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Facultv on panel back grade board
Friday morning, March 23, 1984
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, in a proposal for creating such a board has in the press.
James Carothers, chairman of the University
Senate Executive Committee, said he was
satisfied.
"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.
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.
SOME FEARS OF THE faculty as to the amount of complaints a grade appeals board would cause are apparently unfounded. Carrie Mays, who was admitted to the hospital has told SenEx that in the last 1½ years he had
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 course instructors who accused them of instructors allegedly failed to adhere to the 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."
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
Carothers he was puzzled by the close vote because few at the meeting spoke in favor of him.
"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.
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.
assigning a grade. It seems to me that to not accept the policy is strange."
He said he doubted that the classified research proposal would be approved this semester.
ED MEYEN, graduate KU vice chancellor for research, academic studies and public service, told Council members that the proposal would not free faculty to begin classified government contracts but would allow them more flexibility to do classified research for private interests.
Candidates shun Kansas in contet for White Hou
By KEVIN LOLLAR Staff Reporter
Toto. I have a feeling we're not in anymore.
By MARY SEXTON and CINDY HOLM Staff Reporters
But neither are the Democratic pres-
 hopefuls, even though Kansas will be
 Democratic caucuses tomorrow. The
Democratic leaders in West Jan-
 School 2700 Harvard Road
Senate committee may ask groups to list members
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night reconsidered, and then tabled a motion that would require student organizations to provide the community with more financial support. The committee is planning to finance them.
So how come Walter Mondale hasn't be to campaign in the state since December Probably because he doesn't need Kar win the nomination.
Finance panel says requests may violate civil rights of GLSOK
The committee passed the original motion Wednesday after a committee member requested a membership list from the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
So how come he hasn't bothered to can in the state?
BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Hee FROM KANSAS, down in Ottawa. Born went to high school there, got caught cheat a chemistry exam there.
Well, he had planned to spend Tu morning in Topeka, but he canceled out to
COMMENT
Washington, D.C., for a Senate vote on pra-
natal schools.
But that's just one day. How come he d come before?
Can't fight him for that. He gets paid to State Sen. Tom Rehorn, D-Kansas City, I said that Hart had his priorities well in ord that one.
AND BESIDES, Kansas only has 44 De-
crative delegates, compared with 171 selected
Rehorm will well have hit on the answer he said, "I'm not going to kid anyone. Kaist isn't the hottest state in the nation. I'm not g to impose my ego on him."
"The verdicts proved that the criminal justice system can, give fair decisions to rape victims," said Darrin Patterson, the Coalition Against Sexist Violence.
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee,
asked the committee to take the motion
Mike Swenson, press secretary for Gov. J Carlin, said, "A state like Kansas that has I say in a nomination or national election I trouble attracting candidates. That's und standable. They're campaigning where people are."
Maybe Kansas just isn't important Democratic presidential candidates. After the state has always been staunchly republican, it might have benefited from a sage advice since All Landon ran for president in 1936.
But Hart is a hometown boy made good, favorite son.
"A lot has been made of the fact that Kansas Senator kirt's home state," Swenson said, "b' it's also accurate that he hasn't lived here f some time.
"We're proud to claim he grew up here, b Colorado can more realistically claim him as favorite son."
CORDEIRO 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
The six-man, six-woman Bristol Superior Court jury deliberated for six hours before finding John Cordeiro, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, guilty of raping a 22-year-old mother of two at Big Spring, New Bedford, Mass., on March 6, 1983.
See PRIMARY, p. 5, col. 1
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FALL RIVER. Mass. — Two men were found guilty yesterday of aggravated rape for attacking a woman on a barroom pool table while onlookers cheered. Two other defendants were not found guilty on all charges.
Jose Medeiros, 23, and Virgilio Medeiros, 24, were acquitted. The two are not related.
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Kansas courts have required tenants to notify the landlord of the defects and give adequate opportunity to make repairs.
If a landlord fails to alleviate unsafe, unsuitable or uninhabitable conditions
But another section of the Act gives the landlord the right to enter an apartment without the tenant's permission if loss of life or property, from a fire for example, is imminent.
However, the Act also says that the landlord cannot abuse the right of entry. If landlord does abuse the right, the tenant could move to end the lease or seek a court-ordered injunction prohibiting the landlord from entering.
If the tenant were to refuse access to a landlord after the landlord had given reasonable notice, then the landlord could
'Technically, the roommate who leaves is liable to the landlord, but the landlord tends in practice to hold remaining tenants responsible.'
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"We advise some tenants to repair and deduct when it is an emergency situation and you have an absentee landlord," Chapman said.
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One section of the Kansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act gives a landlord the right to enter a tenant's apartment. Chapman said, as long as the landlord enters at a reasonable time and gives a reasonable notice. The landlord has the right to enter for the purpose of showing the apartment to proactive repairmen, tenants or purchasers.
that the tenant has notified the owner about, Kansas courts have held that the tenant can sue for damages and back rent if the tenant has continued to pay
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also move to terminate the rental agreement and evict the tenant.
Cassady said that she would advise students looking for an apartment to find people they knew well and could trust as roommates. She said that knowing a roommate's family would be a good idea, or the roommate had problems paying bills.
Woekl that that most landlords don't have insurance for theft or property damage, so she recommended that students get rental insurance.
"I was hesitant to get into this situation in the first place." Chapman said. "It's a big chance that you take, and I'm sure it works out, but I wouldn't do it again."
students get personal.
Although Cassady never took any of her former roommates to court, she said that the threat of legal action often convinced them that they should pay her the money they owed.
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