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Kansas Caucuses
Democrats vie for votes
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Faculty on panel back grade board
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, which has been called on to board has in the past drawn fire from instructors.
Friday morning, March 23, 1984
Senate Carothers, chairman of the University
James Executive Committee, said he was
satisfied with the progress of the study.
"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, Carothers said. William Balfour, KU ambudsman, has told SenEx that in the last 1½ years he had
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 against structures allegedly failed to adhere to the grading policy that they established at the beginning of the semester.
heard only three or four complaints that would need to go before the board described in the proposal.
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 many types of material to teach us in the semester and then arbitrarily change them when
Carothers heard he was puzzled by the close vote because few at the meeting spoke in favor of the proposal.
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."
"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 proposal would be approved 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 them more flexibility to do classified research for private interests.
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 Student Senate Finance Committee last night reconsidered, and then tabbed, a motion that would require student organizations to provide the committee a membership list before the committee would consider financing them
The committee passed the original motion Wednesday after a committee member requested a membership list from the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
Candidates shun Kansas in contet for White Hou
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee,
asked the commission to vote
By KEVIN LOLLAR Staff Reporter
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in anymore.
But neither are the Democratic pres- hopefuls, even though Kansas will be Democratic caucuses tomorrow. The caucus is taking place in West Jenkins School 7200 Harford Road.
So how come Walter Mondale hasn't be to campaign in the state since December. Probably because he doesn't need Kai win the nomination.
BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Hee FROM Kansas, down in Ottawa. Born went to high school there, got caught chea a chemistry exam there.
So how come he hasn't bothered to can in the state?
Well, he had planned to spend tow morning in Topeka, but he canceled out it
COMMENT
Washington, D.C., for a Senate vote on pra-
public schools.
But that's just one day. How come he'd come before?
Can't fault him for that. He gets paid to State Sen. Tom Rehorn, D-Kansas City, said that Hart had his priorities well in ord that one.
"A lot has been made of the fact that Kansas Senator Hart's home state," Swenson said, "b" it's also accurate that he hasn't lived here f some time.
Mike Swenson, press secretary for Gov. Carlin, said, "A state like Kansas that has I say in a nomination or national election trouble attracting candidates. That's und standable. They're campaigning where people are."
we're proud to claim he grew up here, b Colorado can more realistically claim him as favorite son."
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The six-man, six-woman Bristol Superior Court jury deliberated for six hours before finding John Cordeiro, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, guilty of raiding a 22-year-old mother of two at Big Big Stadium in New Bedford, Mass., on March 6, 1983.
Rehman will well have hit on the answer he said, "I'm not going to kid anybody. Ka isn't the hottest state in the nation. I'm not g to impose my ego on him."
AND BENIDES, Kansas only has 44 De-
cratic delegates, compared with 171 selec-
tionists.
See PRIMARY, p. 5, col 1
But Hart is a hometown boy made good, favorite son.
Maybe Kansas just isn't important Democratic presidential candidates. After the state has always been staunchly Republican, it's no surprise that Obama will be called since All Landon ran for president in 1936.
On Jose Medeiros, 23, and Virgilio Medeiros, 24, were acquitted. The two are not related.
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.
"The verdicts proved that the criminal justice system can give fair decisions to rape victims," said Darlene Wheeler of the Coalition Against Sexist Violence.
By United Press International
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
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Week said that the "joint and several liability" clause found in most rental agreements made each tenant responsible for the whole rent.
So if roommates don't get along and one moves out, she said, the remaining roommates will have to pay that roommate's part of the rent.
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