University Daily Kansan, March 28. 1984
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Conflict of values is topic of AAUP forum tomorrow
An administrator and three professors will participate tomorrow in a forum on the threat posed by special interests that affect the quality of academics at the University of Kansas.
The Lawrence chapter of the American Association of University Professors is sponsoring the forum, titled "The Margins of Academe: Conflicting Values at KU." The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
The panelists will be James Carothers, associate professor of English and chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee; Delbert Shankel, professor of microbiology and former acting chancellor; and Michael W. Foster, professor of instruction; and Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The idea for such a forum was first proposed to AAPU in a Jan. 19 letter from David Katzman, professor of history, who accused KU basketball coach Larry Brown of asking him to change a player's grade. Brown also endorsed the idea of a forum.
However, Grant Goodman, president of AAUP, said the forum would not be a debate of the Katzman-Brown controversy. He said the forum would discuss instead the broader issues of how organizations such as UAAU and other universities can meet Kansas Athletic Corporation affect academic quality at the University.
Wichita death spurs NAACP action
WICHITA — A local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People yesterday asked the city commission to dismiss two police officers involved in a fatal shooting March 14.
Elrecus Nolan, 26, was shot three times, twice in the back, by an undercover police officer as the victim struggled over a gun with another undercover detective. Investigations by the Wichita Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation cleared the
The U.S. Justice Department has asked the FBI to look into the shooting and give its report to the Justice Department's civil rights division.
The Rev. D. D. Miller, president of the Wichita chapter of the NAACP, commissioned that the shooting had raised several questions about the use of police
Panel supports teacher intern plan
TOPEKA — The House Education Committee yesterday passed a resolution urging the state Board of Education to develop a intern program for first-year teachers in public schools.
The resolution was supported by the state Board of Education and Kansas-National Education Association.
The program would go into effect in the 1986-87 school year, and each new teacher's performance would be evaluated by a three-person panel consisting of a master teacher, a school administrator and an education professor.
The resolution now goes to the full House for action.
ON THE RECORD
A 44-YEAR-OLD Overland Park man's citizens band radio and tackle box, together worth $122, were stolen Friday night from his van that was parked in the Joseph R. Pearson Hall parking lot, KU police said. The police have no suspects.
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KU professor defends research methods
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
A KU anthropology professor who is suing two of his former research assistants and a colleague for slander and defamation of character yesterday defended himself against allegations made in a complaint filed in 1977.
used improper research methods while he and a group of graduate students studied the sickle-cell anemia trait in Belize during the summer of 1976.
Michael Crawford, the professor, is suing the two former research assistants who filed the complaint, Liz Murray and Nancy Sempolki, for $1.5 million. Henry Lundgarda教, KU amrion professor, was also named in the suit.
CRAWFORD, HOWEVER, testified in Douglas County District Court that the methods he used were the most accurate ones to use in light of the adverse conditions in the Central American country.
In the complaint, the two research assistants charged that Crawford had
Dale Niklas, Crawford's attorney,
presented a paper written by Murray in
December 1976 — one month before the
complaint was filed. That paper
described various field research methods,
including the one used by Crawford.
Murray said in her paper that Crawford's method was the "method of
were given to groups as well as individuals.
Fred Phelps, the attorney for Murray and Sempolski, objected several times to references to the complaint, because he insisted that a name specified in the suit, he said.
The complaint also charged that Crawford had led the natives of Belize to believe that he was a medical doctor and that he was the intent of the research to the subjects.
During questioning, Crawford said that Murray had failed to finish her master's thesis in time, so in 1977, he was sent to a prison where grants from outside the department.
choice" in locations where electricity was unavailable.
Crawford, however, said that because the rest of his group sometimes called him "doctor," in the academic sense, it was brought to his attention that a number of the natives thought that he was a medical doctor.
As a result, Crawford said he he could assistants to refer them as "Mike."
BEFORE ADMINISTERING blood tests in each village, Crawford said, "We have to keep the numbers up."
Crawford also stated that Murray may have been angry because her boyfriend, who is now her husband, was told by the anthropology department that he didn't have the aptitude for the doctoral program.
House committee hears objections to tax plan
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Business representatives, some believing that a classification amendment will pass the Legislature this year, yesterday offered that they said would make the property tax change more palatable.
The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee heard opponents, all of whom represented the business community, object to a constitutional amendment already approved by the House to classify property for taxation purposes. The committee begins discussion on the issue today.
Wayne Zimmerman, of the Electric
Companies Association of Kansas, said the
company was considering a $100 million
funding bid.
but if an amendment must be presented to the voters in November, utilities should be assessed at the same rate as other businesses.
The current resolution assesses utility property at 30 percent of its value, which would create "hidden taxes" to be passed on to consumers, opponents said. It assesses other businesses at 15 percent.
"WE DO NOT believe the individual taxpayer's share of the property tax (burden) should be determined by the company and gas he uses." Zimmerman said.
tory and livestock, but leaves the manufacturers' inventory taxed at 30 percent.
Dick Smith, chairman of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce, said leaving the tax on manufacturers' inventory would hurt economic development. The resolution phases out over five years the property tax on merchants' inven-
A Boeing Military Airplane Co. spokesman said the resolution "would seem to say that (manufacturers' jobs are not important)."
A longtime opponent of classification, the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry, offered changes to the department that would mitigate its opposition.
Spokesman Ron Gaches detailed objections to the current plan, saying that the assessment of commercial and industrial real estate at 15 percent is 30 percent higher than its 1983 statewide average assessment of 10.5 percent.
KCCI also objects to leaving manufacturers' inventories on the tax rolls, he said.
"THE OVERWHELMING majority of states have recognized the punitive nature of inventory taxes and have eliminated them," he said. "Holding inventories in no way corresponds to a change in property to pay additional property taxes."
Gaches also criticized the House action that changed the assessment on the property.
"A 25 percent reduction in the assessment level of residential property is a give away that can only be maintained as election year politics," he said.
The fourth objection by KCCI concerned the broad range of assessment levels, including utilities at the highest level.
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