University Daily Kansan, January 31, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
Regents director is named Geneva College president
TOPEKA — The Geneva College Board of Trustees announced yesterday that Joseph McFarland, director of academic affairs for the Kansas Board of Regents, had been chosen to be the school's 17th president.
The appointment is subject to his acceptance and the approv. al of a majority of the Board of Corporators within 60 days, officials said.
McFarland said that the board had given him a month to accept the position and that he had not yet decided what he wanted to do.
McFarland has served on the Regents staff for 14 years. He has also been a member of the Geneva Board of Trustees since 1973.
Chairman of the GENEVA BOARD of Trustees since 1943.
Edwin Clarke will continue as interim president until a replacement takes office.
Mail ballots increase voter turnout
TOPEKA Mail ballot elections have almost tripled voter participation in some areas. Secretary of State Jack Brier told a House
The 1983 Legislature approved mail ballot elections on an experimental basis, but the authority to hold them will expire unless the Legislature approves the new bill introduced by the committee.
Three mail ballot elections have been completed in the state and two are in process. Brief said.
In the first mail ballot election, 89 percent of the voters in the city of Protection participated compared with 39 percent in the last special election.
Mail ballot elections are limited to non-partisan, non-candidate elections that do not take place on the same day as other elections, Brier said.
Senator's abortion stand protested
SALINA — Members of Right to Life of Kansas Inc. gathered in central Kansas yesterday to protest Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum's stand on abortion.
Sen. Kassebaum, R-Kan., was scheduled to speak at a civic club at noon and to students at Marvmont College, a Catholic school.
"The public must be made aware of Sen. Kassebaum's pro-abortion position," said Elmer Feldkamp, president of Right to Life of Kansas. "The first right of the human person is the right to life. Without this most fundamental right, all other rights are meaningless."
"Many do not know that because of Senator Kassebaum's position and others in the U.S. Congress, more than 1.5 million of the most helpless, innocent of our brothers and sisters are sacrificed each year at the abortionist's hands," Feldkamp said in a statement.
Rob Stoddard, Kassebaum's press secretary in Washington, said the senator could be described as "pro-choice."
"She has said many times before she personally would not choose abortion for herself, but she could not speak for any other woman,"
KANU tower construction delayed
Kassebaum has voted against proposals to amend the Constitution to ban abortion.
Construction of a new tower for KANU radio station will be delayed at least a week because truck problems have stranded the construction crew in Arizona, Al Berman, KANU director of development, said yesterday.
Construction will also be delayed. Berman said, because the contractor will not bring the steel for the new tower to Lawrence until
perman sand that there were few tower construction crews available and that crews often had to travel hundreds of miles between construction sites.
The station's 605-foot tower fell to the ground and was destroyed Dec. 11, 1982, after vandals cut three support cables.
The new tower will replace an interim tower that allowed the 100-volt station to operate at reduced power.
Concrete foundations for the new tower were poured in May, but construction was delayed then until a new antenna from RCA in Camden, N.J., arrived.
Construction was delayed after the antenna arrived in December until the weather improved and the construction crew was available.
ON THE RECORD
THE GRANADA THEATRE, 1020 Massachusetts St., told Lawrence police that someone stole $400 worth of motion-picture advertisement posters Saturday night. No suspects have been named.
A KU STUDENT reported that his car was stolen from a parking lot in the 2300 block of Murphy Drive either Saturday night or Sunday morning, police said. No suspects have been named.
THREE SEPARATE incidents of car-battery theft were reported Sunday to the Lawrence police. The thefts occurred Saturday in the neighborhood north of Memorial Stadium. Police have no suspects.
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Fourhorn retrial to stay in county
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
A motion was denied yesterday that would have moved the second murder trial for James Fourhorn outside of Douglas County.
During yesterday's pretrial hearing, Fourhurn's attorney said that his client could not receive a fair retrial in Douglas County because residents had been bombarded with media accounts of the first trial.
Last October, Fourhour was found guilty of murdering 94-year-old Harry Puckett of Lawrence. Fourhour sat quietly after Associate District Judge Malke Maleon rung against the motion, saying that an impartial jury could be found to have
"THE TRIAL WAS front page news for the entire week the trial occurred," said Stanton Hazlett. Fourhorn's attorney, "And as if they weren't enough, we now have something that the community has not seen before, and
Hazlett was referring to District Attorney Jerry Harper's petition submitted Jan. 20 to the Kansas Supreme Court that asked the Court to overrule a decision to allow Fourhon to be put on trial again.
that's Mr. Harper's petition for mandau-
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Malone ordered the new trial in early January based on Hazlett's contents that the original jury had acted against him when viewing some of the evidence.
DURING YESTERDAY's hearing, Hazlett submitted 11 affidavits to Malone, who will preside over the new trial. The affidavits contained responses from Douglas County residents that addressed the fair-trial issue raised by Hazlett.
No decision has been handed down yet from the Kansas Supreme Court regarding Harper's petition, and the new trial is scheduled for March 5.
All of the responses indicated that assembling a fair and impartial jury would be difficult, Hazlett said.
“It’s been my experience that jurors in Douglas County are fair and do put news stories out of their minds,” he said.
But Harper disagreed with Hazlett's findings.
Malone said that the problem wasn't attributable to past publicity, but hinged on whether 12 impartial jurors could be found.
"A defendant is entitled to a jury of his peers who can prove — show the court that they can base their decision on what evidence presented to them." Malone said.
The results of the "speculative" test, he said, caused the jury to "make an inference upon an inference" and should be omitted during the retrial.
HOWEVER, HE SAID, past experience showed that impartial jurors could usually be found after careful screening.
Hazlett also requested that the results of a luminal test, a method of identifying traces of blood, be discarded from the state's testimony.
THE TEST DIDN'T prove that the hair belonged to Fourhorn, Hazelt said, and he requested that this evidence also be omitted.
According to Hazlett, an investigator at the scene of the murder testified that a luminal test run on blood traces found in the victim's throat didn't prove that the blood was human.
Hazlett also questioned the validity of a test used to examine hair found at a salon.
Malone, who said that his decision represented a narrow belt in Haiti's motion.
Harper said the test proved to be valuable testimony because it established that the hair definitely didn't grow on his head. The Southern suns committed the murder.
"This can be handled through cross-examination effectively and I am going to do that."
Academic ineligibility lands students in limbo
Malone granted other motions, allowing the defense to maintain a list of the prosecution's witnesses, and a motion that the defense be informed of any evidence the prosecution will present.
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
Students who are dropped from their schools for academic reasons, but who opt to continue their education, often don't receive the direction needed to prepare them to re-enter their schools, a KU professor said recently.
Arno Knapper, professor of business and a member of the University Senate Executive Committee, told committee members at a meeting last week that students who could not meet grade requirements must "man's land" at the University of Kansas.
Under the present system, students unable to gain admission to a school because of poor grades are classified as "ZL."
BUT THE 92 classification is nothing more than "a flunk-out holding tank" that benefits neither the students nor the University. Knapper said.
He said that the 92 classification was inadequate for students who sought to re-enter a school because the program offered no academic advising.
"It it's an injustice to put a student into the class %92 and say 'try to make it on your own, and if you don't, too bad,'" Knapper said. "They're on their own, either to sink or swim. They're the ones that need the help."
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said that the 92 classification was not designed for students who wanted to re-enter a school within the University, but that it was for students who were not seeking a degree.
SOME SCHOOLS WILL not honor courses taken by a student in the 92 category. Thompson said, and some schools also prevent students in the 92 program from taking classes within the school.
The 92 students are not eligible for financial aid or veteran service benefits and are limited to taking six hours of classes, he said.
To remedy problems created for students seeking to re-enter a school after losing academic eligibility, teachers must evaluate the students before dismissal.
If students show potential for grade improvement, they should be allowed to remain within that school on probation, he said.
But if the evaluation shows that students can't complete the program, the students should be expelled from the University, Knapper said.
"Some of them may not belong here," he said. "If they don't, someone should advise them to go someplace else."
EARL, NEHRING, professor of political science and a SenEx member, agreed that the current system had been inadequate. He proposed was a reasonable approach.
Knapper's idea might be a good one, but the program's cost and time requirements would have to be taken into consideration. Nehring said.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, told Knapper at the SenXi meeting that she would consider the idea of using her for academically ineligible students.
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KU statues stay unscathed despite weekend of rivalry
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By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
Jimmy Green, so often the target of pranksters, at long last has fended off the torments of vandals. And he didn't even lift a finger in response.
This year was the first in recent memory that out-of-town vandals didn't damage KU property when Kansas State University visited Lawrence for the basketball rivalry, and director of police said yesterday.
Green, and other statues across campus that have been painted, egged and written on, emerged from the weekend unharmed.
"Generally, it's a group of students who are having a party and decide to leave a calling card." Dennew said of the visiting candids.
JIM DENNEY the director of police, said that, although some vandalism was usually expected as part of law enforcement in flower Classic, none was reported.
In the past,he said,vandals had also pulled such stunts as painting
But this year the K State rivalry seemed less intense than in the past, Denney said. So KU police took no space measures to prevent vandalism.
cars and soaping the Chi Omega fountain.
However, the University took no chances that vandals would not try to deface favorite targets like the Jayhawk statue in front of Strong Hall or the Uncle Jimmy Green statue in front of Lippincott Hall.
"We always do it to prevent vandalism, to keep graffiti, paint or eggs off of the status." Porter said.
BOB PORTER, associate director of physical plant maintenance for facilities operations, said that workers applied fresh coat of oil to all of the University's statuary this week. The game to protect them from vandals.
Although the statutes are usually oiled three to four times a year as part of routine maintenance, Porter said workers had also oiled statues and football games against KState and the University of Missouri.
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