University Daily Kansan
Wednesday. April 28,1971
Project May Be Law
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Students Design Housing Code
By ROBERT BURTCH
Kansan Staff Writer
Kansas SERT WYDE
A proposed position of the Model Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to suit the needs of Kansas may regulate landlord-tenant relations throughout the state.
Robert A. Laling and William Henry Ward, Wichita law students, have worked on this revision since 1909 as a project for the legislative process for Barbara Barkey Clark, professor of law.
Honing, now in his final law semester, say he has the code in hand to govern the legislature that will allow city governments to adopt it at local levels to comply with existing laws. Mr. Trump's Campus Housing Committee has studied the proposal as it pertains to the needs of the Lawrence area.
LAING SAID he would attempt to win the support of the Lawrence city government before going to the state. In his prepared argument, he refers to the fact that he has been housing data which he has been organizing for years. Another part of his argument is a ten-
Literary Critic To Speak Here
James Thorpe, a leading authority on Restoration literature and an vocal criticism of KU Friday to deliver two lectures.
Thorpe, former Princeton administrator and professor of English, is the director of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, Calif. His work includes poems of Rochester and Sir George Etheridge as well as books on Milton criticism.
His first lecture, sponsored by the departments of English and History, will be the 18th annual public lecture on Books and Bibliography. The topic will be *Editorial Treatment of Accidentals*. The 4 p.m. lecture in *Auditorium* is open to the public.
He will later address the topic in a p.m. in the Walkins Room of the Kansas Union on the topic "Samuel Johnson: The Great
minute film on local living problems, produced by Halina Pawl, Santa Monica, Calif., Santa Monica man, of the housing committee.
The City of Lawrence Minimal Housing Code sets guidelines and requirements concerning renting responsibility and discrimination in housing. These guidelines are designed to forcement is difficult because of
"The tendency is for the tenant to be responsible for all but major repairs."
changing building codes and a heavily overworked inspection department.
EVERY YEAR a new national building code is adopted by the cities. This code sets the minimum standards for the construction of housing code on one other hand, concerns the enforcement and maintenance of the building code. A landlord-denant code determines the relationships between the owners and the enforcement of the two other codes. It is in the latter field and the reform of housing code enforcement that Laing is working. In cities where housing codes already exist, the proposed landlord-tenant code would aid in renting. The current tendency is for the tenant to be responsible for all but the major repairs and upkeep. The obligations that would arise under a good, fair lease are the same on both parties under the law.
LAING SAID the maintenance today of a high-rise, or a simple apartment house, required a full-time janitorial technician, who must work in areas the tenant saw and had no experience with.
The difficulties between an institute and a recurring problem facing the University Senate House Committee and the Housing CCOcHalves
Both parties are often left with no practical legal resources. If a tenant refuses to pay rent or to reasonably maintain the lease, the obtaining justice often exceeds the cost of bearing the injustice. Laing said. Similarly, it is easier and cheaper for the tenant to move out of a sub-student house than to hire a lawyer fight needed for city-wide reform.
proved housing list available in the housing management office in McColm. To get on this list, a landlord must promise in writing not to discriminate on the basis of religion, color or nationality.
STUDENTS CAN avoid the possibility of discrimination in housing by checking the app.
The University offers a sensible lease, which if agreed to by the landlord, gives both parties a certain degree of protection. Students are encouraged to use them on a month-to-month basis.
The housing problem in Lawton is that most people proved landlord or one who uses no lease and who offers substandard housing close to the street.
STUDENTS WHO are too poor to drive from a distance or who just want to live close to campus keep these houses filled, and the landlord may raise his rent. A tenant complains either directly or through the University to the housing inspector, the landlord may raise his rent, and there is always a waiting list or someone ready to move in. All this trouble is over often a substantial, overpopulated fire.
way to halt injustice to many by a few.
Laing admitted that naturally not all landlords and houses were in this category, but he said the landlord-tenant code might be the
ON MARCH 15, 1971, Rep. James Davis (D-Kansas City) met with the assistant law before the Kansas House Federal and State Affairs committee. The film was shown, and he presented proponents of the bill who present cases for various members of the bill. Those were lawing, Ward and James Cannon, an attorney representing the Wyandotte society.
Lance Burry, chief of the consumer protection division of the Kansas Attorney General's office, also spoke in favor of the section regulating the landlords' practice of collecting security
OPPOSITION TO the bill came from several Johnson County and Kansas City, Kan., housing development in the county. The bill be defeated on the grounds that it "would suffocate housing development in Kansas and give residents a chance to return."
The bill was presented two days before the deadline for new bills to be introduced, and was not abolished. However, Laing said that the committee was extremely attentive and that he is aware of the potential chances for a favorable outcome.
Registration Set For Fall Rush
Registration for formal fall rush will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday in the Dean of Women's Office, 220 Strong Hall, according to Pam Meerdor, Hutchinson juvenile and Panhellenic rush chairman.
The fall rush period will be held for transfer students and upper-grade women who have not previously participated in a formal rush period.
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