University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
NEWS BRIEFS
Soviet dissident to give talk
Ukranian dissident Valentyn Moroz will speak at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Moroz is a 48-year-old Soviet author who has spent more than 10 years in prisons and labor camps because of his political views.
Gerald Mikkelson, chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literatures, said Moroz was a prominent leader of dissent in the Soviet Union. Moroz's speech will be "The Fate of a Ukrainian Dissident."
Moroz was arrested and jailed in 1965 for possession of anti-Soviet propaganda. Four years later he was released but shortly thereafter was again jailed for three critical essays he wrote about the Soviet government.
Candidate switches coalitions
Mike Prangle, Schaumburg, III. junior and Oliver Hall resident, said yesterday he would run as treasurer with Drew Bauer for the University Association of University Residence Halls elections.
Prangle said he had been approached by James Jeffley, AURH president, who is running for re-election, and had agreed to run with Jeffley in the March 4-8 elections. At that time, Prangle said, he thought he would be a member of Jeffley's coalition.
Blossom said he had agreed to be Jeffley's vice presidential candidate but last week decided to run for president himself. When Prangle learned of Blossom's decision, he decided to run with Blossom's coalition.
Lawyer to discuss marriage
Import issues for women, such as credit ratings and sexual harassment, will be discussed at 7:30 p.m. today in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
Mary Prewitt, assistant general counsel to the University of Kansas, will be in Chicago for a two-day visit.
The program is sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center. Prewitt also will discuss the legal aspects of antenuptual agreements and common law marriages.
Study-aid tapes to be shown
The Student Assistance Center is offering three videotaped programs tomorrow to students who missed the programs earlier this semester.
*"Learning a Foreign Language" will be shown at: 1:30 p.m. *"Listening and Notetaking" at: 2:30 p.m. and "Textbook Reading" at: 3:30 p.m.*
Students must register for the programs calling the Student Assistance Center. 1234567890
Videotapas will be shown almost every Friday afternoon this semester. Sara Martin, assistant director of the Student Assistance Center, said yesterday.
Fiallos to discuss elections
Mariano Fiallos, Rose Morgan professor of political science in the Center for Latin American Studies and former president of Nicaragua's Supreme Election Council, at 6 p.m. today at the Espaillat Christian Ministries Building, 1204 Oread St.
Fiallo will speak to Latin American Solidarity as part of the group's weekly rice and beans dinner.
Fialios is expected to speak about elections in Nicaragua and the anniversary of the death of Augusto C. Sandino, a Nicaraguan patriot who fought during the U.S. Marine intervention in the 1920s and 1930s.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 60 percent chance of showers. The high will be in the low to mid 40s. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a 60 percent chance of showers. The low will be around 30 to 40 mph. Cloudiness will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. The high will be around 40.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Consumers tell 'lemon' tales to House panel
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — In October, Janet and Thomas Vorbeck paid $17,000 for the 1985 Chevrolet four-wheel-drive pickup, hoping to get the highest quality vehicle available.
They have made seven trips to a mechanic in four months, but the truck sits in their driveway with faulty brakes and an engine that pins and misfires.
"We have a $17,000 anchor sitting in our driveway, and my husband is still without a truck for work." Janet Vorbeck, Kansas City told a Kansas House committee yesterday.
The House Transportation Committee heard testimony from Vorbeck and others on a "月ent law," introduced in the House last month.
If the bill passes, consumers could receive refunds or replacements on defective cars. The bill is similar to several introduced in the Senate and House in the last two years. All of those died without legislative action being taken.
COMMITTEE CHARMAN, Rex Crowell,
R-Longton, appointed a subcommittee to
review the bill. If the committee approves
the bill, it will go to the full House for debate.
The bill would allow car manufacturers four attempts in one year to repair the same problem on a car under warranty. If the problem is not fixed within that time, the owner's money must be refunded or the car must be replaced.
Under the bill, owners must file a complaint and negotiate with the manufacturer's arbitration board before the lemon law could be enforced.
Manufacturers would be required to do the same if the car were out of service for 30 cumulative calendar days because of the problem.
Pat Barnes, legislative counsel for the Kansas Motor Car Dealers Association, supported the bill but proposed several amendments.
"In the interest of fairness, a dealer should not be subjected to numerous claims under co-existing legal theories for the same defect," Barnes said. "The remedies provided under the Uniform Commercial Code in this state should be considered unneeded."
He also recommended that only cars normally used for personal or family purposes should be covered under the law. Barnes said the abuse that commercial vehicles, such as a large truck, normally take would make it difficult to determine whether a defect was the manufacturer's fault.
Another amendment would give the manufacturer 30 business days instead of calendar days to make the necessary repairs.
BUT REP, MARY Jane Johnson, D-Kansas City, and sponsor of the bill, said, "It looks to me like they're doing away with the Uniform Commercial Code. It would take away the protection we have now. I wouldn't agree to that, and I don't think the committee
Wayne Hundley, chief of consumer protection for the attorney general, said that he
supported the bill as it read but that the proposed amendments would water down the intent of the bill.
Clyde Chapman, director of the Consumer Affairs Association in Lawrence, said, "The philosophy behind the lemon law is not so much to put a burden on manufacturers, but to put the manufacturers on notice that potential problems exist. It is an attempt to push them to address problems before they occur."
Crown, the committee chairman, said he thought Kansas had not passed a lemon law yet because some legislators thought the law did not apply to laws that adequately protected consumers.
"It was said during testimony that the protection under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act and Uniform Commercial Agreement has with their lionn law." Crowell said.
But Hundley said, "The lemon law gives teeth and muscle to those laws. It spells out what a reasonable number of attempts to repair is. It gives them four attempts." Some information for this story was provided by Kansan reporter Michael Totty,
Lawsuit drops four defendants in settlement
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The settlement Monday of a KU professor's lawsuit against another professor and two graduate students included at least part of a countersuit filed by the students, one of the attorneys in the case said yesterday.
Four defendants in the countersuit, a KU administrator and three KU professors, will be dropped from the suit as a part of the settlement, the attorney. T. Dale Nicklas, said.
Nicklas, who represented Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology, in his suit against the other professor and the graduate students, still is a defendant in the counter-
The settlement would drop from the graduate students' suit Crawford, Frances Horwitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service; Scott McNall, chairman of the sociology department; and William Argersinger, professor of chemistry.
CRAFWORD'S SUIT WAS filed in 1980 against Henry Lundgaude, professor of anthropology, and graduate students Elizabeth Murray and Nancy Sempelski. It was settled in December and approved on Monday by the State Finance Council.
The finance council, comprising Gov. John Carlin and eight legislative leaders, must approve any settlements under the Tort Claims Act involving state employees.
Corners trust the investors asked for $1.5 million, will receive $10,000 as part of the settlement.
One of the terms of the settlement was that it would remain confidential. Because the payment comes from the state's general fund, however, it becomes public record.
Their suit charged that they had been harassed by the defenders as a result of complaints they had raised against Crawford alleging unethical medical and research practices during a 1976 research project in the Central American country of Belize.
In the settlement, Murray and Sempolski agreed to drop four of the defendants from the suit they had filed in September in Federal District Court in Topeka.
Crawford alleged in his suit that Lundsgaarde and the two students had conspired to slander him during an investigation into the Belize project. In April, a Douglas County jury was unable to reach in decision in the case.
The suit by Murray and Sempolski will continue in district court, Nicklas said. Defendants remaining in the suit are Nicklas, who was an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Montreal-White, John Janzen and Felix Moos, professors of anthropology, and David Frayer and Donald Stull, associate professors of anthropology.
The settlement was signed before the case returned to trial in December.
Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN
David Cullers, Wichita senior, reads on his apartment noon's light rain annoyed him but that it was better than balcony at 1201 Oread Ave. Cullers said that yesterday after- snow.
Teachers receive evaluations
Students rate high school quality
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
More than 500 freshmen and sophomores shuffled through the Kansas Union yesterday in search of their former high school counselors to turn in grades on those schools.
And more than 325 high school principals, counselors and community college administrators sat at tables waiting for reports from their former students.
Each year, the KU Principal-Counselor Student and Community College Conference brings hundreds of high school principals, counselors and community college representatives to campus to meet with their former students and get feedback on how well their students were prepared for academic challenges at the University.
Carla Rasch, assistant director of admissions, said the conference also provided an opportunity for KU students to comment on changes their high schools or community colleges schools could make to help future graduates.
RASCH SAID MORE than 7,500 letters were sent from the office of admissions
inviting KU freshmen and sophomores to meet with the representatives.
Students who participated in the conference were excused from their 9:30 a.m. classes. And a constant swarm of students flowed through the Union to retrace their high school years and tell what they learned that helped them at KU.
Clark Bricker, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the conference gave the University and high schools a necessary opportunity to interact.
Bricker, who presented a program on high school and university interaction, said schools and colleges needed a closer relationship so high school counselors and principals could better prepare students for the University.
"The ACADEMIC PROGRAM seniors manage to get away with in high schools worries me," he said. "Usually they've met all requirements to graduate, so they take very watered down courses in their school and go on to bad habits in their academic pursuit, and when they come to college, they don't do as well as they should."
Many students went to the conference to express their gratitude for the push they
received from teachers who were strict and required extra homework.
Charity Young, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, was one of the students who made her way through the crowd to visit with her high school counselor.
YOUNG SAID SHE wanted to tell current students at her former high school to be appreciative of the teachers who were considered hard.
"Then, you were not grateful," she said.
"You didn't want the harder teachers. You did everything you could to avoid them. Now, your teacher wants you to be better." teachers like that, I would be doing better."
Bates said she had taken more tests in high school than she had at college, and her high school tests had helped her learn the academic discipline required in college.
John Burke, associate principal at Shawne Mission East, said many of the students he talked with said that they were well prepared for University work.
"I learned they feel generally good about the education they had at East." he said.
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