Kansas Caucuses
Democrats vie for votes
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Vol. 94, No. 121 (USPS 650-640)
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Faculty 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, though a proposal for creating such a board has not been approved.
"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 ethics committee, said he was
shamed by the shop of salesmen.
CAROTIHERS 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.
Friday morning, March 23, 1984
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 Ballour, KU ambudsman, has told SenEx 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.
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 did not comply 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."
Carothers said he was puzzled by the close vote because见 at the meeting spoke in favor of
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.
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 tabled, a motion that would require student organizations to provide a financial incentive to committees 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 shum Kansas in conte for White Hou
JON GILCHRIST, chairman of the committee.
By KEVIN LOLLAR
Staff Reporter
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in anymore.
not neither are the Democratic pres hopefuls, even though Kansas will will Democratic caucuses tomorrow. The state will be in West Jimbabwe School 2709 Harvard Road.
So how come Walter Mondale hasn't to campaign in the state since December. Probably because he doesn't need Kai win the nomination.
So how come he hasn't bothered to can in the state?
BUT WHAT ABOUT Gary Hart? Hee FROM Kansas, down in Owata. 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 it
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Washington, D.C., for a Senate vote on pra-
public schools
cant' fight 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. Ka isn't the hottest state in the nation. I'm not go to impose my ego on him."
Maybe Kansas just isn't important Democratic presidential candidates. After the state has always been staunchly Republican, it would be hard to say so since all Aid Landon ran for president in 1936.
AND BESIDES, Kansas only has 44 DASCRATIC delegates, compared with 171 selected
But Hart is a hometown boy made good, favorite son.
"We're proud to claim he grew up here, b Colorado can more realistically claim him as favorite son."
"A lot has been made of the fact that Kansas Senator lirat's home state," Swenson said, "b' it's also accurate that he hasn't lived here f some time.
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and Lawrence city officials are to blame for the poor condition of the houses.
for the poor bond. Because some landlords, however, say they could spend thousands of dollars to maintain the housing, an expense that makes it difficult to provide inexpensive housing. One also said that although a house might need painting, its safety was not affected.
HOUSES IN POOR condition are an eyesore, said Allen, a KU student who lived in one of the houses on Kentucky Street for a year. Like others, he asked that his last name not be used for fear of jeopardizing his inexpensive housing. Many tenants are KU students who say they could not afford to go to school if they did not live in inexpensive — and sometimes substandard — housing.
Allen heard about the apartments on Kentucky Street two years ago when he was looking for a new apartment, he said.
he moved into the house at 1316 Kentucky St. in 1891 and out moved a year later. "It started falling apart," Allen said. "The floor slanted and the place was cockroach-riden. We made the best of it, though."
Alen said the place next door was similar. "Some friends of mine live there. They have the same attitude. All of these houses are considered dumps.
Ling's house at 1310 Kentucky St. recently had a refrigerator, two old stoves and an abandoned car in the back yard.
"There were no fire escapes for the second and third floors. There were no fire extinguishers. The wiring was bad. But the rent was cheap, only $100."
A visit recently to houses owned by several different landlords revealed broken windows at houses on Kentucky and West 12th streets. Some windows had been covered with plastic and others had buffed with boxes or clothing to fill holes.
CITY REGULATIONS are supposed to prevent such hazardous and unsightly housing. According to the Lawrence Uniform House Code, abandoned refrigerators and cars, structurally un sound fences, and potentially hazardous trash, debris or vegetation all constitute nuisances.
houses.
The list of complaints made by tenants in several houses goes on: inadequate sanitation, crumbling plaster, rotting roofs, cracked foundations, leaky plumbing and old wiring.
Ling is not the only landlord in Lawrence whose tenants have complained about poor apartment conditions. Other landlords mentioned were Jo Ann Qandil and her husband, Wahid. However, Ling, a University professor, owns a large number of houses in the Oread Neighborhood, which is near the KU campus. And, often, his apartments are occupied by University students.
TENANTS HAVE complained that apartment buildings violate the Lawrence housing code and that the city has done nothing about the houses. According to records in the office, some of the tenants are correct.
The policy that the inspection office follows is to act only on complaints. Swart said a written complaint from a lawyer was placed before the office would take action.
Margene Swart, minimum housing and environmental inspector, said that the Lawrence Building Inspection Office did not routinely inspect apartment houses.
"As long as people will live there, or until a corner of the house drops off, or
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