University Daily Kansan, March 20, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
Med Center police captain will lead KU department
The captain of the University of Kansas Medical Center Police Department in Kansas City, Kan., has been selected to be captain of the KU Police Department, the director of KU police said yesterday.
James Denney, the director, said that Ralph Oliver was chosen early last week from a field of five.
Oliver, 34, has been captain of the Med Center's department for three years, and has been on the force since 1977, Denney said.
Oliver is replacing John Courtney, who was captain for 2 years before leaving to be assistant chief of police in La Grande, Ore.
The difference between his duties at the Med Center and his duties here, Oliver said, will be that the main campus police are involved in traffic control and crowd control at athletic events, and Med Center police do not perform those duties.
he will be moving to Lawrence with his wife, Kathleen Annes Oliver,
who will attend the KU Law School next fall, he said.
"I'm really looking forward to living in the Lawrence community," Oliver said.
Ice fells Toneka's KLDH-TV tower
TOPEKA — The heavy ice storm which blasted northeast Kansas Sunday and yesterday caused the tower of Topeka's newest television station to collapse, and a spokesman said it could be six months before KLDH-TV returned to the air.
News director Bob Totten said yesterday that 3-inch ice chunks caused the 1.433-foot tower to collapse between 11 p.m. and 4:45
Totten said the station would need from three to six months to build another tower. The tower cost about $1 million and will cost about $1.2 million to replace.
KLDH, an ABC affiliate, went on the air June 18. At that time, it took three months to get the tower's parts and a month and a half to put it up. Totten said
"We talked to all the people that built it," he said. "They have a 400-foot portable tower, but I don't know what the status is on that."
However, Totten said that a 400-foot tower would not carry the station's signal very far and that he was hoping to hook up with the area cable company, which would reach 30,000 homes, or one-fourth of the station's market.
Fall timetables available tomorrow
Fall 1994 timetables will be available beginning tomorrow outside 111 Strong Hall, the director of student records said yesterday.
Gary Thompson, the director, also said that the summer 1984 timetables would be available Monday, the day the student advising period begins.
For the first time at the University of Kansas, students wishing to attend summer school may enroll early. Early enrollment for both the summer and fall semesters begins April 4.
Because only 27,000 copies of the fall time table have been printed,
Thompson said, students should pick up only one copy.
Concert Chorale performance set
The spring concert of the University of Kansas Concert Chorale will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The program will include a new work by Stephen Addiss, KU associate professor of art history.
In addition to Addiss" "Kyrie Sanctus Agnus Dei," the 48-member chorale will perform "Repleti Stunt omnes" by Jacob Handl, "Psalm 66" by Hans Lee Hassler, "Missa Brevis" by Zoltan Kodaly, "Have ye not known" and "Ye shall have a song," by Randall Thompson, "Same Train" and "Sometimes I Feel" by Robert Shaw and Alice Parker and "Witness" by Jack Halloran.
ON THE RECORD
The concert is free and open to the public.
A KU STUDENT reported that a radar detector, cassette tapes and a stick-shift handle, together worth $1,163, were stolen during spring break from his car, which was parked in a KU parking lot, KU police said. Police have no suspects.
BRADLEY VETERINARY HOSPITAL, 935 E. 23rd St., reported that anesthetic worth $10, tranquilizers worth $18.75 and a bottle of babies vaccine worth $45 were stolen late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Lawrence police said. Police have no suspects.
A MOPED WORTH $175 was stolen Saturday, Lawrence police said. The moped was parked in the 1300 block of New Hampshire Street. The police have no suspects.
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City works to shorten meetings
By SHARON BODIN
Staff Reporter
Lawrence City Commissioners agree that commission meetings should be shorter -but they do not agree on how to do it.
At the request of the commissioners, the city staff prepared a draft on procedures that would make the commission meetings run more smoothly and end by 10:30 p.m. Several meetings in January and February lasted until a. m. and b.
The draft met with both opposition and support by city commissioners, and commissioners are working on their own suggestions to submit to the city manager.
Mayor David Longhurst he planned to ask the other commissioners at tonight's meeting whether they would be willing to work with the mayor.
willing to put the discussion of IN THE DRAFT, which was issued by City Manager Buford Watson, the city staff suggested alternating afternoon meetings with evening meetings. It proposed that the first meeting of the month begin at 2 p.m. and the meeting the following week begin at the usual time of 7 p.m.
Angno said he thought afternoon meetings would prevent public input at commission meetings. Shontz said she thought the afternoon meetings would create more problems than they would solve.
following week begin.
Time limits of 5:30 p.m. for the 2 p.m. meetings and 10:30
p.m. for the 7 p.m. meetings were suggested in the draft as a
way to assure that meetings did not run long.
Commissioners Ernest Angino and Nancy Shontz disagreed with the idea of afternoon meetings.
"Afternoon meetings present problems, but being up half the night and having to be at work at 8 the next morning presents problems, too." Longhurst said.
He said he thought afternoon meetings would go much faster than evening meetings.
WATSON SAID that 10 years ago, the commission had afternoon meetings. The commission began discussing planning items at one evening meeting a month, and eventually commission meetings were changed to evening meetings.
Four of the commissioners agreed that limiting the time that meetings could last was a good idea. Commissioner Mike Amyx, Shontz and Longhurst all said they thought 11 p.m. was a good time. Angino said he would support an 11:30 p.m. time
A person addressing the commission on a public-hearing item would be allowed to speak for three minutes, unless representing a group. An individual representing a group would have five minutes.
The staff also suggested special meetings for certain subjects that would require extensive discussion. A majority of the commissioners would have to agree to schedule the special meetings, and they would be open to the public.
The amount of time a person would be allowed to speak at a meeting would also be limited under rules outlined in the dun
Commissioner Howard Hill was out of town yesterday and could not be reached for comment.
ANY PERSON WISHING to address the commission would have to fill out a form in advance
The form, which the staff included with the draft, includes the agenda item to be discussed, the person's name and address, who the person represents, others in the group being represented and the reason the person wishes to speak.
A person would have to submit the completed form to the city manager's office by noon on the day the item was
But filling out the form would not guarantee that the person would be allowed to speak, the draft said.
Requests to speak would be granted if the item were a public hearing item, if the person was directly affected by a potential decision by the commission and if the person had information that could not be presented in advance. Finally, the commissioners would have to agree to allow the person to speak.
Shontz said she saw advantages to making people fill out comments to the commission in advance, but that such a request was not routinely made.
"THEY ARE A great many opinions that would not be expressed because they are in response to things committed."
Making people prepare written statements before addressing the commission was a good idea, Longhurst said, because it would force people to organize their presentations.
"With written statements in advance, there would not be as much opportunity for spontaneous dialogue, but in my experience that is not all that useful at City Commission meetings anyway."
The draft suggested that commissioners limit remarks on a subject to five minutes and speak only once on an issue. It also suggested limiting the discussion of miscellaneous items on the agenda to 15 minutes.
KU student faces rape charges again
The district attorney's office dropped and then refiled the charges March 9. The district attorney said no charges.
By the Kansan Staff
nesses had planned to leave Lawrence during spring break.
nstrict attorney's office allowed the student to leave the Douglas County Jail, where he had been held for five years and in jail since the charges were refiled.
Six witnesses had testified during the two days of preliminary hearings that preceded the decision by the district attorney's office to refile the charges.
Most of the witnesses called by the prosecution during the preliminary hearing were KU students. The victim didn't testify with the other witnesses, Ronan said, because she was not emotionally prepared to testify at the time.
The charges against the student stemmed from complaints filed by another student about student abuse and alleged abuse with 2 students at Jawhaker Tower, 1603 W. 15th St.
After dropping the charges, the
A 20-year-old KU football player is scheduled to appear today in Douglas County District Court to be formally charged for the second time on sexual-assault charges brought against him earlier this month.
Bus drivers to confiscate bogus passes
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
The Transportation Board has authorized KU on Wheels bus drivers to confiscate unofficial bus passes and has asked KU police to investigate possible bus pass for a majorairman of the board said yesterday.
Mark Bossi, Student Senate treasurer and the chairman, said bus drivers had confiscated 16 forged bus passes in the last three weeks.
A spokesman for KU police said that police were investigating the forgeries but had no suspects.
Some students are making their own passes, which are green stickers attached to student identification cards. Some students have buying forced passes, Rossi said.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life, said bus pass forgery was a violation of the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities.
The code says, "A student who knowingly furnishes false information to the University or forges or alters or misuses University documents or instruments of identification with the intent to defraud may be subject to a sanction not greater than suspension."
Smith said, "One way to look at a student not using a real bus pass is that he is defrauding the Student Senate of $30."
The Senate sells student bus passes for $30 and public bus passes for $40.
Bossi said that the Transportation Board would decide tomorrow what action it would take against students who misused passes.
Smith said her office had no set policy to deal with bus pass abuses and handled cases individually. She said she would not act on the present problems until the Transportation Department action that they wanted her to take.
Bossi said that the bus drivers gave confiscated passes to the Senate office, and the Transportation Board contacted the owners and let them pick up their identification cards.
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