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Vol. 94, No.121 (USPS 650-640)
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Friday morning, March 23, 1984
Facultv on panel back grade board
Staff Reporter
BY JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
Faculty members of the University Council yesterday expressed widespread support for a grade appeals board at the University of Kansas, although a proposal for creating such a board was not approved.
James Carothers, chairman of the University
Senate Executive Committee, said he was
satisfied with the findings.
"I had thought there might be significant faculty opposition, but there certainly doesn't seem to be any on University Council." Carothers said. "It seemed to be getting strong support, but we have colleagues who are very apprehensive."
CAROTHERS SAID some instructors were worried that many students might unnecessarily appeal grades if students had access to an appeals board, while other instructors objected
because an appeals board would take away their exclusive right to change grades.
He said that because of the favorable response, SenEx would probably send a grade appeals proposal to the Council for consideration at its April 5 meeting. Yesterday, the Council considered only the idea of creating a grade appeals board, not a specific proposal.
SOME FEARS OF THE faculty as to the amount of complaints a grade appeals board would cause are apparently unfounded, Carothers said. William Balfour, KU ambudsmain, has told Exn that in the last 1½ years he had
The proposal for a grade appeals board now before SenEx would create a board of four faculty members and two students that could order a grade change. Under current policy, only an instructor can change a grade, unless he has died, has been incapacitated, or has been found guilty of sexual harassment or academic misconduct.
ALLAN HANSON, a professor of anthropology and a council member, said. "If we don't accept it, we're saying an instructor can lay out very explicit guidelines at the beginning of the semester and then arbitrarily change them when
heard only three or four complaints that would need to go before the board described in the proposal.
The proposed appeals board would hear grade complaints only after students had sought grade changes from their course instructors and the chairmen of the department in which the courses were offered. Even then, the board would hear only complaints that came about because they believed there to be a grading policy that they established at the beginning of the semester.
Charles Kahn, a professor of architecture and urban design and a Council member, said, "It's a very narrow definition of when an appeal can be issued."
assigning a grade. It seems to me that to not accent the policy is strange."
The council also voted 16-15 to table a proposal that would allow research at KU to remain classified for longer than the one-year limit set by current KU policy.
Carothers told he was puzzled by the close vote because few at the meeting spoke in favor of it.
I would be surprised if anyone who favored that change would have voted to table it, but we did not hear often or extensively from them." Carothers said.
He said he doubted that the classified research enronposal will be amped this semester.
ED MEYEN, acting KU vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, told Council members that the proposal would not free faculty to begin classified government contracts but would allow their flexibility to do classified research on private interests.
Candidates shun Kansas in contest for White House
By KEVIN LOLLAR
Staff Reporter
Toto. I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore
but neither is the Democratic presidential hopeful, even though Kansas will hold its Democrat caucuses tomorrow. The local school system in West Junior High School, 270 Harvard Road.
So how come Walter Mondale has not bothered to campaign in the state since December?
Probably because he doesn't need Kansas to win the nomination.
BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Heck, he's FROM Kansas, down in Owensboro. Born there, went to high school there, got caught cheating on a chemistry exam there.
so now he hasn't bothered to campaign in the state?
Well, he had planned to spend Tuesday morning in Topeka, but he canceled out to be in
COMMENT
Washington, D.C., for a Senate vote on prayer in public schools.
Can't爪 him for that. He gets paid to vote.
State Sen. Tom Rehorn, D-Kansas City, Kan,
said that Hart had his priorities well in order on
that one.
But that's just one day. How come he didn't come before?
Rehorm may well have hit on the answer when he said, "I'm not going to kid anybody. Kansas isn't the hottest state in the nation. I'm not going to impose my ego on him."
AND BESIDES, Kansas only has 44 Democrite delegates, compared with 171 selected in Illinois.
Maybe Kansas just isn't important for Democratic presidential candidates. After all, the state has always been staunchly Republican, and the president's campaign design since All Landon ran for president in 1936.
Mike Swenson, press secretary for Gov. John Carlin, said, "a state like Kansas that has less say in a nomination or national election has trouble attracting candidates. That's understandable. They're campaigning where the people are."
But Hart is a hometown boy made good, a favorite son.
"A lot has been made of the fact that Kansas is Senator Hart's home state," Swenson said, "but it's also accurate that he hasn't lived here for some time.
"We're proud to claim he grew up here, but Colorado can more realistically claim him as a favorite son."
See PRIMARY, p. 5, col. 1
Terry Haak, Lawrence animal control officer, loads a German Sheperd into the back of his truck after the dog was reported to be dangerous. The dog was tied up behind Stauffer-Flint Hall
and was reportedly not allowing students to enter the building yesterday. Richard Avery, a KU police officer left, helped Haak remove the dog.
Jim McCrossen/KANSAN
Senate committee may ask groups to list members
Finance panel says requests may violate civil rights of GLSOK
By MARY SEXTON
and CINDY HOLM
Staff Reporters
The committee passed the original motion Wednesday after a committee member requested a membership list from the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night reconsidered, and then tabbed, a motion that would require student organizations to provide the committee with financial support, which would consider financing them.
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee, asked the committee to reconsider the motion because KU administrators and counselors had concerns about possible violations of the group's rights.
o coronist said he would investigate the legal question further and then report back to the court.
Although Senate budget applications advised student organizations to be prepared to provide a membership list, no member of the committee has been listed to provide a list until GLSOK presented its budget.
Ruth Lichtwart, president of GLSOK, said that during the GLOSK hearing, a member of the committee had asked GLSOK for a list of candidates to run up was 'one of our most controversial fundings'
Gilchrist said the committee member's request was not an official request from the agency.
committee.
He said that the committee later voted to ask for lists because the members wanted to verify the number of people in each organization.
"sometimes" the membership weighs in figuring out how many people really benefit from the organization. "Gilchrist said." In the case of the membership totals have been questioned.
BUT THE NUMBER of students is not a factor in the committee's decision to finance a group.
Lichtwardt said the committee based its request on a section of the Senate rules that authorized the Senate treasurer or the Finance Department to make budget decisions. He deemed necessary to make budget decisions.
She said she did not question the intention of the request for the list, but she did question why GLSOK was the only group asked to provide one. "The problem is that they only singed out the
"The problem is that they only singed out the 'controversial' rumps," she said.
Gilchrist said, "In no way did we want to isolate or harass any group or single person."
Lichtwärd said that in the past GLSOK had been singled out because of its membership.
Reagan and senators agree to cut El Salvador aid
See LIST, p. 5, col. 1
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan and Senate leaders yesterday agreed to a compromise to cut Reagan's requested $83 million in urgent military aid by a third, a deal Howard Baker said.
"I support and the administration will support the amendment to be offered by the senator from Hawaii," Baker said in announcing the compromise.
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, will offer the compromise amendment during the debate on the bill Tuesday or Wednesday. If accepted, it would be the El Salvador If accepted, it would be $2.5 million to $61.8 million.
SENATE DEMOCRATIC leader Robert Byrd said he also would support the compromise agreement.
But Sens, Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, and John Melcher, D-Mont., indicated they might oppose the compromise on the use of military aid for the Central American nation.
The Reagan administration has been pressing the Senate to pass the aid bill in time to resupply El Salvadoran army units so they can maintain order during Sunday's presidential election and
"I think it's clear we don't have an amendment that everyone is going to vote for," Baker said. But, he added, "I hope it will have broad bipartisan support."
ouring the runoff in late April or May that U.S. officials think will be necessary.
Senate Democrats planned to block a vote on the measure until after Sunday's election, and the administration undoubtedly agreed to the compromise to try to speed up approval of military aid to El Salvador as quickly as possible.
EARLIER, A top U.S. official said the election of right-wing candidate Roberto d'Aubusson might hurt chances of congressional action on emergency aid to El Salvador.
One senior administration official, speaking at the White House on condition he not be identified, said it was "totally false" to attribute U.S. President Obama's decision to fears that D.Auburn would be elected Sunday
and congressional opposition to him would then kill chances for more money.
But another official, saying there was no chance anyone would get the required 50 percent in Sunday's first round of balloting, conceded that it might be more difficult to get congressional support for further aid to El Salvador if d'Aubusson is elected after a runoff.
BOTH OFFICIALS predicted that leftist guerrillas would try to disrupt the voting Sunday. They said they knew of no incidents of reprisals against people who voted in 1982
One official said the Salvadoran military was prepared to block attempts by guerrillas to disrupt the voting, but he renewed the administration for aid because military material is running out.
Two more guilty in gang rape
By United Press International
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Two men were found guilty yesterday of aggravated rape for attacking a woman on a barroom table table while onlookers cheered. Two other defendants were not found guilty on all charges.
The six-man, six-woman Bristol Superior Court jury deliberated for six hours before finding John Cordorei, and Victor Raposo, 23, guilty of raping a 22-year old mother of two at big Dan's Tunnel New Bedford, Mass., on March 6, 1983.
"The verdicts proved that the criminal justice system can give fair decisions to rape victims," said Darlene Wheeler of the Coalition Against Sexist Violence.
on March 16, 1980,
Jose Mederos, 23, and Virgilio
Mederos, 24, were acquitted. The two
are not related.
CORDEIERO AND RAPOSO sobbed as the jury foreman announced the verdicts. Court officers then led them out of the courtroom to an upstairs meeting room to see their families before taking them to the Bristol
County House of Corrections at New Bedford.
They face a maximum penalty of life in prison.
On his way out of the courtroom, Rapey complained that there was "no evidence."
Bristol County District Attorney Ronald Pina said sentencing for Cordeiro, Raposo and two men convicted in a separate trial Saturday would be held on Monday. Young planned to sentence Daniel Silya, 28, and Joseph Vieira, 27 today.
All the defendants are Portuguese immigrants.
THOUSANDS OF Portuguese-Americans marched in candlelight protest last night, deering the convictions as a "miscarriage of justice" that sprang from bias against their ethnic background.
When the victim first reported the incident, prosecutors said. she said she
District Attorney Ronald Pina, who called the victim to tell her the verdicts say, "It is a tragic situation that has known us since we are for the families of the defendants."
The victim also is Portuguese, as were some members of both juries.
had been raped by half a dozen men,
while others forced her into other sex
THE WOMAN TESTIFIED she had gone to the tavern to buy cigarettes and stayed to talk with a woman in the bar. When she tried to leave, she said, she was grabbed, dragged to the barroom and he raped while onlookers cheered.
Only two defendants — Silva and Cordeiro — testified, and both said the woman had willingly participated in sex in the tavern.
Lawyers for the others said their
employees had not been involved in
their actions.
Outside the courtroom, Virgilio Medeiros said he was pleased with the verdict and continued to insist that the charges were "all a setup."
BARTENDER CARLOS Machado testified that Medeiros threatened him and stopped him from from calling police. Machado also identified both Medeiros as men who cheered on the woman's attackers.
"He didn't want to get involved, so he blamed me," said VIRGIL Medeiros, whose departure from the courthouse was greeted with applause.
Advances reduce credit-card fraud
By AMY BALDING Staff Reporter
The future is rapidly evolving into reality, evidenced by the increased use of plastic money. The objects all the gizmos and gadgets of a technological age.
Holograms no longer appear only on the pages of science-fiction works, but also on the face of credit cards. New cards for college students and printers, all in an effort to reduce credit-card fraud.
But despite the latest innovations, which are expected to reduce fraudulent transactions, criminals will still exploit the upon human error to beat the system.
IN THE PAST month and a half,
"WATTS Line Hunters" have contacted 12 local residents, promising their prizes such as boats or grandfather clocks if they bought vitamins and agreed to pay freight charged for the prizes.
In doing so, the representatives of the fictitious California firms requested a credit-card number information that was apparently to be submitted in transactions, according to Sgt. Don Dalquest of the Lawrence Police Department.
Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, said credit-card fraud, which includes theft, counterfeiting and tampering, was not a large problem in the Lawrence area.
One Lawrence woman bought $250 worth of vitamins — but the boat was inflatable and the grandfather clock was a kit, Dal Qisulta said. The Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association is now investigating the fictitious firms.
Mastercard records
show losses of $81,947 in Kansas in 1803, a figure that ranks the state 34th in losses nationwide.
NATIONWIDE, Visa lost $104 million to credit-card fraud and theft in 1983, said Dan Brigham, a security official with Visa.
He said that credit-card fraud in
See CREDIT, p. 5, col. 2