CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1984
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Testimony in KU case ends after 8 days Verdict expected today in slander suit
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
Testimony in the suit a KU professor of anthropology brought against two former research assistants and another professor ended yesterday, and the jury is expected to reach a verdict today after hearing the closing arguments.
Witnesses testified for eight days in the $1.5 million suit for slander and defamation, filed in 1980 by Michael Crawford.
In testimony yesterday, Nancy Sempolski, one of the former research assistants, said that she met often with Henry Lundgaarde, the professor named as a defendant in the suit, in his office because he was her
academic adviser and because he held his small classes there.
Last week Scott McNall, professor of sociology, had testified that he heard Sempolski and Lundsgaarde, professor of anthropology, during their frequent, long meetings in the 1970s between 1978 and 1980. McNall said their voices were often raised as if they were anxious or worried.
AT ONE TIME, McNall said, he heard Sempolski say anxiously,
"Crawford, "what should I do?"
The suit in Douglas County District Court also named as a defendant Liz Murray, who, along with Sempolis, filed several complaints during 1977 and 1978 that said Crawford had misused federal grant money during a
1976 expedition to Belize, a small country in Central America.
The complaints also charged that Crawford had conducted himself unethically while researching human subjects and that his research methods for screening blood for sickle-cell anemia in the subjects were improper.
LUNDSGAARDE ALSO testified yesterday that he had spent little time in his office during the 1978 school year because his twin sons were born then and he wanted to work at home to help care for them.
Murray, during yesterday's cross-examination of her testimony on Wednesday, said that the advice Crawford gave people with the sickle-cell trait was to rest, eat right and get a second opinion.
He also said that he couldn't recall making comments such as "We're finally going to get him," to McNall, who testified last week that Lundsgaarde had made several such statements to him about Crawford.
She also testified that Crawford had never purposefully led the Belmonts to victory.
The complaints filed by Murray and Sempolis had stated that Crawford had never told the Belizians that he was a medical doctor, but there was some confusion because of his academic title of doctor.
In testimony last week, Crawford said that he had tried to clear up the confusion by having the research team call him Mike after some of the members had brought the problem to his attention.
KU law students argue all the way to nationals
By the Kansan Staff
Four KU law students will compete in a national moot court competition next fall after participating in the finals of the University of Kansas moot court competition last week.
KU students Loral and Mark Death-
erage, both of Lawrence, Lee Green,
Overland Park, and Kris Nesthus,
Wichita, will compete against students
from eight other law schools in Kansas,
Nebraska and Missouri. The top two
teams from the region will go to the
finals in New York City.
Bill Westberkbe, professor of law,
said the moot court was part of a course
second-year law students could take
for one hour of credit.
"It's like a class, except they're completely on their own. We give them a problem, and they go do it," he said, explaining the application of the things they've learned."
"They take it for practice, for experience and because they're coma great location next door to low school professional schools, and on bus route
Westerbeck said students usually spent about three times the amount of time on the class that they spent in a regular two hour courseand that they usually spent about two months preparing briefs for the KU competition.
In moot court competitions, students argue hypothetical cases in front of a judge.
Loral Deathterage won in the categories of best brief and best oral argument. Green placed second in both those categories.
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