University Daily Kansan, April 26, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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NEWS BRIEFS
TA charged in sexual battery
Ian Bruce Johnson, Lawrence graduate teaching assistant, was formally charged with sexual battery yesterday by the Douglas County district attorney's office.
On April 18, a female student sleeping on a bench on the second floor balcony of Wescoe Hall awoke to find someone touching her.
Kellogg to participate in relay
Johnson was arrested April 19 on charges of sexual battery in the incident.
The district attorney's office officially filed a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery yesterday. The court yesterday set a trial date of May 30.
Three people from the University, including basketball player Ron Kellogg plan to participate in the KU Rehabilitation Relays on Saturday at 10 a.m.
The race is designed to raise $9,000 for the department of rehabilitation at the University of Kansas Medical Center, in Kansas City, Kan.
The 2.5 mile course is scheduled to start at Bishop Miege High School and finish at Baldwin.
Sigma Phi Epsilon will sponsor the three KU participants with a $1,000 contribution. Dan Lague, Mission junior, and a member of the Eckley Endowment Association also plan to race.
Representatives from the Chiefs, Comets and local Kansas City television networks.
Disabled individuals will make up half of the teams.
Fraternity to receive charter
The local chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity is scheduled to receive a national charter tomorrow night.
In the fall of 1963, 19 men formed the fraternity, which now has 33 members. Eleven of the members live in the house at 1218 Mississippi St.
The fraternity was accepted by the KU interfraternity Council last year.
Ron Mandelbaum, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore is the chartering chairman for the fraternity He said the fraternity planned to rush members during the summer and fall to attempt to increase membership to 50 men by next year.
Hispanic forum scheduled
Career opportunities and the potential for leadership in the Hispanic community will be topics at the statewide Hispanic conference, an all-day event scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Diana Sanchez Harwood, national chairman of the American G.I. Forum, will be the featured speaker at the Women in Business Careers' speak about "Women in Business Careers."
Speakers also plan to discuss educational cutbacks and the condition of Hispanic educational resources. Several Hispanic corporate representatives plan to discuss the role of Hispanics in the business world.
KU grad to go on debate tour
A KU graduate has been selected to tour Japanese colleges and universities with a debate team this summer as part of an exchange program.
Zachary Grant, the graduate, was chosen from 28 applicants. He is scheduled to tour with the U.S. International Debate team and will participate in debate team will tour U.S. universities
Jerry Gaines, Houston senior, is an alternate for the team.
The exchange, which is sponsored by the Speech Communication Association and the Japan English Forensic Association of Japan, is to increase the exposure of Japanese debaters to American practices and theories.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and a high around 70 Winds will be from the east at 15 to 25 mph Tonight and tomorrow will also be cloudy with a 60 percent chance of rain. The low tonight will be around 50 and the high tomorrow will be in the mid to upper 60s.
Compiled from Kaman staff and United
Forest international reports.
Med Center transplants new surgeon
By GREG LARSON
John Moran, a cardiac surgeon from Washington University in St. Louis, will become the new head of the heart transplant team at University of Kansas Medical Center. Med Center officials announced Wednesday.
Staff Reporter
Moran, 36, was chosen when A. Michael Borkon, a cardiac surgeon from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, told MED Center officials last week that he didn't want
Originally, Borkon had asked Moran to accompany him to the Med Center so the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery would have another qualified sur-
Moran will replace Thomas Bixler, the originator of the heart transplant program at the Med Center, who announced last month that he would accept a position at the Tallahassee Regional Medical Center in Florida.
Despite the circumstances of his appointment, Moran said yesterday that he was excited to be a part of the Med Center's heart transplant program.
"I think this is a good opportunity," Moran said. "I hope to continue to strengthen the heart transplant and pediatric surgery programs at the Med Center.
The transplant team has a fine record, and my plan is not to hurt the team.
Also, the transplant program won't undergo drastic changes, such as the addition of a heart-lung transplant program, he said.
"I would be surprised if that was done within the calendar year," Moran said.
However, Borkon had his decision was based on "a complicated set of reasons" that didn't include the quality of research in patients with the Med Center administration.
Med Center and University officials gave conflicting accounts of the circumstances surrounding Borkon's decision not to come to the Med Center.
Marcus van Ende, executive secretary for the University, said Monday that Borkon declined to accept the post because research facilities were unsatisfactory.
Moran, a friend of Borkon, said he spoke with him about his decision and concluded that Borkon didn't want to leave his home.
Rrice Waddill/KANSAN
Jimmy Garcia, Cochabamba, Bolivia, senior, points a Doppler radar speed detector at a passing automobile on Irving Hill Road. Garcia and other members of his electrical and
computer engineering class gathered across the street from
kill today to compute the speeds of passing
motorists
City managers discuss job perils
Bv MIKE GREEN
Staff Reporter
About 140 city managers and administrators from across the state and country yesterday heard advice about how to survive in public office.
The officials were in Lawrence for the 38th annual City Managers Conference, sponsored by the KU Center for Public Affairs. They are located in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
The three-day conference, which ends today, included yesterday's panel discussion about how city managers could remain in an environment that can be controversial and lived
Lawrence City Manager Bulford Watson was the moderator for the four-member panel. Panel members had been city managers in their respective cities for at least eight years.
ONE OF THE keys to achieving longevity as a city manager is having the ability to adapt to the changes that occur over the years, according to the panelists.
George Pyle. Hutchinson city manager, said he had been city manager in his city for 18 years because he had learned to respond to problems with dignity and integrity.
In an aside to the audience, Pyle recalled that as the city manager in McCook, Neb. he had “broken in” a new city hall reporter who would become the KU chancellor — Gene A. Bujke.
Pyle said a city manager could survive for a long time if he maintained the respect of his close friends, family and himself.
"It doesn't matter what people think about you," Pyle said, "because most people don't."
WATSON SAID IT is important for a city manager to realize during his tenure that the city commission represented public opinion. He said a city manager must not think he had
been defeated if the commission challenged him on an issue.
For instance, Watson said, most new city commissions in Lawrence want to review the sign ordinance. He said this was not an affront to the city manager, but just the commission making what it thought was a needed change.
The constant turnover of city commissioners keeps the job interesting, Watson said. A new commission often brings with it a new way of doing business.
Frank Koehler, who has been the city manager of Scottsbluff, Neb., for 23 years, said one of the keys to longevity as a city manager was how well one liked the job. He said the job remained interesting for him because there was always something new to do.
HE SAID HE had become involved in municipal organizations in the city, which helped to keep his job interesting
Profs discuss retirement, effects of tax reform
Staff Reporter
By TAD CLARKE
A tax reform proposal will likely pass in Congress this year if President Reagan throws his support behind it, a law professor said last night.
Martin Dickinson, professor of law, told a crowd of about 50 faculty members at the spring meeting of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors that Reagan already said he supported the thrust of the tax proposal. The meeting was in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
"I've talked to a lot of people on both sides." Dickinson said. "It depends on the context."
The proposal, introduced by the Treasury Department in November, would benefit people in all income ranges - helping people in lower income brackets the most, Dickinson said. Large businesses, such as oil industries, would be hurt by the tax reforms, he said.
RICHARD MANN, director of institutional research and personnel services; Sidney Shapiro, professor of law and president of the KU chapter of AAUP3; and Sandy McKenzie, professor of law; also spake at the meeting on retirement preparations for faculty members.
Dickinson said that for the past 25 years, the trend had been to place the brun of taxes on these providing personal services, such as teachers. He said the tax reform would help change this and place more of the burden on large corporations.
Under the tax reform, Dickinson said taxpayers wouldn't be able to itemize deductions on their federal income tax returns, such as state income taxes. state income taxes would be paid on homes. However, interest on home mortgagees would not be dropped, he said.
THE TAX REFORM instead would allow a personal exemption deduction of $2,000 for each family member. This figure now is $1,000.
Federal taxes for a person earning $30,000 a year would be $354 less than what he now is paying. Dickinson said.
Mann spoke on partial early retirement at KU. He said that in 1983, the Kansas Legislature was asked by the Board of Regents to start such a program. A program was enacted this year, he said, but no money was issued to finance it.
"The one fixed noble thing was we had no money up front." Marn said. "We just had to buy it."
The minimum retirement age has been reduced from 62 to 60. The early retirement program would encourage faculty members between 60 and 64 to teach only one-fourth as many classes they now teach. Manh said.
Texas takeover won't affect KU credit union
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Customers' money in accounts at the KU branch office of a Texas credit union are safe, despite a federal investigation into their use of the funds. The U.S. department of federal officials said yesterday.
Gene Jackson, the NCUA regional chief of accounting and chartering, said the action taken at the EJ Paso credit union would have no effect on the operations of the credit union or its KU branch. The KU branch also has an office in Carruth^1 O'Leary Hall.
The Air Defense Center Federal Credit Union, near El Paso, Texas, was taken over last month by the National Credit Union Administration, an NCUA official said. The university is the parent organization of the ADC-U RCU Credit Union, 860 W Ninth Street,
Students and KU employees are among the customers at the KU branch office.
"THE ACTIVITIES were not even cut off for one day," Jackson said.
Sharon Gauger, manager of the KU branch office, said the change at the home office did not affect the assets or the management of the KU branch.
office of the credit union is being investigated by the FBI and the Department of Labor.
A spokesman for the FBI in El Paso said the bureau had been investigating the credit union since January but would not comment on the investigation.
The spokesman said the FBI's investigation was separate from the NCUA's action against the El Paso office and did not involve the KU branch.
In addition to the NCUA action, the El Paso
"OUR INVESTIGATION is pretty much confined to El Paso," he said.
The KU federal credit union operated independently until it merged with the AU. The KU regional credit union
A news release issued in March by the NCUA said it took over the operations of the EI Paso office because "sufficient progress was achieved" and correct numerous record-killing problems.
Defense Center Federal Credit Union is at Fort Bliss, an army base near El Paso.
"The action was not related to the financial condition of the credit union," the release states.
Gauley explained that because of the size of the credit union, the NCUA strictly enforced its policy requiring prompt record-keeping. According to Jackson, the credit union has $140,000 in assets and 107,000 members.
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