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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
Tuesday, April 20, 1993
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Pharmacy still seeks new dean
Two final candidates decline position for personal reasons
By Dan England
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
For the second consecutive year, the KU School of Pharmacy will begin the fall semester without a permanent dean.
A committee search for a new dean ended up with the two final candidates turning down the position, said David Shulenburger, acting vice chancellor for academic affairs. The candidates cited personal commitments to their universities as the reason for turning down the job, he said.
"They applied for the job in good faith," Shulenburger said. "They didn't know that the problems they are facing would come up. I respect them for making the decisions that they did."
Shulenburger said the committee would begin a new search this fall.
"It's very disappointing." he said. "Either candidate would have done a good job."
The school also will have to find an acting dean for this fall as well. Shulenburger said Ronald Borchardt, who has been acting dean since Spring 1992, would not return next year.
"He stated that it took too much time away from his research." Shulenburger said.
Borchardt, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, replaced Howard Mossberg, who left the position to be vice chancellor and dean of graduate studies.
A new acting dean soon will be chosen by faculty members in the school and Shulenburger.
Borchardt is out of the United States and was unavailable for comment.
Deans hire faculty members, act as chief academic officer and choose what disciplinary action should be taken against a faculty member or student for misconduct, Shuilnburger said.
In a professional school such as pharmacy, the dean also acts as a representative of that school by meeting with professionals in the field and telling them of students for hire. Shulenburger said that not all searches for deans ended successfully.
He said the School of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota had been searching for a new dean for four years.
"It happens where a committee makes a selection and then that candidate, for one reason or another, cannot leave the school." Shulenburger said.
Valentino Stella, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and chair of the dean search committee, said it was difficult to attract people to an administrative position.
He said the economy required the dean to make budget cuts within the department, which might mean deciding how many would be able to stay in the school.
"They are being forced to make decisions that no human being likes to make," Stella said.
He also said he was confident the committee would find a new candidate by asking former candidates to reconsider, including this year's two finalists.
"I hope we can identify a new dean by this time next year." Stella said.
Kip Chin/ KANSAN
Caroline Cummings, cap and gown clerk, helps Clare Holmes. Lawrence graduate student (right), fit her cap for graduation. Christy Lazeartti, Palatine, ill., senior, also picked up her graduation regalia at the north end of Memorial Stadium yesterday. Caps, gowns and hoods are available at gates 22-23 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Friday.
If the capfits...
Lawrence man awaits verdict in first-degree murder trial
Perdue's lawyer, district attorney disagree about self-defense claim
By Mark Kiefer
Kansan staff writer
The fate of a 22-year-old Lawrence man charged in the killings of two men now rests in the hands of a 12-member jury.
Stephen Bradley Perdue is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Nov. 27 shooting deaths of two Topeka men in the parking lot of Henry T's Bar and Grill, 3520 W. Sixth St.
Jim Buswell, 32, died at the scene after he was shot in the abdomen and lower left jaw. Jerry Thompson, 42, died several hours later at the University of Kansas Medical Center after being shot in the abdomen.
The jury of eight women and four men began deliberations at 10:30 a.m. yesterday. After five hours of reviewing the evidence, the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Deliberations continue at 9 a.m. today.
The jury has five possible verdicts it can make regarding the deaths of each of the men. They can find Perdue guilty of voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, first- or second-degree murder or not guilty because
of self-defense.
The shootings occurred after an argument about the use of the pool table inside the bar. The argument led to a fight among Perdue, Perdue's friend Donald Hall, Thompson, Buswell and a third man with Thompson and Buswell, Bruce Brumbaugh. Employees separated the fight and told the men to leave.
Douglas County District Attorney Jerry Wells, who is prosecuting the case, said in his closing argument that Perdue had been the aggressor in the altercation.
He also said Perdue had left the bar with the intention of shooting the two men.
"As he took off for the north door, his intent was to get his gun," Wells said. "He was not frightened. He was upset that these men had humiliated him in the bar. At that point, who becomes the hunter? Who becomes the aggressor? The defendant said he had no choices, but he had every choice at that moment."
He said Perdue had shot Thompson and Buswell in self-defense after the men had repeatedly hit him.
Perdue's attorney, Jim Rumsey, described Perdue and Hall as a "couple of nice, clean-cut kids who grew up in a small town and are used to people who act rationally."
"He says he wasn't hurt." Wells said. "He says the punches were ineffective. He says he knows they were unarmed. Self-defense is about a level playing field. This man got a 9 mm gun-killer out of his glove compartment and went after these guys."
Wells disagreed with the claim of self defense.
Perdue testified Friday that he grabbed the gun so that he and Hall could leave the bar without fighting the three men.
Buswell then ran toward him and chased him across the parking lot after Buswell saw the gun. Perdue said.
Perdue said he had tried to put the gun down, but Buswell tackled him.
He said Perdue had noticed Thompson was trying to grab the gun.
Perdue also said he had decided to use the weapon because he thought he had run out of options.
In his closing statement to the jury, Rumsey recalled Perdue's words that immediately followed the shootings.
"Leave me alone," Rumsey said. "I didn't mean to do it. They wouldn't stop beating me. Those are the statements of someone who had to shoot two people to save himself and his friend."
Professor to combine study of law economics
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
Judges and law professors were taught economics, and economics professors learned about the law.
Two years ago, Henry Butler, professor of law at George Mason University in Arlington, Va., presided over a law and economics center that married the two studies.
This fall, Butler plans to establish such a center at KU.
A University selection committee named Butler the Koch distinguished teaching professor of law and ecology, and he accepted the position this month.
In addition to establishing the economics and law center, which is now in its formative stages, Butler will be teaching in both the University's law and business schools. He will be teaching antitrust law and economies in the School of Law and economics of organizations in the School of Business.
Butler said it was important for people who studied economics or law to understand both disciplines.
"It's important to analyze how legal and regulatory policy impacts business and the economy," he said. "Economies deal with the predictable behavior of individuals whether it be in response to changes in prices, changes in income or changes in legal rules."
Among Butler's accomplishments are a case book, to be published this fall, titled, "Law and Economics: Cases and Materials." He co-authored the work with a professor from Cornell University, where it should be 'aught next year, he said.
Butler has not limited himself to economics and law. Last year, he lost a bid for a U.S. House of Representatives seat. He received 45 percent of the vote in the election.
Robert Jerry, KU dean of law, said that the communication and interpersonal skills that were necessary to run such a campaign were necessary for effective teaching in the classroom.
Jerry also said that the law and economics center that Butler planned to establish would put KU on the map nationally in the field.
"It is a credit to both schools that we have attracted a scholar and teacher of this prominence to KU," Jerry said. Butler has spent most of his academic career in the South and has never lived in the Midwest, except for a year in Chicago, he said.
He and his family, including three children, will be moving from Virginia in July.
"We found the campus to be beautiful, the people friendly, and there were trees and rolling hills," Butler said. "Those are two things I didn't expect to find in Kansas."
Fraternity's homeless drive enters third year
Donations raised for Salvation Army
By James J. Reece
Kansan staff writer
About this time each year for the past three years — rain or shine they have spent day and night in cardboard boxes on the lawn of Watson Library.
They are Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity members participating in their "Campaign to Stop Homelessness," a threeday, four-night sit-in to raise money for the Salvation Army of Lawrence.
"We're trying to raise awareness," said Ethan Meisel, Atlanta sophomore and philanthropy chairperson.
"We try to do it like this because we feel it has a bigger impact if people see it and not just hear about it."
Meisel said the fraternity had a goal this year of raising $5,000. He said that with the help of about nine Lawrence businesses they were already close to last year's total of $2,200.
They started this year's sit-in yesterday afternoon and plan to put in time at the boxes until Thursday.
"We kind of rotate," said Scott Shafman, St. Louis junior. "Some guys will stay all night. We don't really sleep. We just kind of hang out."
Shafman said they would be using about 30 boxes this year.
"What we do is we put a big spotlight here, and we kind of make a big half."
He was a freshman when the fraternity started the sit-ins and has participated each year since then, despite foul weather.
circle around it," Shafman said, pointing to a spot in front of eight boxes "And people study or whatever."
"The last two years, they've had complaints in the Kansan about us — that we've had Pizza Shuttle deliverance," Shaftman said. "But we're not here to raise awareness of homeless. We're here to raise awareness. Some people don't realize that."
"Last year, I think it rained a few days and nights," Shafman said. The weather did not bother him, but something else did.
Captain George Windham, a 47-year member of the Salvation Army and
head of its Lawrence chapter, said he had never heard of fraternity members ordering pizza.
"But even if they had, that criticism is unwarranted," Windham said. "They're giving their time and effort to the project."
Windham said money raised by the sit-in would help pay staff salaries, utility bills, food bills and other expenses at the shelter.
He said the intentions of the fraternity and their contributions outweigh the opinions of the critics.
"A lot of students probably come from small towns and don't see the homeless," Windham said. "And there are people who actually sleep in boxes."
Rachel G. Thompson/ KANSAN
Scott Orlnsky, Evanston. Ill. sophomore, left, and Scott Phillips, Treasure Island, Fla. sophomore, get settled on the lawn of Watson Library in plastic-covered boxes that protect them from the rain.
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