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University Daily Kansan, May 2, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFSE
KU to receive asbestos report
A report from the Kansas Department of Human Resources concerning the demolition and removal of a boiler insulated with material containing asbestos is scheduled to be completed in two to three weeks, a spokesman for the department said yesterday.
The inquiry was requested by the University of Kansas in February after facilities operations workers complained that federal safety guidelines for asbestos roofs were not adhered to the demolition project. The demolition and removal were completed in December.
Kathy Kechum, the spokesman, said a three-member panel investigating the demolition project completed interviews with city officials. April 19 and was compiling information.
It's quite a volume of information," Kechum said.
Kechum said the completed report would be sent to Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
KU debaters take tournament
Debaters from the University of Kansas led the field in the Missouri Valley League Tournament, held April 20-21 at Kansas State University.
The team of Jerry Gaines, Houston, Texas, senior, and Jim Reed, St. Louis, Mo., senior, and the team of Steve Ellis, Wichita sophomore and David Thomanek, Wheeling, Ill., sophomore, combined to win the tournament's first place award.
Ellis also won first place in extem-
teraneous speaking, and Reed took first
place in after-dinner speaking. Oray
Hall, Manhattan freshman, placed first
in oratory and second in prose reading. Third
year graduate, put on stage to Dan
Linneel. Freeport, III, freshman.
The team's victories gave them the First Place Sweetens award.
Session to help with divorce
A two day workshop to help families adjust to divorce is scheduled for May 17 and 18 by the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, 334 Missouri St.
The workshop is designed to help parents who are divorced or who are being divorced to understand the effects on their children and to learn ways to ease the transition, said Jan Williams, workshop coordinator.
AG leads Taiwan delegation
The workshop is open to parents and their children. 'Tutition for the session is based on a sliding scale. For more information call Williams at the center, 843-9192
TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan is in Taiwan leading a delegation of attorneys general from six states. Stephan's office said yesterday.
The delegation's week-long visit, paid for by the Taiwanese government, is expected to include visits with Taiwanese prosecutors, justice, government ministers and a tour of correctional facilities, a statement said.
Dalkon Shield suit undecided
During the first day of his visit, Stephan met with the president of AOC International, the largest manufacturer of color televisions in Taiwan, and discussed the possibility of establishing an assembly plant in Kansas, Stephan's office said.
WICHITA — A jury yesterday failed to reach a verdict in a $14 million lawsuit filed by a Topcka woman who claimed that use of the Dalton Shield birth control device forced her to undergo a hysterectomy.
The jury, which began deliberations Tuesday afternoon after a two-month trial, is set to resume deliberations at 9:30 a.m. today, a district court spokesman said.
Weather
Today will be sunny and warmer. The high will be in the mid to upper 70s. Winds will be from the east at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be clear with a low in the 50s. Tomorrow will be sunny. The high will be around 80.
Compiled from Kansas staff and United Press International reports.
Scholarship to honor students' memory
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Although the Kansas Legislature last month refused to compensate the parents of two students killed in 1979 during a high-speed car chase by KU police, it recently established a scholarship fund in the students' names.
On Friday, the day before the 1985 legislative session ended, the Legislature voted to establish a $30,000 scholarship fund University in memory of the two students.
The students, Marge Thornton and Kenneth McCue III, were killed Nov. 18, 1979, when a car that was being chased by KU rammed the car in which they were riding.
Last year, the parents of the students filed a special claim against the state seeking compensation for the deaths, State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said yesterday.
Winter, who was chairman of the Special Claims Against the State Committee this session, said the committee tried to push a bill containing compensation money through the Legislature during the 1984 and 1985 sessions.
WINTER SAID THAT after the committee realized that a $30,000 award to the parents would not be passed by the Senate, the college should establish a scholarship fund in memory of the students.
"Under the circumstances, it is the next best thing." Winter said.
Winter said he thought that under state law, the parents had a right to the money. He said that because the police officer chasing
"But obviously the Senate as a whole felt differently," he said. "I'm pleased with the way it turned out, though. This way, the spirit of two students can continue on in some way."
the fleeing car was a state employee, the state was liable in the case.
Senators feared that approving the special claim would inhibit police officers' abilities to respond.
STATE REP. JOHN Solbach, D-Lawrence,
said the bill containing the claim was
approved by the House. But since it failed in
the Senate, joint conference committee was
requested to issue the bill.
Winter and Solbach were members of the conference committee.
"We would have liked to have gotten the money for the parents," Solbach said. "But if
the scholarship is all we could get, then we'll take it."
The money for the scholarship will be given to the Kansas University Endowment Association, which administers many University scholarships.
According to Lawrence police, the accident occurred while RU police were chasing a car through the streets.
The car, driven by Donald Bender, who also was a student at the time, was pursued north on West Campus Road and then east on East 11th Street, police said.
Bender ran a stop sign at the intersection of East 11th and Connecticut streets, police said, and his car hit the car carrying Thornton and McCue.
Bender was convicted in Douglas County District Court of involuntary manslaughter He served 121 days before being paroled.
Student records law causes Big 8 dispute
By KATHY FLANDERS Staff Reporter
Black marks from a felt-tip pen block on all information identifying students on public transit.
The difference depends upon how each university interprets the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, better known as the Buckley Amendment, which provides guidelines for releasing student information. At odds are the U.S. Department of Education, university officials, press lawyers and journalism professors.
But at all other Big Eight Conference
campus, campers pay leave, names of
schools are disclosed.
And at stake are the interests of students. Jim Denney, KU police director, says, "The amendment is, in essence, a protection of our citizenship here. Buckley says we can't release personally identifiable information for a student or former student. Our legal counsel advised us that's the way it should be interpreted. I've read it and agree."
BUT TED FREDERICKSON, assistant professor of journalism who holds a law degree, says, "I don't like the idea of the police being able to arrest people and the public not knowing what they're charged with."
The amendment made compliance mandatory for all federally financed schools. Under the amendment, if schools don't their federal funds can be taken away
KU RESIDENCE HALLS also follow the amendment. Desk assistants don't give out residents' room numbers to the public
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, better known as the Buckley Amendment, became law in 1974. It was named for Sen James Buckley, R-NY, because he led an effort to have the bill passed to reduce the amount and kind of information released from educational records.
The amendment gives parents the right to see their children's educational records but forbids schools to release the records to outside parties without parental consent. Students older than 18 years of age can see their own records and can give their consent to have the records released to outside parties, including their parents.
because the University of Kansas considers them academic records.
Campus police records can be exempted from educational records under the Buckley Amendment if they are maintained only for them and kept separate from educational records.
The amendment is also used by the Parking Service, which refuses to identify students by their parking sticker numbers to the public or the KU police because it considers parking permits to be academic records.
KU keeps police records in its
Records Hall and most educational
records in Strong Hall.
The KU interpretation of the amendment differs from that of the other Big Eight schools, Denney says, because KU tends to interpret the amendment "on the conser-
KU POLICE HAVE interpreted the amendment to mean that students' names, when they're arrested or when they are the victims of crimes, don't appear on the police's public reports, Denney says.
Unlike KU, the other Big Eight universities interpret the amendment to mean that the university will be allowed to hire a doctor.
Six of the other universities also release crime victims' names to the public Iowa State University, like KU, doesn't release victims' names in order to protect the
The other six universities release victims names except in sexual assault cases.
Gail Gabe, director of the University of Nebraska police, says he agrees with the KKO report.
"THAT'S WRONG." GABE says. "We make it easy on our people here. We're not going to tell our people they can't see our records."
Capt. Ernest Tye, deputy chief of the Oklahoma State University police department, says, "Most universities I've been in prefer names not being released. But there's some freedoms the press should have." "We feel they should have the students
Dean Drake, chief of security for Iowa State University, says, "If we make an arrest, we put the name on the police blotter and show the name."
Records of students arrested and booked into jail by KU police appear in the jail log at
Kansas Standard Offense Report
This copy of a KU police department complaint form shows how police black out all information on their public records that could identify students who report crimes or are arrested. The police department says the information is protected by the Buckley Amendment.
the Douglas County Judicial-Law Enforcement Building, East 11th and New Hampshire streets.
"WE CAN't have a police state and throw someone in jail and never hear from them again," Denney says. "If we wanted to kill someone, I would be dead and no one would ever know." But once a
student hits the jail, the arrest is public information."
Mike Kautsch, assistant professor in journalism who has taught Journalism 601, Law of Communications, disagrees with the KU interpretation of the amendment.
"If campus police are allowed to withhold the identities of students with whom they deal, they're operating in secret," he says.
Panel to study effect of drinking age change
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
Determining the impact that a higher state drinking age may have on campus is the goal of a new University task force, the chairman of the task force said yesterday.
Jim Long, chairman of the task force and director of the Kansas and Burge unions, said the task force would advise and make recommendations to David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Caryl Smith, dean of student life.
A bill signed by Gov. John Carlin last month will raise the legal drinking age for 3.2 percent beer to 19 on July 1. Those who turn 19 on or after that date must wait until their 21st birthdays before they may buy alcoholic beverages.
Some of the issues the task force will look into. Long said, are the consumption of beer on campus and at University sanctioned events, the marketing and sale of beer on campus, use of beer in University housing, the enforcement of state and University regulations regarding beer, concern for third party liability and improvements in alcohol-abuse educational programs.
"We've not got down to specifies as yet." Long said
The task force has 15 members, including representatives from the office of residential programs, the Athletic Department, Watkins Hospital, the organizations and activities at the university's office and other campus groups. The task force also includes student representatives.
Because of the new drinking age, Long said, workers at the Kansas and Burge unions would have to start checking patrons' identifications more carefully after the new drinking age went into effect.
Ralph Oliver, assistant KU police director and task force member, said he thought the higher drinking age would decrease the
amount of drinking on campus. Decreased drinking on campus probably would mean that KU police won't have to spend as much time as they do now enforcing liquor laws.
"I really think that most people, including students, are law-abiding people." Oliver
Fred McElheen, director of residential programs and task force member, said his office was considering the impact the higher age would have on University housing.
"This is a major change as far as a significant number of our students is concerned." McElhenie said.
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