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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
VOL.102.NO.3
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24,1993
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Hallmark executive to head Regents Center
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Kansas staff writer
When Robert Stark retired after 35 years with HallMarn Cards Inc., he went fishing.
"When I retired I thought I would be doing a lot more of that, but it looks like I got a little detoured," said the 60-year-old fishing and hunting enthusiast.
Instead of fishing, the former executive vice president of the Kansas City, Mo., company will take a two-year appointment as the first dean of the University of Kansas Regents Center in Overland Park. His appointment was announced yesterday.
The Regents Center is an extension of the University and offers 10 master's degree programs and is used primarily by working professionals in the Kansas City area, said Linda Booth, public relations specialist for
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the center.
Stark, who graduated from KU in 1955 with a bachelor's degree in finance, will begin Sept. 1.
Stark replaces acting director Robert Senecal, who is also associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the Division of Continuing Education
Robert Stark
Stark said he would work to improve the relations between the center and the Kansas City business area. The new dean position was created to show the University's commitment to the Kansas City area, said David Shulenburger, vice chancellor
for academic affairs.
"It's a sign of how important we feel it (the Regents center) is to the University," he said.
"We'd like Mr. Stark in this position to find out what offerings in Kansas City would help Kansas City and the campus," he said.
Shulenburger said that Stark's business background in Kansas City made him ideal for the job.
He is a member of the board of directors for the Salvation Army and heads the organization's Capital Campaign, which almost has reached its goal of raising $11.5 million.
Stark serves on the board of directors of the Mercantile Bank Corporation, Century Products Co. and Packer Plastics Inc. He also is vice chair of the board of Health Midwest and a member of the board of Trinity Lutheran Hospital and the KU School of Business advisory board.
Stark first was contacted about the dean's position in late June.
"It was an intriguing challenge and an opportunity, and being a Jayhawk, it was hard to turn down," he said.
Stark said his main goal was to secure a future for the center.
"We want to make sure that we are addressing the resources of the University for the most important needs for higher education in the greater Kansas City area," he said.
Booth said she was looking forward to having Stark join the center.
"It's an exciting time," she said. "We're bringing in someone who is a visionary and will chart the future."
Haskell sets out on new course
New accreditation allows college to grant 4-year bachelor's degrees
By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
Since its founding in 1884, Haskell Indian Junior College has been everything from an elementary school to a junior college for Americans Indians.
Earlier this month, the school took another step forward. Haskell received accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools to offer baccalaureate degrees in its elementary teachers education program
and degrees in its educational education program.
The new accreditation allows Haskell to grant bachelor's degrees in the program. Before, it could only offer junior college credit hours and associate degrees.
The college's first baccalaurate accreditation is only one indication that the school will grow in the future, said Dan Wildcat, head of the department of natural and social sciences at Haskell.
"Accreditation is the first step toward Haskell becoming a full liberal-arts-granting institution," he said. "There is a demand in Indian country for a national university or college that will serve the people."
"We're trying to assess what our needs are, and where we are best situated to proceed with four-year degrees," he said.
Wildcat said Haskell would not stop there. By the year 2000, the school plans to offer baccalaureate degrees in some liberal arts programs, resource management and nursing.
Haskell will not apply for additional accreditation until its administration is sure the programs meet accreditation standards. Wildcat said.
"We're in no great hurry to get baccalureaates in place until we're sure we have a good program," he said.
Wildcat said the attempt at accreditation was part of a recent trend by American Indians to guide their own system of education. The trend emphasizes American Indian culture more and assimilation into Western culture less.
"Since 1970, we've had a revolution in Indian education where native educators themselves have claimed ownership of our resources."
A proposed name change to Haskell Indian Nations University is another sign of the school's transition, said Hannes Combest, educational assistant to Haskell president Bob Martin.
The name change has yet to be approved by the Office of Indian Educational Programs in Washington, D.C.
The name reflects the diversity of American-Indian nations at Haskell, Combest said. Haskell has students from 140 nations, such as Cherokee and Apache.
Liane Davis, associate dean for academic programs at KU's School of Social Welfare, said Haskell's accreditation would bring it closer to KU. The school works with Haskell students who are interested in careers in social welfare and wish to transfer to KU. Accreditation would eliminate that need.
"We've been met with a lot of acceptance in Indian country throughout the nation," she said.
"It appears to me this can only strengthen Haskell itself, which would be a bonus to us," she said.
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Cookout on the patio
Jay Glatz, manager of food service for the Kansas and Burge Unions, cooks hot dogs outside the Kansas Union. The cookout yesterday was part of the week's events designed to acquaint students with the new patio area at the Union.
Two officers are convicted of murder; third is acquitted
Green's Nov. 5 death had raised tensions in Detroit because the officers on trial were white and Green was Black. No testimony indicated the beating was racially motivated, and lawyers and community activists in the city, which is 75 percent Black, played down the racial element.
Former officer Robert Lessnau, 33, opted to have Recorder's Court Judge George Crockett decide his fate, and Lessnau was acquitted of assault with intent to do great bodily harm. He could have received up to 10 years in prison.
Mayor Coleman Young said justice was done with the separate convictions of former officers Larry Nevers, 53, and Walter Budzyn, 47, on second-degree murder charges. Both verdicts were returned by juries composed mainly of Blacks.
Tom Schneider, president of the Detroit Police Officers Association, complained: "The one message that the media have failed to promote is that these situations simply will not occur if the person about to be arrested simply compiles with the orders of the officers involved."
Appearing on "Jeopardy!" was a nerve-racking nirvana for KU graduate student Brent Noel. And as other students who have been featured on similar television shows know, 30 minutes of fame on the boob tube can bring odd surprises.
Detroit beating trials end
Monica Green, the victim's sister, said, "I think my brother can rest in peace, finally."
DETROIT — People cheered yesterday from the desolate street corner where Malice Green died, after two former police officers were convicted of murdering him in a beating in front of a crack house.
An autopsy showed that Green died of at least 14 blows to the head. Part of his scalp was torn off.
A few still grumbled when a judge acquitted a third police officer of assault and allowed the two convicted officers to go free until their sentencing Oct. 12. They could face up to life in prison for the crime.
Prosecutors portrayed Nevers during the 13-week trial as an aging officer who was trying to teach Green the rules of the neighborhood by repeatedly smashing the blood-soaked man in the head with a flashlight, demanding that he obey orders to open his hand.
Lawvers for Nevers and Budzyn said they would appeal.
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Budyn demands that Green open his clenched fist and hits him with his flashlight. He dives into the car and is seen swinging his light as Nevers approaches from the other side.
Plainclothes officers Walter Budzyn and Larry
park and walk behind Green's car, back stop,
and park behind Green's car.
**Budzyn approaches Green and friend on the side**
Green sits down on the car's passenger
side.
Malice Green's fatal beating
Nevers hits Green in the head with his flashlight as Green fails halfway out of the car.
At 10:30 p.m. Green parks his car in front of an apartment building known to police as a crack house. He gets out of the car.
Witnesses and police sources describe what led to Malice Green's death on Nov. 5, 1992:
A dispatcher hears what sounds like a call for help from Budzyn; several more police cars arrive. Officer Robert Lessnaun lifts Green from his car, puts him on the ground and handcuffs him. Nevers flags down a passing EMS unit, the first of two to stop at the blood-soaked scene.
Green is dead on arrival at the hospital.
Green goes into a seizure. Police find a knife in his pocket.
Going ga-ga over that game show
Heatherwood disallows KU buses
Detroit Free Press, Knight-Ridder Tribune
By Donella Hearne
Kansan staff writer
KU On Wheels coordinators said they were not notified of Heatherwood Valley's decision to discontinue the project, and were already printed. Heatherwood Valley owners said they would not allow the buses to go through their parking lot because of extensive asphalt damage, which they said the was caused by the buses' weight.
Some students who live at Heatherwood Valley Apartments are dismayed because they can no longer catch the KU On Wheels bus in their parking lot.
Students living at Heatherwood Valley, two blocks east of Kasold off 21st Street, now use the stop at the Peppertreet Apartments on 22nd Street. The change cuts two blocks off the route and forces Heatherwood Valley residents to walk that distance to the bus stop.
Tanya Walsh, graduate teaching assistant, said she was upset when she found out the buses would no longer be able to pick up students in the Heatherwood parking lot.
"I agreed to the schedule I was given only because I thought I could
Walsh said what upset her the most was that the first notice of the change came Aug. 18 in a letter from the apartment manager, Gina Horne.
Horne said the late date of the notice was because KU on Wheels did not notify her of the change.
But Bob Grunzinger, who heads of
Students can receive refunds on their bus passes during the first three weeks of classes, said Grunzinger. To receive a refund students should contact Grunzinger at the KU On Wheels office.
"Given the amount of time we had, there was no way we could do it," he said.
the university's Senate Transportation Committee, said he was not notified of Heatherwood's decision to disallow KU On Wheels in its parking lot until the end of July, too late to change maps and schedules.
KU on Wheels rejected the proposal of an alternate route planned out by Heatherwood in July. Chris Ogle, owner of the Lawrence Bus Co., said the proposal came too late to restructure the route.
Heatherwood Valley Apartment owners say bus traffic has torn up its, parking lot.