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Friday morning, February 3, 1984
Prof and coach clash over player's grade
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
Copyright 1984, University Daily Kansan
KU basketball coach Larry Brown overstepped his authority in trying to keep a basketball player academically eligible this year. He will be one of Liberal Arts and Sciences said yesterday.
Brown also proposed that Hunter make up the course this semester. Katzman said.
David Katzman, the dean, said that Brown had asked him to raise the failing grade that freshman point guard Cedric Hunter eventually received in Katzman's American history course.
But Brown said yesterday that he hadn't pressured Katzman to change the grade, and that he had wanted to see whether Hunter's eligibility could be restored. Brown also said that he attended the meeting at Hunter's request.
Hunter said Brown was there for support.
HUNTER'S APPEAL was justified, Brown said, because Katzman allowed Hunter to enroll in the class a month after classes began. Brown said he was surprised that Hunter's background and "special circumstances."
Hunter said Brown was there for support.
"I just wanted somebody to go in with me," Hunter said. "He didn't really say that much."
cause of my responsibility toward all the student athletes under my charge.
I did not go to see Professor Katzman to put pressure on him into changing a grade. I came because Cedric asked me to and I also came be-
Larry Brown. January 26,1984
David Katzman, January 19, 1984
From our meeting and from your letter I would infer that in this case compassion has only one interpretation: award the student a passing grade.
While in high school in Omaha, Neb., Hunter had difficulty making the minimum 2.0 grade
... Unlike you, I am concerned about the integrity of our academic standards at the University of Kansas.
point average to be eligible for an athletic scholarship under NCAA rules.
Hunter started eight games last semester but was declared academically ineligible this season.
CONTROVERSY OVER HUNTER'S grade first beaten when Katzman, Brown and Hunter score 15-14.
Katzman said Brown asked him to give Hunter a D-minus for the course and to allow him to make
This would have given Hunter the eight hours of passing grades necessary to be eligible to play
Brown sent a letter to Katzman expressing displeasure at Katzman's inflexibility. The letter
accused Katzman of lacking compassion for Hunter and of being prejudiced against athletes. Days later, Katzman put the controversy before the University administration.
In passing Katzman sent copies of his letter to Deanall Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs; David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs; Robert Lineberry, dean of the College; and three other professors.
He sent copies of Brown's letter with a letter of his own. Katzman's letter, dated Jan. 19, described Brown's letter as "insulting, intemperate and ill-conceived."
"FROM YOUR MEETING and from your letter I would infer that in this case compassion has only one interpretation: award the student with a passing grade." Katzman the letter said.
According to University regulations, the only grounds for changing a grade is to correct a clerical error, said James Carothers, chairman of the Academic Committee. Carthers received one of the copies.
In his letter, Katzman said. "Your request to give a student a passing grade merely because he requires it for athletic eligibility is outrageous."
BROWN RESPONDED on Jan. 26 with a second letter and sent it to the same administrators and professors, saying that Katzman's observation accurately reflected what happened at the meeting.
See GRADES, p. 7, col. 1
Appeals board fails to decide parking dispute Catholic center plan to expand is flawed, some neighbors say
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Five hours of public debate last night failed to convince the Lawrence Board of Zoning Appeals to reach a decision on a parking lot dispute in a lawrence Lawrence Catholic Center and area residents.
The board voted 2-1, with one abstention and two members absent not to allow the center to continue its expansion project without additional parking. However, the action was not final because the six-member board could not reach a majority.
The dispute has pitted residents of the
creative association against official officials of the Catholic center.
Last March, the center announced its plans to build a church and chapel, and to expand the existing student center, at Crescent and Engel Gardens. After the closingings, the center proposed a 125-space parking lot.
Residents in the area disputed the center's estimate for parking needs and argued for a tax.
David Rodwell, chairman of the board, said that City Attorney Gerry Cooley would have to file a complaint.
Tuesday night, Cooley will present his opinion to the Lawrence City Commission, which will discuss the site plan and also make a recommendation to the zoning appeals board.
The center's proposal for constructing three buildings at the site is the main conflict.
in its decision, the board said that it did not agree with preliminary interpretations of city ordinances governing the number of required parking spaces for the church.
Professors stalk justice after hunting outing
B. G. Barr, president of the neighborhood association, appealed the planning staff's interpretation, saying that the church's site plan did not conform to city ordinances.
Barr said that the student center, if expanded, would be a school, not a church. He also said that parking would be inadequate under the center's proposal.
The city's planning staff said that the center's proposal included enough parking. The plan is based on a 4-1 ratio to the number of seats in a main sanctuary of the church.
The St. Lawrence Center was able to persuade the board to decide that the student center, with proposed expansion, would be classified as a church, not as a school.
Because of the decision, the center will not need a special permit from the commission for use.
Schools require the special permit, according to city ordinances, but churches do not.
Neighbors said that the center intended to use the building as a school, but the zoning board refused. The board would use the building for religious instruction. As such, the center would not be classified as a school.
The planning commission deferred action last week on a plat approval for the site because the center had requested more time for negotiations. Controversy about the center's intent for the use of the student center took much of the commission meeting time.
John Nitcher, attorney for the neighborhood association, said that it appeared the board should wait for the city attorney's opinion about the number of seats in the student center.
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
Dean Burkhead, attorney for the center, said that he had no comment on the board's action.
The center's proposal is also being considered by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Committee.
Staff Reporter
On a mid-November morning, nine pairs of boots crunched slowly across the rolling hills of a frozen north-central Kansas field.
Nine hunters, chilled by a brisk north wind, scrutinized the hedgerows, the stubble in the rows, and the overcast sky for any sign of pheasant on the opening day of the 1982
As the afternoon faded to evening, Cloud County officials arrested all nine members of the hunting party, including two professors from the department and three others them with illegally hunting deer out of season.
"ON THE FIRST day of the season, all sorts of things can happen," Peter Casagrande said, recalling the events of that day 15 months ago.
News of the charges against Casagrande, professor of English, and Gaylord Richardson, associate professor of architecture and urban design, sparks a debate about what he accepts a national story.
But news has traveled slowly of the Kansas Fish and Game investigation that led to their dismissal.
Casagrande said that newspapers in lawrence Topek, and Kansas City, and sarasota Palm Beach, metropolitan areas.
story of their arrest. It was also broadcast on a Kansas City television station.
USA TODAY ALSO ran the story, Casagrande said, bringing the story to the professors' relatives, friends and former students across the country.
The damage done by publicity of that day has never cleared. Richardson said.
Even so, the two decided not to take legal action against the Fish and Game Commission, Casagrande said, because they supported the commission's role in protecting wildlife, and because the commission director had been cooperative in reviewing the
Instead of suing, the professors decided to seek exemption from the Fish and Game Department.
"We decided not to sue because both of us are long-time hunters and fishermen."
"We finally decided it would be better to get a statement clearing both of us rather than suing and damaging the Fish and Game Commission."
BOTH PROFESSORS said that clarifying the situation had cost them several hundred dollars apiece in legal fees and transportation costs.
two trucks and arrested the men without an explanation. Casagrande said.
But the arresting officer allowed the hunters to clean their guns before confiscating them. Casgrande said, making the
"We were getting ready to go home," Casagrande said, "and the authorities came back and that's when the whole thing started."
The nine hunters were held from 4 p.m. until after midnight, Casagrande said, in the kitchen of the county law enforcement center in Concordia.
oursuit a officers confiscated their guns and some hunting clothes as evidence, evidence of the attack.
Richardson said, "There isn't very much you can do when a law enforcement official tells you you're going with him. We were just told to accompany him."
ALL THE HUNTERS were arrested, Casagrande said, despite the confession of the man who had shot the deer, who said that none of the others had been involved. Three farmers in Cloud County also said that they had seen the lone hunter shoot the deer.
The authorities arrested them because sometime during the day of Nov. 13, 1982, one hunter, separate from the others, had shot a deer.
i want to get away from the whole mess," said Swenson, who in the last three months has twice been declared student body president and has twice been denied that office.
Swenson won't run in election
Saying that he couldn't face another campaign, Scott Swenson yesterday announced that he would not run again for student body president.
See HUNTING, p. 5, col. 5
On Jan. 5, Chancellor Gene A. Budig called for a new student body presidential election. An appeal is still pending that could make Swenson president again.
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
SWENSON SAID THAT because of time, money and grades, he would not file a declaration of candidacy today. Dennis Strickland, his running mate, will not file either
Staff Reporter
CHARLES LAWHORN, who filed the appeal on behalf of Kevin Walker, Momentum's presidential candidate, said that Momentum had asked the board to declare Walker the winner of the election or to call for a new election that would include Momentum on the ballot.
Budig will have to approve any action of the board. David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday that he thought the chancellor would support the board's
Although they had collected the required 500 student signatures requesting their names on the ballot and had gathered pledges of support, Swenson said, they decided at the last minute not
Acting on an appeal filed by the Momentum Coalition, the judicial board in December recommended that the chancellor order a new election because the November election had been "traught with inconsistencies and ambiguities."
Problems will plague any of the candidates from last fall who run again. Swenson said, even if the candidate won, they would not be re-elected.
The filing deadline is 5 p.m., today
Swenson said that among other things, he could not afford to sacrifice another semester's grade point average. Two semesters as the campus director of the Associated Students of Kansas and one semester campaigning had taken a toll on his studying, he said.
Swenson could still become president if the University of Kansas Judicial Board accepts an appeal that he tiled on Jan. 26 that asked the board to rescind its recommendation for a new institution.
"It might be better to have totally new candidates," he said.
"ITS A MATTER of knowing what we're here for," he said. "We were students before we were seniors."
would be made to the board's ruling Swenson's appeal objects to the board's ruling
See SWENSON, p. 5, col. 1
Deficit could bankrupt U.S., Stockman warns Congress
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Budget director David Stockman warned Congress yesterday that the nation faced bankruptcy unless something was done about the federal deficit.
He and the administration's two other top economic advisers agreed that President Reagan will consider less military spending than he did in his 1960 budget, but disagreed on the fate of tax increases.
Stockman, testifying in the Senate Budget Committee, said, "We're in the same position that many companies are in when they are on the eve of Chapter 11 (the bankruptcy law)."
WITHOUT ACTION TO reduce the deficits, net interest interest payments on the national debt minus interest earnings on federal trust funds in 1980s and 1980s, and I don't think there's any on this
committee who can think of enough taxes or enough spending to cut to even offset that explosion of debt service costs."
Stockman, along with the administration's two other top economic advisors — Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Martin Feldstein — said Congress must go beyond the $100 billion "down payment" President Reagan has recommended for reducing budget deficits over the next three years.
House Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas said a meeting has been set for next Wednesday.
Leading Democrats, who initially were cautious about Reagan's invitation to work with his advisers on the problem, countered Wednesday by offering to double the president's bid and draft a plan for $200 billion in spending cuts and tax increases.
See BUDGET, p. 5, col. 1
Bryan Bell and Lawrence woman intend to marry, application shows
A marriage license application filed last week for Bryan Keith Bell, convicted of murdering Lawrence restaurant owner Frank Seurer Sr., was rejected and contends to marry a 27-year-old lawrence woman.
By the Kansan Staff
"Everyone will be asking why this is happening," Kathy Lee Lawson, the woman, said yesterday. "But I find Bryan to be more of a man, even in jail, that most of the men I know."
A Douglas County District Court jury last November convicted Bell of the Seurer murder. The Lawrence restaurant owner was the father of KU quartarback Frank Seurer Jr.
Former Associate District Judge Mike Elwell sentenced Bell to 15 years to life.
After sentencing, Bell was taken to the Kansas Reception and Diagnostic Center in Topeka. He is no longer there, Lawson said, but she would not comment on where he is now.
On the morning of Aug. 2, Bell, who had been fired in June from the restaurant, went to the restaurant to ask for his job back, Bell testified during the trial.
A spokesman at the diagnostic center did not know where Bell had been transferred.
Bell was also convicted of aggravated burglary in connection with the theft of $400 from Seurer's restaurant, Pop's Bar-B-Que, 2214 Yale Road, where the murder occurred.
Before he was arrested and charged with the murder on Aug. 17, Bell went back to work at the restaurant, records show.
Bell testified that while talking to Seurer on Aug. 2 he thought he heard Seurer say, "I can't understand why you blacks have trouble managing your money."
Seurer then bumped into Bell, who grabbed a pickle knife and stabbed him twice, according to
Steven Purcell/KANSAN
Bell was sentenced on Dec. 14 for both the second-degree murder charge and the aggravated burglary charge.
Emergency workers slowly carry Wayne Starkey, a facilities operation maintenance man, down the steps of Jolliffe Hall. While doing routine maintenance yesterday afternoon, Starkey began complaining of chest pains. He was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and was later transferred to St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, where he was in intensive care early today.
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