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Facultv on panel back grade board
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
Friday morning, March 23, 1984
Faculty members of the University Council yesterday expressed widespread support for a grade appeals board at the University of Kansas, and the College Board has in the past drawn fire from instructors.
"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."
James Carothers, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said he was surprised by the show of support.
CAROTHERS SAID some instructors were worried that many students might unnecessarily appeal grades if students had access to an appeals board, while other objects objected
because an appeals board would take away their exclusive right to change grades.
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.
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 embudman, 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 complaints by students whose academic failure 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
assigning a grade. It seems to me that to not accept 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 said 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 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 research 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 committee passed the original motion Wednesday after a committee member requested a membership list from the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
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The Student Senate Finance Committee last night reconsidered, and then tabled, a motion that would require student organizations to purchase bonds for the building of the committee would consider financing them.
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee,
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But neither are the Democratic pres hopefuls, even though Kansas will W be Democratic caucuses tomorrow. The caucus is held in West Jimbini 2700 Harvard 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.
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BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Hee FROM Kansas, down in Owntown. 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 tu morning in Topeka, but he canceled out it
Washington, D.C., for a Senate vote on pra-
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cant 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.
Rehman well will have hit on the answer he said, "I'm not going to kid anybody. Kan't be the hottest state in the nation. I'm not g to impose my ego on him."
"We're proud to claim he grew up here, b Colorado can more realistically claim him as favorite son."
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AND BESIDES, Kansas only has 44 De-
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The six-man, six-woman Bristol Superior Court jury deliberated for six hours before finding John Cordorei, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, guilty of raping a 22-year-old mother of two at Big Spring, 1963. New Bedford, Mass., on March 6, 1983.
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Maybe Kansas just isn't important Democratic presidential candidates. After the state has always been stagnant in support of Obama, it could camp with Ali 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 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. J. Carlin, said, "A state like Kansas that has I say in a nomination or national election I trouble attracting candidates. That's unstandable. They're campaigning where people are."
Jose Medeiros, 23, and Virgilio Medeiros, 24, were acquitted. The two are not related.
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Two women 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.
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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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But by December, after roommates started moving out, leaving Cassady responsible for rent and utility payments, she left to embolden a circus — or something worse.
"It actually became a zoo," Cassady said this week. "People started moving in and out like crazy."
Cassady, Lawrence part-time student,
said that the management company that rented the house and the utility companies had told her that holding her responsible for the bills would be easier than tracking down the other tenants who had signed the lease, because they had left town.
By January, Cassady too had moved out of the house — but still found herself paying rent and she, because she was a lawyer, was the original owner in Lawrence who had signed the lease.
Cassady said the problem she en-countered cost her $1,000 in larger rent payments and, eventually, in moving expenses "to get out of there."
"I ended up having to borrow money," she said.
She was also liable for the bills because none of the replacement tenants had paid the rent.
'It actually became a zoo,' 'People started moving in and out like crazy.' — Cathy Cassady Lawrence part-time student
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But some landlord-tenant problems aren't always quickly and easily resolved by the two agencies. Nearly 100 students, in fact, last year chose to take their problem one step further — to Douglas County small-claims court.
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