University Daily Kansan, April 9, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
KU athlete will stand trial on sexual assault charges
KU football player Roderick Timmons was ordered Friday to stand trial May 4 in Douglas County District Court for sexual assault charges brought against him last month by another KU student.
Associate District Judge Mike Elwell reached the decision within minutes after witnesses had testified during Friday's preliminary hearing.
Timmons, Los Angeles junior, has been charged with rape, aggravated sodomy and unlawful restraint.
The charges against Timmons, 20, stem from a KU woman's complaint about an incident that allegedly occurred March 2 at Jayhawker Towers, 1603 W. 15th St.
The preliminary hearing was the second one for the case. The district attorney's office dropped and then refilled the charges in March because the victim and several witnesses had planned to leave Lawrence during the court proceedings. The murders must take place within 10 days after the defendant is charged.
Bill Ronan, Douglas County assistant district attorney, also said last month that the victim was not emotionally prepared to testify during the first hearing on March 8 and 9.
Lawrence man dies in car accident
A 30-year-old Lawrence man died Friday night from injuries he received when a car struck him near the intersection of Haskell and 26th streets. Lawrence police said.
Robert Cassity Jr., 2217 Ponderosa St., was walking south along Haskell with his girlfriend when a car struck him from behind. Cassity died upon arrival to Lawrence Memorial Hospital from apparent head injuries.
The driver of the car traveling north on Haskell, who witnessed the accident, told police that he didn't think the other driver was traveling at an excessive speed.
The driver, Gary L. Foster, 17, said he was traveling at about 30-35 mph and did not see Cassity until his car was directly behind him. Foster said he couldn't swerve to avoid hitting Cassity because a car was approaching in the other lane.
Cassity's girlfriend, Donna Lana, 32, 1701 W. Fourth St., who was walking in despite attempts to retrieve a card, lawsuled by Dr. Duggan after dropping an arm injury.
The Douglas County district attorney's office will determine whether charges will be filed, the police said.
Deliberations resume in prof's suit
The jury failed to reach a verdict Friday afternoon in the slander suit brought by Michael Crawford, KU professor of anthropology, against two of his former research assistants and another KU professor.
Attorneys from both sides completed their closing arguments Friday morning, the ninth day of the trial, and the jury waded through testimony for four hours that afternoon before going home for the weekend.
Crawford filed the $1.5 million suit in 1980 because of allegations made by the two former research assistants, Liz Murray and Nancy Sempolski, in complaints they filed with the University of Kansas and several other agencies.
the complaints said that Crawford had misused federal grant money and had conducted unethical research on human subjects in 1976 while in the Central American country of Belize.
During Friday's closing arguments, Crawford's attorney, Dale Niklas, called on the jury to return a verdict asking for a minimum of $50,000 in damages.
The payment of damages, he said, would "deter others, so we won't have other incidents like this at the University of Kansas."
KANU off the air today for testing
KANU will be off the air today from 8 a.m. to noon while engineers test a new antenna and an existing transmitter in an effort to return the station to its full broadcasting power of 110,000 watts.
Today's tests signal the beginning of a testing period that could last several days, said Al Berman, the station's director of development.
Because engineers are uncertain about when they will complete the tests, Berman said, the station might be forced to go off the air more frequently.
KANU has been broadcasting at reduced power since Dec. 18, 1982, a week after vandals destroyed the station's antenna and tower.
Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit opens
The exhibit "Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect" will open at 4 p.m. today in the main gallery of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
The exhibit will be composed of books, photographs, letters and plans gathered from the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection in the Department of Special Collections.
The exhibit will open with a reception to Curtis Besinger, a retiring professor of architecture, and will remain open until the end of July.
Woman wills Med Center $119,000
The Kansas University Endowment Association recently received a bequest of $119,000 for cancer research at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The gift is from the estate of Eunice Daniels, a longtime resident of Augusta, who died Oct. 23, 1982, at 79.
Although Daniels never attended KU, she wanted to aid the University in its cancer research efforts because her husband, Lee, died of cancer in 1979.
ON THE RECORD
A KU STUDENT REPORTED that a car dashboard and stereo, together worth $500, were stolen late Thursday or early Friday from her car that was parked in the 500 block of Frontier Street, Lawrence police said.
A BURGLAR BROKE into a KU student's apartment in the 100 block of Seventh Street, night and stole a Walkman and other items, together with Rita. Right, she was arrested.
A STEREO RECEIVER worth $250 was stolen Friday from a Lawrence man's apartment in the 2500 block of W. Sixth Street, Lawrence police said.
A LAWRENCE WOMAN reported that a 1971 Chrysler worth $5,000 was stolen early Sunday morning from a parking space in the 500 block of New Hampshire Street, Lawrence police said. The car has not been recovered.
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Firm wants to revamp Opera House
BY SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
However, Mayor Ernest Angino said he needed to know more about the project's financial backing and community support before he would agree to sign a letter of intent, and the other commissioners agreed.
The Lawrence Opera House will get a $1.75 million face-lift if a Wichita investment company can convince the Lawrence City Commission to issue industrial revenue bonds to help finance the renovation.
Mike Relihan, vice president of the Wichita investment firm and a partner of Bowersock, Ltd., the company that would own the Opera House, met with commissioners last Friday to ask them for a letter of intent to issue the bonds.
one other partner, Dave Hayden,
said they planned to turn the building into an entertainment center and a performing arts school.
IN ADDITION TO needing more facts about the project, Angino said that Relhain was putting the commissioner's office in the city's developer. Town Center Veritas
Relihan and Hayden said they would compile more information and withdraw their request to put the issue on tomorrow night's City Commission agenda.
He said that Town Center officials might need to tear down the Opera House if the proposed downtown mall went through.
"That project is very ity in my mind," he said. "They have not approached any department stores vet."
"Their feeling is that if it is necessary to tear it down for the shopping mail, they will tear it down. They would prefer we wait," Hayden said.
Hayden said that he and Reilhan had met with Town Center officials Friday.
CITY MANAGER Buford Watson said that the developer had recommended that the city maintain control of the Opera House.
"They're not espousing that you tear the building down," he said. "They are saying that the city should control it. You can leave it on a rock place that would not be compatible."
next to the shopping part of the development."
Commissioner Nancy Shontz said that if the city granted the IRBs to renovate the building, it would be controlling its use.
Shontz said that the city should consider backing the renovation project because the building could not be used for many other purposes.
"That building has very few uses from the developer's standpoint," she said. "If we don't accept this proposal we may never get another offer."
UNDER THE PROPOSED project, the basement would be a private club, Baydon said, and the performing arts would provide five live entertainment.
Council makes plan to cut meeting time
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
It it took the Lawrence City Commissioners only about an hour at a study session Friday to decide how to shorten the time to make sure which lasts (last until 1 or 2 a.m.
The city commissioners agreed that the solution to lengthy meetings might include a deadline for meetings, time limits for speakers and passing more
The commissioners will vote on the changes at tomorrow's meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. in City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
If approved, the commissioners plan to put the proposed solutions into action
for a 90-day trial period beginning May 1,
said Mary Ernest Angers at study
and said Nina K. Chang at study
UNDER THE PLAN, if commissioners have not completed all the business on the agenda by 11 p.m. they must continue to continue the meeting. Angino said.
Another way to shorten the meetings would be to limit a speaker to a few minutes.
"I see nothing wrong in saying you allow a certain amount of time — say five minutes — for a person to speak." he said. "I don't see how anyone would not be able to say the meat of what he wants to say in that time."
Angino also suggested limiting the number of people who could speak on
each side of an issue — such as four
pros and four cons.
But Commissioner Nancy Shontz said that not all comments could be categorized into pros and cons, and that sometimes people who were not directly involved with the issue had important comments to provide.
Commissioner Howard Hill suggested that a 25-minute limit per side be used.
To shorten voting time spent on routine issues, the commissioners decided to try expanding the consent agenda
Items on a consent agenda are passed by one vote. If a commissioner prefers to discuss an item, it can be removed from the consent agenda.
CITY CLERK VERA MERCER said
that approval of the previous meeting's minutes and the city payroll could be obtained.
Dispensing with role call was a short cut that Commissioner David Long wrote.
City Manager Buford Watson said that issues requiring the most discussion should be at the end of the meeting.
"Do you make a house full of people wait or a few people wait for their issue?" he said.
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