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Vol. 94, No.121 (USPS 650-640)
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Friday morning, March 23, 1984
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, though a proposal for creating such a board has not been approved.
James Carothers, chairman of the University
senate committee and member, said he was
given permission by the bishop to preside.
"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 umbdsman, 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.
ALLAN HANNON, 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
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 the grading policy did not correspond 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."
assigning a grade. It seems to me that to not accept the policy is strange."
Carothers heard he was puzzled by the close vote because few at the meeting spoke in favor of her.
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 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 Student Senate Finance Committee last night reconsidered, and then tabled, 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 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.
But neither are the Democratic pres hopefuls, even though Kansas will be Democratic caucuses tomorrow. The Republican party in West Bend 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.
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 chea a chemistry exam there.
Well, he had planned to spend Tu
morning in Topeka, but he canceled out it.
COMMENT
But that's just one day. How come he'd come before?
Washington, D.C., for a Senate vote on pra-
public schools
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."
"A lot has been made of the fact that Kansas Senator Hartl's home state," Swenson said, "b' it's also accurate that he hasn't lived here f some time.
I can't hurt 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 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."
Two more
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, 1963.
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.
See PRIMARY, p. 5, col. 1
AND BESIDES, Kansas only has 44 Doe
court delegates, compared with 171 selected
officials.
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 verdicts proved that the criminal justice system can give fair decisions to rape victims," said Darlene Wheeler of the Coalition Against Sexist Violence.
on March 6, 1958.
Jose Medeiros, 23, and Virgilio
Medeiros, 24, were acquitted. The two
are not related.
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OUTLOOK March 22,1984
Cracks are facts for some renters
But landlords say some tenants fail to keep up property
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
Four houses sit in a row on the east side of Kentucky Street, their shining rotting and their
small tables for eating and their porches slanted. Bricks support their paving stones.
The rent is inexpensive. But to the tenants, the houses have been a tough challenge.
The four houses sit in a middle-class neighborhood, bordered by new apartment complexes. The brown paint is peeling off one house, and some of the wooden slats on the front have been broken, leaving holes in the house. Two doors down, another house has a "No riff-rail" sign tied to the porch.
MANY KU STUDENTS have lived in similar houses, many of which are divided into apartments. In many, the relief is steep - but so are the apartments.
Daniel Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy, owns the four houses. He also owes about 15 other houses in Lawrence, but he declined to comment on the condition of the apartment houses he owns. However, he did not hesitate to pass the buck — straight to the tenants. He said the tenants were responsible for the condition of some of their housing.
And the tenants say that the landlords
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Bricks hold up the sogging porch of the house at 1308 Kentucky St. Foundations such as these often are in violation of Lawrence housing codes, but the Lawrence
Building Inspection Office does not inspect homes unless tenants have filed written complaints. Inspectors rarely do spot checks.
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