University Daily Kansan, February 1, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
Kansas water law violates '82 ruling, official testifies
TOPEKA — A state law that makes it difficult for other states to take water out of Kansas is unconstitutional, a state Board of Agriculture official yesterday told a State Senate committee.
David Pope, chief engineer and director of the Division of Water Resources, said that the Legislature should pass a bill under current law to regulate water.
The present law sets strict requirements for a state to take water out of Kansas wells. The state receiving the water must grant Kansas the right to take some of its groundwater.
Debate team wins honors in 4 states
KU debaters returned home Monday night with top awards from tournaments in four different states, Donn Parson, the director of forensics said yesterday.
Two KU junior division teams tied for first place among a field of 22 teams at the University of Oklahoma.
At Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., and at the University of Utschaug Lake State University, senior division teams placed fourth out of 45 and sixth, respectively.
In individual speaking competition at Northwest Missouri State at Maryville, Mo., Mice Stimanean, Salina senior, took first in Prose Interpretation and Extemporaneous Speaking, and third in Impromptu Speaking.
Center to sponsor skills programs
Students who have trouble learning a foreign language or writing research papers can get help this week at programs designed to improve skills in those areas.
The Student Assistance Center is sponsoring "Learning a Foreign Language" 7130 to 9 p.m. tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas State University.
The "Research Paper Writing Workshop," also free, will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the Big 8 Room of the Kansas Union.
The center will conduct three sessions on reading for comprehension and speed. 7 to 9 p.m., Feb. 16 and 23 and March 1. The fee for the classes is $15. Students should register in 121 Strong.
KU Police to engrave valuable items
The KU Police Department will engrave identification numbers on valuable items from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. today and Thursday in the first floor lobby of Learned Hall.
The project is being jointly sponsored by the police department and Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society.
Kurt Swaney, Lawrence senior and project coordinator, said that although the project was originally intended to provide a chance to have calculators engraved, other items will be accepted.
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KU core-curriculum proposal may get caught in legal snag
By JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
A proposal for establishing a core of classes for all KU students to follow might not be legal, a member of the University Committee on Core Curriculum said yesterday.
James Carothers, the committee member and associate professor of English, said some question existed as to whether the University of Kansas had the legal right to establish a University-wide core curriculum.
Under the present system, each school within the University deter- tion is a community.
Staff Reporter
A core curriculum would establish a core of classes for all KU students, regardless of the school in which they are enrolled.
DEANELL TACHA, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said at last.
week's Senate Executive Committee meeting that the University Academic Policies and Procedures Committee would be asked to review the core curriculum proposal and determine its legitimacy.
Al Johnson, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that the committee had been working on the proposal for more than a year and should soon have it ready for distribution to faculty.
The committee will collect comments from the faculty and then review the committee's recommendations.
Carothers said the proposal would eventually go before the University Senate, which is composed of KU faculty and members of Student Senate.
MICHAEL YOUNG, committee member and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the reason it had taken more than a year to create a core curriculum proposal was because designing a core
The committee members have been unable to agree upon the number of hours that should be required and what disciplines should be included.
curriculum to fit students in every school was difficult.
Young said he expected the committee to release recommendations for core curriculum over a period of time, and he would release an entire proposal all at once.
He said the first proposal would be one easy to agree upon and implement — such as English and mathematics requirements.
Committee members agree upon the need for University-wide English and mathematics requirements. Young said, but have reached no definite agreement on other possible requirements.
Young said he hoped that the first part of a core curriculum could be used for the fall 1984 semester, but that he never knew if this was a realistic estimate.
Shontz chides mayor for letters
By SHARON BODIN
Staff Reporter
Last night's Lawrence City Commission meeting ended tensely when commissioner Nancy Shontz announced that she had "stumbled upon an amazing thing" - a folder filled with evidence of the case, which the commission had never seen.
"Many were letters to our nationally elected officials and White House officials about matters 1, as a city official, that had not been consulted about," Shontz said.
Shontz specifically referred to letters Mayor David Longhurst had sent to President Reagan, Soviet President Andropov and the governor of Michigan.
LONGHURT SENT TWO letters to both Reagan and Andropo suggesting a summit meeting between the two officials in Lawrence.
The first set of letters were read publicly before being sent, he said.
However, Shontz maintained. Longhurst sent the first set of letters before they were submitted to the City Commission for approval.
She reminded Longhurst that the commission had elected him mayor and that as such, he was accountable and responsible to the commission.
SHONTZ SAID LONGHURST also sent that letter without consultation with other commissioners.
"If he wishes to carry out his own desires and prejudices through this role as man, she said, he should be working toward changing the form of government.
"I found the letter to be repetitious, intermediate and unnecessarily sarcastic," she said. "If the mayor had consulted the commission before writing the letter, a more calm-headed, yet effective letter could have been written."
"Until that happens, so long as he is mayor, he is the ceremonial head of the city, and representative of the commission when given permission by the City Commission to do so on a particular matter."
with any of my activities, I would invite them to tell me so," Longhunter said. "I am not going to explain my behavior, and I am certainly not going to apologize
COMMISSIONER HOWARD Hill defended Longhurst's actions, saying that the commission intentionallyitetected his statements to make the politic to represent the city.
Longhurst said that probably 95 percent of the letters in the file merely extended the mayor's congratulations to him on his achievement an award or honor in the community.
The commission has been working on the letter since a study session with the DIC two weeks ago about its role in downtown development. The letter outlines how the DIC will assist the commission in the downtown project.
In addressing regular business, the commission approved a letter the mayor had written to the Downtown Improvement Committee with one change. Commissioner Ernest Angio asked长靛hurst to mention meetings between the commission and other groups about downtown development less specifically and to call meetings as needed.
THE TOWN CENTER Venture Corp. plan for downtown calls for a mall in the area between Sixth and Seventh streets and the alley east of Massachusetts and Kentucky streets. The city recently approved a new office, which enables Town Center to contact department stores for the mail.
Last week, Longhurst gave a critical letter to Michigan Gov. James J. Blanchard in response to the governor' comment that Kansas was
buring. The letter said that Blanchard was not welcome in Lawrence, where he attended the Midwestern Governor's Conference last fall.
Fourhorn to receive new trial
WE WANT YOU AT SGT. PRESTON'S
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled yesterday that James Fourhour should again stand trial for murder and denied a request from the Douglas County district attorney's office to let the original conviction be overturned.
On Jan. 20, District Attorney Jerry Harper filed a petition with the Kansas Supreme Court requesting that it overrule Douglas County Assessor District Judge Matthew to allow Fourth军 to be retired
Fourhour was found guilty in October for the first-degree murder of 98-year old Harry Puckett. He was found guilty of aggravated burial.
Malone ordered a retrial after Stanton Hazlett, Fourhorn's attorney, proved that the jury in the first trial had acted inappropriately when viewing some of the evidence. He will stand trial again March 5.
In its decision yesterday, the Supreme Court did not elaborate on its reasons for rejecting Harper's petition and said only that the petition was an "inappropriate remedy."
In his request for a new trial, Hazlett said that the jury in the first trial had made an unscientific comparison between one of Fourhurn's shoes and a dogood Godparent in a courtroom. Puckett's kitten, 109 Delaware St.
"If the commissioners are unhappy
The jury looked at the footprint and one of Fourhorn's shoes during the first trial and found that they matched, Hazlett said. But laboratory tests run at the Kansas Bureau of Investigations in Topeka showed the trial showed that the footprint and shoe did not match, he said.
Harper's petition against a retrial said that it had been impossible for the jury to deliberate the case without intensive examination of the exhibits, including the shoes and the plywood.
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
State high court determines jury acted wrongly
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