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The University Daily
KANSAN
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Vol. 94, No. 116 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
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Thursday morning, March 8, 1984
INSIDE CAVES
The rolling plains of Kansas, a state not known for its variety of terrain, cover an underground world of rocks and fungi.
Left, the woods surrounding a Douglas County cave called Jesse James' Hideout are seen from the shelter cave's entrance.
IN INSIDE CAVES on Page 6, staff writer Rosemary Hope and staff photographer Jim McCrossen explore the depths of Kansas caves and the spelunkers who venture into them.
INSIDE is a continuing series of interviews and photographs that take an in-depth look at subjects of interest to KU students.
A trip into one of the 250 caves in Kansas is an adventure onto hardened mud from ancient seas. The excitement of venturing into the unknown prompts spelunkers to overcome phobias and discomforts and explore the inner earth.
But caves are more than monuments to the Earth's history. American folklore describes tales of rock hideaways housing Indians and outlaws.
Costume Party's new format makes debut
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Student senators didn't know what to expect last night as they walked into the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
They milled in the back of the room whispering and staring at the two women.
Dennis "Boog" Highberger, student body vice president, had followed through with a campaign promise. The Student Senate would meet sitting in a circle.
As about 30 spectators looked on.
Higherger stood up and asked the senators to find a seat.
At 7:05 p.m., the first Student Senate meeting directed by the Costume Party administration began.
During an open forum at the beginning of the meeting, five members of the Jayhawk Singer rose to explain why the program or supplemental funds from the Senate.
BUT INSTEAD OF the usual five-minute budget presentation, the singers sang two jazz numbers, and the musicians held their fingers and hummed along.
From the start, the senators realized
that this would not be a typical meeting.
Highberger said he planned to ask the senators to suspend Roberts Rules of Order, the parliamentary procedure the Senate usually uses to run meetings, for the meeting and asked Michael Almond, a member of a local energy cooperative, to explain consensus voting.
Almond said that each member of the group would have the opportunity to speak uninterrupted, and then the group would come to a conclusion if no senators objected.
"Consensus voting requires respect
among equals in a group working together for a common purpose.' he
At 7:55 p.m., Highberger moved to suspend the rules, and the senators agreed by a voice vote. The senators did not discuss Highberger's motion.
ABOUT SIX SENATORS left the meeting after the vote.
Under consensus voting, motions and bills do not exist. Ideas are suggested, and if no one opposes them, they are approved.
Discussion is open to anyone wh
See SENATE, p. 5, col. 1
Black group says officers must quit
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
The Black Student Union has called for the resignations of four Student Senate officers, saying that they "represented a small portion of the student population and abused their authority."
The officers who have been asked to resign are: Bonnie DeNoylemes, Senate secretary; Mark Bossi, Senate treasurer; David Friend, Student Executive Committee chairman; and Amy Bush, executive secretary.
The Senate officers "abused their authority" by attending secret meetings in October in regard to the Senate elections, Cheri Brown, BSU president, said yesterday of the call for their resignations.
The request was made Tuesday
BOSSI SENATE TREASURER, said that he had not received a copy of the request and that he was appalled by the thought of resigning.
Bush, executive secretary, said she was confused about the resignation request.
"All I do is take roll, the minutes and send the records to the officers," she said. "I think they're wrong, and if all they want are new ideas, I'm certainly not the person to go after."
DeNoyelles, the Senate secretary,
declined to comment.
Friend, Student Executive Committee chairman, said that he was stunned by the request for his resignation.
Steve Chapman, BSU vice president,
said that the four officers would not
benefit the newly elected administration
of Student Body President Carla
Vogel and Vice President Dennis
"Boo" Highberger.
"WE ARE NOT trying to be malicious." Chapman said. "In any administration, each new party should bring in their own people.
Chapman also said that each member of the Senate would receive a copy of the request sometime today.
"Right now, the Student Senate needs new blood in the whole department."
Chapman gave a copy of the resignation request to the Kansan Tuesday.
In addition to the BSU's charge of the officers' attendance at the secret meeting, Chapman said that the Senate papers had not been audited for three years.
But Bossi said, "They obviously don't realize that being the treasurer is not just writing out checks for an organization. If they feel that I have abused my authority, they can get things paid for themselves some other way."
Brown said that the BSU was concerned about where Senate funds were being spent.
Boss said that on several occasions he had gone against policy to help the BSU
"WITH THE TIME and work I put into this office, I'd like to see them put someone in here without experience so they can place in this place for one week," he said.
Bossi served as administrative assistant before assuming the treasurer position last November
The four were appointed to their present positions following Scott Swenson's election to the presidency in November. They were later reappointed after Lisa Ashner, former student body president, returned to office after a suspension because of Chancellor Gene A. Budig because of the disputed election.
ACCORDING TO BROWN, supporters of Scott Swenson, presidential candidate for the Priority Coalition, met secretly at the Sigma Nu fraternity last November in an attempt to figure out a way to oust Kevin Walker.
Brown called the alleged meetings an abuse of Senate authority.
In November, Swenson denied that he had lobbed the election committee regarding its decision to allow Walker to run in the election.
Bush said that in the past she had worked actively to support minority affairs in her position as executive secretary.
"I've been slapped in the face," she said.
said See BESIGN, p. 5, col. 1
Fourhorn receives 15-to-life sentence for Puckett murder
Staff Reporter
By JILL CASEY
James Fourthorn was sentenced yesterday in Douglas County District Court to 15 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder June 25 of Harry Puckett, a 94-year-old Lawrence man.
Fourhorn, 27, dressed in a dark-blue suit instead of the green jail fatigues he wore throughout his trial, showed little emotion when Associate District Judge Mike Malone sentenced him.
District Judge Mike Mobile sentenced Fourborn also received a sentence of five to 20 years on a charge of aggravated burglary in the same incident. The two sentences will run concurrently.
Members of both Fourhorn's and Puckett's families were in the courtroom during the sentencing, which came five months after Fourhorn was convicted of felony murder and aggravated burglary. The conviction for felony murder was reduced last week to second-degree murder.
STANTON HAZLETT, Fourhorn's attorney, requested a second trial soon after Fourhorn's conviction. Hazlett said that the jury in the first trial overstepped its bounds when it considered evidence that had not been admitted during the trial. In December, Malone granted Hazlett's request for a second trial.
for a second trial.
Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, attempted to block the second trial by asking the Kansas Supreme Court to overrule Malone's order for a new trial.
PUT THE SECOND trial never took place because Fourhon entered into a plea agreement with the district attorney's office. The district attorney's office agreed to reduce the felony murder charge to a second-degree murder charge if Fourhon agreed to plead no contest.
felony murder.
If Fourhour had been convicted of felony murder rather than seen acting, Hazlett said, Fourhour would have first been eligible for parole after serving 15 years. Now he will be eligible after about 9 and one-half years.
Fourthborn, before Malone sentenced him yesterday, stood and told the court, "I'm sorry that Mr. Puckett is dead, but I didn't kill him. But I understand the law on the felony-murder rule. I may be somewhat responsible, but not directly." I didn't kill anybody."
In calculating when Fourhorn would first be eligible for parole, Hazlett took into account the time Fourhorn had already served in Douglas County Jail and assumed that he would be a model prisoner.
Jail and assumed that he would be a nudist. DOUGLAS COUNTY JAIL, personnel, Hazlett said, had told him that Fourhour was an excellent prisoner during the nine months he had been in the jail.
During his trial Fourhorn was found guilty of aggravated burglary and because of the felony-murder rule, he was automatically found guilty of felony murder.
responsible, but not responsible, the felony-murder rule states that if a murder occurs during a felony act, and the murder was foreseeable, the defendant will be convicted of felony murder if he is found guilty of the felony charge.
"I found out through them that he's an artist of considerable raw talent." Hazlett said. "It's interesting to note that this art portrays scenes of a gentle nature."
Pulitzer prize-winning poet John Ashbery recites his poetry to an audience at the Kansas Union. Ashbery, who is this week's poet-in-residence, appeared on campus Tuesday night.
Throughout the trial and the plea-agreement process, Fourhorn held to his previous testimony that Danny Jennings had accompanied him to Puckett's house, helped him steal some cash and then had committed the beating murder of Puckett.
gentle nature. He sentenced, Hazlett told the court, "Mr. Fourhour has spoken to me of his feelings of remorse for the victim and the victim's family."
MANGS
As part of his plea agreement, Fourhour agreed to cooperate in the investigation of Jennings' alleged involvement in the incident.
beating injured JENNINGS, 18, WILL have his first hearing in juvenile court March 20. Agreement. Fourth agreed to cooperate in the
Poet's images mimic variety of life
By KEVIN LOLLAR
Staff Reporter
When he was 8 years old, John Ashbury wrote his first poem. It was about the battle between the snow-flakes and the bunnies. The novelist Mary Roberts Ninehart read it to a group of visitors in her Fifth Avenue apartment, and Ashbury thought he had reached the top.
Forty years later, in 1976, he won a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his sixth book of poetry, "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror."
ALONG THE WAY. this week's
poet-in-residence at the University of Kansas has been the object of literary critics' praise and censure.
He might, for example, describe 'Angelaica in the Ingres painting . . . considering the colorful but small monster near her toe' and then introduce "Happy Hooligan in his rusted green automobile" a few lines later. But these contrasting images are part of his poetic method.
Much of the censure is due to the difficulty and seeming randomness of Ashbery's poetry.
"I see a poem as kind of a maquette of my own mind," he says. "I try to reproduce in poetry the things I think usually have no idea in advance what I will be writing about."
I write to find out what I'm going to write."
ONE CRITIC HAS gone so far as to say that Ashberry's poetry cannot be quoted out of context because there never is any context. A reader must constantly be aware of a poem's shifts in tone and imagery.
"The poetry is indeed disjunct, but life is disjunct. One's best-aid plans have a way of getting swept away in
in tone and image.
Ashley agrees, but sees that fact as a strength because in that way, his poetry reflects life.
See ASHBERY, p. 5, col. 5
poetry reflects here. "There is no context because I don't think there is a context outside, either," he says.
Death, arrest end manhunt in Tennessee
By United Press International
MARION, N.C. — A Tennessee fugitive was captured yesterday afternoon, hours after a fellow escaped captive was killed in a gun battle with authorities.
A 300 officer manhunt scoured the area yesterday for the convict, James Clegg. 30. Officers found Clegg hiding under a garage behind the home of Charles Dale, a quarter of a mile from where his partner, Ronald Lee Freeman, 41, died earlier.
Bullets from a deputy's 30-caliber carbine blew two holes in the door Freeman was using as a shield, killing him instantly.
Freeman, who was chased from house to house in a night of terror that gave an elderly blind woman a fatal heart attack in this Blue Ridge building, and who was indoorshed building where he made his last stand.
Freeman and Clegg broke out of Fort Pillow prison in West Tennessee Feb. 18, opened fire on pursuing officers and three days later killed a Sunday school teacher and abducted his wife. They freed her unarmed in Knoxville and disappeared into the mountains. When they shot a North Carolina state trooper who stopped them for speeding near Marion.
McDowell County Sheriff Bob Haynes said state trooper Wilbert B. Arrant saw Clegg's boot sticking out from under the garage where Dale keeps his 1925 Model T Ford.
Dale, who was with the officers, said, "The deputy just kicked the plywood down and said 'Come out from here.' He was under there so tight, they had to pull him out by the hands."
The garage is raised about a foot off the ground and Clegg had crawled under it and pulled scrap pllywood behind him for concealment.
District attorney Alan Leonard said Clegg handed over three loaded pistols.
Freeman, apparently wounded in the shootout with a state trooper, uesed morning, burst into action.
**MRS. HARVEY COLLAPSED from a heart attack and when deputies stormed into the house Freeman opened fire on them, leaping out a window in a hail of bullets.**
He fled 100 yards to the house of Eddie Duncan, where he tried to crawl through the window where Duncan's daughter was sleeping. But Duncan, awaits, is sitting at Mrs. Spencer, awaits him with gunfire.
LEAVING A TRAIL of blood for baying hounds to follow, Freeman staggered through the woods to a house on Washington Street, empty for six months, and waited in a bedroom behind a door for his pursuers. Trooper Larry Carver and deputies Gene Patrick and Ken Burleson went in after him.