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Facultv on panel back grade board
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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 is still being considered.
James Carothers, chairman of the University
James Executive Committee. He said he was
much impressed by the results of his work.
"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. Carnegie has not issued a grade appeal 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.
Friday morning, March 23, 1984
The proposed appeals board would hear grade complaints only after students had sought grade changes from their course instructors and the chairman of the department in which the courses were offered. Even then, the board would hear only complaints that came about because instructors allegedly failed to adhere to 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 he said he was puzzled by the close vote because few at the meeting spoke in favor of the measure.
He said he doubted that the classified research proposal would be approved this semester.
"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.
ED MEYEN, graduate kU vice chancellor in 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 classification 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 tabled, a motion that would require student organizations to hold their own meeting on the committee would consider financing them.
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee.
asked the committee to vote on
s had
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 conte for White Hou
By KEVIN LOLLAR Staff Reporter
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in anymore.
sut neither are the Democratic pres hopefuls, even though Kansas will W be Democratic caucuses tomorrow. The Democratic candidates in West Janib School, 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.
BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Hee FROM Kansas, down in Ottawa. Born went to high school there, got caught cheat a chemistry exam there.
So how come he hasn't bothered to can in the state?
Well, he had planned to spend Tup
morning in Topека, but he canceled out it
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Washington, D.C., for a Senate vote on pra natile schools.
I 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.
But that's just one day. How come he d come before?
Rehorm will well have hit on the answer he said. "I'm not going to kid anybody. Kaisn't the hottest state in the nation. I'm not g to impose my ego on him."
AND BESIDES, Kansas only has 44 Descritate colleges, compared with 171 selected
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 would be foolish to assume that 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 Karl's home state," Swenson said, "b" it's also accurate that he hasn't lived here f some time.
See PRIMARY, p. 5, col. 1
"We're proud to claim he grew up here, b Colorado can more realistically claim him as favorite son."
The six-man, six-woman Bristol Superior Court jury deliberated for six hours before finding John Cordorei, and Victor Rapaso, 23, guilty of raping a 22-year-old mother of two alibg men in the 1993 Beedow Mass., on March 6.
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Jose Medeiros, 23, and Virgilio
Medeiros, 24, were acquitted. The two
players have been charged with con-
fessional abuse.
"The verdict proved that the criminal justice system can give fair decisions to rape victims," said DARA Cox, co-chair of the Coalition Against Sexist Violence.
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condemned the garage at 1308 Kentucky St. because it "was just full of junk and falling down." And the house at 1316 Kentucky St. was inspected in 1976 after a meter reader complained about access to the basement. However, Swart said that the inspection record did not show that attention had been taken on the complaint.
Other than that, the housing office has not inspected the houses.
Tenants have also accused the apartment houses of being in violation of Lawsuit 1358.
Lt. Greg Crossman, fire inspector, said that the Lawrence Fire Department tried to inspect buildings annually. But he said the fire department had no inspection records of the buildings on Kentucky Street.
LANDLORDS WHO CONVERT their single-family houses into apartments are not required to notify the city unless a zoning change or building permit is needed. Often the fire department is not aware of the change, either, so the apartments are not inspected. Crossman said
Fire Chief Jim McSwain said that Lawrence had more than 600 "separately owned multi-family dwellings." With only one full-time inspector it is almost impossible to check all buildings every year, he said.
Qandil's houses on Louisiana were inspected in April and both passed minimum fire requirements, Crossman said.
"We don't inspect anything less than a triplex unless we are requested, simply because we don't have the manpower," McSwain said.
Besides having a limited number of inspectors, the fire department has another problem with inspecting the old houses. Inspectors must work under the
Grandfather Clause, Crossman said, which says that all buildings constructed before the fire code was established do have to meet certain parts of the code.
MANY OF THE HOUSES are not required to have fire escapes from the third floor or sprinkler systems, he said, because the were built in the 1950s or earlier. If the buildings have smoke detectors, fire alarms, they meet fire codes, he said.
Although Ling declined to comment on the expenses involved in maintaining his
'There were no fire escapes for the second and third floors. The wiring was bad, and the house tilted. But the rent was cheap, only $100.' — Allen KU student
buildings, Qandil said her apartments were expensive to keep in good condition.
one said maintaining the houses was a constant problem. Some tenants mistreat their apartments, but most of the problems come from people who do not live in the houses.
"They come in from the street and knock the windows out," she said. "We had new windows put in and when we were about to open, a half a dozen windows broken out again."
"We could spend $250,000, maybe more, and that wouldn't cover it all," she said.
But, Qandi said, the nine houses she owns throughout town are safe and meet fire codes.
"They need painting on the outside, but we have a new all wiring and a new plumbing."
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