CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, June 5, 1985
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News Digest
From staff and wire reports
KU profs nominated for judgeship
Two University of Kansas law professors have been recommended to fill a vacant judgeship in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, by Sen.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of law, and Martin Dickinson, professor of law, were recommended yesterday to President Reagan for the judgement along with two other Kansans.
rary to President Reagan for the judging session while he was on his way to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has six active judges and four vacancies, covers the jurisdiction of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.
"So I feel very privileged and flattered to have had this recommendation."
Ireet very flattered to be considered." Dickinson said yesterday. "The courts of appeals have come to play an increasingly important role because the Supreme Court can only take a limited number of cases. So a great deal of law is being made by the courts of appeals.
Reagan will make the final decision on who will receive the judgeship. But before the decision can be made, the candidates will be checked out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the American Bar Association.
Topeka hospital transplants first heart
Officials at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center yesterday announced that a team of surgeons successfully completed the first heart
According to Sharon Hotchkiss, public relations specialist for the hospital, the three-hour operation was performed by a surgical team led by Dr. Shanti Gandhi. Gandhi was assisted by Dr. Richard MacArthur. Both are cardiovascular thoracic surgeons on the hospital staff.
Hendrisson was admitted to the hospital May 20 and diagnosed as having terminal heart disease.
After the decision to perform the transplant surgery at St. Francis was made, Hendrixson waited about a week for a donor heart. Hotchkiss said. She said the heart came from an unidentified hospital in the Midwest.
The heart transplant surgery began at 2:40 a.m. yesterday and was completed at 5:40 a.m. There were no complications, Khotkiss said.
Grad assistant faces sex crime sentence
Sentencing for a 29-year-old KU graduate teaching assistant charged with mistreatment sexual battery is scheduled for June 28.
Ian Bruce Johnson, Lawrence, pleaded guilty May 30 to one count of misdemeanor sexual battery, a Class A misdemeanor. He was charged in connection with an incident in April which a KU student was molested on the second floor balcony of Wescoe Hall.
A Class A misdemeanor carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail or a $2,500 fine or both.
Johnson was ordered by the Douglas County District Court to undergo a mental evaluation at the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center before sentencing.
IRP to be closed for summer renovation
Joseph R. Pearson Hall, normally kept open for KU students during the summer session, has been closed for renovation of kitchen facilities and cafeterias.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said Monday that work had already begun and was expected to be complete before the fall semester.
Improvements to the kitchen will include new equipment for refrigeration and dishwashing. The floor plan also will be rearranged to ease cleaning.
movement. The kitchen renovations are expected to be one of the other $4,000 will go to repair the building's elevators. Wilson said that 25 years of use had taken its toll on the mechanical parts of the elevators.
KU debaters to appear on Canadian TV
Two University of Kansas debaters and their coach appeared in a television debate tape by the Canadian Broadcasting System May 26 to 28 in Ottawa, Canada
Jerry Gaines, Houston, Texas, and Jim Reed, St. Louis, Mo., both graduated in May. Donn Parson, director of debate and professor of communication studies, accompanied the debaters.
The KU team debated a team from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, about Canada's participation in NATO. The debate will be shown on Canadian television. Tapes of the debate will be available to the Public Broadcasting System for broadcast in the United States.
rarson said the Canadian Broadcasting System invited the KU debate team because of the national reputation the team has. KU has won the national debate tournament four times, most recently in 1983.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 70 percent chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the low to mid 70s. Winds will be easterly between 5 and 15 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 70 percent chance of thunderstorms. The low will be in the lower 90s. Tomorrow will be partly sunny and warmer. The high will be in the upper 70s or lower 80s. The extended forecast for Friday through Sunday calls for little or no precipitation with highs around 80 and lows in the upper 50s.
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Professor wants to be healer of University
By Carol Stephenson
Robert Shelton, associate professor of communication studies and religious studies, is trying to figure out where he's going to place another file cabinet in his already crowded office as he prepares for his new role as president.
Shelton, who begins his new job July 1, will replace William Balfour, professor of physiology and cell biology, who is retiring after eight years as ambassador Balfour was appointed as an ambassador for the University.
As ambushman, Shelton will be responsible for listening to people and attempting to find solutions to the problems they encounter at KU.
Staff Reporter
"in any community of this size it's very easy for individuals to feel as though they're not getting a fair shake." Shelton said Monday. "My role is to be the person they go to if that is so."
Many mechanisms exist at the University for taking care of grievances, he said. The office of affirmative action and the office of student affairs handle some of those complaints.
The University has a strong sexual harassment policy and thoroughly defined procedures for faculty, he said. Despite these mechanisms, Shelton said many people didn't always feel comfortable using grievance procedures, so they tourn the umbudsman. Shelton, therefore, views the umbudsman's role as that of a healer.
"You have to understand that a healer doesn't heal, but helps the healing process," he said. "So proto serve as ambudsman at KU, Shelton said that he would not try to take Balfour's place.
Shelton has been at KU since 1967. His academic work has been in interpersonal and intergroup relationships and social ethics. Through his work, he said, he has learned that people with autism differ in a lot of differences exist among them.
"You can either wail in those differences or make creative responses," he said. "I tend to choose the latter because it's more healthy."
"I want to be alert to conflicts that are emerging within the University as a whole and try to urge appropriate persons within the University to take actions that will head off those conflicts and make the University a more constructive atmosphere," Shelton said.
"I was always working to help people find a way not to avoid problems, but to work constructively with their problems." he said.
Shelton also has done counseling work and has worked finding solutions to conflicts. He said he worked with students and faculty during the late 1960s when there was unrest on campus.
"You have to understand that a healer doesn't heal, but helps the healing process. So properly understood, my role as an ombudsman can be thought of as a healer because a healer is somebody who brings some expertise to some not completely healthy situation and brings factors together to make it a healthy situation."
Associate professor of communication studies and religious studies
—Robert Shelton
Shelton said that he saw a university as a special place where learning and sharing take place to promote change and growth. Through his new position he said he hoped to make KU into that kind of place.
Although he will be the second man
He said that some campus offices had been slow to respond to complaints they had received. He said he wasn't going to wait to take action and would encourage others to take action.
"I can't fill his shoes and I won't try," Shelton said. "I'll just wear my own shoes."
Lawner's devotion directed students
"He was such a totally absorbed person in his profession of music and
musician in musician's
Stanley Shum-
way, chairman of the
music department,
said Sunday. "He was a
remarkable and
unusual person in
the degree of his
contributions to
musica."
Mr. Lawner, professor of music and a director of orchestra, died Friday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Oakland after a heart attack Jan. 17. He was 67.
Staff Reporter
The Warren-McElwain Mortuary,
120 W. 13th St., in was in charge of the cremation No service was conducted. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Lawner; a daughter, Wendy;
George Lawner was more than a music professor at the University of Kansas. To some, he was a musical force.
perly understood, my role as an ambushman can be thought of as a healer because a healer is somebody who brings some expertise to some not completely healthy situation and brings factors together to make it a healthy situation."
Shumway said that it was his "single-minded dedication to his profession and his total dedication to musical performance and his students" that made him so popular.
Shumway said that the department probably would begin searching for a temporary replacement for Mr. Tewell, whom he came, a more formal search will begin.
"He was very demanding and rightly so. He had the very highest ideals for us and he wanted us to meet them, but still he didn't push us too far."
and a son, Richard, all of the home. 3220 W.Ninth St.
Mr Lawner died about 1:30 p.m. after being taken to the hospital Friday morning, she said.
"You can't describe Mr. Lawner in a nutshell." Applard said. "He was one of those people who felt very attached to. I knew him for only two years and yet when this tragedy happened, I felt very personally the loss. He was not only greatly admired but was loved as well."
Mr. Lawner's music education began with his studies at the State Academy in Vienna he later earned a bachelor of music degree in 1951 from the Chicago Conservatory. At the University of Chicago, he went
Mr. Lawner came to KU in 1966. Before that he had held a myriad of positions within the music profession.
"We felt it was better to get him to the hospital and have some tests done," she said "But up until that time, we fully expected him to come out of his coma."
on to earn his master's degree and doctore. He became a member of the staff of Chicago's Lyric Opera in 1954 and he also had been an assistant conductor for the San Francisco Opera Company.
Mrs. Lawner said that her husband had been improving until Thursday evening, when he developed an infection and a fever.
Jay Jackson, Burlington, N.C.
graduate student, said that Mr.
Lawner had played a key role in his
education at KU.
"For the graduate students, he would do what he could to help us in any way he could." Jackson said. "If they were dorming and rightly
However, Mr. Lawner will be difficult to replace, according to his students.
During his tenure at KU, he had conducted the University Symphony Orchestra and was musical director for musical and opera productions for the theater department. Last year he became conductor for the Lawrence Civic Choir.
Developers want city's financial assistance
By Dwight Hunter
Mrs. Lawner confirmed her hus-
band's deep dedication to his
studies.
"He tried to understand each individual and make them work to their highest ability," she said. "He spurred them on and encouraged them to mold their abilities to their highest demands."
A Texas development firm presented a request to the Lawrence City Commission last night asking for financial assistance in constructing a parking garage for a proposed retail mail east of City Hall.
Staff Reporter
Bob Wright, vice president of Two Crowns Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas, said that building a parking garage without financial assistance from the city would result in higher rent that businesses would have to pay for mall space.
"He virtually gave me private conducting lessons at one time," said Don Appert, Ridgewood, N.J., graduate student. "He was at school night and day, and he didn't just coach the singers with the lead roles, but he would coach singers with even the smallest parts.
His willingness to give was also one of his most revered qualities.
Ernest Angino, city commissioner, said he was concerned that the com-
"He worked incessantly."
The city commission asked that Buford Watson, city manager, meet with Wright today. Angino also will be at that meeting.
At the meeting, the three will decide whether the requirements the commission set earlier for the Lawrence development company also will be made for the Texas company.
"We see an additional major store to the original plan," Wright said. "If I can meet the four conditions, one being the parking garage, I'll be ready to move on the project."
Even if a large anchor department store cannot be found, Wright said he would go ahead with the mall development along the river.
Angino said he wanted a study done to determine the traffic patterns in the area around the proposed mall, which would be at Sixth and Massachusetts Streets. He said he wanted to be more careful make the streets more accessible to the increased traffic after the mail was built.
Wright said the construction of the mall would be in two phases. Part of the parking garage and some of the mall would be built first.
Wright said his main concern was the amount of rent necessary to cover the cost of the construction of the development. He said he would deliver the cost for the phases and parking garage sometime today. However, he said last night that plans had increased about $2 million to $16 million.
was first proposed last August by Lawrence Frontier Mall Inc., said an agreement had been reached for Two Crowns to take over the initial plans developed by the Lawrence firm.
mission did not know how much Two Crowns was proposing to spend for construction of the parking garage. Angino also questioned the traffic patterns from the proposed retail development onto existing streets.
Steve Clark, who was one of the developers involved when the mail