University Daily Kansan, March 1. 1984
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Legal Services seeks money for expansion
By CINDY HOLM and JILL CASEY Staff Reporters
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Gary Zangerle, Lawrence law student, researches a complaint for a student at the Legal Services for Students office in the Frank R. Burge Union. Legal Services advises students on legal matters free of charge. Legal Services last night requested $18,000 from the Student Senate Finance Committee to hire another attorney.
To provide legal advice to more students, representatives of the Legal Services for Students asked the Student Senate Finance Committee last night for $17,180 - from the Senate's unallocated account.
Cynthia Week, director of Legal Services for Students, said yesterday that the services needed the money to hire another attorney, who could accommodate an increase in the number of students asking for help.
LEGAL SERVICES advised 1,700 students in the 1982-83 fiscal year, she said, and will help nearly 2,000 students this fiscal year.
The Senate Finance Committee postponed a decision on the bill until its next meeting, scheduled after spring-break.
Woelk said Legal Services planned to expand its office in the Frank R. Burge Union during the renovation of the house and have room for another attorney.
The staff now comprises two attorneys, four law students and a senior
Jon Gilchrist, chairman of the Finance Committee, said that if the Senate allocated money for a lawyer now, nothing guaranteed that the
Legal Services is a revenue code group and receives a certain percentage of the student activity fee. In fiscal 1984, Legal Services received $2.40 of every $23 student activity fee for a total of $87,912.
Senate would continue to pay the salary in the future.
Gilchrist said that Legal Services would have to request an increase in its percentage of the student activity fee to cover the additional salary in the
THE ONLY WAY the Senate could increase Legal Services' percentage without reducing other groups' percentages would be to increase the student activity fee, he said.
Legal Services has provided free legal advice to students since 1979.
students were getting in trouble, and until there was no such service.
SERVICE.
The establishment of student legal services at colleges and universities across the country has become a trend.
A spokesman for National Legal Aid and Defender Association in Washington, D.C. said that 26 academic institutions were registered in the organization's student legal services section.
Grade-appalcs plan is workable, officials say
Contray to some faculty members' fears, a grade-applews board at the University of Kansas would not be able to support two, KU officials said yesterday.
described in a proposal now before SenEx.
Balfour said that in the last year and-a-half he had heard only between three and four complaints that would go before the proposed appeals board.
William Balfour, KU ambudsman, and Lorna Zimmer, director of the Student Assistance Center, yesterday told the University Senate Executive Committee that she only a handful of complaints each year that would go before the appeals board.
Zimmer said that although the assistance center heard two or three grade complaints a week, only four to five complaints would need to be forwarded to the appeals board each year.
beginning of the semester. However, Zimmer said, most of the complaints are not prompted by a violation of stated policies.
The appeals board would handle complaints when an instructor did not follow procedures he outlined at the
Under the current policy, only an instructor may change a grade, unless he has died, is incapacitated or is found in a serious harassment or academic misconduct.
The proposed grade-appalls board would have the power to change an unfair grade after the student had failed to settle the dispute with the instructor.
Bv the Kansan Staff
After several weeks of controversy, the Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee last night defined the word "minority" as "any part of the University's population differing from others in some characteristics and often subjected to differential treatment."
By MARY SEXTON Staff Reporter
Committee defines 'minority'
"THE DEFINITION DOES not exclude anyone whose civil rights have been violated."
The committee's action comes in the wake of the controversy over whether homosexuals should be included in the committee. If they would be served by the committees.
Several committee members said that the definition would not exclude homosexuals and that the committee could get on with more important issues.
"After we resolved the internal bickering about the technicalities of the proposals, the committee united on a strong charter and definition," he said.
been violated," said Russ Ptacek,
committee co-chairman.
Shirley Gilley, committee member and member of the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said that she knew a definition would include homosexuals.
Kevin Elliott, also a committee member and a member of GLSOK, was more skeptical about the effect of the definition on homosexuals.
"On paper it's wonderful," he said. "I feel positive about the motions passed, I am, however, slightly pissed off." Of some of the committee members."
Ruth Lichwardt, director of GLSOK,
said that she thought the impact of last
night's meeting would be positive.
"IF WE FVER have a problem that we need to come before the Minority Affairs Committee, it will be addressed by us. Though all the preliminaries, she said
After one and a half hours of debate, the committee voted to end debate on the definition and several other proposals before it.
Elliott also said that he thought the group effort was beneficial.
The committee approved three other proposals.
"The committee united behind the proposals that passed, which will create a strong structure making Minority Affairs a very effective committee in the future," he said.
Plateck said that he thought the meeting was productive.
"People were willing to stop debating and get on with matters that the committee should be concerned with." he said.
Board reconsiders grants for Indian cultural project
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Action taken last night by the Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board caused renewed hope for promoters of an Indian cultural awareness project who were denied funds for the project in January.
in the 11-9 vote last night, the board amended its original decision not to finance the project, which is designed to increase American Indian cultural awareness for both Indians and non-Indians and to abolition about alienation and drug abuse from an Indian perspective.
LAST NIGHT Cathy Diedrich, director of the Haskell Intervention Program for drug and alcohol abuse, appealed to the board to reconsider its retusal to finance the project.
funds for the project if she would trim the amount requested.
After a recess in the meeting,
Diedrich cut the request from the
original $13,449 to $9,362
Board members told Diedrich that they would reconsider allocating
The 30 percent decrease was made by combining responsibilities for a coordinator and a counselor for the program, lowering salaries for the two positions, and removing funds for a celebration dinner.
Diederich said she was pleased that the board reconsidered her request and was glad that she had come to understand it again to try to obtain the funds.
THE MEETING LAST night was a public hearing for citizens to make comments and ask questions about recommendations by the board
Community development money comes from the federal government and is distributed by the city. The advisory board will meet with Lawrence city commissioners in the next few weeks to review the board's recommendations.
Lawrence woman pleads no contest to auto homicide
By the Kansan Staff
A 21-year-old Lawrence woman pleaded no contest Tuesday to a misdemeanor vehicular homicide charge in connection with an accident last November that resulted in the death of a KU Law School graduate.
Marsha L. Greer, 215 Wisconsin St., originally drove a driving while-intoxicated charge in addition to the vehicular homicide charge.
William Ross Hutton, 27, a Kansas City attorney, died from injuries he suffered in the Nov. 11 accident. The accident occurred about 2 a.m. after Hutton had become involved in a minor accident on Iowa Street.
As the two drivers stood outside of their cars examining the damage, Hutton saw a third car coming from the north. Hutton pushed the other driver out of the car's path, and she was not injured. However, Hutton was pinned under a vehicle after the oncoming car surweared and hit the other two vehicles.
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AMERICA'S MOST DEVASTATING FOE
In response to President Reagan's claim that "Medical science doctors confirm . . . when the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain-pain that is long and agonizing", Dr. Ervin E. Nichols, director of practice activities for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said the college's 24,000 members were "unaware of any evidence of any kind that would substantiate a claim that pain is perceived by a fetus". (Dr. Nichols later admitted to Washington Times columnist John Lofthean he was talking about the first three to four and one half months of fetal development and because, in Mr. Lofthean's words, "he is not a fetal surgeon . . . (he) lacks both 'expertise' and 'intimate knowledge' of the field".)
In their 1981 book "The Secret Life of the Unborn Child", Thomas Verny M.D. and John Kelly, a free lance medical writer, note that researchers studying the unborn have provided "hard, incontestable physiological evidence that the fetus is a hearing, sensing, feeling being".
This fact is what inspired a letter to President Reagan from twenty-six anesthesiologists, gynecologists and obstetricians saying: "That the unborn, prematurely born, and the newborn of the human species is a highly complex, sentient, functioning, individual organism is established scientific fact. That the human unborn and newly born do respond to stimuli is also established beyond any reasonable doubt."
"The ability to feel pain and respond to it is clearly not a phenomenon that develops de novo at birth . . ."
"Over the last eighteen years, real time ultrasonography, fetoscopy, study of the fetal E.K.G. (electrocardiogram) and fetal E.E.G. (electroencephalogram) have demonstrated the remarkable responsiveness of the human fetus to pain, touch and sound. That the fetus responds to changes in light intensity within the womb, to heat, to cold and to taste (by altering the chemical nature of the fluid swallowed by the fetus) has been exquisitely documented in the pioneering work of the late Sir William Liley-the father of fetology."
"Observations of the fetal electrocardiogram and the increase in fetal movements in saline abortions indicate that the fetus experiences discomfort as it dies. Indeed, one doctor who, the New York Times wrote, 'conscientiously performs' saline abortions stated. 'When you inject the saline, you often see an increase in fetal movements, it's horrible.'"
By using his credentials to bedazzie the uninformed, impoverished and harried before killing their helpless infants for money, the abortionist reveals himself to be a diabolical mercenary willing to wage war only when he seemingly can't lose. As this country's, in President Reagan's words, "first and highest ideal (is) the belief that each life is sacred", the privileged few who have lawfully killed 15 million unborn citizens these eleven years historically are America's most devastating foe.
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