a deceased victim must put itself in debt.
But in Kansas, there is an agency to aid low-income crime victims. These are the people an associate professor at the University of Kansas, Marilyn Ainsworth, wants to help.
Ainsworth, who teaches tort law and legal ethics at the School of Law, was appointed in December by Gov. John Carlin to the Kansas Renarations Board.
"I don't see how we can just say tough" to a victim of crime," Ainsworth said. "If the state doesn't help these people, who will? The criminal is usually on his way to prison and doesn't have any money he could give the victim anyway."
The three-member board, established by the Legislature in 1978, is designed to make separations for crime-related hardship. This includes medical expenses and loss of income sustained by the victim, and in some cases, payment to dependents of deceased victims.
Marilyn Ainsworth
about the victims of crime, and support the program."
"It is a modest program. The most we pay any victim over his lifetime is $10,000." Answorth said. "Ever people who are conservative about state spending are concerned
An average board payment to a victim is $2,033, but payments range from $100 to $450. The board's annual report, a total of $103,743 was paid to Kansas crime victims in 1980.
There were 109 claims filed last year with the board and 55 received payments. The remaining applications were either withdrawn, because of negligence or were withdrawn.
"Basically, if you're a Kansas resident you can receive reparation. Allows you to can receive reparation."
Twelve cases from Douglas County came before the board, with five receiving awards totaling $2.428. Most of the awards were for rape victims.
To be eligible, the claimant must meet basic statutory and board requirements and have documented evidence of financial loss exceeding $100. The time from when the claimant submits an application of eligibility until he receives payment is usually no longer than a month, and in emergencies, as short as two weeks, Ainsworth said.
The state will not pay for expenses that are covered by insurance or other sources, or for
The Kansas program is modeled from a uniform crime separation law, Ainsworth said. It was designed so legislators nationally easily draft their own state programs.
"I'ts a lot of work, and often very depressing," she said of her appointment. "To prepare myself for the first meeting, I read cases all night. I had visions of people walking the streets with blood-soaked towels around their heads."